/lit/ - Literature

>>16947267
No, he disliked me because I was addicted to drugs and also because I criticised the book he wrote after he said my assignment was nonsense.

>>16947267
She called my handwriting nice.

>>16947267
Favorite of all of them.

>>16947292
My math teacher said I had neat work like a girl's.

Even though I wrote a horrible story, yes.

>>16947267
If you were never expelled from high school then you have no right to post on /lit/

>>16947267
Yes because our "English" class was a foreign language clash and my English was good due to lots of vidya and 4chan.

>>16947267
No but my history teacher did

>>16947267
Yes I got 99 in Grade 12 English.

>>16947267
I more or less failed all my classes from the age of 12 onwards. Even if I occasionally got high scores, the spirit of learning from an institution had completely left my body.

My elementary school teacher ran a spell-off between me and the other kid in my class who was good at English, and I lost because I spelled "burglar" "burgerler" or something similar. :(

>>16947341
Maybe you were just dumb instead of unmotivated.

>>16947341
>from the age of 12

Did this have anything to do with something else that started to leave your body several times a day?

>>16947348
Yes
>>16947350
Yes

I hardly did any work in high school, dropped out at 16, then got my GED at 17. So to answer your question: No.

>>16947296
This. One of them even read the terrible fantasy novel I was writing at the time and encouraged me to continue. Surely that means I'll be published soon.

Most if not all of my teachers considered me talented. Then I started uni and realised I was pretty average.

>>16947401
My elementary school teacher told me to send her a copy of my first book when I got published.

My high school teacher complimented this cringy edgy story I wrote about a man's last thoughts and regrets before he starved on the shore of a deserted island, just before a cruise ship passed by.

>>16947267
Real /lit/izens dropped out

I had a high school English teacher call me an underachiever.

>>16947316
Does dropping out qualify? Still got a BA regardless.

Yes but she apparently didn't realize I was just copying the plot of The Time Machine

>>16947432
Sweet memories of a sort, I guess... I don't mind that I'll probably never be published, but I do miss the sheer enjoyment I used to feel back then when I was writing.

>>16947316
What if I was never allowed to enter high school?

>>16947267
Yes, it means nothing.

I would spend the whole year fucking with my English teachers, smacking my head on the wall behind me slowly harder and harder while she's talking to the class She'd try ignore it as long as she could but once everyone's attention was of her and on me she always snapped. Whenever we had the school laptops in class I'd grab one of the broken ones and then make her think I'd broken it by making a big show of pretending to be trying to fix it. She ended up quitting that year

lmao no, I barely got Bs in AP Lang and AP Lit.

>>16947267
Failed freshman year and almost failed every year after

>>16947267
I banged my high school English teacher, AMA

>>16947803
Did she look like this?

No. I hated high school English classes. I did well, but there was no hiding my dislike.

>>16947812
She was blonde and thicc

>>16947316
I took a shit on my principal’s car good and still didn’t get expelled. Only got detention for a week.

>>16947267
I was on the newspaper. He said that I should write for my fellow students instead of writing for myself.

>>16947267
One said I was the best student they ever taught

>>16947316
I was not expelled from school precisely because I was so talented. They simply could not believe that their model student, who would regularly turned class collaborations into lectures, and who was so well-read on obscure authors like Plato and Aristotle (this was high school after all), could relentlessly bully other students without provocation, and I did not give them any reason to think otherwise.

>>16947820
Based. Did she have a fat ass?

>>16947267
yeah but only because everyone else was retarded

>>16947994
Very. I frequently spanked it

All of my English teachers have loved me and I never got anything less than an A in any of their classes.

When I was a junior in high school we had a single creative writing assignment in my English class. I wrote a Bionicle fanfic for the assignment and got an A+.

My experience is that they recognize I have creative talent, but they hate whatever I ultimately produce because they have different taste. If you are talking about literary analysis, most books bored me and I never felt like I would have a point that was worth sharing when some other faggot could easily say something similar. I mean, we all read the same book. They weren't "deep". My teachers all liked some other fags in my class. I never cared. I liked goofing off with buddies in class more.

>>16948008
Absolutely based as fuck. Well done.

I had a US History teacher that I was absolutely in love with. She was quite fat, I wouldn't be surprised if she weighed more than 300 pounds. But she was super cute, with bright red hair and the biggest fucking ass you've ever seen. I had a boner basically every waking moment I was in her class. She's a major reason I'm a fatfag these days.

Sadly she was married. She actually got pregnant during the course of our class, it was fun to watch her get EVEN bigger over the nine months.

>>16948300
That's fucked up man

>>16948333
Really nice Apu pic, fren, mind if I save it to my personal SSD?

yeah but I spent all my time playing card games anyways and now I'm unemployed

>>16947267
she said I was really smart and my grades didnt reflect it. once I knew I was moving out the state the idea of a scholarship pretty much left my mind so I stopped caring. she also let me have her ESV study bible which I still use today

>>16947986
You sound like a loser

WHEN A TEACHER COMPLIMENTS A STUDENT'S TALENT, OR SKILL, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THAT STUDENT IS TOTALLY MEDIOCRE.

