Lorde's Teachers

In Lorde's essay, she illustrated how negative her teachers were to her. The only person who gave her positive reinforcement and encouraged her to read was Mrs. Baker, the librarian. Unfortunately for Lorde, her teachers didn't she her as being already well educated and a little advanced but they saw her to be acting out and not listening to them. Lorde's teachers go as far as accusing Lorde for not doing work on her own and insisted that "Our guardian angels weep when we don't tell the truth, Audre, I want a note from your mother tomorrow telling me that you are sorry for lying to the baby Jesus." Another horrible example of how negative Lorde's teachers treated their students, were how the teacher separated them from "Brownies and Fairies", this form of separation is in my opinion no way to show positive re-enforcement and can cause great embarrassment and make a child feel have extremely low self esteem.