Can a school guidance counsellor give me advice and help me with my mark in math?

Is there anyone in your class that might tutor you? Or you could study your buns off.

No one in my class can help me and I am trying to study.
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You can certainly talk to your guidance counselor about it. That’s what they are there for.

Why don’t you want to talk to your teacher?

As I have mentioned before on fluther..
I can’t even walk into a fricken class room if a male teacher is in the room by myself and I can’t even walk into a classroom first before my friends I have to be the last one..sorry I’m just very very irratated at my stupid self.

They can help you find a female tutor. They can also talk to your math teacher. Its worth a shot. :)

Ok thank you!

Your guidance counselor is a good person to turn to.
I’m sure if you have been doing all your work in math such as assignments and so on, that your teacher would be glad to help you. Teachers are almost always eager to help students who put in the effort. Give him a try. Tell him you’d really like to understand the math better and you’d like to earn better grades.

Just wanting to pass shows little real motivation. Don’t expect much support if all you want to do is get the credit by getting a 50%

@Dr.Lawerence
thanks
I don’t just want to get a 50 I just want to not fail and I don’t know if my stupid brain is capable at getting more than 50 I do all of my work and actually try I just suck.

You are more capable than your grades show. I struggled with math until I found a teacher than could help me see that the way math works makes sense. Once I started to understand why we do math the way we do, it became not only easier, but actually interesting. There must be more than one person around who can help you ‘get’ math.
Good luck!

When I was in school I never had a counselor that I could go to. When I’d talk to him he’d get up and drive away in his car. I talked to my math teacher about my horrid math marks and he suggested I transfer into something called Emath. It stand for math essentials and it’s easier math in a smaller class so you get more help. It also let’s you pass the year all the way up to grade 11. Ask your math teacher or counselor if there’s something like that at your school.

@disturbed_broken, yes, meet with the counselor and have her meet with the teacher with you. Ask the teacher and the counselor to find you a female tutor for math class. Having problems with high school math usually comes from not feeling confident with basic concepts. You may have to do more work than what you need for the class, but it will be worth it.

Learning to advocate for yourself is very scary at first, but extremely valuable. My daughters found that most teachers in high school and college are more than willing to help you out if you are willing to do the work.

I think its more of a confidence problem. If you believe that you can do it, you will do it. However, with all this uncertainty and the fact you’re scared of your math teacher, I think its not your brain but rather your courage. Try being more open but study at the same time?

I agree with what @Dr_Lawrence said. Your guidance counselor should be able to help you, and I bet your teacher will too if you can talk to him and be honest.

One of the best things I learned in school was how to ask for help. Sometimes you have to ask more than once. But teachers and counselors want to help. That’s what they’re there for.

Lots of luck. Keep up posted.

I went because I was freaking out in class and my friend forced me and she said that one lunch hour she will go with me to get help.
Thanks for you answers they helped alot!

@disturbed_broken You’re welcome! The thing is, if people don’t know what’s going on with you, they can’t help you. Letting people know that you freak out with male teachers and don’t do as well because of your history might very well allow you to work with the people who make schedules at your school to get female teachers where you can learn without having to freak out.

But people can’t help you if they don’t know how!