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Miss Tree, your dissertation was long but quite well written and IMHO very to the mark.

Erodge, you will come across one or two teachers in your high school career that may be cognitavely challenged. Don't let them get you down. For each teacher that you get like that, you will get ten that know what they are doing and really care.

Your challenge is to learn in spite of the skill of the teacher.

I can recall an English teacher from high school, back when electricity was new, who walked in to class and exclaimed, "I'm here to learn y'all English." That was a long year. All of my other teachers were quite knowledgable.

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Originally posted by Ian W.
i hate some teachers. i love some teachers. some teachers i could care less about.

for the most part, i have great teachers this year, and pretty much every year in high school (i'm a junior now) i've had great teachers. apart from english this year, i love them all. what do i do in english then? being the bad student i am, i always come up with the right answer that the teacher doesn't want. i act all cynical and pretty much oppose all of her views. it actually makes the class more enjoyable to me (yeah, i'm weird that way :p), and it probably raises my class participation.

i find that if i hate a teacher, i can become extremely cynical and sarcastic. i think it's a self defense mechanism against jumping out a window in fustration or something :D. whatever the cause, it works for me, and i get through the 40 minutes of english.

Wow - same here. All of my teachers are great, except for my english teacher. She's a moron (funny, her last name is Moran ...) - I'm taking American Lit this year and she really doesn't know much ... at least about American history.

Example:

First question on her first test:

Jamestown was the first British colony in the new world - T/F

I put false. Jamestown was not the first colony in the new world, Roanoke was! Of course, she said I was wrong so a few friends (also in her class) and I got a history teacher involved - and eventually recieved full credit for the question. ::sighs::

In any case, I think most teachers do know what they are talking about.

- Katie

I also find it funny that in the classes that are easy for me, I do poorly. The classes I have that are challenging, I thrive in. Even if the easy classes are my better subjects. Weird.

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Originally posted by Katie Reynolds
I also find it funny that in the classes that are easy for me, I do poorly. The classes I have that are challenging, I thrive in. Even if the easy classes are my better subjects. Weird.

Not weird... well, at least not unusual. I am the same way, and sadly, practically everything in normal high school is easy... I failed a couple classes, and did extraordinarilly poorly in others, during my freshman and sophomore years in regular high school.

At the beginning of last year (my junior year), I got myself out of regular high school and into a program that blends high school classes with community college classes at a local CC. The amount of freedom, when it comes to the classes I can now take, and the new environment are a very welcome change, for me.

I could not stand high school. It was definetly not a good environment for me to be in. I am very glad I got out when I did...

If anyone has any questions, IM me...