I came here from metaquotes and I must say, I feel your pain.
I am a fast reader,always have been. I remember wanting to read before I ever learned how. and on first grade,I learned very quickly. Our schoolbooks had short stories usually about animals. I used to start reading and completely ignore the class.
some teachers didn't mind it. mostly my language and history teacher. my math teacher however, once she'd seen I was done, she'd just give me more to do. it wasn't fair!
but like the language teacher was nice, I often read on my own while other students read aloud and if she called on me she didn't mind if I took my time to find the passage cause at least I could actually read.
This one time, we had to do a history homework on a national hero. I read up on him but for some reason I didn't write a report. probably cause I hated writing by hand,my handwriting is awful. so the day came for the reports and I said I didn't have one but I could recite it. another girl said the same thing. they called another teacher, the inspector, other people. the other girl said "I know Bernardo O'Higgins is the father of our country" and fell silent. I started talking about his entire life and accomplishments.I was stopped before I even got to the good part. they gave an A and never bothered me again.
Some teachers were cool with one reading and not paying attention if you knew the subject,if you were a good student.others weren't. others wanted you to be bored out of your mind. this happened when I was 7 or 8. I'm 23 now, in uni and it still stands.
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Date: 2009-03-29 08:15 pm (UTC)I am a fast reader,always have been. I remember wanting to read before I ever learned how. and on first grade,I learned very quickly. Our schoolbooks had short stories usually about animals. I used to start reading and completely ignore the class.
some teachers didn't mind it. mostly my language and history teacher.
my math teacher however, once she'd seen I was done, she'd just give me more to do. it wasn't fair!
but like the language teacher was nice, I often read on my own while other students read aloud and if she called on me she didn't mind if I took my time to find the passage cause at least I could actually read.
This one time, we had to do a history homework on a national hero. I read up on him but for some reason I didn't write a report. probably cause I hated writing by hand,my handwriting is awful. so the day came for the reports and I said I didn't have one but I could recite it. another girl said the same thing. they called another teacher, the inspector, other people. the other girl said "I know Bernardo O'Higgins is the father of our country" and fell silent. I started talking about his entire life and accomplishments.I was stopped before I even got to the good part. they gave an A and never bothered me again.
Some teachers were cool with one reading and not paying attention if you knew the subject,if you were a good student.others weren't. others wanted you to be bored out of your mind.
this happened when I was 7 or 8. I'm 23 now, in uni and it still stands.