Things teachers said to you as a child/teen...

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That have stayed with you. Inspired by another thread, and it made me think of something a previous teacher said.

I was 16-17, re taking my maths GCSE at college and struggling as I don’t like maths. Parents evening rolled around, and the teacher said to my Mother that ‘I was not good enough for the class’ and she was looking at having me removed because I would ruin her stats. I left.

10 years later I re did my maths, went back to college, and now I’m training to be a midwife. A nice big fuck you 😄

I had an English teacher write at the bottom of some creative writing ' Who really wrote this?'

I used to write all the time and dreamed of being a writer. That crushed me so much i have never written another story again. My mother went storming off to the school to take the teacher to task.

I also had a history teacher tell me I was too wierd to make friends when I was about 15.

Two. One good one bad.

Rotten arse of a geography teacher said she was glad her course was mainly course work because lazy people like me couldn't just sail through the exam. That would be the undiagnosed ADHD you arsehole.

Maths teacher was incredibly hard on me and I hated her. Last day of term I was scowling at her after having got an A. She smiled and said, "I knew you could do it". Great teacher!

A teacher in year 4 asked me if I needed a 'wider chair'. There was nothing of me. 2 years later she saw me again - aged 11 - and told me I'd really 'slimmed down'

Twat.

@Scrubadub

I was 5 when my teacher told my parents I was spiteful. That memory made me burn with shame for many years until I realised that I'm not spiteful, and I doubt I ever was.

Gosh this reminds me of another one.

I lived on a small street and there was a green at the end of the road. There were a couple of bully siblings around my age or a bit older (I was 8 I think) in the big group of children that would play together. I was quite shy and got picked on - one day I retaliated by saying their mum was fat. Not my proudest moment but still.

Anyway, can't remember if it was a few months or a year later but a little girl came to stay with her grandparents for the summer and we made friends. One day we were walking together to the shops with her grandparents when the bullies' mum made a beeline for us and after making some pleasantries started slagging me off saying how awful I was, that I'd called her fat etc etc. I was walking ahead with my friend and heard it all - I could feel my face burning and felt sick but tried to pretend I hadn't heard it.

Her grandparents didn't mention it to me and we carried on playing whilst she was visiting but jeez, that was nearly 40 years ago and I can still remember it so clearly.

Sorry, just seen this says things teachers have said

My biology teacher told me there was no chance I'd pass biology GCSE and to remember that children didn't go to university from my kind of family.

I got a B, then 4 A levels, one of which was biology, a psychology degree and then a nursing degree...

I had a male teacher ask me if I had a thinking cap . I said noI and his reply was ' you need one'. Absolute wanker

Another teacher blamed me for putting a 'I hate you' note into another child's bag. It was signed by me but I didn't do it. Absolute bitch she was.

Both incidents ( and others too) were in a rural non local school where everybody is inbred and related to each other. Outsiders not welcome. Not being nasty, thats actually the truth.

GCSE music. I play saxophone and was the only one in the class who could play a instrument properly (most of the other kids went on the computer and pushes buttons on Logic). So the teacher really wanted me to do well and be the best in the class so pushed me quite hard. I was struggling to learn a piece and he got frustrated and said my work was ‘crap’. Actually used the word crap to my face

Not to me directly but I remember one teacher telling the class ' I give you the work, it's up to you if you do it or not. At the end of the month. My cheque still comes from the department of education. I don't care what you do'

I was told I wouldn’t be a high-flyer and that I MIGHT get into a reasonable uni and get ok exam results if I worked very hard.

I go straight As and (at a far younger age than said teacher), earn over double their salary and work for recognises and prestigious company.

Basically, fuck you, you utterly shit teacher (I’m aware there are good ones out there!) and remember that absolutely nobody knows what you are truly capable of other than you.

*work for a recognised

When I’m working I obviously check my grammar

When I was in primary school I had no confidence, self esteem and I used to struggle in class and sometimes zone out and miss what was said.

One day I wrote at the bottom of my workbook in pencil (and forgot to delete it) that I was stupid - and some other things I can't recall.

The next time I saw her she called me up in front of the whole class and showed me my booklet and pointed to what I had written. She shouted at me "the reason you feel like that is because you DON'T LISTEN" and sent me back to my chair where I cried.

