It is a big help if we have a choice of school, distance and home studying. Being able to attend to classes might be very beneficial for many of us. I have experience in both home and school studying and I would say that both are valuable.

By putting myself in different situations I learnt not only from my books but also about myself. I am able to identify my strengths and weaknesses and work with them. But what should I do when, after careful selection of school and considerable amount of private funds spent, I meet my disappointment in the figure of the teacher?

It is not as easy as friends would advise: “you should go and talk about it with someone at school, someone who has authority.” This is a very delicate issue which needs to be handled with diplomacy growing proportionally to dissatisfaction.

Many teachers are brilliant people with great knowledge and experience but in order to pass these treasures on to students, the teacher needs to be able to explain and clarify difficult topics in accessible way and this is an art. We all meet teachers who were struggling to pass the knowledge to students at some stage, but sometimes our performance is closely dependent on teacher’s potential and that makes it more serious dilemma.

Very often... there is an agreement among students that teacher is not satisfactory. There could be even some clear points made in which areas troubles lie, but still nobody will speak up. It is like a collective, silent union of the acceptance of hopelessness.

On the other hand, there is no easy way to tackle this problem as I mentioned before. Some concerns will be expressed about the possible, future dreadful atmosphere in the classroom or even the meaningless of complaint at all. Sometimes there is even a deeper contradiction as the teacher could be a great personality and one would be afraid to hurt the teacher’s feelings.

It would be great to hear your opinion about how you would act in such a situation. Maybe someone has dealt with this problem in the past and could advise... or maybe someone just likes to write about their disappointment to be heard. I would be grateful for any of your thoughts...