<p>For 7th period everyday I am a TA (teacher assistent) for a freshman english teacher, but I am in 12th grade. She is causing me so much stress!! </p>
<p>EVEN though I am only her TA and NOT her student, she still treats me like one of her freshman student. She has taught 9th grade for 30+ years and feels as if students are a necessary evil that need to be micromanaged and restrained. For example, she puts me on a chair next to her desk so she can stare down at me like a hawk, and tells me to wash my hands when I go to the restroom. Whenever she forgets to bring work for me to grade, she always makes me do homework. (but i am only her TA and she's not supposed to even care what I do if i don't have work to grade). She also has very few communication skills, and whenever she's upset she shakes her face in front of me.</p>
<p>once she told me to do homework and i didn't bring my textbook so I took out a college catalog (I'm a senior) and started looking at it. Suddenly she popped out from behind me and shrieked that I was lying b/c I wasn't doing hw, i was reading a college catalog. All the other Teacher assistents for that period go to the foyer and hang out while they grade stuff, while she stares down at me like a hawk and I have to stay in her classroom.</p>
<p>Once I pulled out a mirror (b/c) i thought something was on my face and didn't want to be embarssed, and she popped out from behind and starting shrieking at me in the foyer in front of several other english teacher (***?). She always ramdonly pops out from behind to check on me, and startles me, i don't udnerstand why she even feels the need to, she does this to all student of hers, but i'm 4 years older than all her students, and she doesn't seem to realize this.</p>
<p>The only thing is, she has been acting this way for at least 20+ years and her freshman students put up with it b/c this is this it their first experiance to high school. NONe of the other teachers treat thier TA"s like this. </p>
<p>I am beating myself over this becuase I was given the choice between being an office assistant and being her assistant, and I ignorantly choose her.</p>
<p>It is her behaviour that is stressing me out. </p>
<p>The only reason I am even worried is that this woman gets to give me a GRADE. this class is not even UC-approved and I feel like I am in jail! Nobody gets less than an A for being TA, however she feels the need to micromanage me like all her sudents, no matter what i do i will get a C or maybe a B. I have worked so hard during high school to see a grade like that on my transcript, if it was my fault i would understand, but it's not my fault. There's nothing i did that should cuase her to act like this, it's 20+ years of being a 9th grade english teacher. I talked to her about it and she said she was my "supervisor." I have AP classes and enough to worry about, I don't want a non-UC approved class to cause me to go home unhappy everday. </p>
<p>I have two questions:</p>
<p>Should I complain to the dean for the chance to put me as an office TA and if it doesn't succeed possibly risk being seen as a backstabber by the "teacher?" </p>
<p>And, even the UC's ask for 1st semester senior grades, do they even ask for non-UC approved classes and the grades for them? (like PE and this class)</p>
<p>What should I do? I don't think she's sadist or anything, however I do think she has a problem with micromanaging everything and lack of respect towards even good students, myself included. She treats everyone like 10-year olds. (her room is even painted pale blue, pink, and yellow with pictures drawn by student pinned up like a kindergarten room!) </p>
<p>I am so angry at myself for choosing her instead of office TA. I have enough ot worry about with other college applications,and AP classes, and she is cuasing un unecessary stress in an "class" that is supposed to be as light-stressed as possible...</p>