A teacher you can't stand

[ShwStppnActr]

We all have those teachers we think are awesome, but have you ever had a teacher you just can't stand? I have. My college comp teacher is horrible! So awful, I wrote a paper for a scholarship based around her. I won't go into detail here, but she's the worst teacher I've ever had. If you want to read the fully essay, here's the link: http://www.wyzant.com/scholarships/v1/essay5349_Liberty-MO.aspx

But OT: What other teachers have you had that you just HATE!?

 

[Scabadus]

Personally I never had any teachers at school (or currently any professors at Uni) that I really hated; all of them had at least one redeeming feature and I don't use the word 'hate' lightly. I do remember one, however, who once uttered the phrase "no, your opinion is wrong" in a life studies (seriously? That's a class now?) lesson. She didn't even say it to me and I tore her apart for it.

Oh and there was this one who refused to admit there were physical diferences between men and women. I can't remember the name of the class, but it was something similar to 'life studies' (lol) and the topic was sexism, she was saying how men and women are totally equal in all ways. I called bullshit and she gave me detention, so I challenged her and every other female in the room to an arm wrestleing competition for my freedom. Erm... little advice for all you students out there: don't do that. It doesn't end well for you! I don't regret it though; totally worth it.

 

[FalloutJack]

Most of my high school was rife with sub-standard teachers. I'm practically self-taught and was 4.0 for years on end.

 

[EllEzDee]

Guy called Mr Healey at my secondary school.
He had a heavy Australian accent with a weird American twang (at a British school by the way) and constantly, and i mean constantly, went off on ridiculous tangents. We had him for 2/3 of our most important subjects (science and maths) for all of year 8 and year 9, and we learnt literally fuck all.
He even has his own facebook group (shock, horror!).
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123163690452&v=wall

 

[T8B95]

Most of my high school was rife with sub-standard teachers. I'm practically self-taught and was 4.0 for years on end.

Same on the self-taught straight 80's-90's, but that's more due to my personality than the teachers.

OT: I disliked my grade 10 history teacher because she was incompetent and more than a little bit sexist. My grade 10 Science teacher was incompetent, but not too much of a *****. My grade 11 Math teacher was a horrible person, but an excellenct teacher. I've had some really great teachers, and I've been lucky enough to miss most of the bombshells. My best friend, on the other hand...Well, look at the guy I quoted, replace "sub-standard teachers" with "raging lunatics who don't have the first damn clue what they're talking about," and you'll have the picture.

 

[Tanner The Monotone]

We all have those teachers we think are awesome, but have you ever had a teacher you just can't stand? I have. My college comp teacher is horrible! So awful, I wrote a paper for a scholarship based around her. I won't go into detail here, but she's the worst teacher I've ever had. If you want to read the fully essay, here's the link: http://www.wyzant.com/scholarships/v1/essay5349_Liberty-MO.aspx

But OT: What other teachers have you had that you just HATE!?

I can only think of two "teachers" that I really hated.My first grade teacher physicaly assualted me. My "computer" teacher was sexist, so she treated me like crap, plus she deleted all my work on purpose. I'm sure of this because I caught her in a lie. When I found out that my stuff was deleted off my computer, I told her. She said that someone that uses my computer in another hour probably accidently deleted it, and that I should have brought a usb. I didn't belive that some one "accidently" deleted it because my work was three folders deep (a folder,in a folder, in a folder), all labeld, and none of the folders were deleted. So someone would have to open all three folders and delete it on purpose.

Now, I found out she was lying to me a few days later. I had her 2nd hour and she came and got me my 5th hour saying that I didn't clean up my area and that I needed to pick up my area. Mind you this was 2hours 32minutes after I left her class. When I got out of the classroom I said "Why are you making me clean up someone elses mess. There's no way the other guys didn't change my work station when they used it". She dissmised what I said, which promted me to start prying at her about it. Eventually made her slip up and she said that
"No one uses your computer". I had to keep myself from exploding. I wanted to go to my counsler about it, but after thinking about it, it would be my word against her's, so I never really got to it.

 

[P0RTAL]

Oh man, let me think...
There was this Science teacher in high school who was infamous for bouncy balls. He would sit there and bounce that bouncy ball all day during class. After lunch break we would come to class and there he would be bouncing the bouncy ball and eating icecream and chili dogs out of a DairyQueen bag. EVERY DAY. Which would be fine except that if someone so much as glanced the other way during one of his long monotone lectures he would chuck the bouncy ball right above their head and it would slam into the wall and bounce back, nearly hitting several people. He would make a smart aleck remark and continue on. Besides that he was a Science teacher and half of our assignments seemed to be related to art. it didnt matter if you knew what you were supposed to learn. if you couldn't draw and color a nice picture of a magnolia, you were doomed to a C+ grade. Plus the guy was a bit of a perv. He didn't do anything too bad but it was creepy as hell.

