>>23622808Throughout elementary school and high school, math was my strongest subject. I enjoyed doing it, and got straight A’s in the subject. It was somewhat easy for me.
My third week into high school, my math teacher asked me to see him after class. He asked if I was in the right class, which was super confusing because 1) I was 13 and didn’t know my ass from my elbow and 2) it’s not like I chose which math class to be in.
He explained that I seemed to be way ahead of the rest of the class, and was curious about my grades in middle school, how I liked math, and so on. He was shocked that I got straight A’s in the subject, and explained that the class he was teaching was Algebra 1A, a decelerated class that split Algebra 1 over two terms. It was for kids who had trouble with math.
He set up a meeting with a guidance counselor, and eventually my parents got involved. Everyone was in agreement; I shouldn’t be in that class.
So why was I stuck with the niggers (the school was like 15% black but they all ended up in this class)? Well, as it turns out the classes are filled alphabetically. Since my last name starts with a letter toward the end of the alphabet, I was placed later. Algebra 1 was full, so they just put me in 1A.
A lack of chairs. I was robbed out of an entire year of high school math because of a lack of chairs. Public schools have gotten better since then… right?
