Idiot Teachers

gosh it's only gcse who cares
just focus on getting decent grades if you're good enough to get them, since that's all that really matters

That's like. In the real world you've gotta put up with people like that so just keep on track with those grades and try and ignore the teachers when they're being "idiots"

Some replies are correct in saying that if teachers are only going to sing your praises then you'll think you could just get by whereas if they cover the negatives alongside some positives it may motivate you to do that bit better. The only problem I see wrong here is that you aren't getting positive feedback apart from when you do well in a test and not really by your teacher which could also demotivate you.

I'd suggest you just knuckle down, give them more to praise you for as well because no one is perfect, they'll know you want to go into computing after education but remember, for now they're your teachers and they are there for a job and hopefully trying to help you.

In reports though I think both positive and negative things should be addressed, even if it's just saying that you got a high mark on a recent test, it helps sometimes.

wow, you seem pretty stuck up.
just because you thin that you're god's gift an d you manage to do work quickly doesnt mean that everyone in your class can ad maybe you are distracting them. you need to learn that it's not jut you in the room.

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Originally Posted by Ewannn

Some teachers are honestly too far up their own arse


Not bragging but I've done web design since I was 10 and programming since I was 11. It's something I'm huge on and the only thing I want to do when I'm older is programming for a games company or freelance web design.

We got school reports a week ago and my computing teacher tells me I'm easily distracted and make no effort in class. He didnt mention I got 100% on my test?

Also, my physics teacher mentioned all the bad points but never mentioned that I got 93% on my Physics test.

Teachers like this really annoy me.

One time, my computing teacher never even turned up for a lesson. He tries to tell us that HTML is one of the most complicated things to code.

He's just generally stupid and focuses more on being funny than teaching.


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Majority of teachers aren't actually that skilled at programming.

To teach at GCSE level actually requires very little knowledge (esp programming). Saying that they usually have a strict curriculum plan to stick to and need not teach you anymore than the curriculum requires. Most teaching is very uniformed too as they will teach (virtually) the same stuff year after year with very little experience, or no experience, working in that field in the real world.

Sounds to me as though you probably know more than your teacher does about web programming.

I focus on the positive aspects of my students in order to encourage them. I try to stray away from the negative points unless necessary.