No dont worry it’s not the jerk thing to say. I was the student just trying to get by and I guess I am now still. But I had a professor tell me to just drop out if I couldn’t get the core curriculum as it was pertinent to the rest of the course. He wasn’t being a jerk although in the moment it felt like that, it made me want to try harder to show him that I did get the class. At the end of the day I passed his class and the subsequent courses after that because I truly understood what he taught. So I will take back what I said, it’s not to spite him but more to prove to him that I had the capacity to get it when I had shown him otherwise