How does Lorde illustrate what the teachers she encountered were like?

            The first teacher she encountered was Mrs. Baker. She was a very kind lady, she read to Lorde and that then started the rest of her interest in school and with reading.

The second teacher Lorde refers to as miss teacher. Is very rude, she expects the children to do everything perfect and if it’s not just as she asked then she is not happy about it. I don’t agree with this. The teacher is way over the top and in is going to crush these kids and their interest in learning.

Wow the mother is so strict this poor little girl is doing whatever she can to please her mom and her teachers. But, even when she goes above and beyond what she is asked she gets in trouble. Oh man. I am so glad that we don’t believe in getting spank ins in school any more. I can’t believe that in the article it says, “She sent a note home to my mother asking her not to dress me in so many layers of clothing because then I couldn’t feel the strap on my behind when I was punished.”

These poor Africa American children felt hated by these nun teachers. They are cutting down the self of steam for the kids an example of this, “She had divided the class into two groups, the Fairies and the Brownies. I always wounded up in the Brownies because either I talked too much, or I perpetrated some other awful infraction of the endless rules of good behavior.”  

I think it is very interesting how Lorde ends up becoming friends with Alvin the bully is a sense. Where she helps him read and he helps her with her numbers. I think it is amazing how Lorde was able to endure so much with her hard school life but, that she as still really intelligent and kept moving forward in learning.