<p>Well, everything's pretty much blown over. I just looked at my grade and I have a C+ (crushing the class average), so I'm satisified for now.</p>
<p>I don't feel it's wrong to have disdain for this teacher. I realize some people enjoy teaching, but this teacher certainly doesn't fit that mold. He's unmotivated and monotone.</p>
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Yes, there are some bad teachers. At the same time, there also are teachers who are repeatedly faced with students so condescending and uninterested that the teachers literally give up on teaching.
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<p>A teacher has no excuse if the students dislike him. It's his fault that he's boring. Nobody in the class dislikes any other teachers. In fact, this is the only class where I know people to be so bored they fall asleep. Why must the student be blamed for the teacher's incompetence? </p>
<p>If our condescending and uninterested attitude bothers him, maybe he should find a new job or fix what he's doing wrong. This is an AP class. We're all smart. We're all well-behaved. Our dislike of him is because of his terrible teaching, not because of some insipid Student vs. Teacher battle.</p>
<p>And to further elaborate on a teacher who enjoys teaching, we only have to look at the chemistry teacher at our school. Japanese guy who graduated from UCI. I took Chemistry sophomore year and man, this guy was great. Always telling jokes, being friendly with the students, helpful. I'm not in AP Chem right now, but I hear it's pure hell. He teaches the class also and the tests are insanely difficult I've heard. But still, everyone loves him. That's because he loves what he does and teaches well. Well, that and he put acetone on the chalkboard and lit it on fire... that's always fun. The man wasn't a great student either. He's only about 30 years old and he told a very interesting story about getting into UCI. He had a rather low SAT (~1000 I heard) and so he submitted two applications, one that said: Jeff [Last Name] and the other said Jeffrey [Last Name]. Besides that, the applications were identical. Funny enough, one got rejected and the other got accepted. Not an academic superstar, but one hell of a teacher. People learn and people enjoy.</p>
<p>What I'm trying to say is that I can tell the difference between a failure who had to become a teacher as a last resort and a teacher who loves teaching. </p>
<p>Even if you assume he's not a failure in his field due to his love of teaching (though it's clear he has none), then he's still a failure, a failure as a teacher.</p>
<p>But yeah, as I said, the whole thing's blown over. Though if any more of this BS happens, I'm going straight to the principal.</p>