+118 If there class grades for a test were four F's, two D's, seven C's, and five B's, and not a single A, the teacher has not properly prepared them for the test, Amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's an oddly specific example.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It was the actual results of a test in my chemistry class that the teacher refused to accept that he didn't prepare us for. After a long period of arguing, he told us "not to worry about our grades", which is addressed in another post of mine

by Anonymous 11 years ago

*their

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Sounds like your English teacher is guilty of this.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Chemistry actually

by Anonymous 11 years ago

or maybe they are all just stupid

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Or that the students didn't respect the teacher and refused to learn from them, or that the test was unreasonable, or more likely, because that is just the level of those students. You'd have a point if 2/3 of the class didn't get what I would describe as a decent grade, but no, that doesn't sound like it is the teacher's fault at all.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

well the teacher then didn't prepare us enough for it especially if the test was unreasonable, because that teacher made the test, and therefore it is his responsibility to prepare us for it. and i assure you, it is NOT because the students aren't trying. i, at least, am trying far harder in this chemistry class than ever before in any class i've ever had (and i've always been good at science)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Or it's a really hard test. Or all the kids didn't study enough. There are endless possibilities; I wouldn't be so quick as to blame the teacher.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The test WAS really hard (which is a fault on the teacher's part, because it did not correspond in difficulty to the intensity of work we did in class), and the students sent him numerous emails the night before stating that they did not understand a unit (the teacher was absent the day before the test, which was the only day in class we had to learn it, and the substitute didn't know a thing about chemistry)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'd have to know more about it. A lot of times when this happens to kids(myself included), they blame the teacher when in reality it's simply a good teacher and the kids have just been walked through school their whole lives. Put a little effort into the class and don't complain, you'll understand once you graduate.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i understand how hard it is to convey the difficulty of a subject, but allow me to make it relative to other classes on a difficulty level. I have to try far harder to have a basic understanding of a unit of this class than it takes for me to master a unit of all my other classes put together. I just have to sit there and absorb for minutes on end, then actually continue in my work. Chemistry is a difficult subject to teach, and our teacher is not at all eloquent with words. The information is conveyed in a very unfriendly way. he gives us facts, and i do a better job or teaching myself how to use them than he does. his explanations are very confusing, and only make sense to somebody with a mastery of the subject parallel to his own

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That actually sounds like a reasonable grade distribution.

by Anonymous 11 years ago