Doesn't surprise me... my fourth grade teacher told me was "bad at math" because I was a girl. Gave me a great excuse to not even try. My mom is still pissed at

Doesn't surprise me... my fourth grade teacher told me was "bad at math" because I was a girl. Gave me a great excuse to not even try. My mom is still pissed at this teacher as of today. Took stumbling into geometry 6 years later, where I found I had natural spacial awareness allowing me to breeze geometric proofs and a teacher who didn't hold my prior years' bad performance against me, to change a barely C math student into an A math student. After this class, I realized that if I tried I could succeed. Edit: sort of a PS, the geometry teacher also expressed surprised that I wasn't a terrible math student. My next math teacher would see the grades from the prior year, and I think that had a lot to do with the next successive teacher not investing much time. I was a girl, I was clearly a shit student, so not much reason to bother.