Monday, 11 June 2012

Being a Teacher for Dummies

Have you ever met someone and thought to yourself "I'm pretty sure it's not even humanly possible for someone to be THAT stupid,". I have this thought every third block, Monday to Friday. In third block I have Socials. Now, I am not particularly brilliant in Socials, but I can usually scrape a B or at least a high C+. Not with this teacher, though. No, I definitely struggle to even pass this class. Not because I'm stupid; but because my teacher has lower than average IQ. Lets call him Mr. Honeybees - since he frequently informs us about his.

Almost every time he opens his mouth I wonder how he got through university. He hardly prepares us for our tests - he tells us the day before we have them. Mr. Honeybees doesn't like to mark much, either. Don't believe me? Picture this. This semester is about five and a half months long. Within the first two months, we had written three tests. Almost everybody in the class failed every test. He lets us rewrite any and all of the tests (one of the few good things he does). But he doesn't mark them. I rewrote chapter 1, 2, and 3 tests THREE MONTHS AGO. And they still aren't marked. There is 4 days of classes left. Without those marks, I am failing his class. Dumbass.

Mr. Honeybees isn't very honest. For example, I have a friend who handed in an assignment to his desk. She asked him if he had marked it yet. He said no because he couldn't find it. The next week she asked "did you find my assignment yet?" He said yes he found it and he has put the mark into the computer. The next day guess what she found in her binder? The assignment that our teacher had allegedly marked. Dumbass.

One of the things that bothers me most about his teaching is that he is impatient. In my class we have some immature students. But come on, it's grade 10 boys - what do you expect? But not even jut the boys... He gets mad at the whole class because we're doing poorly. If the class as a whole is doing terrible... Wouldn't you consider that it is not the students fault... But something is going wrong in the delivery of the information? DUMBASS.