Re: kept failing the same class over and over

[Anonymous]

Math was awful for me! I still owe my middle school math teacher for telling my mom I would always be a B or C student in math.

I kept trying all three times for Algebra 1. The third time I had a teacher in summer school who would hand out white boards and markers at the beginning of the class. We would read about how to do it. She would show us step by step and then make us practice them and walk around checking each persons work and work with each person until it all made sense. It was exactly what I needed to have things click in my head and since I had something to do (my practice problems) and she was making sure to teach things to everybody I actually had a really great grade. (I had a high A, 97% if I remember correctly) I didn’t have to struggle to pay attention in her class since she made it very interactive plus allowed basic calculations to be done on a calculator. I wish she had been at my high school instead of the neighboring one.

High school and college may have gone differently if I had known about ADHD instead of starting out every school year saying I am not going to get distracted, I am going to take notes, I will not doodle all over my pages, and I will stay organized enough not to lose a lot of my home work.

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