That One Teacher

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 19:49 -- rexiusm

we all have one, a teacher we dont hate.

but i had a teacher who hated me even though i did nothing

math, a complicated class, lots of formulas

but that damn teacher dare to not answer my questions, to shrug me off as invisible at the back of the class?!

so i read,; manga, history, mathematics, fiction, nonfiction. he still ignores me.

Open house rolls around and i regret going with as we trot over to the teachers class

my mother; tall, blonde and the strongest mother i know.

after semesters of not teaching me, ignoring me,what does he say?!

"I'm sorry but your child is a WASTE OF SPACE in my class."

i wanted to punch him out for saying that trash, that BULLSHIT!

but my mother sitting next to me slaps me across the head and says

"no wonder she hasn't been doing her homework, what have you been wasting your time on?!"

i have no words for months to come for that teacher because he never speaks to me.

i find others who have been discriminated against for being teens, and its completely the same...even the same teacher!

he tells all parents how the kids will not pass, s/he has been wasteful of their time when he decides to not teach us anything!

but he keeps his job and i fail because i am a lying teen, but am I?

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