English mother fucka, do you speak it!
Not to leave out the raping.
My 7th grade English teacher changed me. Hope you’re still busting balls and wearing outlandishly chunky necklaces, Mrs Locke.
Granted she only managed to change me from an idiot kid into an idiot who wanted to be smart, but it was a start.
In high school an English teacher helped start me on the path to wind up here by making us learn about McCarthyism and making me do a report on the Vietnam war (everyone had a 20th century event to report on). The whole incident left me more open minded towards left wing anti authoritarianism
Yeah, English was always a fucking pain. As an adult though I wish I remembered the parts of speech and how to structure English documents well. A huge part of my job in tech is explaining things in English text.
This resonates. I had 3 English teachers from 3rd to 6th grade that were replaced by either long term subs, which was decent, or a rotating cast of clowns that shouldn’t have been around children.
Yeah you either luck out and get great ones, or it’s a job equivalent of adult daycare
