Wasn’t the teacher wrong to do this? Isn’t she a bully?

Okay so I’ve always been pretty shy. Back in elementary school when I was 11 we had a school play, everybody had to participate. It was a parody of a talk show and I played the camera man. All I had to do was stand in the very back corner of the stage behind a curtain, I was wearing all black so you couldn’t really see me at all. All I had to do was stand and hold a fake camera and rotate the camera every time somebody talked, there really was no point because you couldn’t even see me but I did my best anyway. Anyway after the play ended the class went back to classroom and the teacher came in and said. ‘’ Okay everyone was great except the camera man.’’ I really did not see why she had to go out of her way just to insult me. It’s not like my classmates deserved an Oscar.

Also she used to make us sing songs in class. In groups of four we would have to sing together. I was really shy to the point of social anxiety. The people in my group were loud trouble makers and when it was our turn they didn’t sing. I couldn’t bring myself to sing alone and I was the only one she yelled at and I mean she really shouted. Then she threated me ‘’ either you sing or I’ll make you sing that song in front of the whole school during recess in the playground.’’ Can teachers threaten students like that? Nobody else in any of the other groups sang but I was the only one who got in trouble. And I was always really well behaved and quiet but the teachers would always find problems with me and they would say it to my mom at the parent teacher meetings. They kept saying I was shy. That really annoyed me because that’s just who I am. I really didn’t see the problem; it wasn’t as if I was mute or anything. I had friends; I always did my work and was well behaved. What did they want me to do? Get on the table and sing a song? I could never win; they’d always find a problem.

Also ever since I was nine eight they put me in a class for slower earners who had trouble reading and writing without telling my parents. The thing was I was not a slower learners, I could read and write just as well as the people in the normal class. Every day a teacher would come up and take four of us for an hour while the rest of the class continued on with normal work. In that hour we’d read and write. On Fridays we’d play bingo, the teacher asked me if I like bingo and I said ‘’ not really’’ and she got really mad at me for having an opinion. She was like ‘’ Oh well then maybe next time I should just leave you in the class.’’ This is a different teacher. But I really did not belong in that class. One student was Polish and couldn’t speak English. One student was autistic and the other was genuinely had problems reading. I really was fine, I could read and write.

Also wasn’t it unfair of the teachers to force each student to sing alone in front of the whole class, even if they were nervous wrecks?

Don’t you think the teacher was wrong to threaten me with public singing like that? And why was I put in the slow learners’ class? Thanks.