It took me 6 times to figure out what was being said here.

This is like in 3rd grade, when we had a spelling assignment. The word was “Poison Ivy”.

And she said this verbally. We would then have to write the spelling on paper.

So when she said “Poison Ivy”, I raised my hand. This wasn’t an assignment with student participation. So when she called on me, I said “Mrs Brooks, do you mean Poison I-V-Y? Thats the one I had in my list.”

She facepalmed. But I still maintain that’s on her for just giving a piece of paper with a list of words to memorize for a week, and expecting us to know how they’re pronounced. At 7 years old, I didn’t think Ivy was pronounced I-V. I thought it was more like “Ivv-E”. So I thought she just started spelling it, and left off Y. So either I’m being asked to spell Poison IV, which wasn’t on my list, or she just made a mistake by forgetting the Y.

Not my fault a teacher never taught her students, and now a student sounds dumb after being taught by her. I was just getting clairification. Did she make a mistake? Or is my list the wrong one? No, I was just a dumb kid, being taught by lazy teachers.