BEWARE THE EDUCATOR'S COMMENDATION.

>>16947267
My English teachers always said that I write very well, but I get points deducted because I never stay on topic.

>>16948300
Extremely based taste

>>16947267
Yes :(( my grade 12 teacher said he would save my essays to read in the middle of when he was grading other students’ shit works so that he could read something of actual quality and regain the will to live, and gave me consistent A+’s. I also exclusively submitted garbage to my creative writing class, but my two teachers for it still loved me because of my essays and class discussions. all of the teachers I had had in the English department over the years nominated me for the two English scholarships at my high school and so I won both. Yes, it really hurts to know that despite any of this crap I’m still shit desu. It all meant nothing and I want to kms

Probably embarrassed myself with some of my ramblings, but yes
However, I was always praised more by my different humanities teachers

>>16947267
Lmao, no. He told hated my ass. He caught me finishing his essay in homeroom the morning it was due. He asked, "You're just slapping some shit together last minute?" and gave me a D- on the assignment. Haha. The man was based as fuck tho.

>>16947267
yeah

>>16947267
No, I have always hated English classes.
Maybe I'm autistic or something, I spent years writing essays but have never understood how to do it well.
Studying for other subjects was much easier and much more rewarding.

>>16947267
Nah but once when I was in like year 3 my PE teacher said I should be a sports scientist because I knew what a slipstream was

She liked me and was my favourite teacher but I still managed to get a D because I was depressed.

yea i was in like grade level english up until senior year when i took AP Lit with supposedly the hardest teacher and i aced everything. i think she liked me too but i was always late to class.

lots of girls in that class but i was mega bummy during that period.

alas.

>>16947267

Had a nervous breakdown at 16 and stopped attending courses. Needless to say all of my instructors likely held a low opinion of me at that time. Later got a GED at 18.

>>16947267
Thought my writing was decent so gave me good grades on them, but as for reading taste, thought that it was typical of young adults and teenagers. My handwriting though was seen as atrocious yet I don't blame them for that as I have the handwriting skills of someone with dyslexia along with a hand tremor disorder even though I don't. I'm a better typer than writer if you catch my drift. All in all, I'd say okay or an average writer who could use some improvement in his writing ability. I made A's and B's in my English courses since high school.

>>16947316
Can second this. Expelled from one school, still the favorite of all English teachers. Had more to do with being the only white kid and by extension the only one who understood anything we read in class.

She said once that I was the sunshine of her life. Told us her favourite poem in her youth was GM Hopkins’ The Windhover; now I know it by heart and say it to myself often. Her lessons were a joy. I miss her!

My teacher thought i'm a genius, she even gave me a biographical book of 20th century greatest innovators in my last day in school kek

>>16947267
This is my ideal girl

>>16947341
Same and the habit of only being motivated by things that interest me is still with me to this day.

>>16947267
One time, I went and asked the teacher if I could skip class and go home that day, and she just said, "yeah, you can go".

>>16947267
every single english teacher/professor i've had has said something along those lines. all the way through college even but i wasn't an english major or anything and just went to a mid tier state university. i've even had a few ask me to use my papers for examples or enter them into contests and things like that. but the thought of anyone else reading my writing is horrifying.

>>16947267
Big time, they pretty much sucked me off for reading Vonnegut and DFW in high school, but I was one of only a handful of people who even liked reading in my small town class. Definitely made me feel cool, smart, and sophisticated. That feeling left about halfway into my first semester of college when I realized that I was just one of the relatively smarter kids from a dumb town.

>>16947267
Yeah

No because I skipped their class constantly and only showed up for test. I still passed every test with a 100% score but they didn't like how I was game jacking the educational system.

>>16949340
Hows your life going anon?

>>16947267
Mine said something like
>I would like to punish you because you never make any effort, but somehow you still manage to do better than everyone else.

>>16948411
I'm glad you've noticed, that was one of my defence mechanisms. Losers in this society are perceived as incapable of even the most petty crimes, while so-called "winners" have every allegation thrown at them.

Didn't do English in high school :( but I was often called a gifted mathematician. Not that it's gotten me anywhere.

No, but she called me handsome. Too bad she got depressed 2 week after that. Maybe I wouldn't be a virgin now if she didn't quit teaching.

>>16947267
She said had a streak of genius in me actually.

>>16947301
Did she put you in a dress too?

not really because my english teachers were midde aged white women. Just grift by writing pro-femenist essays and you get a guaranteed A+

>>16947267
no
all I did was getting into stupid debates about how fucked the school system was/is
even though I would get worse grades than my peers for the sole reason that I was disrespectful it was totally worth it
someone has to call you bullshit
sometimes it was fun watching her seethe, but I gave up after a while because I didn't liked talking by myself in front of the whole class

The teachers refused to give me grades for being the most active in class, the teachers didn't listen to me when I then started giving the answers without raising my hand(as I had always haised my hand beforewards, even tho no one else did). I was called to the principal a few times a year for not attending classes. Natural at every discipline(including sports) apart from chemistry.
All of that because I told some bitch that was their colleague that she should follow the rules in a more strict manner and that she has no right to do whatever she wants.
My history teacher went as far as to refuse counting an answer on ''Give two reasons according to which we should remember the Holocaust and the Nuclear bombings of Japan?'', an answer that simply stated ''inhumane behaviour, dead innocents''. Reasoning behind such action by her? ''What inhumane behaviour? Why should we remember the dead?''.
I did the math they taught us in my hand and would give the answer without writing.
I just liked giving answers to things I knew and thought were common sense.

>>16951330
How did you end up here

>>16951402
I don't really remember, sorry

I used to think enlgl8sh class was useless but I'm in uni now and peoples writing ability is annoyingly bad, working in a group project rn and people will email me 20 line run on sentences

>>16947267
nah they called my barely coherent and thought i was retarded

>>16951450
my writing fugg

>>16947432>>16947722

>My high school teacher complimented this cringy edgy story I wrote about a man's last thoughts and regrets before he starved on the shore of a deserted island, just before a cruise ship passed by.
atheist really love to hear stories about death, to feel like a free thinker, then go to orgies

>>16948300>>16948516
>>16948333
>>16948008

Yes, men have no standard for women, so men simp over any walking vagina

>>16947267
Ha! I remember being a prodigy. All adults around me couldn’t shut up about what a promise I was. The worst thing you can do is to flatten a teenager. I became arrogant. I thought I could do nothing wrong. I thought I was a genius! Ha. What a joke! I wasted years of my life getting an arts degree. I became unemployeable. Now I’m back in college in my 30s. Not many get a second chance. Keep it real guys. In this world if you don’t have money you’re not worth anything.

>>16947267
My literature/classics professor said that I "have a beautiful mind" when I brought up Keat's "Ode to Melancholy" while we were discussing Tate's "The Fathers." This was 20 years ago now and it is still one of the best compliments I've ever gotten.

>>16951487
>flatten
Flatter*
Damn phone

>>16947267
My English teacher loved me, and I loved her.

>>16947267
No. I already spoke fluent English by the end of middle school and stopped taking it in high school. My literature teachers thought I was hot shit though. Got a poem published in the same periodical as my favorite one this summer. Shit was pretty cash.

>>16951476
>walking
Oh anon, you're setting the bar too high now.

>>16947267
>English teacher had a bonus project where you could read a book and get some stars next to your name
>I was the only one who read a book
She also said my edgelord poetry was cute

>>16947267
She had a fat ass. She was nice enough I suppose.

>>16947267
Yes, but I'm and ESL and was the only one fluent

In order by year
>Didn't give a fuck about anyone, showed up for the check, never had a conversation with her, A
>Gave me class superlative for my 10 page infodump about Che Guevara, A
>(start AP at this point) Gave me my only C in high school and told me "You could do well if you tried"
>Nice old black lady who just loved that she got to teach white kids, loved everyone, everyone was talented to her, A-

>>16947846
I also wrote for the newspaper, ~3 years. I was regarded as weird and autistic but they liked they could give me 2000 word articles and I would show up the next day with it finished and generally didn't need lots of editing. Having to conduct interviews also helped me get over fearing talking to people FAST

>>16947316
based. seconding.

>>16949340
>only being motivated by things that interest me
Can't believe people have been conditioned to believe this is supposed to be seen as abnormal.

>>16951330
>I did the math they taught us in my hand and would give the answer without writing.
Hate how teachers would dock you points for being good at math. I got stuck on the tail end of when they decided to totally flip how they teach math around so I went from averaging 80s and 90s to 50s and 60s. Can't believe kids have to deal with this shit.

>>16947267
I was the best in my year in English. And in German. (Both a solid 9 on the state exam.) Dutch, too (an 8 out of 10).

But that, to be honest, was because the school was really rather shit. All the teachers were trying to achieve was as many students as possible getting passing grades and getting a state diploma.

The Dutch teacher actually had to borrow a book off me in order to be able to grade one of my book reports XD

>>16947267
No, I despised my English teachers.

7th grade - Asked not to attend English. Highest grade in class, but I was an absolute little bastard that pushed the teacher's buttons.
8th grade - He was an alright guy. He recommended me for an AP writers program.
9th grade - Nothing special, we were amicable. Had her in fits when I made my speaking and listening about Paris Hilton being a weapon's grade societal menace.
10th grade - Teacher hated me. She was a shrewd cunt that couldn't leave her personal life at the door. The kind that kept all of her highschool work. Her surname was 'Brown', so whenever someone got ripped into because she was rag riding, I dubbed as having been 'Browned'. She got upset at that one.
11th grade - Same teacher as before, but she barely showed up. What a train wreck she was.

I'm now an English teacher. AMA.

>>16951899
Oh yeah, "show workings" ... what a load of bollocks. I tried, but "no no no, you have to show all steps".

It's like not even being allowed to take a step, you have to go 'lift left foot, move left foot forward while shifting body mass, put left foot down, lift right foot ...'

Let me f■cking WALK mate, let me RUN!

If the final answer is correct, move on. Full marks for the question if it is, zero if it is not.

Go give Numptie McSlowpoke PARTIAL CREDIT for vaguely going in the right direction but giving the wrong answer; that's what 'show workings' is really for.

