<p>My worst is my AP World. She brings an entire meaning to quantity over quality. If you have more info than someone else but write it under 2 bullet pts and the other person under 3, she'll take points off of yours. And if you write answers but 1 is about 2 lines shorter than the other 2, she'll take points off too. Oh yeah not to mention when you correct and you mess up and you cross it out she'll take points off. She gave us pens to correct with (which are the only ones we can use) and when I opened up mines Idk what happened but the ink spilled everywhere and she takes points off of me for "neatness." Not to mention points off for not choosing a dark enough color to shade. I hate that teacher.</p>
<p>None of my teachers are bad per se, but I feel like my math and biology teachers, who teach only juniors and seniors except for one class of freshmen each, don’t understand that 9th graders need a slower paced lass than 11/12 graders.</p>
<p>I don’t have any bad teachers this semester (I have the same teacher twice for AP chem and physics and then a great spanish teacher, plus an online class)
But the worst teacher I’ve ever had was my APES teacher sophomore year. She tried to convince me that doves and geese were the same thing…</p>
<p>My son has a teacher who has yet to post any grades and their final is in 3 weeks. No one knows what they have gotten on 4 papers turned in. She keeps saying she is behind. Completely unacceptable.</p>
<p>I love all of my teachers this year, but when it comes to teaching skill, my AP Biology teacher is the worst. She is very scatter-brained and is not good at thoroughly explaining concepts and does not engage our class very well. However, her harsh grading of essays and short answer does prepare us well for the AP exam and the vast majority of her students pass (with about 50% getting 4’s and 5’s and 90% passing). She’s a very nice woman and I love her to death, but when I don’t understand a concept or don’t feel like doing mountains of extra research to figure out such concepts, I get frustrated.</p>
<p>my apes teacher hates me:
she gave me the worst position in the debate which everyone agreed was unfairly difficult to argue. there was just no way that i was gonna win, because i was basically supposed to make a whole fictional town lose their jobs…and then there was this kid who had a stance that would probably destroy the environment but it was good for the economy, so he won, of course. we had a different class come in and decide who won and everything. so basically this kid lied and said there would be “no environmental effects,” which was a COMPLETE lie…but then my teacher is like “yeah, but he lied convincingly.” what the…??? oh, i’m sorrry- i thought this was ap environmental science, not ap lie about the environment
then she was like “it’s all about the presentation.” ok sorry i’d rather not be a lying scumbag. ughhhhhh i will never get over that LOL</p>
<p>and then she’s like “life’s unfair, clementines.” i’m pretty sure it’s illegal to give students in your class unfair advantages but ok teacher ok</p>
<p>My lit teacher. She gives out so much homework, makes us annotate so much that we are several weeks, even months, behind the other honors lit classes, and just straight hates us. I swear, people who have gotten straight A’s before have B’s in her class. So far it’s my only class that’s an A-. Also, there are some generally nice people that have her who completely hate her. And what’s worse is that she can’t even teach right, and SHE gets mad at US when we flip out over bad grades. </p>
<p>This year I don’t really have any bad teachers. </p>
<p>In 9th grade, I really disliked my Algebra I teacher. And I’m VERY lenient when it comes to judging teachers; I don’t talk about teachers behind their back very much like every other student does. My Algebra teacher barely taught and was just really terrible. And she picked favorites…like she’d befriend all the popular kids, yet she’s like in her 50’s, so it didn’t really make sense.</p>
<p>My English teacher doesn’t teach and even the boy (most likely val) who gets ~100 on everything got an 83 on the last quiz, which was the highest score.</p>
<p>I would say my AP Stats teacher too, because I’m struggling the most in that class, but she actually does teach. I feel like I understand the material, I just never do well on her tests, which is faulty on my part.</p>
<p>We have a student teacher for AP Lang till December and she’s the most boring woman in the world. She gives us pointless assignments and it’s all just busy work and we don’t learn anything. She made us take notes on a slideshow on choosing examples. And that’s something we’ve learned since freaking middle school. Oh, and she didn’t know how to spell ‘‘gesture’’. And she makes so many grammatical mistakes, it’s not even funny.</p>
<p>Algebra II - He didn’t teach. He always gave us a worksheet and a computer and told us to use the computer to learn the material then do the worksheet. I eventually got so sick of it that I just didn’t do it - and he didn’t even give me 0’s in the gradebook, he left it as no count. So I got an decent grade in the class even though I did NONE of the homework. </p>
<p>Communication - This teacher was beyond biased! I did a speech about immigration, and got a C on it. He had given a rubric and I fulfilled at least 90% of the criteria. When I asked what I did wrong / what I should improve on, he didn’t have an answer. And seeing as the person who gave a speech on the same topic (but opposite position) got an A when they didn’t meet the length requirement (worth 20% of the total score), I was able to reasonably infer it was bias…</p>
<p>Spanish II - She thought she was teaching kindergarteners, not high schoolers, apparently. She would send home notes that had to be signed by our parents detailing our behavior for the week, and did a lot of kindergarten-like activities. </p>
<p>Accounting - I haven’t learned a single thing about accounting! All we do are excel it activities… which are just sheets that teach us how to use Microsoft Excel. Which I learned in the computer apps class freshmen year I took with him (it was required). </p>
<p>AP Lit - We had a big video project due over a month ago, a paper due three weeks ago, a quiz two weeks ago, and an AP practice essay last week. NONE of it has been graded, and she doesn’t even have to teach at the moment (we have a student teacher). It would be nice to have my grades so I know what I need to improve on so I don’t keep making the same mistakes on current assignments! There is no excuse these things are not graded when it’s been WEEKS!</p>