Lunatic teacher

[EchetusXe]

I left school years ago now, but me and my friend still talk about this one teacher. This was at the time of the ps2 being released, and this teacher told us all that modern technology was all a con. That they "have the Playstation 5 in a warehouse, all ready to be sold, but they are waiting for people to buy the previous versions, to get more money out of people. They have the pentium 6 ready as well, they are just saving them to get more money".

He was our 'technology' teacher, which is a bullshit term for woodwork class. He did not say "in my opinion", he did not say "I heard this". He said it as though it was a fact, and because we we were about 14 we believed him because you always believe your teacher (unless its RE, and even then they tell you "Christians/Muslims believe such and such").


He also let kids smoke in his backroom and he had a quick temper. But clearly, he is a not simply a badass, he is a complete fucking lunatic. Looking back I now see that he definitely should not have been allowed anywhere near a school let alone be paid to teach children.

Do you or did you have any teachers like that?

 

[aba1]

My second grade teacher is no longer allowed to teach because she had a violent temper and was sadistic. From what I heard after being kicked out of my school for many reasons I am not going to bother with she got kicked out of 2 other schools and eventually ended up throwing desks and 4th graders and got banned for good.

 

[Timotei]

My art professor isn't so much a lunatic as much as she's just eccentric to a point where she makes everyone uncomfortable.

During class when we are doing work she likes to turn on classical music. Would be nice though if she didn't also pluck a random person every so often to dance with her.

 

[Generalissimo]

my old tech teacher ALWAYS trued to **** with me, i was always picked on over the quality of my work, or noise, or other petty stuff like that. on the last day of school. me and a few friends sprinkled beer all over the room, it was a hot day and the room stank like a seedy bar in under an hour. when she came, in. we took pictures, then ran for our lives.

day well spent

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Well one of my younger male teachers once grabbed the class clown and threw him up against the whiteboard when he was trolling him
He got fired pretty quickly

 

[hotsauceman]

I had this one teacher who started to violently Rap in the middle of class. At the begging of thew year he had us sign a waiver so we can watch movies with Language and such.
Then he Goes Tupac on us. Leaves because of stress(i knew him before he tought the class i was in. He wasnt used to having students who can manipulate him)
Now the entire school district has to watch a video about anger management because of him

 

[Ultra Man30]

I remember at my old private school I had a music teacher who I thought was pretty nice. He didn't seem unstable or anything. Well long story short, he was fired for throwing a chair at a student that made him angry. (The chair didn't hit him and I still don't really think he was crazy, just angry.)

 

[emeraldrafael]

There was a teacher in my high school that would hit you with a metal yard stick. i guess this year he hit some kid up the back of the head with it though i doubt thats the first time.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Hrm....My old Math Teacher dumped water over people when they were acting up. Or pull out his SUPERsoaker and drench them.

 

[Dango]

Last year, my English teacher talked to students about breasts for an entire class period.

He's maybe 60 years old, too.

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

My current Language Arts teacher seems like she would be better in a Kindergarten. She's really eccentric and immature, and it really gets on all of our nerves. However, she struck a deal with the principal that we only had to watch two Lord of the Flies movies instead of reading the book, so that was pretty sweet. I understand it's classic literature but... damn, nearly everyone in class hated that book and we were literally jumping out of our seats when we learned we could watch movies instead. Still, she's pretty annoying and out of touch with her students.

 

[Hellish Spork]

My old Spanish teacher was a nasty piece of work. She was left at the altar so he hated all men. I may have looked like him or something, but she spent 7 months destroying my confidence and failing me.

 

[Ldude893]

Hardly, but I guess that's because I'm in a private school.

 

[chainer1216]

in second grade i had a teacher that was a "little person" and she was evil, truely evil. telling kids that they were accidents, constantly insulting us, but almost never yelling, so no adult ever noticed, and she had a special hatred for anyone taller than her, and i was.

i got a weeks detention for...sneezing twice.

 

[Aiedail256]

It was pretty much unanimous in my high school that the teacher that ended up being my calculus teacher was simply really bad at teaching, and about a quarter of the way through the semester I concluded that she was also unqualified to teach calculus specifically.

