Things your teachers told your parents about you

Hello, MichaelJay! When I was younger, like 12, or even less than that, all my teachers used to praise me in front of my parents. They said I had potential to get far. They said I was an excellent writer and an even better student. They really praised me, like if I was the best student they had ever seen. On my 9th year of life, I earned a gold medal for writting the best text of the primary school. I was so happy! But I have never been proud. I am not the kind of guy who does go outside spreading the world and showing off. Then, one of my teachers said that, no matter how good student I was, I had still my bad qualities: the friendships. I trusted too much on my friends and I was being dragged to the "bad side". Then my mother taught me how to choose friends carefully and how to trust people, without being blind. Nowadays, many teachers still do praise me, saying I am an excellent writter. Some, though, say that the school I am in right now does not requires any effort from me, and if I don't go to a better school, I'll lose my writting potentials. They say the school is going to put me down. Anyway, I don't think so. I am always practing my writting. In portuguese, I have an almost perfect grammar. But when it comes to English, hahha! I am still in doubt wether writing is writen with double "t"s or not. (What a lot of ts in the same sentence!) Respectfully, Munhozmib.

My elementary teachers always told my mom that I talked too much...imagine that. Now I don't talk with my mouth as much as I write the words I want to convey. It's pretty funny. The good thing I remember from those long ago days is my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Lee, telling my Mom that I had a real talent for writing poetry and stories. Had it not been for Mrs. Lee, I wouldn't be the writer I am today. God Bless her soul.

The same thing happened to me. But they don't understand me. They don;t know the importance. What we can do is just listen to them. Because we are limited.

During my gradeschool years...my teacher always told my parents that I lack participations in school..that I must recite more and be more assertive...and also said that I have good grades but this is not enough...my adviser always tell my parents this during the card day.....so in my highschool years...I decided that to participate in school activities and to recite more in class.....my teacher is right because this makes my grades even higher and I have gained an achievement because of this....so I thank my teachers because of this....coz a shy girl before was turned into a confident lady now...

That I smoked pot. Liars!!! No just kidding, I really did smoke pot.

Yesssssssssssss, a big big yes

Honestly, I think my teachers said more bad things about my performance and participation to me then they bothered to tell my parents. I did get a lot of "needs to try harder" or "falls asleep in class" and so on, on my report cards that were sent home. But, I got a fairly equal amount of teachers responding on how well I paid attention or did my work. Basically, if I was truly interested in the class, I paid attention and did the vast majority of the work, thereby getting fairly good grades. But, if I wasn't terribly interested in, or bored by, the subject, I just fell asleep and did whatever was absolutely necessary in order to pass. Which is why I was voted most likely to absorb information via osmosis in high school, and why my friends "hate" me and say that I have a Ph.D. in B.S. The one thing I distinctly remember a teacher saying to my parents directly was that they felt I should be sent to a school that was a tad more advanced. In order to do say, in accordance with the law, they would have to administer a series of IQ tests. My mother was all for it, but my father wouldn't allow it. Since they shared custody, my father would have had to agree to the testing as well (at least, at that time). I'm glad my father didn't allow it. His reasoning was great. He said that he had nothing to prove to anyone about how intelligent his child was or was not, and that he worried about administering an IQ test, as he felt I would be inclined to use the results, whatever they may be, as an excuse. If I scored high, I would become arrogant, or else feel as though I didn't need to work at anything, my intelligence giving me some kind of an excuse to be mean, or lazy. On the other hand, if I scored low, he feared that I would use that as an excuse not to do any work, claiming I was too "stupid" to do it anyway so what's the point. Furthermore, my father felt that I would be less able to deal with a variety of people in the real world, if I was schooled in a special school for only children of a certain intelligence level, from kindergarten on (or, even second grade on). I appreciate his decision, though teachers continued to persist, until I graduated from high school. Because he insisted that I never skip a grade, and always remain in a regular school setting, I got to spend time with a variety of people from various backgrounds, and having various levels of intelligence, compassion, and academic ability. I wouldn't have learned half the things I learned about people, life, and compassion, if I had gone to that special school. In fact, only a couple years ago, I met someone who did go to a special school, having gotten the same letter and parental conference, but having parents who both wanted to follow through. He hated it, and is now rather anti-social. He explained that my father was absolutely right, and that my fathers fears are exactly what did happen to him, with little exception.

My teachers always said I was quiet in class. Didn't stop them picking on me when other people were talking though! And I was the one actually doing the work when the talkers had done none! Could never work it out, they tell me off for talking, when I wasn't, and then tell my parents that I was quiet in class and did my work.