Why is that teachers who do mulitple activities stick all classes no matter what level with the same assignment. Is the upper level being challenged? Is the lower level being helped to achieve what they can? No, not at all. The teacher gets so stuck on other things that the students who are going to succeed outside the school scene are not being helped at all. The reason behind this rant, my friend who is a brillant kid, no lie, is in a lower level class with the same assignment as my upper level class. He's frustrated because the teacher assigned a vague assignment and he can not figure out how to do the assignment. I have the same one but I'm at the other end of the extreme with too much material because the assignment was so vague. Anyway, teachers should be more inclined to help him because of learning disabilities but in this case, she basically assigned this paper and let everyone off on their own. He is miserable right now, trying to do this assignment because it plays such a major role in the class which affects graduation. Is it fair that he has the same assignment as an upper level class and is expected to do it without any assistance from the teacher? No, it is a teacher's job to teach. And part of this teaching would be explaining how to do an assignment and help those who ask for help. For those people going to ask why didn't he ask for help, he did. Blown off in favor of her directing the play, he is now getting assistance from a history teacher who we both spend a great deal of time with. Should any student be subjected to the anxiety induced by this failure to teach? NO, we as students do have a right to an education should we chose to use it. Is it fair for students to have to hope that other classmates or teachers will help the student achieve the bare minmum to pass? No, everyone should be doing their job. Teachers should actually teach while students should learn. But where is this gap between what people should do and what they actually end up doing going to end? With the increase in teachers having more students and still being expected to preform their normal duties to their classes and activites, the gap will not close. But students juggle more than one thing as well. Work, all their classes, sports, afterschool activties and family duties, are the students not working hard to make a difference in their lives. If students can juggle all these things, then so should teachers. It really is not fair to those who work hard.
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I could understand what you're saying because while I was a freshman in college, I took Introduction to Adobe Illustrator and the instructor that I had wasn't a good instructor because she would give my class a lecture, give us an in-class assignment, and sometimes get angry at someone in the class or give someone a hard time because she didn't want to help anybody because she expected our class to already know how to use Adobe Illustrator.
Its sounds like this teacher is one who is on the poor end of the spectrum. Not all teachers are amazing teachers and not all of them love what they do. For some educators, teaching is just a job.
Not to defend the actions of your teacher (because it sounds like she has been shirking her duties), but teachers do have a lot expected of them. High school teachers usually deal with anywhere from 150-300 students in the course of one day (depending on the subject/school size). They spend just as much time in school as you do, and then they probably spend just as much time doing school work outside of school as you do, maybe more. They have to write lesson plans for the next day, plan long-term units, create study/homework/assignment materials, and then grade the assignments they have collected.
This is normally on top of maintaining a marriage or relationship, raising kids, caring for elderly family members, and continuing with professional development. If your teacher was also directing a play on top of that, well, good for her. Its unfortunate that all levels of the class have the same assignment, and they should be presented appropriate variations of the assignment, but creating separate assignments for each level would mean that much more planning and prepping of materials.
This doesn't mean I condone her actions in the classroom, her vague assignments, or her lack of availability to her students. I just wanted you to take into consideration some of the possible reasons that your teacher may not be performing at her best.