<p>Just talk about your awesome or horrible teachers.</p>
<p>So I'm doing poor in English this year. I've gotten straight B's so far. I think my english teacher is one of those who look for mistakes on your paper rather than looking at the ideas and writing style. I don't even know where she gets her grading system from. =(</p>
<p>I have this awesome pre-calc teacher who doesn't teach any fluff. He gives the facts straight and true. So far A+. =)</p>
<p>APUSH: a very sensitive teacher but with a big heart</p>
<p>Latin III honors: a very very funny British lady with life stories that are amazing (she was offered 12 camels to marry a dude in the middle east while working at an archeology site)</p>
<p>AP English Lang.: very dedicated but harsh teacher</p>
<p>Calc AB: funny teacher who has jokes that don’t make sense and has a lot of rubber chickens that are called BS chickens</p>
<p>AP Chem: doesn’t know how to teach…has a cool accent b/c he’s Egyptian</p>
<p>Journalism: doesn’t teach…</p>
<p>My Chemistry teacher- for some reason everyone thinks he was in a certain band which I wont mention… this ‘rumor’ has been going on for YEARS, though… and whenever its mentioned he gets embarrassed and moves away from the subject. He has this look where you can’t tell what age is he (gotta be somewhere between 50 and 70 lol). Married twice and his most recent one was a year ago. His daughter is about 17 and goes to a school near me but her last name must be different from his (i know someone who works there and theres no one with this last name- gives suspicion that he changed his name after his rock career) He’s weird and perverted… oddest teacher I’ve ever had</p>
<p>I usually find I have a problem with younger, “cool” teachers. Yes, they can be fun and humorous, but they are also annoying in the sense that they generally favor certain students SO badly. I’m not a suck-up so these teachers and I just don’t mesh.</p>
<p>My least favorite kinds of teachers are the ones who tell us to read the textbook and then they literally regurgitate the information to us the next day without going into any further dept/analysis. What’s the point of going to school then, if you’re not going to go beyond the textbook and challenge yourself?</p>
<p>Health: Dude knows very little about health, can’t pronounce any words bigger than 2 syllables.</p>
<p>English: She’s very passionate about English and makes English (IMO) interesting.</p>
<p>AP World: He reads out of a textbook and assigns chapters to read before a test date, then gives an impossible test on the reading. He hasn’t taught us anything about the AP Exam</p>
<p>Civics: EXTREMELY passionate about Civics, and he’s good at teaching it. Too much unnecessary work that is never finished by anyone.</p>
<p>Chemistry: Sarcastic, Funny, really great teacher, possibly a teacher who I’ll want to write my recommendation for college.</p>
<p>French: You are horrible at teaching, and I can pronounce words better than you. She spelled girls in english, with an E. She can speak neither English nor French well.</p>
<p>Algebra II: Really funny, random teacher who goes a tad too fast for most people, but the class is fun. Too many people in the class who disobey him.</p>
<p>Good/Bad:</p>
<p>History: Great guy to talk to, knowledgeable about colleges, and we tell so many jokes to each other.</p>
<p>Chemistry: Bad, can’t teach material, frustrating. But he’s nice and we talk about all these new technologies and such before/during/after class.</p>
<p>English: Best dude ever, so nice, always cares for students.</p>
<p>Math: Uptight lady, has let us be funny lately, but tests are very difficult. Unforgiving scal and curve on test (firm believe in grade deflation).</p>
<p>Spanish: Young guy who doesn’t really teach anything. Great outside of class, but when it comes to teaching, please give me somebody else…</p>
<p>History: Tall. Loves popular culture. Young. Gets the class going once the bell rings, uses up every minute, so now we have three weeks to review for the APUSH exam – yay! And he’s quite humble too.</p>
<p>Math: He takes a while to get the class going. He can teach well, but he’s lazy. Takes months for him to grade tests. Most dislike teacher for me this year, well, only because he does not accept late work. </p>
