<p>Do your teachers have any irritating rules or quirks?
My science teacher makes us always write in pen, but she also grades us on neatness for homework, so if we have scribbles or smears, she'll take off points.
Many of us have to make a rough draft for our homework in pencil, then we copy it in pen before turning it in.</p>
<p>My French teacher’s homework rule is all or nothing and then she does classwork points so I could get a 0 and the HW and because I didn’t do the HW, I don’t know an answer so I get classwork points off.
My film teacher gives open note quizzes on chapters that are 80 pages, but we’re not allowed to type our notes.</p>
<p>I hate when teachers check notes and give them grades.
My notes are for my benefit, so I don’t see why they need to be checked and graded. Some days I don’t feel the need to take notes at all because I already know the material.</p>
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Note that if you plan to major in some sort of science, expect to write everything in pen (especially labs). It’s an attempt to reduce scientific misconduct. Neatness shouldn’t be too much of an issue, but it has to be legible and you have to be able to see everything you wrote (if you wrote down something wrong, you still have to be able to read if after crossing it out).</p>
<p>Oh my math teacher didn’t/doesn’t let you rest your head. So I knew all this material and would have a 95 in the class, but I still couldn’t rest my head (it was first period)/ Really annoying.</p>
<p>My English teacher last year did not allow us to use the backside of the paper and notes must be in Cornell notes style.</p>
<p>@halcyon
I feel you. APUSH is killing me. Notes take around 2-3 hours to do, plus we also have to do flashcards…which is easily another hour or two. There can be around 30-50 terms to do.
I know the material…the notes aren’t really necessary. But they have to be done for me to get a good grade.</p>
<p>No cell phones</p>
<p>@similo tell me about it.</p>
<p>I also dislike teachers that count notes toward grade. Glad that my math teacher does not check our notes because I never take them since everything is review.</p>
<p>My AP Gov teacher just dropped this one on us yesterday: We need to take all our notes and past assignments and put them in a binder which he will look at and it will be worth 20% of our grade. Except he never told us that we needed to take notes, so I have no notes from the entire semester. But I have a 98% in the class! So unfair.</p>
<p>Is it weird to have to write in pen? We had to from 5th grade.</p>
<p>^in itself it’s not weird, but simultaneously taking off if anything is crossed out is</p>
<p>My Chemistry teacher last year made us do cornell note “summaries” for each unit. They were pretty pointless. Also, while this is technically a district policy, no phones/electronic devices are allowed.</p>
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<li>Take notes- Like sometimes I’m like I already know this. It just annoy me sometimes. Of course usually the teachers will tell us whether the will be collected so I have no problem with it being graded.</li>
<li>No cell phones- this is 2013. Pretty much everyone in School have a cell phone. About a good 1/5 of us uses it during school. And sometimes when teachers see cell phones they just say put it away. They don’t follow even the school rule that say they will be taken. Lmao.</li>
<li>Being late- this might not be much but basically you’re telling that if I’m like ten seconds late, that’s a tardy. I mean I also may have to use the bathroom or tie my shoes on the way sometimes.</li>
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<p>We can use our phones in the courtyard of the school, but not inside, and we can’t go to our athletic lockers until 8:30, and we can’t go to our lockers during lunch , I swear my school’s so weird. -_____-</p>
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<p>5 unexcused absences is an automatic Loss of Credit at my school. I almost LC’d math with a 95 in the class</p>
<p>Lol, I’ve missed 19 days this semester and nothing happened. I think the rule is 20.
And if you miss finals for any reason, you fail the class.</p>
<p>My Freshman French teacher said the only way she would excuse you fro finals was if you were in the ER. It’s not that big a deal, but I missed my sister’s 6th grade graduation.</p>