Unfiltered Story #281769

I am very good with math and vocabulary, so my History and English teachers decide that I have no excuse for having trouble with their classes, despite the fact that I’ve been having so much trouble that I’ve literally cried over my homework since I was ten. When I say I need help or don’t understand, I’m called a liar. When my parents are called in about my poor grades and frequent absences in high school, I’m accused of acting out for attention and my parents are implied to be too stupid to realize that’s what I’m doing. All the while I’m getting high grades in math without even doing most of the work and acing my Spanish. Finally realizing that I might actually be having problems, I’m advised to “just” try as hard with my problem classes as I do with Spanish. Frustrated, that’s exactly what I do: I don’t think very hard or spend more than half an hour on any one assignment. It’s not until I change schools that I get any help, with a study period overseen by an aide who walks me through my assignments and understanding teachers. My grades skyrocket and I graduate without being held back in any classes.

Unfortunately I fail History in college as well, but at least it wasn’t held up against my other grades.