I blame my 6th grade teacher for the hideous time I had in 7th grade. He was an old coot about to retire and couldn't have cared less about the progress of the class he was being paid to teach. He just showed up, made idiotic remarks (many times at the expense of the slow and low income students) and rarely even collecting or grading our home work. I had done well in math in 5th grade but certainly could not afford to go a year without it which is essentially what ended up happening. By 7th grade I was behind and had a very hard time catching up. I developed math anxiety like nobody's business. Fortuantely other subjects like English and History came easier to me and I managed to catch up without much of a problem. But I still resent the cavalier attitude of this alleged teacher and wish he had had to answer for his poor teaching methods.
