So the kid tells me today that one of her teachers is really pi$$ing her off.
She's an exceptional student, with a GPA of over 90% and near perfect marks in Math and Science classes. Her weakest class is Social Studies, but she still does very well in it. Her Social Studies teacher has become very interested in her life, and I totally get that - I did my students as well. Given her grades, he's assumed she's off to university - logical.
So she tells him about her aspirations to become a mountain guide. He's done nothing since but disparage this path. Every chance he gets he runs it down. WTF? She's tried to explain that it's a lengthy and difficult program that involves years and years of hard work, knowledge of many topics, and is successfully completed by few - especially few women. He still thinks she's wasting time and effort even thinking about - she should be doing something in the math or science fields (99% in those subjects...) and is quite ignorant about it.
I suspected she's overstating things, but a reliable classmate of hers that I know would rat her out on this says that indeed the teacher runs her down pretty hard when the topic of their futures comes up.
That irritates me.