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

[ToastiestZombie]

Im a student at a secondary school in britain and im currently in year 10 (If your american, in britain we do school sections in acedemic years). Im starting my GCSEs, I have to do enlish literature and I HATE it, im hoping to be an architect when I leave school and I don't think that any people looking for architects will want to know the hidden meaning in Shakespeares hamlet or something. Anyway i had to do it because my school does GCSE choices in these stupid blocks where you choose one subject out of 3 in 5 blocks and it was either this french or PE.

So my normal english lit teacher was seriously ill so we had a stand in teacher called Miss Eyres. It was just a normal lesson and we were learning about How to Kill a Mocking Bird. I was incredibly bored and it was a boiling hot day (I work like crap when im hot in every lesson not just english lit)I wasnt paying attention much but i was still taking a few notes. My teacher kept shouting at me whenever I looked away for 1 second and it got incredibly annoying and tedious when the second lesson in our double came around. At the end she made a comment about me needing to pay attention more.

Then she told one of the teaching assistants in our school that she thought that Matt kid is
"a little bit slow" which is basically a polite way of saying retarded.But she didn't know that my mum works at my school as the head of learning support and things like that get spread to her very quickly. So my mum talked to her and said thst I wasn't "a little bit slow" it was just her bad teaching. 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 mum insulted her.

So what do my fellow escapees think about all this and should I complain or should I just leave it alone.

 

[kayisking]

Complain, definitely. If I have learned one thing as a nerd it is that pride and honor are weaknesses not virtues. Getting help is often the best option.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Complain to the administration and get switched to an alternate class.

Or, you could take the immature route, and spread rumors about her sleeping around with other teachers.

Or you could just do fuck all.

 

[comadorcrack]

Complain to the administration and get switched to an alternate class.

Or, you could take the immature route, and spread rumors about her sleeping around with other teachers.

Or you could just do fuck all.

I'd listen to this man. TAKE THE IMMATURE ROUTE! Come on Year 10 you're like what 15? Be as Immature as you can Play Pranks on her too!

And English Lit as as valid as any other subject. You have to take it I'm afraid

(Defends English Because he's doing an English and Drama Degree)

 

[SckizoBoy]

Send a hideously verbose and eloquent letter listing all the 'grievances' that you have been subjected to in the style of Dickens to the Head of Department CC'ing in your original teacher, your mother and anyone else on staff you feel is relevant.

Include testimony of fellow students and a few veiled insults if you think you can get away with it.

Seriously though, complain to the DeptHead (officially of course), 'cos she's just being petty and vindictive.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Perhaps she happened to read some of your work and was worried about your disinclination to use punctuation and inability to distinguish between 'your' and 'you're'. Just a thought, and don't take this the wrong way.

 

[Actual]

I'd try and leave English for French. English lit will never ever be useful as long as your grammar, spelling and reading comprehension is decent. A little conversational french could be very useful.

Not to be a ****, you seem very nice, but your grammar here is a little shoddy, perhaps you do actually need to try a little harder.

 

[Legion]

To be as respectful as possible, your basic English really could be better. You want to show her up? Work your arse off to be the best in the class, then at the end of the year insinuate that it was done no thanks to her.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

You should complain. They're not actually allowed to say anything like that about students.

Also you're lucky with only having to pick Eng Lit. Our school made French a core subject. and they wouldn't even let me swap it out for German, because apparently if you're not in the top 3 classes, you're too stupid to.... *incoherent angry mutterings*

 

[bojac6]

Perhaps she happened to read some of your work and was worried about your disinclination to use punctuation and inability to distinguish between 'your' and 'you're'. Just a thought, and don't take this the wrong way.

This. Also random capitalization and let's not forget calling the book "How to Kill a Mocking Bird."

Reading and writing skills are essential in every profession. It's how you get yourself to be taken seriously. A physicist with poor grammar won't get published. And, frankly, architecture is as much art as it is engineering. Imagination is key, and there are very few ways outside of art and literature to judge how creative another person is when meeting them. I would much rather hire an architect who is conversationally literate and well read than one who misnames seminal works of literature and dismisses Hamlet.

 

[Wicky_42]

im hoping to be an architect when i leave school

DON'T DO IT!!

