Bullying teacher

Since I started back at 6th fom, my new form tutor is being really really nasty to me. There are a lot of problems with my subjects at the moment (I've been put onto the double award health and social care programme when I only wanted to do the single alongside biology, and pick up another AS which would make me a full time student, and meet the terms of the offer that was made in order for me to come back).

My form tutor is also my helath and social care teacher and is causing lots of problems because I'm trying to drop the double. She's saying that I'm lazy, flakey, have no committment, and that her views are the same as the head of 6th form (they're not, because I went to see him about it!). She's convinced I can get AA if I take the double but that means making up 9 units of coursework this year, on top of my biology, which is the subject I really need to concentrate on. Yet when I put this to her she said that I'd be very lucky to improve my grade in bio, and that my bio teacher thought the same (again, she doesn't!!!) How do I deal with this?

Reply 1

Steeeeevo

Only way realy if you REALY think she/he has something against you is to complain to your head of year, they will handle you complaint in confidence and you may be moved or at the very least have what your tutor said confirmed.

Reply 2

PieMaster

Yep, talk to your head of sixth about it, or the head of the faculty which health&social is covered in. Either person should be able to sort it out.

Reply 3

john171

Work harder and proove her wrong.

Reply 4

cleas001

I had a simillar problem at school where a teacher tried to force me into taking a subject i didnt want to...
don't let them do this- just say no speak to your head of year directly and get it sorted out if not ask you parents to give you head of year a ring- in my experience they listen to parents more...
just make sure your happy with what your doing...dont complain about the atcual teacher tho- as teachers will tend to stick together. Just sort out your subjects

Reply 5

Lady Narcissus

This thing happened to me at university. They wanted me to do a module called Telders Moot which involved going abroad during finals. I was shocked that they would even put students in this position. I was their top girl. The student director said I would be a better person if I did it and be dealing with stresses such as my dead Father properly.

Report her! I did not and I ended up sole destroyed. Don't let linger or you will snap and get your self in to trouble, that is, if your any thing like me.

Reply 6

Lady Narcissus

Oh and they lost the moot, ha ha! Being like that just what they deserved, do what subjects you want

Reply 7

Little Girl Red

I've just come out of year 13 (going to uni next month) and i had sort of a situation like this. One of my French teachers had a weird sort of grudge against me and marked my work a lot harsher than my peers', and also snapped at me a lot and generally made my life uncomfortable in her class. At the end of term she gave me back two of my essays with really harsh marks (10/25 and 13/25 - usually I would get in the 20s) and basically just ripped them to shreds in front of all of my friends, said I would be lucky to get a C at A-level, said that the head of French felt the same way, and I had to pull myself together because I would be lucky to even scrape a grade. Although I didn't show it at the time, it really really upset me. I have always been a straight-A student, and I thought stuff was a bit wrong. I went to the head of the French department, with my essays, and asked him why i had been given a 2/5 for grammar when i had only made 2 tiny mistakes. He said he had never seen the essays before, so i told him what my teacher had said.
He said he would sort it out, and he did. I went on to get an A (take that, lady). My advice is, ignore this teacher and do what you want to do. Speak to her superiors - they can make HER life miserable (as a change to her making your life crap). At the end of the day, you will only see her in school time, and only for a couple of minutes in the day. Don't get bullied in to doing something that will change your life. Your priorities are right. Hers are wrong. Stick to your principles and stand up for yourself.

Reply 8

lilsk8achic666

talk to your bio teacher and your head of year. I had a problem with my music teacher coz basically she was a vindictive moo. She used to pick on me in lessons, be sarcastic to me, and I considered dropping it because of her. Anyway I went to see the head of sixth form and she'd had other complaints made against her and in the end I got her sacked... I'm not saying that you need to go that far, just that if you talk to people who can help you it's much easier if you tell them what she's said then they can deal with her appropriately. It's out of order for a teacher to treat a student like that. Good luck :smile: