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I was never at the top of my class - ever. It baffled me. I felt I should be, but I never was. Not once.
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I was never at the top of my class - ever. It baffled me. I felt I should be, but I never was. Not once.
I suspect, m'dear, that you may be like my son: brilliant but too much in tune with his own drummer to satisfy the grading/marking requirements.
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Praps. In the Maths paper, there was a 'rough column' you had to draw on the right side of the answer sheet. In it you had to do your "rough work" or how you worked out the sum. That column terrified me. I liked to multiply numbers from left to right. The teachers wanted right to left. I never quite understood it.
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It was my only time- 9th grade - and it never happened
again, which, I suppose is why I was messing around
at my desk, paying little attention, and it so surprised
me.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I was never at the top of my class - ever. It baffled me. I felt I should be, but I never was. Not once.
I suspect, m'dear, that you may be like my son: brilliant but too much in tune with his own drummer to satisfy the grading/marking requirements. Later in life when I learned my IQ, I was astounded. I hated school, despised homework and tests and especially hated term papers in high school, college, etc. My thesis was a joke, from my point of view, so I may be like your son marching to my own drummer. Yet I love learning, as on this site, so many things to absorb, but school was Yeaaach! Never did figure out why I went into education as a teacher.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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To get your own back maybe? My aunt insists that that is the reason she became a teacher...teachers gave her hell so she is returning the favour (she was also told that she couldn't sing or play the piano, yet she teaches both and was training to be an opera singer before she caught a terrible throat problem that doesn't let her sing for long until her voice gives out...)
----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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To get your own back maybe? My aunt insists that that is the reason she became a teacher...teachers gave her hell so she is returning the favour (she was also told that she couldn't sing or play the piano, yet she teaches both and was training to be an opera singer before she caught a terrible throat problem that doesn't let her sing for long until her voice gives out...) To get my own back? Maybe so, good thought, thanks. And to show kids that not all teachers are despised. I'm sure many disliked me, but I know I made it interesting, and they seldom left without a smile on their faces.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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