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I'm an asshole for asking for a highlighter???

Posted by BlakeTakesTheCake - 3 hours ago


In math class today, we were doing a worksheet and we needed a highlighter for it. I didn't have one so I poked the person in front of me, let's call him Craig, to get his attention to ask for one. I tapped him again, just to be safe. Then, Craig yells out "Stop hitting me with your pencil, Blake!" The teacher walks over and asks what happened, then Craig makes up a story of how I was hitting him because the kid next to me told him to. THE TEACHER DIDN'T EVEN ASK ME WHAT HAPPENED and he asked me to meet him after class. Teacher asks me what happened, and said I was lying to him after I told him what I did. He told me that "if I told you to jump off a bridge and land head first, would you do it?" LIKE WTF ALL I DID WAS ASK SOMEONE FOR A FUCKING HIGHLIGHTER AND MY TEACHER IS COMPARING IT TO HOSPITALIZING MYSELF???? Then he said that I had to write a letter of apology to Craig and that this is "disgusting, unacceptable behavior" like I knocked him out or some shit.


Tl;dr: My school is full of psychopathic assholes


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This kind of bullshit is typical in school. You'll realize it later in life, but many adults/teachers are just as stupid as any child can be.

You can't really argue with 'em unfortunately, but in years to come you will look back and laugh... and then cry. And then maybe eat some some spaghetti.

That's absolutely ridiculous!

yeah people are just douchebags sometimes

Yeah, I'd say "Craig" was looking for the opportunity to be an ass and found one.

I feel like there's an important part of the story missing because the teacher's analogy did not made any sense in that context. But the way you describe it the teacher did not really care what happened.

A bit of 'general' advice for cases like these: Next time, ask the teacher who does not believe you something along the lines of "Okay, but please assume for a moment that the situation happened exactly like I just described it. What 'should' I have done?" To give you an answer they have to put themselves in your shoes for a moment, which might change their perspective on what happened.
There are no guarantees, though. "Arguing" is a lot about improvisation/ability of abstraction. And like any skill, it needs practicing.

...And of course: Next time you ask somebody for something in his class do so 'verbally only' - at the risk of disturbing the class - because 'last time you tapped somebody on the shoulder, you got wrongfully accused', and you wouldn't want that to happen again.