Anybody feel let down by their School

Reply 40

2

Bexiness!

Thats really bad... i feel for you there :hugs:

At my sixth form there was a lot of trouble about sending off PS on time too... but our Head of Sixth Form is one of the worst around, so it's what is expected really :frown:

Was this this year? or last year? :smile:

Thanks.

It was this year unfortunately - still giving me uncertainty over whether I could have got in under other circumstances.
Our head is not that bad I think, he knows our names and so on, but in some areas he just doesn't know what he's doing.

Reply 41

kellywood_5

17

Bexiness!

My Head of Year doesn't even know my name :frown:

and many others for that matter...

My Head of Year for the second half of Year 10 and Year 11 didn't know my name either, despite the fact that he was also one of my science teachers and I sat right in front of him! He only knew the names of the disruptive pupils because he spent so long trying to be 'one of the lads' rather than actually doing anything about their behaviour :rolleyes:

Reply 42

becky.fm

18

kellywood_5

My Head of Year for the second half of Year 10 and Year 11 didn't know my name either, despite the fact that he was also one of my science teachers and I sat right in front of him! He only knew the names of the disruptive pupils because he spent so long trying to be 'one of the lads' rather than actually doing anything about their behaviour :rolleyes:

My Head of Year just has favourites. :rolleyes:

There are two girls who are in my form who are both Lead Prefects [no idea why... they behave terribley :dontknow:

] and about 3 times a week, he just lets them go into Upper School Office, and have a 'chat'. Apparently they just sit there and talk about their days- despite the fact that they are missing English/Maths/other important subject. :rolleyes:

I also remember once in assembly. There used to be this massive thing about being late for assembly- it was only once a week so you were expected to be there on time. Anyway, if you were late you would have to stand outside and you would be dealt with. One of my best friends was late [she's never been in trouble before], as were a few others. Our HoY started taking their names, and began nagging/moaning/shouting at them for it. 5 minutes later, up strolled this girl who hardly ever comes to assembly. She then started to brag to out HoY about how she'd gone 24 hours without a fag! He started laughing and didn't even ask her why she was 15 minutes late for assembly! :s-smilie:

I dont like him really :frown:

Reply 43

kellywood_5

17

Bexiness!

I dont like him really :frown:

I can see why, he sounds horrible! :frown:

Reply 44

thegreatprocrastinator

8

I was predicted 11 C's. Ha is all I have to say on that.

Reply 45

rotor

14

my school,like most of the ones in this post only care about set 3. its asif set 1/2 doesnt matter! all they want is C's so that they look good in the league tables, teachers in mixed classes spend AGES telling the naughty kids to be quiet, so us well behaved kids dont get any help.
luckily im moving schools next year.

Reply 46

x_emme_x

11

Leftite

Well at GCSE level i was just thrust into middle groups where half the people were stupid, 1/4 messed about and the 1/4 cared, and the 'brightest' students were put into a top set to aim for As and A*. In middle sets there was no teacher pushing me to aim high, no teachers giving me any extra help, i just had to sit in boring non challenging lessons only being taught enough techniques and knowlege to get me a B grade while all the students who were in my group and stuggling got all the help.
I came out of my GCSEs with 1A and 9Bs, which by the way was signifcantly better than many of the top set students.
Now we are doing AS levels, my results were around the 5th or 6th best in the whole year, and i just feel annoyed that i never had the chance to acheive my full potential at GCSE level.

Anybody else feel this way?

ye, by my last school which was a low preforming comp. I didn't do that well at SATS (6 Eng, 7 Maths, 7 Sci) but a lot better then a lot of other people. But to my suprise in yr 10, I was put in the lower group for maths, which confused me as no-one got level 8 and only about 20 got levels 7's. When i asked about it, after xmas i was moved to the group above but ended up with a teacher whom was unable to teach A*/A GCSE groups. About 20% of the group were predicted A* but none of us came out with A* in maths.

Science was similar, we had a good teacher but she was off frequently therefore missing info. Music was the same as well, yr 10 we had a teacher that never taught us anything to do with music, start of yr 11(sep-dec) we never had a teacher, then in the final few weeks we got a new teacher whom taught the whole course in a matter of weeks. The positive that came out of music was that 4 of us came out with A's and one with a B. She has now left the school because the school attempted to cover the bad teaching up from the local press and none of us got any credit from the school for achieving well.

