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The first example“Being a performance skier, national junior champion in the sport I practice (I will not mention it for personal reasons), there were teachers who gave me high grades because of this. I certainly didn’t mind getting high grades, but I knew that these weren’t my abilities, because I was also missing from school many times because I was either training or going to the training camp.” (E., male, 17 years old, 10th grade).The second example“Because a teacher once caught me cheating on one of the subjects (I will not specify what the subject was), that semester he did not give me a higher grade than five, even though after that unfortunate event I tried to fix what I had broken, he did not forgive me. I can say that even most teachers, because they found out in school about that episode in which I was caught cheating, some of the teachers in the class made sure that they did not give me the grades I deserved, which were much lower than before.” H, male, 17 years old, 10th grade)The third example“I’m going to tell one of my episodes that still marks me because it’s happening at this moment. From the moment I came to high school, being now a student in the 12th grade, I was always underappreciated by my colleague. The level of both is the same as the knowledge, but in most subjects I am underappreciated compared with my colleague. I can give you an even more concrete example here, having a Maths test and solving all the requirements offered, both in the same way, I received one point less on the grade than my colleague. This underestimation comes from the fact that my colleague’s parents have a different financial and professional situation than my parents. I wouldn’t mind if the teachers who make this difference were a little more “invisible,” but unfortunately they are not.”—V., male, 19, 12th grade. |
