My French Teacher

[Fez]

Well... I really don't want to learn French - I don't really give a damn about learning another language, unless I got to choose what language I learn. But anyway, she was telling us about how she loves her language and would like to see us maybe try a bit harder - some of the other kids were messing around - and I totally agree with taht.

But anyway, we ended up having to listen to the old hag yell and cry about how she couldn't get us to listen, and that in all of her teaching career - she had never seen such a dispicaple class.

Now, getting a detention on record for the troublemakers, being forced to hear my form tutor (just mine decided to pop round) and struggling to do my work... I'm not a godamn dispicaple student, she kept going on and on and on and ended up going home at half 3, is that even legal? Honestly?

So should I take action against this? I'm sick to death of suffering because of everyone else messing around - does anybody else get this?

[Nemo]

Im kinda in this situation for business studies, dont really mind though. I just kinda ignore em and get on with the work.

If u really hate french, speak to your head of year or something and get them to move you into a different class or different subject. Thats what i'd do.

[ToxicPaddy]

Im kinda in this situation for business studies, dont really mind though. I just kinda ignore em and get on with the work.

If u really hate french, speak to your head of year or something and get them to move you into a different class or different subject. Thats what i'd do.

I'll second this. Talk to your head of year and form tutor about it :) Hope things are better soon.

[Fez]

I'm in year 9, so it's still mandatory - pretty stupid too. I'd love to do the subjects that actually help me in life, not give me extra skills or languages.

[Nemo]

I'm in year 9, so it's still mandatory - pretty stupid too. I'd love to do the subjects that actually help me in life, not give me extra skills or languages.
Perhaps there are other languages? I personally HATED french which i was made to do in year 8 + 9 (not sure why i didn't ask to move) but spanish was actually quite good.

So yeah, maybe try another language?

[Fez]

Well I've done it for 3 years, didn't take too kindly for the 2nd year - went to my Spanish teacher (who was my form teacher) and kindly told me that no students in our school can't start from scratch now - I was supposed to ask in Year 7, joy.

I still give French as much effort as I possibly can, even though it's almost impossible to learn the damn thing.

[Inseriousity.]

It just sounds like your teacher was having a bad day, your class didn't help and she just lost it... I know that loads of teachers leave the profession because of stress and whatnot... must be tough :(
I don't think you should take action against her. We all have bad days.

As for not liking French, school goes much faster if you start to enjoy it (easier said than done though, I suppose). Plus if you're in Year 9, you can just drop it and not do it for GCSE. :)

[Fez]

It just sounds like your teacher was having a bad day, your class didn't help and she just lost it... I know that loads of teachers leave the profession because of stress and whatnot... must be tough :(
I don't think you should take action against her. We all have bad days.

As for not liking French, school goes much faster if you start to enjoy it (easier said than done though, I suppose). Plus if you're in Year 9, you can just drop it and not do it for GCSE. :)
Strange enough, it's mandatory in some schools and oooh guess what school I'm in xD. I enjoy every single lesson, if I'm honest, I even love P.E sometimes, but the final two lessons of Friday are absolute hell!

I know they're teachers and they probably get more stressed than me, but it doesn't give them a right to punish me because of what others do.

[Inseriousity.]

Strange enough, it's mandatory in some schools and oooh guess what school I'm in xD. I enjoy every single lesson, if I'm honest, I even love P.E sometimes, but the final two lessons of Friday are absolute hell!

I know they're teachers and they probably get more stressed than me, but it doesn't give them a right to punish me because of what others do.

Oh!! Unlucky if you don't enjoy it then! I'm doing A Level French now. That's hard. You can probably get by on GCSE with educational guesses tbh.

That's a teaching technique I think. My Maths teacher used to do it too. Punish the whole class so that the class would turn against the 'rebels' and they'd stop... of course if more than half of the class is rebelling, it doesn't work. :P

[Fez]

Most of the people who 'rebel' are actually my friends, or the chav brappers, so obviously I'm not gonna even try to turn against them haha.

I'll just stick by and see what happens over the next year, if it gets too much then I'll nomnomnom and complain maybe.

[H0BJ0B]

I hated French. Trust me - I hated it much more than you. It was such a boring lesson that had no point. However it is good to know another language when trying to get into Universities and getting other jobs so I suggest you stick at it. Half three is when most people leave school isn't it? I dunno - anyway, don't take 'legal' action because it won't go anywhere but get your teacher spoken to by the head of year/head of school/head of subject, etc.

[Fez]

Did I say legal action? God I must be losing it xD. If it goes on then I'll ask maybe the head to have a word, or maybe my mentor can do that or something. I want to learn Russian when I'm older anyway, I hate French - too many boring words and stuff.

[TAYLOOOOR1]

i was thinking to myself..i take GCSE french and i dont like it <3

It all depends what time your school actually finishes AS the government allows schools to keep a pupil behind for 20 minutes. If over; then you have the right to take the legal action.

so if your school finishes at 3:10 - she would be allowed.

How ever any earlier she is being very naughty.

But reporting her can get you a very bad name =] and could effect your education. SO Think wise..

Tay <3

[Misawa]

Make a complaint. If you talk seriously with an authority figure within your school, things could be worked out.

[ColourBands]

Ugh i hate French, My teacher is quite annoying she keeps you behind at any chance she gets.
But it's alright because she ALWAYS does my work for me because im never in school.

I think she likes me ;)

Oj, but yeah she does my coursework and stuff i just copy how simple :D

[Hayd93]

Its like this for media sorta. The class is full of people there for the doss and arround 3 of us there because we accually want a carreer in media. The teacher is nice though and just knows there here for the doss and just leavs them and just helps me ect.


Ok this year though as were doing all the paper work ect so i just put some music on and write away.

[Cwmbran]

Yeh I get this in college, with everyone else in my group being ***** with the exception of about 5?

Anyway me and my friend was in exactly the same position as you in year 9.
We both could not stand French and everybody in the class would piss around apart from a few but we would all get the blame apart from our teachers fave students.

Well me and my friend went to our head of year told him exactly what was going on and that we could not stand French and did not want to be in it any longer so he said "Stay in it for another week, and if you still don't want to do it or things get worse come and tell me." So we did and returned to him the following week and we said things had got worse as the teacher was even starting to throw genuinly hurtful comments at people in the class, so our head of year told us we did not have to stay in the lesson and could use the time from that lesson how we see fit and he also got the teacher suspended for half of the school year.

[dbgtz]

I hate it. My school is a language college and for yr 7 and 8 we done german but since schools started to do french, they made us do french. Its like wth, 2 years of german wasted.

Anyway I hate it when teachers do this. If they keep anyone longer then the official finish without 24 hours notice we can actually take action coz its against the policy :)
But yer my schools crap. If we forget our P.E. kit we get an hour ;l Even if its just a sock. Sorta goes against their own policy aswell...

[Con]

Sounds like my english :@
Speand most of the lesson doing nothing whilst the teacher shouts at the class :rolleyes:

I'm menna be speaking to head of year on monday. So that would be best thing to do

[Nereo]

What time does your school end! By 3:30 I wuld have been home :P

[Fez]

2:40, they're allowed to keep us for 45 minutes without notice :S

[Technologic]

My french teacher are alright, it's just some epople in my set are ******ed as ****. (set 2/3 so we get clever epople and stupid people) It eas so funny the other day she asked a guy a question in french and he was sat there for five minutes saying random words and then she said "you know this, you've been taught it before" so he was just like "you've never taught me this" and she did that evul squint people do and just growled "Get out" really quietly LOL