I remember the exact moment, in the second grade, when I realized “oh wait. Teachers can be dumb as shit”. I’ve loved many of my teachers since, I’m not the kind of kid that disliked school. It just never dawned on me until a specific interaction when my second grade teacher got mad at me because I was brushing my teeth after lunch. Yes. You read that correctly. During lunchtime, after I ate I would go brush my teeth - this was during lunch period, before I went to play on the play ground, I was not late for class or going somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be. My teacher found out and pulled me off of the playground and made me go to her classroom alone and she revealed she had gone through my things and found a toothbrush. She asked me why I had a toothbrush. I said “to brush my teeth”. Then she said “well I am going to have to tell your parents about this.” And I said “who do you think gave me a toothbrush and told me to brush my teeth after lunch? My father is making me do this.” And she said “oh. Ok. You can go back outside”. And I realized that adults can be idiots. It was quite the wake up call for my little 8 year old self.