<p>What are your experiences with tough teachers? Not the kind that are strict but good, but the kind that grade ridiculously harshly and make your life unnecessarily difficult because they can. </p>
<p>My buff: </p>
<p>I was recently given a 5 question, high-difficulty quiz in Advanced Chemistry and received a whopping grade of a 40 (the lowest I have received on any quiz by far). </p>
<p>Had I come in unprepared I would brush this off, but having studied for hours only to find that many questions were barely intelligible or relied on prior knowledge of the subject, it really ticks me off!</p>
<p>Now at my school all of the department teachers must act as one nincompoop, mutually sharing ideas on how to make quizzes unnecessarily difficult. I refer to this as the Communism within our school system, in which everyone gets an equally crappy academic experience. Basically, it only takes one stick in the mud of a teacher for the entire department to take a turn for the worst.</p>
<p>Also from this grading department:</p>
<p>5 is not the correct answer. The answer was 5.0</p>
<p>Anyways.... please feel free to share your experiences with tough teachers so we can lament together! lol</p>
<p>Lol say what?</p>
<p>But haha yeah that is not meant literally. Analogy fan right here man! XD</p>
<p>U can’t argue with him/her; u shud try to kiss up.</p>
<p>Indeed Morpheus…but kissing up proves difficult in math and science courses. lol</p>
<p>awh, i’ve never met any mean teachers… (: i generally talk to them a lot and “kiss up” i guess. i derno, i generally like all my teachers and talk to them a lot.</p>
<p>the meanest i’ve SEEN is where this girl had a 89.9 in her math class and she asked the teacher to make it an a, and the teacher just said, “no.” didn’t even look at her. iono, prolly not the toughest, maybe i’ve just had good luck with teachers?</p>
<p>Yes that is true katie393, but for me math/science courses are generally the easiest 
or u could just try to seem smart by saying big words? lol. alot of kids i know do this and manage to get good grades.</p>
<p>Lullies- I’m glad you’ve had lots of great teachers! I have too, and they generally outweigh the tough ones who are in the mix. I feel so bad for that poor girl! Thankfully an 89.5 is automatically bumped here lol. </p>
<p>Morpheus- Haha that must be nice! I’m definitely the opposite… and math/science is not too easy to fudge.</p>
<p>Katie,</p>
<p>I understand how frustrating it is to have teachers like that. It seems like many of them used to love their jobs, but being around teenagers so much drives them a little crazy. A few loud/rude/obnoxious teens can ruin it for everyone else. A lot of my teachers are quick to accuse of cheating, unsympathetic with anything their students are going through or simply don’t care anymore.</p>
<p>Unlike at your school, however, the teachers at mine are more self-concerned. The past two weeks, with all the AP tests going on, teachers continued to assign huge projects and tests and reading assignments despite the fact that we were all frantically going through study guides and skimping on sleep. The days I was gone for testing, the teachers covered a ton of material (even though there were like only 5 or 6 people in class) and you have no idea how stressed I am trying to make up all the work I missed! Ugh, and a lot of my grades seem to have fallen dramatically and we only have like 2 weeks left of school :(</p>
<p>I guess that’s what you get with subpar public schooling :/</p>
<p>“many questions … relied on prior knowledge of the subject, it really ticks me off!”</p>
<p>What now?</p>
<p>@kcdecember</p>
<p>Definitely know the feeling!
Most of my teachers paid little attention to AP exams, assigning away to get in the ridiculous amount of tests the district requires every grading period.
I’m still trying to make up for lost time in some subjects. I probably have averaged 5 and a half hours of sleep per day the past few weeks, if that. It’s exhausting! I just can’t wait for June to roll around…</p>
<p>@OtherWindow</p>
<p>Well I suppose all I can do now is keep studying and hope for the best!</p>
<p>well their was this one time i had a racist teacher and she hated me and never actually had anything good to tell me. she was the ugly Ms. i cant find a man type of woman, and no matter how big the top or shirt she wears her belly always leaks out somehow. if u guys only knew what i told her u would know why i failed :/</p>
<p>My 9th and 10th grade math teacher (same one) hated everyone who wasnt good at math. First of all she was mad at the middle schools for not weeding out the kids who were not ready for gifted math. In 9th grade we had like 120 kids (about 1/3 of the class) on the “accelerated track”, meaning they were supposed to take AP Calc senior year. She didnt care much for ppl who had trouble in her class, and she yelled at us collectively whenever we didnt do well as a whole on a quiz or test. Then again, we did talk alot during class lol. BUt the kids who struggled alot, she just figured they weren’t supposed to be in that class (in reality they werent, but the teacher should still help them). She even laughed at one of my female friends when she failed a test. And when people would drop out of her class and go to regular math, she would talk to us about how they had no future and they would all be failures. (One kid even walked in while she was talking about him. He had forgotten his hat in there the other day lol)</p>
<p>I will be a senior in August, and only 30 of the original 120 (including me) have survived the accelerated curriculum without dropping out to the regular math curriculum.</p>
<p>I am a good math student so she loved me. :D</p>