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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My elementary teachers had us pick teams publicly in first to last order for everything-almost every day in gym class, but also classroom competition type things--like team geography bee, academic contests etc.

If I recall correctly, I was a middle of the packer for most things. As a kid I absolutely loathed standing out in any way--good or bad --in anything.[/quote]

That’s grotesque.

It was experiences like this that instilled in me a distrust of teachers. I know they aren’t all bad but I had so many sadistic, selfish, mean teachers growing up that I’ve just never been able to get on board with the whole “teachers are heroes” thing. Some are. Some are NOT. Same with nurses.

Even now, there are still teachers who do stuff like this. My kid has an “old school” teacher this year and while she hasn’t had kids pick teams, she dies a lot of things that were common in schools in the 80s and I don’t say this in so many words to my kid but: I hate her.[/quote]

I’m the pp you’re responding to and I agree. Every day in my (very well regarded) elementary school there was some “ordering” of kids…it was a small school so everyone knew who stood where in our small class. I truly think my fear of standing out (which continued through college) and wanting to hide in the middle of the pack was due to this kind of teaching especially at a super young age like 6.  The “top” and bottom kids in things both had tons of different pressures on them that no 6 year old should be exposed to. Better to just hide in the middle. [/quote]

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