>>16947292
meaning that you are a smoothbrain.


Better the handwriting, the slower the brain.

>>16947483
Based. High IQ person unlike the praise receiving non confetona

>>16952028
>High IQ person unlike the praise receiving non confrontational midwits*
Fixed.

>>16948449
Seething C-averager.
Did you type your papers with that gimmick too?

>>16952002
Yes and no. Without allowing for workings marks, the test would be too long to be reasonable to enable the level of granularity required to distinguish grades.

>>16947316
Being a nigger isn’t /lit/

>>16951995
My favourite English teacher didn't like me; I did the work, got good grades but OOOOOH those shiny, shiny buttons, just had to push them.

He had his favourite authors, so of course I picked the opposite types. He assigned a poem to write; I alliterated all the way. Had to write a love story; did a full necrophiliac gross-out.

Yeah I was a little evil shit.

>>16952047
What the fuck are you talking about? They're literally immune from being expelled.

No, my czech teacher didnt even notice me, I was asleep most of the time.

>>16951928
>>16952002
>>16952050
Hey man, I know you're new, so I'm just gonna say you might want to lurk a little more before you start posting cause you're gonna ripped on hard.

>>16952039
>>16948449
Praise is sometimes used as a carrot, rather than a measure of actual potential and result.

A discussion I often have with students is:
"I really like what you've done with x, you've really managed to tap into y. What I'd like to see you do next to take this one step further is..."

But be real. This is work kids are doing. Seldom is it going to impress or blow away a teacher, who should have a degree, and if they're a specialist in English, has no doubt explored far greater depth than that child is capable of conveying lest they be a prodigy. It'd be a real cunt move to go 'Well Jimmy, you're thirteen and you've written 2 pages about the rudimentary themes in Much Ado About Nothing, it's a bit shit so pull up your boot straps, look this guy with an MA that has written about Shakespeare for 25 years did a much better job.'

> class nicknamed me the 'English God' when I got insane marks on some poetry essay

now i can't even finish moby dick

a teacher once described my writing as "meticulous", i think as a euphemism for "autistic"

>>16947267
.... is there lewds of this particular maymay?

>>16947316
I got suspended and always received lunch detentions for tardiness. Does that count?

>>16947267
Yes I was always praised by my teachers in high school. Professors were always please with me in uni too. One even offered me a summer job and said he'd take me on as a graduate student if I wanted. I didn't want. I hate that kind of environment. I just want to read and rot. Might aim for the Forest Anon life. idk.

I remember my hs teacher labeled me a devil worshipper in front of the class. I was just a quiet bland person but I guess I have bad vibes. I was one of the only ones to get the highest score on their shitty standardized test but I don't think I ever got any praise for my work at the time.

>>16947267
One told me I was special and gave me fear and loathing in las vegas to read. She gave it to one student every year. I was like "how does she know I'm on drugs?"

The teacher after that didn't like me because I didn't participate in his gay activities (anxiety and too cool for school). My ÅP Lit teacher hated me with a burning passion. It was very much undeserved and she ultimately failed me in the class, then I passed the AP test with a 4 after not attending class for 3 months. That cunt was giving me Ds and Fs on all my papers. I still think about burning down her house with her inside it. No one would know. Only 10% of arsons are solved

>>16952494
Did you question her on anything? I've noticed middle aged women get fragile when you question how they know something when they present it as fact.

Was called word God by her. Then she made the point that god with a lowercase g. Rip

I had a really hot English teacher in grade 9. I feel like it could've gone nice-tier desu. Blonde, ample titties, kinda thicc, total MILF.
Every English teacher kinda liked me.

Yes, plus she said I'm gonna be a hypocrite when I enter the workforce.
Also said that my handwriting suggested I had a big ego.

>>16952978
presuming to teach people things all day for a job suggests a big ego too. fuck teachers

>>16947267
no but he told me ill be okay once i get to uni.

>>16952039


I KNOW THAT HAVING BEEN COMPLIMENTED BY YOUR TEACHER IS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF YOUR LIFE, BUT BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF IF YOU EVER WANT TO OVERCOME YOUR MEDIOCRITY.

>>16947267
when i was 8 or 9 years old my teacher was very impressed by something i wrote, she brought me to other classes to read in front of the kids and she even submitted it to some competition
the experience scarred me for life

Mine told me I was wasting my time I regular English and should've gone to AP. I cared more about smoking weed then.

I am a high school English teacher now.

my elementary school teachers made me stand in front of the rest of the school and gave me a spider-man web shooter that i had apparently won in a writing contest, but i couldn't remember entering a contest. it was a cool web shooter tho

>>16952984
I'm the teacherfag.

There are days where I feel I've accomplished absolutely nothing. Not for lack of trying, mind you. My approach to education is to try and equip students to leave school with the grades they want/need to take the next steps in their life. I don't care if that's a C or an A+.

