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swore I was cheating somehow because if she couldn't do it, a kid couldn't either

because kids don't read books like that.

School was kinda annoying with how it would punish you for being anywhere outside of normal. Even if it was positive.

This 100x. I taught myself how to read before going to first grade. The reward was being isolated in an empty classroom for a lot of first grade when others were learning to spell. Well there was one other kid, but she didn't speak. She had been taught by her extremely strict parents to read before school. They had like 7 children and were horribly strict. This girl starter crying once when she got what's equivalent to an A-, afraid she was going be yelled at at home.

There was a special class for anyone below average. But dear me, if you were above average no you weren't, because that's just rude.

Doing any work I was given faster than other didn't result in getting more challenging work. It just resulted in getting more of the same boring shit I'd already shown I know very well.

I could've been one of those kids who go to college at 14, but nooooo. I just learned to avoid work and hide my skills

Remember title of mental math book?

I got this, too. It was because I didn’t show my work. So I started writing out my process, and it wasn’t “how we were taught”, and got a 0 once again for it.

After that I just quit doing the work at all, and I’m sure they felt justified calling me lazy. I’m a lot of things but I’m not lazy.

There's alot of us out there that don't work like the system expects. You either know the answer or you don't, taking more time doesn't do anything for our brains.

Yeah! Once a teacher was mad at me for being too quick and when she checked to scold me, everything was correct...

While teaching is an underpaid profession, and good teachers deserve A LOT of respect for what they do, it has to be said that many many horrible people become teachers.

I've had my fair share of these people. Would throw them off a cliff if I could lol

Part of the purpose of homework is to encourage the student to revisit the assignment later in the day. Repetition of exercise develops muscles and your brain is a muscle.

That said

Teacher lost her shit

Generally best when teachers manage their own tempers, as hot heads do a poor job of gaining the trust and maintaining the attention of their students.

I loved to read, so if I got my work or test done quickly, I had time to read while everybody else was still.workung.

I was especially good with reading tests, because I was always the best reader in my classes in elementary school. I was always the first done.

See I use to do the same in history but I got an F. Loser

I actually started getting more recognition when I started producing 60-70 % or less instead of 120 %. It was like management thought that, if my tasks took longer, it was probably because I was very thorough and the task was very difficult, even though the end result would be the same. If I solved a task in 1 day, instead of 5 days, they regarded the task as easy instead of me being good. The slower i worked, the more applause I got from my manager... But, he was also an idiot... But, i wouldn't be surprised if this was a pattern in other companies as well.

I was grateful that my teachers were chill with this

I'd finish my math work while the teacher was still explaining it to the class, and just start reading a book. Teacher was fine with it because I was a good student and got good grades.

Rant incoming

Although I do have one particular gripe with that teacher unrelated to any of that. Question was how far was a person in a pool from the life guard on a life guard tower. I found the hypotenuse, moved on to other questions. Got marked wrong so I brought it up to the teacher, and her explanation was that she wanted the distance from the person to the tower (the BOTTOM of the tower?????) under the logic that you wouldn't just float on up in a straight line to the life guard. First of all, the question was specifically worded as distance from person to life guard, NOT travel distance. Secondly to the BOTTOM of the life guard tower??? You wanted that value, not even the added distance of the length to the bottom of the tower and the length to climb the tower??????

If you asked me how far away a plane in the sky is from me, and I answered 5 feet, I'd look like a damn idiot.

I kind of wish I pushed her on that question harder. I kind of just thought "good lord she's out of her mind" and sat back down because it had little to no impact on my grade. But I have lived years being pissed about getting that question wrong, I simply cannot move on from it.

A task is always only so big that the weakest child can do it. That's often not enough to learn something thoroughly.

Yea and these people will not shut the fuck up, either.

You just described MAGA.

Wtf does that have to do with the post

When I was a child, I was told that Communism failed because it gave no incentive for people to work hard and better themselves and their society. After all, if everyone is paid the same and has a guaranteed job, why worker harder than than anyone else? As an adult, I learned the same thing applies to workers in capitalist societies. In most companies, there is little reason to do more than the bare minimum needed to keep from getting fired. Promotions never happen as companies prefer to hire externally. Real raises and bonuses don't happen; you have to move companies to get a real raise. And of course, workers don't get any direct reward for working more. The owners just pocket all the profits and tell you to work harder.

I turns out both American Capitalism and Soviet Communism wasted colossal amounts of human potential.