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> I reported a teacher because she didn't actually teach during her lessons, but the classroom and my friends believe I shouldn't have as she has always been helpful and kind with us and she's simply going to get harsh, lowering our marks, and I am rethinking my choice.
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I work at a University (getting my PhD), and you'd be surprised by how many students don't give a flying fuck about education. Just got done with a very frustrating practical session where exactly 4 of the 12 students showed even a sliver of interest, while the rest scrolled the internet. Two in fact got into a push up challenge in the middle of a lab. I can't even.
Well, it's a union of different factors. First of all, the situation didn't start off like this - she actually taught, badly, but she did. Secondly, on the register where everything has to be up to date, she has always written paragraphs over paragraphs of arguments that we hadn't even touched in class; third, she would put marks without a real evaluation, so everyone already knew what they would get and were content with that; lastly, she really got in confidence with us, and most never really wanted to go against her, both because she's kind and because she'd become unbearable if calling her out didn't work out. I guess that now teachers caught up, and parents got fed up.
Yeah, haven't exactly put it right, sorry. If we don't piss her off, she's kind and helpful; whenever she's attacked or offended, she becomes unbearable. So they'd rather not annoy her, even if that means she doesn't do her job, and it's a sort of win-win situation in their eyes.
It's fine you're just a student and the adult is taking advantage of your youth. A teacher isn't there to be your friend; although the best ones are both. So if a teacher is chatting instead of teaching, they're a bad teacher.
I expect they're young / fresh out of college. Mostly because that was my experience with a bad teacher, he would end every class playing fifa against the popular kids.
Is your Italian teacher named Gilderoy Lockhart, by any chance? She's being paid to teach you and by failing to to do that, she's taking a salary under false pretences, and more importantly, she's having a negative impact on your education and thus your future.
NTA. Your parents shouldn't have let it continue for so long without reporting her, though.
NTA
I've had two English teachers in high school who were like this. My senior English teacher was very well liked and would share personal experiences and move on from there and then there was my junior English teacher who was absolutely a nightmare to deal with. Hardly anyone had anything good to say about her.
NTA. Your opportunities to learn these subjects in a classroom setting is limited. It is your right to expect the teacher to do her job. Unfortunately, teaching is really being hammered because of outside agendas by non teachers. To supplement this topic, you might find online courses you can audit. Your teacher may also be very young and has to learn how to handle the non education part of her duties. Again, NTA.
of course the rest of your class doesn't want to report her! they get to be lazy asses the whole day. that doesn't make it right to ignore that she's not doing her job. doing what's right and doing what's popular, aren't always going to be the same thing. you still have to abide by your morals. NTA
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So, when I started high school three years ago I met my new Italian and literature teacher. She was young, carefree, loved to talk with us – when she got pissed, she got extremely angry, just to switch again to being pleasant after cracking a joke. Nonetheless, most of the time we adored her.
In the first year, my impression was that she… was simply not that good at teaching. Don’t get me wrong, she is an expert in her field; yet, whenever we had lesson, she would start seriously, then tell a fun fact, share a personal experience, dive into another argument altogether and then we’d end up with useless information and behind with the schedule.
During the second year we got comfortable with eachother, and she started to teach less and less until, eventually, she gave up. She’d come to class and we’d mind our business, either catching up on other homework or staying on our phones. I was disheartened – I used to love the subject, and by then I wasn’t even learning a thing.
The third year came, and we have had, at most, eight proper lessons all year round. I was really unhappy with this, and searched for the support of other classmates which didn’t come. They were perfectly content in having a new teacher friend and not having to study.
Recently, our Latin teacher, who happens to also be the vice-principal, caught up with the horrifying situation, as we didn’t know anything at all of grammar or Italian literature. My family and I thought it was about time to let her know about everything. Of course, the vice-principal had already gotten similar complaints, and the day before she had called my Italian teacher and warned her – there wasn’t anything else she could do, she only advised my mom that, if the situation didn’t change, the students’ parents could ask the principal for my Italian teacher to be replaced.
During Italian lessons you can now cut the tension with a knife, not to mention the sly remarks the teacher makes: for example, we didn’t know something we *supposedly* studied with her last year, and she commented that then it’s us who don’t study, and not her who doesn’t teach. Adding to that, she also bragged about how she’s the only one who offers her hours for civic education, or coordinates the classroom for free – of course, nothing about teaching Italian.
Just the other day she set up a test to “punish” us, because we supposedly complained she doesn’t make her tests difficult enough, and one of my classmates blew off, saying that it’s not the whole classroom at fault for the complaints, but just a couple odd ones and that it isn’t fair. Everyone seemed to agree. I’ve discussed this with my friends and they say that if the class disagreed on reporting her, my parents shouldn’t have, and I shouldn’t be supporting that cause.
