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Never did well in school.

Mac78321

I will admit that primary and high school were not my most favourite times, Primary school was the worst I would say If the teachers cared about students wellbeing and understood that some students have difficulty. then the help would be much easier to get. One teacher in primary school always yelled and got angry because of my handwriting/spelling mistakes, not being able to do maths. I was tested for Dyslexia, ADD, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia and autism at the age of 4 and I wasn't diagnosed till I was age 20. So I don't know why it was never brought up then, In high school. I was there for 5 years and only passed Music, history and biology and just passed English, I failed all the other classes. The teachers just thought I was lazy and didn't take into account that I have learning difficulties. I know I'm not the only one who has had difficulties in high school or education in general.

Did anyone else had trouble in school maybe difficulties in certain classes? 

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  • School life was a total nightmare for me.

    Academically is was up and down like a yo-yo.

    Socially it was down in the gutter.

    I changed school several times, I refused to go to school many times.  I stayed off school for weeks and months at a time.  I got thrown out of two schools.

    I got my O and A levels, although they were nowhere near good enough.  I should have done better.

    I was very good at Maths and that caused problems.

    I joined a middle school, a couple of months into the year. At that school pupils were streamed by past exam performance.  As a newcomer I was placed in the bottom maths stream.  At the end of year exam I was top of the class and I was promoted to the middle Maths stream.  The boy who came second in the exam went ballistic because he wasn't promoted.  Up to then he had been quite friendly, after that he never spoke to me again.

    The situation in the middle Maths stream was almost a repeat.  After a month or so, we were tested and again I came top and I was promoted to the top Maths stream.  The girl who came second went berserk and accused me of stealing her rightful place in the top Maths class.

    Politics and jealousy, even in a middle school!

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  • School life was a total nightmare for me.

    Academically is was up and down like a yo-yo.

    Socially it was down in the gutter.

    I changed school several times, I refused to go to school many times.  I stayed off school for weeks and months at a time.  I got thrown out of two schools.

    I got my O and A levels, although they were nowhere near good enough.  I should have done better.

    I was very good at Maths and that caused problems.

    I joined a middle school, a couple of months into the year. At that school pupils were streamed by past exam performance.  As a newcomer I was placed in the bottom maths stream.  At the end of year exam I was top of the class and I was promoted to the middle Maths stream.  The boy who came second in the exam went ballistic because he wasn't promoted.  Up to then he had been quite friendly, after that he never spoke to me again.

    The situation in the middle Maths stream was almost a repeat.  After a month or so, we were tested and again I came top and I was promoted to the top Maths stream.  The girl who came second went berserk and accused me of stealing her rightful place in the top Maths class.

    Politics and jealousy, even in a middle school!

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