Is having a bad teacher REALLY an excuse?

October47
Fri, 28 May 2010 23:14:52 +0000

I think it is. I had an English instructor who made mistakes grading every single one of my papers. I would e-mail her back and be like “Actually, what you are saying I need to say is said right here” or even worse “umm, I did include a citation for this source in my bibliography- it’s the very first one you see!” If I hadn’t have been careful and read back through her comments and taken the time to e-mailed her back, my grade would have seriously suffered.

Also there are sometimes teachers who just fail at being able to communicate well with students. Maybe they know their subject well or maybe they don’t (which is sometimes not their fault since, for instance, in a lot of grade/high schools teachers are forced to switch subjects all the time and may not necessarily be teaching something they’re too familiar with), but sometimes teachers just don’t seem to connect well with students.
They don’t really know how to teach us the information in a way that we’ll really understand what’s going on. Instead they just write it on a board, or on notes, and say “learn it!”.