SimuLord said:
Also, why is it always the English teachers who are the bitches? I've been out of high school 15 years now and I still remember two of them---the two teachers who beat the love of writing and literature out of me, something I didn't get back for years. I still whisper a "fuck you, Miss Lind" under my breath when I get praised for my creative writing works even today. It's like a mantra.
Amen to that. Bad English teachers can ruin English Literature-loving children. Also, having to learn boring literature. My English teachers were and are actually pretty sweet (I'm hoping to read English Literature for my University course), but a lot of the stuff we had to read was not.
Things seem to be improving now (although a year of Sylvia Plath wasn't my cup of tea). Perhaps they kept all the good stuff for the older students.
Your teachers were probably bitter that they couldn't write anything decent.