To the teachers who don’t teach,

Yes, hello, remember me? I took your class a while back. I think it’s almost class evaluation time, and I’m here to let you know of some things. I think you’re a wonderful person, but I think you need a new profession. Why? You don’t teach. Plain and simple, I don’t even really know what you do. You simply review vocabulary, go over the main plot line, and assign the next homework assignment. No, what you’re doing isn’t teaching, unless you considering standing in front of a class of 20 students and just dusting the material — which is actually important — so you have time for your countless tangents during class about irrelevant, meaningless, random information, "teaching".

If you consider subtly insulting the class as a whole and individual students, thinking they won’t notice, as teaching, then yeah you’re doing that. Also, you think the material is so easy anyone could do it. WRONG! What you’re supposed to be teaching is hard… to literally everyone in the class. The only people who are doing super well in your class are the students who are the freaky kind of smart. You made the comment about the class being easy. Well gee, I’d hope to goodness it’d be easy for you, I mean you learned how much about it, how many years ago? And how many years have you been “teaching” or reviewing the material since then? I sure would hope it’d come easy for you, but it’s not supposed to come easy to us. It’s supposed to be taught by you.

Oh my lanta, the amount of stress your class alone has caused me is probably worse than the entire first semester of college where I was confused on how things worked, what I was supposed to be doing, and what I was supposed to be learning. Your class makes me want to stay in bed in the morning. Your class is the worst part of my day EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. It wasn’t always like that, but it’s been like that for a while now. I usually don’t use the word hate very often and mean it, but when I say I hate your class, I mean it.

I grew up with real teachers; teachers that actually answered your questions, and explained the material. I grew up with teachers who actually gave a crap about how the students were doing in their class and encouraged their students, unlike you who haven’t said a positive word to or about me since the beginning of the school year.

I hate to be the one who gives you a rather negative class evaluation, but I’m an honest person, I’m not going to lie to save your job, I’m going to tell the truth to save students.

You’re a nice person, but you need a new profession.

Sincerely,

the student who is far past frustrated with you and your class