I am now at a Grammar school, and after a parent's meeting, the teachers were aware the the teaching was "poor" at my last school. I am predicted high grades, but failing badly (predicted A's getting everything below to cut a long story short)

Reply 47

Sunnydazzleeyes

10

They havent replaced my chemistry teacher so im left with a crap time table. I doubt i learn anything next term :frown:

Reply 48

713

2

Sunnydazzleeyes

They havent replaced my chemistry teacher so im left with a crap time table. I doubt i learn anything next term :frown:

Is it not possible that all parents complain together, or something similar? They can't just do that...it's ridiculous...

Reply 49

Interchange

14

I feel really let down by my ICT teacher. We're doing OCR National Diploma in ICT. When we started the course in September our teacher would tell us how we're going to have a qualification worth 4 GCSE grades. In December he told us that he didn't have enough time to complete the course and we'd only get the equivalent of 3 GCSE grades. In March, he told us that it would be near impossible to get 3 GCSE grades in 2 years so we will almost definately get 2.
I could understand if we was a bad set, disruptive, didn't do no work etc. But we're not. :angry:

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Reply 50

willow162

1

there are 2 alevel physics groups at my school but my group gets 2 less lessons a week than the other group because there isnt enough teachers and because we're the smarter group. i dont think its fair.

i hav 10*50minute lessons a week (6*maths and 4*physics)
and 25 free lessons a week. im bored out my mind. its impossible to study in the library because of the noise and there are no free rooms so i basically do nothing all week. school is a waste of time.

Reply 51

UNKN0WN

2

I feel let down by my school. My english teacher left school around 3 months before my GCSE exam and I feel that is the reason I only got a B in English when all my other results were A's / A*'s.

Reply 52

deutschsweetie

8

My school wont let me drop chemistry.. we have one good teacher and one rubbish teacher... I have been let down in French.. i had one hell of a rubbish teacher last year and its a miracle i even got a C despite being predicted an A she refused to teach me in the end practically and the good teacher that year has now turned on me.. and i have another good teacher.. its always one step up 2 steps back!!!

Reply 53

Woodside Natured

CE

I feel let down by my school. My english teacher left school around 3 months before my GCSE exam and I feel that is the reason I only got a B in English when all my other results were A's / A*'s.

My English teacher left at Christmas leaving the class in huge confusion over coursework and without having finished studying the anthology.

We now are in a terrible situation, people not having coursework done with the threat and very high possibility that half the top set are dropped from the subject.

It was very irresponsible and selfish on behalf of the teacher, I think, and the replacement teacher is terrible. Very obnoxious and smug.

I dread the exams coming up especially the literature as we are ****ed when it comes to the poems. The teacher uses spark notes and other internet sites to get her notes, she actually doesn't analyse the poems herself which leads to the notes making no sense at all because they are all different individuals interpretations.

Like your class, mine are going to get miserable results.

Reply 54

becky.fm

18

God i hate IT :frown:

Overall, arcross the GCSE course, we've had 5 teachers! :eek:

The first one was pretty good, and the Head of ICT. But he didn't feel the school was treating him fairly, so he resigned half way through the year. We hadn't started out coursework by this point. Then we got a trainee teacher for about 3 months! :hmmm:

When she left, we got a substitute, who was actually a Biology teacher. :dontknow:

When we entered Year 11, there was lots of confusion, so about 3 weeks worth of lessons were missed as none of the classes were sorted. By this point, EVERYONE was dreadfully behind on the coursework. Anyway, i finally got the Head of ICT. I've had her the majority of the year, and have managed to complete my coursework! :biggrin:

But she has left over Easter... and we are due to do all our exam prep with a new guy.

*sigh* Oh well, it's only ICT Short Course overall.. :p:

It's not really surprising that a LOT of straight A/B students are heading for F's and G's... :p:

Or that the ICT department failed the Ofsted inspection this year... :biggrin:

Reply 55

john171

11

I agree with what the majority of people are saying here. I firmly believe I was taught how to pass exams.

If you work hard at GCSE and A-level you should be able to obtain those A's and B's. It's not really a matter of intelligence, alot of people seem to believe it is. It's a matter of putting in the time and effort nesscessary.

