<p>Some teachers show favoritism towards certain kids and treat the other ones poorly and give them bad grades. I've had teachers that are sexist and racist. How bout you guys? and does that affect your grades?</p>
<p>I had a teacher who would treat the all the girls a certain way, and look down their shirt. He treated the rest of the boys like crap. He once told me, “Why can’t you be more like the girls!” True story.</p>
<p>8th grade, English/History core teacher was this old lady who, despite being 7/8 Irish and 1/8 Cherokee (so she says) acted as though she was the White Buffalo Calf Woman (her words, not mine). Anyway, she was this uber-feminist lesbian woman (not that I have a problem with women’s rights or gay rights, it’s not that at all) who openly expressed her dislike of all men. She once said, if I do recall, “I used to think that all men were bad. Then I went to Africa and saw that the men there don’t rape all their women, and so I knew. Men can be good.” Her words, not mine.
Despite all this, she adored me (a guy) and I got an A both semesters.</p>
<p>My civics/world history teacher tended to give your papers a better grade (usually at least an entire letter grade) if you wrote from a perspective she agreed with. It is annoying whenever there is a topic we cover and she disagrees with your view, but we have all learned to pretend we are neutral when that is the case. Both years I have had science teachers that were slightly inconsistent/you could tell they liked some people more then others, but it was never anything major.</p>
<p>Lol FantasyVesperia</p>
<p>artsygirl13 I know! You just learn to not fight with the teacher and just roll with it no matter how wrong it may seem</p>
<p>Just the say the world is sometimes, you got to deal with it.</p>
<p>My 7th grade English teacher never called on me, saying I “talked too much” in class. Which was hard to do, considering she always put me in a seat in the corner, away from my friends, next to the one girl I might actually describe now as ‘hating’ her, and in a place where she would never see me raise my hand. And she wondered why I got a D+ for the year…</p>
<p>Other teachers have done the same thing. They equate my general friendliness and chattiness with a lack of seriouness and a sense of apathy. It took me a long time to prove how seriously I take my studies and if any teacher has something to say about it, then I have something to say right back. I won’t tolerate a teacher treating me in a bad way or being rude to me, and I won’t let it happen to anyone else I know (well, maybe not the girl from 7th grade English). </p>
<p>My English teacher this past year came out and said to the whole class in the first two weeks, “maybe if you didn’t talk so much, you might actually do decently in this class,” which was a shock considering I had barely talked and had a good grade at the time. The next day I gave him a piece of my mind, politely but firmly telling him that I didn’t appreciate him embarrassing me and criticizing me in front of the entire class, that it wasn’t an appropriate remark and that I would appreciate it if he wouldn’t mention my grades in front of everyone else. After that, we got along like two peas in a pod.</p>
<p>I think there’s something to be said about demanding respect from a teacher, providing that you are being utmostly and genuinely respectful and mature in return. I could’ve flipped a table and stalked out of class while screaming pointless profanity at him, but instead I decided to act like an adult about it. By HS you should be able to do that.</p>
<p>My 5th grade teacher had some Hawaiian supremacist in her. It never really affected me, but she was pretty mean to the white kid in our class.
This last year, I had a very conservative, Fox-News-watching pro-Romney Mormon teacher. I don’t have too much of a problem with these kinds of people in general, as they comprise most of my community. But she was very in-you-face about it. She would talk about her hatred of Obama and liberal political policy DURING class. I guess she’s not really into science either. Here’s a quote from her, “[insert student’s name here], Can you believe that people believe in the Big Bang?” Although she tries to avoid it, I know she kind of grades based on personal preference. And the #1 way to become her favorite is to talk about politics that she agrees with.</p>
<p>Not quite “biased”, but my 8th grade English teacher gave me a zero on a paper because of her political views. Decided to write a paper on the legalization on marijuana (one of the best papers I’ve ever wrote, mind you), and she gave me a zero for not being “school appropriate” when a ton of kids wrote about guns and other apparently “inappropriate” topics. There was obviously something beyond that. Decided not to write a new one and as a result my grade dropped to a B. Was rather angry.</p>
<p>I’ve had a biased teacher (not in the US though). She gave me grades way below what I actually earned. I had a quiz, and she would give me a 40 instead of a 70 (still not that good, but still). It was in a class that was based on pure memorization as well, so it’s not like there was anything subjective. What really bothers me is how I now go to one of the best schools in the country, and students complain that a teacher doesn’t like them when they actually earned a bad grade. They have no clue…</p>
<p>@FantasyVesperia that’s so creepy o.0</p>
<p>^ It was creepy, ahhh~ middle school art class.</p>
<p>Freshman year, I had this history teacher who was completely biased towards anyone who played a sport. In our class, there are only about a handful who play sports, and everyone else focuses on their academics or something else. With myself being in musicals, choir, and the arts, he would always give me a hard time and asked me everyday, “Are you ever going to be a man?” I eventually had to tell my parents about it, and they got in a huge argument with him. He ended up yelling at them saying, “It’s not my fault your son’s a fa****!” Due to our principal being his best friend, he only ended up getting a warning. But, I passed his class, and the funny thing is that I have had his wife for three years as my math teacher. She absolutely adores me, and I’m going to have her again this year for AP Calculus. </p>
<p>Another instance is with my music teacher who I’ve had for almost eight years, and she absolutely adores me as well. She gives me all of the leads in the musicals, makes me section leader for the entire gentlemen’s section, and has me deliver all of the news that she wants to the choir. I actually get a little nervous because she is so biased towards me, and I’m afraid that people don’t exactly respect me because of it. So, yes…I’ve had my share of biased teachers.</p>
<p>^ Oh my, I’m sorry for the history teacher incident. Teacher at my school get fired when they curse at the students. I’ve been put on blast by many of my teacher before.</p>
<p>So, in eighth grade I was really immature and that directly attributed to my teacher failing me in English. Our teacher had us do a project on whatever we have learned that year from her class and with whomever we wanted. I got into a group with my friends and we made a satirical video. As we had one Jew joke in the video, the video was offensive and we received a 0%. She waived the video and made it 30% of our final grade and she went out of her way to fail us. Our parents knew and protested, but the principal did not care much. My two friends and I had to attend summer school.</p>
<p>LOL my honors chem teacher is so biased. He hates guys and he is obsessed with the girls. He never teaches anything properly, and hates grading, so he grades based on how much he likes you, how neat your handwriting is, who your friends are, and where you sit ROFL. My friend had his class, and he’s a genius in all sciences, but he got a C because he has extremely messy handwriting and he’s a guy LOL.</p>
<p>MrBlair–so you are the proverbial teacher’s pet! Been there, done that (but a million years ago). Not an easy position to be in despite your peers feelings. But hey, take advantage.</p>
<p>I hope all of you get to experience at least one teacher who stands totally (but with an open mind) with their convictions while still respecting your beliefs and convictions. And instead of teaching to their beliefs, teaches you to champion what you believe in the best possible way. Such a teacher pushes a critical thinking on-your-own agenda rather than a biased one.</p>
<p>My 7th grade math teacher was really creepy. He had a math dance and he always came to class with huge sweat stains under his armpits. But there were about 5 girls in the class and like 15 boys and he would go to all the girls, never the boys and ask us if we wanted to have lunch with him and talk about math. He said it really creepily also.</p>
<p>Super: did you report him to anybody? your parents, another teacher, administration? And a math dance? Are you kidding me? Who was in charge?</p>