As someone who had an asthma attack and could barely run the small distance to my room before almost passing out, i gotta say this is stupid

WHY!? SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPORTED!!!

Teachers should be encouraging this. If i have a student that is a fast learner and well ahead of the others i will ask him/her to help those that are behind. This helps me out and it gives the student a sense of pride that he/she is doing something good.

I was yelled at for reading the "Harry Potter" books in second grade. I was also told i obviously don't pay attention bc i read too fast?

Weird thing for a teacher to do but don't understand how it's 'ableist'

Good for Mom, what a jerk! He likely slept through the sensitivity part of his education in college.

That's dumb, but how is it ableism?

That's it. Revenge time. *reads the whole of the secret vatican archives in a week*

I was not aloud to read any third grade books in second grade even though I was reading the other books way to fast

Wow as a kid who was in first grade who wanted to read 5th grade books this really hurts.

I used t read ahead but my teachers always said that "im not ABSORBING what I'm reading" how stupid is that?

None of my kids teachers ever did that to them. The only time we ever took a book away from either one was when my husband bought our daughter the 5th Harry Potter book the day it came out. She read most of it in about 6 hours and my husband made her stop for a while so it would last her a little longer. After that it was just easier to let her go. Thank god for Half Price Books.

I was a librarian in an elementary school. All the teachers encouraged kids to read harder and harder books, as long as they understood what they were reading, no one would ever limited a child. We had one young man that chose books he could not read. We couldn't figure out why, he was a poor reader and was picking books beyond the highest reader in his class. His teacher would send him down, alone, so he and I could look for books at a better level. The hardest part of my job would be the parents that would come in and want me to limit what their kids read. One mom didn't want her son reading silly books (at or above his level) he was only supposed to take out educational books. When I explained that at his age read, anything, should be encouraged we want them to learn to love reading. It didn't matter to her. Between his teacher and I he could check out silly books and keep them in school.

I HATED when my school did this. I was an extremely fast reader as could finish a Harry-potter-sized book within a couple of days, and before you come at me saying that I just skimmed the story, I could remember a lot and had one of the highest reading comprehension scores in the class. That's why it really, really sucked that no one believed me. No one believed that I was actually reading and enjoying the story, they (Meaning my teacher, classmates, and parents) thought it was just me skipping paragraphs and only remembering some things. I send hope that people will one day understand❤️

Good for your mother, there is no such thing as reading too fast

I started reading Tom Clancy in Middle School after being repeatedly told by my librarians to stick to my age-restricted sections

I remember we were having to read aloud in class,by turns. But I would read ahead, and when I got called on, I had no idea where we were. Had to turn back the pages to find where we were. Never got calked on again.

there were certain kids in my classes that were smarter than most others was in english class one day i had a few learning disabilites and most teachers knew it and they didn't care to belittle me in front of everyone i had a litature teacher i was taking a test one day and got a failing grade he called me to his desk and said i'm not going to fail you because i can tell you really studied and you tried your best i still think the world of him to this day none of my other teachers saw it that way they just said you're lazy and don't try i wish my other teachers saw it the way this teacher did but i had to do the best i could i think in the end they just let me gradiuate to get rid of me i'm sure if i had been given some help i would have done better all they worried about were the straight A students they even went to the trouble to ask them if they needed any help and there i was needing help in the worst way the worst for me was book reports i would like to thank all my teachers

My old elementary school was the same :/

My mother had a huge argument with the school regarding my reading of intermediate books at primary level. We won and I was allowed to read them . If you want to read why can't any book be available

I went through every book on dinosaurs in the library by the 5th grade and was not allowed into the adult section at all until my mother interceded and I was allowed to read a college level paleontology text book (there was nothing in between in 1958-9) but even then the librarian insisted on quizzing me about the book's contents when I returned it before she'd let me check out another.

I learned to read at a young age and by 7th grade, I had a college reading level. We had these things called 'SRA's", where you read the module, and then answer the questions on the back on a separate piece of paper and then turn it in. I flew thru those and then had a teacher tell me I was somehow cheating as there was no way I could read that fast. I grabbed a book off her desk and started reading out loud as fast as I could. She f*****g left me alone after that...

awosome post thanks

Good on your mum!!

The teaching profession is full of people who hate children.

I would report that if it was me ( then I would probably chicken out tho)

You should of had a word with her after class and tell her how degrading it was her acting like that.

What a rude teacher

*smacks lips* Well SHUCKS

That's disgusting.

I hope you have understanding teachers now

This teacher should be fired

My teacher yells at me for doing this too. She actually told me it was "Her time" and everyone should only be focusing on her even though she was just barely talking about random stuff to a different student.

The same thing happened to me last year. (History)

This happens more often than you think, sadly.

Disgusting

Oh my goodness! Yay! Not the only one!

That's horrible

That’s horrid. But if they trigger your gag reflex, take revenge and throw up on her.

When educators refuse to learn how to help, where can you go?

Doodling helps me focus too

That teacher needs some serious help

There is no right way to do art. And this teacher did nothing but stunt creativity and shame kids.

She need to be fired.

“Get the Cotton out of your ears” is a really old saying, I’d actually bet the teacher didn’t know or remember this kid had hearing aids.

I feel this post so much. I was diagnosed then it was ignored, my mother years later still denied me ever being diagnosed.