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06 Sep 2011, 11:01 pm
zeldapsychology wrote:
I hate English teachers to LOL! My English 1 teacher gave me C's 
(I'm not a grammar person and it WAS MY FIRST TIME WRITING A COLLEGE PAPER!!) The following semester I had to write another paper in Psychology class she returned the paper with a Post It note "Very Thorough but have someone check for grammatical errors." I took the paper home and analyzed it to the best of my ability to find grammar issues. Mainly though I worry about getting words on paper/computer. So a 10 page report THEN gets reprinted after looking for Grammar issues so it BECOMES 20 PAGES LOL!!
(I'm not a grammar person and it WAS MY FIRST TIME WRITING A COLLEGE PAPER!!) The following semester I had to write another paper in Psychology class she returned the paper with a Post It note "Very Thorough but have someone check for grammatical errors." I took the paper home and analyzed it to the best of my ability to find grammar issues. Mainly though I worry about getting words on paper/computer. So a 10 page report THEN gets reprinted after looking for Grammar issues so it BECOMES 20 PAGES LOL!!Seems to me she was trying to tell you how to improve without being nasty - she did acknowledge your paper is through. I can tell you did your best to improve though.
BoabDil wrote:
I think teachers go from young idealistic teachers of knowledge to old sadists.
My 6th grade music teacher wanted to make a classic choir out of 2 classes. All the students had to "audition" in front of the entire class and were then assigned to the fitting voice. All got a place and I got a triangle (instrument) and was asked to sit quietly in the corner. I havent sung since.
Did the teacher plan for a triangle in the choir to begin with?My 6th grade music teacher wanted to make a classic choir out of 2 classes. All the students had to "audition" in front of the entire class and were then assigned to the fitting voice. All got a place and I got a triangle (instrument) and was asked to sit quietly in the corner. I havent sung since.
In secondary school we were supposed to do a sketch of a tree. But I can't sketch to save my life. I got 4/10 for it, and the teacher also wrote some extremely discouraging comments about my ability to sketch.
I used to draw once in a blue moon before this incident but I never did it again after that - not after I had been beaten down by a so-called expert.
Regarding your first point, in my secondary school there were those teachers who were said to be so passionate about teaching, so dedicated, attended former students' weddings, got teaching awards from the school... but not to me. I remember when I couldn't pronounce the word "spatula" correctly in home economics class (honestly, it was the first time in my life I actually had to say the word aloud), and the teacher made fun of me in front of the whole class.
Another art teacher once got angry about some missing money or something like that nobody owned up to, and made everybody submit a "reflection" essay. I wonder why on earth I had to do extra homework for somebody else's mistake.
(During that period it was fashionable for teachers to tell students submit a "reflection" after every enrichment activity in school. I hated those, because I cannot always put in words how I feel about things, but I still had to write something satisfactory to show the teacher that I had "learnt" something in that activity. I was so glad once I went to university where they didn't assign those things!)
Anniemaniac wrote:
I remember every week in PE, the teacher picked two team leaders and got them to pick a person for their team in turns. She always picked the two popular kids, who happened to hate me. Every week, I would absolutely ALWAYS be the single last person standing there. Not once was I not last, and yet, every week, she let them do the exact same thing. The "losing" team (Ie, the team who got me) would always moan loudly, while the other team would laugh.
These teachers you mention sound absolute awful with a capital A.There was a primary school who sucked up to teachers and bullied me. There was once my worksheet mysteriously ended up on top of a tree outside the window I sat next to. I had to ask the teacher for permission to go down to get it back to continue my work. To this day, I think it was her doing, but I never could confirm it.
Once she sucked up to a relief teacher who didn't like me. I looked bad in comparison to this girl who had such a honeyed tongue.
LTP wrote:
My fourth grade teacher would openly mock me during class. I had undiagnosed dyscalculia and struggled terribly with math and she would call on me every damn time and then turn to the class and make jokes about how I was in the wrong grade and my parents must have forgot to teach me how to count. One time she turned to my friend Tom and told him to just do my math sheet for me since I was just holding the class back and was too "dumb" to get it.
I don't have dyscalculia, but there was once I got a sum wrong. The teacher actually said, "Let's call someone else to save this situation," - like it was such a big disaster.This was the same teacher who told an NT foreign student mentioning that she has many siblings, "You foreigners have so many children."
Aaron_Mason wrote:
I was in the bottom class for year 8 English
The teacher who mocked my Maths mistake mentioned something about "bottom classes" while teaching our class (the so-called top class).
07 Sep 2011, 12:23 am
