Pretty much a rant here, but I don't know what to do.
I'm sitting here in my room, getting work done, when I decide to take a look at my grades on my school progress report, grade... Thing. I notice my grades aren't doing very well, especially in Chemistry, despite my efforts in trying to get shit done. Albeit, some background here, we did have a 2-week long break, the first initial week being unintentional as there was a snow storm, making the road conditions unfit for driving and thus disabling any transportation to school, due to safety reasons. The second week was a planned President's Day break, where the whole week was taken off of school. I don't think much of the occurrence, two weeks of relaxing inside, waiting for the snow to subside while I drank a cup of hot chocolate.
Then the two weeks pass, and my school life gets back into swinging. Boy, did I miss everything subject-wise in my Chemistry class.
First off, there was apparently a "Heat & Calorimetry" test that I had to take. Didn't think much of it either, however I didn't remember anything from prior to the two week break. Nothing to worry about, just pass the test, right?
Wrong. From what I'm looking at here, I absolutely tanked and took an L, getting a 6/50 on the test itself.
Now confused as to why and how I let myself get a 12% on a test a week after, I realize that I never took into consideration the type of teacher I had for my Chemistry class. It was a new teacher, replacing the prior Biology & Chemistry teacher from last year, whose class I had the privilege of taking. It was fun, nobody really broke out of line when she was in the classroom, and she let everyone have enough time to take notes, even going back to the last slide of the PowerPoint to let them finish taking their notes.
This year, though, is completely different. The new teacher, names being unmentioned for privacy reasons, doesn't leave enough time for people to take notes. She practically expects you to remember every bit of information, from the moment you see the slide. Nobody asks to go back, because they don't want to disrupt her flow of teaching, but, no offence if she finds this forum post, which'll be rare, her style is absolute crap. Students, as far as I know (from my class), don't have enough time to contemplate how the damned concept even works, and worse off, she doesn't give them a chance to ask questions about the material. I know she's only trying to teach, but at least give kids the chance to think about what you're teaching. Any good teacher I've had has given kids the opportunity to ask questions about the materials they're supposed to be teaching. We don't just sit in a room and process information like computers, we process them like human beings. We have questions about these types of things, and teachers are supposed to be answering any questions students have to broaden their understandings on the subject. But nope, the new Chemistry teacher doesn't ask if students have questions. She just gives you something, like a complex concept, and expects you to swallow it whole. Then, a week later, she contradicts her teachings and goes to dimensional conversion, which is literally, so far, just multiplying bullsh*t with fancy terms. She doesn't try to teach students the easy stuff, leading into the hard sh*t. No, she'd rather have some random and stupidly easy lesson planned after at least a month of hard work, and essentially vice versa. It's stupid to the point where I can't even remember taking notes about calorimetry and whatnot.
Whatever, just a rant about how dumb I feel my Chemistry teacher's methods of teaching are. As for status updates, I'm just doing homework, since I've been focusing on studying for that test without remembering anything about taking notes. Move on with your days, as proceeded. I might just be a lazy fucklet who doesn't take notes, who knows?