So story time here but I find it both bizarre and infuriating so I just want to share something that happened on my second day of junior high.
I was sitting at my desk doing my work when my teacher walks up to me and whispers into my ear "you missed a hundred days of school at your last school last year and I'm just telling you that is NOT going to happen in my class!" And I had no clue what to say because I knew that wasn't true so I just didn't respond and she walked away while I was confused and embarrassed because some boys had heard and kept staring at me in shock so I....just didn't do anything about it. Plus I lived 80 feet from the school so that just made me more confused
Then I learn 5 years later why my attendance was like that and I was both glad I found out and pissed off at the same time.
So my mom worked at my elementary school for the first 5 years of me being there (it starts at nursery and goes to grade 6) and had some people she didn't get along with (nether my mom or the other people were teachers but worked other types of jobs there) so she quit.
But turns out one woman who I'll call green hated my mom because my mom is Ukrainian (second gen Canadian) and we found out about this when we ran into a old coworker of my mom (who is also Eastern European)who told us that green was caught CHANGING the attendance of all the children that were Eastern European or half Eastern European so she got fired.
Like, I was borderline threatened by my teacher because someone was racist and took it out on children.
That's not even the worst of my experience with teachers bullying me but I'll get into that another day lol
