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Old Apr 29, 2013, 05:36 AM
Anonymous100110
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Granite, I am a teacher, and what your teacher says doesn't sound AT ALL like she thought you were a horrible child. It doesn't sound AT ALL that the teacher hated you. She sounds like a teacher describing a child with attention problems and problems applying herself to her work. That is not AT ALL unusual or out of the ordinary behavior for teachers to see in our classrooms. I also see no evidence that the teacher knew or condoned what your mother was doing to you at home. All there is is a vague reference to thanking your mother for her help at home, but she is probably not referring to the public humiliation. I suspect she is referring to generally whatever your mother was telling her about working with you at home (what your mother was telling her perhaps verbally over time rather than the one sentence in your mother's reply), and probably the teacher had no idea the extent to what your mother was actually doing.

Your T is going to read this as a pretty normal evaluation of your behaviors and academic performance in the classroom, and those behaviors are described as a fairly typical inattentive child who was not always focused on her work. Nothing more than that.

Think of it this way: if a teacher were describing your son as having trouble paying attention or having trouble applying himself to his work, would you see that as the teacher "hating" him? Would you see your son's behaviors as "horrible"? Would you see those behavior as "horrible" behavior? You know darned well you wouldn't. Why are you being harder on the child you were? Give the child you were some compassion and understanding. Don't be as hard on the child you were as your mother was. That's what she wanted you to do, but you aren't a child now, and you don't have to listen to the mother or do what she says any longer.
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