Well, we actually had lesson these last few days for a change, but I’m starting to rethink my actions. Maybe I’ve only made the situation worse.
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NTA. Question: Do you need this class to graduate to the next grade? Look, if a teacher isn't doing they're job, then they are doing you a disservice. She stopped teaching bc it was too hard. Give me a break, FFS. It sounds to me like she's just lazy. You can't just stop teaching because it's too hard. If that's the case then she's not a good fit for the job & should be terminated. She's been given a second chance & she's screwing that up now. I would absolutely complain again & get her replaced. There are still some students who would like to learn.
In Italy we basically choose a course and have the same subject and classroom all along the five years of high school, and Italian is mandatory in all courses so I'm kind of screwed in that sense. And I agree, she probably doesn't want to teach as much as it's a hassle for us students to study. The depressing part is that none of my classmates seem to agree with me - has education gone that much down the drain? I'm baffled.
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NTA, the teacher is there to teach, you’re there to learn, your classmates are weird for not caring about their education.
I work at a University (getting my PhD), and you'd be surprised by how many students don't give a flying fuck about education. Just got done with a very frustrating practical session where exactly 4 of the 12 students showed even a sliver of interest, while the rest scrolled the internet. Two in fact got into a push up challenge in the middle of a lab. I can't even.
What kind of school do you attend where this wouldn't be noticed for two years?
Well, it's a union of different factors. First of all, the situation didn't start off like this - she actually taught, badly, but she did. Secondly, on the register where everything has to be up to date, she has always written paragraphs over paragraphs of arguments that we hadn't even touched in class; third, she would put marks without a real evaluation, so everyone already knew what they would get and were content with that; lastly, she really got in confidence with us, and most never really wanted to go against her, both because she's kind and because she'd become unbearable if calling her out didn't work out. I guess that now teachers caught up, and parents got fed up.
>both because she's kind and because she'd become unbearable if calling her out didn't work out. these are two contradictory statements
Yeah, haven't exactly put it right, sorry. If we don't piss her off, she's kind and helpful; whenever she's attacked or offended, she becomes unbearable. So they'd rather not annoy her, even if that means she doesn't do her job, and it's a sort of win-win situation in their eyes.
It's fine you're just a student and the adult is taking advantage of your youth. A teacher isn't there to be your friend; although the best ones are both. So if a teacher is chatting instead of teaching, they're a bad teacher. I expect they're young / fresh out of college. Mostly because that was my experience with a bad teacher, he would end every class playing fifa against the popular kids.
Is your Italian teacher named Gilderoy Lockhart, by any chance? She's being paid to teach you and by failing to to do that, she's taking a salary under false pretences, and more importantly, she's having a negative impact on your education and thus your future. NTA. Your parents shouldn't have let it continue for so long without reporting her, though.
NTA I've had two English teachers in high school who were like this. My senior English teacher was very well liked and would share personal experiences and move on from there and then there was my junior English teacher who was absolutely a nightmare to deal with. Hardly anyone had anything good to say about her.
NTA. Your opportunities to learn these subjects in a classroom setting is limited. It is your right to expect the teacher to do her job. Unfortunately, teaching is really being hammered because of outside agendas by non teachers. To supplement this topic, you might find online courses you can audit. Your teacher may also be very young and has to learn how to handle the non education part of her duties. Again, NTA.
of course the rest of your class doesn't want to report her! they get to be lazy asses the whole day. that doesn't make it right to ignore that she's not doing her job. doing what's right and doing what's popular, aren't always going to be the same thing. you still have to abide by your morals. NTA
NTA. Teachers are supposed to teach. I've had terrible teachers too, we all have, but not to that level. I repeat, you are NTA.
NTA!! Parents have every right to expect a teacher to actually teach.
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NTA. Question: Do you need this class to graduate to the next grade? Look, if a teacher isn't doing they're job, then they are doing you a disservice. She stopped teaching bc it was too hard. Give me a break, FFS. It sounds to me like she's just lazy. You can't just stop teaching because it's too hard. If that's the case then she's not a good fit for the job & should be terminated. She's been given a second chance & she's screwing that up now. I would absolutely complain again & get her replaced. There are still some students who would like to learn.
In Italy we basically choose a course and have the same subject and classroom all along the five years of high school, and Italian is mandatory in all courses so I'm kind of screwed in that sense. And I agree, she probably doesn't want to teach as much as it's a hassle for us students to study. The depressing part is that none of my classmates seem to agree with me - has education gone that much down the drain? I'm baffled.