hey y'all, i've got kind of a strange question, what do you guys do if you don't like your teacher(s) or your teacher(s) don't like you?
My science teacher seems to enjoy not giving me the homework and then yelling at me when it's not done. :angry: ,
My english teacher complains all the time,
My gym teacher looks like a cave man,
My math teacher freaks me out,
My latin teacher has no clue what he's doing,
My home ec. teachers are paranoid,
My history and guitar teachers are the only ones that are actually cool.
So what do y'all think?

All pretty run of the mill problems with teachers. I'm sure most of us have had at LEAST half of these problems, so heres a bit of advice.

My science teacher seems to enjoy not giving me the homework and then
yelling at me when it's not done.

Ask friends, or people in your class if there was homework assigned, also check the board, a lot of teachers may have a homework list somewhere in the class. Some teachers don't think it's their responsibility to inform you of there being homework, so you have to make sure you know about it yourself

My English teacher complains all the time,

Honestly, if I was a English teacher, I would complain all the time too. Look around on the internet in general, hell, even on the LC. A English teacher's job is to teach people to use the English language properly, and a LOT of people molest the language whenever they login to the internet. Look around, most people don't even use basic punctuation correctly. With all the abbreviations, and chatspeak alternatives, it looks like there WILL be a Orwellian degradation of the language until it becomes mind numbingly idiotic. Just try to speak properly, and feel sympathy, for your English teachers are fighting a losing battle.

My gym teacher looks like a cave man,

Does this surprise you? Honestly, 80% of gym teachers look like cave men, or sometimes cave women. It comes partially cause a lot of them have broken bones like their nose in the past.

My math teacher freaks me out,

How so? How are they odd? I personally had a math teacher who was like... 7 feet tall, and balding, with a funny sense of humor. Best math teacher I ever had.

My latin teacher has no clue what he's doing,

Damn! You have a LATIN teacher? You must be going to a nice school or something. Honestly, I have no idea about Latin either. Many times teachers will get a job, because they need someone to teach it. Your Latin teacher might not have the credentials to teach Latin, but your school said that they have a Latin class, so there damn well better be a Latin class. School politics make no sense, learn to live with it.

My home ec. teachers are paranoid,

Paranoid about WHAT pray tell? If they are just paranoid on general terms, then you should give them reason to be. Try a prank or two. MY Home Ec teacher in the 8th grade talked to the microphone in her charm necklace, and said that 'the butterflies saved her when she fell off a cliff one time'. She also swears blind TO THIS DAY (my youngest sibling just had her last year) that she has never done drugs, DESPITE the fact that the storage room smells like weed, and she once had a picture of a pot leaf hanging on her wall.

My history and guitar teachers are the only ones that are actually cool.

Duh. History teachers are often cool. They can either be A.) boring, and drone on endlessly like Professor Binns, or B.) Be awesome, and teach you all kinds of things you never knew, like how native Americans tortured their captives, and other neat stuff. As for your guitar teacher. Do I even need to start on that. GUITAR teacher, how awesome is that?

I agree with Pyrii on what she says but about you EC teacher, here is a question for you. First is it Home Economacs. or is it plan Economacs?

If it is Home Economacs haven't you heard about all the people that get sick from food that has not been prepared right. Your teacher wants to make sure that you don't get sick. If it is plan Economacs well haven't you heard about all the people that are in debt they don't want to let you get in debt so badly that you wish you where die or that you can't get a loan to get a house when you think you are ready.

Hope you don't take what I wrote wrong it's just that I made many mistakes and now I have very bad credit. If I would have been able to take that class when I was in school I might not have to probles I have now.

I would just like to say to Pyrii right on!. Hot teachers have it real rough. They are out numbered and under paid in a thankless job. If you don't like your teachers that is normal, but try to learn from them. And if they don't like you, ask yourself why.

