Your story reminded me of a story my father told me while he was visiting this week.

When my father was in seventh grade, he had to make up an exam. So the teacher put him in the back to do the exam. Then, for some unknown reason, the teacher began going over the same exam with the rest of the class. By this time my father was almost finished, and he wasn't paying attention to the teacher anyway. But when he finished, he heard the teacher talking, and realized she was giving the answers to the test he had in front of him.

So, he simply turned the test face-down, and slid it up to the very corner of the desk. Then the teacher wandered towards the back, still giving the answers. She saw my father's test, and realized her mistake.

No, she didn't try to remedy her error. She began to scream. She called my father all sorts of names, and then ripped his test up in front of the class, announcing that he would be given a "zero." My father claims that her actions made him doubt authority for the first time.

Anyway, about your message...I assume you weren't in school? Calling people incompetent and useless is one of the things bad teachers are notorious for. I'd be mad too.


---Luba "was injustly accused of lying by a teacher once" Luft