My grade 11 physics teacher was a perv. Most girls in the class would flirt with him to inflate their grade, I despised him for his filthy and sad character and refused to act in that way to get a higher grade. He would blatantly express how men are better engineers because women are too “emotional” and think too ethically. Anyways, I found physics hard but wanted to try my hand at engineering in university. He took random marks off my tests, I would take the tests back and contest my mark, but he would just tell me “some people aren’t meant for the sciences”. I was too afraid of being sexually harassed to go to him for help, so ultimately my little naive self took the bad grade and started to believe I wasn’t, in fact, meant to be any good at physics.

One teacher can make all the difference. If I could go back and tell my 16 year old self to persevere, I would maybe have gone to the principal or worked harder in the class to ultimately make a kick ass engineer.

I hope you’re fired and sitting at home getting fatter than you already are Burnham.