were you good at english in high school?
>>25263387Getting good grades is a mark of a worthless conformist.>Oh oh oh teacher, please give me Good Boy Points so I can get into a Good Boy School and work a Good Boy Job and marry a Good Girl, pleeeeeassseeePathetic.
>>25263387Extremely. I was in AP English and history but Honors everything else. I also consistently dominated English/Grammar portions of all standardized tests like the PSAT. I remember I had this one English teacher in high school who always acted like she thought she was living out the plot of Good Will Hunting or something with me but I never saw that movie so I didn’t realize it until later.
>>25263387No I was crap at English then and still am. Absolutely loved literature though
>>25263422same lol
>>25263392so no
>>25263392>>Oh oh oh teacher, please give me Good Boy Points so I can get into a Good Boy School and work a Good Boy Job and marry a Good Girl, pleeeeeassseeeThis but only for STEM autism. If you get bad english grades that means you don't read or think for fun and are a lower being
>>25263387Yes, I was in a college English class in my senior year in high school. As for math, I was a fucking brainlet.
>>25263433damn, i loved stories and reading but i fucking sucked at english. i was great at maths though, despite having no interest in stem.
>>25263387I was better at it than math. And weirdly enough I was better at logic than math as well which is unusual
>>25263387I didn't go to highschool but I was the only one who would engage with questions or discussions (and often the only one who did the reading) in literature classes in college>>25263432Did a math teacher call you a faggot or something?
>>25263392The people that said this were always complete losers who claimed to have street smarts instead of book smarts. (They sold drugs) No, you're not too smart for school, you're just retarded.
I loved reading books and writing stories in school, was heavily into writing fanfiction online.
I learned to read and write English fluently before I stopped being retarded in my own tongue (Swedish). Probably thanks to video games and rewatching LOTR over and over.
>>25263387English and history were the only two classes I ever got A's in. Everything else was a total shitshow.
>>25263387Yes
>>25263387My ninth grade english teacher left such a bad taste for the subject that I never recovered from.
>>25263387No, I wasn’t . In fact I was terrible at school. Though, for my defense , the same stuff I was BAD at in school I managed to understand EXTREMELY well by myself AFTER graduating. The motherfucker communists , patriots, nationalists; authoritarians stole the best years of my life— they deserve not death but long lasting suffering chasing after material wealth and never being satisfied with what they got!
>>25263811ya this was me. Was in the advanced math and english classes up until 9th grade when I realized drugs and pussy were way better, straight Ds until I graduated. Def thought I was smart and just chose not to care.Blue collar work til I die now probably, but my main hobbies are reading, making music, and fucking around with linux. Didn't really set me up nicely for an easy life but I do think I'm kinda well rounded now, plus I've had a rewarding social life and gotten lots of pussy so idk, I'll take the wins I get
>>25263392>*chuckles* heh, well ACTUALLY
>>25263392>Okay yes I failed out of high school english but here's why that's actually le basedyou people are something else, man>inb4 oh yeah well my teacher wuz a WIMMINZ and wimminz r TARDS so THAT WHYone of you will do this in this thread, and you simply can't blame everything in your life on female authority figures from your childhood forever
>>25263387Yes, but if you were semi-literate and halfway care about literature, high school english was extremely easy. Read the book, have thoughts about the book, get an A. Meaningless accomplishment
>>25263387What is this, suddenly bad grammar is the most embarrassing thing in the world?Internet people just say whatever at this point, it's all blah-blah-blah.
>>25263894care to share what happened?
>>25264350>he actually had to read the books to get AsI just developed an interpretation based off the classroom discussion focusing on the points I felt the teacher missed in their guiding of the discussion and if called on in class it was easy enough to bullshit my way through once I had sorted out the teacher's expectations. I never read an assigned book until 11th grade when I had a teacher who called me up after class one day and said he knew I was not going to read anything he assigned the class so was going to assign me different books. Second semester he only assigned me GR, first report I handed in on it he just gave back to me with "Try again." written on the top, same for the second, third I got some feedback on but still "Try Again", forth was pretty much the same as third and the fifth and final report he heavily notated. Only time I was ever challenged in high school lit. He was a great teacher.
>>25264402>didn't read the books>brags about this on /lit/fascinating
>>25264425>plotfags>thinks that is proof of something
>>25264429>incoherent replyYeah, about what I'd expect from a /lit/ poster who brags about not reading lmfao
>>25264436>plotfag can't into subtext
>>25264442>ESL-tier blabberingMaybe you should've paid attention in english class kek
>>25263392Look at his retard LOL.
