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More info: Reddit This post may include affiliate links. #1 There was a kid in my high school class who had severe dyslexia and acalculia, and although he clearly had a sharp mind when you spoke to him, it wasn't clear he was going to go far.
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His main interest back in school was blowing sh*t up and building bombs, and he went off to mining school so that he could work with explosives.
He got his PhD before I got my bachelor's, for building a robot that goes down mines and uses lasers to make a 3d map of the mine, doing a week's work for a surveying team in a couple hours (and without putting human lives at risk).
He's charming, his wife and kids are charming, and he builds robots with fricken lasers on them. Not bad for the kid couldn't read and only cared about blowing sh*t up Porrick , Phil Whitehouse Report Final score: 230points POST Evil Little Thing Evil Little Thing Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I love this one! 46 46points reply View more comments #2 I teach English as a second language and I had a kid who spoke Arabic who barely could master English in the beginning (to be expected of course).
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Well 8 years later he’s on his way to being an astrophysicist. He came to school to find me to tell me last year and I’ve never had a prouder moment teaching. He told me I was the only one who believed in him.
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missjvj , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 212points POST Moonscorpion Moonscorpion Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago awwww so sweet ??? 29 29points reply View more comments #3 I had a student that used to get into fights and was extremely aggressive and violent towards others, on the last day of fifth grade his last words to me and his class were "fu*k you!" -- many years later he came back to the school I'd been teaching at and looked for me so he could give me a big hug and apologize.
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In his words, "I was garbage when I was here, thank you for putting up with me and I'm sorry".
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One of my first students I had when she was In 3rd grade. Her father was abusive when she was younger and mom left him and was raising her on her own, but her mom was also heavily involved in gangs. She was very behind compared to the rest of the kids, but she was always very helpful to the other children, me, and the staff.
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Later, when she was in 8th grade, I was moved to middle school, and once again, I had her again. By this time her mom's lifestyle had had an influence.
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She used to come by after school and started seeing me as a mentor, and we had a connection, as I too was heavily involved with gangs in my teens and early 20s. When she moved on to high school, she kept in touch, her high school was across the street and she used to come by after school all the time to check in.
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She eventually got involved in student body, became the senior class president, and was on the honor roll all 4 years. She got accepted into all 8 colleges she applied for. She is currently on a full ride scholarship at Stanford University and plans to continue with graduate school.
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I swear he was easily like 3 grades behind when I knew him in primary/junior grades (Canada). Stevieeeer , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 105points POST Moonscorpion Moonscorpion Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago YES CANADAAA 9 9points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 Not me but know a guy, lovely quiet chap who lived to draw.
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Don't let people shut you down. 25 25points reply View more comments #8 I guess my mom might count since she's worked at the elementary school I attended since 1993, but she recently told me about one of my elementary school classmates.
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I was actually pretty good friends with him, but I thought he was a bit slow? And apparently, he had been evaluated for learning disorders several times in early grade school. He apparently just started a surgery fellowship at a prestigious hospital in Philadelphia.
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When I moved up to teaching middle school and had him again in 6th grade, little had changed—I liked him as a person quite a lot, but academically and effort-wise he was a solid Meh C/D student.
Fast forward a decade or so: I had to retire from the classroom early and a bit abruptly due to a health crisis, resulting brain surgery, and the aftermath. This devastated me.
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He was the first in his family to go to college, nonetheless earn a degree.
At the time, I posted about how much I missed teaching and my heartbreak over it on my Facebook page. This now adult student, who had added me as a friend but rarely to never posted anything anywhere on FB, commented the most heartwarming words about what an inspiration I’d been and how he felt I’d started him on the path that led him to a degree in chemical engineering from a major university.
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He was the first in his family to go to college, nonetheless earn a degree.
His kind and generous words made me weep, and his academic success left me stunned. If you had asked me back when he was in 3rd or 6th grade which student would be the one to earn a degree in engineering, I think I would have gone through 2/3 of the class before I’d have even thought of him.
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View more comments #11 I had to be tutored for reading during elementary school. The same teacher came to my house after school a few times a week to help me. Years later, my mom ran into her, and she asked how I was doing.
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Amazing story; congratulations! 14 14points reply #12 I was voted most likely to burn a book, ended up writing one Askdrillsarge , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 80points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Well that was U-turn. Lol.
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View more comments #13 My mom was an elementary school teacher and student taught under my old second grade teacher. sometimes my mom would get information from my brother and I about what everyone from our class got up to and gossip to other teachers.
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the overweight, smelly kid who was bullied, socially awkward, obsessed with trains, and didn't really have friends joined the Civil Air Patrol and later became an airline pilot.
the shy, socially awkward, goodie two shoes kid with an IEP a mile long became a plasma physicist and one of their projects actually made it onto the perseverance mars probe. They also came out as transgender and transitioned to female.
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She tried several methods to keep him organized and help his reading skills to no avail. She continuously checked in with his teacher (worked at the same school) to see his progress and constantly had to talk to him on behalf of the teacher. Everyone loved him, he was just an utter mess.
We ran into her a year ago and got to tell her that he got a full ride to law school at an Ivy League school.
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Blew her mind, but proof that some kids thrive in different learning environment. Terrible through traditional school but when he got to college, he thrived because of breaks between classes, time to study, picked his classes which were focused then trying to cover a thousand topics in a year, and got to know his teachers.
