<p>This is not my original username. I have a more prolific one on this site(with lots of posts) but I think anonymity is better for everyone in this case. </p>
<p>I usually never make threads but I want to hear the general CC opinion on this one. </p>
<p>As a long story short, my Pre-Calculus teacher is the most incompetent teacher I have ever suffered through in my life. </p>
<p>She is probably teaching over thirty years or so, and is probably the oldest teacher in the math department. She is most likely retiring after this year and right now, could not care less about what goes on in the class. Our school math educational system is a series of pass/fail tests which tests key concepts and this counts for about 40% of our grade. These tests require a 85% or better for a pass and by this time, we have taken about 40 of these tests. </p>
<p>The rest of our grade comes from a 35% chapter tests category, 10% Homework category, and a 15% finals category. </p>
<p>The problem is that we have about five days left in the semester(ends on Thursday) and she has graded only about half of these pass/fail tests. The concept of this system is that, should we fail to pass with a 85% or higher, we are to retake the test three more times until mastery is achieved. Right now however, we cannot retake the tests since she has not graded half of the these tests in the first place. </p>
<p>So today, on a Saturday, there was an option to come to school to retake the remaining makeup tests... without even knowing what we got on the first version of the test. She showed up to school about an hour late without any of the make ups, and for three or so hours today, she created on the spot only about four or five of these tests for us to take. Then she announced that she was only staying for about thirty minutes after twelve and we were more or less forced out. </p>
<p>Most of the time in class, she makes us do a few problems she had written up on the board and perhaps spends half the class time playing solitaire or freecell on her computer. Then we may go over a few problems or ask a few problems about the homework for the remainder of the period. We get a lecture on the course material once or twice a week if lucky, and seldom past that. </p>
<p>We have only had two chapter tests because, we could only advanced two chapters in the course of an entire semester. Though 35% of our grade, she had put wrong answers on our first test and lowered everyone's test score by about 10%. This was only corrected when a student was able to challenge the results.</p>
<p>Now the semester grades are due, we don't even know if we failed or passed the tests we took, and are denied the right to retake these tests as mandated by our curriculum...</p>
<p>I really don't know what to do at this point. I don't want to have anyone fired but I or most of my classmates won't take this lying down. I am considering sending a much formal version of this post up to the administration. </p>
<p>If the teacher is incompetent and failed to provide the basic education mandated by the curriculum, can we have the grade we get in the class invalidated? </p>
<p>I want to hear the CC's take on this situation.</p>