I know I will probably get a lot of sarcastic and rude replies, but hopefully there are some people out there who have been in a similar situation and are willing to help.
So this year I am sitting my highers, which is a Scottish qualification. In terms of difficulty they are the equivalent to AS levels, but they are as important as A levels, as these are the grades universities are interested in. Anyway, for my higher English I have two teachers. I have one teacher who is alright, and I get her for three periods a week, and she teaches the literature side of the course. She clearly has a lot of enthusiasm for the subject, even if her teaching style does not always suit me.
For the other two periods of English, however, I get another teacher who is simply hopeless. She teaches the language side of the course. I gave her a piece of creative writing to mark before the Christmas holidays. It reappeared in my folder a few weeks later, and when I asked her about it, she claimed she had never seen it, so I asked her to mark it. That was at least three weeks ago and she still hasn't marked the essay. She has asked for another creative piece from the class but I don't see why I should write her another piece when she hasn't even marked the last one. Also, the way she teaches is awful. For creative writing, she simply gives us a picture to write about descriptively and then she tells her favourite pupils to read them out. For close reading, she just leaves us with a book infront of us and tells us to learn from it, while she sits at the front talking about her baby. This baby is another problem, as she isn't even at school half the time because of her damn baby. Why does she bother working if she is going to off all the time? She already works part time for crying out loud! My other English teacher has a baby too but she always manages to be there!
She also keeps making me re-sit parts of the course I have already passed, instead of working on the aspects I struggle with.
Today was just the last straw. She was going over deadlines, and she told us the deadline for our writing folio, and I just pointed out that it would probably have to be done a while before then because we will be doing our prelims at that time, and the Easter holidays are just before that, and she gave me a look as if I was completely stupid and says, "Yes, what is your point?" And so I replied, "Nothing, I was simply just pointing something out" And she said "Will you just stop complaining? You'll just have to actually do some work to ensure you finish it on time" So I was like, "Miss I never complained about anything" And she went, "OOOOOOOOHHH" and I felt utterly humiliated. I was just about ready to storm out the class. So I admit that maybe it was an unecessary thing for me to say, but I feel that a teacher should never speak to a pupil like that. I would have been sent to the head teacher for speaking to her like that!
So then throughout the lesson, she was speaking to us all individually about the assesments we have passed, and what we still have to do, and she just missed me out!!! She went straight from 'Spark' to 'Wood' and my last name starts with a 'T'!!
I am really worried that my English is going to suffer because of this, and I really need it for the type of thing I want to do at university. The thing is, my English isn't bad. Last year, I had a different teacher, and with her I passed all my NABs ( assesments) and won the English prize for my entire year, so my skills are not the problem. I don't want to go back to English with her on Thursday, but I just know that if I complain to the school, she will turn this back on me. I don't know what to do!!
Thank you to anyone who did read all that, and can offer helpful advice, it is greatly appreciated, I am already dreading going back!
TL; DR: I have an English teacher who can't teach for **** and I feel personally victimised by, and I am worried it is going to affect my English grade. How should I go about getting the issue resolved so I can focus on passing my exam.
Oh, and anyone who feels the need to just come in and correct my spelling/ grammar, please do not bother. I said that I am good at English, I didn't say I am world spelling champion or anything like that.