<p>My APLAC teacher is frighteningly incompetent and disorganized.
She knows grammar rules, but she seems unfamiliar with the subject material.</p>
<p>She admits that she hates writing and she's poor at timed writing. When she took the AP exam as practice, she got a 3. Receiving a 5 in her opinion is very difficult and she doesn't expect us to receive a 5 since she didn't.
Every time we ask her a question about the exam, or grammar or analysis, she always seems to have difficulty answering the questions, and often makes excuses to cover up her own incomptence, describing how hard and difficult her job is, and how rare it is to find someone competent in this subject.</p>
<p>No. All of my high school teachers except for one had degrees in the subject they were teaching (Ok, another teacher might have had an education degree in math but I guess it’s close enough. Also, there is really no “government” major available but my AP US Government teacher majored in political science).</p>
<p>Most of my teachers have been at least somewhat pretty good except my 9th grade math teacher. I almost got a D in the class (could have potentially been a F) because in all honesty, she did not teach. She really didn’t actually show us how to do anything, and the class itself was horrible and she did nothing to control them. It was her first year teaching at my school in 9th grade because she was fired from another school.</p>
<p>All of my teachers were great, but my freshman geometry teacher was horrible. He would tell us that the 3rd unit was about circles and that in order to learn the material, just go in the glossary of our textbook and look up the page w/ info about circles, then read it. The few times he tried to teach in class, he would forget what he was doing in the middle of the lesson and just stop. It was horrible.</p>
<p>I had an argument with an English teacher about the use of apostrophes in its/it’s. She was wrong, which is pretty pathetic for an adult, let alone a teacher.
At least she is not as bad as my college advisor. Every time I ask her a question she just goes and googles sites. It’s the biggest waste of time when I could just do the same thing at home.</p>
<p>None of the admissions reps that come to my school are any good. I asked one of them about a program I was interested in and they told me it didn’t exist even though it does. They have this pre-planned speech and they don’t really know the answers to questions that deviate from it.</p>
<p>One of my math teachers had this strategy:
First month: Scare the living hell out of everyone telling them how hard your class is going to be.
Later: Make the class really easy when people start complaining.</p>
<p>He gave me a graphing calculator and some textbooks, though. And I like people who give me free stuff.</p>
<p>Yes.
Even at my magnet hs that thought itself to be an “Ivy hs” (eye roll). My English teacher sophomore year lost my entire class’ research papers on her spring break. She would make racist jokes in class, even about the little African girl she later succeeded in adopting. She never graded properly and wouldn’t even read assignments. She was tasteless and uncouth. Ugh.</p>
<p>I’ve actually had a lot of terrible teachers. But my school district is one of the poorer ones in the state…so I suppose I work with what I have. </p>
<p>On an unrelated note, do any of your teachers have strange quirks?
My teacher has somewhat of an over reactive and erratic personality, and that can be difficult to deal with as well.</p>
<p>Today, I asked for an example of how she would like us to describe the effects of appositives used in a sentence, since she was angry that we weren’t describing it correctly and she immediately began to act stressed, and claimed that I was putting her on the spot.</p>
<p>Yes. My art history teacher is constantly screwing up grades, teaches ineffectively and bores us to tears, and can’t pronounce half of the words in the textbook.</p>
<p>bio teacher doesn’t know what she’s teaching and is literally reading the book the day before “lecturing”…
stats teacher has degree in humanities…</p>