I think that, especially in English, there's the difficulty that children are growing up slower than ever. They're borderline neotenous well into their late teens and early twenties. And I don't say that to discredit them, but I think education and societal demand and where kids are in their lives are disjointed when they hit high school. We're talking about teaching ambition, tragedy, romance, geopolitical tensions, authoritarianism and fascism to kids that... might not know what they want. Might not have enough scope for tragedy. Might not have ever fallen in love. Might not understand the world at large. Have only experienced being controlled in schools and at home.

How do you teach a concept to someone, to contextualise it, when they have no frame of reference for it? No experience to draw upon and relate to it?

>>16953076
Oof, I guess I was off? D+ averager then?

>mfw the spic's capitalization gimmick is cope to deal with getting shitty grades in high school

A bunch of teachers rallied together to encourage me. They all said I was really smart and wise and a free thinker, and were impressed that I refused to use a smart phone.
I'm actually a midwit desu

>>16952075
>Praise is sometimes used as a carrot, rather than a measure of actual potential and result.
It was always so obvious too. Everyone simultaneously started using the same compliment mind game on me. I saw right through it for its intent. I never believe compliments I receive

>>16948449
Not so much mediocre as CONFORMIST methinks; both going with the program (lesson plan) and the programmer (teacher).

It would be interesting to know if significant authors were conformists as students; if it took their DEPROGRAMMING to get creative.

>>16953151
High school really is a sandpit.

Yes. I only actually read a single book though. Everything else I skimmed and used spark notes for. Not a good habit!

>>16953367
They praised you for not using a smartphone because litfag purists feel threatened by smartphones. They see reading on a phone as 'the improper way to read', and chastise those that would use a smartphone in an intellectual way, rather than praise and encourage it. They're too preoccupied fighting smartphones to see the value that can be had with them.

>>16953388
Would you rather your teachers called you a thick child? We want every kid to succeed, and being a miserable bastard to them doesn't seem like the way to go.

>>16953181


ONE OF THE INDICATIONS OF MEDIOCRITY IS A MORBID FIXATION ON GRADES, AND ON FORMAL SCORES, SINCE, TO THE MEDIOCRE, SCHEMATIC QUANTIFICATION CONSTITUTES AN OBJECTIVE DATVM OF CREDIT TO HIS REPUTATION, IN APPOSITION TO HIS INTRINSICAL LACK, OR DEFICIENCY, OF SAPIENCE; SAPIENCE IS UNQUANTIFIABLE, ONLY DEMONSTRABLE, AND SINCE THE MEDIOCRE CANNOT DEMONSTRATE WHAT HE LACKS HE OBSESSES OVER GRADES, AND SCORES, AS SOCIAL TOKENS OF HIS PERSONAL WORTH.

>>16953449
Rei Koz? What's kickin? Your aphorisms are terrible.

>>16952067
Thanks for the warning.

>>16953414
I'm the same anon in both posts.
I actually perform better when I'm criticized. My dad would always yell at me if I fucked up, so that fear of fucking up haunts me. I need someone breathing down my neck calling me a moron to be impelled enough to really get something done.
It wasnt only the smartphone thing the teachers were impressed by. When i was a kid I would watch history documentaries and actually pay attention in school, so I had enough background knowledge to competently engage in class. I remember taking a German class and being the only student who could explain the direct and indirect object. I was in a history class and was the only one who noticed that the industrial revolution preceded political revolutions.
Little details like that, and the teachers were smitten. Probably was an ego boost to them because I actually engaged with their subjects.
Was also the fact that my family life was falling apart so I started cutting my wrists which prompted them to try and "save" me. I think teachers generally have this savior complex and get off on "rescuing" troubled kids.

>>16947267
Yes

>>16953473
It's praise where praise is due; it might not reflect you being profound on the grand scheme, but it is highlighting your contribution to the class. That effort and diligence pay off. That in itself is a good lesson to learn, even if for you, it felt as though the teachers were insincere.

People go into teaching for all sorts of reasons. All teachers have a responsibility for the well-being of pupils. If they saw you self harmed, it is their legal bound duty to care for you. That said, I've met some absolute fucking pricks that are teachers that seem to harbour nothing but contempt for everyone they come into contact with - children included. Make no mistake, not all teachers are so moralistic, but driven by the obligations. If they cared, it's not a saviour complex, it's because they actually cared.

>>16952050

listen to this man: >>16952067

Lurk some more, maybe wait a year, absorb a bit. It's not that I don't think you can handle being called a faggot, because I think you can. I would just hate to see it happen, personally.

>>16947267
More than that, she said she had never seen anything like it in 30 years of teaching. My philosophy teacher also said I was the first student she ever wanted to recommend for the Concours Général de philosophie.

>>16951468
I wish. All I have is thinking about death, and I'm never invited to orgies.

