I had a horrible English teacher in 7th grade which everyone hated. Her name was "Mrs. Fleetwood,". She targeted me constantly and even on the first day, since I had a schedule change into her class.
She had weird homework policies, too. For instance, if you missed turning in an assignment you could turn it in late for, get this, 1 point out of the total points. Now, I know it's no excuse to have any assignment turned in late and we all make mistakes so why bother even doing that??? What is the purpose? To rub it in your face. There was one occasion where I missed an assignment, this other kid next to me missed it as well. He said to me "So, Charles, you wanna redo this assignment for one point? I said "What's the point?"
However, here's one thing that really got to me. We were supposed to listen to a story that was about aliens observing our world and then the alien's were described in the story, of course. As part of the assignment, we had to try and figure out what things aliens were talking about on earth, such as "a traffic light," "A police car" and then we had to draw what the aliens themselves looked like based on the description. I remember it said they had stripes, and a square shaped eye.
I had thought I was being creative and I drew tiger like stripes on the aliens instead of raccoon style stripes. Then, for the eye, I drew a square eye but the pupil as a circle with all these veins going around it. When I got the paper returned to me, she remarked in big red pen "These are not stripes!" and then she referenced the pupil and said "This is not square!" But I had drawn a SQUARE EYE!!! I was trying to be more creative and she shot it down, harshly. However, my story doesn't sound nearly as bad as other people, I went to middle school in 2002-2003.
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