 

[tharglet]

plus she deleted all my work on purpose.

Very valuable lesson for life here - never EVER leave your computer unlocked in an open environment. May this lesson leave you free of pranks in your working life...

 

[Proteus214]

I once had a computer science professor that handled all of the grading of class projects via a series of scripts which would automatically compile and run student code and spit out a score that the student would receive via email without the professor ever looking at what you did. His script gave my project a zero for not being able to compile properly. After going to him with my concerns he allowed me to resubmit my project with some minor alterations (again, he never looked at the code). I made a few changes and thoroughly tested it on my PC and several lab computers, all of which compiled and ran my code perfectly. I had a friend who was a better programmer than myself take a look at it and he saw no problems at all. The resubmission was also marked with a zero for not being able to compile properly. The professor absolutely refused to give me any explanation whatsoever and never once looked at my code.

I dropped out of that class that week and took it with another professor. I got an A after switching classes.
One of my friends decided to remain in that professor's class and struggled to make a D.
Another of my friends was a bit more successful. He managed a B at the cost of his health. A day after the final he found out he had a stomach ulcer.

 

[tharglet]

I've never had a teacher I've strongly despised, but I have had ones I've not liked.
One I vaguely remember in primary school I didn't see eye-to-eye with and remember drawing a pic of me in a spaceship shooting her lol. Can't remember why I disliked her.

Couple in uni were wastes of space - just read stuff out, and weren't helpful. One got a bit pissed at me asking a question lol (rest of the lecturers didn't mind you asking questions at any point in the lecture). One other teacher I had was supposed to be teaching statistics, but she barely spoke English (PhDs had to do so many hrs of lectures a week). I did fine for the exam on those lectures, only down to the fact that I'd done everything she was teaching at A-Level. Ended up teaching my friends, who when I explained it made it really rather straightforward to them.

 

[Garrsus]

he is called mr Allison and he hates me more than anyone else on earth for the sole purpose that he can, seriously some one was laughing their ass off and he didn't even notice but when i glance at the wall he says i am being arrogant and should pay attention, i hope he dies in a fire (no shush mr misanthrope).

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

I had a professor that told me that I would fail his course unless I dropped it. I had come in for his office hours to ask him how I could make up a week's worth of work. Does that seem reasonable? Maybe, if I had been cutting classes. But the reason for my week-long absence was that my father had just gotten discharged into in-home hospice care a week before this. I came back after he passed away... to be told that one of my professors was planning on failing me, despite the fact that I had told him why, and for how long, I would be leaving.

...Yeah.

 

[Rayne870]

A proff in my Police Foundations college program. He taught "Youth in Conflict with the Law" Which was supposedly about the law, its history and evolution and how it applies to children. His views were significantly filtered and essentially boiled down to no matter what children should not be treated as adults and are always reformable.

I made a point of writing a paper showing some very troubled children whom had committed everything from serial kidnappings to serial killings. He didn't like that paper too much...

He also was gay, but no one really cared. One day he essentially bursts out of the closet and goes on a huge tangent about being judged by us. And we are all thinking wth, we didn't really care just teach man. From that point on he kept changing the grading value of assignments even though they were handed in and fully evaluated several weeks before. When asked about that he said "grades are subject to change and if you don't like it, too bad".

This continued right up til the day of the final exam where we sat in the classroom for about an hour after the exam had started without him having handed out the actual exam, and when one of the students asked about it he snapped at him, and flipped us off. I was one of 3 people that caught that and the only one who went to report it. On my way out I let him know what my intent was and he said something snide which boiled down to "tough luck". And to top it off the college did nothing. 3 weeks after the exams had been completed He changed the evaluation worth from 30% of the grade to 5% and several people failed as a result. Overall his class ended up with something like a 30% pass rate and most of that was based off an early and small assignment that was worth 5% when it was assigned but became worth 25% of the final grade at year end.

 

[Jedamethis]

Just one. Mr. Conway. He's actually a pretty good teacher, but he's an impatient dick. Snatched a pen off me and threw it down, drawing on my shirt. It hasn't come out.
He snatched the pen because I was finishing off a board game (Which was what he said the priority was) and said I should be working.

 

[theevilsanta]

Worst teacher at teaching: My multi-variable calculus teacher at uni. He was a nice enough guy, but his lack of competency in the English language coupled with his inability to express himself made that class almost impossible. There's no class I'd rather retake to earn the grade I deserved.

Worst teacher as a person: A little man that taught advanced chemistry in high school. I consider myself a nerd, and thought it was great when he started the year talking about how Anyone can be a nerd and blah-de-blah. He was obviously a nerd and proud of it. It was inspiring.

