> But, everybody must have learned something out of this.
Let's hope the lesson learnt is not "math is too hard for me; I'm stupid; I don't understand this; I tried to ask my teacher but they're authoritarian and because I'm just a kid I don't know the socially acceptable way to ask this kind of stuff and the teacher got all defensive and punished me, and so I must never question anyone, even when I think I can show that I'm right and I think they've made a mistake".
Teaching is a hard job. Many parents don't support you at all. It's politicised (at least, in England it's very political). It's low status. So, I'm not really knocking the teacher. I do hope that after a chat the teacher gave the child better marks.
Let's hope the lesson learnt is not "math is too hard for me; I'm stupid; I don't understand this; I tried to ask my teacher but they're authoritarian and because I'm just a kid I don't know the socially acceptable way to ask this kind of stuff and the teacher got all defensive and punished me, and so I must never question anyone, even when I think I can show that I'm right and I think they've made a mistake".
Teaching is a hard job. Many parents don't support you at all. It's politicised (at least, in England it's very political). It's low status. So, I'm not really knocking the teacher. I do hope that after a chat the teacher gave the child better marks.