<p>Like everyone else, I have always had bad teachers; that math teacher who can't work a calculator, the English teacher who can't spell, and a foreign language teacher that would flunk their own tests. However, in all of these cases, I have managed to get along just fine by studying on my own and just acing the tests. With my AP gove teacher however, this just doesn't seem like an option.</p>
<p>The problem is two fold. first of all, in a month and a half of school, she has failed to teach us ONE thing in class. That is no exaggeration. Every day we go in, she starts spewing off random election '08 stuff, and when the bell rings, she just says "woops, sorry class, we'll cover this tomorrow." I have tried confronting her on this and she vows she will try to improve, but I have as much faith in her as Hitler.</p>
<p>The bigger problem however are her tests. She somehow has this idea that the AP curriculum was built out of our textbook, so EVERY fact in it is fair game. All of our test to date have been multiple choice complete the sentence...where the sentence is an exact quote from the book. Now this format isn't flawed in of itself, but she chooses quotes that have nothing to do with the topic as a whole to test that we read and remembered the ENTIRE chapter. She thinks just knowing main ideas is pointless. Needless to say, my average grade on these tests is a sixty something, and I'm setting the curve for the class. Oh wait, she refuses to curve our grades though...</p>
<p>Even with all other work considered, I would be lucky to pull a grade in the 80s out of this class. My grades are typically 97+, I have never received a grade under a 90, and this failure of a teacher is going to give me an 80. I have tried reasoning with her to fix her course but she just things I'm being lazy and trying to avoid work. Strange given how I have the experience with a half dozen AP classes and she has never taught the class before. </p>
<p>So given all this, I've been considering dropping the class. With college admissions coming up, I'm thinking that seeing a 100 in a regents class might look better than an 80 in an AP class. I can switch because there is a regular class at the same time as my current one, but I'm a little afraid an admissions board may frown upon me switching out of an AP class as they have no way of knowing my predicament. So oh knowledgeable residents of CC, should I take the brunt of failure, or run out with some dignity and sanity in tact?</p>