Should Grade 12 Students Be Allowed to Choose Their Teachers?

Should Grade 12 Students Be Allowed to Choose Their Teachers?

  • Submitted By: sammyzxm
  • Date Submitted: 03/12/2009 12:01 AM
  • Category: English
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To begin, students would often choose teachers based on inaccurate information. In a large school students will probably not know the teacher personally, so they will base their decision on rumours. The rumours students hear about teachers are rarely true, so the students could be missing a good class. Strict and knowledgeable teachers often have bad reputation and students complaining about them, even if it is not true. Therefore, students are often not the best judge of which teacher they should have, especially because they may be deciding based on incorrect facts about the teacher.. Students could start choosing teachers based on who they think are an “easy markers”; but this has problems as well. If it is true that it is easy to get marks, then they probably will not learn much. Even if they do get accepted to university their minds might not be prepared and ready to compete with the students who had “hard” teachers. Students who have had “hard” teachers have had to discipline themselves to deal with many challenging assignments, homework and tests. This will help them in university. Students who chose “easy” teachers could even have to drop out of university because they can’t handle the pressure. The easy time they chose in grade 12 could turn out to be very hard for them later on. Another issue is that teachers might even try to be popular or an easy marker to attract good students. On the other hand, some students might say that some teachers deserve to be popular because they are nice and good, and students should be allowed to choose them. This idea has some truth, but on the other hand, if teachers can get good students based on popularity, they may start doing the wrong things to be accepted by students. Most teachers probably do not want empty classrooms, they would feel embarrassed or insulted; they might start lowering standards or competing with other teachers to be popular. Students could have an advantage for a while by choosing teachers, but...

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