There are some teachers you hear about, where you wonder why they went for the job to begin with. Sadists who hate children sounds like a plausible explanation. :o(
For me it was my science teacher at secondary school. I was filled with ambition for med school, surgery in particular. My grades were above average for the three years of general science before we chose our O'level subjects, and then she decided that my maths wasn't strong enough to manage physics or chemistry so the school put me in for Latin and German. Afterwards I learned that they'd decided I'd get better marks if I did those subjects instead of sciences.
I promptly lost interest in school, got rubbish results in my O' levels and have drifted around doing summat and nowt ever since and I'm nearly fifty.
It's amazing what a few badly chosen words at the wrong time can do in the formation of a young adult. Sure, if I'd been *that* determined I could have studied outside school, but neither parent seemed that interested, my father died just before I took the exams and I just lost all motivation.
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For me it was my science teacher at secondary school. I was filled with ambition for med school, surgery in particular. My grades were above average for the three years of general science before we chose our O'level subjects, and then she decided that my maths wasn't strong enough to manage physics or chemistry so the school put me in for Latin and German. Afterwards I learned that they'd decided I'd get better marks if I did those subjects instead of sciences.
I promptly lost interest in school, got rubbish results in my O' levels and have drifted around doing summat and nowt ever since and I'm nearly fifty.
It's amazing what a few badly chosen words at the wrong time can do in the formation of a young adult. Sure, if I'd been *that* determined I could have studied outside school, but neither parent seemed that interested, my father died just before I took the exams and I just lost all motivation.