What Kind of Relationship Do You Have with Your Teachers?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>i go to an absolutely tiny, minuscule school so all my teachers know my name. but here's a little indepth list:</p>

<p>apush - had him in 9th grade, also advisor to mock trial. loved him in 9th grade (my favorite teacher back then), hated him when he didn't let me be a lawyer again in 10th grade, still hate him now because he favors students. but i'm the best student in his class so i don't know if he hates me, i just know that he doesn't think as highly of me anymore.</p>

<p>ap bio - first year i've had her class, she's boring as hell but i always come to extra help for clarification and she loves this. i need a rec from her next year so i'm trying my best to suck up. i think i'm in the top 5 or 10% in her class so she doesn't hate me.</p>

<p>ap calc bc - i HATE this man. he clearly hated me last year, didn't think i was capable of taking calc as a sophomore, but i proved him wrong. he loves making fun of people, i don't let him make fun of me so he's a little irritated by that, poor old man. i don't think much of him because i don't need a rec from him next year.</p>

<p>french - liked her in 9th and 10th grade, hate her this year because she favors other kids. she doesn't teach, i've grown to dislike french (which i passionately LOVED in middle school) she just wants to watch movies and not have to teach us all day. she's frustrated at our large class size, and can't understand why we can't comprehend this just by only reading the textbook. little does she know that it takes many exposure of a single concept for a student to fully comprehend something. she's an idiot.</p>

<p>eng - she's a terrible teacher, i'm always sarcastic to her but i'm a good writer so she can't hate me too much.</p>

<p>art - the teacher's a psycho, but she generally likes me.</p>

<p>by far, my favorite teacher of all time was my 8th grade english teacher - she actually understood me to be a mature student and she was even about to share some of her own writing with me but didn't (for some strange reason). she's the one who inspired me to keep on writing poems and even suggested i publish them (which i'd never do because i don't believe in publishing & getting money for writing poems).</p>

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<p>I like most of my teachers. My APUSH teacher last year kept confusing me with the other black girl in the class (there were actually three of us in total, but the third one was so loud and dynamic, maybe, you couldn't mix her up with anyone else). That was annoying, but I know the guy actually likes me, and he's my Quiz Team coach this year. He never tells me anything but he tells my sister that he really liked this or that paper I wrote or that he'll turn me into a champ.</p>

<p>I probably have the best relationship with my Art History and French teachers. I'm the best student in both of those classes, and one of the best in my AH teacher's career. So they'll tell me that they're proud of me. I like my AH teacher much better though because French class sucks and the only reason I'm any good at the language is because I practice on my own.</p>

<p>I know my Chem teacher and math teacher like me. My math teacher let me into a class I shouldn't really be in (Calc BC) and thinks I'm sort of capable, which amazes and astounds me. My Chem teacher probably likes me because he likes my sister, but everyone adores him. He's fantastic.</p>

<p>Most of my other teachers probably don't care either way. My English teacher probably barely knows the names of people in the class, but she's an alcoholic and a ditz, so who cares? My music teacher is one exception, but I've had him for 5 years now, so he has to like me.</p>

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<p>There are some teachers that I just plain avoid cause they are extremely
1. Stupid
2. Angry</p>

<p>My band director is THE COOLEST guy on earth. I talk to him sometimes.
Its rather ironic, the teachers I know the best I have never had because of E-C activies.</p>

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<p>I'm friendly with most of my teachers. My French, Spanish, History, and Business teachers from the past two or three years, I would consider them as friends. Though, there are a few who think that I'm a total nut job and am completely off the wall, just a few, though.</p>

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I've had teachers I've never had come up to me and say things like "Oh hey ______, I was just talking about you with teacher X about this one thing you did blah blah blah."

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<p>Haha. </p>

<p>Once, my biology teacher saw me in the hall way and said "Hey, we were actually just talking about you!!" </p>

<p>Another time, I went to my history teacher to ask him for a recommendation letter in the history workroom. And when I walked in there, this other history teacher, who I didn't even know the name of, said "So this is ____________? Ah, it's very nice to meet you."</p>

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<p>My teachers are okay.. I feel like I had much better relationships with them last year when I was a freshman. This year, there are seniors in all of my classes so I'm kind of in the background.</p>

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<p>i usually have really good relationships with my teachers-especially my APUS and AP Lang teachersfrom last year. I'm actually going out to lunch with those two tomorrow along with my 3 best friends...we're friends on facebook and text a lot too haha it sounds weird but theyre like 30 and so funny hahaha i'm gonna miss them when i go to college :(</p>

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<p>my school is really small and it's in a small town/area... so you end up having the same teachers every year in some subjects, and you get to know them really well in & out of class. they get really involved in your personal life (in a good way, not a creepy way) if you like them/they like you.... for example, if they've noticed something's off about you, they'll have you stay after class or whatever to talk about it.
my french teacher once stopped me at work and gave me this whole lecture on how i was working too much blah blah blah. she ended up being right haha. and my history teacher/lax coach is always telling me i'm too hard on myself. my spanish teacher... oh god! he's so hilarious. our class has been together for a long time now, so we're all really comfortable together, and he always makes these jokes that are like did he REALLY just say that?!?!? in a good/funny way.
anyway, overall, i'm really close with all my teachers. except math and science.... science because i've had a different teacher every year, and math because... well, that woman just hates my guts. which is good, because i hate her right back. ughhh. it makes me mad just thinking about it haha.</p>

