How to Survive School

*3*: Teachers

You are only a student if you have a teacher. Some teachers are good, some teachers are bad, and some teachers are just okay.

Before I can give you advice on how to handle these teachers, I need to go over six main types of teachers.

1) The try-hard:

You can tell that this teacher tries too hard from the moment you meet them. In most of my experiences, this is typically a female teacher.

In eighth grade, I had a try-hard teacher. But it wasn't an ordinary try-hard teacher. It was so much worse. Why? Because it was a try-hard gym teacher.

There is nothing wrong with a teacher being passionate about what they are teaching. But it is insanely important that a teacher knows that not every student is going to be passionate about what they are being taught, especially if it's a subject like gym. Let's be real, the majority of students don't give a shit about that class.

So why the hell are you trying so hard? It is irritating! It's gym class!

2) The noob:

These are the teachers that are new to either your school or the occupation of teaching and have no idea what they are doing. They barely teach, and when you have a question about the subject, they don't know how to answer you, so they either don't give an adequate response, or they lie completely.

Their "teaching" methods are completely stupid, and most of the time, you are relying on the smart kids in your class to get by. They never check homework properly, they are hypocritical, and their tests are unfairly hard. Plus they are shitty graders on tests.

However, this type of teacher can also be very cool and let you get away with anything.

3) This is a life skills class:

This kind of teacher is not so bad. If anything else, this class is a good time to take a nap (mentally). This type of teacher likes to tell lots of stories about things that nobody cares about. They talk about their kids a lot, and they also talk about vacations. Most of the time, you're just thinking, "that's right, keep talking, run the clock down. Only five minutes till lunch, and then you'll completely forget to collect my homework!"

This kind of teacher also tries to teach you life lessons. In sixth grade, I wrote something bad in someone's yearbook, and she told on me. The lady barely told me off, and instead she gave me a life lesson: "You never know who's going to be rich when you get older, so you're better off being nice to everyone."

4) Unrealistic expectations:

This is so irritating to me, it is difficult to put into words.

For example, if you are an eighth grader, and you just made an obnoxious comment, and the entire class is laughing, this teacher may say to you: "You are in eighth grade, so act like it!"

I'm sorry, you must be a new teacher, because last time I checked, eighth graders are immature as hell.

Also, you can't expect every kid in the class to get an A. Some people are not going to do so well. Don't yell at us just because we failed, because chances are that your shitty teaching is the reason.

5) I wish I had them

This is a good teacher. Basically, any good teacher, that knows how teenagers think, and is a good teacher, and gives reasonable tests, and doesn't overload you on homework, and is really nice.

In seventh grade, I had this amazing science teacher. He was a twenty five year old Asian guy and it was his first year teaching. He had a wonderful method: as long as you are satisfied with your grade in this class, you can do whatever the hell you want.