stuff like literature and language arts and history and all that stuff but I

just couldn't do math as well as I could do other things. I was home-schooled up

until fourth grade when I started actually going to a public school and

the first year I was there I really really struggled in math class my

teacher didn't help. He would purposefully call on me even though my

hand wasn't raised for a problem. I don't know if other teachers do that but it

just didn't help in my case whatsoever. And he would call on me and I just, I

would never have the correct answer. And I'd always I would turn red and I would

get all flustered and I would mutter and it just made everything so much worse.

That didn't help my self-esteem at all because the other kids would look at me

and be like" oh why doesn't she know math oh she's such an idiot for being a

homeschooler oh." And I did know math it wasn't my

strong point I mean we all have weaknesses and stuff stuff like that.

Most people watching this are good at math and I bet some aren't but that's

okay. Yeah this continued for a while and I tried to get there but it just

wouldn't stick in my memory as much as other stuff would. So I passed fourth

grade and the same stuff happened in fifth grade. Like, I wasn't really getting

a hold on anything and it just wasn't really my favorite thing to do and I

really tried to prioritize it and help myself. And my parents tried to help and

they even made me stay after school so I could learn more things about it and

that didn't help either. And I had another math teacher and he wouldn't

help either. He would do the same stuff the previous teacher would. He would call

out my name even though my hand wasn't raised and I'd have to sit there like an

idiot and just keep quiet. And then all the kids would laugh me and he'd go on

to a different person which i think is a wrong way to try to teach somebody who's

just calling out on them when they're not expecting it. And I'm in eighth grade

now and I did pass six and seventh grade. It is pretty much the same story for all

the grades that I struggled in math. And now I am taking out on at school and I'm

home schooled again and I've gotten so much better at math and I can do stuff

that I'm confident with and I'm just grateful that I'm not as bad as I was.

And it just takes time and it takes a certain kind of

person as well and you just have to know what's right for you. Like you don't have

to be great at a certain subject you can be perfectly fine in another subject and

I'm telling you this story because I know a lot of kids out there are not as

great as other stuff. It could be a sport, it could be a subject in school, it could

be literally anything. But it's okay if you don't get that

hold on whatever you're trying to learn. It's just that you don't have to change,

you just might want to improve and it helped a lot.