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swore I was cheating somehow because if she couldn't do it, a kid couldn't either

because kids don't read books like that.

School was kinda annoying with how it would punish you for being anywhere outside of normal. Even if it was positive.

This 100x. I taught myself how to read before going to first grade. The reward was being isolated in an empty classroom for a lot of first grade when others were learning to spell. Well there was one other kid, but she didn't speak. She had been taught by her extremely strict parents to read before school. They had like 7 children and were horribly strict. This girl starter crying once when she got what's equivalent to an A-, afraid she was going be yelled at at home.

There was a special class for anyone below average. But dear me, if you were above average no you weren't, because that's just rude.

Doing any work I was given faster than other didn't result in getting more challenging work. It just resulted in getting more of the same boring shit I'd already shown I know very well.

I could've been one of those kids who go to college at 14, but nooooo. I just learned to avoid work and hide my skills

Remember title of mental math book?

I got this, too. It was because I didn’t show my work. So I started writing out my process, and it wasn’t “how we were taught”, and got a 0 once again for it.

After that I just quit doing the work at all, and I’m sure they felt justified calling me lazy. I’m a lot of things but I’m not lazy.

There's alot of us out there that don't work like the system expects. You either know the answer or you don't, taking more time doesn't do anything for our brains.

Part of the purpose of homework is to encourage the student to revisit the assignment later in the day. Repetition of exercise develops muscles and your brain is a muscle.

That said

Teacher lost her shit

Generally best when teachers manage their own tempers, as hot heads do a poor job of gaining the trust and maintaining the attention of their students.

While teaching is an underpaid profession, and good teachers deserve A LOT of respect for what they do, it has to be said that many many horrible people become teachers.

I've had my fair share of these people. Would throw them off a cliff if I could lol

I loved to read, so if I got my work or test done quickly, I had time to read while everybody else was still.workung.

I was especially good with reading tests, because I was always the best reader in my classes in elementary school. I was always the first done.

I was grateful that my teachers were chill with this

I'd finish my math work while the teacher was still explaining it to the class, and just start reading a book. Teacher was fine with it because I was a good student and got good grades.

Rant incoming

Although I do have one particular gripe with that teacher unrelated to any of that. Question was how far was a person in a pool from the life guard on a life guard tower. I found the hypotenuse, moved on to other questions. Got marked wrong so I brought it up to the teacher, and her explanation was that she wanted the distance from the person to the tower (the BOTTOM of the tower?????) under the logic that you wouldn't just float on up in a straight line to the life guard. First of all, the question was specifically worded as distance from person to life guard, NOT travel distance. Secondly to the BOTTOM of the life guard tower??? You wanted that value, not even the added distance of the length to the bottom of the tower and the length to climb the tower??????

If you asked me how far away a plane in the sky is from me, and I answered 5 feet, I'd look like a damn idiot.

I kind of wish I pushed her on that question harder. I kind of just thought "good lord she's out of her mind" and sat back down because it had little to no impact on my grade. But I have lived years being pissed about getting that question wrong, I simply cannot move on from it.

Reminds me of one of my elementary school English teachers. We were all given a blank hardcover book and had to make a story with illustrations. Mine was called "The Loose Kitty". Every page basically had the kitty on the loose in different areas of a city, running into other animals that had some rhyming. I spent so much time with the art, proofing it, etc. This teacher took hard red ink and strikes through loose and put "lost" ON EVERY PAGE. I tried to tell her no it is loose because EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK related to being "on the loose". Nope. Got like a C- on that thing.

Am I still sour about it 30 years later? Yes, I still loose my shit.

I actually started getting more recognition when I started producing 60-70 % or less instead of 120 %. It was like management thought that, if my tasks took longer, it was probably because I was very thorough and the task was very difficult, even though the end result would be the same. If I solved a task in 1 day, instead of 5 days, they regarded the task as easy instead of me being good. The slower i worked, the more applause I got from my manager... But, he was also an idiot... But, i wouldn't be surprised if this was a pattern in other companies as well.

See I use to do the same in history but I got an F. Loser

This was me in highschool, I was so bored of the pace we were going at, so I skipped a lot of classes, came in and aced tests, not with the correct answers they were looking for, but still correct. 🤣

A task is always only so big that the weakest child can do it. That's often not enough to learn something thoroughly.

“Antisocial” doesn’t mean “introverted”

You just described MAGA.

This is the way.

Don't procrastinate the work....just procrastinate the turn-in.

This way, you can feign being busy and be done at the same time! Nobody needs to know that you're done. That means you can slack off right up until the last possible second, completely stress-free.

If you start showing your hand, they're gonna start expecting more from you. And what will you get in return? Maybe an extra 0.5% on your raise? Nah brah. Keep it. 0.5% on 100k is $500/yr. Is less than $10/wk...after taxes, they barely bought you a coffee every week.

By all means...work at a medium pace while you're new. Don't want to get caught while you're still green. But once you're comfortable in a place...