I Greatly Dislike My English Class

As if I didn't complain enough all ready . . . A lot of my close friends know how much I used to hate math. No matter what I did, I could never get it. Now, however, I'm doing very well. I actually like math. This is the first time, however, that I have liked math more than English. It's not that I dislike the subject itself, it's that I really can't stand my teacher, nor can any of my other classmates.

Well, what has she done that's so abysmal?

First off, she is very lousy at assigning homework. She will wait until the very end of class and won't even say, "This is for homework." Most often, she just talks about what we'll be doing but not, "This is homework!" or "This is due tomorrow!" As a result, it isn't uncommon for a good portion of us to not get the homework.

Second, she assigns work in a weird way. For classwork, she will tell us everything we'll be doing throughout the entire week at once. As a result, when it's time to do the assignment, we all ask each other, "What are we doing?" For one of the assignments, what we had to do was imagine we were on lifeboats and only had six things with us. The six things were provided on the list. However, she gave us the backstory three times, wording it differently each time, but failed to tell us HOW we'd do it. Additionally, she failed to say that we'd be lost at sea and not stranded on an island, so literally none of the groups did the assignment correctly.

Third, she has no regard for people's health conditions. Today there was this one boy in the library using one of the computers, and he was in a boot. I don't know if his ankle had been broken or twisted, but he was in a boot nonetheless. Despite this, she made him get all of his things and move to a different computer, away from the main part of the room. Then there was a boy in my class who was out for a solid week due to issues with his appendix, and he actually stayed in the hospital for a bit. As a result, when he got back, we had to take a quiz. He could not take the quiz because he was absent throughout the entire lesson. Despite this, she still put his grade in as a zero, as if he had completely failed it. He had to complain to her three times before she finally acquiesced and changed his grade. Most other teachers will tell the kid to come and stay after school in a few days when they feel ready to take the quiz, and they simply won't put in the grade until the kid has taken a make-up quiz/test. Not this teacher!

Fourth, she is not above literally humiliating her students in front of the entire class. She has done this to me three times all ready! What I'll do is I'll try my hardest to answer the question as completely as I can, and there are times where these are OPINION questions, but she will still tell me that my answer is the exact opposite of what SHE is looking for. Yeah, tell me what you think about this, but if it doesn't match what I'm thinking word for word, it's wrong! And she has said that before. When we were reading The Lord of the Flies, we had to analyze a passage she had chosen. The passage we had was one we had to think long and hard about to understand, and when I gave my answer, she came right out and said, "That is actually the exact opposite of what I'm looking for." Then yesterday, she tells us to highlight parts of a particular paragraph we found interesting. I repeat, WE FOUND INTERESTING. This was an opinion question, so I told her what I thought was interesting. Then she says, with this smug condescending smile plastered on her face, "That is the exact opposite of what I asked you to look for." Even when I tried to defend myself, she kept telling me that I was wrong, I was totally wrong, I was so wrong I may as well have not answered at all. This was for the entire class to hear.

I really, REALLY hate her as a teacher. I'm considering switching classes, but I don't know if there are any other teachers or course this semester who teach English Three Advanced. I have yet to meet a single student who has ANYTHING positive to say about this teacher.