OMG...I just visited my old elementary school's website...

[Sannum]

The bitchy principal and counselor who always thought I was too "different" are still there and the teachers who I loathed are still there as well! What the people I could not stand have in common are messages on their personal sites that we should "Support the President". OMG. No wonder I was so miserable! They were all Freepers! This was years ago and they haven't changed a bit.

I was creative, outspoken, and read all the time. They hated me and made my life a living hell. Even the obviously lesbian partner PE teachers who screamed at me in front of the class because I was not athletic are still there! The only teacher that helped me keep my sanity was the Art teacher who was just a wonderfully creative woman in the "old hippie" mold. She left when I was in 6th grade and was replaced by someone who gave me a C because I dared to add gold leaf to accent my metal etching! I did not "follow directions"

Thank God I am an adult now. Do we ever recover from our childhoods?

[liberalhistorian]

1. I wonder how many of them

will "support" their Great Leader once he's done slashing the education budgets to shreds, shredding safety nets, and starving states of desperately-needed federal money so that said states have no money for education.

I wonder how many of them will "support" their Great Leader when they're standing in the unemployment lines unable to get another job in education because there's no money for it anywhere, as is already starting to happen in too many places.

[SmileyBoy]

2. That's as bad as the teachers who you really like leaving soon after.

All the teachers who I liked in elementary school left within a couple years of me graduating, and all the pissy, nasty teachers stayed for years on end, even until today.

I remember having to visit my old elementary school a couple years after I graduated from high school (I had to do an errand for a fellow assistant coach for the FB team), and I remember seeing one of those pissy old bats (she was the behaviour counselor, basically they would send you to her office if you got into trouble).

Back in the day, she would tell me that she thought I would be in prison someday. I ran into her, and she was shocked to see me all grown up and... huge. I told her that I was an assistant coach for the HS football team, and that I wasn't in prison yet!!! She seemed pretty shocked, now that she knew that I was almost twice as big as her.

Stupid bitch she was.

[madrchsod]

3. maybe we don`t...

i was one of those people like you-"different" and as i look back at some of the people who i went to school with 50 years ago, it seems some of them haven`t changed abit. others have changed for the better or the worse..those who "recover" were the ones who knew that change wasn`t something to fear..maybe we are the ones who create

[huellewig]

4. Scary to think this type of thing happens..

I grew up in liberal land (thanks mom) and I never encountered anything like this. The teachers I had always supported me and my ideas and treated me with respect. It sucks all the kids in the USA can't have the same experience as I did. If I was religious I would pray for my country first and myself second.