Scarlett (ladeeknight) hit the proverbial nail on the head. I've been back and forth on whether or not to get my teaching certificate, and what keeps holding me back is the knowlege that I can make more money at Wal-Mart--and even hear the occasional 'thank you' as well. (That and the hope that my next novel will sell a million copies, or at least ten thousand. I'd be happy with ten thousand.) And it's not just elementary and high school teachers who get the short end of the stick. A friend of mine from college is now a Biology professor at our alma mater, and I made more money than he back when I was managing a handful of restaurants.

But to answer the question, or at least toss in my two cents:

How are the other students finding out about the assignments? Or are they? If you're the only one this is happening to, ask your teacher what you can do to make sure it doesn't happen again. If it's the whole class, you might want to think about saying something to the principal or another authority. Hell, maybe even sign a petition; you don't give up your first amendment rights by walking into a school building.

I agree wholeheartedly with Pyrii here. I have to change the channel every time that commercial comes on with everyone talking in textspeak, or the Best Buy commercial that is 30 seconds long and includes not a single complete sentence. And that's just when I'm sitting at home watching my TV. I find myself wanting to throw things (like thesauruses) at people in my writers' group who switch from past to present tense at random; or don't know the diference between there, their, and they're; or how to use a semicolon.

Could be worse. I had one that looked like Michael Moore. I thought, 'This guy has to be pushing 350 pounds, and he's supposed to each me how to stay in shape?!'

I had a geometry teacher who freaked me out. But at least I learned how to sleep with my eyes open in class.

How do you know? Do you speak Latin? Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.

Kids, knives, scissors. I'd be paranoid too.

And we've all had some horrible teachers. I had a theater arts teacher who assigned us our parts (making sure to give all the 'pretty' kids or the ones that had parents on the school board acting parts and put the rest of us backstage) and then gave grades based on those parts. So I barely pulled a B, despite having done all the musical accompaniment on guitar and piano (I was the only one in the class who could play either) for two of the plays we performed, and writing the third.

Then again, a teacher you may hate now very well could be the best teacher you'll ever have. I had a chemistry teacher who gave me a 99.9 as a final grade, even though I had a perfect score on every test, homework assignment, and in lab. This was before computers ran the world, so my grade was not rounded up as it would be in most schools today. His reasoning for holding back the tenth of a point: "No matter how well you do, you can always do better." I called him a few choice words.

Ten years later, I ran into him in the hardware store and thanked him for what was probably the best lesson I was taught in that sanity leeching boiling pot called high school.

Okay, so that was probably more like a quarter than two pennies. But I'm done now.

You think you have it bad. You have nothing compared to my first year of 7th grade. I had a math teacher that didn't like me. AT ALL. I did nothing particularly bad, but she said she didn't like my attitude, even though I wasn't even the worst kid in the class. Almost every day the teacher would find one reason or another to send me out of class. Where I would sit out on the ramp, and NOT learn the day's lesson. On days when it would be cold or snow or something, I would get sent to go sit in the office for the duration of her class. Needless to say, I failed the class, as I wasn't IN CLASS TO LEARN THE COURSE WORK.

Also I was wrongly accused of plagiarism on a Science paper, and that ruined my already not so good grade in that class. So with the two fails, I had to repeat the second grade, and thankfully got completely new teachers.

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You wanna hear bad? When I was in the seventh grade, this girl stabbed me in the arm with a pair of scissors. (I was really lucky; it could have been a scalpel. We were suposed to be discecting frogs, but the tacher was too squeamish, so we were making stupin kidergarten art projects--paper baskets and the like.) When I yelled "Ow! Dammit that hurt!" I was suspended for cussing and interupting class. Of course that was after the teacher made me clean up the floor where I had bled. I still have the scar.

Well... I ... Trash canned a kid once. And I got a lunch detention for it!

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Henry's wondering why pyrii trash canned a kid. If a kid is really annoying, but If a teachers annoying I just do what they say anyways. Honestly there's not much you can when there's a teacher you don't like. Just try to get on their good side (if they have a good side).