<p>My Pre-Calc teacher doesn’t understand the fact that if she doesn’t actually explain what we’re supposed to be learning, we won’t get it. </p>
<p>We’re in the Trig chapter now and got to the section with Pythagorean Identities. She wrote them…and moved on. No examples. No explanations.</p>
<p>Throughout the entire chapter, we didn’t know how to do those questions, even though there were only one or two in our HW and quizzes. We kept telling her we didn’t get it. She kept either ignoring us or saying she’d get to it later. Never happened.</p>
<p>The day before our mid-chapter test, we did a review with like 5 P.I. questions on it. We didn’t know how…she got mad at us…</p>
<p>Instead of saying “maybe we should have gone over this more” she instead said something along the lines of:</p>
<p>“We took lots of notes of this! (huge lie) It’s not my fault you all don’t understand. I know what it is. It’s not the Pre-Calculus, it’s the Algebra. It’s because none of you are ‘algebraically sound’.”</p>
<p>Yes, because we “can’t figure out simple algebra”…that’s why we don’t understand identities of trig functions…</p>
<p>.____. </p>
<p>This is the Honor Roll Juniors and Seniors she’s talking to. </p>
<p>Not only did she claim that her teaching was perfect and that we were at fault for not understanding concepts she was supposed to be teaching us, but she also indirectly accused our former algebra teachers of not teaching us algebra properly…since obviously being in Pre-calc meant we had passed Algebra II, and for Juniors, with a A or B.</p>
<p>Yeah. It’s basically like this all year long. This was just the worst instance I can think of.</p>
<p>Spanish Freshman Year- I hung out with all the slacker sophomores, because the teacher would create the seating chart based on grades, so the entire back of the class was the sophomores and I. One day we were talking with one another about the latest topic that none of us could understand. So the Spanish teacher got mad and I responded with something along the lines if you didn’t segregate our class then we might understand the topic. She got angry and responded, “Well, obviously your parents did a horrible job raising you, hopefully your brothers (younger) get help.” I was so amazed by this i just laughed.</p>
<p>Sophomore year- I has applied for AP Euro, but didn’t get in despite my average of 98 in my previous history class. So I went to the teacher who was suppose to recommend me and he says, “I don’t think you deserve to be in AP, because you hardly worked for your grade and I think you cheated.”</p>
<p>Sophomore year- I was sitting in Geometry class and a friend and I were talking about something as the teacher was taking up quizzes. We were just passing the time, and all of a sudden the teacher gets mad and yells for us to be quiet. So my friend and I shut up, along with about 5 other people who were talking. Next thing you know she told the class to talk about answers for the homework so my friend and I start talking about it. Well she gets *<strong><em>ed off and looks at both of us and yells, “Are you idiots? Didn’t I say to shut up?” I responded “Yes you did, but then you told us to discuss the homework.” Bad idea as she then decided to look at us, sends us outside and decides to berate us for being idiots that probably failed the quiz. So she goes and gets the quiz grades it and I get a 95 and my friend got a 92, well this *</em></strong>es her off even more, so she ripped up the quizzes and took us to the principal’s office for cheating.</p>
<p>We had a substitute teacher in English class one day and we were working on research papers. Mine was on euthanasia. The sub was walking around checking progress and she came up to me and started asking me what euthanasia was and why I was interested in it. She eventually says, “did you decide to research this because of how long and painful of a death your grandmother had?” My grandma had died a few days earlier. I just stared at her and didn’t say anything.</p>
<p>i accidently stabbed myself with a pencil really hard and said “OW!” when the science teacher was walking by (it really did hurt). He laughed at me when I told him what happened and asked him if i could go to the bathroom to wash my hand off and he said, “No, don’t think you can get out of class so easily. I’m not stupid, you know”
2 min later, there’s blood running down my wrist. I go up to him and ask him to go to the bathroom and he sees all the blood. The look on his face was hilarious…seriously all the color drained out, and he’s like “I’ll take you to the nurse right away!!” he probably thought i was going to sue him or something lol.</p>
<p>another time in this one class, this girl snaps her fingers. all of the sudden the teacher yells at her, “don’t you dare snap your fingers! Don’t you know only hookers do that?” </p>
<p>oh and another time, my biology teacher was lecturing, and all of a sudden we see this painter at the window, doing his job. People weren’t really paying attention to his lecture, so he breaks off, and points his finger at the poor guy and says jokingly, “You better pay attention or you’re going to end up like that guy over there, painting walls your whole life. I bet he failed his biology class and look at him now.” the other kids started laughing, but i think the guy heard, his face was all sad. that’s pretty messed up. people have to make a living somehow.</p>
<p>for my whap class (this happened yesterday) the teacher caught a kid using other peoples notes. he snatches the paper up, yells, “How f**** ■■■■■■■■ can you get??? You f*** cheater!” He proceeds to rip up the rips the papers into little shreds, breathing heavily, all red in the face.