>>16947267
nope. I am a homeschooled retard

>>16947267
I thought I was talented and that my teacher just had it out for me. Turns out I was just retarded.
>Be me
>16 y/o edgy teen
>nobody understands me
>depressed
>english class asked to write a story adapting a classic fairy tale into modern day
>choose the ugly duckling because its "just like me"
>nobody understands or respects me now, but I'll come back as majestic swan and prove them all wrong
>begin my magnum opus
>Story is about a Vietnamese orphan girl in the 80s
>It begins in media res with her about to jump off a cliff
>recount her entire life until that point
>She feels alone because she's a foreigner
>Tries to make friends with other Vietnamese kids, but she doesn't speak Vietnamese so she feels different from them too
>Nobodyunderstandsme.git
>Pushes away her one friend
>about to jump
>talked down by old man
>Story has nothing to do with the fucking ugly duckling
>We have to read the entire thing to the class
>Awkward applause
>Think it was an amazing story and went over really well because people clapped despite them clapping for everyone
>teacher gives me a C
>how could he not see my genius?! He clearly doesn't know what good writing is, he's obviously out to get me.
>drop from extension English back down to advanced

I still want to kill myself to this very day for reading that cringe fest to the entire class. I watched a lot of pic related so it probably makes sense that I'm a fucking retard.

>>16949317
That's very cute anon.

>>16953797

no one but you remembers it. relax. you don't matter in the slightest.

>>16953845
Cheers anon

>>16953795

me too. oh well :)

>>16953449
Damn, so you dropped out?

>>16953733
Thanks, I responded to that already.

>>16952028
non confetona sounds sophisticated, gonna use this
singular non confetonum

>>16947296
Same. Ten years later I became friends with a girl who dated a guy who was an assistant under my HS English teacher. Through her I heard that she thought I was the most promising student she ever had. If only she could see me today!

>>16947267
I got called talented in 6th grade. By high school all my teachers were cunts.

>>16947316
I got expelled from University.

>>16955190
What did you do

>>16951181
It was a man.

>>16955290
Fucking, did a heroic amount of LSD. For someone uninitiated anyway. Then over the course of three months, I kept smoking weed in my Uni apartment. They never found anything on me. But they said I had too many infractions. Well first they suspended me. Then I went to hang out with a friend at his spot and I did it again. Lol. Looking back on it. I was self sabotaging. It was unconscious because I was too much of a coward to admit, I had no desire earn a degree.

>>16947267
He let me stop going to class because he knew it was cringe

>>16955347
Thats really lame

>>16955789
Life is lame anon.

>>16947316
I got expelled in fifth grade... My english teachers usually liked me because I was always one of, if not the most advanced.

My spanish teacher praised my work on 7th grade and called it "college level" in front of the rest of the class.

I also got the best score in my state test in the whole school. Got my undergrad and masters degree and now I'm an unemployed loser.

Yes. I had several English teachers who praised my writing. It was the first time in my life I felt valuable and worthy of attention. I'll never get published but I still like writing because it helps me cope with life.
>>16947316
I never got detention. I'm terrified of authority figures, confrontation, and making a fuss.

>>16953181
>>16954065
The dude always shut up after the first reply, you must have hit a nerve.

>>16955303
Okay. Did he put you in a dress?

>>16955837
What did you get expelled for?

All my English teachers wanted my BCC(big canonical cock) after reading my introductory essay then slowly grew to hate me. You can't give a teenage boy gay writing prompts about his feelings and expect him to not write joke essays.

>>16955996
I wish

>>16956113
This reminds me greatly of my experience of high school English. By the age of 15, I had already read all the Greek, Latin, Engish, French, German, Italian and Russian works in Bloom's Western canon in their original languages. My, I was a voracious reader and a vociferous writer. My essays had so many quotations and citations that my teachers thought I had cheated somehow – nay, it was all from memory.

>>16947317
And they say nothing good comes of this place.

>>16947846
He was right.

>>16955837
>>16956026
I'm a retard, it was 7th grade.

I was an annoying kid. Told a teacher something that suggested he was a faggot, didn't really take the classes seriously, was hanging around with the smart/bully crew mocking others for being stupid. Also... no matter who they sat by my side, even the teacher's pet, we'd talk and mess around all the time. They just couldn't control me, but I wasn't getting into fights or drinking or anything like that.

The thing is that for the past 3 years I had to sign some sort of good behaviour agreement as a condition for my enrolment and I'm pretty sure the school just gave the order to have me fail that year in order to have the excuse to expel me.

>>16953473
Yeah what the other guy said, sometimes someone will actually just give a damn about you. Embrace it anon

>>16956113
I hated writing about my feelings. Anything that asked any personal info, I would just not do. My teachers gave me alternative assignments

>>16956247
Makes me feel bad desu. I always hated school and dropped out of university. I only got in because my teachers were super supportive. One even retired the year after I graduated. I think because I went dark she lost all hope as a teacher. Its not fair. I didnt want the help. I hated university and I'm so much happier away from school.

I'm really enjoying this thread. Thanks OP.

>>16953449
Stop using 'v' in place of 'u'. It makes you look like a cock harvester

She once commended me in front of my class for being so enthusiastic and hardworking. As a parting gift at the end of the year she gave me a copy of the elementary particles/atomised.

