[email protected]

In a message dated 7/14/2002 12:40:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> I can believe it easily. :/ I had a similar experience in the English course
> I signed up for in junior college. I wrote something fairly clever (if I do
> say so myself <g>) and it got red marked everywhere for mistakes in
> grammar.
>
> Since I have a really big (gigantic, can't-get-through-the-door big <g>)
> ego, I realized that the instructor lacked the wit to appreciate me, and
> didn't go back. ;)

My first community college English teacher wrote, "Isn't this rather
juvenile?" across my first story. I was humiliated and never wrote another
one.

--pam

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Joylyn

PSoroosh@... wrote:

> >
> > Since I have a really big (gigantic, can't-get-through-the-door big
> <g>)
> > ego, I realized that the instructor lacked the wit to appreciate me,
> and
> > didn't go back. ;)
>
> My first community college English teacher wrote, "Isn't this rather
> juvenile?" across my first story. I was humiliated and never wrote
> another
> one.

These stories are horid. I was thinking of my wonderful creative writing
teachers in college, who did so much encouragement, to everyone. We all
left every class thinking we were talented. So I was thinking--it's a
good thing something like this never happened to me.

But then I remembered. My 10th grade creative writing/English teacher,
Mrs. Sleeter (my nickname was very much rude), told me that I should
give up my dream of ever being a writer, that I would never ever get
anything published, that I just simply had no talent.

One more reason to keep my children out of school. Life is hard enough
without the very people who shoudl be helping you sticking their foot
out and tripping you!

Joylyn

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