Chyler Leigh's English teacher gave her an F on her first essay but wrote it was almost good. That comment sparked something. She went back and earned A's on every assignment after that, turning a harsh critique into fuel.
I was in my English class and I kept handing in poetry pieces or just stories, and the teacher came up to me and she was like, listen, Kyler, you failed my class. I was like, I'm sure, I'm sure I did. She goes, but your writing is brilliant. So what's gonna happen is you're gonna go to summer school. So, okay, but now I'm putting you in such and such class, who was the hardest teacher in the entire school for the like 20 years. Get ready to be humbled. And I was like, yeah, this is fine. So I go into that class and nobody's ever gotten straight A's. No one's ever gotten A's on the midterms or anything like that. This guy was an— I remember the very first day he put out an assignment to write an essay, like 3-page essay on some sort of subject that I happen to really really interested in. And I'm like, all day, I got this, all day. We hand it in. Next day he hands them back. I had a big fat red F on that page. And I'm just looking at it and I was astounded. But he looked at my paper and he said it was almost good. And I was like, gauntlet thrown. And After that, day one, I literally got A's on every single thing.
