<p>Okay, so I had a pretty big incident today. My pre-calc teacher has got to be one of the worst teachers I've ever encountered. So far we've been through one-third of one chapter out of 30 in our text book. At this rate we'll be done 1/10 of the text book by the end of the year. My friend and I sit in the back of the room and work ahead an occasionally ask each other questions and my teacher is terribly perturbed about it. One day however, my vice principal came into our room to do a teacher observation so I asked all the people around me to ask lots and lots of hard questions to prove that my teacher couldn't teach at all. Unfortunately though, I couldn't think of any hard questions and she ended up doing okay. </p>
<p>So a couple days ago, for no reason, my teacher in the middle of class screamed at me and told me I needed to move to the desk in the front of the room. I begrudgingly did so and was pretty infuriated that I was treated so poorly, so my mom, who is a teacher at my school, emailed her to ask her about what went down. </p>
<p>Instead of being reasonably friendly, she replied back that I ruined her evaluation by asking beligerent questions and encouraging others to do so as well in an attempt to make her look bad and she was horrified with my behavior. Seriously, she didn't even do to horribly in class and she's a bad teacher regardless. It's her own fault if she does badly in an evaluation.</p>
<p>So anyway, I'm stuck because my teacher wants to rip my face off and is absolutely out to get me now. Would it look horrible if, despite having A+s in all of my maths, I moved down to regular pre-calc instead of honors. I don't think I can put up with this teacher any more. It's kind of ridiculous to blame a student for her poor performance and I don't want to remain in her class anymore. What should I do?</p>
<p>Is that the only class offered at your school? I think a better way to phrase the question is…is she the only PreCalc teacher? If not, just switch classes. If she is, STAY IN THE CLASS. This is just a lesson that will definitely pop up later on in life…dealing with unreasonable people. As long as your grades are not effected, (I know some teachers who gives 85s just because they don’t like a particular student), then stick through it.</p>
<p>Haha, well she was pretty much right, wasn’t she?</p>
<p>If you’re not having too much trouble with math, I’d say just stick it out till the end. Study on your own time (you learn more), get that A, and try not to let an inadequate teacher ruin your potential for knowledge.</p>
<p>Learning precalc is pretty much just reading a concept in a book and applying it to problems in different ways. If you get stuck on something, ask the people around you. It’s a testament to the teacher’s incompetency that she would feel angry at being asked questions.</p>
<p>I also have a terrible precalc teacher who is really bad at teaching and marks me down on (the absurdly difficult) tests for ridiculous things, what should I do? I seriously doubt I’ll get higher than a B in the class. It would be great if I could just take the course online or something, though I doubt I could. I just don’t want to have this teacher.</p>
<p>Sounds like you get what you deserved. Your a ***<strong><em>bag who tried to make a teacher look bad. You *</em></strong> with people, they **** back. Life lesson learned.</p>
<p>If you thought she was a bad teacher, you should have just addressed the principal privately about your complaints. Don’t try and purposely make her look bad in class, it’s not only arrogant but dangerous because she can catch onto it, and she obviously did. You will have to deal with the consequences of your actions.</p>
<p>Nothing in pre-cal helped me in calculus. All I remember was probability and sequences. Complete waste of a year. However, I did learn trig in alg II.</p>
<p>The reason why the principal came to observe was because about 12 students complained about the pace of the class. I thought I was doing the principal a favor by helping to facilitate her poor teaching. And I have an A+ in the class. The reason why I can’t stand it is because we’ve done exactly 1/3 or one chapter in a 30 chapter book and it’s October.</p>
<p>Dude, you gotta relax… lots of teachers have different methods of teaching, your teacher probably wants to stress the basics so that everyone has it down. Just because she’s going slow doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a plan for the rest of the year, perhaps she is going to skip a few unnecesary chapters and speed through a few other ones. As long as what you’re doing is PRE-CALC and what you’re learning is PRE-CALC then I really don’t see the problem here. Teachers are people too, you gotta respect them…</p>
<p>This teacher is notorious for doing nothing. My sister had her for freshman geometry and they finished 3 chapters by the end of the year. The academic dean promised me that I would never have to have her, and here I am in this class again. The issue with what we’re doing is that last year I took Algebra II/Trig and this year I’m taking pre-calc. We’ve only learned SOHCAHTOA and the unit circle, stuff we learned at the beginning of last year. This teacher is not going to pick up the pace unless her job is put in jeopardy. I didn’t do anything wrong when I asked a lot of questions. It’s perfectly reasonable for a student to ask questions in class and if the teacher can’t answer questions within the scope of the course regularly then they aren’t doing a good job teaching.</p>
<p>Here’s an idea: Some schools have a rarely-used “independent study” option that basically lets you design your own class, find your own teacher (or teach yourself), etc. Check with your counseling office. If they have that option, they’ll usually have you fill out an “independent study” form saying what you plan on learning, how you will be tested, etc, and, in essence, create your own class. You also could get together with others who hate the teacher and all go in this class at once. If successful, you and everyone else could probably then do a schedule change, freeing your current math period and allocating that period to your independent class.</p>
<p>This is just an idea, but try it. It may work.</p>