>>16947267
Not exactly talented, but i was the best in class and only showed it at the very end when i had to have a conversation with him.
The man was as British as the queen. Always suspected he became an alcoholic when his wife got sick. Wonder how the man is doing

>>16947267
Yes

>>16956243
>The thing is that for the past 3 years I had to sign some sort of good behaviour agreement as a condition for my enrolment and I'm pretty sure the school just gave the order to have me fail that year in order to have the excuse to expel me.
The behaviour agreement was their last ditch effort to find an opportunity to rein in your behaviour. Sometimes children are more receptive when they feel like they're part of the decision making process (i.e, it's an agreement between two parties rather than dictated rules - even though it is still very much dictated). When you couldn't keep to it, they'd gone through every process necessary to remove you; you're right, in that it primed their capacity to remove you, but I'm hoping you're wrong in that being their desire.

>>16957486
Trust me, there are huge burdens in teaching, and seldom are they the students. We get bombarded with 'pedagogical academia' which is trite pop-science rubbish at best, government guidelines/statutory requirements, schemes of work, and whatever bullshit the senior teaching team are pushing as 'ethos' on the day. Then we have to do a lot of box ticking, form filling, and grades counting to prove we're abiding by all of the above.

Teaching has changed significantly in recent years. Some of it is good - teachers do need to be held to a standard - but we need the pendulum to swing back the other way a bit. This, combined with budgetary constraints, has led to long-term teachers retiring either because they dislike the changes, or pressure is exerted upon them as a budget cutting act by the school to remove expensive teachers from the staff.

>>16948519
scholarships at your highschool - what does this mean?

>>16947267
English teachers are losers

>>16947267
Yes. One of them kinda molested me in middle school.

>>16947267
No she just gave me a book to help my writing.

my writing assignments were often too conversational and I got reprimanded for it regularly. I also skipped half of my classes so whoops

Yes she even sent me an email after the final exams before college to tell me to keep writing since I had talent.

>>16960193
:(

>>16960270
I prefer it; there's this emphasis on 'proper essay form and technique', but if you read an actual essay, they are often conversation in how they address a topic. So, I'm not sure where we got this notion of 'proper' essays, when in fact, by their virtue most essays worth reading are worth reading because of the conversations they not only have with the audience, but the inspiration for the audience to have conversation back with the essay.

Yes. I think part of it is that I earnestly read all the works he assigned to us, which was evident from the semi-frequent glaring flaws in my essays. But however much he appreciated me, I appreciate him more for introducing me to all this beauty.
>>16947417
same.

I always raised my hand to provide interpretations. I also had a huge crush on one of my English teachers who probably made me love the classics too. Love you Ms March, wherever you are

>>16947267
She always was mad at me cause I handed in papers weeks late and most of the time they were rushed and sloppy.
She said that on rare occasions it looked like I tried to do well and those times I did great work

>>16947316
Why were you expelled?

>>16947316
>tfw was a major delinquent back in highschool, getting in fights weekly and getting suspended constantly
>get told if I get into one more confrontation I'm expelled
>suddenly fly straight as an arrow, become /lit/ and do stuff like student council
Some people still remember I was a violent nutcase but I think many people respected how greatly I changed myself

>>16947267
My first language teacher hated me but never could give me anything worse than a B+ and hated that even more.

my teacher liked me because i was funny. that's it.

>Had based old Irish man as English teacher, introduced me to the great Irish authors and poets.

>I get into writing and win a national poetry competition

>Based old man retires, replaced by the teacher of the intellectually disabled students

>interest falls off a cliff, didn't start reading again until my 20's.

School ruined the joy of learning

>>16947267
yes and so did most of my teacher except the cunts wich i hated.

>>16947316
I went to alternative school for making a school shooting joke

>>16961846
>be me
>teaching a new class
>a kid is roaming outside the class
>see senior teacher chasing after him
>kid comes up to the door
>kids start calling him a school shooter
>chastise them for it
>said that's not something they should call anybody
>they tell me that's what the kid called himself
tfw I have no face

>>16960553
I was similar. I was a piece of shit until 14/15, and then I began to turn things on their head.

>>16959757
Can I get a standard high school teaching position with a philosophy degree, or do I need the degree of the subject itself? I had a creative writing teacher my senior year and he did elective classes for things like philosophy and psychology, but was formally an english teacher. I'm already halfway through my philosophy degree and I really dont wnt to change course

My english teacher was a neurotic old lady who i had several sex fantasies about. She never called me talented but usually marked my papers well. But for the final paper of the year - which i considered my best - she flat out told me that it sounded like i didn't try as hard on that one. So in short, no.

>>16961884
I'm a Brit so your mileage may vary. In the UK, we have to do a post graduate certification in education, which comes with recommendation for qualified teacher status. The course usually requires subject knowledge and pedagogical knowledge; subject knowledge is often vetted through interview processes before you can join, as well as throughout the course.

>>16959757
The only people left in the teaching profession are malignant cat ladies grooming children on behalf of homosexuals. Here's a lesson: you're going to be fucking hanged.

>>16961922
I've worked with those types before, and that isn't the complete picture. Around half of the staff in my department are men, and that's English. Similar gender distributions for other departments too.

>>16959757
>(i.e, it's an agreement between two parties rather than dictated rules - even though it is still very much dictated)
Kids see right through that shit though. It feels so deceptive and condescending

>>16947292
My handwriting is fucking awful lmao

>>16947267
No but my math teacher said I was

bump

>>16947267
my work was used as an example of "evocative" writing in english class once.
felt pretty good.
it was a rewriting of the scene from the lord of the flies where the forest catches fire.

