Tell me about the worst teacher you ever had in school.

I am going to say one of my first-grade teachers. (I went to school in Missouri for one semester and Oklahoma the second semester) This teacher had a student, a girl, who was in her first-grade class for 3 straight years. The girl came from a very poor family, her father was a farm worker. She acted like she was scared of running water and she wore the same dress every single day of the school year, it would get darker by the week. I figured out she didn’t have any running water inside the home because when we were told to line up to wash our hands before we went to the cafeteria to eat she was scared to put her hands under the stream of water. I got to standing behind her and I would push her elbows and tell her to wash her hands and she eventually learned to do that. Also because she smelled bad the other kids would make fun of her for it, the teacher never corrected them for it. And the teacher also didn’t go out of her way to make sure Janet learned anything. She didn’t know her numbers, her ABCs, how to read or write anything. I think she had malnutrition because every day she brought a lunch that was white bread with peanut butter in it. Nothing else but a carton of milk she got in the cafeteria. The girl mostly stayed to herself and didn’t talk to anyone. when the teacher told us we could bring snacks to eat in the afternoon I went home and told my aunt & uncle. My uncle already knew about Janet because my older sister was in the same class as her the year before. He asked me if everyone would be bringing snacks to school. I told him probably not Janet because all she ever ate for lunch was a peanut butter sandwich. He looked at me and said if anyone doesn’t bring snacks to eat then you can’t eat snacks in front of them unless you share with the ones who don’t have snacks. So I got my aunt to give me a double portion of snacks so I could bring them to share with Janet and i gave her half every day. The only time she ever got anything but a peanut butter sandwich was the Thanksgiving lunch and Christmas lunch which was a turkey dinner they served in the cafeteria and then the teacher spent the money & paid for it. I believe that’s the only thing that entire year I saw the teacher do for the girl. We moved away in January and returned for the next school year. Janet was promoted to second grade even though she had learned nothing during the 3 years of first grade. I started bringing my tablet and a pencil to recess and would teach Janet her numbers, the alphabet, and how to write simple words. She was very capable of learning if she had just a little bit of interaction with someone instead of being ignored. Probably her malnutrition contributed to her being slow, her mouth gapped open most of the time and her eyes didn’t sparkle. She had a little sister that started first grade that year and that little girl was a live wire in comparison, her eyes sparkled and she was always smiling. I think her mother favored her a lot over Janet.