I have always been good at math, but not amazing. I have always like the subject and stuff, but my freshman year killed math for me. I took accelerated Algebra 2 with trig and the class was horrible. First, my teacher couldn't teach and was super over-emotional. She literally cried whenever something didnt work and complained all class. Second, the class the loud and rude and prevented learning. Last, the teacher was out for 2 weeks and this horrible sub taught us. My math teacher finally came back and said if I get a good grade on the next test that the sub taught us, I can stay. If i dont, then I move down to regular.
Of course I had to move down to regular. The class in the regular class was even worse. they were just some crappy people in there that purposely made it so we couldn't learn. The teacher didnt do anything about it and had to help everyone else, so I pretty much had to self-teach myself all of Alg 2 with little help.
So, now I have to take college algebra instead of moving on to pre-calc because I had a horrible 4th quarter and final exam. Math is pretty much ruined for me.