Thank goodness for my parents holding out hope all those years ha ha Real_Space_Captain , Wake Forest University School of Law Follow Report Final score: 62points POST Miss Frankfurter Miss Frankfurter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Sometimes traditional school doesn't work for certain kids.
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It doesn't get taken into account how kids learning can improve in a different environment. We all have different ways of learning. Participation, reading, projects, all kinds of different ways.
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I actually learn better and faster if I'm left to research and put things together on my own. Formal classes? No.
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Learning environments and teaching methods need to be adapted for the kids, not the other way around. Also, as far as testing, people are better suited for different ways of doing so.
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If my test is administered in a way that I give verbal answers I can do that quite well. But don't expect me to answer a question that requires a written essay answer.
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I'll flunk it every time. 20 20points reply View more comments #15 I had severe depression and anxiety among other things, stopped going to school at around 13 and fully dropped/tested out at maybe 16? I started going to community college at 17, and at 21 I'm finally transferring to a really good university.
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I have a 3.7 GPA and am majoring in cell and molecular biology! plantgirll , ca.garcia.s Report Final score: 59points POST Miss Frankfurter Miss Frankfurter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Fantastic!!
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View more comments #16 I had a severe speech impediment in elementary school to the point where teachers would foist me off in the reading room (for kids with learning impairments and difficulty reading to get extra assistance) during class despite the fact that I was writing and reading at a very high level.
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She believed in me when other teaching professionals simply heard me talk and assumed that it was easiest to assume I was a slow learner.
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This led me to great school and a great career so far.
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I remember when we, Canada, took in so many Syrian refugees most could not speak English. Their biggest issue was that English classes had not been started fast enough. They want to learn.
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24 24points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #20 Not mine but my mom's story: she used to teach the second grade and there was a kid who was ruthlessly bullied because he had another finger on his hand, he didn't come from a very good background and had to work jobs in the middle of school for his family (this is pretty common for low income families in India), he was shouted at alot by the principal as he missed like half of the school so my mom told him to come to our house so she could tutor him every few days. He's now studying mechanical engineering att IIT (very prestigious university in India) and reached to my mom on Facebook and thanked her. YeezyGOD69 , UCL News Report Final score: 46points POST Amery Amery Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Blessings to your mom!!
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Now he's in the second years of astrophisycs phd and he's certantly going places. NotBarbamento , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 44points POST Miss Frankfurter Miss Frankfurter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Maybe it was more about what math he was being taught.
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Those kids. Nope. Not at all.
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Sometimes you have to adjust the subject material. For them it was algebra. Go with that subject for them and they'll probably move up grades ahead of the one they're in.
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I envied them so much because my brain couldn't get around it and so I thought I was stupid at math. I guess maybe not. Just different areas.
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9 9points reply View more comments #22 I’ve been on our PTA for a long time, does that count? There was a very skinny quiet kid who was super smart.
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I saw his linkedin a few months ago and he is now a prison officer at a maximum security prison. CircusSeal , Molly Haggerty Report Final score: 39points POST Flexiegirl94 Flexiegirl94 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago damn. go him!
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Kids would tell me in middle school I would never graduate. First semester of high school I didn't pass 7 out of 14 classes.
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I would still call myself a mediocre student, but it's getting better. My thesis will be about vertical farming and for the first time in my life as a student, I'm excited. angelquzero , Austin Community College Report Final score: 33points POST Amery Amery Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You sound SO MUCH like my youngest.
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It's wonderful that the boy didn't listen to that and proved him so wrong. 27 27points reply View more comments #25 I'm not a teacher but something along the lines happened to one of the kids I graduated with.
She was top of the grade for academics and sports woman of the year every single year since we were 13. She was head prefect in middle school and head girl of our highschool in our matric year.
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Both her parents were senior management at our old middle school.
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Last thing I heard from her is that she got accepted into one of the best universities in the country, Stellenbosch University, for veterinarian science.
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She's now a secretary at a run down accounting firm in Pretoria that's badly in debt.
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Manufacturing drugs. The management at a middle school all a front.
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never went to college, but worked his way up to his current job making six-figures and had been offered promotions to pay more. talking to him and meeting him you’d never guess he was probably the worst kid in the entire school district. plus, he’d beat my ass if i ever did the sh*t he did.
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She was an awkward runner and she would often get last place in cross country. Our track coach didn’t know what to do with her, so he put her in the 800, 400, 200, and long jump. I don’t think she beat anyone in 4th or 5th grade.
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I felt super bad for her, because she is super nice, just wasn’t an athlete. I think by the end of 5th grade, her PRs (personal records) were around 2 in the 400, 4:10-20 in the 800, 9-6 in long jump, and 50ish in the 200. Well, fast forward a couple months, and she is already better in cross country.
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She ends up crushing her PR from the year before. Then track came, and she really started to improve.
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She has already broken the school long jump and 800 records, and will probably break the 200 and 400 records. She also anchors all the relays she is in. Kind of crazy to remember that she wasn’t always super fast.
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I had a kid that would literally shoot spitballs in class. Through a straw.
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He would just start fu*king with other kids, poking them with pencils and sh*t loudly in the middle of class.
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Of course this kid. No sunglasses, actually he had pretty nerdy/hip Jefferey Dahmer glasses on.
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Of course this kid. No sunglasses, actually he had pretty nerdy/hip Jefferey Dahmer glasses on.
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Dropped out that year, spent the rest of the time I should've been in high school fu**ing around, and now I'm in university TAing a chemistry course and about to graduate with a BS in Biology. My grades are good enough that I am seriously considering med school or law school.
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