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A common situation in my country is that quite a few high school math teachers are psychotic sadists -- maybe a few of the hardest-working students will clear t

A common situation in my country is that quite a few high school math teachers are psychotic sadists -- maybe a few of the hardest-working students will clear the bar for the equivalent of an A or B. Sometimes the students with "the most potential" will have average (or worse) grades because the teacher prepares special, harder exams to push them harder. High school is usually an unrepresentative mess, I'd to love learn about the background of the person that decided this question is valuable.

googlryas 4y ago
I had one like that for 10th grade algebra. Basically failed the class , and the teacher was always mad at me. After I got he highest score in my county on some standardized math test and was given some award, the principal looked at my grades and saw I had a C- and had a conference with the teacher and myself where I found out he was giving me a different test than everyone else.
- legutierr 4y ago
  I feel like the teacher could be either the hero or the villain in this story—pushing you to excel, or tearing down a gifted student. What was the outcome of that meeting?
  - googlryas 4y ago
    Definitely tearing down. However talented I was, my sister went through 3 years earlier and was a math prodigy on the national level, and I think this teacher viewed himself as partially responsible for her success. So I came in later, not nearly as good, but still locally great, and I think my lack of desire to push myself to excel like my sister did ticked him off and he wanted to punish me for it. End result was I got an A in the course, but had to do extra credit assignments.
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bitL 4y ago
My high school math teacher went crazy on me when I withdrew from the math olympiad prep class due to scheduling conflicts with assembler language class in my first year and then did everything possible for me to fail over the next 4 years. Not sure how would that teacher bear hearing I made it to top schools despite their best efforts...

googlryas 4y ago

I had one like that for 10th grade algebra. Basically failed the class , and the teacher was always mad at me. After I got he highest score in my county on some standardized math test and was given some award, the principal looked at my grades and saw I had a C- and had a conference with the teacher and myself where I found out he was giving me a different test than everyone else.

legutierr 4y ago
I feel like the teacher could be either the hero or the villain in this story—pushing you to excel, or tearing down a gifted student. What was the outcome of that meeting?
- googlryas 4y ago
  Definitely tearing down. However talented I was, my sister went through 3 years earlier and was a math prodigy on the national level, and I think this teacher viewed himself as partially responsible for her success. So I came in later, not nearly as good, but still locally great, and I think my lack of desire to push myself to excel like my sister did ticked him off and he wanted to punish me for it. End result was I got an A in the course, but had to do extra credit assignments.

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bitL 4y ago

My high school math teacher went crazy on me when I withdrew from the math olympiad prep class due to scheduling conflicts with assembler language class in my first year and then did everything possible for me to fail over the next 4 years. Not sure how would that teacher bear hearing I made it to top schools despite their best efforts...