[Citation Needed] & Granny Benson wrote:
Kentucky stuff that ya'll'd never understand 'cause we ain't talkin' 'bout chicken.
Don't you have, like, miles of caves that you can throw these people in to never see them again?
Or at the very least have them be absolutely traumatized from stumbling around in darkness and absolute silence for a couple of days and not bother you again. The tour guide when I visited one said that happened between tours, once.
Not that I am trying to give ideas or anything.
I had my fair share of talking garbage piles, so I have a general idea of how it all feels. What makes it worse is that one of my
teachers was a bully I had to deal with in school. Worst part was that she was part of the Special Education group, and she did not take lightly to students being unsure of what to do. I had the hardest time understanding the abstract concepts she was trying to convey through seemingly completely unrelated metaphors (and having later been diagnosed with Aspergher's, I finally figured out why).
My brother was also in her class. She would jab him in the back with a pen when he wasn't working fast enough (he turned out to be dyslexic), and these jabs left physical bruises on his back. She would occasionally grab my hand and force me to write using then most unholy of death grips, which left my hand hurting for the remainder of the day. She once dragged me into the principal's office while she was spending a week camping on the school roof with the librarian (school event reward for the students), and that awful teacher threatened to beat me with a paddle if I didn't learn anything.
Mom would have never authorized that.
Look, you can tell me I need to climb out of the box and think all day long, but I am not sitting in a box and it has nothing to do with writing a short story about a scientist on the moon. I won't understand this, Mrs. A! I'm cripplingly literal-minded!
The worst part of all of this was that the school refused to believe my family, even though Mom took pictures of my brother's bruises, because this teacher worked in the industry longer than all of them and was too respected. She later went on to become the Head of Special Education in the county school district and actually visited my new school after I left Elementary and moved to Middle.
No one understood why I was running and screaming when I saw her come through the door, nor did they believe me when I explained.
It really upsets me that there are probably still kids having to deal with her "teaching" methods. Unless she just up and died at some point (she wasn't young in the slightest and did not care about making enemies).
I think she is the leading cause of the majority of my self-esteem and my debilitating anxiety issues. When your school authority figures make you feel like trash, what does one expect you to think of yourself later on in life?