[B]illegal tampeing to get into year 12 [/B] (1 Viewer)

[wrong_turn]

can a teacher force you to sign a contract? not any contract, but one that forces you to abide stuff such as not accepting responsibility if you do poorly, force you arrange a study timetable and show the teacher every lesson, commit to extra-curricular activites.

these are all of the stuff that some of the people in Adanced are facing. funny thing is that all the boys except one got this letter of notification.

the teacher is forcing us to sign this contract, and to complete a task about inner journey in one week. fully analysing a range of texts including one biographical reflection, documentary and one short story.

is this legal for the teachewr to force us to complete a task and sign the contract before being able to do advanced in year 12.

the teacher also said that it was comparision to the whole year. all the people who got 60% got a letter. the average was below 60. so are they allowed to just trim the classes down like that.

currently i don't think there is even 25 people who do advanced. if this continues, there may only be 10 or 15 left. of the remaining, she will try to get rid of the students that the teacher thinks will decline her reputation as a good teacher.

we also had to refer it to the poem's 'the road not taken' and ' journey to the interior'.

the first poem we ahve received and studied in class once, and that was just last friday. the latter poem has not yet been given to us yet. this task to decide whether we do std or adv is due in 2 days, on this friday. i thnk it is not fair.

your opinions?

 

[Jezzabelle]

thats crap. if ya wanna do english adv you can bloody well do it. standard is for bludgers. advanced isnt hard

 

[wrong_turn]

yeah she drove most of us from high band 5's in the SC to just barely passing at prelims

 

[acmilan]

She cant force you to do a study timetable and show it to her. What you do at home is your business! As long as you do all the work she sets i dont think she can force you to leave no matter how bad you are doing. If tries to force you to leave take it up to the English coordinator, then the curriculum coordinator, then the principal and if none of that works just scare them by taking it to the board of studies

 

[wrong_turn]

the english co did form the application. and the principal is also an english teacher. last time someone filed a complaint. it turned out very badly for them

 

[malkin86]

One week? We got two for our journey portfolio...

Use everyone's notes from this site...

Did they give you any notice? (including in the stuff they gave you at the start of term - they'll assume you know that off by heart and it indemnifys them against you going "Hey, this task came up out of the blue!!")

This sounds very fishy.. What do your parents think?

 

[-Recoil-]

Yeah that's a bloody farce. Our English teacher let us choose everything we wanted to do, all our modules and texts we wanted to study, so surely you can't be forced into doing this shit if you don't want to. It's your future, if you want to do advanced then they can't stop you, and standard is fucking crap anyway, the people that can't read do standard.

 

[glitterfairy]

They can't force you into choosing particular stimulus texts.

What happens if you take it up with the official Board of Studies? This kind of thing shouldn't be allowed.

 

[malkin86]

Recoil, your teachers let you do that? I think your teacher is unique in hir method there..

lesmeister, how did you do?

 

[wrong_turn]

Recoil, your teachers let you do that? I think your teacher is unique in hir method there..

lesmeister, how did you do?

she hasn't yet marked it yet. but i think i'm over it. i am unscathed i guess. i was so stressed out during that time. though i'm only temporarily in advanced at the moment. even now?! but i'm not mad at the teacher anymore.

one can only be angry for so long. though she said that if we perfomed bad in the next assesment which is on next monday, there is a great likelihood that we could fall.

we have to do this journeys speech without notes. though this is actually a good task, that could test your ability to talk under pressure without any help whatsoever......i'm scared?!