We Have No Choice

We lodged a complaint to CSB about out Biology teacher, and she has taken her action.

She told us our Biology teacher is very sad (my biology teacher cried) and told us not to make her feel worse. I feel kind of guilty listening to that.

But she left us no choice.

We have tolerated with the fact that she can't teach and she knows nothing about Biology. Do you know how she teach? She reads what she types on the computer without elaborate explanation, and she expects us to be able to grasp the information once they're delivered.

If that's the case, I think it'll be easier if we just read the textbook. The process is similar, in fact, textbook contains more information than what she gives us.

Do you know how terrible her Biology is? She knows nothing! She doesn't know what is lymphocyte, thrombocyte, granum, grana, and I highly doubt she knows other things in our textbook.

Yes, she is this bad. I'm not exaggerating. Ask anyone from 5S3 and 5S6.

She is a Biology teacher but she knows nothing about lymphocytes. How can this type of person be a Biology teacher?

She makes us feel extremely angry. Our anger was pushed to the maximum when she gave back our exam papers.

Do you know how she marks our exam paper? She follows the answer scheme pedantically. Her ridiculous marking results in only 7 person passed the exam.

See this: The answer given in the marking scheme for the observation is 'Time taken for the methylene blue solution to decolourise for water sample C is 53 minutes'. If we write 'Water sample C takes 53 minutes to decolourise methylene blue solution', she says wrong. Why? She says: 'Skema saya macam ini'. *Updates: It is indeed wrong because the format is wrong. But yet she shouldn't give us an answer like this.

The results of the experiments are clearly given, they're crystal clear. The hypothesis given in the marking scheme is 'Water sample C is the most polluted.', if we write 'Water Sample A is the least polluted', she says wrong and no marks is awarded. When we ask her why, she says: 'Tak ada dalam skema'.

To predict the time taken, the answer scheme says: 'Longer than 53 minutes (2 marks), for example, 60 minutes (1 mark).' If we write 'More than 53 minutes, for example, 1 hour', no marks. When we ask her why, she says 'skema saya bukan macam ini.'

Her English is preposterously bad, ridiculous to the point nobody in the universe can accept. She says 'more than' and 'longer than' are different, 'most clean' and 'cleanest' are different. If your answer is grammatically different but conceptually similar to the answer in the marking scheme, she'll be confused and says your answer is wrong, even if you have all the key words. In fact, if the answer in the marking scheme is plural and your answer is singular, she says wrong.

When we asked her why our answers are not acceptable, the answers she'll give us are 'skema saya bukan macam ini', 'tak ada dalam skema', 'ikut skema sahaja'...She's a teacher, how can she give us answers like this? This is very unprofessional.

We nearly went berserk and yelled at her, but it would bring no benefit to us. So we went to the office and complained to CSB, and when we told her every thing that I mentioned above, she was stunned. She didn't laugh to her ignorance (I use 'ignorance' to sound polite), probably to be professional. But KLP who is sitting in front of her couldn't control the urge to laugh. She never laughs like that before.

Just for your information, most of the things (95%, seriously) that my biology teacher doesn't accept are accepted by CSB, and for the answers that are not acceptable, at least she tells us why they're not acceptable, and not just shrug us off with 'skema macam ini'.

How can the school expect us to trust a teacher like her? It's like asking an Indian who knows nothing about Chinese to teach Chinese. Or asking a panhandler to dominate a company and be the boss. Ignorance can never make a person professional.

We already tolerated with the fact that she can't teach, we can't tolerate this.

Yeah, she's pity. But what about us?

Many of us are going to use this semester's result to apply for scholarship and matrikulasi. If our result is terrible because the teacher can't mark and not because we can't do the paper, how are we going to apply for them?

Our future literally depends on our result. We are letting our future hangs on her hands, and she is going to ruin it with her ignorance. We simply can let this happen.

Our future is the marks we obtain, we cannot accept the fact the we fail to apply any scholarship because our teacher gives us low marks for our papers because she knows nothing about Biology and not because we suck at it.

If we do badly and get a horrible result, it's our fault and no one is to blame. But this...

I'm sorry, but we have to be selfish when coming to this. This is our future we are talking about. We cannot let our future be marred because our teacher doesn't know how to mark our papers.

I'm sorry, teacher, we can't.

I'm sure both of them are bothered by our complaint, but we really have no choice. Thanks CSB for trying to fix this problem and save our future, and to our Biology teacher: please improve yourself to be both a better person and a better teacher.

**Please excuse my long-winded complaint. I've to express it.