What is their experience being treated by teachers at school

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I mostly had great teachers, 5th grade was the only real exception. I was about 10 or 11 and every time I did anything out of the "ordinary" she would draw attention to me and get everybody to laugh at me. I liked to fidget with pens and pencils (not loudly or in any way that would be distracting) and she would take them away from me so I would cry and have a meltdown and then the other kids would make fun of me and even throw things at me. She definitely played favorites, and her favorite of the girls was this girl who acted sweet to adults and was a jerk to other kids, especially those who were "different". I was so terrified the following summer that my next teacher would be like that, but thankfully my 6th grade teacher was amazing.

I was only in a special class in first grade. The teacher actually treated me quite well. I did a higher level of work in first grade than I did in the three years that followed, when I was in regular classes. My fourth grade teacher was a real fool, saying things like, "How, did you know that?" I thought to myself, "I read it." I was reading the "Family Medical Guide," a Reader's Digest publication, in the third grade. Also, this guy's favorite word was "unreal." He was as weird and unreal as it got. I didn't mind tough teachers, because they really made me work, and I got the best grades with them. At this time, they really began the dumbing down of the school curriculum. A lot of the mindless stuff they made us do slowed me way down in math.

My main confusion with teachers was that everyone else seemed to effortlessly become their favourites and even though I was usually at the top of the class they never seemed to like me, I realise now it's probably because I'm just not good at socialising and I come off too awkward but it upset me for my whole school life. This isn't comparable to a lot of the awful stuff people in this thread have had to deal with though.

What this thread reminds me of is when I was doing work experience in primary school a couple of weeks ago (I'm going into teacher training soon) and there was a boy in class who seemed to have several autistic hallmarks which stopped him getting on in class and was constantly yelled at. It just made me sad because I mentioned it to the teacher and autism hadn't occured to him and the parents thought he was their special boy etc. but he just needed someone to help him not have meltdowns in class, I imagine he was having a similar school experience to some of you guys.