- Computer labs – One has old computers where the desktop takes 10 seconds to redraw, and the other half has hard drive problems, so it looks more like a prayer meeting than a class.
- Student ID card – We still use a pupil’s record book instead. This is not nitpicking; after all, we are at a high school, so they should also call things around us by their proper names.
- Completely insufficient practice – For everything we cover, there should be a mini test at the end of the class, graded as a minor mark. Students would then have a motivation to pay attention, which instead turns into “if that guy does nothing and just sleeps here, why shouldn’t I do the same“.
- Fatal failure in testing knowledge – Oral exams do not happen; only one teacher examines us, and he is extremely calculating, so he keeps examining the same students with good grades, who end up worse off this way.
- Rote learning – Nobody has an infinite memory. When you learn the material by heart, you get a better grade than someone who tried to improvise and said the same thing, but not as a copy of the notebook or textbook. A person who learns this way will get somewhat worse results wherever even a little intelligence is needed. Learning like this is more like torture and is useless in the long run. Today’s trend is the complete opposite.
- Student behavior in class – Teachers do not mind at all when students sleep in class. An exception is, for example, Professor Wozniak.
- Cold classrooms – No comment. By law, a classroom must be kept above 15°. I would say we got well below 10, especially in business economics (PEK).
- The attitude of some teachers – They let things go much too far.
- Teachers’ sluggishness and leniency – They will happily postpone a quiz 100 times. When we finally write it, it takes them a year to grade it. They do not keep their promises.
- Doors – Through them you can hear a pin drop on the other side.
- The management – It is unable to understand that each student here usually lives in 2 or more worlds. They mix up apples and oranges and cannot analyze a problem.
- Teaching method – based on rattling off a summary lecture and then copying notes into a notebook.
- The power outlet by my desk – Some idiot stuffed chewing gum into it and plugged the hole, so there is about a 1 in 4 chance that an electrical appliance will actually start. So far nobody “higher up” knows about it.
- Gym – does not meet the standards for size or equipment, which consists of a cabinet, a few volleyballs&basketballs, mats, a vaulting buck, thick mats, a weightlifting bench and something I cannot name.
- Doing the same thing over and over – This applies, for example, to these subjects:
- PE – We keep playing volleyball, which does not suit this place at all. Some have no desire to play at all and just stand through it, almost without moving.
- PEK – For 4 years we have been copying things like robots. At first only in ATF, later straight from the textbook.
- Czech – In grammar, the only thing on the agenda is VJR (sentence parsing; the professor loves abbreviations, just like in the days of VRJ (the Great October Revolution))
- etc.
- Too few students – Some students leave because they cannot stand these easy conditions. Others do not even apply to this school, because it has such a bad reputation that it is not even considered. This school is suitable for slackers who think that life is a game and that they will pass the final exams with one hand tied behind their back, “because the ones before me did”.
- Substitute teaching and catching up – When a substitute teacher does show up, they have no idea what we are covering.
- Keeping us at school at all costs – Probably so that we do not get hit by a car or jump under a train and it would not be on their shoulders. They keep complaining that we do not study, but the fact that we spend even 5 hours staring into space and chatting does not bother them.
- Teaching hours – They are used inefficiently and unevenly. Why do we have 10 hours of English a week (and most of us still know nothing), but only 5 of German? (Business) English is the most widespread subject.
- Using students’ potential and more services for “customers” – I do not know, but I think the school has a very bad reputation, if only because so few people apply.
- Leaving class early – The masters of the class are not the teachers but the students. You just need to get up and leave, and if no more than 25% of the class time is left, nothing happens. Of course, this keeps escalating.
- Darkness – The classrooms are dark and, as a result, cold. Regular lights are switched on needlessly, and on top of that we are ruining our eyes.
In a nutshell:
- Block teaching
- Smoking
- Culture
- A badly organized timetable
- Too much tolerance – Meant in a broad sense.
- Start of classes – If it were moved by a quarter of an hour, most of those who commute by train could arrive on time and would not have to wait half an hour for the first class.
- Learning conditions
- The professors are too mild and easily let themselves be talked round.
- etc.