Oh horrors. Had an awful dream. I was in an English class and the teacher was trying to sabotage me cause she hated having a Deaf student who had an interpreter and a note taker. Plus in my dream I was on strong meds that made me sleepy. Ilr there were teachers that were uncomfortable with interpreters but none ever tried to sabotage me or took it personally except one art teacher who had a real personality problem. She liked to dominate her class and I didn’t dominate well. I didn’t know it at the time but she was not well liked but the other staff. She took me to a collage version of speaking to the principal. It was her me and my advisor ( who was also deaf) and interpreters. She came out looking rather bad. Thankfully there were only a couple weeks left to the semester.
But in grade school I had a teacher that wanted to fail me. She wanted me locked up in a state school. “Normal” kids shouldn’t have to be in a room with less that perfect kids. All she successfully did was. Insure I hate math and making no longer love school. But only her class. She told mum I belonged in an institution and mum tried to get her removed. She was fired the following year. I had really pissed her off by saying Americans weren’t first. In space. I didn’t understand why that pissed her off so much because it was a fact. The principal had me take tests, the tests I passed with flying colors allowed me to stay in mainstreamed classes. Fortunately I had no idea what was riding on those tests. But that teacher humiliated me whenever she could and isolated me. By 4th grade I thought I was dumb. Fortunately the teachers were better and I did fine after that except for math.
Anyway I think that was the reason for that dream. Interesting though the dream was English class, not math!
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