Oh absolutely but my counter point would be for every psychotic and abusive parent the ratio against abusive teachers and students is not even in the slightest.
On a personal note, in the end my public school teaching was near non-existent to the point I didn't know my times table by the time I was 8 and I had to be rescued by a private tutor in that area anyway. Now people know to some degree some of the many reasons I utterly despise school teachers.
I'm still fucking angry at them over what they did to me and I don't think I'll ever get over it because I see them pulling the exact same shit with students now even with other subjects like basic literacy. They made me think I was too dumb to learn maths because I was frequently dumped in the low achiever groups, now I'm learning algorithms and code and I'm deploying the weaponised autism against them.
There are certainly some pretty terrible and abusive teachers. I was fortunate that I didn't actually have any myself, but there were a few names that were recognized by the entire student body, known for being utterly unhinged bitches whose only goal in life was to cause and spread as much misery as possible.
I was damn lucky to have some legitimately good teachers. And I honestly feel a bit of guilt that I haven't done more with my life, given how fortunate I've been. And I won't make any excuses for myself. I was a lazy and perhaps spoiled screwup. Probably still am.
I had trouble with math too. Still do honestly, but in my case I couldn't really blame the teachers. Well mostly. I will say that their general approach to teaching more complex and abstract subjects like that does tend to be absolutely terrible, and has only been getting even worse.
Like you, I've had more luck trying to learn that and coding on my own, at my own pace, in more practical situations that offers more useful and motivational insight than I could ever get in the classroom.
Oh absolutely but my counter point would be for every psychotic and abusive parent the ratio against abusive teachers and students is not even in the slightest.
On a personal note, in the end my public school teaching was near non-existent to the point I didn't know my times table by the time I was 8 and I had to be rescued by a private tutor in that area anyway. Now people know to some degree some of the many reasons I utterly despise school teachers.
I'm still fucking angry at them over what they did to me and I don't think I'll ever get over it because I see them pulling the exact same shit with students now even with other subjects like basic literacy. They made me think I was too dumb to learn maths because I was frequently dumped in the low achiever groups, now I'm learning algorithms and code and I'm deploying the weaponised autism against them.
There are certainly some pretty terrible and abusive teachers. I was fortunate that I didn't actually have any myself, but there were a few names that were recognized by the entire student body, known for being utterly unhinged bitches whose only goal in life was to cause and spread as much misery as possible.
I was damn lucky to have some legitimately good teachers. And I honestly feel a bit of guilt that I haven't done more with my life, given how fortunate I've been. And I won't make any excuses for myself. I was a lazy and perhaps spoiled screwup. Probably still am.
I had trouble with math too. Still do honestly, but in my case I couldn't really blame the teachers. Well mostly. I will say that their general approach to teaching more complex and abstract subjects like that does tend to be absolutely terrible, and has only been getting even worse.
Like you, I've had more luck trying to learn that and coding on my own, at my own pace, in more practical situations that offers more useful and motivational insight than I could ever get in the classroom.