needless to say, he’s pretty crazy he does those sorts of things a lot. </p>
<p>haha but upon reflection, almost all the teachers i’ve had are completely nuts.</p>
<p>In 4th grade my teacher made fun of me in front of the whole class, it was hilarious. I was a pain in the ass, so one day when we were all doing quiet work, out of the middle of nowhere he starts prancing around the room saying “Look at me, I’m Alex, I don’t pay attention and make jokes and I’m COOL.” He was completely serious. He just got ****ed off and I drove him nuts so he did that. It was funny and pathetic and sad at the same time.</p>
<p>“you really need to fail this test. It would do you good” - 7th grade history teacher</p>
<p>Teacher’s daughter to teacher (discreetly of course) “Mom, can you please fail [Mesquite_girl24]”
Teacher to Teacher’s daughter- “Well honey…(pulled her aside and no idea what was said next)”
I should mention that i got a really low grade on that test when i studied for like 2 hrs for it (and it was english!!!).</p>
<p>LKei: Uh, she gave you the identities, so you guys could easily have gone home and memorized them. Identities don’t really require explanation – although it is nice to know how they are derived and knowing that may help in remembering them, they’re pretty straightforward. You just… memorize them.</p>
<p>yeah my APUSH teacher makes fun of me every day. Its become AP Pick on “Miss Peterson” class. One that stands out is “Miss Peterson your voice is like ice picks in my ear”</p>
<p>sophomore year, my former super Christian pre-ap (no ap was offered) world history teacher was pretty obnoxious. thankfully due to a scheduling error i was transferred to the more sensible pre-ap world history teacher’s class early in the year
according to her teaching, hindus are polytheistic ritualistic pagans who recited “magic spells” (read: prayers) from sacred texts. they are, in fact, monotheistic, and not polytheistic or pantheistic. and they are about as “ritualistic” as any other religious group is - they have religious sacraments, holidays, and worship practices like all other religions. and frankly, it was disrespectful to call another religion’s prayers as “magic spells” when she referred to her own as “prayers”.
the same teacher, in a discussion about my religious denomination, made some glaringly false statements about my beliefs. when I politely corrected her, she wouldn’t listen and asked to speak with me after class. for about 20 minutes after school, we had a heartfelt discussion (read: very close to heated argument) over what adherents of MY religious denomination believed, and she got upset with me for correcting her. and unfortunately this was a major test topic on our midterm and final, and as department chair, SHE had to correct it for the whole department’s tests, which she wouldn’t. later on, the teacher whose class i transferred to let me answer the questions on that topic honestly instead of just putting down the lies that were on the answer key and still gave me full credit, although she was still obligated to preserve the original test questions and answers for the rest of the class.
the same teacher had strong political inclinations as (surprise!) a hardcore democrat, and wasn’t too happy with those who didn’t side with her, even though she was a self-proclaimed social conservative. lucky for her, one of the most outspoken republicans i’ll ever know was in that class, and their debates were really entertaining
the same teacher talked condescendingly about other religions and even other Christian denominations. she also appeared to be racist at times.
