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I was terrible at school.

My English is very bad.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

I think my English is bad.

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.