The Very Worst Teacher I Ever Met

[MineralMan]

4. That teacher did not like me very much.

The feeling was mutual. He couldn't fault my work in his class, and could do nothing but give me A grades. But, I was inattentive. It was an English class, and I was already proficient. I read all the stuff assigned, wrote all of the essays he assigned, and generally excelled in his class, but I didn't pay much attention in class. Normally, I was reading something else, since I had read everything assigned long before. He was not teaching anything I did not already know, so I checked out during class. Oh, if he tested me by asking a question about what he was saying, I had heard what he was saying. I just wasn't paying attention. I was learning something else.

I did the same in most classes, and most of the teachers knew why. They ignored me at the back of the classroom as I read something and was learning something else during that time. I had to be at school, but was already ahead of most of the other students in whatever the class was about.

Genetics. That's all. Both of my parents were very, very bright people and self-learners. They couldn't afford to send me to some private school where I'd be seriously challenged. So, I went to the small town school that was there, and learned on my own there. Most teachers understood that, as I said. and left me to it. Most would talk with me after class from time to time and ask what I was studying during class. I'd tell them. They'd nod.