Crying in class

Is it okay to cry about not getting good grades? Maybe if it's a generalized phenomenon I can understand it. But crying over failing a small evaluation seems like overkill to me.

Now, tell that to myself, but at 10 or 11 years old. These are things that a child cannot understand, especially when it is instilled in you that good grades are synonymous with being smarter and the other way around.

That was a day when we had a written history question. This one was about putting in chronological order various historical dates of my country. History was one of my favorite subjects.

Therefore, I felt confident about this little test. However, I failed to notice a small error in putting the numbers that gave the order to the dates. This resulted in 16 out of a total of 20 points.

It was still a good grade, but it wasn't good enough for me. Come on, it was the easiest class I had ever taken. How could I have been wrong? The funny thing is that before I received the grades, I repeated many of the correct answers to my classmates.

When I realized my mistake, I couldn't hold back the tears. There was no way to console myself, even though my classmates told me that it was just a silly thing to do.

I was so angry that I even swore I thought the teacher was happy with my failure. Of course, these memories are a bit fuzzy, and maybe my perception as a child was a bit skewed.

All this was in elementary school. A stage when you still haven't decided what you're going to be when you grow up. No need to stress over a couple of bad grades Who explains that to a kid? No one.

Let's educate our children in this sense. Education must be taken seriously, but to really learn. Good grades are useless if the next day you forget everything they ask you.

I think that should be the focus.

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