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<li><p>Useless assignments. Yep, Spanish. Brb coloring a nine page cartoon of two guys saying “Hola” and “como estas”, or spending half an hour of College Confidential chance thread stressing time on crossword puzzles instead.</p></li>
<li><p>AP teachers who love to make their tests look “just like the AP test” to “prepare us better”, and say getting a 60-70% is a GREAT grade. Sure, maybe it’s a decent grade for the AP test. But when you refuse to curve a test designed to be that hard and put grades ranging from 50-80% in, it drags our grades down a LOT. So even if we do “great”, we do awful.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers who can’t communicate. I love AP Environmental Science right now, and I like the teacher, but she really sucks at letting us know when which assignments are due, and what assignments to do in general. She piles on so many different labs and assignments. It’s impossible to keep track of.</p></li>
<li><p>AP Lang. Our teacher would take MONTHS to grade/hand back essays we wrote, but would ask us why we were still making the same mistakes that we did on older essays, when we had no chance to look back and see what we actually did wrong.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers who assign copious amounts of homework and don’t even grade it. Kids who don’t do their homework roll through classes just as easily as those who work their butts off to get the homework done.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers who COMPLAIN ABOUT HAVING TO GRADE HOMEWORK.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers who bend over backwards to allow careless idiots to get better grades with less work then the kids who clearly work hard. You know, the ones who grade the smart kids way harder than the careless ones.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers who assign groups with the reasoning that it will increase productivity. That’s stupid. Let students pick their groups. If they’re not productive, they’re not productive. I can knock out group projects MUCH faster with two or three friends than I can with three or four idiots who don’t care about their grades.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers who make seating charts in AP classes. We’re AP kids. We can sit with our friends and will get good grades if we want to get good grades. We will NOT get better grades if we’re forced to sit with others who drag is down and don’t contribute.</p></li>
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<p>i agree that seating charts in ap classes are stupid…they say it’s supposed to be a college class, then oh woops, when it comes to something that you would actually like about college, they don’t allow it. no professor assigns seats in college (from what i’ve gathered)</p>
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<li><p>When teachers hand out worksheets and expect you to not write on them. </p></li>
<li><p>My Physics teacher gives us the homework then teaches the lesson the homework is on. Not the other way around.</p></li>
<li><p>Apparently you’re a cheater if you don’t show work. </p></li>
<li><p>Perfect score on the test? You obviously cheated even though no-one else got the same score.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers don’t notice that if a student has 97s and up except for a D in their class, there’s probably something wrong.</p></li>
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<p>Teachers that give you a copy of the test and an answer sheet and won’t let you write on the test. I like to be able to cross off answers I know are wrong (if it’s multiple choice), underline parts of the question, etc. I don’t mind having a separate answer sheet but I want to write on my test sheet! Scratch paper is unacceptable to me.</p>
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<li><p>Teachers that assume everyone has a computer even in a low-wealth district, and deny credit for handwritten assignments even if students worked hard on them. </p></li>
<li><p>Teachers that make you do more lab hours than necessary (New York thing…)</p></li>
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<p>@my88keys I see that making sense at a bigger school. However, I go to a small school and most honors and AP classes are only offered once, as are most electives (this year, 4/7 of my classes are offered once, 3/7 are offered twice). So the majority of the time it doesn’t save paper since the teacher only has one section with that class! I wouldn’t be quite so angry if it was Freshmen English or World History when it would actually save paper!</p>
<p>Teachers who bend over to help a student and nonchalantly waive their rear ends in a neighboring student’s face. -_-
This is followed by notebook/binder checks. Like, seriously?</p>
<p>“2. AP teachers who love to make their tests look “just like the AP test” to “prepare us better”, and say getting a 60-70% is a GREAT grade. Sure, maybe it’s a decent grade for the AP test. But when you refuse to curve a test designed to be that hard and put grades ranging from 50-80% in, it drags our grades down a LOT. So even if we do “great”, we do awful.”</p>
<p>That’s basically our AP chem class. She said we should be proud if we get above 40% and her curves have little effect.</p>
<p>Teachers who put absolutely no effort in teaching but get upset when the class performs poorly</p>
<p>Teachers who constantly change due dates, test / quiz dates, etc. SET A SCHEDULE AND STICK TO IT G*DAMMIT</p>
<p>Teachers who compare their classes (My bio teacher does this all the time. She always tells other classes how our class always does a crappy job on tests and stuff. It’s really disheartening.)</p>
<p>Teachers who talk crap about other teachers - It’s bad enough when students talk crap about each other, but it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth when I hear teachers talk crap about other teachers. It’s petty, unprofessional, and totally uncalled for.</p>
<p>When teachers make tests that don’t equally cover the material learned (My bio teacher does this ALL THE TIME. Our tests generally cover 5 chapters, but she practically only tests on the most trivial section of 1 chapter.)</p>