Right now I'm taking AP Calculus which is the highest math I have ever taken in my life. I'm a senior in High School. I'm the only black female in taking AP calculus at my school. My math teacher makes me feel as though I'm not capable of understanding the work. I try my absolute best, but he sometimes just gives up. For instance I failed a math test and the other girl who he particularly favors failed it too, but he didn't say anything to her just to me and we had the same failing grade. She is an asian girl, but I feel like he thinks she's capable of doing better regardless and not me. I go to tutor twice a week and I'm looking at other resources and everything. I can't get out of this class because then I would be looked at as a failure and a quitter then he'll have the upper hand. I feel so outcasted at times when everyone understands the concept and not me, then when I have a question on a certain probably he makes these gesture like it was so easy and how could I have missed it.
2007-11-09 08:22:53 · 3 answers · asked by Venia c 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I get really good grades and my teacher is dating a kid with lower grades than me. I think he's getting all Fs. Talk about feeling worthless.Just the fact you are taking calculus puts you in a class of it's own. Don't worry about anyone else. Get out of the class if it's to much for you. You taking the class in the first place shows a lot of class.
2007-11-09 08:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just answered this for another questioner .. here is the answer I gave, that person
He/She is showing their incompetence by not being able to handle someone whose learning curve is not as rapid as their own 'teaching abilities' .. pity you weren't in my classes (when I was teaching) I found slow learners (and I use the words lightly) were the best challenge I could get from a group, normal and/or fast learners were acceptable as a blotting pad for my input, slow learners challenged my practices as teacher and my self respect as a communicator .. my advice to you, is to persist, maybe, just maybe, your teacher will wake up to his/her responsibilities some time .. and by the way should you eventually succeed and progress beyond their level you can be secure in the knowledge that you are 'better' than they were, since you could learn and they couldn't teach
2007-11-09 08:50:59 · answer #2 · answered by The old man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He makes you feel that way so He won't have to! But really notice where the worthless and incompetent arises!
2007-11-09 08:31:32 · answer #3 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