To My Worst Teacher Ever,

I recall how you taught (class). To be honest, your classroom format and teaching methods were very wrong and unjust. You made me feel down at myself. You taught me something and gave me a test that was on something that we did not learn yet. You never knew how intimidated and stressed I felt. Whenever my classmates and I told you that the test was not something that we learned in class yesterday, you would always say, "You were supposed to know this topic by now." How would we know (lesson content B) if you only taught us (lesson content A)? When we failed the (lesson content A) test, all you just did was yell at us and called us dumb. Since you yelled at us and called us dumb, you made us lose faith in ourselves.

You lacked master orientation, which meant to motivate us to learn, to try hard, and to improve in your classroom. Your classroom was not a fun playground. It was a playground that went on fire every time my classmates and I took a step there. My classmates and I prayed to God every time we went to your classroom. We begged to God by telling him to stop you from giving us unpredictable tests. Sadly, God could not help us. We tried to do well on your unpredictable tests by studying other topics that you did not teach yet.

As we learned these other topics, we began to lose our sense of performance orientation, which was the motivation that we gave to ourselves by learning and trying hard on our own. We realized that we needed you to make them easier. Too bad, you were not there and we failed more of your unpredictable tests. Because of how you taught the class, you made me hate (class subject) so much! I am very sure my classmates would feel the same way as well. When I learned (next class subject relevant to the previous class subject) the year after that, I felt like an outsider because unlike everyone else, I did not learn the precursors to (next class subject relevant to the previous class subject) well. Thanks to you, (next class subject relevant to the previous class subject) was a pain in the butt to me.

If only you knew what realistic (class subject) education was like, then my classmates and I would not have suffered in your class. If you do not know what that means, then let me define it for you. Realistic (class subject) education in a (class subject) class would provide fun activities, support our current (class subject) skills, employ models on how to learn the (class subject) concepts, and give us assessments that were based on what we learned in class. Hopefully, this letter will make you feel sorry and sympathetic for once.

From,

One Of The Students That You Had Before