I am able to read and retain information very well. I work well with words, but numbers have always been difficult for me. In the past, other teachers have understood that I wasn 't good at eveything and would help me in math. But in sixth grade when she was going over something in math, and I 'd ask her a question; she 'd tell me that since I was in the gifted program I should already understand and I shouldn 't need her help.
Then, on the day of my sixth grade promotion, my gifted teacher wanted to say that I was part of the gifted program and that I was deserving of some words said about my hard work. My sixth grade teacher refused. It made me feel as if my accomplishments didn 't matter, as I put a lot of hard work into my gifted classes. With everything that had happened in that year and the past, as othes went up to speak about their accomplisments and where awarded for their hard work, I was happy for them, but I began to feel as if not only my accomplisments didn 't matter but that I didn 't