<p>Worst: Chem teacher. It's not that he can't teach--he can--but he skips key steps in explanations, explains problems on the board too vaguely, and mislabels all his problems. He frequently confuses molarity with molality, is apparently dyslexic, and extremely forgetful.</p>
<p>On one occassion, he gave us the molar mass for carbon [since we weren't allowed to use a periodic table] and realized a minute before the test was over that he had mistakenly given us the molar mass for nitrogen [14.007 g] instead of the molar mass for carbon [12.011 g].</p>
<p>worst: Chem, 10th grade. He was a youth minister and baseball coach who got forced to teach chem. He let students grade their own papers, and a lot of kids took advantage of that and cheated, though he trusted everyone because it was a "christian school". He was too lazy to grade papers. For one research project, he gave a 98 for ok 99 for good 100 for very good, and told me, "i didnt have time to grade your paper, but my DAD said it was terrific so you get a 100". !!! And then he accused me of cheating by looking at a book during a test when I was the only who was not. HuH? -</p>
<p>Best-every other teacher seems like a godsend.</p>
<p>Best- AP Bio....she pulls out so much hard stuff but it's cool because she curves to make the highest grade always a 100...so never fear the challenge. She also finds the neatest assignments and actually gives us useful outlines etc</p>
<p>Worst- Hon Geometry....we would get into groups and help each other learn and she would just hand you the answer key if you needed help instead of explaining it herself...lowest high school grade to date=90%</p>
<p>Best: Honors World Geo (freshman social studies), by far. Every day was a great adventure. She also didn't assign much homework, and no meaningless homework, which made the already awesome class even cooler.</p>
<p>Worst: Math Analysis. Read from the book, didn't give me credit for the 8 pages of notes I took over 3 months, said it wasn't enough. I was all "you know, it's all the stuff I actually had to learn." ugh.</p>
<p>Best: There are three... I can't pick.
-Chemistry: She actually knows what she's talking about... she's really overqualified for the job. She also is awesomely awkward, and is always flustered. She was so intimidating last year (I had her for H, and now I have her for AP), but we all now know that she's incredibly nice.
-Pre-Calc: She reminds me of my mom... in a good way. She appreciates my sense of humor (I make many, many math puns =D) She also comes up with unique ways to learn the material. We do something different everyday; last year, my teacher did the SAME THING EVERY DAY (math warm-up, go over last night's homework, take notes, start the next night's homework).
-Envi-Sci: He kind of recognizes that Envi Sci is a joke (he's really a Chem teacher), so he lets us goof off a lot. He also enjoys terrible puns, and lets my friend and me doodle and draw endangered species on our homework =) He's also a good teacher, though, and comes up with interesting ways to learn absolutely boring topics.</p>
<p>Worst:
HANDS DOWN- my English teacher this year. She has no idea what any of the books are about. She's not even a real English teacher- she majored in Philosophy in college! She loves to hear herself talk, though- we never have class discussions about the text, she just rants for 55 minutes about the characters. She also assigns us SO MUCH busy work. One day, we tried to rebel and convince her to drop one particularly irrelevant and boring assignment... no such luck.</p>
<p>Typical Conversation: (going over our last test)
HER: "Okay, now let's go over number three. 'Why do you think that Wright named his novel "Native Son?"' Umm... hmm. I don't know. That's a weird one. Why DID he name it that? It seems like a stupid title to me. I disagree with Richard Wright. I wouldn't have named it that. I would have named it... 'Bigger's Flight.' Yeah. That sounds pretty good. I like that. Hmph. That was a stupid question."
US: "Well, could we take it off of the test, then!?! You don't even know the answer! It was worth 25 points!"
HER: "Ha, ha. Nice try."</p>
<p>I feel your pain. I have the exact same situation. my teacher barely speaks full sentences half the time...even considering Japanese sentences! :)</p>
<p>best: AP Econ
worst: my chem honors teacher. I dropped out after 2 months....how does someone's grade in that class go from a B to an F in 3 tests? I've despised chem ever since. Oh and my precalc honors teacher....um he wouldn't TEACH. Chem honors and precalc honors are the ONLY two classes that I dropped in my entire high school career. Hm.....shows you what kind of teachers they are, hm? Oh and both classes had about a 50-60% drop rate, the former within two months, the latter within two trimesters.</p>