Discussion
when I was about 14 there was a science project where we had to design and build a windmill at home then bring it in to be tested by the teacher
and my teacher was SO disappointed in mine and even at that age I was inwardly so upset and fuming like "you really think all these other kids built theirs by themselves? THEY HAVE PARENTS WHO CAN HELP THEM"
anyway it's sort of lodged in my brain as one of those instances where a teacher was horribly unfair to me, like that time a teacher loudly and deliberately called me "common" when talking to one of my favourite teachers, who did not defend me at all 🤷
I was constantly getting into trouble for not behaving "politely" and nobody ever once considered that I had never been TAUGHT HOW TO BEHAVE so most of the time I only knew I'd done something wrong because I was being shouted at. this is a fairly traumatising way for a child to learn appropriate social behaviour and I do not recommend it.
anyway that's quite enough of that, but at least now it's out of my head and I can focus on making this risotto
sorry for the venting!!
I'm still totally thrown by the incredible fucking naivety of that teacher, but then I think because I was clever a lot of my teachers missed the glaringly obvious signs that I did not have a stable home life or involved guardians
like, I was clearly and shockingly neglected but hey, I was smart and generally well-behaved so everything must be FINE