When you have a learning disability, the teachers at school need to do what they can to accommodate your needs.

What would you do if one teacher was having a bad day and mistreated you, which prompted your mom to complain, and now the teacher might get fired?

That is what happened to the student in this story, and she feels bad because she doesn’t want him fired, even if he was way out of line.

AITAH For Getting My Teacher Potentionally Fired Beacuse of My Learning Disorder?

I, 17 highschool female, have a learning disorder. I have APD aka auditory processing disorder which is when I hear you but I dont process it or process it well.

This could make things very difficult.

For example someone could say “Lets meet at the park at 3pm” and I would process that as “Lets eat bark at 3am”.

Or I would not have processed anything you are saying so I needed things to be repeated very often. I have struggled with this my whole life that affected my speech and how I learned.

It is good that she is finding ways to adapt.

I have had multiple tutors and many specialists work with me so I can eventually be able to learn on my own.

Well, Junior year I was technically weened from this help and struggled alot in school.

Any help she can get is good.

I still had one “tutor” but she wasnt really a tutor. She was someone who continued to work with to expand my processing capability. However moving foward to school where the real story is.

I am active in advocating for myself when it comes to my disorder. First day of class I will always talk to my teachers after class to explain to them what I have and if I’m annoying with asking questions over and over again that is why.

The teachers need to be reasonably accommodating.

So, for context at this point all my teachers know of my learning diorder and they have had no problem with it in terms of the classroom setting.

I have accommodations that every teacher knows that I have which is like having extra time for a test/quiz or even an extra day to turn in my paper.

The teacher is normally a good one.

On this particular day I had a world cultures class with this teacher we’ll call Mr. Cameron. Mr. Cameron is usaully a really cool teacher. Y

Y’know one of the really fun ones that have us watch fun documentaries, play kahoots, and even allows us to chew gum in class.

Going through personal difficulties can impact you at work.

However, at the time he was divorcing his wife and he was obviously upset. I dont know why he is getting a divorce becuase I am a student and just you know, you dont tell your students that kind of stuff.

But even so I have sympathy towards him even when he started to snap at us in class sometimes.

He is really letting it affect his teaching.

However, during this class we had a pop quiz and we were all confused becuase he never gave pop quizes before.

He continued the rules of this quiz. “No talking or I will rip up your quiz infront of you and you will get an autnomatic 0”, are his exact words. However…. I did not pick that up.

I can see why the teacher would think she was being rude.

I didnt process what he had said and asked “Sorry can you repeat that?”. He came over to me angrily and ripped up my quiz infront of me.

I had no understanding of why he was doing this and thinking over what I did or said that would warrant this reaction because I am a student who likes to maintain good grades and a good relationship with teachers.

This would be upsetting to anyone, but at least the teacher realized he was out of line.

I was just in shock and holding back tears. Then five minutes later he picked up the ripped piece of paper and stapled it back together and said “Here you have a second chance”.

That is when I started balling crying. I was trying so hard to hold back my tears and everyone was shocked.

She was very upset.

I am also known to be a “strong” person who always holds face but this time I snapped and balled my eyes out. I didnt know what to do other than leave. I left and went to my Mom, who is also a teacher at this school.

For more context, the school I go to is a JK-12 school and you can easily move around from lower school, middle school, to highschool.

She is lucky that her mom is around.

My Mom is a middle school teacher and often during lunches I would come hang out with her with my friends.

I also had my Mom as a teacher for math and Im not saying this because she is my Mom but she is the best teacher I have ever had.

Good teachers are invaluable.

She understands learning disorders becuase she also has some of her own and incorparates that in her class and everyone gets a good grade because my mom is such a good and undervalued teacher.

At this point I went to my Moms classroom and luckily it was empty. Thinking back it would have been bad if I arrived and cried infront of a bunch of middle schoolers.

Of course, any parent would be concerned.

However my mom was there and she was immediatley concerned. I told her what happened and I have never seen this women so mad before. She was like tinkerbell mad.

My mom is also really well liked and is one of those people that are really hard to hate and one of the more popular teachers and went to talk to my teacher.

Oh, that teacher is not apologizing now.

She told me to wait outside of the classroom and I didnt really understand what was being exchanged becuase all the words were happening so fast but I did pick up Mr. Cameron yelling “I bet what she has isnt even real!!!!”.

Thats when my mom stormed out and told me in her sweet angry voice “honey pack your stuff and go to my car and wait for me there.”

Her mom is really mad.

I did what she said and Ill admit I was terrified of her in this moment. I went to get my stuff and went to my moms car. She came out 20 mins later on the phone with her stuff.

I didnt know this at the time but she was on the phone with the head of the school who we’ll call Mr. John. My mom called him and told him about the incednet and Mr. John said that he will have a meeting with him.

She needs this support.

My mom took me shopping but mainly wanted to talk how I felt since the car is where we end up having our best and deepest conversations. I told her I didnt understand what I did wrong and she told it wasnt my fualt.

The next day I went to school and everyone knew what had happened. What I hated most was that I had my class with Mr. Cameron first thing in the morning but he wasnt there.

Apparently, this teacher has been mean to her for a while.

Turns out after I left the school with my mom, my classmates reported the incident on what they saw and turns out Mr. Cameron has been targeting me for a while.

The nice thing about APD is that when I recieve an insult I dont always process it and that makes me practically bully proof.

This is actually a little funny.

So, it turns out Mr. Cameron has been saying some not nice things to me during class that I didnt process were insults or even directed at me.

It was nice to know that my classmates had my back but I still felt bad for him. I am the kind of person that can’t hate or loathe someone.

Hopefully, this will be a wake-up call for that teacher.

I still feel bad because he is in the middle of a messy divorce and I know he likes teaching and loves his students. I know have to go to Mr. John and directly give my side of the story.

I don’t want him fired but I’m also concerned if he will keep “targeting” me in class or even if he has a bias towards those with learning disabilities.

Just being honest about what happened is the right move.

I am going to give my story to the head and maybe talking about it to him will help me figure out how much i feel about this.

AITAH.

She shouldn’t worry about the fallout. Just tell what happened and let the school administration decide what the consequences should be.

Check out what the top commenters have to say about this situation.

Yup, this wasn’t a one time incident.

This is a good way to look at it.

She did nothing wrong.

He is the adult and should behave better.

This person says she did nothing wrong, and I agree.

The teacher dug his own grave and got himself fired.

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