Then I learned he wasn't so much proud as vindictive and eager to enact his revenge on the "jocks" that must have bullied him throughout his life on his high school pupils. Any member of the football team was mocked and made to feel unwelcome in his classes. He recruited the more bitter of my nerd brethren to increase the animosity towards the "jocks". When a football player friend and I tried to join the Knowledge Bowl (a trivia club) that he coached no one looked at us or addressed us throughout the entire meeting. Raised hands were met with intentional ignorance. I've never known a smaller human being, personally at least.

 

[deleted_by_strongbad]

Back in high school I had two absolutely terrible teachers. My Ancient History teacher said that we should ignore the first third of our book that covered the "lie of the existence of prehistoric man" then skipped over the greek/roman sections as they didn't offer anything valuable other than "showing the temptation of the devil." and then we watched Charleton Heston's the Ten Commandments as historical fact.

The other teacher was an english composition teacher who's first assignment for us was to write a paper on adversity. So I wrote about a wiccan family that moved into my small town, and was subsequently run out of town, in the year they stayed I became pretty good friends with them, so I figured it gave me a good perspective on the issue. I got 0 points for the assignment with the only comment being, "the assignment was supposed to be about adversity, not how we should treat Satanists."

Oddly enough in the ten years between now and then, this school has become known as one of the most liberal in Illinois, championing sex education and such.

 

[V TheSystem V]

Dylan Rees, my History lecturer last year. I felt that he picked on me a lot for answers, if not that, he would ask a question to the class and would immediately stare at me. He was really intimidating, had favourites and never gave us proper revision notes. I revised a lot for his exam and got an E. 6 hours of notes some days to try and take in the information but it wouldn't work because of the way he had written some of the information. He didn't make us write anything down for a while unless it was answering questions. After I dropped his subject he called me to his room and pretty much interrogated me as to why I dropped the subject.

Horrible man, horrible course.

 

[ChocoFace]

My english teacher whose every word makes me want to /facedesk.
My history teacher whose idea of teaching is making students write shit down constantly. also when someone makes a bit of a silly mistake in a test, she basically ridicules the answer and starts a lecture on the failing youth of today.

 

[baconsarnie]

Chemistry teacher (at A-level)
Him: "So this is what the end product of the reaction should look like"
Class: "You're wrong, you missed a double bonded oxygen"
Him: "Why do you think this is wrong?"
*Two minutes of convincing him of his mistake*
Him: "Ok, *passes board marker to person at front* how should it look like then"
*Person draws up correct molecule and points out what teacher missed*
Him: "Ok, but how is that different from what i did?"
*Ten minutes of telling him EXACTLY how he is wrong*
Him: "I just don't see it, *points to me (i'm being very vocal because i hate him anyway)* fine, you come up here and show me what is wrong"
*Proceed to tell him where he went wrong and add the missing part to his diagram*
Me: "There, that is what you should have done, or you could have saved time and done this *rub hiss diagram off the board and point to correct diagram from 10 minutes ago drawn by student*"
Him: "I'm sorry guys, i just don't see it, i'll have a look at it over lunch and gets back to you"
*Whole class facepalms simultaneously*

 

[Dags90]

Back in high school I had two absolutely terrible teachers. My Ancient History teacher said that we should ignore the first third of our book that covered the "lie of the existence of prehistoric man" then skipped over the greek/roman sections as they didn't offer anything valuable other than "showing the temptation of the devil." and then we watched Charleton Heston's the Ten Commandments as historical fact.

The other teacher was an english composition teacher who's first assignment for us was to write a paper on adversity. So I wrote about a wiccan family that moved into my small town, and was subsequently run out of town, in the year they stayed I became pretty good friends with them, so I figured it gave me a good perspective on the issue. I got 0 points for the assignment with the only comment being, "the assignment was supposed to be about adversity, not how we should treat Satanists."

Oddly enough in the ten years between now and then, this school has become known as one of the most liberal in Illinois, championing sex education and such.

WoW. So how do goth kids work in a place like that?

A couple of my least favorite teachers included ones that my brother had before me in elementary or middle school. My brother is a bit of a trouble maker and I was guilty by being related from the get go.

Also, in high school I had some trouble with a PE teacher. I was either late or missed often because I had trouble getting to school on time (It was my first class for all of high school). Also, my brother (the trouble getting to school on time) would smoke in the car on the way to school. So I would go into gym class late, smelling like smoke. So he pretty much thought I was a joker who could care less. He also had this handle bar mustache that looked straight out of an 80's gay porno. I'm not sure what that has to do with this, but I figured I'd share anyway.