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who remembers what happened back in 1th grade?
My teacher was a bald guy who played the guitar.
Okay I know this is c/greentext and its not a serious comm, still just wanna infodump lol:
So... in 1st grade I was in China...
I remember them doing National Anthem... very similar to the US lol (as in the ritual, not the melody lol)
They use rulers to hit kids lol... 😭
I lucked out because my family emigrated...
Forgot if I ever got hit by a teacher... if I did, I must've deleted that memory since it sounds kinda traumatizing...
And they made us RECITE AN ENTIRE STORY! (Children's story, but still) They made us stay afterschool for that 😭
I STILL REMEMBER the 9x9 times table "poem" thingy from first grade, it's forever burned into my head (okay this might be 2nd grade tbf, forgot when I learned it exactly)
Article I found: https://yoyochinese.com/blog/Learn-Chinese-Multiplication-Rhyme-Time-Tables)
Oh yes I can sing the Chinese national anthem¹ + the American one too...
they played it too much the melody is forever stored in my hippocampus
(¹Okay I might have looked up the exact lyrics later on as a teen...)
And if I sing both, I get both sides to hate me... xD
I feel like that kindergarden, 1st, 2nd grade... just those few years of school there makes me very distinct from ABCs (American-Born Chinese).
Not enough lol's.
Sorry I have lol-syndome
lol
xD
lmao
omfg
rofl
(sorry lol 😅)
I love deathbybigsad's childhood china stories. It's like finding gems on Lemmy
Also I had a distant relative in the past who was killed by their teacher using a metal rule. Probably wasn't deliberate.
Was it a meth probability class?
Oh...oops...uh...typo?
Ah yes, their teacher Walter White.
Why a mathematics probability class? "What's the probability of you dying if I strike you with this"
Well that depends on...or...well...I guess we already thatsaid.
i remember the 3-4 times i got in trouble and had to go to the principal's office. that's about it
almost everytime it was for me giving a presentation that upset the teacher/class because it was too adult or something.
Me.
what are you thinking remembering back that far? you'll run out of memory
I remember a lot from 1st grade. I barely remember anything from the rest of elementary school though
I remember cutting my hair with crayola scissors to get it out of my eyes, and some nondescript amorphous blob of a teacher freaking out about it.