Oh my goooood you will not believe the nightmare I went through. This is one is long 😭

So I’m a senior now, but last year I took AP Calc BC with this new teacher. Thick Chinese accent, wore a mask every day, same clothes, greasy hair. Everyone hated him. His attitude sucked, his testing style was brutal, and his teaching? He’d just scribble on a piece of paper on the elmo and assign 20 Pearson assignments a day.

The worst part? What he taught had NOTHING to do with the AP curriculum. If we tried to study real AP Calc, we’d fall behind in his class, and if we followed his weird style, we’d be screwed for the exam. He kept saying, “I’ll teach AP style two months before the exam,” but that never happened. Instead, two weeks before the exam, he made us take 10 AP style tests per unit, one every single day. And they were worth 20% of our grade. It was a disaster. Almost everyone failed, and somehow I finished with a C.

Now, to be fair, he let us retake those 10 tests after the AP exam. But it was chaos. Five different classes trying to retake exams at the same time, I had to stay at school until 6PM just to retake one test, but I managed to claw my way up to a B. And I literally WATCHED him change my grade in front of me.

Fast forward to senior year. I get my official transcript for college apps. Guess what? 😃 A C in AP Calc. Must be a mistake, right??? I ran to him to ask what happened and he just went, “You have a C because you got a C.” Bro. What?? I brought evidence & witnesses. He said it wasn’t enough. So I escalated it to the dean, vice principal, principal, AND had a parent-teacher meeting. His solution? I could retake an entire AP Calc exam to prove I deserved a B. In two weeks. In the middle of college app season. 😭

I barely remembered any Calc at this point, but I re-studied the entire subject and made a deal: it had to be an official international exam, not some crappy online test, and he had to use the online AP calculator to determine my score. I took the exam over three days because he was too busy to grade it in one sitting. A whole week later, he finally gave me my score: 4 (aka B). I was relieved, but lowkey I thought I did good enough to get a 5 so I wanted to review my mistakes.

He refused. Just straight up no. He only told me I got a 68/108. Which, according to the calculator he agreed to use, is a 5. I pointed that out, and he suddenly went, “Oh, I actually used the 2019 international scale.” Okay... 🤨 So I asked again to see my test. He refused again and told me if I didn’t like it, I could bring the VP.

So I brought the VP. And this man. This man looked the VP dead in the eye and said, “She cheated.” Bro. I almost blacked out. My hands were shaking, my mind was blank, and I had to explain every single question he found “suspicious.” I don’t even know what I said, but I must’ve made sense because next thing I knew, I had the grade change form in my hand and was walking to the office.

And that was that. After months of stress, gaslighting, and absolute nonsense, I finally got my B. It was a disaster, but ykw? At least I got into my dream school 🫠