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My teacher hates me??!?

So Im 15 and a girl. I'm in 10th grade and my average is usually up in the 90% range. I have the same teacher for history and civics and she really doesn't like me. There's no reason though because I do do all my homework everyday and always study for tests and stuff. I'm never disruptive and I never miss school. So every little quiz we have in either class she takes marks off for answers that should be right, like she said it in class and my friends write the same thing but get it right. She won't admit that she's wrong though. She took 7 marks off a major test because my answers were too vague but my friend had the same thing and she got the mark. And today we got an important assignment back that took me like 10+ hours to do and she told me it wasn't what she wanted and to redo it over spring break. She didn't tell any other student to do that, just me. All my friends got perfect and I got a 75% (really bad for me) and told to do it again before I can start the next part of the project that is due the Wednesday after break. So she wants me to re submit the first one and let her mark it before even starting the next one which doesn't give me enough time, which I think is ridiculous. I don't know what to do to make her nicer to me but I need to do something because the 2 classes are messing with my average which needs to stay high for university. I don't really know how to handle this situation can anyone help? I really feel targeted in these classes.

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  • 6 years ago
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    I would speak to my parents about the problem, gather the proof of the same answers being marked for full marks

    and then go with my parents to a meeting with the teacher.

    If the teacher does not accept your concerns as legit then move on to the principal

    and then to the superintendent

    If what you say is really happening it might be because she is trying to get more work out of you because she feels you are able to do more- she might not even realise she is doing this. Speaking to her about it with the proof sitting infront of you might be enough for her to understand the extent of the problem.

    For you to make sure this is really going to get solved- make sure you take total responsibility for any part you might have in her treatment of you, are you late? do you turn in assignments late? do you participate in class discussions? Im not saying it is your fault but in every relationship there are two sides, what can you do to make it better? It is also possible she is just a bully, good luck if that's the case and I am sorry you are having to deal with this

  • 6 years ago

    I read your question and understood the situation. Same thing happened to me. I was same as you (90+) student and I am 14 years old and I am suffering this issue. The reason can be either that the teacher wants you to bring in better work than other students because you are intelligent, or because as you said the teacher is unfair with you. I suggest that you inform your parents about the situation and let them take your essay to the head of department or principal... and let them give their opinion about your essay... and then let your parents tell the opinion to your teacher if it was good opinion........... I appreciate the fact that you are an intelligent student and these kind of things happen to these kind of students.

  • 6 years ago

    Sounds like my math teacher from last year. I get at least 95% every class, never interrupt, and was EXTREMELY polite to him. but he kept picking on me. In the end I got so annoyed I started deliberately raging a war against him by not paying attention in class and watching my laptop when he talks. He banned me from my laptop so in the next class I showed up with a book (I love loopholes).

    He called my mum four times in one week and started giving me especially hard exams just to annoy me. No one else likes that teacher either.

    IMPORTANT: A word of advice, don't do what I did. PLEASE. Because in the end it's the teacher who has the power over your report (as I found out the hard way).

  • 6 years ago

    If you want her to start liking you then you need to make her. Show her what's shes doing and tell her you won't stand for it any longer. If she denies it (most probably will) then go to the principal and explain it to him/her. If they still don't believe you then keep being mean to the teacher and she'll start listening. Oh and she might do it because she thinks you're better than the work you've been doing, or not.

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  • 6 years ago

    You can do Private Online school. or public online school. Private is the best.

    Our kids go to keystone online high school and they love it. So will you. You will actually get better grades because you don't miss anything. You are not passed over by a teacher or picked on by a teacher. Teachers are not stuck in a teaching schedule and has to move on even though you still don't understand what was being taught. If you do not understand something you do not move ahead until you do get it. That way everything is actually easier because you understand it and you don't fail tests. Because you don't fail tests you do better and better.

    this gives you the opportunity to be a straight A student and opens the door to scholarships you had no chance of getting before.

    You can move fast in private online school. My son graduated at 16 and started college early. He is now an avionics engineer living in Japan. With online private school you will get the best education you can get.

    No drugs, no alcohol, no bullies, no flu, and no bad influences.

    You will be a closer family with the same values not some public school strangers values. Your parents at anytime can see what your being taught and intercede if they disagree.

    Online school allows you and your parents to be able to vacation away from the public school schedules.

    Disneyland in Oct or Feb when prices are at their very lowest.

    You can take your school with you. Our 16 yr old Daughter went to visit her brother in Japan for 3 weeks last Oct and took her school with her missing not one hour of school. school is where ever their is internet. Her online High school was most often at an internet coffee shop in Narita.

    There are no time restrictions.

    Home schooled children, contrary to teacher union myths, actually score in the top 20% of the nation across the board in all standard tests according to HSLDA and other monitoring groups. Online school children are showing to do even better. The class room size for online students are one teacher and parents per one child vs 1 teacher to 30 children in brick and mortar schools.

    The materials teach and the teachers only come into it to assist you when you need it and grade you.

  • 6 years ago

    You should talk to the counselor about it. Maybe you could try switching out of her class but i don't know if you'd be able to because the school year is almost over. Also tell the principal that your teacher isn't being fair to you. I hope this helps!

  • 6 years ago

    The best thing for you to do is bring this to the attentionof a guidance counselor. Either the teacher expects more from you because she sees more potential inyou than in other students, or maybe, like you think, you rub her the wrong way for some reason. Either way, your best bet is to go to your counselor at school for clarification andadvice. thats what they are there for.... good luck!

  • 6 years ago

    best answer i can give is this. get as many copies as you can for comparison go to the school principal and show him that your work is the same as the others and shes marking you wrong and wont fix it if the principal dosent do anything then on to the superintendent and then to an attorney you can also contact the board of education and the disciplinary committee for teachers.

  • 6 years ago

    It appears that your teacher is a control freak lesbian or she is using a self fulfilled prophecy. She just wants you to fail in order to prove that she is right.

    I had male teachers like her during my school years at a strict Catholic boy's school who were either homophobic, and/or control freaks racists.

  • 6 years ago

    Talk to your parents and describe the whole situation to them. Ask them to complain against it. You're not going to adjust with low marks just because a teacher doesn't like you now are you?

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