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I think he meant the wife was gaslighting.
I had the misfortune of being in a class full of rowdy boys and would be subjected to class detentions by our English teacher. This 60 year old hag had the audacity to tell me and the only other girl in the class that we had to "rein in the boys." After missing the bus for the tenth time and having to wait for my dad, he finally had it and went to the principal. After that she specifically targeted me. One day my other female classmate was sick so it was just me and the old hag was going on and on about girls these days. It was 7th grade, I was 12, wearing a full windbreaker suit (think 90s bright pink and purple *swish* *swish* as you walked) and was quietly doing my homework. Yes, the 10 boys were screaming, throwing things, and basically acting like toddlers. It was loud and obnoxious, but I was used to it. I was ignoring the hag's rant about disrespect and how no one helped her and how feminism and disobedient children were the fall of the country. That pissed her off. So she grabs my books I have stacked next to my notebook. They were personal books from home. Pokémon comics that I was obsessed with and one of the Harry Potter books. All of these I bought with my own money. She grabbed them and threw them on the ground, screaming in my face about how I wasn't listening to her. No one was listening to her. Anyway, one of the books ripped. I heard it and we all saw how it landed halfway open with a few pages poking out in a weird manner. That shut the boys up. Now, I don't have a temper and I never yell. I vibrate with fury and just get so angry that my ears ring and I just have to run. So I just grab my things, carefully pick up my books, made an exaggerated note of aligning my ripped pages, and walked out. I gave her an icy glare and stated, "You are an adult and a teacher. It is YOUR job to get the boys in line. Not mine. I don't get paid. And you WILL be paying me back for my book, Mrs. So and So" and I exaggerated the Mrs in a sarcastic tone. Then I walked out of school and went the 3 blocks to my dad's work. Then I broke down and cried there and told him I never wanted to go back to school and I hated it there. My dad dealt with it. The boys behaved more and that particular teacher "retired" the next year. My dad raised 3 girls. He was not putting up with me having to he responsible for anyone but myself. He was livid over the "boys mature slower than girls" thing. He actually told the principle to hold them back a couple grades then so their education matched their maturity level.
Language has always been easy for me. I just naturally know spelling and conjugations and all that. So I was fluent in 3 languages by the time I started high school. My grandmother only spoke German so everyone in my family was fluent. My grandma was my main babysitter until I was 8. Before I started kindergarten I pretty much just spoke German. (Both my parents were born in the US lol.) I learned Spanish from my uncle, who did mission trips in Mexico. I spent the summer before 9th grade in Mexico and spoke almost exclusively in Spanish. My high school required 3 years of a foreign language to graduate and it was a small school so the only language they offered was Spanish. I was very interested in language so I tried to see if I could do online French or Japanese. Nope. Had to take Spanish. I got an A in Spanish I, but was obviously zoned out and completely miserable. My Spanish teacher (who actually was at a different school and taught over distance learning) noticed it. The school would not budge on my 2 more years of Spanish. My teacher told me as long as I did the assignments and passed the tests, I could work on whatever I wanted in class. So not only did I ace 3 years of Spanish, I also learned basic Japanese with a Rosetta Stone type thing on the computer. I honestly think schools and "basic curriculums" are ridiculous. My college wouldn't let me take the advanced placement testing for German since I had never had any formal classes in it. I took German I first semester and then they let me test and I tested into Advanced German II and was able to take a trip to Germany with upperclassmen.
He's Not A Minimum Wage Worker
3 years ago
Because people are super racist? I live in a red state and at my last job my supervisor was a Hispanic woman who had an accent. She wasn't that hard to understand. I had more than a few situations where I had white, elderly people demand a manager from me and when my manager showed up they either took forever to believe she was the manager or eventually devolved into racist comments. I am bilingual and when I noticed a racist Karen or Ken pulling up, I would start speaking Spanish in requesting my manager. Sooooo many "This is America. Speak English!" comments. A lot of white Americans are very, very racist.
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