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Prompt #21 The worst teacher

I went to a high school in a small city. At the time, it was the only high school in the city that wasn’t occupational or the type of high school that accepted students with exams. We moved to that city a month after schools were opened for that education year. At the beginning of the same year, the high school, that I later went to, selected high-graded students and created almost another high school within the school and called the classes, consisting of these students, super high school. My grades were good enough to go to the super high school but I was too late for registration.

I learned later that separating academic students from the less academic ones is always debatable. While secluding high-performing students might help them, it worsens the outcomes for the less academic ones and almost takes the chance to better themselves away from them.

I don’t know how much more attention super high school students received but I felt I was missing out on the teachers’ care and support. Maybe it wasn’t true, but the created image was telling me that.

In the second year, we had to choose majors. There were social science, science and mathematics branches to choose from. If a student chose social science she/he was considered as not being academic. I was better at and more interested in social sciences but I found myself in mathematics. Overall, I enjoyed the maths classes despite finding some of them rather difficult. It wasn’t only succeeding in school but our future and I thought that we were lacking in receiving any help to direct our future. My parents didn’t know much about how to help me to find my way and my teachers weren’t any better.

One of my classmates was a few years older than us due to living abroad with his family for a few years, he had to study all the missing years all over again in Turkey. Perhaps being more mature and smart enough, he suggested forming a student club to discuss the issues we had. Somehow we were able to use the conference room of the school after hours. In our initial meetings, we talked about organising forums, inviting some professionals to the school such as doctors and lawyers to ask them about their…

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