10 September 2008

Did you ever feel like this?


I love cartoons with Latin words.

4 Comments:

At 10 September, 2008 23:05, Blogger jack perry said...

In fact I did feel like that once, if my parents are to be believed. I knew how to read when I entered 1st grade, but my teacher—undeterred by any facts to the contrary—placed me, as the son of an immigrant, in the remedial reading group, and considered me retarded because I tried to pronounce the words instead of looking at the pictures and guessing what the word was from the picture. My father had to meet with the principal, ask her to pick any book in the library she wanted, then told me to read it.

I don't remember any of that except the part where I sat in front of a book and tried to pronounce the words, to my teacher's dismay. I also remember that one day I mysteriously moved into the highest reading level. But that's been my parents' explanation, so who am I to argue?

Anyway, my reaction to that comic is perhaps more visceral, unless you had a similar experience. :-)

 
At 11 September, 2008 14:54, Blogger Clemens said...

Nothing quite that close to the cartoon! But I often had the feeling. When I moved to the big port city to the south at 15 I was put in the remedial English class - a version of the "Sweat Hogs" in "Welcome Back Kotter" because the school system would not write for my records from my former high school. It was an interesting experience.

I had a friend once who had an almost perfect memory until he reproduced the textbook word for word on a Latin exam (the teacher asked them to write the Latin text word for word from memory). He lost his wonderful memory after the teacher kept him for 3 solid hrs after school screaming at him for cheating. Such was the story anyway.

 
At 12 September, 2008 10:52, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's okay, Clemens. Like the cartoon says "we will always love you."

 
At 12 September, 2008 12:24, Blogger Clemens said...

I simply can't tell you how much comfort I have taken from that, Old Man, over the years.

 

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