<p>Spanish: Very articulate and good at heart. She claims that she has met her soul mate in life, and tells us her stories about her marriage proposal and her family. It’s quite endearing. She’s also ranked in the top 90s in the nation for high Ap score for Ap Spanish Language. She has taught that class for nine years, then decided to quit this year. I heard that she kept the students after school til 6pm. haha devoted teacher.</p>
<p>English: Wow. She’s amazing. She’s actually an experience Ap grader for the AP lang exam, so she knows her stuff. My writing in terms of grammar & style has improved because of her. Sadly, mainly everyone in the class are writing at a 2-5 [ out of 9] level because … idk. Our school is in a working class neighborhood. </p>
<p>Bio: A pregnant hippie. Emotional yet very hardworking. She devoted most of her time this year on AP bio then any of her other classes, and even made a point to us that she neglected her two year old son on the weekend mornings just so she can make the notes for our class. =/ She can teach, and she doesn’t procrastinate. I get weird vibes that she doesn’t like me because I always ask to many questions, questions just out of my curiosity and are most likely not going to show up on the AP exam. But ehh, I can’t help it.</p>
<p>Golf Coach: Has ADHD. Always argue, it comes off being arrogant-like. He’s into current events. He picks up his son on our way to practice and I get the impression that he’s not a good father, he can’t discipline right.</p>
<p>Religious Studies: Talks all the time about fairly redundant topics. Doesn’t care if you fall asleep, though. But his class is hopelessly easy</p>
<p>Asian Studies: Treats us like we’re 5. All project class.</p>
<p>Pre Calc Honors: Teaches really quickly and doesn’t use the textbook (yay) but not very organized. Gets reaaalllly off topic (had a ten minute class discussion on bananas once)</p>
<p>Lit: Strict, but really efficient. The work isn’t easy, but it isn’t that hard either. She doens’t play favorites either (not that I know of) and always tries to help the people who need extra credit (gave ex cr to a guy for making the cake from To Kill A Mockingbird for our class. )</p>
<p>PE: Works us like crazy. But he grades the class based on the best and the worst (good thing I’m really athletic)</p>
<p>Health: A male teacher teaching female health class. Awkward like crazy, and he always seems to make us cry-turns our classes into group therapy. ADHD–talked about his wife’s pregnancy and births for the entire second class.</p>
<p>Computer Graphics: Totally plays favorites (wonder when I became a suck up). Gives away ipods and stuff for his own competitions (flash competition on the 19th. Hope I get seomthing…) btw, he gets the devices for free, because he earns a fair extra amount of money reviewing them for magazines, etc</p>
<p>Chemistry: 30 year old single male whose voice still cracks. He looks like he’s still in college, though. reads off the PPT made by the textbook makers. We all pretty much goof off because we already have the notes. He is the advisor for the Roots&Shoots Club, but he still wastes paper</p>
<p>Geometry: (Look at pre calc)</p>
<p>Band: Czech guy. I adore his dry sense of humor XD. He must hate teaching us, because he used to conduct some really pro orchestra in Europe</p>
<p>Choir: Also treats us like grade schoolers. Don’t really know what else to say about her…</p>
<p>Algebra II - a really old guy who doesn’t teach but spends class time discussing his year as a foreign exchange student in Brazil. Also, he is an insane grader. On the first test of the year he took off points because he didn’t like the way I wrote my sevens.</p>
<p>History - mean mean mean lady that spends class making jokes about Sarah Palin and then expects us to know every world event and political theories for the tests. She gave me B’s because I was not “sophisticated” because I was from a public school.</p>
<p>Chem - super hard grader, but makes the best brownies in the world.</p>
<p>French - not the best at speaking french, but she knows what was on the latest episode of Gossip Girl</p>
<p>Spanish - so short, not a good teacher, she teaches us how to swear in Spanish though</p>
<p>Algebra II: Uses the book’s powerpoint to teach us the info. I don’t need to go to the this class, but he’s an awful nice man. This is his last year.</p>
<p>English: Amazing.</p>
