Do Bad Teachers Make Good Essays?

TiggerDad
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:42:30 +0000

I agree with The Dean 100% on this.

Even when my son, his close classmates and I have all thought that this particular high school teacher’s pattern of grading my son’s essays (and his older brother’s before him) was based on his bias or racism, we just swallowed our bitterness in silence and moved on in spite of the fact that this particular teacher’s consistent actions damaged my son’s perfect academic performance that he had built with diligent hard work since elementary school. The fact that, upon learning that my son was admitted to Princeton, this teacher actually voiced his doubt on the veracity of my son’s Princeton admission in front of the whole class, had basically served us as a confirmation of what we had all along feared. No matter. We moved on, and this incident is the first time I’ve ever mentioned it here on CC.

The point is, regardless of how “bad” a particular teacher is, regardless of how he/she may have damaged the perfect GPA and what not, it’s not something to fill the college application essay spaces with. Might make the applicant feel good as a form of self-therapy of sort, but such essays can only backfire with negative consequences. Never be whiny and no excuses. Even certain hardships in life need to be tread very carefully.