During senior year, my AP Spanish Lit teacher never picked on me to answer a single question in class. I would be raising my hand for like 30 seconds and nobody would be raising their hands and she’d be like “anyone?” and straight up just answer the question on her own. The class was so small that we would often rearrange our desks into a circle and popcorn read. She would start in a fashion such that I would never end up getting picked to read. “Okay fine that’s fair, not enough roles/characters, it happens”, I always thought. But then she’d always just skip me, even if it was my turn. Classmates and I would sometimes compare exams and I would get no points for answers that my classmates got right, despite having the same answers....
One day during lunch I decide to go into her classroom and confront her because I have had enough at this point. I told her that she never picked on me even when I was the only one with an answer, I told her about the exam discrepancies, and I even mentioned the popcorn reading. She responded with “yeah I know I do all that.” Then I asked her “why?” She proceeds to go into a tirade about how dumb she thinks I am. I’m dense. I am not “with it”. Apparently I’m also just not very bright overall and will properly not amount to more than the minimum wage job at McDonald’s that I was working at the time in order to help my dad pay the bills. “Okay, thank you”, I say while holding in the tears.
What’s worse is that when I turned around to leave, I saw like 5 other students by the door, fellow classmates of mine who were in the same class, and they heard everything. I could tell by the expressions on their faces.
This same teacher got angry at me because I literally could not afford to go on a field trip to an expensive restaurant. I just couldn’t afford it and she mocked me saying that “I made her life harder” by not being able to go on the trip since she had to find some bullshit bookwork for me to do while the rest of the class was on this trip. What REALLY fucking annoyed me once though was this one time when, during class, she said that she sometimes wished her daughter grew up poor like ME because she was too much of a brat. She said it so fucking casually “I wish my daughter insert name here grew up poor like insert my name here. Maybe she wouldn’t be such a spoiled brat”.