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Old 12-21-2014, 10:22 AM
 
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Being taught by a few very strict Catholic School Nuns... anyone in Catholic school in the old days knows what I am talking about. Corporal punishment was OK in those schools. Not that I used to get hit, I was mostly an excellent and quiet student. but even the smallest infraction would bring their wrath. I used to get anxiety attacks from going into certain classrooms. Not sure why they thought it was effective to be so strict. Because it was NOT.
Actually worse than that was attending a large state Univ. I had so many profs that were complete ego-manics and head cases. I ended up leaving. To this day, I wish I could have stuck it out. But the learning atmosphere was FAR from nurturing. They all acted like they were doing you a favor by allowing you in their classrooms. There were a few good ones, but mostly terrible.
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Old 12-22-2014, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Whoville....
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Trying to fit in
NOT fitting in was the worst.

I'm going to have to go with getting beaten up at the bus stop by a gang of girls while everyone watched. Goes with not fitting in. If I never see anyone I graduated with again that's fine with me. The only person I care anything about I'm still in contact with. The rest can go to hell.
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Old 12-22-2014, 04:03 PM
 
Location: East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area
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My Business Communications and Speech Communications professors were both quite "hot" in college. Hard to focus on my studies for those two courses.
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Old 12-22-2014, 04:08 PM
 
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When I told my chem teacher that I was being bullied and sexually harassed, he chuckled and said, "That's just the way boys are." When I told the same to my guidance counselor, she told me that there was nothing she could do. A few weeks later, my chem teacher joined in on the fun.
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Old 12-22-2014, 07:58 PM
 
Location: Fairfield, CT
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Most of the bad memories have faded away at this point, and I mostly remember good things. Even what seemed bad at the time doesn't seem so bad in retrospect.

Probably the worst thing consistently was the feeling of anxiety that popped up if I thought I forgot something important, or did some part of the work incorrectly. Everything turned out OK in the long run, but there were times I messed up on assignments and felt stupid.

I went to a strict high school and initially had some anxiety about being disciplined. Eventually I got over that and started to enjoy breaking the rules, even if I got caught. I realized that being disciplined wasn't that big a deal, and sometimes it was worth it. But the first few times, it was hard and made me very anxious.
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Old 12-25-2014, 03:12 AM
 
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Default Worst memories you have of school

Getting my report cards and getting my a$$ kicked by a smaller guy in middle school.
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Old 12-25-2014, 06:03 AM
 
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NOT fitting in was the worst.

I'm going to have to go with getting beaten up at the bus stop by a gang of girls while everyone watched. Goes with not fitting in. If I never see anyone I graduated with again that's fine with me. The only person I care anything about I'm still in contact with. The rest can go to hell.
I'll second the bus stop and the girl gang. My girl gang was just one fat b****, though. Every damn day. She's still fat and ugly (I googled her and found a pic). Hah. It was middle school, not high school. High school was OK because my parents sent me to private school, mostly to get away from the bullying.
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Old 12-28-2014, 05:14 PM
 
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Much of high school I could not understand why many my teachers seemed to despise me. Things like repeatedly miscalculating (too low) my GPA (pre-computer days) Absence excuses were denied.
I'm one of the easiest people to get along with and probably the smartest in the school by far. I was quiet and shy science/math geek type, so I thought it was just that I was wrong in some way. Maybe my looks.
Only my Chemistry teacher seemed to like me, and she was new to the school.
In elementary and junior high, I was well liked.

What happened?
It turns out that there was also a kid in high school with the exact same name who was a juvenile deliquent. An actual car-thief with arrests, constant fighting, and who knows what else. Apparently the teacher rumor network identified me with that person. Several times I got called into the principals office to be interrogated. The "You know what I'm talking about" kind of thing.

I found out what was going on in the 12th grade, but there was no way to fix it.
Needless to say, my grades suffered some, but not as much as my attitude
I found out when I applied for a job and the application had high school GPA on it, and the boss noticed that the transcript from the school was lower. They had written it wrong again.

I went back to the school and made them re-calculate it in front of me. The "mistake" cost me a county-wide award. Oh well, they said.

BTW, when the school was forced to integrate after I graduated, the teachers that treated me the worst quit rather than teach blacks. That's what kind of people they were.

And yeah, later I became a teacher.
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Old 12-28-2014, 07:51 PM
 
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Either witnessing or experiencing firsthand the abusive treatment of people who should NEVER have become teachers. And I say that as someone who, if I were a teacher, would run a tight ship and would hold students to very high standards.
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Old 12-29-2014, 08:40 AM
 
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Either witnessing or experiencing firsthand the abusive treatment of people who should NEVER have become teachers. And I say that as someone who, if I were a teacher, would run a tight ship and would hold students to very high standards.

There are times I wonder if this experience is why so many parents today distrust or are even anti teacher, esp when it comes to discipline for their children. Looking back on my time, there were a few teachers who were incompetent terrors in class. Yet the parents constantly believed Mrs X or Y was the greatest teacher because she was a strong disciplinarian (IE willing and eager to beat the crap out of the boys). My parents, like others of the time, implicitly trusted teachers even when I knew the teacher was lying. Looking back from the vantage point of years of maturity, two children (one in college, one high school), I can only confirm that my opinions of these teachers was RIGHT. They were abusive. They would lie to parents. The actually taught little. Yet these were the ones most supported by the administration. On the other hand, several teachers that all the students thought were very good (and I truly mean good, not easy) were dismissed by the administration because they didn't fit into the school culture.

Even though they were only a handful out of all the teachers I had, with many good ones, they also colored my view to distrust the teachers perspective until I had all the facts from all sides.
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