Top 5 Wards Against Bad Teachers

As a sometimes substitute teacher and parent of grown children I have, perhaps, a different outlook on “mean” teachers.
Remember first, your teacher probably has over 200 students. He/She really doesn’t have TIME to “hate” any one student unless that student brings himself, lets face it guys have more trouble with this type of thing than girls, to attention.
Don’t argue with teachers in front of other students. If you want to disagree with a teacher ask to talk with them after class. This also works in the working world. Nobody likes to be called an idiot in front of others. As an example of the above read Dilbert for a while. The pointy haired boss IS an idiot but Dilbert makes the mistake of calling him one in public too often.
Yes complete the work. Teachers really aren’t sadists. If they didn’t think that you should practice algebra they wouldn’t assign the problems.
Don’t get your parents involved when you are in the wrong.
An example of this is in a story that a teacher told me.
He had busted a group of students who were cheating on his tests. There was no doubt they were guilty and they all got suspended for two weeks.
The mother of one of the students came in and asked the question of the teacher “Why do you hate little Johnny?”
This really took the teacher aback. He didn’t hate Johnny. He thought the kid was pretty bright but spoiled. My guess is that he was right.
Do talk to your parents when a teacher does something that is out of bounds.
This happened to my brother years ago when, at least where I grew up students were expected to buy some of their own books.
This particular English teacher totally loved William Faulkner and required the students to buy one of his books, read it and write a report on it.
My brother, who read and reads a lot wasn’t impressed with Faulkner and after the report was turned, left the book in the class room with his name in the front cover. Nobody would even steal it. It sat in the room for several weeks until the teacher noticed it and called my brother up after class. When the teacher asked my brother if he didn’t want the book, while holding it like a treasure. My brother, with the cockiness of a teenager replied that he didn’t and didn’t really like the book enough to want to keep it.
After this the teacher really did start mistreating my brother, even though it was all sarcasm and verbal. My brother’s grades went down. After my mother heard a month or so of his complaints she went to the teacher, in private, and asked him what his problem was. She carefully explained to him that she knew all of the school board members, the principal and the fact that my father had taught over half of the faculty at the school and that she was not going to put up with any more of his mistreating her son. The teacher tried to justify his actions but after the meeting things did improve.
It’s hard to sum this massive tome up but teachers are human. They have a certain amount of material that they are required to cover and if you slow that down they are likely to land on you as a student harder than they should.

AG

I have a orrible teacher! I am in 5th grade. She is so mean and we are trying to figure out why. Everybody in our class HATES her! If you could give us some possibilities of why she is being so mean to us that would be great!