Response to Ms. Valdez

From Vy's blog post about Ms. Valdez, I decided to respond to a few lines in the first and second paragraphs.

Last year at ASTI we had an English teacher name Ms.Valdez. She was one of the most mmm..interesting teacher ever. Ms.Valdez always had to have it her way and be right no matter what. She even said “when I’m right I’m right and when I’m wrong, I’m still right,”... Ms.Valdez love her food, her fridge was full of food that’s been there for weeks. It was her punishment to her students, mess with her and you would have to deal with her fridge, that thing stinks.  

 Ms. Valdez was one of the most difficult teachers that we had last year.  She had a different method to teach English that any other teacher I've ever had, and her policy was often "If I'm comfortable, then you're comfortable." To be honest, I liked Ms. Valdez more as a person, than as a teacher.  I didn't learn much from her class, because her method to teach was unhelpful and pointless.  She often gave us handouts to fill out that were designed to help us organize our ideas and create the basic outline to our essays.  At the beginning of the year, she demonstrated to us how to make a dialectical journal (DJ) and how to write a log.  The point of the dialectical journal was to write a quote on one side of the t-chart and our annotation, opinion, and perspective of what happened.  The DJs weren't as helpful as annotating in the book though.  She had a fairly sustainable classroom environment that wasn't amazing, but it wasn't that terrible either.

Like Vy said, if you messed with Ms. Valdez and made her mad, the consequence was often to clean her fridge.  She kept a lot of food in there, and I remember a classmate complaining about how it took forever to clean the fridge and how there was orange stuff stuck to the walls of the fridge.

Overall, Ms. Valdez wasn't a terrible teacher, but it was hard to accept her grading style and classroom procedures.  She rarely paid attention to the other amounts of homework we had to do, and once even made us read over 60 pages of a book in one night and do a DJ on it too.  She was really amusing in class though, and friendly with students most of the time.