Sorry for yet another rant on the forums, but this is one that's been coming for a while.
My US History teacher, Mr. Moss, has a serious issue with about 3 students in his 5th period class, which just so happens to include me. I've never been a student that put 100% effort into school, as I never really had to. I could put in 50% effort and miss a lot of homework and make it up with near perfect test scores, I understand that isn't the correct though process, but that's another discussion. Despite this, most teachers have been sparingly nice to me, and ones that don't put up with my lack of effort I completely understand, but this teacher, he's different.
It all started about the first week of school, noticing a few of his more, weird, personalities. I'm friends with most of the 'attractive' girls in the class, I sit with them in lunch the period after, so I get to talk to them pretty often. Very quickly they and me caught on to the fact Mr. Moss was always flirting with them, either giving them weird-ass nicknames or complimenting them 24/7. We soon also came to realize he had no wife, or really anybody. He would basically hate anyone who wasn't female and was considered attractive by most men's standards.
Then, he starts getting mad at the class constantly, apparently him sitting at his desk staring at his computer the entire period while having us do book work wasn't allowing us to pass. That is not an exaggeration either, every two weeks we would have a test on Friday, the following Monday we would receive a notes lecture and every other day he spent at his desk, face planted into computer monitor, and we did silent book work.
This work really bored me so I usually ended up doing about 75% off it then doing something else, so I was getting a B or C at the end of the grading term. So then in the middle of the second term, he decides to give a HUGE rant about how he has 37/110 students he teaches failing his class, despite him teaching the same method for 15 years, so in the midst of his rant I raised my hand and made the retort, "Do you think maybe you should try something different?". I was given a detention on the basis of insubordination.
So now, whenever I do anything wrong, he jumps all over me and he's usually in the wrong, yet I receive a detention anyways. One example is, he told us as usual to get out our books and a piece of paper to do our work. I didn't have a piece of paper so I asked around for one. He stands up, walks over, and tells me to stop talking, so I retort, "I need a piece of paper to get the assignment done". He then tells me to get my book out, and turn to the right page. So I do, and then I ask for a piece of paper again, and he tells me to be quiet or else I'll be sent to the office. Then, at the end of class when I have nothing done, he gives me a detention for doing nothing during class.
This same situation goes on at least every other day, with me ending up with another detention, my grandparents have already set up appointments to meet with school officials on the basis of his flirtation with the students, forcing of opinion on his students, and unfair punishment.
He's also renowned for pushing his own opinions on us, and the females spoken of earlier are completely for me doing something about it.
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