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<p>It's actually creeping me out a little bit.
I have bio right after lunch so I go in there when I'm finished eating because all of my friends go to writers guild <em>shudders</em>. All of the science teachers hang out in there and talk. Now every time I walk in one of them will refer to me as "hey, it's the smart girl".</p>

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<p>AP Calc: Likes me. Offered to give me rides to her house when she found out my car was dead. Treats us like adults in class (we control what we learn and we're allowed to order takeout/change class meeting times). I told her first about my college scholarship, because she was upset the other kids in my class told our old math teacher before her.</p>

<p>AP Physics: Kind of a creeper/ass, but seems to enjoy my snarkiness. I think if he wasn't my teacher, we'd tease each other goodnaturedly and have lots of jokes and fun, bur since he is I have to hate him a little bit.</p>

<p>AP English: Thinks I'm gods gift to literary analysis (HAH. I just know how to read.). Calls on me when rest of class is stumped. I talk to her after class about literary things/college applications sometimes. She calls me by my full name (Megan) because it sounds more proper than my nickname (Meg).</p>

<p>Bioethics: Thinks I'm smart and nice. I don't talk to her a lot outside of class, but I have. She sometimes teases me on my organization (or lack therof), and relies on me for the biotech parts of bioethics.</p>

<p>Art: I talk to her after class. She likes to gossip with me, which can be fun but is also awkward sometimes. We share a love of television, pumpkin spice lattes, neat workspace, and Obama. I'll talk to her about my physics teacher.</p>

<p>Dean of Students: Really likes me and thinks I'm an angel (which I kind of am). We don't talk much, but she'll sometimes drag me into her office to try and get me to narc on people. (Which I don't because I'm genuinely clueless.) When I had detention this fall, she said it was a travesty and let me do her job for a period while she ran errands. Made an exception for my parking pass.</p>

<p>Academic Dean: Thinks I'm depressed. I like her to think this, so I sometimes mope by her office. </p>

<p>I'm really cool with most of my teachers and feel comfortable conversing with them with two exceptions: </p>

<p>1) Freshman year history teacher who now thinks I play some kind of sport. (I never have) Whenever I see him around, he asks me when the big game is. I tell him that it's not for a while, but that we're practicing hard for it. I don't want to embarass him.</p>

<p>2)Junior year spanish teacher who thinks I'm a slacker. I don't know why she hates me so much, but she does. We exchange tight "hola"s when we pass each other in the halls.</p>

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<p>Let's see...I might as well go full out like everyone else since I started this thread.</p>

<p>Band Director- Thinks I'm God's gift to the world of tuba, regardless of the fact I hardly practice. He's an odd one. I'm not sure what to think about him, but I do well. He likes me well enough to nominate me for the good positions. </p>

<p>Latin- Cool guy. I talk to him about crap I'm trying to work out. He's a genius with editting writing, and loves mine...I guess I'm a good writer? I come in and tell him I hate my latest piece and he has this shocked look when he's done reading, wondering why I'd ever hate it.</p>

<p>Alg. II- Doesn't like me. He thinks I'm a slacker. I don't like him. The feeling is mutual.</p>

<p>Debate Coach- She's alright. I hate her thematics. She doesn't like me much- I don't work hard enough, nor do our personalities mesh well. I get by. </p>

<p>History- I don't really like her. I'm not sure what she thinks about me.</p>

<p>English- She likes me well enough. I think she's a nice enough person, crappy teacher.</p>

<p>Bio- Thinks I'm God's gift to science. Is convinced I'm going to end up in a science field. I talk to him about science and education and that's where it ends.</p>

<p>Seminary- He's hillarious. Likes the fact that I'm interested in the class. We talk out of class. I like the one I had last year better though.</p>

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<p>My relationship with my teachers is pretty good. But sometimes, you catch them on a bad day and they can be unpredictable.</p>

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<p>There are some people at my school that wish they had sexual relationships with a few of their teachers.</p>

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<p>History - Friendly relationship, just don't talk that much</p>

<p>Chem - Respectful, but I try to avoid her</p>

<p>C++ - Awesome guy, I like to chat with him</p>

<p>Algebra - No real relationship, just say hi and such</p>

<p>Latin - He knows me and thinks I am awesome, and I think he is the nicest man in the world. Period. If anyone else says so, they are dead wrong.</p>

<p>English - She's nice and I've talked to her a few times and she's really funny.</p>

<p>AP Enviro - Don't have him, but I've talked to him, and he seems like an older version of me O.o</p>

<p>MOON Coach - Thinks I am a good person, and calls me Fred since it's easier to type on the keyboard than my regular name.</p>

<p>Swim Coach - Thinks I'm a nice kid who works hard.</p>

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<p>Chinese - nicest person on the planet; really likes me and is always nice. When I tell her I think I failed our last test, she tells me I did really well in Chinese or something like that lol :D </p>

<p>Spanish - I strongly dislike her, and I don't think she's all that fond of me, but she's a lot nicer to me than I am to her (well in my head anyway, I'm polite and all in person :D )</p>

<p>Physics - thinks I'm totally insane, I'm sure. Smart, because I do way better than anyone else in the class on tests, but still insane. Whatever...cool teacher, though. </p>

<p>Math - thinks I talk a lot. Because I do, in math class (both in terms of answering questions that he asks and talking to my friends :) ) </p>

<p>English - really likes me and my writing. Way nicer to me than I deserve. That's okay. :D </p>

<p>APUSH - really awesome teacher. I think he likes me well enough?</p>