• @GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    That I “wouldn’t ever amount to anything and I would be a loser for the rest of my life”.

    in her defense, she didn’t tell me. I overheard her talking about me to her daughter who went to the same school.

    funny enough, it instilled in me a passion to deny the perceptions of those around me. it made me realize at an early age that adults are pieces of shit that don’t deserve the respect kids give them and to make the bad ones lives a living hell. unfortunately I learned only to push myself forward on anger and hate. I eventually got my shit together in college and now make more than she ever did doing what I love.

    she was my 5th grade teacher. I was 11. her daughter was 15 and a freshman in highschool. her daughter was a bitch to me too…wonder why…

    now that I’m an adult I seek out bitches like them and put them in their place. no child should ever have to go through the years of hate eating them up like I did.

    • Call me Lenny/LeniOP
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      02 months ago

      Don’t think you don’t amount to anything. You come off as a nice person, the best kind of person. I think of it like this; if you were a loser (and you’re not), those two are cheaters. One’s biggest fear should be becoming “professionals” like them.

  • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    This one is a little different. On the first week of some college introductory economics class, the teacher was basically just reading from the textbook we all had, some historical figure who was a member of the “Council Of Seven” or something like that, when a student raised her hand - “Ma’am, what was the Council Of Seven?” - the teacher paused, and said - “Can you bring it tomorrow, as assignment?” - and actually giggled. This was in the 90s, pre-internet, looking up something like that was not a trivial task.

    The teacher might have thought she was being cute and/or deflected her own shortcomings, but the actual effect was that we immediately lost all respect and trust for her, no one ever raised a hand again in her class, we all immediately went into rote robot mode for the rest of the semester, disengaged on a gut level.

  • @HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Skateboarding is unethical, immoral, and should be illegal…

    I wrote my next essay in highlighter after that to make her suffer. She was the worst

    • @lunarul@lemmy.world
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      I wrote my next essay in highlighter

      When I went to school that would have been an automatic fail. We had clear rules about what we can and cannot write with (fountain pen was the standard, but some teachers were fine with ballpoint pens too).

  • @kalogreant@lemmy.world
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    That I would never amount to anything and always be 10 steps behind my peers.

    Believed that for a long time. Eat shit Mary.

  • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    02 months ago

    “Evolution is wrong. They will never find the missing link”.

    In the interceding 30 years the hominid family try has filled in quite a bit. Many closely related mammals have existed.

    • Call me Lenny/LeniOP
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      02 months ago

      I never understood the whole missing link debate. Like, are we supposed to expect evolution always takes baby steps?

    • Call me Lenny/LeniOP
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      02 months ago

      He’s in his 80’s right now. He seems to have made it this far just to show off to that teacher.

  • @thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz
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    Not very important but I remember it strangely well.

    I was 8 years old. My teacher asked “What is one hundred times one hundred?”

    I raised my hand and said “Ten thousand!”

    “No, it’s one thousand. Ten times ten is one hundred, and one hundred times one hundred is one thousand.”

    “But… It’s ten thousand. Can I show you on a calculator?”

    “No! Sit down, it’s one thousand. I’m the teacher, I should know.”

    I later got a calculator and showed her and she didn’t apologise.

      • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        Subconscious self-loathing as a result of trying to memory hole something evil I did when very young.

        Also a desperate reliance on others’ praise and approval due to emotional abuse from my mother.

        A warped model of accomplishment resulting from all the praise I got for easily mastering concepts, coupled with vicious gaslighting and moral attacks I suffered whenever I strove for something difficult.

        And many other things which I’m just starting to uncover.

        I kind of feel like a programmer sleuthing out bugs in a product, but while I spend time sleuthing out the cause of my product not working, the trade show is half over.

  • qaz
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    We had a teacher that said phones could give you cancer due to radiation and the classic 5G causes X conspiracy theories. Certainly wasn’t the worst teacher imo though.

  • @RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    Karl Marx was russian(by a history teacher)

    Adults with autism dont exist, but kids with autism exist; the moon is an artificial satellite made by aliens; scientists are saying that 2+2=5 (by a logic teacher)

    There is a conspiracy(organized by the jewish world leader) in romanian schools to trick children into starting HRT by saying to take some pills so they wont look pale right before going to act in front of an audience so they would become infertile and stop overpopulation(by a biology teacher)

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        Yeah, that’s almost what the research articles I read suggested a few years back. Like, it’s allegedly difficult to diagnose an adult who has modified their behavior over the years. So most people would need to have at least some indication of having had ADHD when they were younger to confirm their diagnosis as adults.

        That’s not to say that adults with ADHD don’t exist, but the rate does significantly decrease to about half.

        (Please let me know if I’m wrong, it’s been a while since my days of genotyping.)

  • Elaine Cortez
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    02 months ago

    “You’ll enjoy ice skating, it’s easy!” - the teacher who took our class to an ice rink… 😂

    The moment I’m over the ice I become the human equivalent of a scruffed cat and people started pushing me around like I was a hockey puck and I was smiling pretending I was having fun but inside I was like

    • @Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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      canadian here: i had a ski part in gym class last year and literally everyone in the class was at least decent, and most were zipping around the ice.

      Not directly related, i just thought it was funny that candians are living up to their stereotypes.