What business is it of theirs??? They should let you take the classes you want...if you don't find it's right for you...then it's not right for you...but to not allow you to even TRY???
When I was younger my parents were told that I wouldn't go to college...well...here I am
That's just...arrrrgh!
i got in trouble for yelling at my teacher...i was so sick of her making fun of my vision impairment...and she didn't believe me when I told her all my relatives live in my state...and she kept failing me based on bad handwriting.
I had to type everything too...I barely write anymore. That DARK story was funny...Hey my brother wasn't allowed to go to fifth grade because he was a year younger than everyone else. They said he wasn't advanced enough socially to go to grade five. hahaha *dies laughing*...
Grrr teachers...I went to a very well known and respected private school...and my junior year a teacher said to me...get this..."I'm surprised you're still here". WTF? She thought I would have gotten kicked out by then...
I had a great teacher my first school years, a young one that emphasised everyones uniqueness and equality, and not only by empty words.
Then I had some bad experiences with teachers, though I would rather blame an outdated school system, and since the teachers were old they just thought they should do 'as they've always done'.
Oh no don't hold your pen like that(although your writing is perfectly readable)
NO pen spinning(don't care if it makes you work twice as effective)
This is the most pathetic one: in math classes, you can only make this number of questions(like 23-28 or w/e)
In fifth grade I wasn't allowed to do any math beyond what everyone else was doing in school, at home I read science/math magazines, studying math that the school system didn't want me to know of before 3-5 years.
All that bullcrap stopped when I got to year 7.
I had to sit through the same material for another year of my life and the teacher complained to my parents that I wasn't paying attention.
some schools try to make everyone to fit into conforming boxes of mediocrity.
NOTE: These comments apply to Australian schools.This sounds like my education or lack thereof. My problem was being gifted (with aspies) I was given advanced textbooks and had to leave the normal classroom and do those problems assignments.
Then reports to parents I was not paying attention. Then tons of sports to "toughen me up". ie read bullying.
Since I have attempted to gain a teaching degree (and left it ), this comment of making everyone fit into a conforming box of mediocrity certainly applies to emerging teachers as well. If you try and be slightly different to better suit some of the children you will get failed.
The relaity there is 30 plus children (theres actually supposed to be half that number, max 20) in a typical maths class for instance. You may have them for some 3 hours per week. This gives little time to develop the children.
I compare public school to a factory. The teachers come out in cookie cutter mode (or they fail you). The children comply (quiet, do work) or get labelled ADD /ADHD etc. All originality is crushed and nil deviation allowed.
My way of teaching constantly expanding the childrens understanding at higher cognitive levels, and these children, NT's mostly, achieved more in a few weeks than in the last two years put together ended up with a severe talking to me for not following the factory line and a fail.
I will never attempt to teach again (in schools) after that experience. I am disillusioned with our education system so I will just now assist my children / tutor others where these restrictions are not present.