Is it the student or the teacher?

What is a definition of a bad student? I guess the typical view of a bad student, is one who is lazy, careless, and disrespectful. I know that the teachers get frustrated with these students, because they fear that their poor grades will reflect them as a teacher, which isn't even their fault. These are the students that can't be changed, not by the best teachers. We have all encountered these bad students they sit there with their head down, and mind off. But what about bad teachers?

My definition of a bad teacher, is a teacher who doesn't know how to teach a subject where it can be grasped by the students, who doesn't do their job of entering in and grading assignments, one who isn't concerned with a high percentage of poor exam scores. It really irks me when someone justifies a bad teacher, saying "well, maybe it is the students, not the teacher!" uhhh no. Sometimes there is such a thing as a bad teacher.

This year, my last year of high school, I encountered a bad teacher. So my teacher knows what they are talking about, but they don't know how to explain it to the students in a way that is actually learnable, so basically the information goes in one ear and right through the other, with no registration of what that information actually is. It is not like I didn't pay attention and ask questions, I did. A lot. I just could not take what he was saying and actually apply it to the material.

If that wasn't enough, my teacher doesn't grade a damn thing, all that goes in there  is our sad and depressing exam scores that do not refflect our intelligence one bit, that brings down are grades dramatically. Obviously, I know once my teacher puts in my assignments, my grades will go up, but who knows if he will actually put in everything that we have done over the year. I'm frightened that he will pick and choose what assignments go in, and what if those are the assignments that i didn't do too particularly well on?

As I mentioned before, the exam scores. Wow, I never thought getting a 55 percent would be a good thing until I took this class. I'm serious. The average usually is around a 40 percent on every exam that the class has taken this school year. I really don't understand how the teacher doesn't see this, and realize that "hey, this is a problem, I need to fix this!" nope. We turn in our tests, walk back with
sorrow on our faces, and as a class, we never discuss the tests again.


With all this complaining, I'm trying to make a point. My point being that sometimes it isn't the student it is the teacher. No matter how hard that students tries to understand that teacher, it just doesn't happen.