Spoiler: Here's what happened in a typical class

-teacher has an MS Word document of what we're supposed to be learning displayed from a projector. Yes, really. MS Word.
-said document is almost a copy-paste from the textbook
-teacher talks about the subject matter, usually in a way that clearly shows she's just reading the document instead of having a train of thought that she's putting into words
-each day, without fail, the document contains multiple typos, which the teacher fixes as she comes across them
-when the teacher does stray from a near-read-aloud of the document that's a near-copy-paste of the textbook, she often explains things in a way that's far less clear than the textbook
-on rare occasions she explains concepts completely incorrectly; for example while trying to explain the concept of lines in 3D space she said that, just like in 2D, any two lines either are parallel or intersect at one point. Having read ahead in the textbook, I knew that this was not true (heck, you could come to this conclusion just by thinking about it for a minute); in fact, I knew that in about 15 seconds she was going to come across the section that specifically dealt with non-parallel, non-intersecting lines (skew lines). Sure enough, when the definition of skew lines scrolled up on to the screen, her speech came to an abrupt halt. I could practically see her brain melting and falling out her ears due to the apparent contradiction. I had to try very hard not to simultaneously lol and facepalm.

Our class average would have increased by 15-20% if a typical class had gone like this. Notice that the teacher is completely out of the picture:
-1st third: everyone reads the textbook. Smartest 5-10 kids talk amongst themselves to confirm that they all understand everything. It was always the case that the amount of material scheduled for a day was easily small enough that this would have been possible.
-2nd third: said smartest kids explain the material that they just learned minutes ago but still completely understand to the rest of the class
-3rd third: People ask smart kids questions about stuff they don't understand. Optionally, the class splits into groups, each group containing one smart kid. People who understand everything work on homework until the end of class.

 

[Womplord]

My mum was sort of a lunatic teacher. Once she insulted some kid for being an idiot by telling him she thinks he should be in a special school. There were a few times where she slapped kids on the face, and she would get in heated arguments with her boyfriend at the time who worked at the same place (and lived at our house), and she eventually got fired and banned from the department of education.

In her defense however, I don't think you people realise what you were like. I lot of the ideas suggested here really just wouldn't work, and kids can get really disobedient and annoying and there's basically no action a teacher can take to motivate a student against it in a lot of cases...

 

[BlitzkriegXX]

It was pretty much unanimous in my high school that the teacher that ended up being my calculus teacher was simply really bad at teaching, and about a quarter of the way through the semester I concluded that she was also unqualified to teach calculus specifically.

Spoiler: Here's what happened in a typical class

-teacher has an MS Word document of what we're supposed to be learning displayed from a projector. Yes, really. MS Word.
-said document is almost a copy-paste from the textbook
-teacher talks about the subject matter, usually in a way that clearly shows she's just reading the document instead of having a train of thought that she's putting into words
-each day, without fail, the document contains multiple typos, which the teacher fixes as she comes across them
-when the teacher does stray from a near-read-aloud of the document that's a near-copy-paste of the textbook, she often explains things in a way that's far less clear than the textbook
-on rare occasions she explains concepts completely incorrectly; for example while trying to explain the concept of lines in 3D space she said that, just like in 2D, any two lines either are parallel or intersect at one point. Having read ahead in the textbook, I knew that this was not true (heck, you could come to this conclusion just by thinking about it for a minute); in fact, I knew that in about 15 seconds she was going to come across the section that specifically dealt with non-parallel, non-intersecting lines (skew lines). Sure enough, when the definition of skew lines scrolled up on to the screen, her speech came to an abrupt halt. I could practically see her brain melting and falling out her ears due to the apparent contradiction. I had to try very hard not to simultaneously lol and facepalm.

Our class average would have increased by 15-20% if a typical class had gone like this. Notice that the teacher is completely out of the picture:
-1st third: everyone reads the textbook. Smartest 5-10 kids talk amongst themselves to confirm that they all understand everything. It was always the case that the amount of material scheduled for a day was easily small enough that this would have been possible.
-2nd third: said smartest kids explain the material that they just learned minutes ago but still completely understand to the rest of the class
-3rd third: People ask smart kids questions about stuff they don't understand. Optionally, the class splits into groups, each group containing one smart kid. People who understand everything work on homework until the end of class.

Lol yeah, I had her as my physics teacher; at least you got a projector, we had to read off a 32" screen near the front of the class and you couldn't ask a fellow student a question without her feeling this need to answer it, thereby further confusing the student asking the question; this included times where it was a work period (no lesson).

 

[Cyrus Hanley]

A few years ago, a friend told me about a music teacher at his primary school who was fired for tearing off a girl's ear because she didn't like her wearing earrings. He gave me the name of the teacher and I remarked that I had a music teacher in primary school with the same name.

I described her to him and we both quickly realised it was the same teacher. I always knew there was something not quite right about her.