my calculus teacher did little senior year jokey biographies of people as a big powerpoint on the last day. he was well loved, venerable, yet also slightly … odd. sharp, but vaguely weird. he separated people into basically informal friend groups [with multiple people on the same slide] and people who were the sort of weird alone people. i was one of the alone people. and he said i slept all the time for some reason, i was very sleep deprived but very anxious.

i was sleep deprived all of school really, it started so fucking early, terribly unfair to anybody’s sleep schedule

upon typing this I suppose it isn’t the Worst but it’s still not a fun way to end

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    10 months ago

    That’s your story about the worst a teacher has treated you? Man, I’m stoked to hear how much better things have become!

    When I was a kid I had a teacher who used to slam kid’s desks against the wall with the kids in them. He also used to throw chalk and erasers across the room at kids if they were talking.

    I had another teacher who would smack the back of your hands with a yardstick if she thought you weren’t paying attention.

    Oh, and then of course there was the teacher who would grab our hands and bend our fingers backwards until it felt like they would break.

    I had a shop teacher who let kids physically batter each other in class.

    Everyone I know that’s my age or older has experiences like this.

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      10 months ago

      That’s your story about the worst a teacher has treated you? Man, I’m stoked to hear how much better things have become!

      I’m sorry you went through that stuff, but it’s not a suffering competition. Frankly, I’ve had both teachers that used sticks and rulers to punish us, and teachers that screamed at me constantly, and it’s the second one that I remember most frequently and the one that gave me paralyzing test/performance anxiety. That’s the one that took years of self reflection and some therapy to make some progress on. Fuck that teacher.