SAQ - Question about Difficulties

I haven't had any difficulties with the teaching in my classes of A-level equivalent as of yet, so would future difficulties count?

Future as in - my government/politics teacher is pregnant and will leave a month before exams - the exact month she's supposed to be helping us review a yr's worth of stuff, leaving us to self-study and doom?

Or is that not even considered a difficulty?

So how serious would you say it has to be before you can mention it as a difficulty? I don't have my SAQ yet, but my sociology teacher for crime and deviance (the synoptic) is absolutely useless. All she does is give out handouts and tell us to read them later. She never explains anything, even when asked, and sometimes I get the very strong feeling she doesn't know herself what she's talking about! My school also somehow managed to come up with a timetable where all history lessons and all sociology lessons clashed even though 3 of us do both, so for the first 4 weeks or so I only had half the number of lessons for each, and even now, I have no coursework lesson for sociology. Worth mentioning or not?

Edit: Oh, and we also have an hour less of French per week than we should because of timetable problems and I'm applying for languages!!!

So how serious would you say it has to be before you can mention it as a difficulty? I don't have my SAQ yet, but my sociology teacher for crime and deviance (the synoptic) is absolutely useless. All she does is give out handouts and tell us to read them later. She never explains anything, even when asked, and sometimes I get the very strong feeling she doesn't know herself what she's talking about! My school also somehow managed to come up with a timetable where all history lessons and all sociology lessons clashed even though 3 of us do both, so for the first 4 weeks or so I only had half the number of lessons for each, and even now, I have no coursework lesson for sociology. Worth mentioning or not?

Edit: Oh, and we also have an hour less of French per week than we should because of timetable problems and I'm applying for languages!!!

how stupid is your english teacher? God...I feel so fortunate. I mean we always complain about teachers but they never do **** like that...

how about, my english teacher setting the courswork on teh wrong sylabuss than th exam, so while i got an A on that sylabuss-- it went down to a B when marked for the sylabuss we were meant to be doing because it was marked against a different set of objectives?
and also we didnt have an art teacher from decembre to june, but i dont think that effected my mark as art is independant work anyway.

why?! thats scary, they clearly have a natural talent for English, .. was it their personal statment or something?

I'm applying for English Literature and I've had both my teachers go on maternity leave, leaving me with substitutes for the first term of my A Levels. Would you write about that?

If you think it matters, then, fine. However, what would be worse is if your teachers went off and the school didn't provide substitutes (as happened to me)