Horrible Teachers

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I'm fairly depressed about this. It could almost go in the Haven actually... almost, but not quite.

Today, was my first day of a new year of school. It did not go well. The day started reasonably well, with general information about the year and the SACE (South Australian Certificate of Education) and everything else that you are always told at the start of a year.

My next two lessons were Design, I was hoping this would be floorplans and building design, it's symbols, tattoos and clothing. And it's an extremely noisy room. The teacher is... eccentric, she's not too bad, but still quite odd, not too bad though. I was willing to deal with it.

Then it all went wrong. I had two of my favourite lessons, Mathematics and Science (Biology). I'm in an advanced class (What you might call Honors) in Mathematics, instead of getting the best mathematics teacher as it said on my timetable I get the worst. An Indian man with such a horrible accent that I can't understand him. I have trouble understanding most people at times with my hearing oversensitivity issues but NOBODY can understand this man. We are all in the advanced class, and none of us know what this man is talking about. His voice is also loud, it hurts my ears to even listen to him. his teaching methods are considered inferior to the other teachers and getting him is usually considered as a path to a bad year.

I was expecting a good lesson with Science. I like Science. I was wrong, so so wrong. Another Indian teacher, I couldn't understand her either, worse, the class wouldn't shut up, they talked and talked and yelled. She wouldn't shut up either, she didn't even mention Science once in the first half an hour. I had my ears blocked for the entire lesson to try and stop the noise but it didn't work. She spelt the word "please" as "pls", she wasted the lesson and didn't speak about the curriculum at all. She spent more time chatting about herself.

How am I supposed to get anything done if I can't understand these teachers? Even if I could, their teaching methods are terrible anyway according to those who have had them.

I left school with a headache, mild anxiety and stimming.

I don't want to go back and it's been one day. This is going to be a long, long year.

I'm sorry that things are off to such a rough start. Is there any one in the school administration that you can talk to -- tell them the issues -- and get your scheduled changed to more acceptable teachers?

I'm so sorry you're having such a bad time! My family can relate, because my (autistic) kids are in the same situation. My husband and I are always calling, emailing, and going to the school to straighten problems out. We went so far as to pull my son out of one teacher's classes and put him in an online course instead, because that teacher had it in for him and the school wouldn't do anything about it. Hopefully someone in your school's administration will help you fix things. I'm rooting for you.

After this week, they allow you to inquire about changing classes. I think I'll do this, I honestly can't understand them. And in Mathematics in Science you need to understand the teachers. Not to mention that he's going over work that I had already done in previous years and still understand.

Well, I have IT today, using computers is always relaxing. Hopefully.

Thanks for the support.

Have you considered speaking with the teachers? In particular, the one that is too loud for you may not realize his voice is causing you problems. He may also be willing to tone it down if you make him aware of the problem.

Other people have tried, he's quite touchy about his voice. He seems to take any request involving it as a racist remark. I was only in his class for ten minutes today anyway, there was a display for a program to help with motivation and confidence. Even worse, I have no found out that what he writes is almost impossible to read, it's that messy. The other teacher, the Science one was better today, I can understand her and she actually started some real work so she should be okay.

But the Math teacher. I have no way of communicating with this guy, I can see that the odds of me getting a passing grade let alone my usual A grade is pretty much nil. If that happens I may get to go back to my old teacher, he was much better.

I really don't know why this guy is teaching, almost all students have problems with him, somebody said that their brother was excellent at Math but got the worst grade available in his class. That doesn't give me high hopes.

You should be able to transfer into a different section/meeting time of that math class. Not sure where you go to school, but if you have a very serious issue with an instructor, you can usually petition to get into another class (with a different instructor), even if that class is full.

Instructors you can't understand are the worst. And (not to sound racist), but I used to work at an Indian restaurant and also had an Indian roommate...I couldn't read any of those guys' handwriting to save my life! I think they learn a very different style of handwriting (even in English) compared to what we learn here.

Yes, I should be. But I don't want to be accused of racism either, and I wont be the first in the line to leave his class. I know most people have a few bad teachers but ones that you can't understand at all is too much.

Thanks for the help, I have another of his lessons today.

So what' new? I will dance at my third grade teacher's funeral. I had lots of as*hole teachers but my third grade teacher seemed to get a thrill from belitting me. I had severe trouble in math, espicaly multiclipation. She used this to her advantage. Every day when school was almost over she would have timed quizes of multiclipation tables. If you got EVERY single problem right you could pick out a prize. I could only get past the twos but you could only get a prize if you could finish the threes. I finnaly got to the threes but could never get every single problem correct (I couldn't even do that with the 2's) and by the time I had made it that far, she no longer gave out prizes. She deserves to be hung for that alone. At the beginning of the year I was thrilled that the second chapter of the sceince book was about animals (my special intrest). I litteraly counted the days until we were done with the first one only to find out we were going to skip that chapter. I think she did that because she knew it was the only thing I was good at. She also encouraged the other kids to make fun of me for my stims. She only added to my isolation by seperating me from the rest of the class and next to a bully she did other things too and if I knew it was physically possible to kill oneself I would have. There is no way to justify anything she did and I will never forgive her.

I personaly think they need cameras in school classrooms and if the teacher tries to turn it off an alarm will siren and she will lose her job as a teacher period or they need a special key that only the principal has acess to to turn them off. If a TV or camera wasn't working for some reason, classes would be cancled until they could be fixed. I would mount them in every angel of the classroom. I don't like the idea of cameras everywhere in public places you can usualy choose if you want to go there or not but in places where kids are there against their will, there needs to be cameras to protect them. I had a bus driver who was from Hell. When they issued cameras on the school bus, he would turn it off.