Does going through your school projects from childhood make you emotional?

Asked by JLeslie (65988) September 5th, 2022 from iPhone

My dad has been going through boxes of stuff and he found some book reports and projects I did in 5th and 6th grade, and some report cards from those years too. It made me a little emotional seeing those things over zoom. I hadn’t remembered my grades were so mediocre in 5th grade, but much better in 6th grade. I even commented about the 5th grade grades, and my dad said they weren’t that bad. I guess that was consistent with when I was a kid, my parents weren’t expecting all A’s like some parents.

On one report my 5th grade teacher said I wrote very well, but hadn’t read all of the materials. That sounds very plausible. I guess she was trying to encourage me to work harder. I remember being very luke warm about her.

Actually, from 4th grade on I didn’t really like many of my teachers except for a very few in jr and high school. When I say like, I mean really enjoy going to school and seeing them and being in their class. Wow, I just realized that now as I’m writing it. I think most of my teachers were good teachers though. College was different, I’m just talking about K-12.

He had a drawing I did of a city, it was looking overhead, like looking at a map with the roads, houses, school, mall, playgrounds, etc. I’m so happy he kept it. I remember being really proud of it and my teacher took a moment to tell me verbally how great he thought it was, and he wondered aloud how I came up with it, although he only gave me an A-. I don’t remember what the exact assignment was.

I don’t know, it made me feel sad thinking about it all and seeing the class work I did.