<p>well… you can kinda tell? Does your teacher like you? DO they care about you? Will they put in lots of time for you?</p>
<p>All I know is my teacher took a few months to finish it (he told me he edited it quite a bit). He also said it was easy and hard at the same time, easy in that there were “too easy to recommend me” difficult in that “you are so amazing it took so long telling them about you”. He also wrote an additional letter of recommendation. So I guess I can assume it was good. I did not tell him anything.</p>
<p>yeh, unless you are a complete spazz which i am sure no one applying to these kinda schools are a spazz, then all teacher recs. will be good… the difference is great. the form is like three words to describe him/her and like how they compare the other students. they cant really hurt you there, they all say “determined, respective, and inteligent” or something similiar and they all say works well with others… thats “good” but great is the extra effort like examples or extra writing. … unless your teacher dispises you and your a horrible student, then, your teacher recs wont really affect you.</p>
<p>I didn’t actually see it. But during the last week of school when me and my friends were messing around a bit in math class she was like, “(insert name) I wrote you a very good recommendation! Don’t make me change it!”</p>
<p>haha… Is that good or bad? I don’t know. :/</p>
<p>Haha, she just told me to settle down or ELSE. I think she was being playful cause she already sent it out.</p>
<p>haha, my teacher does that to. it was my math teacher too. i walk to the high school down the street for math and my teacher treats me like im her kid cuz im 13 with a bunch of 15 and 16 year olds lol. she told me that she could change her mind and write them another page on my cons insted of pros haha.</p>
<p>My math teacher treats me like a kid too. Too bad everyone is like 3 years older it kind of sucks.</p>
<p>i loved my old teachers, my school was really nice.
people at my new school are so…different…
most are a year older than me (i skipped 8th wwhen i moved, so Im still 13 and most are 14 some are or are almost 15) and theres like drugs and stuff
and most of the teachers are so…disinterested in their students…
like kids have talked about booze and mj and parties and fights and stuff RIGHT IN FRONT OF TEACHERS and didnt even get a second glance.</p>
<p>o yeh, when i go to my high school for math, i just keep my head up. im lucky enough to have a senior brother, but still. my teacher swears all the time, she doesnt drop the f bomb, but she told me i was full of crap like twice haha. its a more tough love kind of teaching because at one point they have to stop nuturing and get you ready for the real world i guess.</p>
<p>I have really cool teachers.</p>
<p>we30: my fencing coach is the same way. if he tells me that I’m doing something wrong and I say that I’m trying to fix it: he’ll just say “nobody cares if your trying. They won’t give you pitty because you are trying. You just have to do it. nobody gives a $hit if you try, so just do it” but again, its hard love, he just wants to make me better.</p>
<p>Whoa, do we have the same fencing coach?</p>
<p>yeh mines the same in hockey, except we get skated into the ice until we puke, but it turns into great stamina during the game haha</p>
<p>
Many (in fact all but one we applied to) REQUIRED that the recs come DIRECTLY from the teacher and NOT all together with the application. The one that wanted them with the application had the teachers sign over the seal on the envelope so you couldn’t read it.</p>
<p>It annoys me to no end that so many read what is supposed to be completely confidential and just between the teacher and the school. The recommendations are specifically supposed to be confidential but apparently that means absolutely nothing to many CC posters. Even if a teacher offered to show me his or her rec I would refuse purely based on the fact that I wouldn’t want to know the teacher’s inner thoughts about me, no matter what they were.</p>
<p>you can get a great perception of what there inner thoughts are in the classroom anyways. if they hate you its clear. if they love you its clear. so you may not know exactly what three words they used to describe you or whatever the questions are, but you can get a pretty good idea.</p>
<p>we30, it REALLY depends. Teachers are not supposed to show any preferential treatment towards the good kids, nor are they supposed to be harsher to the idiots (people who don’t give a sh** and want to waste their life). Of course many teachers fail at upholding this burden, and it is hard, but you may be surprised how their “inner thoughts” contrast what you see. </p>
<p>Of course most people can tell if the teacher wants to kill you.</p>
<p>Personally, if I ever really had the urge to read my recommendations, I would not read them under the acknowledgment of my teacher. Seriously, your relationship with them is pretty much tattered from the get-go; what if they didn’t check “Best I Have Ever Seen” but “Average”? What if you got rejected to all your schools? Not only would you be stuck with the same school (or perhaps not depending on what grade you are) with the same teacher, but you’re still stuck with them for another grading period where your grades COUNT. Wouldn’t you have want to blame them for not getting in? What if their rec seemed below par? And wouldn’t this mean you would treat them differently, even if subconsciously, and every bitter conversation about boarding school leads to the awkward pause that MAYBE if the recommendation had been flowery and full of adulation, the circumstances would be different. This applies more to the sophies applicants but we have quite a few of us so whatever. </p>
<p>I just wouldn’t enjoy the awkward moments when I walk in class, I think, this is the teacher that said I didn’t work hard enough. What am I supposed to do after that? Smile and pretend I wasn’t hurt by some of the things they said?</p>
<p>You guys keep QQing about if others read their teacher recs or not its their choice let them live with it. <em>cough</em> ringtingting</p>