I know as an adult, I don't think that is how I would've dealt with that.

I was quite advanced educationally as a young child (it tailed off...) and I think I was in what is now year 3. We were asked to shout out words that rhymes with something and I said “ought”. The teacher said that’s not a word and asked me to spell it. I did, then I saw her and the parent who was helping in class roll their eyes at each other. I was advanced and emotionally aware but shy and not at all confident, already had low self esteem so I know I never came across as precocious. That incident lived with me and did nothing for my self esteem.

My year head when I was 3rd year senior said I was unlikely to get in to post 16 education. I didn’t do brilliantly at A level but enough to get into Biology at an ex poly, it was a really good course as well. Got a 2.1 then left lab work as very low pay. Now a fully qualified accountant. I don’t even know why she had such a low opinion of me.

My English teacher wrote on my essay "you will reap what you sow"

Aka essay was shit. Still remember being confused about what it meant

@TokyoSashimi, I had a similar experience when I was around 8 yrs old. We had to write a poem about the wind and my poem was about the wind whooshing around a witches caravan. Teacher refused to mark it, saying I couldn’t have written it. It really knocked my confidence.

One of my teachers took me aside and said I was really good at languages and he knew I didn't believe in myself, but that I should.

I never forget that moment of feeling really seen 😊 I studied German at university.

I was in emergency foster care when I about 7, which was quite far from my school. My SW used to collect me and take me to school by car, she was often late. I remember getting into class late, yet again, and saying “sorry miss, the car was late” (I didn’t want to say my SW was late in front of the class). Teacher just turned to the class and repeated what I’d said out loud, in a really mocking voice. Everyone laughed at me. Dick.

I was spotty at school and more make up to cover my skin. I probably overdid it,

When a horrible teacher was showing his class slides from a school trip I had attended, a pic of me came up and he said, to the entire class "that girl puts her make up on with a trowel".

I wasn't in his class but I heard about it. I really wish I had complained about him. Prick.

I was bullied in primary. One girl had concocted a story to which the next day she was standing at the teachers desk. The teacher pulled me up in front of everyone and said "Well Jy tell the full class what Ludo called you" her reply was "A fat cow" I never, her word was taken as my mother was a divorcee and poor. My mother complained but nothing was done. Made me so sad not to be believed.
For the record Jy became a heroin addict and got her two children taken off her......not nice.

This also reminds me of when, I was in the top set for one class, and a boy from the lowest set had knocked on the door to let us know that the cameraman was ready for the full year photo. Our teacher said ‘we are the clever ones in here, do we want a photo with the thick ones?’ Presumably as a joke. Awful.

In primary - said I'd like to be a teacher when I grew up and teacher said "I wouldn't as you'll have to deal with children like you"

Secondary - there was a high profile case of a teenage girl tragically murdered in the press. Head of year called us all together and said she'd noticed some of us had skirts too short and that we should reconsider because she said it was clear from the photographs in the paper that the victim dressed "provocatively" which "encouraged that kind of thing". I wish I'd complained now.

Crikes, how long have you got!

When i was 8 yrs i was struggling in a French lesson ( (1978) . The teacher , a bearded fat old ugly spinster of a women, dragged me to the front of the class. Stood me in front of the blackboard, in front of all my class mates and shouted in my face" YOU STUPID, STUPID, STUPID LITTLE GIRL". All i could smell was her halitosis mixed with
overly strong coffee and her beard looked awful.

I was traumatised and had an asthma attack that night, that required me to be hospitalised. I told my mum but because it was a church sch, run by a brotherhood and she is very religious, she said i must have been in the wrong as priests and teachers don't lie!!!'

Fat old hairy bitch teacher died yrs ago. Was made up when i read it in the local paper.

I was an overweight ten year old in the early 90s and our school was doing a production of "The factory children" a musical about Victorian child labour. The teacher told me I looked too "well fed" to be a factory child. I was the only child out of two year groups not to be allowed. The humiliation still stings when I think about it. A big fuck you Mrs Lloyd you cruel cow!

Now, let's all sing... Not you, Rogue. You just pretend

To be fair, I am a pretty rubbish singer