<p>French: Speaks French really well and won’t put up with any crap in her classroom! Nice but strict at the same time.</p>
<p>AP Euro: Gets off task a lot and it takes him a long time to explain things… I don’t need to go to this class either.</p>
<p>Chem: He is awful. Just awful. I won’t go into details right now because I don’t want to get mad right now. Maybe when I’m mad at him later though!</p>
<p>Spanish: Old. Teaches us life lessons instead of Spanish. No tests in his class, everything is subjective. No homework, just oral in class. He gives you what he thinks your grade should be. Psh. He gave me a 93% (A). I had the highest in the class.</p>
<p>Dance: Hilarious. Wakes me up every morning and she’s really cool.</p>
<p>AP Statistics: Absolutely, positively, 100,000% awful. This woman does not know statistics at all and spends more time muttering to herself “I’m not going to talk over you” than teaching. She has three cats: Proton, Neutron, and Monty Python. SO THANKFUL we have a student teacher (a stats major thank God).</p>
<p>AP Psychology: A good teacher, but we have a great class. The topic is interesting but if it wasn’t her class would be a bore. She’s very routine.</p>
<p>Honors Civics/Econ: AMAZING. I love this man. Witty, knowledgeable, and plays the devil’s advocate on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Spanish 2: The worst teacher I have ever had. I want to punch her in the face every time I see her.</p>
<p>Honors English: She’s young and can’t really control the class, but the subject is easy so that doesn’t really matter.</p>
<p>Government: Young, first year teacher, isn’t as knowledgeable as I would like, but a cool guy. Very very enthusiastic. </p>
<p>English: Nice enough, but unfortunate my class is full of idiots, so she must treat us like 6th graders. Class is a complete waste of my time.</p>
<p>Biology: Very knowledgeable, nice, but tough when she needs to be. Never ever yells at the class, still has a half smile on her face when she’s angry. Excellent at insulting certain students (when they deserve it, of course).</p>
<p>Orchestra: Crazy, passionate, crazy. Isn’t afraid to say whatever he wants to say. Scary. Funny. Deep, booming voice. </p>
<p>French: Young, definition of a fashion obsessed high maintenance twenty something, but still likeable. Forever sarcastic, making her hard to approach. Excellent french.</p>
<p>Geometry: OCD (takes points off for the most superfluous things), annoying, highly unlikable. Makes this class SO much harder than it needs to be. Everyone (and I mean everyone) hates her.</p>
<p>Programming: Not the best teacher, but makes the class a very chill environment…Very lenient, likable. </p>
<p>Health: Can barely control class, makes us do pointless book work as the other health classes are watching movies everyday.</p>
<p>AP World: So, the teacher is a psychology major. She hates history. The administration, however, decided it would be a good idea to give her three history classes to teach instead of psychology. This isn’t really her fault, but I still don’t like her. I don’t think I’m going to do very well on the test.</p>
<p>AP Spanish Lang:Native speaker, great teacher. I’m really glad to have her because she’s the only good Spanish teacher I’ve had since 7th grade.</p>
<p>Calculus: Really sarcastic sometimes, and kind of a nerd. A lot of people don’t like him but I think he’s alright. </p>
<p>Journalism: Very lazy. Gives us notes directly copied from the book, doesn’t give back work ever, doesn’t teach us anything that I couldn’t have taught myself. 100% and I don’t even do anything. Waste of a class.</p>
<p>Physics: Ohhhh boy. This guy has a doctorate in Physics and used to be a hotshot scientist researcher type of person. (I have no idea why he’s teaching a high school class now, but w/e). He knows what he’s talking about but is incapable of controlling a class. We’ve had people hang their pants from the ceiling, film a music video to “Tik Tok”, play online poker tournaments, and climb out the window during class (most of the time while he’s trying to give a lecture). Most people blatantly cheat on his exams and he doesn’t do anything about it. >.<</p>
<p>AP Lang: Ditzy. Probably not the best choice for an AP class, but not awful. Very nice, though.</p>
