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There is this teacher in my school that everybody hates, not because he is hard, not because he has bad breath... everybody hates him 'coz of his bad temper and the lack of fairness in the way he grades homework and exams.

Last friday I visited the “Head of Industrial Engineering” (or however you called the person in charge of a mayor and the students) to give him my complains about this teacher… I did this not because I wanted a better grade. I did because I was very upset about the way this teacher treats us.

The same friday, around 5:30 pm, I had a class with this teacher… the first thing he said when class began was: “apparently there are still a few students that are complaining about me, so don’t worry, instead of having the final exam the way we planned it to be, we will give you 50 theory questions” Everybody was puzzled and amazed… 50 questions of theory from a whole book!!! That was outrageous! When some of the student tried to say something the teacher simply said: “you can’t said nothing, the ones that complained already spoke for you all”.

At the end of the class a small group of students were talking to the teacher, and I heard him say: “sorry, but ‘coz of the minority everybody looses”… than enraged me!!! It wasn’t possible that just because I complained the whole class was going to be punished… first of all, that is not fair and what I was looking for when I complained, was not to upset the teacher, what I wanted was him to improve. So I immediately stepped into the conversation and said: “Sir, I was the one that complained and if you want me too I can tell you the reasons right now”. He told me that he didn’t care to hear me, so I told him that “the retro that students give the teacher is meant for improvement, not for you to keep doing the same or worse” Then he said to me “DON’T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!” to which I reply: “no, you don’t talk to me like that”.

After that the teacher stormed out of the class room, I chased him down the hallway trying to give him my reasons… he wouldn’t hear me, at the end he said: “you are Victor Padilla, right? Don’t worry I’ll give you a 100 in the third period!” I told that I wasn’t doing this ‘coz of the grade… I couldn’t care less about grades. Then he added “and don’t worry, the final exam is going to be very easy” and told him that he could do whatever he pleases.

When I returned to classroom to get my stuff, everybody applaud me, like one of those cheesy movie moments… I told them: “please, don’t do that, instead of applauding you could have helped me, you could have come with me to the teacher realized that is not the minority…”

Why everybody is cowardly?