Reply 56

Lucyatthegym

ICT at my old school was a joke. We would walk into lesson. Get on the computers. Our teacher would mumble something about the work being on the shared documents. (Most of the time we didn't even hear this). He would then sit in his office, whilst we would spend the whole lesson looking at prom dresses on the internet. This went on for a year and a half. We did our mocks. I had a basic ICT knowledge and so got A* in the mock exam. Then comes March. Our teacher tells us to print off our coursework. We all just look at him and say 'what coursework?'. He then asks us what we've been doing for the last year and a half. We all get letters sent home. We then tried working our arses off to get a year and a halfs worth of coursework done in a month. I literally spent hours at home doing this. Then my teacher told us to print it all off and hand it in. We had never been told it had to be done in report style. So I had done all the work, just not printscreened any of it and annotated. (I was never told to do this). I only got told to print off everything I'd done in word and hand that in. (So, all the hours I'd spent doing the stuff in excel, powerpoint an dother programmes went completely to waste). My teacher told me I'd got an A for the coursework.

August. I get my results. A* in the exam. My coursework was an F. Overall a D. Nobody who did short course ICT in my year got higher than a D.

September. Hits local news.. My old ICT teacher gets arrested and taken off school for sleeping with minors and for child porn being found on his computer.

Let down doesn't cover it.

Reply 57

becky.fm

18

Lucyatthegym

ICT at my old school was a joke. We would walk into lesson. Get on the computers. Our teacher would mumble something about the work being on the shared documents. (Most of the time we didn't even hear this). He would then sit in his office, whilst we would spend the whole lesson looking at prom dresses on the internet. This went on for a year and a half. We did our mocks. I had a basic ICT knowledge and so got A* in the mock exam. Then comes March. Our teacher tells us to print off our coursework. We all just look at him and say 'what coursework?'. He then asks us what we've been doing for the last year and a half. We all get letters sent home. We then tried working our arses off to get a year and a halfs worth of coursework done in a month. I literally spent hours at home doing this. Then my teacher told us to print it all off and hand it in. We had never been told it had to be done in report style. So I had done all the work, just not printscreened any of it and annotated. (I was never told to do this). I only got told to print off everything I'd done in word and hand that in. (So, all the hours I'd spent doing the stuff in excel, powerpoint an dother programmes went completely to waste). My teacher told me I'd got an A for the coursework.

August. I get my results. A* in the exam. My coursework was an F. Overall a D. Nobody who did short course ICT in my year got higher than a D.

September. Hits local news.. My old ICT teacher gets arrested and taken off school for sleeping with minors and for child porn being found on his computer.

Let down doesn't cover it.

That's what we do now! :p:

But what happened to you is really bad.. :frown:

Reply 58

BrainSaladSurgery

I moved town (and high school) near the end of Year 10, I previously lived in Wales. I had my 'options' chosen for me, I was made to do GCSE French even though I hadn't done it since Year 8 (I did Welsh in Year 9, and was doing it as a GCSE), I had to do Statistics, and Graphics Design (where I did ICT).

If that wasn't bad enough, I got shoved into Set 3/4 for the core subjects (although I got moved up in Science, I was taught the same things 3 times in Chemistry, the Physics teacher was a joke, he didn't even have an A-Level in Physics as he was a Biology teacher and taught us about inverse square laws instead of the relevant stuff.), I wasn't allowed to do one of the History courseworks as I had 'arrived too late' and I didn't do an R.E GCSE. As a result I screwed my GCSEs up, which compromised my university application. So it's safe to say that my high school dumped on me from a great height.

Reply 59

littlebee2

Bexiness!

God i hate IT :frown:

Overall, arcross the GCSE course, we've had 5 teachers! :eek:

The first one was pretty good, and the Head of ICT. But he didn't feel the school was treating him fairly, so he resigned half way through the year. We hadn't started out coursework by this point. Then we got a trainee teacher for about 3 months! :hmmm:

When she left, we got a substitute, who was actually a Biology teacher. :dontknow:

When we entered Year 11, there was lots of confusion, so about 3 weeks worth of lessons were missed as none of the classes were sorted. By this point, EVERYONE was dreadfully behind on the coursework. Anyway, i finally got the Head of ICT. I've had her the majority of the year, and have managed to complete my coursework! :biggrin:

But she has left over Easter... and we are due to do all our exam prep with a new guy.

*sigh* Oh well, it's only ICT Short Course overall.. :p:

It's not really surprising that a LOT of straight A/B students are heading for F's and G's... :p:

Or that the ICT department failed the Ofsted inspection this year... :biggrin:

LOL ICT is a joke really. Next term my physics teacher is going to teach me ict and i clearly remember in one lessons during physics that he mentioned he can't work out how to use computers! My friends remembered it too!!! So our ict lessons going to be great next term lol!

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