We might chuckle about that remark here, as a bunch of adults, but when you’re in high school and a teacher says that, I’m sure it was embarrassing for the student.
If your family has acclimated and become more American, that’s exactly what you don’t want people thinking when they meet you. The young man wisely waited until he had left that school so as to avoid any possible retailiation from that teacher.
“The young man wisely waited until he had left that school so as to avoid any possible retailiation from that teacher.”
Right! Wait a year so now so the teacher has a harder time defending themselves.