>>9849135I went to a Catholic School until 6th grade when my parents pulled me out. The education itself wasn't bad but my classmates and their families were all the well-to-do doctors and lawyers kids so it definitely gave me an inferiority complex. There were maybe 3 kids who weren't white in the whole school too. At that time (early 90s) the teachers didn't need certifications so a lot of them were my classmates' moms, aunts, grandmothers, etc. My kindergarten teacher would take my food away if I was still eating after lunch ended and just toss it in the garbage, and she isolated me from the class constantly for things like not remembering my show and tell or talking to kids not at my table. My 3rd grade teacher used to walk into the boys room and flip out on us for taking too long in there. She gave me a detention one time because I had diarrhea and didn't tell her I was going to be a while. She also had me disinfect her entire classroom when I spilled glue on her floor (called my parents to have me stay late) and made me tutor the new Hispanic kid who she caught me teasing on the playground, which was so fucking uncomfortable. My 4th grade teacher always told me and the other boys in class we would amount to nothing in life, and she banned me from presenting on career day when I said I wanted to research becoming a cartoonist (she said it wasn't a real job). 6th grade was a nun who kept having heart attacks, so we ended up with fresh out of college subs constantly and I don't remember learning anything that year. When I finally transferred to a public school, it was the first time I was in class with kids who weren't white. That was a huge culture shock I wasn't prepared for and it fucked me up all through middle and high school. Now Catholic schools are predominantly Hispanic and Asian, so go figure.
I'm actually a public high school teacher now. Tons of stories from my 10yrs at the job that are better than what I just shared.