Post by Neon on Mar 3, 2011 12:28:24 GMT -5
Dear Mark O'callaghan,
On parents evening today (March 3rd) I spoke to my tutor about one lesson in particular I have been having a few problems with. In my AIDA lesson I had done around 30% of my work and then, without much warning, it went right down to just 6%. Now, if this had been my fault I'd have taken credit for it but as it stands, my teacher had told me I'd finished bits of work and then came back and said I hadn't done all these things he'd never mentioned beforehand. I feel frustrated at the fact he hadn't mentioned it before because if he had, I probably wouldn't be in this situation. With all the stress of upcoming exams and coursework deadlines, I don't honestly see how I can get my AIDA work completely finished for the deadline which I believe to be the end of this month. I know that there are set days that I can come back to school to catch up but I'd like to point out that theres only appointed days for English, Science, Maths (all of which are important and I understand) but then there's my specialist and ICT. I also have a lot of work for DT and art but it feels as if this hasn't been put into consideration as these overlap with other days. Whilst I'm trying to make time for everything I can feel it getting to much and, to put it bluntly, out of all the lessons I'm taking I currently see AIDA as the least important. Maths, science and english will always be top priority of course, my specialist subject media will be a handy grade to have for when I try to get into an interior design course which I will also be needing art and DT for. As nice as a grade is in AIDA it isn't completely important and I have a horrible feeling that if I don't try to sort something out I'm honestly going to end up having some sort of break down.
I wouldn't mind so much if there was a chance that I could catch up but, unless I put all my time into it which is physically not possible, it's not going to happen in the little time I have left. After telling my tutor all this he recommended I write a letter to you because I was wondering if it were possible to drop AIDA when I know I'm not going to get anywhere with it. I know that I've missed a few lessons but I've always done what I can to catch up. When you look at most of my other grades in any subject, you'd see the rather large difference and I really do try my best to not get any lower then a C in any subject which is why I put a lot of my time into the subjects I'm possibly not as great at. I'm also aware that my AIDA teacher could just say I don't listen but that would be wrong and if you ask my other teachers you'd see it's really quite odd for me to get this worked up over a subject. Normally I'd be understanding and I would just try to sort it out but we've been on this course since September and it was only a few weeks ago that I got told my percentage was only 6%. I've been trying to get it up but after that was dropped on me I just lost any sense of motivation I had. I really hoped it wouldn't come to this but knowing I'm wasting my time in a subject I have a very little chance of passing when I could be spending those two sessions on work for my science coursework or DT exam or even revision for exams, it frustrates me. I just don't want it to come to the point where I end up breaking down into tears just because of one subject.
I understand that this might sound like an exageration and you might believe it's because I don't like the lesson but I honestly mean it when I say that isn't the case at all. I hope you'll understand and at least consider this and if you need to then you may contact me or my mum.
Thank you for reading this rather whiny letter.
Sincerly, Lucy Barber 11GDB.
On parents evening today (March 3rd) I spoke to my tutor about one lesson in particular I have been having a few problems with. In my AIDA lesson I had done around 30% of my work and then, without much warning, it went right down to just 6%. Now, if this had been my fault I'd have taken credit for it but as it stands, my teacher had told me I'd finished bits of work and then came back and said I hadn't done all these things he'd never mentioned beforehand. I feel frustrated at the fact he hadn't mentioned it before because if he had, I probably wouldn't be in this situation. With all the stress of upcoming exams and coursework deadlines, I don't honestly see how I can get my AIDA work completely finished for the deadline which I believe to be the end of this month. I know that there are set days that I can come back to school to catch up but I'd like to point out that theres only appointed days for English, Science, Maths (all of which are important and I understand) but then there's my specialist and ICT. I also have a lot of work for DT and art but it feels as if this hasn't been put into consideration as these overlap with other days. Whilst I'm trying to make time for everything I can feel it getting to much and, to put it bluntly, out of all the lessons I'm taking I currently see AIDA as the least important. Maths, science and english will always be top priority of course, my specialist subject media will be a handy grade to have for when I try to get into an interior design course which I will also be needing art and DT for. As nice as a grade is in AIDA it isn't completely important and I have a horrible feeling that if I don't try to sort something out I'm honestly going to end up having some sort of break down.
I wouldn't mind so much if there was a chance that I could catch up but, unless I put all my time into it which is physically not possible, it's not going to happen in the little time I have left. After telling my tutor all this he recommended I write a letter to you because I was wondering if it were possible to drop AIDA when I know I'm not going to get anywhere with it. I know that I've missed a few lessons but I've always done what I can to catch up. When you look at most of my other grades in any subject, you'd see the rather large difference and I really do try my best to not get any lower then a C in any subject which is why I put a lot of my time into the subjects I'm possibly not as great at. I'm also aware that my AIDA teacher could just say I don't listen but that would be wrong and if you ask my other teachers you'd see it's really quite odd for me to get this worked up over a subject. Normally I'd be understanding and I would just try to sort it out but we've been on this course since September and it was only a few weeks ago that I got told my percentage was only 6%. I've been trying to get it up but after that was dropped on me I just lost any sense of motivation I had. I really hoped it wouldn't come to this but knowing I'm wasting my time in a subject I have a very little chance of passing when I could be spending those two sessions on work for my science coursework or DT exam or even revision for exams, it frustrates me. I just don't want it to come to the point where I end up breaking down into tears just because of one subject.
I understand that this might sound like an exageration and you might believe it's because I don't like the lesson but I honestly mean it when I say that isn't the case at all. I hope you'll understand and at least consider this and if you need to then you may contact me or my mum.
Thank you for reading this rather whiny letter.
Sincerly, Lucy Barber 11GDB.
