Tiers

When it comes to teachers, their are different tiers based on their quality. Tier one is the best, and it gets worse the higher the tier. In regular school, one is extremely lucky to get a tier one teacher-most are somewhere between tiers 2 and 4. In Governor's school there are several Tier one teachers. We have three of the four tier one teachers at Riverbend CGS-Mr. Morris, Mr. Conlee, and Mr. L (the other tier 1 teacher is Mr. Stack). When it comes to tier two, that is where most of the teachers lie-Mr. Bodart, Mrs. O, Dr. Walker, [the new geometry teacher], and mrs. wycoff-i may have forgotten one or two, but i don't think so. Then the Bend site has one tier 3 teacher-Mr Smith

Now, I'm not just ragging on Mr. Smith-its not untrue that english is the hardest class to teach. But not only does he fall short on just teaching english, he also chose to take on culminating. Do you not remember before winter break-"I'll give you back your binders tomorrow""Monday? You'll get them back on Monday""Friday. Friday. I promise you will get them back by Friday"-This is our Final Exams grade-shouldn't we get them back in a more orderly fashion and get some feed back at the checkpoint-i don't know about you guys, but I just got "How's it going?"-that is not what bothers me the most either-but the fact that he asked that during a math broadcast-how was I supposed to answer.

Then there is the point that Anne Marie brought up-he does not seem to respect us or our opinions nearly as much as the other teachers do.

And this project? what is he thinking? We got culminating due on the 23rd, an AP on friday, and SOLs after that.

Go Vols

Colin Hannifin