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EDIT: FEW WEEKS LATER (JUSTICE IS DONE)
It turns out this specific female teacher isn't just doing this shit to me. She not only gives people who she dislikes BAD marks, but gives suck ups GOOD MARKS (for example, someone was sick, gave him a 10/10 for not doing anything).
So she got in shit cause when the upper staff had to supervise the report writings, they saw all the inconsistencies with her markings regarding her students, then one day she came into class all quiet and calm, (which is unlike her), and she RE handed out essays, I went from a 6.5 to a 9.5. (a crossed out 6.5, then a 9.5 beside it) as well as 2 or 3 other students.
It's an Internet post, not an essay KK? I know it's not grammaticality correct! OK?
Hey TL, I really need some more opinion before I really just accept the fact that my English teacher is failing me because she does not like me and is bias is some way. So this year, I got a really ABSTRACT English teacher who runs philosophy club. She likes to make things complicated and philosophical resulting in wasting time debating random crap. Like e.g Why are the chairs BLUE? Half lesson wasted by her ranting. I have to say, I do not respect her as much as my other teachers and I know it's really disrespectful to tell a teacher how to teach, but I will say IMO she is really unprofessional. So yeah, people show her disrespect, especially me always pushing her buttons and talking back. Now, English is one of my good subjects, I'm naturally good at it. In the previous year I got a 9/10 on my report card, with all my essays and presentations 8.5 ATLEAST. I also do English tuition outside of school on weekends. I admit I do not put in 100% effort into my assignments this year because our teacher is really unprofessional and changes the assignment halfway from when she assigned it to when it is due! I don't see how I can fail year 9 English, but can do well in year 10 English!
I do decent work, but yet she marks my rubrics sheets for assignments as if it was a bingo game giving me 3/5 and 4/5 and 2/5 etc. She takes off marks as if she just feels
like it. Resulting in 6.5 / 10's for assessment tasks!
My work style is, K.I.S.S Keep It Simple Shitface. I don't get a thesaurus and add these big words that I just realised existed. I don't take 15 minutes to add this flashy picture onto my work. I use a blue pen and write. I don't talk super loudly so the teacher "overhears" how much effort I put into my work when I hand it in. I do NOT suck up.
Is it RIGHT for teachers to mark students based on effort and attitude? Like, if you put in a lot of effort and do a crummy job you get a 8.5/10. You put in a limited amount of effort and do a high standard piece of work and get a 6.5 because your potential isn't YOUR maximum potential. I would like to see her mark the class's work without names on the work.
"So how about you put more effort into assignments?"... Well. I have now, I put in 100% effort in my last essay, I'm yet to get my results back. But that's not the point. s it RIGHT for teachers to mark students based on effort and attitude? I.E, tell everyone not to put the names on each persons work, let her corrected him then compare it to if we did put our names on our work.
Has this sort of thing happened to anyone before? Is it right for teachers to mark down work because of effort and you as a person? Should I talk to someone about this?
EDIT: Look I know I might sound a little cocky about my work. I'm not saying I am the English God. But 6.5 Is not me.
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teachers can be heavily biased and I took it badly in high school. I was joking with one of my friends saying some racist jokes BETWEEN us and he overheard us. He left a comment and I told him we were joking but from that day onwards my grades were F-C, when previously I was always in the A (minus) - B score. I almost failed my last year English because of that asshole. Oh btw I actually sucked up to him at the end of the year because he was literally going to fail me and pull be back a whole year just because he thought I was racist. 1st time and only time I will suck up (hopefully..)
so yes teachers are biased a lot of the time but not always. Sometimes its just the student
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Have you considered the idea that maybe your work isn't as good as you think it is?
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Deal with it, you need to learn how to manage different people, in the following years you'll have bosses that you hate, co-workers that you hate and so on, deal with it.
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You should probably talk to her. This will probably clear up any confusion.
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On May 11 2012 18:31 chaokel wrote:
Have you considered the idea that maybe your work isn't as good as you think it is?
EDIT: Look I know I might sound a little cocky about my work. But I can honestly tell you that I'm not saying I am the English God. But 6.5 Is not me.
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How about you put more effort into assingments?
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On May 11 2012 18:33 kzdanze wrote:Show nested quote +On May 11 2012 18:31 chaokel wrote:
Have you considered the idea that maybe your work isn't as good as you think it is?
EDIT: Look I know I might sound a little cocky about my work. But I can honestly tell you that I'm not saying I am the English God. But 6.5 Is not me.
Then why don't you take it up with yours school councilor? I find it hard to believe a teacher would purposefully fail you. There is no doubt everyone is biased, but ruining someone's future is another thing.
