So my teacher thinks im a "Little bit slow" (when im not)

[Hungry Donner]

Reminds me a bit of my 11th grade American History class. We started the year with a great teacher, he was energetic and committed, and he wanted us to feel the same way about the subject matter. Unfortunately half way through the year he left. The replacement they hired was miserable. He felt that high school was just for learning facts, and it was college where we learned to think about the material critically.

All of a sudden the students who had been active in class discussions were no longer participating; class "discussion" was really just Q&A drills: What does NAACP stand for? What year did WWI begin and what year did it end? Which president was in office at the beginning of the Great Depression? Fact are important, but there is no reason you can't cover facts and think about them.

Tests were similarly changed and many of the A students were suddenly not doing that well. However funny enough many of the students who had previously been doing very poorly were suddenly doing extremely well. They could regurgitate the data just fine even if they had little understanding of it.

 

[Grospoliner]

You should do everything you can to piss her off. Your punishment is a badge of honor.

 

[AnkaraTheFallen]

I'd say definitely complain, she's only taught you once and doesn't know the kind of person you are. And to be honest from my experience no one works hard with a substitute teacher, so she shouldn't be making assumptions about you.

 

[bad rider]

If your post is any indication...

Maybe you should try harder. You know, pay attention, don't act up in class, that sort of thing. Also, brush up on your spelling, what to do with Proper Nouns, punctuation, and the difference between your and you're.

I was going to bite my tongue on that but as everyone else isn't I have to ask "she got something wrong and my at do my fellow mum insulted her."

........I don't understand.

More on topic:

English literature is a good subject to take. I know it seems useless, but what it's teaching you is to be insightful. To use your knowledge explore the text and to come up with new ideas. You want to see a real life use of English literature? Watch extra credits, that's (I'm over simplifying this) all they do. Look at a topic, explore it then express a point of view based on what you know and what you find. It's good for the mind!

 

[Dags90]

Oh come on. How thin-skinned are you?

Hint: He's a Briton complaining about it being too hot. What was it, room temperature outside?

I'll let Arnold take it from here:

 

[Sensenmann]

People in this thread... Him asking his mother for help isn't immature. Many teens are ridiculously angry towards their parents for no apparent reason, so this is clearly a step up. Also, people are taking internet laziness as the way he really types, just because he got mixed up with punctuation and your and you're. Then people are taking it this way that the OP deserves to be thrown out of his lessons. And seriously: Who hasn't gotten down on an overcast day and not worked in math, just as this guy isn't working on a summer's day?

To all these people: only those who are not educated need the course, otherwise they can read the books and take the exam. Hence, his shortcomings are understandable.

To the OP: Keep at it. I felt the same about English Literature GCSE, though I read books but last year, while doing my first AS-Levels, I decided I wanted a balance of subjects, not two hard sciences, one humanity and "a skill"/btec national. I ended up doing English Literature this year.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

She shouldn't call you a moron, you're super astute?
Sorry, couldn't resist when i saw the thread and your avatar.

On a serious note. I don't know why you chose english lit over french when you don't like either. French should be 10 times more useful.

 

[Redcar]

I am a teacher in the UK school system.

I have to take issue with several of the above posters. Although telling a kid to his face that he is slow would be unprofessional its very normal for teachers and other education professionals to discus the ability/attainment of pupils after a lesson. This helps a teacher (especially if she/he is not familiar with a class) better understand the needs of the pupils being taught. The unprofessional conduct here is the TA taking the comment to the OPs mother rather than correcting the teachers allegedly mistaken assumption. Its also pretty stupid of the mother to pass the comment back to the kid but I am not surprised as she must fairly incompetent judging by the immaturity of her 15 year old offspring.

@ OP
The most mature thing you can do is show the teacher that her judgment of you was mistaken by working well in her lessons.

If you choose to 'take it to the authorities' I guarantee they will not be interested. The teacher has done nothing wrong in discussing your ability with other teachers. If the 'authority' you take 'this complaint' too respects your intelligence they will tell you this. If they agree with your teacher in believing that you are slow they will nod at you for 2 minuets, say something meaningless then do nothing.


This comment makes me think you need to grow up:

'we had a stand in teacher called Miss Eyres (She is incredibly ugly and had a ginger afro).'

 

[teqrevisited]

I'd probably just sleep or otherwise passively waste time for the rest of her lessons just to piss her off. The best thing you can do to annoy a teacher is to ignore them. Do it just enough to annoy her but stay in the classroom, that way they probably wont get you any further.

