My school is unfair

[*PinkLady*]

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[Plata]

I've got an evil teacher in my english class. He gives extra marks to some people who give answers in class, but here's the stupid part, he only asks certain people for answers to the questions all the time. He doesn't give many other people a chance. What really pisses me off is sometimes I know the answer and I'll have my hand up and he asks someone else for the answer and when I don't know the answer or got it wrong on my sheet then he'll ask me. I wish he would treat us more like adults and just allow anyone who has their hand up to answer, and not ask the same people everyday. And, when someone brought it up he said that no-one else seemed to want to participate in the discussion. Anyone else have a problem like this in any of their classes?

[JethroSimpson]

I used to have that problem quite a lot with the teachers favouring and asking certain people, and it used to normally be all the loud people that shouted out while the quiet people got ingnored.

[Jimbo]

Originally posted by udflyers4ever
We have this program called Renaissance where the good students who are well-behaved get stuff like free quiz passes, passes to go to lunch early, and a semester exam waiver. That's what's making me mad. Last year (the 1st year of Renaissance), we were allowed to waive two exams. Well, the jackass teachers PROTESTED, and now we can only waive one, regardless of grades or behavior. That is so frigging unfair. Why would they do that? Were they upset that they had less exams to grade? We didn't do anything to get the privileges revoked, so that's out. Stupid evil teachers...

Let me see if I understand this: Students who are considered "good" and "well-behaved" are rewarded by not having to take as many tests as the other students. You could also say, then, that tests which should be used to measure a student'a academic progress, are instead being used as a form of punishment for those people not judged to be "good" and "well-behaved". (Tell that to your teacher - it will drive him/her nuts!).

There's nothing wrong with rewarding good behavior - but I think your school is going about it the wrong way. Everyone should have to take the same number of exams. There are other ways to recognize the "good" students.

[Rockapella722]

Oh, well.. the FOOTBALL team gets free lunch at my school cuz we're 3peat football champs. Ooooh.

And then, for the girls soccer team to practice at 5:30 am, we have to stand out in the freezing cold til dumb@$$ Jack comes to let us in. When we complain, he says... "I'm not getting up that early to let you in."

Why is it the almighty great football jocks get so much respect? When boys swimming won state last year... was there a pep rally for THEM!? Was there a parade for THEM!? Nope. They got a "good job, guys" and that was it.

[~LadyJess~]

The fact that people in your school can even not take exams is cool to me. You should have my teachers at your school, almost all of them feel that if you get an A in the class you shouldn't have to take an exam but the damn administration doesn't agree with them.

[MrsGarrettRocksMySocks]

We don't have to take semesters/finals if we don't miss more than two days per semester and if our grade average in all our classes is a C or above.

Other than that, it's totally up to the teachers. My English teacher gives extra credit sometimes, but, when she does, she gives EVEYONE the chance for it...*shrug*

My spanish teacher makes us do what we call, "current events" and we have to find articles from newpapers and magazines and then write a summary on them and there's all these rules about it and stuff, but, if you get an A average for the first THREE quarters, you dont' have to do it the last quarter. You get an automatic A...but I think that's perfectly fair, because, then the people who do their work are rewarded by getting a break towards the end of the year. All you have to do is read the articles and write a freaking 5 sentence summary. It's not like it's rocket science. *shrug* I dunno...I like not taking semester exams though, PLUS, I don't even have to go to SCHOOL those days, so, I just get two extra vacation days.

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by JethroSimpson
I used to have that problem quite a lot with the teachers favouring and asking certain people, and it used to normally be all the loud people that shouted out while the quiet people got ingnored.

That's how it was in my school. I was one of the quiet people when it came to answering questions and stuff like that. If the teacher called on me, I guess I would have to answer. I just wasn't really the kind of person that raised my hand to answer every question. I usually spaced out in class and you know how teachers have radar everytime they sense you are spacing out and they call on you to answer a question. I always hated that, so I was kind of glad we had loud people in the class.

On the other hand, the loud ones often made the teacher give the whole class busy work. That is so unfair. You have little Johnny over here, refusing to shut his mouth. The teacher can't send little Johnny out of the room and discipline him out there. No, the teacher has to assign the whole class busy work in order to shut up one student. Thank God I'm out of school.

[Central Perk]

On the other hand, the loud ones often made the teacher give the whole class busy work. That is so unfair. You have little Johnny over here, refusing to shut his mouth. The teacher can't send little Johnny out of the room and discipline him out there. No, the teacher has to assign the whole class busy work in order to shut up one student. Thank God I'm out of school.

I hate that especially in Latin Class everyone always talks so our teacher just sits there and won't tell us the story, so she assigns class work..it gets on my nerves... ! Its not fair for the people who are quiet and listen...

[Titania]

Originally posted by Jimbo


Everyone should have to take the same number of exams. There are other ways to recognize the "good" students.

At my school we have a little different version of that. Seniors who have an A average for the year in a class dont have to take the final exam. Its good in that its some incentive to make seniors keep working even in the spring of graduation. Because that means if they have straight A's they get out of school 4 days early

[james_baby87]

Here if we don't call in and say we wont be at school we'll have a trunency officer at my school. and half the time we can't talk through lunch hour! Well while we're in the cafeteria at least and at breakfast we can't talk either. Me and my friends like to try to hang out in the cafeteria in the mornings but if we try the teacher says, "Girls go socialize in the gym this is a cafeteria and it's used for eating not socializing.

My school is strict, and I hate it. We should be able to talk in the cafeteria and the teachers are way to strict when it comes to conduct you can open your mouth and not say anything and it gets lowered! It's crazy! I'm suprised I'm passing!

[Jack1000]

Originally posted by jimmiegirl48


Oh, I hate that. I'm one of the kids who doesn't cause trouble, and I'm always in the class with the s***head who leads the teacher to punish us. And then the teacher has the gall to say, "I'm sorry to everyone who didn't do anything, but you all have to pay for what so-and-so did because..." (I'm usually too pissed to listen by that point.) But it's not fair. The saying is, "You do the crime, you do the time" - not "You do the crime, you and 20-odd other behaving students do the time."

The above post was one of my biggest pet-peeves in school! I remember that kind of crap from grade school and middle school and I am a college graduate.

I also feel with regard to the other posts that good students should NOT be rewarded by having to take fewer exams than the rest of the kids. Exams must reflect a student's ability/mastery of material. Exams can also be used to reflect the abilities of a teacher. Most grades on exams should average in the B-/C+ range. This represents a test that is fair for the students who might have trouble, but isn't so easy that everyone gets an "A" If you have a class where the average grade falls in the "D" range on a test, the teachers' effectivness at teaching, as well as the students' understanding of material must be considered on both counts. If an average grade on an exam for an entire class is, say, a D/D+ I think it could be the teacher that is the problem. I hate teachers and profs that choose to make tests absurdly hard, or expectations for a class absurdly hard because this almost borders on the line of "dictatorship" and power control. These people have seniority in most cases...(Meaning you can't get rid of an ineffective teacher even if there teaching methods suck) When I was in college, several of my friends had chemistry profs that deliberatly made exams hard to exert their authority..you know, make it tough for a student to do well. I took symbolic logic, which was a similar situation for me. I don't know if it is a stereotype or not, but I have heard that a lot of teachers and profs in the math and science departments throughout schools and colleges like to play the "make exams really hard for the students'" game.

Jack

[laceyinthesky]

You should at least be glad that you get to have 1 test waived. I think it's selfish to complain that you can't waive 2 tests, when at most other schools you can't waive any. I'd stop complaining.