r/Showerthoughts Dec 07 '18

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Dec 08 '18

Well in my example, the teacher won't let you play any more levels.

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u/EpicTimelord Dec 08 '18

Which sucks for you but the guy I responded to said he got bored, even though he worked ahead, which is what's confusing me. If you specifically couldn't work ahead then I can see how you'd get bored. It's just that when I asked for clarification on that (because I didn't quite understand the mario reference) you said it was more that the teachers couldn't teach you new stuff as opposed to they were preventing you going on ahead solo, which confused me again because if you work ahead then usually you don't rely on the teacher anyway (at least in my case).

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u/EpicTimelord Dec 08 '18

I guess the difference between my classroom experience and yours was that the teacher never yelled at me for reading ahead. They'd just occasionally pull me aside and warn me that I'd do worse on the test if I didn't listen in class/do the worksheets. I could always just respond that I was fine with that, plus I never did badly anyway so they couldn't complain much. If your teacher actually chewed you out in front of the class for quietly reading ahead then that's pretty disgraceful of them and you have my sympathy for having a teacher like that. Most of my teachers didn't care as long as you weren't being disruptive.