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grudge holding teacher
My name is Miranda and i am 16 years old and in 11th grade and i am currently taking some college classes to get ahead. My younger sister skipped my current teachers class alot and i am pretty sure my teacher hates me for it. Because lately everytime i ask for help she just ignores me and moves on to the next lesson and also every paper i type she gives me a zero because she says i plagerized it or that the websites i used don't exist. i am to my breaking point and if i fail the class i will get black listed and not be able to get into any college. I need advice on what to do. HELP ME PLEASE.
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Do not talk to her about it.
Talk to your parents, gather as much evidence as you can, and immediately speak to a school administrator.
If you've been accused of plagiarizing without proof, thats a serious breach of her responsibilities as a teacher. Copying schoolwork is supposed to be something school administrators are notified about, and I'd bet anything she hasn't told a soul.
Make a huge stink. Parents first, they have alot more weight than you do. After that, it needs to go to a principal. Stress that you've been accused of plagiarizing work with no evidence and now followup, and that you think you're being screwed for some reason you cannot fathom because your teacher is not following procedure, just making excuses to fail you.
She could (and should) lose her job over this. When you speak to the principal, ask them how you get in contact with the school board, and how you could appear before them to testify on corrupt and biased teaching practices, and ask the principal what rules govern academic dishonesty, ask the principal what the teacher is supposed to do in cases of repeated academic dishonesty, and point to the fact that the teacher hasn't done any of it because you aren't cheating, she just wants to give you zeros and is hoping you just quietly let her fail you.
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I would talk to her about it. However, she seems like a bitch, so I don't know much that would help.
Honestly, you did bibliographies it sounds like, so the sites you used are listed. Talk to your principal, show the sites and the commentary on the paper, and discuss this.
Your teacher cannot get away with that.
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I'd go to the principal. If you can remember them, put together a list of the sites you used as references that she claimed didn't exist. That way you can show the principal that they do exist. If you have any of your papers from her class, bring them with you. You'll need all the proof you can get.
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Depending on where you go, 1 F isn't going to kill you. BUt anyway, this is not right. I would talk to her before or after class. Tell her that you would like to personally sit down with her and search the websites, to prove they exist. Tell her that these grades are not fair, and that you would like to meet up after school to discuss, extra credit/ her thinking behind her grades. Lastly, make it clear that you can/will go to the principl/guidence counsler if she continues with this behavior. BE NICE, or she'll hate you even more. Personally, you should not have let it get this far, after the first paper you should have said something. Now school is almost over, and now your doing something about it?
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