A Small Moment In Time

A Small Moment in Time An influential person in my life that made me rethink everything I was doing was my 4th grade teacher. In lower grades I was always advanced, and I knew more about everything than everyone else. In kindergarten I was put in a class to test my advancement for a year. Then after that year of testing I was offered to skip 1st through 3rd grade as long as I did summer math advancement help. My mom declined the advancement wanting me to be put with children my age, but this is just leading up to my influential 4th grade year. Going through grades was easy for me because all I did was help the teacher until 4th grade when I swapped schools. I was so used to not doing classwork or homework that when I was given it I just didn‘t do it, but really without seeing it my vision was the real reason I couldn’t participate in a lot of the classwork we did. I was ending my 3rd quarter of 4th grade with an F (a 30% to be exact) all from test. Since I could not see (I saw at 10 feet what normal people would see at 40 feet).I just became a goof off never doing anything in the class. In my 4th quarter conference my teacher said to my mom and I that I would never be successful in life.
That summer I told my mom about my eyes and got glasses. Then in 5th grade with my new vision I was determined to prove my 4th teacher wrong, and make her feel like one of the rudest people in the world for the hell she put me through by not just doubting me but humiliating me in front of the class throughout the whole year with things involving my vision like me reading aloud or reading things on the whiteboard.
I went on to win an award that year for having one of the top scores in reading, writing, and math in the WASL testing. Then in 6th grade I won a presidential award for my exceedingly high testing scores. Every time I was awarded for my academics she would be in the gymnasium and I would just stare her down when I accepted the awards. Even though my 4th grade