This Woman Blamed The School System For Failing A Math Test, But Not Everyone Agrees

Except if she had only done a bit of work and tried to pass the next test, they'd already know she's not bad at math. But she chose to not doing anything at all for all the remaining time, so no one could possibly know she wasn't bad, but just doing shit all.

Judgning someone on what they do ONCE on a test is so wrong, if they know she can do better then it's obvious something was momentarily wrong, but hey let's be square and expect everyone to be high performing robots all the time who never have bad days.

It is true that a child's records may carry prejudicial information. In my case, it was that I was a slow reader. Of course in those days, slow reading was supposedly indicative of a mental disorder. If that is the case, this mental disorder graduated summa cum laude and magna cum laude from two different universities, and it had nothing to do with that teacher's "remedial reading class" assignment. She can stop patting herself on the back.

When I was a kid, I had trouble reading aloud. I'd start reading, but get stuck mid-sentence with stage fright. On the side, teacher was scolding me: "Go on! Read it! What? Don't you know what that says? Read it aloud! Come on!" Arrggh. You don't do that to an introverted child. She had no clue that when I was at home, I was reading books constantly, and I read the dictionary for fun. By age 10, I had read Edgar Rice Borroughs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott. My vocabulary was that of someone 5 years my senior. Yet that stupid teacher knew none of that because she never once talked to my parents. She put me in remedial reading, the most boring class ever, all because I was a slow reader. What "cured" me wasn't the class. My sister told me "All you have to do is glance ahead a little bit, two or three words, as you are reading aloud. The words will be there when you need them. Try it." I did and like magic my "reading disability" disappeared overnight. Dumb teacher.

Thank you! This hits so very close to home.

I find it silly that some people seem to expect children to behave and think like adults.

The OP specifically wrote that she didn't try and didn't bother. This story is insulting to the kids who do actually try and are ridiculed for doing poor despite their best efforts. She literally says she put in no effort and was actually good at math when she did, so not it is not the same. I have always been awful at math and struggled with it despite my best efforts; trying hard and doing poor regardless is very different to putting in zero effort and doing poor because of it. So maybe not call me a bitch for quoting her own words, thanks?

Margaret please do not take this as a hurtful comment, it is not meant as an attack, but I think you might want to talk to someone about how you have just reacted to Sarah's comment. Obviously this is a subject that is still causing you pain and there maybe underlying experiences you need to work through. You should be proud of what you have achieved in your life.

Sarah. She also wrote that she did try, messed up, retried and obviously then lost her will to do it, most likely cause of her ADHD, her attention ran out, ugh it annoys me so much when people claim that people with diagnosis don't put an effort in when they decide to scrap something, it's not because they don't care, it's because they just can't bring themselves to do it mentally anymore.