<p>I've always been curious about this - maybe because I personally fail at kissing up. I'm the type of overachieving student that teachers either love or hate. As my friend puts it, some teachers will think highly of me due to the vast amounts of effort I put into all my work regardless of whether the subject's easy or not, and others will think I'm annoying for it.</p>
<p>According to my mother, I've also got a "dumb mouth," meaning that I cannot speak prettily for the life of me.</p>
<p>I guess this could just be a general discussion about being the favorite, what you love/hate about teachers who pick favorites, and how you manage to be the favorite. Any benefits to being a favorite for you?</p>
<p>I guess you can be a teachers favorite by getting good grades, I think thats the first big thing. Past that, you could be engaging during class, help her out pass out stuff, pay attention, etc. </p>
<p>My English teacher plays BIIIIIGGG favorites. It sucks because those kids get As all the time. Not that they're not good writers, but the mindset the my teacher has reading their essays obviously help. But a good thing about that is when we do group work, if you pair yourself with one of her favorites, you're are nearly guarenteed an A on that assignment. </p>
<p>Actually, I think almost ALL teachers play favorites to some degree or another. Even math teachers can. I was one of my math teacher's favorites and one time, I wrote the wrong answer on a test because I copied the problem down wrong. But she still gave me full credit. Another time I copied the wrong answer to the blank from my work, and she still gave me full credit. </p>
<p>My current chem teacher really likes me, which is good because one time I forgot to divide by 4 on this problem on a test that I came in early to take because I missed it and she let me change my answer. But the bad side of it all is that she expects me to know the answer to everything, even if we didn't learn it yet. One time she said "[my name], I can make mistakes, but you can't." Which can get annoying.</p>
<p>Being the favorite has its obvious benefits.. hah. It's especially helpful when you want to get rounded up from a B+ to an A- or something like that. Where I live, a 93 is an A- and a 92 is a B+ and I always have like a 90-91 and manage to get away with an A-. I guess it's pretty easy to stand out at my school, just be interested in the class and work your tail off, no matter if you're getting a 100 or an 82.</p>
<p>It's good to be a favorite at your classmates expense:) I just can't bring myself to sucking up:( Stupid physics teacher that lets non high achieving kids that make him feel cool throwing around profanity and innuendo without repercussions but reprimands everyone else:(</p>
<p>^^ I agree. My friend and I all of a sudden became friends with our AP Lang. teacher/CAP counselor and our US History/Psychology teacher. We even have lunch with them every day in our counselor's office. We don't get better grades for it, but we do get SOME special treatment. Once I didn't turn in a project for English and she gave me an A for it because grades were due at the end of that day. All I had to do was bring it in the next day. I don't think my friend and I suck up. We just genuinely like our teachers...as teachers, and people.</p>
<p>My chem teacher marked one of the papers hollistically - and gave this guy (the teacher's pet) an A when he was supposed to get a B - all because our teacher THOUGHT that the guy COULD'VE gotten 4 questions right because she 'knew' that he was capable enough!</p>
<p>And I was like, ok can you mark mine hollistically? and she was like, 'uh no. because i know that there is no way you could've gotten the A in the test.sorry.'
Lame teacher i know.</p>
<p>i guess i just get good grades + talk a lot in class (engage in discussion, ask questions) + am really good at socializing with everyone in the class (from nerds to preps)</p>
<p>but my opinion concurrs with traxx's -- I dont get better grades from teachers, but I recieve special treatment</p>
<p>it is somewhat satisfying... they write good recs for you and love you as a person rather than as a mere "A"-seeker/overachiever since they try to get to know you better and help you out more when you need help.</p>
<p>yep being teacher's pet certainly is awesome.</p>
<p>but idk. my peers dont really care that im teachers pet. they think im an entertaining person :) so that makes up for it :D</p>
<p>I genuinely like a lot of my teachers, but I'm the type who respects from afar as opposed to trying to form friendships with them. I'm pretty shy, so it'd just seem weird if I randomly dropped by after class or during lunch to have a chat or something.</p>
<p>All my teachers have liked me, for the most part. Being the dork I am, though, I'd be pretty upset if I found out that one of those teachers gave me an A in a class that I didn't really deserve to get an A in.</p>
<p>Some people are just naturally teacher's pets, regardless of grades. What infuriates me is when those people are actually jerks outside of class.</p>
<p>Being a teacher's pet is the best thing you can do. I don't consider myself a teachers pet, consider myself as likable lol. Just get the teacher to like you and everythings good. Especially when you're worrying about the SAT and your English teacher has a special grammar book that can help you past that part of the test and takes her time out of lunch to teach you the material. Also, it helps with college recs</p>
<p>I'm not a teacher's pet, but they love me anyways. My reputation apparently precedes me, which sometimes I really hate. Sometimes I want to work for my grades and have the teachers just say "Oh, good job this time" instead of everyone assuming I get A's for sucking up (and my giant brain :D).</p>
<p>im almost the same way as demeter and agree with her about their attitudes 100%. I always have conversations with my teachers though. I am very outgoing I think. Noone thinks of me as a teachers pet (I think/hope) Everyone at my schools knows who are the teachers pets and who aren't because we are so small (~120 kids). Overall I say the kids at my school are very respectable. A lot of the teachers have their favorites and completely grade that way but I never knew one person that took advantage of that grading system.</p>
<p>karen61990 - After seeing your post in another thread (about that unfair male teacher), I now want to ask: has anyone been a teacher's pet due to factors other than good grades, sucking up, and/or good relationships with the teacher? (For example, race, gender, etc.)</p>
<p>Actually yes. In the electrical engineering class the teacher gives preference to Indian males. I know that he gets all the girls in his class so annoyed because bombards them with impossible to answer questions every minute. Once they all switch majors into civil I've heard he does the same thing to the white guys which is wierd because he is purely white.</p>
<p>I could probably be considered a teacher's pet. I don't do it on purpose, but I like to avoid conflict and I've always been taught to be respectful to other people. I do most of the busywork we get assigned because I see not point in antagonizing the teacher over something so insignificant. </p>
<p>There are perks to being liked by your teachers. I have a reputation for always coming to class, doing my work, and participating a lot. On the days that I don't come (either sick or cutting), don't have the work or don't really pay attention, teachers assume that its just a fluke and don't do anything about. In fact, I remember in 10th grade in English we read Like Water for Chocolate, and I read the book and was probably the most active participant in class discussions. However, I just didn't do the assigned questions (they were so simple I just couldn't bring myself to ruin the book by doing them). However, I was a good student otherwise and because I participated so much, my teacher knew I had read the book and didn't mark me down.</p>
<p>hmm...my english teacher is like the only one with distinct favorites...she only calls on about 7 people out of 35 and makes specific "nicknames". everyone else gets a "oh, you're raising your hand now, ___?" if they do raise their hand</p>
<p>and of course our grade is all based on subjective papers</p>
<p>Most teachers seem to like me...except my English teacher this year. I'd often come to class right before the bell rung, which he didn't like because I'd be almost late but he wouldn't get to mark me tardy :) And when I actually did come early (about half the time) he just regarded it as a fluke. But now that I've given my IB oral (which is pretty much the only thing he actually looks at) he seems to like me more.</p>