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At my university you have the right to get another teacher to decide your grade if you feel that you have gotten the wrong grade due to bias and such, talk with someone in charge to find out if this is the case for you too.
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Attitude will always be factored in in life when your work is evaluated (in this case, your teacher grading your stuff). You may be a decent pupil but judging from what you've said about your own behaviour (being disrespectful, talking back, provoking her) - and that's just your side of the story! - it's no wonder your grades reflect your attitude.
Respect goes a long way; have you actually tried a constructive dialogue with her before ranting? Chances are you haven't. Do realize that this teacher's universe doesn't revolve around you. You're just one of many pupils for her (and an annoying one at that, it seems) and there's no way she can deduce all your fantastic english skills when all you do is bitch and make life hard for her.
Take the first step, talk to her. Be polite about it. Maybe even admit that you haven't exactly shown your best behaviour.
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If you are sure, you could go to some higher authority with your problem. Ask another teacher to mark the assignments without names, and see if they come out with similar results.
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first lesson on how there is no justice in the world my friend.
want to make it big? cut corners, rort people, abuse loop holes.
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For starters, go to another teacher (an old teacher you respect?) and ask them to give an opinion. If they say it is only worth anything from 8 or below... Well, those few marks can be "Marker's discretion". Bad luck, but that's English for you.
You could try and put in effort, stop being a smartass in class and see if you suddenly get a better mark. Probably the best solution for everyone involved. You shouldn't disrespect someone because you don't like the way they go about their job. Give them a chance, and at worst you are only stuck in it for a year.
Or, and this is probably what you should really try, is go and talk to your teacher. Explain any issues you have with her marking/teaching, politely, and ask what you could do to improve.
Really though, if you are going to screw around in her class, you deserve crap marks. It isn't hard to just keep your mouth shut if you disagree with something, or have a productive discussion without being disrespectful (which is how you come across to me).
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OP, don't take this the wrong way, but your post is not particularly well written, and not really supported by any evidence. Just because you used to get good marks does not mean that you will continue to get them.
Officially complaining that a teacher is biased against you is pretty difficult to prove I think. The teacher will be able to pull out your assignments / tasks etc and point out why you got the marks you got. How are you going to argue your point that because you behave poorly and push her buttons that she is treating you badly back? It does not sound like a good idea to me.
Off Topic to sekritzzz:
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It's good to see that the lesson you took away was not to tell racist jokes becuase people might think you're a racist, but to suck up to the teacher instead. :-)
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you're beginning to learn now that as you grow older people become much more biased. it is a fact of life and you have to learn to manipulate their bias or stay out of the crosshairs if you want to do well.
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How many else she failing in the class? That's your start.
The better course of action is not showing her disrespect, and uniting with others in your class that understand she is more given to rants than teaching, and brings it up with her supervision and perhaps collaborating with parents to realize it is serious. What you don't do is slack of giving less than 100% to give her ammo that you're disruptive and a bad student. You're convoluting a matter with your actions. She may have had good reason to give a 3/5 or 4/5 on work, and you're just construing the difference given your perception of her dislike towards you.
~~Probably better in Blogs regardless, given your extreme emotion in the matter at hand, and relative unimportance of what place teachers can give for disrespectful attitudes and the rest in the classroom in grades.
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It's not too smart to talk back in class against a teacher who controls your grades. If you dislike her teaching fine, but don't challenge her in class. If you really feel she is doing a crap job, talk to someone above her with a neutral, official complaint and ask if they can keep it anonymous. Nothing more you can do really. I'd take this as a life lesson, sometimes the wrong people have certain power, but if it's not too big of a deal don't fight that person in public.
I'm not saying it's okay to ignore retarted people with some power, just be more strategic about it. Right now the damage has been done, so damage control (talk with her about the issue or something) seems like a good option. I mean, do you really think she will change her ways because of your opinion? Probably not and combined with the fact this is a temporary problem for you, just let it go.
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Uh...have you tried talking to the teacher about it? Asking for examples of what they consider better work?
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On May 11 2012 18:40 DR.Ham wrote:
Officially complaining that a teacher is biased against you is pretty difficult to prove I think. The teacher will be able to pull out your assignments / tasks etc and point out why you got the marks you got. How are you going to argue your point that because you behave poorly and push her buttons that she is treating you badly back? It does not sound like a good idea to me.
Why would that be hard? Just let another teacher put his/her grades on the same assignments and see if they are the same.
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This happen to everybody and will happen all the time for the rest of your life. Further in your life, you will have many professor, you will have many boss and many superior who will have a duty to judge your performance on something. you might get along with them well or might not but not all of them will be the person you expected to be. Learn to deal with it.
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