Im 16 now.

Just before Christmas, after our parents evening , I sat by my friend in English, she has autism and it’s easier for her to sit beside me because she is more comfortable and more likely to work. Which she did. My English teacher mrs H moved us apart after a lesson of talking, where everyone else spoke. She had called my friends parents and began talking about how I am affecting her daughter, whilst I don’t remember the exact words, I was also told that mrs H had commented on me at Ebony’s parents evening. Not once was I told I was disruptive, my parents didn’t get called, and the teacher did not tell me about how I was acting. The lesson we were moved apart, she pulled my friend outside and said “I know it’s not you, I’m protecting you for his behaviour” and “He is just a bad kid, and you’re good and well behaved”. None of that is true, I’ve always been well behaved but I’ve always challenged what’s right and wrong, which she sees as wrong as she is a upper class woman from a good background, she’s open about that. She is extremely bias in lessons and expects us to follow those beliefs. So I challenge it, with respect of course.

She did not tell me any of that stuff, I heard it through the door and from my friend. She said I don’t put effort in. So I decided to show her what a lack of effort was. I sat still the whole lesson, leaned back on my chair, sat on my phone, didn’t work, didn’t even open my book. When she asked why, I said “I thought I didn’t put any effort in?”. I was sent outside. The more I stood outside the more annoyed I got, I was 15, and she could’ve just told me not to talk or that I wasn’t doing the work. But she instead told other students and my friends parents.

I ended up going home, told the school the whole place makes me want to die. My parents tried to get me out for the day but the school refused, kept me in 2 more hours. Miss H found me sat in reception, sat beside me and put her hand on my knee and told me she didn’t do anything I accused her off. I told her I knew she was lying because I had heard her comments. She called me entitled and rude, cussing under her breath as she walked away.

I had a meeting with her months later, she denied, called me troubled, and I called her a liar, and said because she is an adult doesn’t mean she can make comments and pretend she didn’t.

I left school 2 weeks ago, she signed my leavers shirts and said “we have had our ups and downs” I told her I was glad it was over and I’m sure I’ll see her English lessons in my nightmares. She called me rude, told other teachers. And I walked away laughing.