Misadventure/Appeal due to poor teaching? (1 Viewer)

[Jezzabelle]

Hey,
i was wondering if BOS had any guidelines regarding the review of papers in consideration for students of a particular class being at a disadvantage due to suffering teacher incompetencies during senior school.
This is in regards to my chemistry teacher refusing to teach our class the 3rd core topic and the option topic and also not performing a lot of the first hand investigations.
If my class was to lodge a group appeal would the board consider it and review our marks in the light of a misadventure

 

[ur_inner_child]

Hey,
i was wondering if BOS had any guidelines regarding the review of papers in consideration for students of a particular class being at a disadvantage due to suffering teacher incompetencies during senior school.
This is in regards to my chemistry teacher refusing to teach our class the 3rd core topic and the option topic and also not performing a lot of the first hand investigations.
If my class was to lodge a group appeal would the board consider it and review our marks in the light of a misadventure

why did you not raise the issue with the principal??? Fired on the spot???

 

[Jezzabelle]

uhhh ... he was the only one either nice enough or naive enough to take on our chem class 2nd term yr11... and i dont think anyone else wanted it... so the head teacher and other science teachers didnt wanna attack him in fear they might get forced to teach us instead....

but told us to buy those "surfing" revision guides and do the core and option on our own time at home.
the other cores he just photocopied from the surfing guides all year tho in an attempt to teach us, or summarised the context 2 book on overhead and left the room why we copied down his summaries (which isnt effective really.. you learn when you make your own notes..)

the only students who ever passed half-yearly or trial were those who were dedicated and stressed enough to pay to have someone tutor them every week at home...

 

[Lazarus]

It's a little late now, jezzabelle86... you really should have said something when it was occurring.

Phone the Board and ask for advice (anonymously).

 

[matt_f64]

i think his case is legitament. at my school there is a general maths class who had a crap teacher, everytime they complained to the head of maths or principal noone listened then finally with 3 weeks of yr 12 to go the teacher got fired for other reasons and then wen the new teacher came to teach the class they discovered that the teacher had been teaching them year 11 work or wateva he wanted, and had missed out on 3/4 of the yr 12 syllabus. so that class is screwed for the hsc and should be able to appeal etc

 

[Jezzabelle]

i think his case is legitament.

i'm a girl... yeh i might be sitting on a holden but just cos i like cars.. doesnt mean i cant be a girl

 

[Plebeian]

The front of the illness/misadventure form specifically says you can't lodge an appeal on the basis of "alleged deficiencies in tuition", so you probably can't use this channel - however if as Lazarus says you ring the Board there must be some sort of avenue you can go down.

 

[allstarr69]

lol and i thought my teacher was bad... thats terrible!!

 

[boz]

yeah our teacher didnt teach us barely any of the option for physics, now the test is tomorrow and i still havent done any. I should probrably not be writing this and go and study.

 

[pussy_cat]

Hey dont worry, i did advanced maths and was quite capable of doing it except the teacher just couldnt teach, he was like eccentric or something - he knew what he was talking about but refused to explain it. For eg. he wrote the formula for integration, and stuff on the board and told us to do the exercises - without pre learning stuff that he said was 'basic knowledge'.
Anyway, i went to the head teacher and he wouldnt do anything (but knew that my teacher was hopeless cuz 'somehow' a free terms tutoring popped out of nowhere and he gave it to me) then i went to the principle and she told me it was my problem and that i needed to study more, even though the class average was 40%, and there was smart ppl in my class. Then i emailed the board of studies and they didnt want to know, told me to speak with my principle again - which i did, and she ignored me. Oh and other ppl in my class did same thing. Oh and this was year 11 and year 12, i ended up dropping adv maths to general with the head teacher - who actually told me id better go into his class.

 

[shortie_689]

why did you not raise the issue with the principal??? Fired on the spot???

Cause teachers all gang up on students... My maths teacher was a down right bitch... She was a terrible teacher never stop to take questions or to help anyone just plowed through her work... Her moods were downright horrible id go for a whole week of being placed dead centre front row and yelled at every less or the the back corner as if i had a brick wall around me and I wasnt in the room... Our class complained and complained about her as a whole heaps of peoples marks just went down down down and the school kept saying just ignore her nothing we can do about it she is a lovely lady... Well she certainly prooved there opinion wrong... OH WELL NO MORE MATHS EVER

 

[matt_f64]

i'm a girl... yeh i might be sitting on a holden but just cos i like cars.. doesnt mean i cant be a girl

ok sorry i didnt no