Blog #3 "University Days"

While attending Jr. High School, I was in a math class I will never forget in all my school years. I was in 7^th grade, and of course math was a required subject. On top of being a nervous 7^th grader, I got stuck with the worst teacher, Mrs. McNish, a student could have. Homework assignments began being assigned and I quickly began to fall behind. With teaching skills of assigning homework first, and then teaching the material (seemed a little backwards), I was quickly falling behind and almost failing the class. My parents helped as much as possible, and my dad is very good at Algebra, however, they felt the teacher was not fulfilling her teaching duties, so my dad attempted to communicate with her via email waiting days with no reply. Back then, there was a program, PowerSchool for teachers to communicate student’s grade information. Teachers could input students daily work grades to keep parents updated on their students class work. Parent teacher conferences arrived and Mrs. McNish informed my parents that she wasn’t very computer literate and also didn’t have the time to communicate through email as well as keeping grades posted in PowerSchool. After exhausting all resources my parents requested that the principle assign me to a different teacher for the next semester. This proved to be the appropriate action. I went from almost failing and not understanding anything to being taught material, doing homework and receiving an A in the class.