justalovestruckteen
August 23rd, 2012, 01:44 AM
(Not sure if this belongs here..)
So in my sophomore year, I had this super bad English teacher with crazy belifs like, "When citing sources, you can't use a .com." Even if it's fox news.com or that stuff. She says it could be anyone using a .com domain. Weird that people can purchase .org domains too and put inaccurate info. Good thing she at least knows Wiki can sometimes be unreliable. Also, when I underlined a movie tittle, she said it had to be quotes when I know it's not true.
So anyways, my english teacher was pretty bad. Half of the stuff she teaches are stuff from elementary school. But the one thing I learned from her is ionic pentameter (which wasn't even required for us to learn but anyways).
She always comes to class after the tardy bell (if she was a student she will be late). I understand that it was her first year teaching, but I still longed to be in another class where the teacher is a little more experienced. I talked to my counselors about my problems, but they refused to send me to another class because all the other english teachers are males. (Ok weird story, I have a past for having feelings fro my teachers. XD. I don't do that anymore though, but it's extremely weird that the band teacher is a male, jortc instructors are males and my history teacher was a male. Their argument is that they are not "classes" but "programs")
Heartbroken and sad, I tried to keep in my feelings of sadness inside. In my school, I am in the special education program as emotionally disturbed.
One day though, I couldn't keep it in any longer. After another thing my teacher done. (I believe it was mostly a misunderstanding on my part cause I didn't hear her. ugg memory is blurry) I stormed out of the class and into the lunch room. I pushed a person out of my way (they weren't hurt, it was just like a shove), than when a teacher tried to grab me so I can stop walking, I turned around and punched her.
( I really feel bad about it. Those two didn't do anything. The student in fact is someone I know as a cool person and the teacher is awesome.)
I said sorry afterwards, I am quiet lucky they forgive me. :).
Of course that doesn't mean I won't get any consequences, I understand what I did was wrong.
So anyways, the school usually sends people to another school for in school suspension for bad behavior for 10 days. Usually, people get in there for drug use on campus. Since it was my first offense, they gave me 5 days, (my birthweek I may add, though my mom gave me our school b-day party the week after. My mom is great like that. :))
But due to my emotional disturbance status, they can't give me more than 10 days though I saw an old classmate with ADHD the long term program.
Anyways moving on. I did my time and the teachers there were great, They appreciate me for not doing a single thing wrong the whole time I was there. I like them :). It wasn't as bad as the school suspension I got when I was in 8th grade where they don't let you do anything. This ones make you at least do work and have candy :).
I am going out of topic a bit so I'll get to my problem. So I passed my English class even with a crummy teacher, but now the school decides to hold back my english credit due to the situation above. Can they legally (our public school system is American run) do that? Even though I was punished and everything?
They said that I can earn it back if I behave for the whole school year. (Not a problem as long as they don't give me an incompetent teacher that doesn't know what she's doing.), but it makes me wonder if they can legally do it.
(I have known for a fact I did not fail, because my school schedule says I have Jr English the whole school year. They would give me the class again if I have failed.)
Also, for the whole situation above, did my school did the right thing? (If it's not right I could get a case worker or something.)
So in my sophomore year, I had this super bad English teacher with crazy belifs like, "When citing sources, you can't use a .com." Even if it's fox news.com or that stuff. She says it could be anyone using a .com domain. Weird that people can purchase .org domains too and put inaccurate info. Good thing she at least knows Wiki can sometimes be unreliable. Also, when I underlined a movie tittle, she said it had to be quotes when I know it's not true.
So anyways, my english teacher was pretty bad. Half of the stuff she teaches are stuff from elementary school. But the one thing I learned from her is ionic pentameter (which wasn't even required for us to learn but anyways).
She always comes to class after the tardy bell (if she was a student she will be late). I understand that it was her first year teaching, but I still longed to be in another class where the teacher is a little more experienced. I talked to my counselors about my problems, but they refused to send me to another class because all the other english teachers are males. (Ok weird story, I have a past for having feelings fro my teachers. XD. I don't do that anymore though, but it's extremely weird that the band teacher is a male, jortc instructors are males and my history teacher was a male. Their argument is that they are not "classes" but "programs")
Heartbroken and sad, I tried to keep in my feelings of sadness inside. In my school, I am in the special education program as emotionally disturbed.
One day though, I couldn't keep it in any longer. After another thing my teacher done. (I believe it was mostly a misunderstanding on my part cause I didn't hear her. ugg memory is blurry) I stormed out of the class and into the lunch room. I pushed a person out of my way (they weren't hurt, it was just like a shove), than when a teacher tried to grab me so I can stop walking, I turned around and punched her.
( I really feel bad about it. Those two didn't do anything. The student in fact is someone I know as a cool person and the teacher is awesome.)
I said sorry afterwards, I am quiet lucky they forgive me. :).
Of course that doesn't mean I won't get any consequences, I understand what I did was wrong.
So anyways, the school usually sends people to another school for in school suspension for bad behavior for 10 days. Usually, people get in there for drug use on campus. Since it was my first offense, they gave me 5 days, (my birthweek I may add, though my mom gave me our school b-day party the week after. My mom is great like that. :))
But due to my emotional disturbance status, they can't give me more than 10 days though I saw an old classmate with ADHD the long term program.
Anyways moving on. I did my time and the teachers there were great, They appreciate me for not doing a single thing wrong the whole time I was there. I like them :). It wasn't as bad as the school suspension I got when I was in 8th grade where they don't let you do anything. This ones make you at least do work and have candy :).
I am going out of topic a bit so I'll get to my problem. So I passed my English class even with a crummy teacher, but now the school decides to hold back my english credit due to the situation above. Can they legally (our public school system is American run) do that? Even though I was punished and everything?
They said that I can earn it back if I behave for the whole school year. (Not a problem as long as they don't give me an incompetent teacher that doesn't know what she's doing.), but it makes me wonder if they can legally do it.
(I have known for a fact I did not fail, because my school schedule says I have Jr English the whole school year. They would give me the class again if I have failed.)
Also, for the whole situation above, did my school did the right thing? (If it's not right I could get a case worker or something.)