>>16947267
ye but i went to uni, got a little depressed and lazy, realized i wasnt the smartest kid in the room but i gleefully play the role of a fool :)

>>16947267
More than one. One English teacher of mine was brought to tears by my poetry.

My English teacher gave me a flyer for a poetry competition for students. I entered and won $200 for second place. That guy told me that when I went to college I would be "the darling of the department." I then won the department's $1000 senior prize when I graduated. Now I'm working on a book of poems. Thanks Mr. Dominguez, you set me on the straight and narrow

>>16947267
High School was a bit of a shit show for me, seeing as my mother repeatedly attempted to commit suicide, leaving me mentally scarred to this day. She was later diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar and my dad soon divorced her for the sake of my siblings and me. Then our house caught fire and left us moving from place to place for over 10 weeks. I was regarded as intelligent by most of my teachers, shame that rarely translated to my written work. The only classes I tried doing well in all of this were Music, Languages and English, the latter being the one I had the most success with. My English teachers always saw some great potential in me, and in turn inspired me through these dark times. I hope I prove them right in the end, but I'm here, so perhaps this marks the beginning of my own failure.

>>16966364
damn chief he asked if your teachers called you talented, not your fucking life story

I was called a prodigy and here I am, shaking at yet another autistic spiritual crisis and shitposting at 3 am.

>>16947267
She hated me and my friends since we were constantly disrupting her class.

>>16966400
its 4chan who cares

>>16947292
kek
i remember getting average grades, the prof would tell me me the essays were excellent but the writing nigh unreadable
great guy, to this day i still swing by my highschool around christmas time and say hi to him, a few other profs and the cleaning ladies

>>16947267
Not really. Freshman year I was pretty disinterested and mediocre. Sophomore year I dropped out of high school and did my classes online. Junior year I refused to do work and failed the class. Senior year I did well but again didn't put much effort into it. The English professors at my community college really liked me, though (only took some basic stuff because STEMfag).

>>16957470
I didn't get alternative assignments a lot of the time. In middle school, for instance, I'd break the fuck down in class. Real embarassing looking back on it.

>>16966248
That's really great, anon.

>>16949362
kek

I was actually a total teachers pet in school and a massive dork.

But at the age of 15 I started snorting my mums cocaine and turned into a fuckup, got expelled, and wasted 5 years of my life doing nothing.

Now I'm just getting back into writing.

No, I don't live in a gay Anglo country

>>16947267
every teacher from grade 1 to 12 has gone out of their way to compliment me on my 'writing style' whatever that means. i also managed to score in the top percentile for my english finals out of tens of thousands of other students. im still a retard subhuman khhv manlet dicklet rotter neanderthalic idiot just fucking lol.

>>16966784
retard. neanderthalic isnt a word.

>>16966794
It is now.

>>16966805
it isnt. adjective form remains neanderthal

>>16947267
Yes, but only because they didn't know how poorly I was doing in every other subject.

>>16966794
According to whom?

>>16955810
For you.

>>16966731
Sounds like you lived a tough life

>>16947267
No, but me and my best friend were her favourite students for some reason.

>>16947267
my high school English teacher had open contempt for my laziness

>>16947316
I got detention for writing an essay they didn't like

>>16967313
I got sent to the principal's office like 10 times in elementary school for talking in class hee hee

Lol, I got praised in front of the class for knowing that followers of Islam are called "Muslims" not "Islams". Teaching high school must suck.

>>16967581
I got praised in fifth grade for knowing about the is-ought distinction

>>16953797
that's why you only show your writing to english teachers and family anon

>>16947316
Looking back I wish I had been

High school English was a slack off class. Half the time it was stupid bullshit like reading Mid Summer Night's Dream out loud which is fucking stupid. Like I want to hear the sub 100 iq kid with fetal alcohol syndrome slowly stammer out Puck's dialogue. My senior year we didn't even do anything, the teacher assigned books but half the time never gave tests or reports. The class was just 40 minutes for me to be with my friends before lunch.
No wonder people don't read, school turns it into a waste of time.

>>16960553
Anime anon

>>16960159
scholarships offered by the high school/board/whatever to students based on academic merit, ideally to help pay for university

>>16960315
From what I remember of school we were taught a half-assed form of technical writing which really clashes with having to write essays about the books read in class. There's a lot of emotional shit going down in Catcher in the Rye for example, discussion around it shouldn't hinge on writing a lab report.

>>16947267

No actually but I would've taken it as an insult if they did
Here is a lesson when you're really good at something I mean really exceptional people don't praise you because deep down they reflexively hate you and want to drag you back down into the muck with them
Most of the time it's truly not malicious or even intentional people simply cannot control this purely instinctive urge to protect their own ego it's simply the natural pattern of the human mind
It's sort of like if you stumbled upon a cave full of gold you wouldn't run out and immediately tell everyone about it
The most remarkable, coveted, irreplaceable things in the world must also be the most taboo

>>16947267
I didn't go to HS but I was the best student in all of my community college English classes.