What do you wish your teachers had known?

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In a way, I am glad they didn't know what Asperger's was. I think it would have given teachers an extra excuse to set low expectations for me. They probably knew something was different about me (and I became aware of it by the time I was in fourth grade), but generally they knew I was intelligent and got good grades. I wish that teachers would have put more emphasis on actually teaching subjects rather than using creative teaching methods. In math, my performance slowed way down because they tried creative methods to make it "fun." I think I would have done much better with a standard teaching method and tutoring when I got stuck.

I wish that the teacher's aid that I was stuck with for three years from grades 1 to 3 knew that I was telling the truth when I told her that I didn't soil myself and that the wretched little b***h let me go on the milk run that day when I was in Grade 1. I remember writing in my standardized test that the boy who kept assuming that I was a soiler was my pet peeve. That same biotch told me to change that answer.

I also wish that daisy knew not to drag me into the washroom, to the smallest toilet, yelling at me to go to the bathroom.

These are the ways that I got back at her for doing that when I was in Grade 3:

Calling her Dollar Nestman, Nestman Quarter and Wayne Gretzkey
Telling her that she looks like Corneal Flanders
Dotting all of my Us and drawing swastikas on my worksheetes
Testing all the substitute teachers that my class had that entire year
Calling tasks that the other kids were better at, Pee Pee Jobs

I wish they'd known even less than they did. The more someone knows about you, especially someone in a position of power, the more effectively and profoundly they can screw up your life.

I wish I had better looking teachers. I think a lot of them were angry and jealous of the good looking kids. Of course I'm talking about the women.

Do you remember what was different about how it was explained?

I wish my teachers had known common human decency most of the time. Classes of 30 odd students plus the severely bullied kid constantly ostracized because she acts odd and is too quiet? Lets laugh alongside the rest of the children.
Ultimately secondary school taught me there is no difference between cowardly children and cowardly adults, and the world is sadly teeming with them.

Amen to that! I think the worst thing of all to find out was that the "adults" at the school were very aware of what was happening and they all willingly chose to look the other way to save their own behinds. The biggest bully's parents were powerful and got one teacher who spoke out fired (since was a new teacher on probation as was almost every teacher in the school).

My worst teacher was my kindergarten teacher. She was new and immature and had no way of knowing how to deal with the little girl who was intelligent, but smaller and younger than the other students and who, at the time, knew very little English. I forgive her, because she really didn't know how to deal with the girl who didn't understand as well as the other children did. At the time, they thought you were just "stupid." I wasn't. A year later, with a good teacher who actually knew how to teach, I was reading, writing and doing math well above grade level.