no maths teacher since xmas 09

[mollykins]

this is more of a concern than the art exam. Since the start of my gcse maths, my group have had over 10 substitues, who have lasted between 2 weeks and 3 months, with others that last a few days inbetween. But i'm in the top set, and it seems that the head of department think we can get c's or above without it been taught to us properly, so the best teachers are given to set 2 and 3, who would fail if they didn't have a proper teacher, but several people in my class did fail the first two tests we had and had to retake them and so far in prep for the third and final test, we've had the worst of the teachers and so even more of us will probably fail.

what should i do?

[cazzz1975]

there is not a lot you can do, unfortunately this seems to be an all too regular trend at the moment, you could look at having some extra tuition that you pay for, you could also look at complaining about the situation to the school principal.

[mollykins]

we can't afford it and they know about the situation.

my title says xmas 09, we had a proper teacher in year nine, but they left at christmas of 2009, so he went into as much of the gcse stuff as a couple of the other supplies have.

[Rev Sermon]

Why shouldn't she have a whinge. Nearly everybody else on here does and usually about much less important things.

[Rev Sermon]

Mollykins,

Personally I'd get hold of some exam papers from previous years (go on google there's plenty of places that do them). Work through a couple to see how you fare but more importantly find out what you can't do, then concentrate your efforts on your weak areas.

[mollykins]

well there is triple science, we had a teacher who was always off sick, so we've now got 11 weeks to do half of a gcse course.

my other subjects are ok; english, normal science, geography, history, social ethics.

sorry if i'm concerned about my own education, but not all teenagers are lay-abouts who don't care about their eduction and don't think about the consequences ie, not being able to get into uni, so they can't get a decent job.

[Rev Sermon]

I had a similar scenario many years ago with German. Three different teachers in as many years, one of whom couldn't speak German and little wonder I only scraped a CSE grade 13 or something little better.

Fortunately for me it wasn't that important a subject to my career path and I later took it up again at night school as a hobby. Keep moaning, it's a free country and it's good to get it out of your system and if you have a more specific problem ask away there's enough people on here who're actually willing to help.

[mollykins]

It's even worse, my mums just pointed out that i my school is meant to the best state school in the area, and is a specialist MATHS and computing centre.

[mollykins]

rev, thats my point exactly, if it was art or something which isn't important to me and i'm not doing at 6th form, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but its a core subject that most employers want you to have and i want to do it at a-level.

[mollykins]

thanks eddie i appreciate that. At least i've got an 'a' in half of the course, even though its three lots of two exams (calculator and non-calculator papers in the same 90 minutes), the final one is even longer and half your total grade.

[mollykins]

but normally when you post stuff like that on science, people say that they won't help with homework. i think i'll post a link to this at the start of each one, to explain my situation and that its revision.

[Halsu]

can I suggest you all talk to your parents and get them to ring the Parent partnership liason officer at the local authority. They are there to talk to the schools about problems brough to them by parents

[brenda]

You seem to be having a few difficulties at school with your lessons , what are your parents doing to help? For example have they spoken to the school about your anxieties? It is very hard to solve problems on your own.

[mollykins]

everyone's in the same boat though, the school knows about the problems but there's nothing they can do, so i asked on here to see if there was any advice.

[brenda]

mollykins --the school knowing of a problem is not the same as parents actually going and making a complaint. T he school may know of the problem via the students , and whilst this will be taken seriously it does not have the same clout as a parent complaining. So I ask again what have your parents done about your anxiety.?

[mollykins]

phoned the school up, all of the parents of my maths group (apart from the trouble makers) have phoned up and said stuff at parents evenings etc.

[mollykins]

well my mum has, my dad's an idiot, he doesn't take any intrest in my schooling (he thought i'd taken art instead of maths) but when i take a report home with b's on it he complains.