<p>I have tried many time to get my junior english teacher to send my eval to west point. So almost 2 weeks past the deadline, I ask my senior english teacher to write a rec, b/c my junior one is being painfully slow. He does not teach at my school anymore, so the only way i can contact him is through email; he almost never responds to my email, as many other students experience the same thing. So my senior english teacher, just trying to understand what's going on decides to send my junior teacher an email regarding about the situation. That's probably what set my junior teacher off, and he wrote me this angry letter:
"Okay, you have finally pushed me over the edge. Evidently the English
language is a mystery to you because I have already told you that I
would mail the letter before the school's deadlinenot yours! Your
harassment and self-centeredness belies a attitude one would expect from a
student wishing to be a part of the armed forces.</p>
<p>Since you want the letter so badly I will advise West Point of the same
information I have just written you"</p>
<p>Can anyone advise me on what to do? Apparently, no one would have perdicted his level of anger. I've already sent a letter to west pt admin and west pt contact, warning them the situation. I've also asked them to disgard my junior teacher's recommendation if he even bothers to send it out. If he decides to send his rage to Naval Academy, since he already sent my eval in, should I warn them about the situation? should I tell them to disgard my english evaluation, and risk delay in my admin status, as u all know it's a rolling admission. My impression is, he was pretty positive about me before the letter. The last time he went to visit my school to collect rec, he seems happy to see me. Also, how bad do u think his letter would affect my west pt admission or even possibly my naval one?</p>
<p>Wow, what a d--k! I'm afraid I don't know specifically about the service acadamies these days. I'm from a military family with many people who went to service acadamies in the past, though. (current kid would have loved to have gone but don't think she would have passed physical due to knee surgery/problems; got a solicitation letter today from West Point and was flattered.)</p>
<p>If you were my kid, here is what I would recommend: Don't mention anything now to USNA. Made sure you get your new recommender to send in the letter pronto. I would then call USNA, say every two weeks or so "just to see how the material collection is going." If the nasty gram arrives you can send the copy of the e-mail you noted here. In addition I would re-contact him and profusely appologize for offending him. Say you realize that he has ethical issues with the service academies and are now recinding your request based on his preferences. I would also make a point to let the people at your school, your school district and your school board know about what this guy said to you. Get your parents involved if necessary. Perhaps your school counselor can prepare an adendum to your counselor letter alterting the service academy to problems with this former teacher if the nasty gram actually arrives (which I doubt, he's probaly a lazy sob.)</p>
<p>My kid had (almost) a similar issue as a teacher she really wanted a rec from left the school. This situation needs to be handled delicately. The teacher really has no obligation to write a letter for you. After this teacher agreed to write the letter, we were unable to contact her for many months. After two attempts we gave up and asked a different teacher. Wouldn't you know it, the old teacher popped back and appologized for not writing the leter and then got it out pronto.</p>
<p>Good Luck!! We need great people at the academies now more than ever.</p>
<p>"Your harassment and self-centeredness belies a attitude one would expect from a student wishing to be a part of the armed forces."
I think that would pretty much make a conclusion about the writter in my mind. You might want to watch the data collection. If a nasty rec arrives, send that e-mail and a 3rd party opinion of said teacher's attitudes and that you are not as bad as he made you out to be. I'm not exactly sure if that's the "correct" thing to do, but it is what I would do.</p>
<p>Make sure your other recs do not think like that!</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advises
This is more about my West Pt. Rec, but he also wrote my USNA one a long time ago before his outburst, in fact, he seemed positive to write me one. So should I inform the admission board about this situation, just in case he decides to attack me not only on West Point, but USNA too.</p>
<p>I really think it is funny how he thinks this is harassment and self-centeredness and is not common among military personnel. An officer's role is to keep on top of things and make sure they get carried out. If you weren't annoying the heck out of him, then I would say you were doing your job, just like an officer would be expected to do. </p>
<p>Did you ever try to explain to him the importance of getting the application in early?</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry too much about one crazy teacher. The folks in admissions are human (imagine that?) and they should be able to spot the anomaly. If it were to become an issue, I would suspect the WP Admissions Director of your region would call to clarify.</p>
<p>"Did you ever try to explain to him the importance of getting the application in early?"
Yes, I reminded him multiple times. both in email and when he does his once a month visit to school.</p>