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I have been reading all my old school reports. I wasnt doing very good in Year 10 and 11! Those was quite hard years anyway due to my dad's death in the 2nd semester of Year 10.
I was made to go to Religious Education even though they were discussing topics about euthansia and the teacher was telling the class about his friend who died from lung cancer the exact same as my father and it was so distressing to hear his experience.
Most of my reports say that I need the confident to contribute to the class blah blah LOL!! I never used to because I was really shy and thought if I contributed I would get laughed at. I still do today....oh well. That's me, how about you?
I was getting quite good effort grades mostly a, b and c's.
I hated high school, i was forced to do things by Communication Support Workers, I was forced to play a musical instrument, was forced to contribute in classes, all this happened in my first year of high school, this is probably what has caused my low self esteem and confidence today.

I struggled in PE due not understanding game rules and I struggled hugely and still do today in maths
 
Bad at math.
Bad at science.
Good at English and History.

Was always kind of a short, fat kid, so bad at physical education.

I did learn a musical instrument. I learned the bass and I enjoyed it.
 
In 5 years of high school

for the first 2 years
there was a supply teacher for every science class we had 4 days a week for those two years

for art we had a supply teacher for 3 years

for maths for 3 of the 5 years we had constant supply teachers so our schooling was affected
 
never was interested in playing or learning music, but did have to take music classes in grade and middle school. still struggle with much basic math, directions, spatial orientation and other things due to LD, which was not diagnosed til college. Always did well in things like languages, history, humanities, visual art; never did well in gym/physical education due to undiagnosed LD and the effects thereof. Enjoyed biology but had bad time in chemistry. Was actually in "special" gym class in middle school created more or less spontaneously by teacher for all the kids who didn't "fit" and were having difficulties - this included, among others, myself, a morbidly obese student, a hearing girl who did not speak, my only friend who had several significant medical and social problems and was out of school a lot due to hospitalizations or illness. 99% of the time in math and gym classes I had NO idea what they were talking about and everybody else seemed to understand but me.
 
dogmom said:
I had NO idea what they were talking about and everybody else seemed to understand but me.
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That's what every class is like for a mainstreamed deaf kid!!

Lucky I like reading. :lol:
 
In english, me and my best friend used to practically ignore the teacher and talk and sign all the way through english.. *giggles* they warned us that they would separate us which of course never happened... our support worker kept getting annoyed with us.
 
oh, Bott....I was being serious. I am glad to be on this site and I appreciate to share and learn.........
 
In my early years I struggled with mathematics and PE because I couldn't hear the instruction. Reading and writing wasn't so bad because it was visual and I could read and understand the grammatics and meaning of the sentences and words.

In math - there were all these rules and things that were going on with the numbers that I didn't understand. I remember not understanding the simplicity of rounding. Because I didn't know where the cut off number was. I remember coming home with F's and my mother yelling at me for not trying. If I couldn't hear, I didn't understand, if I got yelled at for not understanding, but trying anyway - after a while you do just give up. I think after about the 4th grade I just quit asking my mother to help me on my math homework because it mainly consisted of me messing up - her yelling at me and this would go on for hours. After 5th grade I no longer cared whether or not I had an F or an A in math. I just escaped into books.

Then years later, I returned to uni and I got a tutor for algebra and come to find out that I wasn't mathematically stupid all these years - I just never got a good foundation in math to build on - simply because I couldn't hear the instruction.
 
I did pretty good.... I did terrable in Math and Science... always got a C in those subjects.

However I did great in History and English, I always managed to get A's in those subjects.

History and English always been my fav subjects as I love to read books and I love learning History.
 
Dixie, I never understood rounding either, or much of anything relating to math-
 
I was considered gifted in school and participated in Honors courses.

I was also encouraged to skip a grade when I was 8 and 10 years old. My parents opted not to due to issues related to socialization. I'm glad they made this decision because I was able to grow up with students who were the same age I was. The last thing I wanted was to be the youngest graduate in my senior class at the age of 15.

As far as school subjects are concerned, I hated math when I was a child, but eventually fell in love with it after having a wonderful 7th grade math teacher. All of my math instructors from that point on had a real talent for making algebra, geometry, calculus and trigonometry understandable to me.

I also loved English. I didn't really care for writing until an 8th grade English teacher of mine told me I wrote well and had talent. From then on, I started writing on a regular basis and participated on my middle school and high school newspaper. I was also a member of the editorial staff of my high school newspaper for two years.

In addition, I was a member of my high school's Forensics (speech) team. I participated in the oratory category. I placed 2nd and 3rd two years in a row missing Nationals by only 2 points.

I've always enjoyed school, but I didn't take it seriously until 7th and 8th grade when I started participating in Honors courses.

Prior to then, my classes were boring and put me to sleep. :zzz:
 
math and speech...bllleehhhh.
the irony thing is...the speech language paths wld take me out of math to focus on speech. you would think they would leave me and my math alone to practise more.
i told my parents this years later and they were shocked to find out.
they had no clue.
 
3.77 grade point average, thats about a 97 percent across the board in all subjects for each year whoooooooo!!!!! and graduated a year early at 17 muwhahahah
 
I used to get pulled out of PE due to SALT and my teachers wrote on my end of year report that I wasnt doing too good in PE, no surprise there because I kept getting pulled out!

I know PE isnt really academic but I needed to stay in PE because I was having a hard time understanding rules etc, also my fitness level was below average.
Luckily Speech therapy only lasted about 2 years.
 
I am an honours student and Phys. Ed. was my worst subject. :P Luckily we only have to have Phys. Ed. in high school in grade 9 (so obviously I am not taking it any longer :P). I remember being proud because I got an 82% in grade 9P hys. Ed... which beats the 52% I got in 8th grade in elementary school. That 82% has been the lowest permanent course mark that I have gotten in high school so far. In semester 1 of grade 9, I had an average of 90%. Semester 2 of grade 9 I had an average of 92%. Semester 1 of grade 10 I had an average of 90%. I just have to wait until the summer to find out what my semester average is for this semester.
 
Babyface said:
3.77 grade point average, thats about a 97 percent across the board in all subjects for each year whoooooooo!!!!! and graduated a year early at 17 muwhahahah
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Same here.

I maintained a 4.0 average from 8th-12th grade as well as college.

Prior to that my grades were abysmal.

If it weren't for my 8th grade English teacher encouraging me to write, I probably would have continued making poor grades.

My 2nd and 4th grade teachers wanted me to skip 2 grades, but I'm glad my parents didn't allow it because I wouldn't have wanted to be the youngest graduate in my senior class at the age of 15.
 
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