I’m currently a freshmen in high school. First semester of English 9 our real teacher said, to us that she wouldn’t be teaching the class, it would be a student teacher. I thought this was a terrible idea, she is 7 years older than I am. My gut feeling was right, she treated us like babies. The beginning of the year she never aloud us to read at home or annotate while she read to us and she made everything an activity. I ended up having to teach myself what may be our hardest text of the year, The Odyssey exerts at home and re read everything myself. There wasn’t much to “learn” first quarter, just understanding the text. 2nd quarter came, I couldn’t do this anymore. Everybody began getting B’s and the volume I had to teach myself got huge. I got a form to switch out January, I was nervous because everybody told me that I would get rejected. I told the principal, he was appalled. He couldn’t believe I was basically my own teacher, he said to me if you were a senior I’d expect you to toughen this out, but you are a freshmen and this is outrageous.
They switched me out, I went from having an 88% in English to a high A. I’m so relieved that I don’t have to teach myself this anymore.
You might want to first correct your English before blasting your English teachers (freshman, allowed, excerpts, comma splices).
Apart from that though, that sucks. I had a U.S. history teacher in 12th grade whose class seemed exactly the same as you mentioned. Even though I aced the final and got an A that semester, I took nothing out of that course, and I learned much more watching documentaries or going to the history museum than from that class.
Algebra II. Teacher assigned so much homework that it could easily take 4 hours a night. Not allowed to use a calculator for anything, often multiplying decimals to 7th place, had to figure out the value of a square root on our own. Teacher spent so much time on homework she covered the actual topics in 10-20 minutes. 4 hours of homework a night plus teaching myself stuff for one hour before school. 1/2 our class probably starting going bald.
My Algebra I teacher, I swear to this day, was teaching only to avoid the Vietnam war. (Back then, teaching got you a deferment from service.) He was horrendous.
Yet here I am, all these years later, a math teacher… hopefully a much better one than he was,
We have a universally hated teacher whose idea of teaching is spending half the class time checking in the endless busywork vocab sheets she assigns us and the other playing games best suited for fourth graders.Her idea of teaching is connecting us to a glorified flashcard system called Zondle and not even enforcing proper pronunciation. All of her students are woefully behind in French II. She fills the rest of the time singing nonsensical songs and talking abouher kids.Literally and figuratively the most tone deaf person I’ve ever met.
AP World History… horrible teacher. She literally the first day came into class and said "Okay guys, we’re going to do a group project. I want you to research and learn about the first unit of AP World History. We ended up staying on the first unit until November until she came down with an illness and had to quit. Now we have a teacher who teaches us and explains things.
Yes! Many…
In 9th grade I had a physics teacher that did not even explain problems during class but we would then have them on tests. I had to teach myself how to solve the problems and this continued in 10th grade as well. In the 11th grade we had something called Science and it was all about physics again. We had problems that were literally taught in college if you studied intensive physics. I had to teach myself how to solve them again in order to keep my grades up. It really sucked because I was always spending my nights solving problems before tests. (Or rather trying to figure out how to solve problems).
Right now I have to teach myself philosophy because I am having my leaving exam on it.
Then again, I’ve also had more than my share of wonderful teachers. And I’ve had the privilege to work with some phenomenal teachers who have inspired thousands of kids.
Pick had to teach my whole entire spanish 2 class to myself last year(8th grade). To be fair, then teacher tried to teacch, but she could control control the class so no one heard anything she said…
This year (freshman) all of my teachers are pretty good the only time I’ve had to teach myself is when my Huma Geogaphy teacher (who is also the european history teacher) went to Italy for 2 weeks, and we had to learn a chapter and take a test without her teaching one word.
the only time I’ve had to teach myself is when my Huma Geogaphy teacher (who is also the european history teacher) went to Italy for 2 weeks, and we had to learn a chapter and take a test without her teaching one word.