I was 12 years old."
The response from older generations alone was absolutely overwhelming and horrifying.
Here are some of their replies.
Im in my late 60s now, but I remember it like yesterday."
magicalwalrus147
2.
After I finished, my male teacher said ‘your voice is so sexy’ to the whole class.
I put my head on my desk and started crying.
I cant remember what the rest of the class did, as I was too mortified to notice.
That was 40 years ago, and I can still remember it clear as day.
Pretty sure nobody would get away with that today."
You two can pair up because youre the only Black kids in class.'"
Anonymous
4.
I despise milk and didnt want to drink it.
The teacher refused to start class until I finished my milk.
That traumatic event has been with me for over 40 years and still affects me today."
“This was a high school teacher I had in the early ’70s.
I was so miserably cold that I rushed to finish and leave.
I scored a little better than average.
I’m still furious about the condescending sexism.”
She threatened to give me an F on the test, so I reported her to the principal."
“In NYC, Catholic school students take an exam for admission to Catholic high school.
Positive reinforcement was not part of Catholic education in the ’60s.”
“I got into six schools the most in the history of my grammar school.”
sweetshark22
10.
“I went to a small private Christian school in the ’70s.
As a 14-year-old, I was shy and self-conscious about my looks.
I had plucked my unfashionably bushy eyebrows to pencil thinness over the summer and thought I looked quite chic.
You look HIDEOUS!'
I wanted to die right then and there.
It was so unnecessarily cruel.”
I still vividly remember this 30 years later."
“Im a successful, 55-year-old businesswoman with a finance degree.
However, when I was a 15-year-old girl, math was not my strong suit.
In 9th grade algebra class, we had taken a surprise test.
He then handed me my test with a big, red F.”
14.
“In seventh grade, we were given the assignment of writing a family history.
This was long before DNA tracing was around.
We were supposed to show ancestry and family stories.
The teacher blew me off.
I was 12 years old.
To this day, that comment still hurts.”
“This was in the late ’60s, when women were supposed to know our ‘place.’
Being outspoken, I was never good at that.
So my speech teacher told my soon-to-be husband not to marry me.”
“I wasnt a kid at the time, but l was in musical theatre school.
l often tell them, ‘If your teachers dont believe in you, prove your teachers wrong!'”
mickeydem
17.
“I was in second grade in the ’80s.
My teacher said I should give up any artistic and creative pursuits because I wasnt good at them.
She also pulled me out of other classes to scratch her back.
I’d been taught to do whatever authority figures asked of me, so I didnt question it.”
“Anyway, I’m a published author now.”
“My initials are SFB.
“I was attending a parochial school in the south in the ’80s.
“I was in third grade in 1966.
She did the same thing to other students in the class.”
“I was in fifth grade whenThe Beatlesmade their debut onThe Ed Sullivan Show.
When I came in the next morning, my notebook was gone.
Nobodys mind needs to be poisoned by them.’
I still think about what an ass she was.”
“I was in fourth grade in a Catholic school, and my worst subject was math.
I ended up in the hospital for stomach issues out of stress.
Sixty years later, I dont remember most of my teachers, but I willneverforget her.”
He also made remarks about how flat-chested I was.”
What a hurtful thing to say to a 10-year-old in front of the class!
50 years later, I still get that feeling of wanting to sink through the floor.
And I never sing in front of others.”
To this day, I cannot sing publicly."
“In seventh grade, a substitute teacher went around the room and critiqued girls' outfits.
She told me I was too fat to wear plaid.
It still makes me cringe 60 years later.”
“Way back in the 1960s, I was in the 7th grade.
I will never forget that!”
It’s been over 50 years, and I still remember how frustrated I was."
“In 1973, my fourth grade teacher in Minnesota called me a ‘dirty little Mexican.’
Once my family moved back to California, I never experienced racism like that again.”
“Around 30 years ago, my sister was in 8th grade.
“I’m 60 and have a negative experience that I’ll never forget.
We were learning how submarines worked in science class.
T teacher said, ‘I have a question for the class but who should I ask?
I know, Ill ask someone who LOOKS like a submarine Dan?’
The poor kid wanted to die, and we felt so bad for him.”
His truck was missing from the staff parking lot for a month.
To this day, I hope it cost that jerk thousands to repair.”
