'My guidance counselor told me I wasn’t "university material"': Former student gets petty revenge on guidance counselor years later

Haters are your motivators, as they say. But is that always true? 

It can, at times, be highly motivating to want to get back at those who doubted you. Maybe you had a teacher who told you you wouldn't succeed, and those words have stuck in your mind for decades since then. On the other hand,  words of encouragement from teachers or other students can be just as motivating, and they make you feel good about your abilities from the start. 

U/Pineapple8900 shared a story of the way their guidance counselor talked down to them when they were in high school, and according to some commenters, the counselor was trying to motivate them. I don't think that's how it works at all! As a teacher, you're supposed to give your students positive reinforcement if possible, but a lot of teachers just don't have the temperament to do so. Instead, they're working with tons of students each day (many of whom do not want to be in school at all), and these teachers or counselors can lose their cool. At least this person got some petty revenge as a grownup: it seems like they really embarrassed their former counselor. 

Next, read about the reason this grandparent told their daughter that "She is the reason I am an absent grandparent." 

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