About a month ago I was surfing the web and found the website for the Junior High I attended and realized you could email the faculty. I scanned the names since it only had their first initial and last name and noticed my Pre-Algebra teacher from 8th grade was still there. She was by far my favorite teacher and so I thought I would email her.
I received a response by the next week and she remembered me and said I had made her week. She had responded about her room (the same one) and her now boyfriend, etc. and then asked what was going on in my life. I told her the truth that I was gay (and now had a boyfriend who I adored) and was living in Houston. Weeks have passed and no response. I suppose she's homophobic.
I remember when she use to walk up and down the aisles sniffing when she thought someone smelled and she'd point them out. I recall one time I was playing with my hair and she told me to stop and then then commented to everyone in class that she'd never seen a boy play with his hair and that was such a girl thing. Now you wonder why she was even my favorite teacher? I guess despite her crazed ways she was a fun woman plus I ended up being one of her top students.
Anyhow at the end of that year the teacher recommends what "kind" of math you will begin your freshman year. I'd originally signed up and was accepted to this Science Academy for gifted teens but freaked out since I didn't know anyone and withdrew. I enrolled into regular high school and loved it however; her recommendation came through---Extended Algebra A. For those of you that are not familiar you take Ext Algebra A your 9th grade year and Ext Algebra B your 10th grade year. Your parents are the only ones who can cancel out the recommendation but my mother doubted me and said my teacher knew what she was doing (one of the many times my mother held me back). I was and am a whiz when it comes to Math but after those two years of barely thinking and then taking Geometry with a teacher who everyone cheated off of each other, it no way prepared me for Algebra II that I signed up for my Senior year. It was so advanced and there was so many sophomores and juniors in the class that I dropped it and instead left school at 11am. Hell you could definitely not beat that.
Anyhow I hope you understand that one thing set up a trigger of a domino effect that caused thing after thing.
It seems to me more times than ever that I'm barely getting my head on right and am able to think rationally through the bullshit in my life and where whatever happened either really helped me or really did NOT.
Parents & teachers remember this when you're restricting your child!
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