I heard such an awful thing when I got home from school today; I just felt like posting to Mene and seeing if anyone else ever had a similar experience.

I want to know about that one teacher that does/did always have it out for you. The one who would glare awkwardly. The one who would give you an 80 and your friend a 100 when you both basically wrote the same thing. The one who makes sure your last for everything. The one who would randomly lower your grade. The one who would lie. The one who would always push you too far.
I'm just interested in seeing your person experiences in comparison to mine, because I'm dead-serious now, I'm this close to screaming in her the face the next time I see her.

If you're interested in my horrible rant:

Our school has block scheduling, and since today was an "A" day, I had Gym second period. Bare in mind, I have slight Tend-da-nite-ist (I have no idea how to spell it so read that word out to know what I'm saying XD ) and just over-all weak legs. If I'm standing for more than half an hour, no lie, I will seriously start crying from the pain. I go to physical therapy and have been getting better, but, it still hurts TT^TT For that reason, I was able to get a doctor's note that clearly says I may modify or avoid any activities my legs cannot handle.
Anyways, today I did the normal beginning of class stretches. I cannot, AT ALL, do a push up. I end up hurting myself if I even ATTEMPT one. She doesn't care. She doesn't care one bit. I fought with her about this before. Today, as I tried to, but after 5 seconds, I clutching to myself in pain. I was near tears, but the entire time, she gave me this horrible stare. This, You're-faking-it-just-hurry-up-and-do-the-dumb-push-up-already stare of doom. I stared back. A shut-up-already-or-I'll-throw-something-at-you look. Funny how we have conversations completely in stares. Actually, less funny, more pathetic :(
But the push-ups up are only 30 SECONDS of an 83 MINUTE period. That .3/83. I'm not the only one who believes that that alone should cause me to drop and entire letter grade, right? Well, when it comes to that class, I am.
And today, she had the NERVE to tell me I did good with the soccer practice (since we did NOTHING!!). I LOATHE being singled out more than anything.

Plus, two weeks ago, she told I wasn't trying IN THE ENTIRE CLASS AT ALL since I skip push ups, but I DO THE WHOLE REST OF THE PERIOD TO MY FULLEST ABILITY. And according to the teacher's site:

Students are expected to exert maximal personal effort,

. Apparently bringing myself to tears is not maximal effort? My legs have yet to fall off of my body, so I guess that implies I'm not trying hard enough.
I'm buy a chain-saw this weekend, let's see if THAT could boost my grade.




*deep breathe*
I admit, it feels better to write that out. I hate writing (I almost failed English, but I get A's in every other class), but really, that is truly relaxing.

Atleast I had French today, I love that class, and I love my teacher.
Don't you just love that one teacher who could just say "Hi" and brighten your mood? :) That's my French teacher, she's awesome. I really love her class, very very very much :)

I'm glad your day was brightened by another teacher that wasn't giving you a headache. ^_^

My English teacher was like your Gym teacher, when I was in high school. I'll call her Mrs K. She favors some students over others, especially the popular crowd. Well, we were supposed to write a paper about our own chosen topic. I chose a biography on Ayn Rand. It was supposed to be written from our own knowledge, but we could use base sources. So, I use sources, then ask her if she wants the citation on the next page or even in the paper itself in parenthesis. She said no, they weren't necessary. So I didn't cite my work.

And then she gave me a zero for plagiarism. -_- I was so pissed, and I wanted to fight it, but I knew it wouldn't even be worth it. It was at the end of the year, anyway, so I sucked it up and ignored her for the rest of the time.

I once had a teacher that told me I didn't have the mental capacity to be in her class because I disagreed with her about a short story we read. She was going on about how it was an example of a strong woman who was being oppressed by the male dominated world and she was struggling to express her inner strength in an environment that refused to let women succeed. I just thought it was about some whiny little girl who couldn't hack it in her job and was blaming men and society for her short comings. I wrote an elaborate paper about the flawed logic of her story and dared suggest that instead of being bitter perhaps the writer could have tried to rise above it like many others before her had. I said the story was self indulgent and egotistical. I flunked that paper completely and the teacher ignored me for the rest of the semester when I raised my hand to engage in a debate she would pretend not to see it then dock points off of my grade because I "wasn't participating" I hated that class it seemed that every work of classic literature was sexist or racist or something in her eyes. I was pleased to here that she lost her job a year later for treating other students the same way she treated me.

@ll P W E E P ll- Favoritism is disgusting. My English teacher gave us a graded homework assign in the very beginning of the year where we had to pick seven essay from last year and pick a song that goes for each. I did mine as poorly as possible XD I picked Ivevan Polka for one of my essay with the explanation "I totally forgot I ever wrote that piece". Somehow, I got a perfect grade. My friend, however, did her very best on the assignment and gave answers that actually WEREN'T stupid. She got a low B. I just saw that as wrong. Yes, it was nice getting a good grade, but I feel bad about good grades when the grade mean nothing.
Creepy thing is, my English teacher's name could be abbreviated to Mrs.K o.o

@Faulkner- I applaud you for writing that, actually. I seem to find myself thinking similar things quite often in English. I don't know what it's like where you live, but here, even thinking about that could get you in trouble. It's too often teachers look for the "right" answer when there is none. So many times I wished I could have written something like that. Here, writing that would get you an F and a trip to the guidance consuler>.> It's like my mother always said; they want us to be little sheep.
I would be happy for just expressing my opinion. You did not show anything wrong, all you did was show that you were obviously above the teacher. She's the one lacking the mental capacity to see things in more than one way.
And good for the town for losing her, teacher's jobs are so over paid and over protected. Seriously, if my family was had half the things the teachers get, maybe I would fall to tears everyday over unbareable headaches or maybe since the dentist more than once every three years >.> ((hate the state... I wanna go back to NY one day...))

I had an art teacher who for some reason HATED me. She was such a bitch to me. She failed me and she said infront of everyone "these are your crappy drawings again!" I asked other art teachers in my school to grade my work and they said As and Bs. But to her it was Fs. She wasn't just hard, because she graded the other students fair, just not me. I had a lot of problems in school with depression (still do, but it all started at 14ish. I'm 25 now) and I used to cut myself (don't judge please) And something bad had happened to me that I couldn't get over in my mental state. I ended up slitting my arms in art class, but I didn't do it obviously, was under the desk and I was just going to pull my sleves down over it, I did it because my brain told me I had to do it to cope with that overload. Someone saw and was panicking and trying to help me, obviously this alerted the teach... Her words? "Leave her alone, she's just doing it for attention" Craft knife, sharpe as hell, dripping with blood, and those were her exact words.


When I was in my last year and it was the end of it, I went to get some of my work, one piece of which I thought was one of my best. She said it wasn't good enough, she hated it. But when I asked her for it to take home she couldn't find it. Turned out that she knew exactly where it was... She had displayed it... Bitch.

Originally Posted by Random Candy

@ll P W E E P ll- Favoritism is disgusting. My English teacher gave us a graded homework assign in the very beginning of the year where we had to pick seven essay from last year and pick a song that goes for each. I did mine as poorly as possible XD I picked Ivevan Polka for one of my essay with the explanation "I totally forgot I ever wrote that piece". Somehow, I got a perfect grade. My friend, however, did her very best on the assignment and gave answers that actually WEREN'T stupid. She got a low B. I just saw that as wrong. Yes, it was nice getting a good grade, but I feel bad about good grades when the grade mean nothing.
Creepy thing is, my English teacher's name could be abbreviated to Mrs.K o.o

I'm glad you realize that it's not okay, even at the opposite end of the spectrum ^_^ It really isn't fair to those who do work hard and try their best to fail.

MY ALGEBRA 2 TEACHER IS THAT WAY. I CANT STAND HIM!!!!!!!!!! He picks on me all the time and is seriously out to make me fail.

Oh My God
My geography teacher is the devils Grandmother i swear to god!
She would send me out for talking when i asked someone for a rubber! No Joke. Or if i turned round for group work she would make me stay back so i would be late for my next lesson or to tutor Dx

Luckily, I never had a teacher like that (at least not that I can recall). I did, however, have plenty of teachers (almost all of them, now that I think of it) who had their favorite students and would spend the better part of the day chatting with them rather than helping the other students. :/

Go above her head; complain to your Dean or your principal. Even to the school district Chancellor if that's what it takes. Bullying in any form isn't supposed to be tolerated.

Yes, I've had teachers like that and much worse.
When you're older and you're paying for your own education, they treat you even worse.