By: Silke Lozier
Ever since I was a young kid, I thought I was stupid because of how my teachers and my peers would treat me. In fact, it was mostly my teachers that made me feel stupid. I loved to learn, but my teachers slowly made me hate it. I went through elementary and middle school missing a lot of days because I was “sick”, I didn't want to have to face my teachers when I didn't finish a project or my homework. I felt stupid. Powerless even. In grade 4 I transferred schools to Duke of Connaught and into the French program. I was ecstatic, I wanted to learn French and I tried very hard. One thing that has stuck with me for 9 years has been the way my teacher dismissed me after I asked a question. My class was doing an “about me” presentation …show more content…
Because of that, I failed 2 courses. But was me not attending really hurting my course grade? I still passed English with 60+ missed classes while I failed world history with around 40. Is me failing on my teachers lack of awareness for me? No, but, it did help with my failure. My world history teacher ignored me when I stated I had a presentation I had to do and never allowed me to do it, so I stopped showing up since I was destined to fail anyway. I was so behind because of her lack of awareness or caring for me. But it is completely on me. My mark for college biology was an 89 and my mark for ASL (American Sign Language) was an 84. Were those high marks because I wasn’t missing many classes, because of my teachers or because of me? The answer is yes to all of those. I was so excited to learn biology and ASL I wanted to study, I wanted to absorb all the knowledge I could, I wanted to show up, only missing 12 classes for biology and 3 for ASL. I wanted to gain all the knowledge I could and succeed in those courses. The teachers I had were amazing and helped me a lot when I was confused. They made me excel while I just needed to have the motivation. Having the motivation is not hard when the teacher is amazing and is rooting for
Ever since I was a young kid, I thought I was stupid because of how my teachers and my peers would treat me. In fact, it was mostly my teachers that made me feel stupid. I loved to learn, but my teachers slowly made me hate it. I went through elementary and middle school missing a lot of days because I was “sick”, I didn't want to have to face my teachers when I didn't finish a project or my homework. I felt stupid. Powerless even. In grade 4 I transferred schools to Duke of Connaught and into the French program. I was ecstatic, I wanted to learn French and I tried very hard. One thing that has stuck with me for 9 years has been the way my teacher dismissed me after I asked a question. My class was doing an “about me” presentation …show more content…
Because of that, I failed 2 courses. But was me not attending really hurting my course grade? I still passed English with 60+ missed classes while I failed world history with around 40. Is me failing on my teachers lack of awareness for me? No, but, it did help with my failure. My world history teacher ignored me when I stated I had a presentation I had to do and never allowed me to do it, so I stopped showing up since I was destined to fail anyway. I was so behind because of her lack of awareness or caring for me. But it is completely on me. My mark for college biology was an 89 and my mark for ASL (American Sign Language) was an 84. Were those high marks because I wasn’t missing many classes, because of my teachers or because of me? The answer is yes to all of those. I was so excited to learn biology and ASL I wanted to study, I wanted to absorb all the knowledge I could, I wanted to show up, only missing 12 classes for biology and 3 for ASL. I wanted to gain all the knowledge I could and succeed in those courses. The teachers I had were amazing and helped me a lot when I was confused. They made me excel while I just needed to have the motivation. Having the motivation is not hard when the teacher is amazing and is rooting for