I love how much you're getting out of this job at the Space Place - it really sounds like a good place for you, challenges and all!
And oh, man, I can't say that I was a gifted kid, but I was definitely the Reading Kid. Thankfully read-aloud time didn't happen often but whenever it did it was definitely excruciating. I tried to read ahead as slowly as I could but even then I had to scramble to find the right place when it was my turn.
And one time I got into an argument with my school's principal when he filled in for a sick teacher and decided to fill up some of the time by reading to us from a book about Sinterklaas. Without giving us copies of the book to read along. It was torture, and halfway through I decided to stop trying to hide how bored I was, and then I decided to be obvious about how bored I was, and long story short this was the only time ever in my school career that I managed to piss of a teacher so much he sent me out of the class.
But come on, what teacher includes an hour of reading to his kids in the final year of primary school? It was an affront to all of us, not just me as a fast-reader.
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Date: 2014-11-14 12:29 pm (UTC)And oh, man, I can't say that I was a gifted kid, but I was definitely the Reading Kid. Thankfully read-aloud time didn't happen often but whenever it did it was definitely excruciating. I tried to read ahead as slowly as I could but even then I had to scramble to find the right place when it was my turn.
And one time I got into an argument with my school's principal when he filled in for a sick teacher and decided to fill up some of the time by reading to us from a book about Sinterklaas. Without giving us copies of the book to read along. It was torture, and halfway through I decided to stop trying to hide how bored I was, and then I decided to be obvious about how bored I was, and long story short this was the only time ever in my school career that I managed to piss of a teacher so much he sent me out of the class.
But come on, what teacher includes an hour of reading to his kids in the final year of primary school? It was an affront to all of us, not just me as a fast-reader.