Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.
I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.