>>25264457>can't into the subtleties of greentext
>>25264387No, wasn't even that bad she just sucked at her job like many others do. Liked to then and still do read anyway so whatever.
>>25263392OK Tyrone.
one time the teacher told me that my in class essay on the catcher in the rye got a "c" because she couldn't read it.
>>25263387>werenope I could barely write 2 sentencesI could read fine thoit took along time for my writing skills to get better mostly technical stuff
>>25263387No, I was a class clown so I was always getting in trouble and never did any homework. Anytime they'd make me read a book I'd just sparknotes it to do the least work possible. Wasn't until my late 20s that I realized books are actually awesome. Reading is one of my main hobbies now. I had a few cool English teachers though, kinda wish I could reach out to them
>>25263387I'm not good at english now
>>25263387Depends. Was it AP/Pre-AP English or English for the plebs? Was it a decent school or in the hood?Like for shit schools just by showing up every day and doing the homework you were guaranteed an A.
When I was in 4th grade my teacher told me I was at an 11th grade reading level. By the time I was in 10th grade I failed English and then eventually I dropped out
>>25263387English was by far my best subject. I remember writing an essay on Oedipus that I thought was really shitty and getting a 92%. I learnt later that one of my friends despised me since he loved English and worked really hard and would only ever get a few points better than me even though I spent the whole class messing around and barely working.
>>25263392lil timmies seething lmao
>>25263387As an ESL I got 10s constantly throughout school and high school and got sent to English competitions by my teacher. My secret was I basically already knew how to speak it before English language courses even started in 5th grade because I'd spent a ton of time on the internet playing 2000s flash games and shit.
>>25263417I thought you weren't smart until you said you never watched Good Will Hunting
>>25263520Logic always made more sense intuitively. If I had teachers who put more time into proofs and emphasizing showing why a formula worked math would have stuck in my head more. Reducing any subject to rote memorization just made it excruciating. Meanwhile I was tutoring other students in geometry when I took it, because geometric proofs were so fucking easy and I had a good teacher, so they were basically second nature.
>>25263387Not really but my teacher was a MILF with massive tits and a deadset legend ocker-as top shelf sheila and also she liked me. Never really cared for any of the books we had read but my teacher had big tits and I enjoyed the Shakespeare well enough and I'm not being hyperbolic when I say to this day her tits are still the nicest tits I've ever seen and her arse wasn't bad either.And she was nice to me...
>>25265459You're pathetic.
>>25265459too real. i still think about my teacher in 4th grade sometimes
>>25265462Why? Because a beautiful woman with a beautiful soul and big breasts who made me more interested in the memoirs of a Romanian immigrant living on a farm northwest of Melbourne with his depressive father and BPD whore mother than I ever otherwise would've been still holds a place in my heart 15 years later? If so, then yes -- I'm pathetic.
>>25263392>>25263432I think it's mostly because getting good grades requires a lot of diligence and repetition when it comes to STEM subjects, as a medfag I was always writing off lists with the names our teachers would ask us to memorize over and over again, same with doing a lot of exercises for physics and chemistry but when it came to history, literature and so on just paying attention to the classes already was enough for my brain to tie the knots together and get the info across, same for a lot of biology stuff as well tbf. Im not a professional tutor or the like so I cant exactly point the reason as to why that difference is so clear except maybe it juat being a case with me in particularIm ESL though so I was always getting 10s in english because they barely taught anything harsh and english grammar is way simpler than grammar in my native language (portuguese)
I miss English. Particularly the story writing assignments. Writing some nonsense because you're just a dumb teenager and then a teacher reads it and gives you a score with some tips. I believe it's impossible to recreate that environment in adulthood. It would be nothing but a desperate imitation.
>>25265537t. Alberto Barbosa
>>25263392fpbp
Somehow I got a 7 in English language GCSE and I didn't even study
>>25263387AP English here, until I stopped attending a traditional high school, anyway.
>>25265547Writing stories in school was awful. I remember pouring my heart out in some imaginative only to have my teacher give me five seconds of feedback. Shit defeated me.
>>25265573Ouch. In year 7 (first year of HS in my country) my teacher liked my story so much she showed it to the principal which was kind of cool. That said, there was just about zero creative writing in our syllabus beyond that (no surprise since this is a country of proud morlochs and creative expression is anathema to the pursuit of digging shit out of the ground and building houses for Chinese people to buy)
>>25263387yes.
>>25265609lmfao
I wrote an essay in high school about how the vampire fangs in Dracula were metaphorical penises and got an A+.
>>25265725Can we read it
>>25265735This was almost 20 years ago so I don't have it anymore, unfortunately. It was in an AP class, so I assume it was probably decent.
