cosette_chan (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cosette_chan) wrote,@ 2007-02-12 19:12:00 |
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English teacher
I hate my English teacher. This is saying something, because in all my years of school I have never truly despised my teachers. But there's a first for everything! She is honestly the most difficult teacher I've ever met. No, not strict difficult (though she is) just annoying difficult. All my teachers annoy me to some point, but she takes the cake of annoying-ness.
Why?
First: She picks favorites in her students. I wouldn't mind it if she didn't make it so obvious. She's always talking to certain people, or complementing others, or acknowleding one or two for their work or feedback. No teacher should do this, I think, because it makes the other students feel like crap, and that's only one teacher! No, I don't think this will make them "work harder" like all the adults in High School are preaching about picking favorites. It makes them depressed and angry more than anything else.
Second: She's so bloody picky, I'm tempted to rip my papers up and throw them in her face. In essays and reports (and she assigns them every fricking week) she has to know EVERYTHING. If she doesn't know who a person is you're reporting, you practically have to write a biography in your report just so she knows who the person is. Even if you're just mentioning someone, she has to know who he/she is and what they did, in detail, and how it affects the other people. If you ask a question, YOU have to explain it in full detail and explain how it pretains to your report.
Your grammar has to be perfect. No, not satisfactory with a few misspellings or punctuation errors. Per-fect. If you overuse something, she WILL make a snide remark all over your paper and harass you for it if you do it again. If she doesn't like the way you wrote a sentence, she scribbles it out and writes it over how she likes it. Hell, why not just write the bloody report for us?! If she doesn't like ONE aspect, ONE, she will tell you why she didn't like it and critisize your writing for it. Like it makes this HUGE difference whether or not I put one word in place of another? What difference does it make if I don't get straight to the point and come out wth my questions in the first paragraph? Not everyone wants rushed explanations like she does. Not everyone wants to know why this happened, where it happened, how it happened, how it affects you and other people, and what you think about it.
Third: She expects too much of her students. She wants us to read 1 classical book (do a 5 page report on it) and two Accelerated reader books and do a book report on one, and another report of a book of her choosing. This wouldn't be so bad if she had us to this year-long, but no! She wants us to read 3 books (mind, not everyone can read as fast as she does despite what she may think) and write reports on them in 3 weeks? I can't do that, and I'm above average in Language and Reading/Vocab in both National and Reigonal scores. I can't juggle those AND my other school work. And that's me, what about people who have trouble reading or writing? She expects too much from everyone.
Yeah. -_- I'm done now.
I hate my English teacher. This is saying something, because in all my years of school I have never truly despised my teachers. But there's a first for everything! She is honestly the most difficult teacher I've ever met. No, not strict difficult (though she is) just annoying difficult. All my teachers annoy me to some point, but she takes the cake of annoying-ness.
Why?
First: She picks favorites in her students. I wouldn't mind it if she didn't make it so obvious. She's always talking to certain people, or complementing others, or acknowleding one or two for their work or feedback. No teacher should do this, I think, because it makes the other students feel like crap, and that's only one teacher! No, I don't think this will make them "work harder" like all the adults in High School are preaching about picking favorites. It makes them depressed and angry more than anything else.
Second: She's so bloody picky, I'm tempted to rip my papers up and throw them in her face. In essays and reports (and she assigns them every fricking week) she has to know EVERYTHING. If she doesn't know who a person is you're reporting, you practically have to write a biography in your report just so she knows who the person is. Even if you're just mentioning someone, she has to know who he/she is and what they did, in detail, and how it affects the other people. If you ask a question, YOU have to explain it in full detail and explain how it pretains to your report.
Your grammar has to be perfect. No, not satisfactory with a few misspellings or punctuation errors. Per-fect. If you overuse something, she WILL make a snide remark all over your paper and harass you for it if you do it again. If she doesn't like the way you wrote a sentence, she scribbles it out and writes it over how she likes it. Hell, why not just write the bloody report for us?! If she doesn't like ONE aspect, ONE, she will tell you why she didn't like it and critisize your writing for it. Like it makes this HUGE difference whether or not I put one word in place of another? What difference does it make if I don't get straight to the point and come out wth my questions in the first paragraph? Not everyone wants rushed explanations like she does. Not everyone wants to know why this happened, where it happened, how it happened, how it affects you and other people, and what you think about it.
Third: She expects too much of her students. She wants us to read 1 classical book (do a 5 page report on it) and two Accelerated reader books and do a book report on one, and another report of a book of her choosing. This wouldn't be so bad if she had us to this year-long, but no! She wants us to read 3 books (mind, not everyone can read as fast as she does despite what she may think) and write reports on them in 3 weeks? I can't do that, and I'm above average in Language and Reading/Vocab in both National and Reigonal scores. I can't juggle those AND my other school work. And that's me, what about people who have trouble reading or writing? She expects too much from everyone.
Yeah. -_- I'm done now.
