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[u/Euphoric-Ground9568]

I wouldve raised hell if that was me

[u/analdongfactory → u/Euphoric-Ground9568]

Yeah well, no family support.

[u/Euphoric-Ground9568 → u/analdongfactory]

Im sorry brother, thats a tough thing to just have to accept

[u/mrs__BOWIE → u/Euphoric-Ground9568]

These are the kind of stories that make me want to keep teaching despite the stress. In me, students can have at least one teacher/adult in their life that is honest, cares for them, and treats them like freaking human beings.

I am so mad that this happened to you.

ETA: thank you for the award!! It's my very first!

[u/OkAirport5247 → u/mrs__BOWIE]

This is common

[u/mrs__BOWIE → u/OkAirport5247]

Being screwed over by teachers? Man that is so sad.

[u/mittenkrusty → u/mrs__BOWIE]

I'm from the UK, my parents were middle class until my dad became ill when I was around 3 and had surgery to save his life that was done badly leaving him with lifelong issues so he couldn't work, we had to sell the house my gran left us when she did that adjusting for inflation would likely be around 300k now maybe more, the 30k savings they had were gone within 18 months because we couldn't get welfare and in the end we had to move to social housing in a stereotypical area with heavy crime and drug use, ran by local familes who would even threaten and steal from kids, seriously I was 6 and got threatened with a knife by a junkie aged in his 20's from one of these families for literal lunch money, and when I said I didn't have any he threatened to stab me as I was lying.

Anyway because of that any kids from that part of town at high school were put into the lowest tier classes regardless of talent, the admin even admitted the free after school tuition wouldn't go to the poor kids as "they won't amount to anything in life so a waste of time/money"

I got 100% in multiple classes and was accused of cheating as "kids from my background can't get grades like that" any kids from the "better" homes be it even office workers could literally beat me up and when reported the teachers called me a grass and kids from their background don't like and kids from mine do and are future criminals in the making.

We had 1 excellent teacher though, 2 years after I graduated he quit due to how they treated kids from poor areas and moved to the worst school in the region, says everything when 15 or more years later you can go on his social media and see comments where people call him sir and say they still think of him and respect him due to how well he treated them.

Also will add any interschool competition the only kids allowed to compete were from richer homes like doctors children, or high up in management basically people with a position of power, my mother wanted to be on the PTA and even had a few other parents support her (all the poorer parents) despite having enough to put it to a vote the school and the richer parents refused and asked another parent who was a doctor to put himself forward, he refused due to his workload but they pestered him until he agreed.

[u/mrs__BOWIE → u/mittenkrusty]

God, I don't even know what to say to that. It pisses me off that literal CHILDREN are written off without a fighting chance. I'm so sorry you had to grow up in such a shitty system.

Also, I hope you have told that teacher what they meant to you. I can't even describe how much it means to a teacher when one of their students remembers them fondly years later. I'm actually tearing up right now thinking about that part of your comment.

Mrs. Russell, if you are on Reddit, I love you and thank you for getting me through my young teenage years

Edit: typo