Extremely rude teacher

[waffle_puppy]

Hi, thank you so much for reading this. 

Today in class (Session 5) I was sitting in class next to my friend at the back because my teacher told me to sit there so I just sat there quietly and listened to what she had to say. For starters, I never liked her because of how rude and loud she is and how much she doesn't care about students who actually want to learn compared to those who throw chairs, shove others, and try to stand on the tables and scream in class. I swear I'm not the type of person to do that type of thing, I just try to do my work to get it over and done with. Meanwhile she was talking, my friend whispered to me about the seating position to which I reassured her and whispered back that it's just temporary so the loud boys don't try to sit at the back and cause any commotion (Which is a bad idea in my opinion because they'll just do it again) and today was horrendous and worse than usual. I was trying my best to focus when people kept interrupting and screaming whilst other people from the class next door slid the door that was behind my seat and screamed into the class which made it hard to focus and I even asked my friend for help as we worked together and even my teacher saw that I was working and listening (I showed her my book too which I wrote so much into as well) including the sheet she wanted us to work on and she looked at it before screaming in my face that it wasn't enough and that I did no work (I did two questions and was having trouble but she never helped no matter how much I asked?) so she resorted to screaming at me and said she'll write it on Compass only for me to get an Amber/Yellow chronicle which I never got. I was so upset and was crying so when it was the end of class I still tried to be nice to her and say "Thank you, bye." and she screamed "Just do your damn work" and I walked off. I've had enough of her behaviour and the fact that she thinks I do nothing is making me want to not go to this class anymore. I literally have a headache from this class and messaged my parents about it who said they'll look into it. I am so tense right now because I want to be an artist and musician once I'm older and don't want this chronicle to affect my life when I am older and go into proper work. I don't want this to ruin my image and make me look bad. I swear on my heart I never did anything and ended up crying heavily from this. She's always been rude ever since year 9 but she's never this rude unlike today 😞

[Psychdiaries2]

Hi there,

A warm welcome back to the forums, I’m so glad you’re here!

I’m sorry to hear about the situation with your unkind teacher. I always hated it when teachers yelled, it really doesn’t accomplish anything in my opinion. It’s ok to be upset about it, it sounds like you were unfairly treated and that you did your work, but that didn’t get recognised. I can only imagine how frustrating and humiliating that must of been. 

Clearly you are a kind person since you even said a nice goodbye to her even after she yelled at you. It is not ok for her to say “do your damn work”, it’s really disrespectful and unnecessary. I would recommend letting your coordinators know so they can hopefully have a talk with her so she won’t act like that again. 

For now, I would say try to continue to focus on doing your work and studying, keep going to class even if you don’t feel like it, and chat with your friend too. It’s good you told your parents, I hope they can get in contact with the school, especially if this is ongoing.

I hope things get a little easier for you in her class. Wishing you all the best!

[trying_my_best]

Hi waffle_puppy, 

I am a totally similar student to you and have had a very similar experience in both high school and uni. 

I highly respect your ability to still try and remain civil with the teacher. Your experience is so valid and I’m sure that teacher will get their karma, as in my experience they always do in the end. 

My experience in uni was I had a subject coordinator who when I reached out for supports after failing a class he didn’t teach properly rudely told me to practice regularly despite me previously explaining I had hired a private tutor and had attended the universities peer tutoring service. I ended up reaching out to another teacher in the faculty and explained my situation to them and they gave me really great advice and I have made it an effort to continue reaching out to them. This may be something you could look into as well, as no one deserves to be treated that way in any environment let alone a learning environment!