Never did well in school.

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? 

Parents
  • The way children of school age get diagnosed relies on teachers to support the evidence of behaviours. Most teacher back then had little to understanding of autism and other learning disabilities and the teacher own interpretation what autism and ADD should look like has negatively effected multiple generations. 

    I had one teacher in primary school for just under a year who would physical knee, kick and trap my arm in cupboards tell me off because of my hand writing. 

    The same teacher forced me to wear a jumper in the hottest day of the year and wouldn’t let me take it off. 
    she would also tell me off for not wearing the school uniform which was extremely uncomfortable. 

    my school had learning centre and senso on site and refused to assess me despite multiple teacher pointing out that I had something wrong with me. I failed English, Religious studies, history because they couldn’t read my handwriting in the exams. 

  • Holy crap, If that's what she did to you for hand-writing I don't want to know what happens if you don't get an answer right, That sounds terrible. 

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  • Holy crap, If that's what she did to you for hand-writing I don't want to know what happens if you don't get an answer right, That sounds terrible. 

Children
  • She wouldn't punish me for getting answers wrong, but they would find any excuse to try and discipline me, it's not like this was the 80s it was in the mid 2000 when this was going on. The teacher was that good at hiding the abuse but when my old reception teacher who suspected i was on the autism spectrum noticed something was up with me but could never prove what the teacher was doing it despite the reception class teacher paying for camera out of her own pocket to catch the abusive  teacher out, the abusive teacher would find way distract the class room assistant so she wouldn't notice or see it. Eventually this reception teacher intervened when the horrible teacher kept putting me into meltdown & shutdown, i think she was trying to get me expelled and the only way the school. it took several of the class children telling the head teacher what she was doing to me. but the head teacher couldn't act on a word of several children so decided he decided to teach our class part time which the abusive teacher didn't like so she quit. The teacher is still teaching it wasn't until high school that i found out that she had moved to another primary school in the next village over and did the same to other children who would eventually end up with me in the remedial/special needs classroom.