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Geek Culture / Teachers and their habit of not telling you (or at least me) things that actually matter

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Luciferia
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 22:30
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I'm in my GCSE years at school in the Uk and as many of you will know, you have to complete an exam for all subjects and for most you will have to complete some form of coursework.
I have about 5 subjects on which i have exams in a few months and the rest next year and I'm also starting to get coursework as well. For the most part this is ok but in some its not. I take It which has a large percentage of the overall grade as coursework- 25-30%. And we are supposssed to have started it. the thing is my teacher hasn't actually told us what to do or how.
My teacher is a Korean guy who learnt on computers powered by coal and doesn't quite get "the new things " like games and only ever says that we will all get A stars and coursework is easy but he won't tell us what we are doing or how to do anything. For example: Question "How do you get boxes on excel to change colour according to their value and other surrounding values? Answer "thats good question. Asking questions will help you to get the A star" then walks away. My class only knows what we are supposed to do for coursework because we asked people from classes with decent teachers.
History teacher =fine. English teacher =fine. Maths teacher= mostly fine I'm just rubbish at it. IT teacher = worst thing that will happen to a future cv since criminal records were introduced.
I was wondering has anyone else had this kind of problem or maybe having it?
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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 22:55
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I've only had one teacher who seriously should not have been teaching. He was my Computer Tech Certification(CompTIA A+ Essentials course) teacher, and was honestly a really cool guy...but he couldn't teach worth a damn. Nobody learned much in the class, and since most everybody passed(teacher made it nearly impossible to fail), we can't take it again to actually LEARN anything, so we're stuck with books. Although, I will say, the last quarter of class was cool cause all we did was LAN counter strike...good times.


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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 22:57
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rat him out to his department head.

I had a uni professor once who on the first day of class said he would kick anyone out who was late to any classes. ok fine. one day a few weeks in, a kid showed up late, and instead of kicking HIM out, he kicked out the whole class! and then went on to say that he wont revisit the material scheduled for that day, and we are responsible for it on the mid term. pffft, f-that, we went straight to his dept head and ratted his ass out. why should we pe punished for a lame ass decision by a professor when we were all there on time.

this was hopelessly dissimilar to your issue above, but i felt like sharing

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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 23:04
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I remember to this day the worst lesson ever. I was in around 7th grade, and my science teacher (who was very hot) told the class that when you submerge an object in water, the weight of the water displaced is equal to the mass of the object.

Even at that age, I understood that this was total BS. I argued with her that if you dropped a 1x1x1 cube of steel into the water and weighed the displaced water, it would be the same weight of the water displaced by a 1x1x1 cube of gold. Obviously steel and gold have different masses. The water displaced is a result of the volume of an object, not its mass! But she wouldn't listen, and she being the teacher and me being the student, I decided to shut up about it, but it has festered inside me for many many years.

One day I hope to see her again and set her straight, b/c she has told so many thousands of kids a false law.

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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 23:21 Edited at: 7th Feb 2008 23:21
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^ The science books you used didn't have that in them? You could have used that....

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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 23:28
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@SirFire
so what would happen if you dropped something in that was heavier than the water?
Create a black hole? hehe
At least she was hot man

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My IT teacher was bad too.

At the time, I was quite good with DBC (just got onto DBP as I was finishing school), and we needed to do some programming to show we understand the implementation of certain things like bubble sorting.
So, being the gun programmer I was, I did the algorithm (flawlessly, I might add ), and on top of that, added an option to slow it down and see the items actually moving around visually.

I got in so much trouble because it wasn't exactly what the assignment was.
Later on, instead of giving out an answer sheet (code), he took my code listings which had both DBC code & Psuedo code listings, made enough copies for the class, and used that as the 'answer sheet'...

Its no wonder. He was a music teacher that they roped into teaching IT (and software dev) simply because he'd had a 'company' 20 years back that used to do 'professional' websites. And I use that term very, very lightly!

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I had a terrible Microsoft Certified Professional teacher who once told me that Verizon was blocking my web server because it was written in python :/ .

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My IT teacher was an idiot. He thought he was clever by using Keyboard shortcuts but When I told him at the age of 12 just about every generic Shortcut, He soon stopped doing it. He also expected us to make a website in MS Publisher. I went home, made a website in frontpage, added a bunch of flash objects, saved it and sent it to the school network, and I got an A*.

So now when ever he asks a question to the class, he stares at me waiting to answer in the most complicated way I can.

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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 11:31
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Yeah, file formal complaint as high up the chain as you can (even better if you do it as an entire class).

When I was doing my IT GCSE it became clear that our teacher was an idiot in year 10, we spoke to the deputy head about it and the errant teacher was asked to leave at the end of the year.

He went off to start his own IT consultancy business... which failed.

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Cheap IT teachers = bad idea, reminds me of one of ours from 6th form compulsory IT, Mr Hussain (yes kids did joke about the name behind his back, despite the slight spelling difference) whose only job seemed to looking down girls tops, complementing them and telling us to 'look at the website' when asked a question, despite the fact we didn't have a clue - most people decided to ditch it, but this I DON'T advise - we got away with it, because the compulsory course was just a joke and most of us would benefit in other subjects by ditching it. (Plus I felt the course was highly uncessary as I got a Merit at the GNVQ Intermediate ICT course I did at GCSE)

All you really can do amigo is complain to somebody in the school with more power and get more people to complain and say how you're concerned about the results of your GCSEs because of it, I mean I'm sure schools take things like that seriously, if they don't go above the school (or get your parents to do so) but complain first, you don't know where it might get you.

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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 13:10
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Quote: "I mean I'm sure schools take things like that seriously"


You can't begin to imagine how wrong you are
No matter the number of complaints, etc, unless the teacher does something illegal (hitting a kid, doing drugs, etc), the school (at least, mine and others I've heard of) don't care.

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Insanity Complex
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Jess is sadly right, even if they DO something illegal. I had a teacher who would physically grab me and throw me(more like a push) out of her class, back in elementary school. Even when I wound up in the office, and told them about it, the principal considered me a bad kid at any rate(which, in all fairness, I was a little sh*t, but that's mostly irrelevant to the situation), and usually suspended me. My mom pulled me out halfway through the year and home schooled me until the start of the next year, where I got a better teacher.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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I'm yet to come across a good IT teacher. One thought that 3D games were made in Powerpoint...

I despair.

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My economics teacher had sexual intercourse with a student, everyone knows. She still has her job... Other than that, i haven't come across any bad teachers. All the teachers i've had, did their job pretty well.

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Luciferia
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 18:49
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Quote: "One thought that 3D games were made in Powerpoint..."

Lol
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Quote: "I'm yet to come across a good IT teacher. One thought that 3D games were made in Powerpoint...
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I have got a pretty good IT teacher but his IT team are pants.


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Quote: "One thought that 3D games were made in Powerpoint..."


How do people like this have a job...

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Quote: "One thought that 3D games were made in Powerpoint..."


You mean they're not? Darn it, no wonder nothing works.

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I remember a teacher named Mister Elsea.
At Mount Vernon Junior high. He was our metal shop teacher.
What us students learned from him:

that if we complete at least 2 metal shop projects we will pass with at least with a C+ grade. A few tests can up our grade but not diminish the C+ grade.

He was a very heavy smoker and also smoked in class as well. He told us on our first day: "Hello, I'm Mister Elsea. I smoke a lot. I have emphysema and my doctor told me that I don't have long to live. The hell with him. I'll still smoke. If you have a problem with my smoking then get the hell out of my class."

And you know he lived another 20 years before he kicked the bucket.

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