Teachers and students spend a lot of time together. One could assume that teachers and students know quite a bit of information about each other, considering the number of hours each week spent together teaching and learning. Yet sometimes their knowledge doesn’t extend beyond knowing one another’s names.

“I wish teachers knew really how busy students are, and understand if a student says they couldn’t do something because they were busy, then it actually can be because they were busy,” said junior Stephen Frandsen. “I think teachers’ frustration with that can be that they can never tell when a student is being truthful or getting one over on them.”

The bridge to getting to know a teacher better can be as easy as asking a simple question.

“I think the same should go for the students because teachers’ lives can be just as busy,” said Frandsen. “Some teachers have clubs and sports that they direct after school, and, sometimes, the time just isn’t available.”

Both teachers and students have busy lives and should be able to have a little bit of a cushion when it comes to late grading or a missing assignment.

“I think teachers should know what their students intentions are when coming to school everyday, also what their students strengths and weaknesses are,” said junior Heba Abdellatif.

All it takes are a few simple questions to end the gap between misunderstandings.

“I think it would be easy to get to know your teacher, asking a simple question would be the first step to that,” said Abdellatif.