Not me, but my second grader. Her teacher told her/us that math would never come easy to her. She would cry doing her schoolwork saying she would never get it. The following year with a just out of school new teacher she began to flourish in math. She was even invited into an accelerated math program in middle school and continues to flourish in math in high school. She actually enjoys math since the third grade teacher. If it weren't for that new teacher, she might have been painted into an anti-math corner by the second grade teacher. Teachers' words weight heavily on kids.