This happened in my art class once. Our kooky art teacher invited an ex-student in without any prior warning and we were supposed to ask him questions on his art (he did book covers).
Silence, no one was having this shit. Out of pity I asked him questions on some tiny details I noticed on the spot. More silence, I ask about different tiny details. And so forth.
Iâve realised that thereâs a large portion of the populace that are perfectly comfortable in excruciating silence if itâs not at their expense.
Just imagine this with the books I had to read in school. Yes, I would have read it, Iâm a fast reader, so a bad book does not waste too much time. On the other hand, I would have no problems with grilling the author over the shit he or she wrote. Because basically every book we had to read for school was crap. There are so many good books, books that would spark interest and passion for reading more, but somehow they had selected the worst of the worst back then, aimed at making children reel in horror when they see books and vow never to touch a book again after school.
Imagine bullying someone because they read a book.
They should be thankful the school didnât punish the class for not doing the assignment.
I was home schooled,* and occasionally I wish I had gone to public school, because I missed out on a lot of cultural touchstones, but then Iâm reminded that kids are fucking horrible to other kids at any sign of differentness, and I was a fat, nerdy, gay bookworm, so, yeah, Iâm good with the way things shook out. Haha
*Got a great education, not a religious nutjob, was not raised by right wing zealots.
Home schooled kids on average are smarter. Public schools tend to lower their standards to get a certain percentage of students to pass.
Plus I bet your teacher was hot.
Considering half the home schooled kids are kept for indoctrination and/or abuse purposes, I doubt it.
Ugh, can relate. I love to read; I used to go through two books per week as a kid during middle school and high school. Not even just fiction, but non-fiction about topics that interested me like space and aviation. I even read books on my Palm Pilot PDA, well before e-readers were a thing.
So as you can imagine, I had an exceptional vocabulary compared to classmates. This had some annoying effects as well. Whenever I did written assignments for a new class with a different teacher, theyâd always accuse me of either cheating or plagiarism. Because I was using way more âdifficult wordsâ than classmates. A two minute conversation usually cleared it up; they quickly found out that I did in fact do the work and understood the assignment.
I donât envy teachers today. Reading comprehension has declined sharply, and kids just donât like to read as much as they did when I was young. Despite the fact that books are now way more accessible to them. I fear itâs going to result in an illiterate generationâŚ
I read everything I could get my hands on (and still do), except the shit they assigned us for school.
I get âhistorically relevantâ classics are a thing, but students donât want to read most of them because theyâre brutally formal and none of them can relate to them. Itâs a chore primarily because the curriculum is all old and because burying 500 layers of symbolism into a story isnât how people write any more (because it sucks).
If more reading assignments were stories written to actually entertain kids and just asking the kids to put themselves in the characterâs shoes and âwhat would you doâ, maybe they wouldnât hate reading so much.
At some point I started dialing up the symbolism interpretation up to 11 but somehow they didnât like that either. I came to the conclusion that they want you to validate their particular interpretation of a work even if it put too much thought into it compared to the author, not put too much thought into it yourself.
Iâm sorry anon but they probably were gonna bully you regardless
Itâs Anonâs parents fault for not teaching him how to deal with bullies.
You should talk to them and explain that what they are doing hurts your feelings!
Yeah no, fuck up the next guy who calls you ass-worm, bite and scratch if you canât knock them down, make sure they remember that fucking with you bears consequences. Push a stick to their asses while you scream âass-worm, huh?!â