Originally Posted by DA Mayer
I actually co-taught with someone else and she told one of the students he would never make it and would fail the tests, of course he failed the test. Go figure.
My MIL was told by the vice principal that DH would end up digging ditches for a living because he was too dumb to do anything else. He was in the room at the time AND for the longest time he believed it about himself. OMG! He has undiagnosed dyslexia.
It took me YEARS to combat that childhood insecurity. Every time he started to get ahead, he would sabotage his own progress. A vicious circle. BUT, he "grew up" and in 2006 he graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B average. Yes, he can dig ditches, but those are for fun to fix the sprinkler system.
It is sad that we are collectively easily influenced.