<p>Found myself a little curious about this one after composing my email to my APUSH teacher, thanking him for the teaching. How many of you plan to thank your AP teachers for helping you get a 3/4/5?</p>
<p>my AP US teacher didn’t help at all, all he did was give us essays and projects that he never graded.</p>
<p>My APES teacher on the other hand is getting a good thanking.</p>
<p>I already did. My AP Econ teacher has a twitter so I tweeted him. And I emailed my AP Chem teacher because she was a HUGE help. One of the best teachers I’ve ever had. I’m asking her for a rec. I emailed her and said thank you and told her I got a 5. She said she expected nothing less from me :)</p>
<p>nope…they all poor teacher,no help, wich explains my 2’s im so sad…</p>
<p>I’m not going to send them emails, I’ll thank them when I seem them in school next year. Well maybe.</p>
<p>I’m not gonna thank my psych teacher. He was a good teacher but I don’t like him lol, don’t want to be near him if I can avoid it.</p>
<p>Calc teacher… she was a good teacher, but did not prepare us for the AP exam at ALL. Most students in the class take it for community college credit, only a few take the exam. She might or might not get a thank you since the good score wasn’t because of her teaching. </p>
<p>AP Physics teacher will get a HUGE thank you. I didn’t take AP Physics but he helped me with AP Calc almost everyday because he’s a math genius. He did NOT have to help me at all, let alone as much as he did (he stayed after school for 45 min almost every day, and for 2 hours the week before the exam, and 3 hours the day before the exam. He helped me during his plan period as well). And he bought me breakfast on test day 
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<p>I’ll be thanking my AP Language teacher too, he was great.</p>
<p>I thanked my Bio teacher- we got off to a rough start in the beginning of the year, but in the end she ended up really helping me and we really did learn everything well. I also did it because I found out my score (a 5, thank God) 5 days before she would’ve (teachers still don’t know) so I figured that if I can make her feel a bit better about it after she’s read the College Board’s writeup on the exam results (5% of people got 5s?) I would.
My APUSH teacher really didn’t do very much- we barely covered anything and the class turned into a general discussion. I don’t think he really contributed much to my 5.</p>
<p>My D gave them thank you gifts at term ends before the scores are out. One should thank their teachers disregarding the outcome.</p>
<p>@billcsho
Don’t be so overly dogmatic. There’s no reason to thank a teacher who didn’t help you at all and caused you to have to essentially self-study the entire exam.
“Thanks for nothing!”</p>
<p>I would thank my teachers even if they didn’t contribute much to my 5s if I enjoyed their class. I would thank my Physics B (who contributed a bit for B, none, if any for C, as he only teaches B), Calculus AB/BC, and Biology (who taught mostly the wrong information, and I ended up teaching myself about half the test) teachers. All three of them I enjoyed having, whether they contributed or not.</p>
<p>Yeah, I would thank all of my incredible teachers. I thank my AP Physics B teacher for my 1. Thanks so much for letting more than half of the class play cards every day and thanks for leaving to go to the bathroom for long periods of time. I’d like to thank my AP Gov. teacher for all the movies and circle times we’ve had in class. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is all the preparation you need for a 2! Shout out to my AP Calc teachers, both of you! To the first one for all your fat wife jokes and to the second one for your incredibly monotonous tone! I owe my 2 to you guys! (btw, they’re all cool people, just bad teachers)</p>
<p>I will genuinely thank my AP World and AP Lang teachers though when I ask them for teacher recommendations. Even though my AP Lang class did absolutely nothing but read and write, the AP Lang teacher at my school is notorious for high AP scores. And I don’t blame my AP World teacher, he actually prepared us in three months pretty well for a test on the history of the world. Plus, he’s the only serious AP World teacher in the history department in my school, out of freaking three…</p>
<p>And I would also like to thank myself for believing that A’s in these classes would result in 4s or 5s on the AP tests. At least I’m only obliged to turn in the grades and not the AP scores!</p>
<p>@billcsho tut tut</p>
<p>Yepp! Just sent the emails! :)</p>
<p>It is not dogmatic. You thank the teacher for their effort (if they deserve it), not your test score. Getting a poor score is not always the teacher’s responsibility. It is a mentality issue if one always blame other people. One should always be thankful.</p>
<p>Thank them for doing their job?</p>
<p>These days, people take anything for granted. And people would complain even getting something free. Sigh.</p>
<p>Gosh, don’t you hate those kiss asses who probably talk **** about their teacher all the time and still give them presents and act all “you were awesome!” throughout the year.</p>
<p>If I’m taking an AP class, it’s because I want my teacher to teach me the material. If they didn’t, well they don’t deserve ****, because I could have easily self-studied than waste my time in the class. No, it’s not always a teachers’ fault, but you know a lazy teacher contributes greatly to a score.</p>
<p>LOL, my AP Bio teacher was SO bad and such a disgrace to the teaching profession, that I was extremely happy to see his obituary (long story, almost ruined both my and my brother’s futures). And I got a 5. My AP Chem teacher was a pedophile (luckily I wasn’t his type; got a 4 in that). I guess my point is that it is a rare teacher that is the key to a student’s success. Test-taking skills of the student far outweigh the teacher’s influence.</p>
<p>We are wondering if my son’s teacher knows all her class’ scores. The funny thing is she teacher bio in college, but it is a really bad community college (is that redundant?) so I bet her students there would be lucky to get 2s.</p>
<p>Even if you think they didn’t teach you about their subject then they probably taught you about life, that you need to take initiative for the struggles in life</p>
<p>@rhandco
Teachers find out their students’ scores on July 10th or 11th, depending on location.</p>
<p>I am not only thanking my teachers, I’m thanking my parents, my friends, God, my college, my coaches, my sister, and my stuffed animal Blue for all the support they have given me this past AP season 
In all seriousness, I did thank my teachers if they made a big impact on me.</p>