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Great thread, reminded me of my teachers' confusion at the fact I'd read constantly, all the time, but it was a 50/50 chance I'd read anything assigned https://twitter.com/Nichtschwert/status/1352921252843974656
I didn't even read a whole ass novel in class once, I just passed the quizzes and essays with shit they talked about in class. But I was also really lucky in that my literature teacher had a passion for the books she chose
And the books that were required by the school board? She commiserated with us that we all had to read them, so giving them the mst3k treatment in class was actually encouraged. She picked books that had movie counterparts and we'd watch and discuss media based on lit
But I'm extremely odd in my schooling, decided by a tiny high school run by a bunch of young people trying to get kids into learning again. 350 students from 7-12th, only 30 in my graduating class, only one didn't pass.
Despite all this: I still fucking hated going to school because getting grades killed my drive to start/finish projects. I was uninterested in anything assigned outside of class. My poor grades made my home life shit.
My mother had me convinced until I was 20 that a C was a failing grade. I spent high school constantly stressed about my grades but couldn't push myself to fix it (undiagnosed adhd that was assumed laziness). I had so many classes I was simply uninterested in.
And the thing is, I just had average grades. Like, company normal, C's and B's with the occasional A. But teachers, my mother, the fucking DIRECTOR of the school constantly spouted their disappoint in me.
I was just a kid!! You wanted a 20pg essay with a 15 minute presentation about a topic of our choice, but when you have adhd, chronic anxiety, and fucking meltdowns I'm gonna say thrusting that expectation into someone with minimal help because they should be able to by now
You're going setting them up to disappoint. And it really fucking hurts.