Seriously, I've got 2 weeks until my 3rd year architecture degree hand in and sajyddasdkbadkk,jsgm;hgfdjjeah

Little by way of job prospects, the industry's as closed as you like, the pay's shitty for the majority, you'll be stuck behind a computer being a CAD monkey drawing lines for the guy earning the money with little by way of advancement prospects... fuck, I almost wish I'd just done a vocational and was now working as an electrician or something, or started up a small business doing something actually fun rather than looking forward to years of shit. I haven't spoken to an architect who was unreservedly pleased with their job, and EVERYONE knows one - they're a dime-a-dozen, and the companies with the money to build new stuff know it.

So yeah, if you're good at computers, have a vivid imagination or artistic flair, or can get passionately involved in the most tedious of things, go for it. Else GTFO before it's too late!

 

[ace_of_something]

So what do my fellow escapees think about all this and should i complain or should i just leave it alone

So let me get this straight.

You admit that you were 'bored' and 'not paying attention' The teacher NOTICED this and singled you out to try and get you to pay attention. You say you hate the subject and don't find it useful for what you want to do. You also admit that you don't work very hard when you're hot.
While certainly your teacher shouldn't jump to the conclusion that you're slow and it was very unprofessional to say things like that to colleagues. What can you expect her to do? Assume you're brilliant? Should she change the entire way she teaches and likely has for a long time because you personally are bored?
You sound lazy and entitled.
Sending your momma after her doesn't really help you look mature, intelligent, or the like either. Even if your mother did that without you knowing at all. It makes you look conniving.

Where I went to school when I was 15, there was ONE teacher for each subject if you didn't get along or didn't like that teacher but needed the subject. Too fricken bad you better deal.

Sounds to me like you have a bad attitude and need to man the hell up. Everyone has to do things they don't want to do. You think architects just sit and do math? That they don't have insufferable bosses, boring business meetings to attend? Reports on what their objectives for their next project are?
Having English lit will help you to compose and present your ideas to your future employers. You might think your skills are adequate there but most people aren't aware of their own faults are they?

My answer: Leave it alone and try to prove her wrong by paying attention, working hard, and doing so well she has to eat her words.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Oh come on. How thin-skinned are you? It's not like she said "That kid over there is a fucking mong". What's more, judging my your grammar, I can certainly see why your English teacher may have gotten that impression. If you don't put any effort into a lesson, you're going to come across as a bit dim to the teacher. As you basically just ran to your mum, may I suggest a bit of growing the hell up is in order.

 

[Jadak]

Clearly you're going to have to "get rid of her". Good luck with disposing of the remains.

 

[Fappy]

Get used used to learning stuff outside your comfort zone if you are going for a 4-year degree... that doesn't change. Anyway, the teacher sounds incredibly unprofessional. I would alert the administration.

 

[Levethian]

Agree with Wicky 42.
You want to be an architect? Why?
It's a hard, long, materially (and usually creatively) unrewarding profession. Architectural education hasn't really caught up with todays tech or architectural culture, either. The business of building has become so multi-disciplinarian that architects are becoming defunct, and assume the roles of project manager, that is, a paper-pusher & salesman. Unless they work in an art-centric hippy office that barely makes ends meet.

You'll start out detailing window ledges, and finish up with stacks of paperwork to get through and a library of business cards of people you have to brown-nose to get things done or get clients your way.

If I had a chance to choose again I'd have studied something more specialised, like Architectural Visualisation.
Or plumbing.

To be as respectful as possible, your basic English really could be better. You want to show her up? Work your arse of to be the best in the class, then at the end of the year insinuate that it was done no thanks to her.

Double f required in of
REALLY pedantic of me, sorry.

 

[BloodSquirrel]

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.

My advice is to stop misbehaving in class and pay attention.

 

[Legion]

To be as respectful as possible, your basic English really could be better. You want to show her up? Work your arse of to be the best in the class, then at the end of the year insinuate that it was done no thanks to her.

Double f required in of
REALLY pedantic of me, sorry.

Not at all, I type quite quickly and so I frequently make mistakes, I don't always catch the ones that are not spelling errors ('of' is a real word so doesn't come up as a mistake).