Just make sure you know your stuff for the GCSEs and get the coursework done. It's fair enough to laugh till your face goes numb and stick halves of sweets and pritt sticks to the ceiling in geography (I absolutely didn't do this. Honest.) but for maths science & english it's probably best to make the effort.

 

[Caligulove]

Don't take that. Prove her wrong, simple as that. Better to be shown how wrong you are than to have some person above them scolding them for something that was basically a comment- probably turns into that teacher having more animosity for you. Through your work and through your presentation in class, come off as "psh, you think I'm slow- watch this."

You'll thank yourself later if you just stand up and professionally prove someone's ignorant bullshit to be wrong.

 

[retterkl]

I can teach you to do Of Mice and Men instead if you want, or do the poems (assuming the anthology is still the same as 2 years ago). I taught a friend of mine the English Lit course the night before the exam and he got an A.

But if you really want to win you've got to do the opposite of what some are saying here. Don't slack off and give up to just prove her right. Learn the book, be the best in the class and make her feel like an idiot for not believing in you. I read To Kill a Mockingbird and I agree, it can get tedious, but there's still plenty of great things anyone can appreciate within it.

English Lit, according to my school's calender, is on Monday 23rd, so it's not like you've got long to deal with it anyway. If you don't know most of it by this stage anyway there probably is some room for concern.

 

[Thyunda]

I slept through every English lesson. My teacher told me I'd fail. I came out of it with an A. But...she was actually a very good teacher. I was just lazy. Brilliant, but definitely lazy.

Anyhow, it's the bad student that blames the teacher. Especially when you resort to insulting the teacher and saying that you'll complain about her because she essentially said that you had trouble paying attention in class.

I'm definitely going to argue with the rest of the kids here saying "Tell the dumb ***** to fuck herself." If you're not paying attention, then you're an idiot. It's not the teacher's fault. Stop whining, man up, and maybe you'll succeed. If not, you can fail. And then the dumb ***** can go fuck herself while she pays taxes to fund your dole money in two years time.

 

[Jonluw]

Ever since all my english lit lessons end with either a detention or a sending out just because she got something wrong and my at do my fellow mum insulted her.

Whenever I hear these kinds of stories of one-sided villainy where the narrator is being prosecuted for reasons like ?just because she got something wrong? I ?m more inclined to think that the person telling the story is the problem than I am to believe their story.

Yeah, I too.

OT: Most of what can be said has already. I'm just here to join in the chorus of "fix your grammar before coming to complain about how your English teacher supposedly has a completely unjustified grudge against you."

From the look of your post, you seem to just have a bad attitude.

 

[MikeOfThunder]

It's not the teacher's fault. Stop whining, man up, and maybe you'll succeed. If not, you can fail. And then the dumb ***** can go fuck herself while she pays taxes to fund your dole money in two years time.

...I think you might be overestimating the usefulness of GCSE English Literature.

I sucked at many classes during secondary school but that was out of laziness, if you have the ability I advise you use it. God knows I wish I had a little more!

However, if you are feeling more 'persecuted'(?) then the other students I think it's best to talk to someone higher up, or you could actually talk to her after class about it... who knows she may listen.

 

[Thyunda]

It's not the teacher's fault. Stop whining, man up, and maybe you'll succeed. If not, you can fail. And then the dumb ***** can go fuck herself while she pays taxes to fund your dole money in two years time.

...I think you might be overestimating the usefulness of GCSE English Literature.

I sucked at many classes during secondary school but that was out of laziness, if you have the ability I advise you use it. God knows I wish I had a little more!

However, if you are feeling more 'persecuted'(?) then the other students I think it's best to talk to someone higher up, or you could actually talk to her after class about it... who knows she may listen.

It's not so much the subject, it's the attitude and the principle. If your attitude to hearing that you're considered 'slow' is to run to your mother and have the offender punished, you're really going to get nowhere. If the teacher calls you out on your inability to pay attention, and your attitude is 'tell the dumb ***** to fuck herself', then where is that going to get you?

 

[hardlymotivated]

So, to summarise: OP acts like a little child in class, gets called out on it by his teacher, and then comes to a forum to cry about how unfairly he's been treated.

 

[Electrogecko]

Explain to her that boredom does not have to mean that you're slow OR that she's a bad teacher.