<p>Is it a good thing? almost all the suck-ups at my school have low grades, and hope to gain sympathy points for their D/C- borderline grades. at the same time, one of my teachers actually favor the students who "suck up", and it isnt really fair.... should i do it, for the sake of a college recommendation</p>
<p>No. Never. Better to have your dignity than to stoop to that level.</p>
<p>yea DO IT!! im not a suck up but its weird that in my last semester i was friends with 2 teachers (one of them was a retard!!)</p>
<p>^Capobach, but i feel that if i don't, my teacher isnt going to notice me, and when it comes time to teacher recs, he wouldnt know what to write</p>
<p>uhhh, or should i just do reallllly good in his class(it's gona be hard:()</p>
<p>I think there are two kinds of 'sucking up', being a nice student and being active, etc., and going overboard. For example, someone I know bought a book a teacher said she liked, read it, and then proceeded to go up to her and tell her how it was her favorite book and had been for a year +. Lol.
But honestly, if you're nice, smile, do your work, and participate, then teachers will like you. And making friendly conversation (and sometimes the teacher initiates) always helps.</p>
<p>i gotta stop being a smart-a s s, i can't help but correct every mistake my teacher makes</p>
<p>Oh man. I've encountered plenty of suck-ups. They're pretty annoying!</p>
<p>My suggestion is to converse with your teachers more often and you just might find something you guys have in common. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You don't need to suck up, but don't act like a jerk to your teacher unless they've really earned it.</p>
<p>How about being genuinely nice and genuinely interested in what the teacher is saying...? That's different from being a suck up you know... a suck up does it solely for his or her gain. A good student takes interest in the teacher because he/she really cares about how the teacher is feeling and because there is that bond of respect that goes deeper than any superficial concerns about grades, testing, etc...</p>
<p>Even if a teacher is being a jerk, there's probably a reason why... every teacher on some basic level wants to be liked and treated decently. Give the teacher space if nothing else works...</p>
<p>Edit: Never suck up to a teacher for college recs... get it from a teacher you genuinely like, and are sure they like you back.</p>
<p>My Comp Tech teacher thinks I'm awesome, so I suck up in a kind of mocking way (of actual suckups), which he finds extremely amusing .... yeah, he thinks i'm hilarious (+1).
It's really quite fun.. XD</p>
<p>suck-ups are so annoying. Don't do that. Like what has already been stated in this thread, having a friendly relationship with a teacher is much different from sucking up.</p>
<p>Just get a rec from someone who teaches a class that you have done exceptionally well in. If you really feel like it's necessary for the teacher to know you before writing a rec, then maybe you can casually converse with him/her. I do that with a couple of teachers I really like, and actually they are the two people who wrote recs for me.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between sucking up and beings friends with a teacher. One thing I can’t stand is kids that senselessly compliment their teachers just for good status. It’s much better to find a teacher you really like and start talking to them. Stay a couple minutes after class to chat about something you found interesting, or something along those lines. I have this really amiable English teacher right now, and honestly it’s a lot of fun talking to the guy. I even make fun of him because he went to BC and never saw Doug Flutie play. In my candid opinion, it’s much better to get a teacher to genuinely like you than to become another brown-noser.</p>
<p>I’m friends with almost all my teachers. And I don’t try. It just comes from naturally being nice and interested in what they’re teaching (aka pick a schedule of classes you like, and not just think would look good on your app). </p>
<p>Never b i t c h about work in class, either. Who likes people who complain? No one.</p>
<p>Doing well definitely also helps.</p>
<p>I’m really friendly with almost all my teachers, barring the ones where I do not have an interest at all. For some reason, teachers love my dry sarcasm. For example, English, Science, and Latin teachers generally like me due to my interest in the subject, while History and Math generally don’t go as well. Also, I find that teachers love when you find outside resources or talk to them about certain questions after class (as long as it’s not obvious that you are doing it for brownie points).</p>
<p>I may not be the hardest working kid in class, but showing teachers that you care is the best you can do.</p>
<p>Don’t do it…just do your work, ace tests, participate in discussions.</p>
<p>The teachers I’m closest to being friends with are ones I’ve never had in the classroom. They run ski club, so if me and my friends sit in the front of the bus, we’ll talk to them, and we might ski with them for a while. So that’s really not about sucking up.
I think it’s silly. Suck ups come across as fake. Teachers can tell when you are really, genuinely interested and when you aren’t. If I try to get a teacher to like me more or be more impressed with me, it’s because I really like that teacher and I’m really impressed with him/her.</p>
<p>I don’t suck up but I make them laugh and that seems to work pretty well.</p>