How to deal with a bad high school teacher

well, there are times that students also lost respect to teachers when they joke a lot with them and the way the students treat them even in asking instructions has no distinction that he is their teacher. Well, what I would say is that, he wants to be respected when it comes to requirements and instructions, students must put distinction on the way how they ask, you know what I mean? I am a teacher and I know that picture you are saying. Teachers should put a limit with their jokes because students will abuse them in some ways. Maybe you should ask him in a respectful way not like he is just with your level. Good luck.

Well from what he told us in the beginning of the year I don't think it's anything happening at home that's making him the way he is. He just tries to joke around with us too much, and when we need instruction he gets really sarcastic with us. I will for sure be talking to the principal about him, thanks.

It is a shame that the teacher is wasting your time as a student. I agree to speak with the principle, but I would go a step further and get in contact with your PTA. They will be more motivated in my opinion to correct the problem.

I've been trying to get myself to have that, yeah. I know I'm not gonna go and do something stupid that would get me in trouble, so I'm just pacing along, waiting for summer to come.

Thanks, and yeah, his behavior in the classroom is just odd to everybody. He tries repeating what other kids in my class say to try and sound cool or something and he ends up sounding like a racist (he's white, some kids in my class are black), and his grading makes no sense at all. The highest grade you can get on a project is a B unless you have one of the top papers. So even if you do all of the work exactly how he says and it looks perfect, you may still only get a 90.

Oh! Not so good when teachers try to be friends before instructors. My daughter is having this exact problem with her math teacher. She's in the gifted program and the math teacher is very demanding (as everyone agrees she should be, since math is a critical subject). However, this teacher takes long breaks out of class during instruction time (spending up to 30 mins of a class in another teacher's room or in the staff room, leaving her own students unattended), she screams at them (she's not good on the temper thing) and she has also called students "stupid" or "dumb@$$" (don't want to offend anyone, so masking...). She is young and I think she forgets sometimes that she is NOT one of the students. She flew into a rage just this week because someone erased her homework board. She decided it was someone in my daughter's class, even though she had no proof. She barged right into their next class (Science) where they were watching a video and rudely told their teacher "Turn that off!". She then proceeded to yell at them about how much she hates their class, how she doesn't want to teach them anymore, etc., and AGAIN, no proof of the guilty party. There was another class entering as my daughter's class was leaving so it could have been anyone. Or, someone could have wandered in from the hallway and erased it, thinking it was funny. Needless to say, I will be contacting the school about this situation. As to grading, if you think his system is unfair, ask him to explain to you how he determines grades... or ask him to explain why you can't seem to break the "glass ceiling" on papers and such. If he doesn't have a concrete reason for not grading higher, if it's merited, someone should definitely question it or draw some attention to it. It's not easy for kids doing their very best work to feel unrecognized or penalized without what they believe is just cause. Good luck! :)

thanks so much, I'm looking at every possible angle to my question.

thanks, i'll try this new approach and see if anything changes

I think that the teacher's froiendliness is part of the problem, but other than that I think you have some good ideas.

that's the way i've been handling it the past few days, and i havent had a drastic problem really. thanks for the response