Your responsibility was to learn the material, and do your best. You did that. You are not responsible for how other people feel... and you have no control over that, anyway. They do.
This behavior is the same as when we minimize our children's accomplishments in front of other parents, in order to try to protect their feelings.
I disagree. Waving one person's success at a group as a way of reprimanding the ones who didn't do as well is guaranteed to create resentment and other types of negativity. It's a way for an authority figure to say, "You guys are such stupid losers, but Joey here just so amazing and brilliant.
He's a winner." You can't make a statement guaranteed to make people feel rotten about themselves and then blame them for feeling exactly the way that was intended.
And this approach is very different from Joey doing his best and honestly admitting that he's good at some subject if asked. If he didn't ask to have his grades brandished in front of the class, teacher has no business doing it for him. Everyone has things they'd rather other people wouldn't know about them, and it's up to each individual to decide what those things are. Is there anything about yourself you'd prefer not to see advertised to a room full of people (and some may have an axe to grind with you)? If so, now you know how Ultramarina's kid feels.
