[raj bhatia]

“If your child is either too lazy or too stupid to finish it in class, I'm sending it home so that you can work with them and judge for yourself whether it is laziness or idiocy that inhibits your child's progress”

If this constitutes an act worthy of suspension my grandfather would have been sent to the chair. Thanks to the good man's taunting I learnt Math well and tried to actually be good at it.

[metmom]

Teachers ridicule of me in front of the class is what made me just dig my heels in harder and fight them more.

I knew better than to talk back to any adult, but I also knew what was acceptable and unacceptable behavior from them, even if I couldn’t say so.

So, I fought back in the only way I could, by not caring and not trying.

[Magic Fingers]

“If this constitutes an act worthy of suspension my grandfather would have been sent to the chair. Thanks to the good man’s taunting I learnt Math well and tried to actually be good at it.”

Yes, but that was your grandfather - not some numbnut of a principal who didn’t even know your name.