i don't like my english/language arts teacher AT ALL!! but i do agree with "i saw sparks" when they say not all english teachers are bad. my english teacher last year was awesome! he still did his job to teach but also made it fun and interesting...i miss him!
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm currently attending school to be an English teacher, I adored my high school English teacher, and I have a crush on my Literature professor.
So, yeah, they're not all bad. No need to lump us all in together, thank you.
They tell you to pick the topic so that you're emotionally invested in it, and not just doing it for the grade. I think that shows that they want you to like writing and appreciate poets for what they do. I don't find that stupid at all.
My English teacher is in my opinion, the best person in the entire world. She cares about what we write and she wants us to succeed. She finds beauty in everything we've ever written, and I admire her for that. She lets us write about what we want because she wants us to show her who we are. That's not stupid, that's amazing.