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I despise teachers that can't teach at all.
High school physics is a pain in the butt if you have a teacher that can't explain it right to you. I might as well just get a tutor and take the AP exam rather than sit in the class itself.
French (or any foreign language) is terrible for me because none of my teachers have ever made it usable. My mandarin teachers just taught the book, and never taught us how to speak in public...I ended up learning more from my parents than I did from my teachers
To top it off, these are the same teachers that 1) annoy the shit out of you by giving a pointless lecture for the whole class period and 2) make you do stuff that you have no idea how to do.
Being independent is one thing, but I might as well just drop the classes if I weren't doing it for the credits.
4 years of french, and I still have no idea how to speak it. I have no friends that speak fluent french, and its not like I can seriously get better if my teacher goes off on tangents and stays on the same topic for months.
1 month of physics, and I still have no idea what the fuck I'm doing wrong. My teacher never bothers to correct people, and I'm one of those people that try, try, try, and try again til I get it right (that also applies to how I play starcraft games).
Do you guys hate people that don't know what the fuck they're doing either?
On a side note, would anyone like to be my pen pal in french or help me conceptually understand physics? I love the classes, but I hate the teachers.
 
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yep, it blows.
I'm actually considering becoming a teacher just so I can do a better job than all the boring fuckwads I had to deal with.
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Foreign languages (other than english ROFL) are not my strong point (took two years and summer school to get it out of the way). I will be willing to help you with physics as I had a teacher that taught the subject very well and did pretty well in the class and on the AP test. I'm guessing you're working on something related for Forces based on what the Physics class this year is doing.
At this point AP Physics B (what I assume you're taking) is still heavily dependent on your understanding of vectors and free-body diagrams. It's all about isolating the different objects in each scenario, understanding how the forces interact to accelerate said bodies, and to separate each of the forces into workable components (this is where your knowledge of vectors comes in).
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In my first year of highschool my parents sent me to a private school that costed them $5000, then found out my physics teacher was 1st year, fresh out of school, and although knew the material, was really really bad at teaching it clearly and concisely to others. Needless to say that was my 1 and only year there 
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Korea (South)3262 Posts
this is a bit off topic but help me; i'm a pretty good teacher for the most part i think but on occasion i just hate a certain student and can't look past anything else besides the way he looks and acts in my class. every part of me wants to punch him. how do i deal with these hated kids and treat them like i treat everyone else.
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yeah, at this point (one month in) free-body diagrams are all you need to know. take into account all of the forces acting in a problem, see what givens you have, and try to find a way to fit it into a formula. i only got a 3 on the AP test, but i slept through half of the year. you can easily get a 4 or 5 on the test if you really want to, regardless of your teacher. get a review book, and just mass questions like you would mass games. eventually you'll start to see A LOT of repeating questions, especially for the free response sections.
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In the real world there are even MORE idiots. Just wait until you graduate. Fucking morons.
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Why do you think that is?
Bad teachers.
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What do you expect when the bar for entry level high school teachers is set so low in combination with the low pay incentive? Of course the hs teachers suck, but I think your expectations are a little too high. Textbook>teacher for pretty much all classes in all public highschools.
Well there are exceptions. There was a physics teacher I had in my public hs school who really stood out since he had a doctorate from MIT. His wife was stationed in the town for research and he said he opted out of his research because he realized he's not bright enough to be on the real cutting edge stuff so he'd rather be a family man and teach at the same time. His tests were fucking hard...drop out rate of his class was ~ 60%. But the school retained him since he's like a genius.
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just wait until university, you haven't seen bad teachers yet...
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Worst thing is a bad algebra teacher at university. Seriously nothing can be worse. Vector space mokay ???
About foreign language i think that the main problem isn't the teachers, i guess that you have to read a lot, newspapers, books, watch movies etc ... Even if you have the best teacher in the world, you won't be able to learn a new language if you don't practice. Oh and French isn't easy at all.
Actually i had the same problem with Spanish, after like 7 years of Spanish i can barely make a sentence and i have pretty much forgotten how to write. Obviously i can somewhat understand a text or a person but i'm not able to talk or to write. Why ?
Because i have never tried to learn about Spanish by myself and i just went to the classes. On the other hand even if my English is still mediocre i feel way better and confident about my abilities. That's because i'm used to read English forums, newspapers, i watch streams, movies etc... I have learnt more while browsing internet and playing video games than at school =/
So basicly there will be no miracle, you need to read/watch ton of stuff if you want to get good at French.
It will be hard and grammar + conjugation will be a real nightmare.
edit: Also what is your problem with French ?
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yeah, and i don't know how kids even fucking graduate tbh, lol.
i have siblings who have friends who get A's on test's and they're completely fucking stupid, also one of my siblings seem to be this type; hispter.
schools are pumping out more and more retards these days with exceptions; students who teach themselves subjects on their own, rather than completely confiding into teachers to teach them the subjects.
teachers these days are inadequate at what they do.
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AP study guide books by Princeton review. Holy shit those things are saviors. What I learned in one week from them was infinitely easier to pick up than what I tried to learn during an entire year of the class. You worried about an AP class? Just buy the book or go to your local borders and read it in the store, you'll master that stuff in no time.
It sucks that there are really inept teachers in our schools. But that doesn't mean you can get away not learning the material. Get creative and come up with a way of studying that works.
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Osaka27179 Posts
Ever gone and talked to your teacher after class about your problems?
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Nobody can "teach" you to speak a second language, only you can teach yourself.
The point of high school language education is NOT to achieve fluency. That goal is impossible given the situation you are put in. Unless you're learning French in France or in an environment where no-one else in your class speaks your native language, you can't achieve fluency. High school classes are supposed to teach you the fundamentals of the language so that you have some sort of base to build on if you decide to actually learn the language properly in the future. If you want to gain even an intermediate level of listening comprehension or speaking ability then it's up to you to pursue that in your free time. Only you can make it usable for yourself through hard work. You can't expect to just turn up to class every day and magically gain the ability to speak a second language, it doesn't work like that.
Also, length of time invested has very little to do with ability. People who say "I've learned X language for five years and still can't put a sentence together" are kidding themselves. Their FIVE YEARS of high school education is probably the equivalent of about TWO MONTHS intensive study in an immersive language environment.
And as a teacher I can tell you that I hate crappy students as much as you hate crappy teachers =/
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Did you really expect to be able to speak a language fluently after four years of a high school second-language course?
Hell, if you even learned how to conjugate future and past tenses (and the exception verbs oooooooo!!!) you're probably ahead of all your peers...
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Just do what I do and study from the book, if your teacher assigns one. It takes dramatically less time and gives you more free time to do other stuff.
Still go to class though.
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if your teacher fails you.... use the book. it can actually help. had to use it in latin and biology ap. it was a regular latin honors class but the teacher didnt really know much. biology ap... teacher was on facebook for a good 30mins each day in our class.
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Just read a book a lot of books if you can't figure it out (for physics).
As for French.... I don't know.... move to Canada?
On October 14 2010 14:52 mardi wrote:
if your teacher fails you.... use the book. it can actually help. had to use it in latin and biology ap. it was a regular latin honors class but the teacher didnt really know much. biology ap... teacher was on facebook for a good 30mins each day in our class.
You could have told the principal about this. 30 min is serious.
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