<p>Art: Kind of quiet and shy, but amazing artist. I’ve learned a lot in her class and am going on to AP Studio Art next year. :)</p>
<p>My History teacher is such a hippie!!! When he is lecturing, halfway during the lecture he completely changes the subject and starts talking about corporations! About how Walmart should be destroyed , about how the government sucks, …a student walked in with a McDonald’s bag and he started yelling at him and starts giving him a lecture about how Mc Donald’s is a corporation etc… lol…</p>
<p>French: Can’t speak English, unintentionally racist almost everyday, does not know how to teach well, and thinks she’s always rights.</p>
<p>AP Art History: Perfect on the surface, but she can be really scary once slightly agitated. She tries to prepare us for the AP test, but she’s not fully committed (we only did 1 long essay).</p>
<p>Chemistry H: Hilarious and knows how to teach.</p>
<p>Pre-Calc H: In in terms of teaching, I think he’s the best teacher of the school. He grades solely on tests, doesn’t make you do homework, allow us to have free time after he lectures, and doesn’t mind when people sleep in class. That may sound irresponsible, but I believe that’s how a teacher should teach - let the student decide what to do, especially honors students. Personality wise, I hate him. He hates current society and wants to go back to the 50s.</p>
<p>P.E.: irrelevant. I’m just glad he’s not strict.</p>
<p>History: … Someone replace this ultra-conservative, indoctrinating, Bush-loving, time-wasting [insert insult]</p>
<p>English: She shouldn’t teach either. She has no clue what’s good for us. She does whatever she wants and we don’t know anything useful.</p>
<p>Math: Alright. Kept calling me the wrong name at first (got me mixed up with a few other girls in my class).</p>
<p>English: Doesn’t seem to be interested in me at all… or she didn’t seem that way at our parent-teacher interview :(</p>
<p>Social studies: Shouts at the class a lot, but I think apart from his mean personality, he’s pretty openminded which is great.</p>
<p>Music: The teacher doesn’t know me well, and I’m def not her favorite. But she is really awesome and funny.</p>
<p>Health: She’s alright. But me and my friend always laugh at her haircut.</p>
<p>PE: Don’t like her after seeing her outside of school (looong story, involving her ignoring me and acting mate-y with my brother).</p>
<p>Spanish: Grades really generously, even if I haven’t studied at all I’ll get an above average mark. At times, since I’m in a class with a few slackers, she finds it hard to control the most disrespectful students.</p>
<p>Science: A little nervous about teaching us sometimes… but she’s nice enough and doesn’t favoritise the students that do crew (she’s their coach) which I like.</p>
<p>Hawaiian Hist.: He tells us about the “Hawaiian way of thinking” all the time and doesn’t mind us going on facebook in class because we have an iCart in that class. He’s not mean or anything, but a lot of people don’t like him or the class.</p>
<p>AP Eng.: He wears tie-dye every day. Shirt, socks, and shoelaces. If he isn’t, it’s Halloween or something’s really wrong. Oh, he’s pretty awesome too. I never hear bad things about the class unless we’re reading a book that nobody likes. And he drilled every single grammar rule ever written into our heads.</p>
<p>PE: Cool if you know how to make up PE points. Everyone dreads getting her, though.</p>
<p>Band: Nobody likes him because he’s new to high school and everyone’s annoyed with all the change. Used to be the middle school director. The old HS director somehow ended up way more awesome after he retired, probably because we didn’t see the angry side of him, only the cool one.</p>
<p>Satire: She seemed a lot more strict last year before I had her class. I think she likes me, so she’s cool. Haha</p>
<p>AP Psych: He can be really strict, but a great teacher if the class is paying attention and participating. Sometimes goes off on really ridiculous things, but it can be so funny.</p>
<p>Physics: He did everything. Seriously. Basically a really cool guy who probably knows a bunch of government secrets or something. He probably invented the government and helped develop the lightbulb (we said he’s secretly Tesla). He knows what he’s talking about. And he’s really nice.</p>
<p>…I realized I said “cool” a lot. I guess that’s a good thing.</p>