How to give a teacher a hard time?

[Megan]

There's this elective teacher I am now disliking for another language, we are on good terms as of now, however I request to drop out of her class. The only possibly way that is blocking me from dropping her class for second semester is her permission to do so, and since I had not fail 1st semester I cannot drop her class. She does not want to drop me out of her class, and I sent her an e-mail almost begging to be drop from her class so I can go with another elective. I am waiting for response but it's been all weekend, and Tuesday is when new semester begins.

Here are my options,

1) speak to the principal to drop her class * I kind of doubt this will work*, like override her permission

2) speak to her husband, since he liked me, I had him during my freshman year. And her husband is another teacher in the building. However, I think that might be too extreme, as if she was a child.

3) give her a hard time for one week, a real hard time, so she will for sure want me out of her class. Now this is the only logical choice to me, but I don't want to go too extreme, but I am willing to try really hard for one week to get out of her class. Here are my ideas, just talk in English (since it's requested we speak the language we are learning), do pretend homework (so she can throw it away as many times as she wants too so I'll have copies of it), eating in her class, just ignoring her, talking loudly with others, making a whole scene, being sent to the hallway or worse principal office, laughing at her. I'll do anything within reason.

I already have another teacher lined up to take me as well, since she really likes me. She ask me last year if I wanted to take one of her classes, and she will speak to the counselor if I did.

And my relationship with this current language teacher is really good, but the reason why I want to drop out of her class is because I am not doing really well for an elective, and because she ruined my brother's GPA with his class last semester. My family comes first before a teacher, and when I now look at her I'm like "ehh get away from me ugly". So yeah.

[spacial]

Number 3 might get you a really bad reputation.

[Megan]

Perhaps, but the teachers I have signed up so far love me (past teachers), so I am not too worried. Plus I be completely acting, it wouldn't even be "me". I be out of character, and she will know it, since she had me the whole past semester. She would be like, "omg who is this? this isn't the same person last semester, the one who was never rude".

My reputation is worth sacrificing to get out of her class, and the only people she hangs out with are other foreign language teachers and social studies group.

But if she is going to hard about me switching classes, I won't give her an easy time to stay with that decision.
Post Merge: January 31, 2010, 04:07:09 PM
i should had waited, nvm about this thread

i think my class is going to be change to something else, i just spoke to one of the counselors.

yay! i don't have to stress about this.

[lisagurl]

Education is not about GPA, enjoying the teacher or class. Education is about knowing something you did not know before.

[spacial]

Megan

That's great. I was really quite worried about your cunning scheme.

In my experience, teachers stick together.

[tekla]

In my experience the last thing teachers (high school) want other than hemorrhoids, is someone in the class who does not want to be there.

Oddly, I learned a lot more from teachers I didn't like, then ones I did - perhaps the whole 'proving' something deal.

[Hannah]

Education is not about GPA, enjoying the teacher or class. Education is about knowing something you did not know before.

I beg to differ, while this might be true in the figurative sense it's not in reality. I'm finally learning things I didn't already know after three years and about 40k. Up until now it has been about checking the boxes and paying the money. I've had some great professors so I'm not knocking them, they just have a set criteria they have to meet in order to award credits. As someone already capable with the english language and with a few years of real life experience there just wasn't a lot of new data in there. I have to admit the freedom from needing to look up things like spelling and basic math have made the experience more enjoyable and I've had more time to be fickle about my term papers and so on, but in the end my degree won't look any different from the degree of the person who still can't spell worth a damn or use proper grammar in a conversation.

If you ever get in this situation again, don't be afraid to call them out. The english department in my school has an unwritten policy about awarding "A" grades, and with term papers being subjective grades that's entirely possible to do. I found myself in a class with a particuraly crotchety professor, and I asked and questioned about every point she docked me. This achieves two things: it shows them you care about your grade and shows you where you can improve in their eyes, and in this case it practically dares them not to award you a good grade on subjective material. I got the first A in years from that department, and from what I've heard the only one that professor has ever scored.

[tekla]

There is never a more satisfying 'A' then the one that the teacher you know really doesn't like you has to give you.  And that's from both the perspective of a person who got those grades, as well as had to give them out.

[Megan]

I careless about education now, I'm just there to graduate. A grade doesn't mean anything, it's the time I'm wasting on earning the credit is what bothers me more.

I rather just take an easy class than waste x amount of hours for something that has no value to me.

I'm not going to college so this doesn't apply to people who are going. My life plan is to save as much money then head to Hollywood.

[tekla]

Head to Hollywood to do what?

[Megan]

Acting

My hardest decision of my life but I gave it 2 years before I finally accepted it.

I won't transistion though since I don't feel like a transsexual and it will ruin my career. Plus I just don't want to be a transsexual, it's not a calling, and acting is. It's on my mind 24/7.

[tekla]

What are you planning on doing in a rather expensive place (LA) while you try to get a SAG/AFTRA card?

[Megan]

i don't really know, guess some restaurant job

[lisagurl]

A great book about the American educational system. "the deliberate dumbing down of america"

Another book about the culture today. " Closing of the American Mind"