<p>I go a crappy public school. My school pays less than any other in county. Almost all my teachers are all from a local state college with an average SAT under 1000 (old scale). After a few days in school, it has become clear that many of my teachers are dumber than me. I have an english teacher who doesn't know any SAT vocab and a physics teacher with an education major who doesn't know algerbra well enough to do derivations correctly.</p>
<p>I can't wait to get to college and have profs who once took a college level class in the subject they teach. In the meantime, I make loud comments to my freinds about how lucky I am to have high enough SAT scores I don't need to go to a "4rth tier" college.</p>
<p>I recommend that you dont make the loud comments. High school friends are important, and it doesn't matter if they're the dumbest people in the world. However, I do have a debate coach with little debate experience (she debated in high school only) but I believe unlike other teachers, she is very flexible and if you get on her good side, things are good for you. She does get the information to us though...via a debate 3 student.
Regardless, your teachers arent going to change, so unless you want to complain to the county, I think you should get some spark/cliff notes and study yourself. The most important thing for math/physics is practice. So if you do want to excel, youre going to have to self study and do more practice problems than the teacher requires. Good luck!</p>
<p>yeah, why are you taking it out on/bragging to your friends?</p>
<p>i feel your pain though.. i didn't have the greatest teachers either (some were good, some sucked), but by no means was my situation as bad as yours.</p>
<p>Similar things here. For example, there's a really smart physics teacher in my school with a PhD, who I really think should be teaching college instead.</p>
<p>I have dumber teachers than you. My english teacher copies her work right off the internet. These things contain tons of typos too. She doesn't even know the location of Brussels on the map of Europe.</p>
<p>my school offers the one of the highest salary on the east coast for public schools...so we get some excellent teachers....but some of them are too hard for the high school level......</p>
<p>stop being so arrogant... they may be low achievers or may have had circumstances that force them to b e less paid/educated.. or they may just be bad test takers.</p>
<p>yes, you can rationalize that, but can you rationalize why our lives should be hurt because of it? we don't deserve this. it's important to have qualified teachers.</p>
<p>My brilliant physics teacher told me that that the best way to calc the slope of a line is to choose to points as close as possible to each other, estimate there coordinates, and plug and chug. Her answer differed from the classes answer by a factor of 4. When I provided a proof it was more accurate to use points far apart, she told began bragging about her degree in education from a "fourth tier" college.</p>
<p>The teacher obviosly cannot understand physics. I wonder why she teaches it. I can't wait to let her see the results when I challenge AP physics C.</p>
<p>i had a really dumb english teacher last year. we were reading lord byron's "don juan", and she kept pronouncing it so it sounded like "don joanne". it was the advanced class too, so you better believe we mocked the heck out of her! not during class though - she was dumb, but boy, was she strict!</p>
<p>i also had an insanely sucky math teacher in my sophomore year - i'm just thankful the school let me switch to a more advanced class in the second quarter, 'cause if i'd had him as my teacher for any decent length of time, i would have gotten quite a bit stupider, thanks to his teaching...</p>
<p>For a line it doesn't matter how close the points are, and I don't see how she could have gotten a value that "differed by a factor of 4." The only "rule" in calculating slope is to choose whole number values for the domain, as these are the easiest to work with.</p>
<p>For anything other than a linear function, it is indeed best to choose points closer together--this is the basis of differentiation. It gives a more accurate slope. I don't know what you're talking about.</p>
<p>Knavish: We were calculating the slope of a straight line drawn on graph paper. For simplicity, we were choosing points intercepted the gridline exactly. Occasionly, the line would almost exactly pass through both corners of a box on the graph paper. My physics choses to use the two corners of the square and arrived at a slope of 1. However, if the straight line passed exactly through the corners of one box(it didn't), it should do the same to all other boxes it intercepts. The line however, did not. Thus, two points farther apart have extreme aggerate differences from two nearly adjacent points that result in a large difference in slope.</p>