Algebra 2 and substitute teachers and civics

I noticed that when I started taking honors courses [which I hadn't since 5th grade], it cut a lot of noise and unnecessary talking and goofing off out of the class, I got work done a -lot- faster, and my grades rose because if I didn't understand something, I was either the only one, or it was only a select few. Not a bad thing. The one course that I never take honors in is math. I suck at math. My end grade for geometry was an 82, my end grade for foundations of algebra was a 79, and my end grade for algebra 1 was a 77, I believe. <br><br>My algebra 2 grade is currently around a 97. We're in chapter 5. So far, I've been averaging a 92 on tests without the extra credit, and a 102 on tests with the extra credit. Not to mention my homework is always in on time, and she doesn't grade it for accuracy [which has saved me in geometry, by the way]. My algebra 2 teacher collects warm ups at the end of the week, and if you have them all, you get a 5/5. Easy A. She tutors after school, etc. My one major issue with everyone in that class is that they're all juniors. There are maybe 2 or 3 sophomores in that class. We did solving equations for variables [you know, 2x+4x=6, solve for x], and there were maybe 5 people out of 25 that didn't understand it. It took me until 8th grade to understand it, but after then, especially as a junior, you should understand that. It's simple. Add the 2 and the 4 and divide by 6, and the answer is 1. I can do these accurately in my head now, and you're subtracting a variable from a non-variable number. Wtf? <br>And the reason why these people don't understand it [4 girls, one boy], is because they sit there and they talk the whole entire time. The guy texts all class period. The majority take horrible notes. And they don't get why they don't understand it! They say that my teacher is a horrible teacher! She's not. I've had horrible teachers before. She's an excellent teacher. She knows what she's doing.<br><br>So I didn't take alg. 2 as an honors course for two reasons. One, I've seen some of the matrices that the honors students have to do by hand. Two, I don't know how I'm going to write a 3-5 page paper on math. What am I supposed to do, write about trigonometric functions? How do I keep that going for five pages? Honestly, I'm wishing I did. No one shut up today in class, and we had one of the worst substitutes in history. One of those subs that think that because they're miserable, everyone else should be miserable. I don't like him, he's unnecessarily rude. What it is, is that he's an extremely intelligent individual. I've had him before as a sub. He's highly intelligent. He could teach at college level if he wanted to. And because of this, he's an ass.<br>No one shut up. The entire female portion of the class [minus me and two others] was singing happy birthday to this one chick. The guy that texts all period was begging her for a cupcake. The phone was ringing. The intercom was going off. No one would listen to this guy. The girl who put the homework answers up on the board took twenty minutes for twenty five questions, and she only had to write the answers. The sub was pissed. He practically slammed the scantron sheets down on our desks, and -threw- the tests at the rows. I'm sitting there thinking, "seriously? You have a good thirty years on us and you're bringing yourself down to a high school level? Grow some patience -_-"<br><br>I'm regretting not taking an honors course. It would have cut a ton of crap out of my fourth period, and it would have gone by a lot quicker, like my English II class did. My biology class is excellent. It's interesting, for what it is. I love it.<br><br>My other issue is my honors civics class. My one teacher is awful. I had him for world history, which is easy enough. I came out of that class with a 98, finished the final in 15 minutes. This teacher gives horrible notes, and screws around entirely too often in class. He's constantly joking around with the more popular people in class, whereas if you actually need his help [I had a question about one of the amendments, the book was vague about it], it falls on deaf ears if you're not one of his pets. Complete and total favoritism. We aren't going to go into what else I can't stand about this teacher.<br>He's always joking around with people in this class, and I'm always having to turn around and ask the kid with the 180 IQ a question [I love this guy...He's happy to answer questions]. Isn't that what a teacher is for? I shouldn't have to be asking my peers about what you went to school to teach. I don't need a bunch of videos and a worksheet to learn something. I need it explained to me in terms I can understand. So stop tooling around and pay attention to those struggling in your class. -_- I read my text book. But he throws in things in tests that you haven't even learned yet. It gets ridiculous when you have a teacher like that. I'd rather have an information overload teacher than a teacher that doesn't give enough information. And, trust me, there are two two teachers that give information overload. My one seventh grade history teacher was an information overload teacher, and I loved it. I learned the most out of his class.<br><br>Anyhow. I'm done venting about my courses now.