Well that definitely tops my example of the professor I had that actually decreased my interest in Solar Systems and Astronomy. It was taught in the planetarium. I'd find myself reading chapters in the text that weren't on the syllabus. Should have been an easy win, but the prof just made it so tedious... Ugh. The ultimate sin for a teacher has to be decreasing your student's interest in a subject.

I wonder sometimes how the world winds up with teachers like that. There's not any money in teaching so it's not likely that, but just sniping a kid from out of the blue at something they're actively proud of (assuming the teacher found out from the kid) and enjoys makes no sense unless you hate kids and learning enough to go be a teacher. Maybe the teacher is stuck there, or just doing the job for the insurance, but come on.

I understand that there are industries where compliance to a slow, crummy (but approved) process saves money over someone working a problem in a better, faster way that nobody else can duplicate (and therefore not process approved), but I don't see how that would ever apply to children reading. They're not going to run out of books to read.

I had teachers like that. I was reading well beyond my grade level (I read the third pandemic and sphere in 5th grade, both roughly college-level, I just had a dictionary with me).

Fifth grade teacher said I couldn’t understand them, they were beyond my level. I mouthed off to her and told her they might be beyond her level, but not mine. I got detention.

I told my mom what happened, who then went in and laid into that teacher. She bought me the books for my birthday, and gave me the dictionary so I could understand them, because teen and young adult stuff was no longer long enough, I’d burn through the books in a few hours, tops. Big complicated books were the only thing that kept me occupied. She was not willing to allow some rando to fuck that up. Needless to say that teacher never said shit to me about it again.

Did have that detention. I brought my book and didn’t even care about being sat there for an hour. So that backfired.

I hope your daughter gets that love back sooner or later, maybe just need a cooling down period. For me it never faded, I just lost all reapect for that teacher because even then I knew it was stupid to judge someone for doing something they enjoyed.

Yeah, but to my mom it was another excuse to pretend my siblings and I didn’t have it. We’re just like every little boy, just like Calvin.

We were kids at the same time Calvin and Hobbs was publishing. So adhd treatment was fairly new and only done to the worst of us, or kids who couldn’t get good enough grades like we could.