This thread has brought back some incredibly painful memories...
When I was a sophomore in high school I took advanced history (don't know why...couldn't go to college!). My teacher was a real hard-case who thought that the best way for her to teach was to stand at the front of the classroom and 'lecture' us while we took notes. We never took normal tests, they were all essay. One day while I was out sick she assigned term papers from a selected list of subjects. When I returned to class there was only one subject left...Erasmus. Being the good JW that I was, I went home and plowed through the index looking for information and found scads of it. Did my report and turned it in. When she saw my bibliography she immediately gave me a lesser grade - a D. I went to her after class and asked why. She informed me that because I only used one source, a religious propaganda magazine, my report was not balanced and I did not deserve a better grade. Way too harsh!
The same year, my English teacher discovered that I was a JW when I couldn't participate in some of the holiday related activities. My grades immediately began to suffer. Never on things where the answers were straightforward and obvious, but on book reports and essay type questions. Where she had once been friendly and conversational with me she now was downright hostile. I talked with some of the young ones from my hall and their experiences with her were the same as mine. I was able to get a bit of revenge on her, though. Just a few months ago she was running for public office in my area. I used my newly acquired voting skills to help make sure that she lost her election. LOL!