this woman is half the reason I never took AP Euro - she was the only teacher. Thank goodness, she’s retired, so I might take the class senior year.</p>
<p>Before class had started for the year, when he had found out I was going to be taking Chemistry he told me NOT to take it, and that I WOULD FAIL.</p>
<p>Anyway, when I showed up for class, he spent half the lesson lecturing me that I would not be able to handle it.</p>
<p>I took Chemistry nonetheless, and he CONTACTED THE COLLEGES TO WHICH I APPLIED AND TOLD THEM THAT I WAS GOING TO FAIL.</p>
<p>I ended up getting the third highest grade in my class, and now I’m in my gap year after being rejected by all the colleges.</p>
<p>my teacher told me I would get an F in her class for so much "socializing within the lab sessions " (I talked a lot within the lab team) and she made like a 5 minute mini-speech on how those who talk a lot get Fs usually.</p>
LKei: Uh, she gave you the identities, so you guys could easily have gone home and memorized them. Identities don’t really require explanation – although it is nice to know how they are derived and knowing that may help in remembering them, they’re pretty straightforward. You just… memorize them.
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<p>I’m sorry I’m not a ****ing genius and can’t figure out problems without any explanation on how they work? </p>
<p>No, they’re not just something that can be just be memorized and used perfectly in this case without practice and explanation. I did memorize them, by the way, as did a lot of the others. Memorization is the simplest possible thing for me to do. </p>
<p>Thanks for the inappropriate assumption and implying that I’m a lazy whiny *****. </p>
<p>And if the problems were that ****ing simple, then why would an entire class of honor roll students not be able to work them without explanation? </p>
<p>I’m not a math genius. Math doesn’t click in my head. I need teachers to actually teach me things. And apparently so do all the other students in my math class.</p>
<p>“IF YOU ARE TOO GOOD FOR THIS CLASS, I CAN GET YOU IN THE LIBRARY DOING AN INDEPENDENT STUDY LIKE THAT (SNAPS FINGERS).” -Current APUSH teacher
This was a response to my question: "Do you want me to go ahead (I was clicking a powerpoint for her)</p>
<p>She then proceeded to make me stay after class, then she called my mom.
She pretty much said that she was “sorry” and that she can deal with crack addicts easily, but has never had a student as smart as I am (she taught in an inner city school for 2 years before she came here 2 year ago). She also told my mom that she thought I hated her (I always had a 5 minute conversation with her before class about history and politics; She WAS my favorite this year (now I hate them all XD).</p>
<p>It pretty much blew over, but I still don’t know how she misjudged me so completely.
(She has a tendency to be REALLY moody, especially if she has any problems at home)</p>
<p>It really sucks though because history is my favorite subject :(</p>
<p>1.) He did imply that I was whiny by seeming condescending towards by saying that “identities just need to be memorized,” which implies that I’m being whiny by not understanding something that “my teacher shouldn’t have to teacher me because it’s easy” and that “I’m just being bratty because I don’t get the “easy” stuff”</p>
<p>2.) Second, “identities don’t require explanations” was the inappropriate assumption I was referring to. If the entire class doesn’t understand it, then it requires an explanation.</p>
<p>3.) Lazy was implied because it read “easily gone home and memorized” as if my entire class and I are lazy students.</p>
<p>4.) I’m sorry if I come off as “defensive,” but I don’t appreciate people insulting me when they know nothing but the details I’ve given them from an short anecdote. Maybe poseur didn’t mean for it to be insulting, but that was definitely the tone I got from the way the reply was written. </p>
<p>5.) Why did you attempt to validate “whiny” with that sentence in the first place? That was a defensively sarcastic remark, not a “BOO HOO, you’re mean! -cries-” response. He made an inappropriate assumption based on very little knowledge and implied that I was too lazy to memorize the identities and being whiny about my teacher when it was actually “my fault.” Where was the “boo hoo whiny whiny” part?</p>
