Writing

When I was in High School I hated school, writing, and doing work. This was for one simple reason. I did not get along with most of the teachers. For some reason I could never agree with the majority of them. There was one teacher with whom I was always butting heads. She by some unlucky miracle was my English teacher for my sophomore, junior, and the first semester of my senior year. At my high school for some odd reason some of the teachers believed that the point of the school was to discipline the students and not to teach them. My English teacher was one of those people. She stubbed out creativity, freedom, and excitement from her classroom. At one point one of my research paper received a failing grade after I had the teacher check it over for me and I made the corrections she had suggested. When I asked her why I got that grade she informed me that my view points were “too liberal” and that they did not accurately represent the truth. I was writing a paper about the gulf war and had suggested that the main reason for it had nothing to do with the freedom of a small country, but with the sheer amount of oil located inside Kuwait. Another time we were writing paper’s about constitutional issues in schools and I said that it should be illegal for police and school staff to search a student’s car or personal property without a warrant, after turning this paper in for some reason I had my car searched by the assistant principle. These experiences along with a plethora of other events helped me develop a mental block towards school work in general which in turn destroyed my GPA. However, I do NOT blame said teacher for my own poor grades in High School. Those are my responsibility and nobody else’s. But said English teacher, who will remain nameless, destroyed all self confidence I had in my writing ability.