Sorry sir, but I can't take you seriously.

[xXTheParadoxXx]

I had an art teacher who once left accidently left a web page advertising "tight asian girls" open on his laptop after hooking it up to the projector

 

[Ruley]

(Physics Student)

for those saying that the teachers description is "kinda right" its wayyyy of.

by him saying the earths magnetic field "bends light" is ridiculous, only massive gravity wells like black holes and stars can do such a thing. Granted, if you knew that then you might asume that the field is bending the light particles (Photons) because they must have a charge? Wrong, they are neutrally charged, heck, they don't even have mass!

The aurora is caused by Ionisation which scattered photons towards the earth. The scattering of light and bending of light are two different aspects of physics.



Similarly, one of my teachers tried to lie his way through a physics lesson about electrons which would have worked fine if he hadn't gotten the properties of Alpha radiation and Beta radiation mixed up and refused to accept any corrective input from us to such an extent that he had to consult wikipedia before agreeing that we were right. He was so stubborn.

 

[redisforever]

I was in Foods class and made a Red Cake with a Yellow Hammer and Sickle on it.

Ooh! Did you divvy up the cake at the end, giving each student an equal piece?

Ok, that made me laugh.

OT: My old grade 6 math teacher. If there was any opinion that wasn't his, it was obviously wrong. I hate him with a passion.

 

[LHZA]

I had a prof that claimed to be able to self hyponotize herself and claimed more then once to have delivered a lecture while hyponotized.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

I was in Foods class and made a Red Cake with a Yellow Hammer and Sickle on it. The teacher pulled me aside and asked me if it was a "Nazi symbol". At that moment I knew she could no longer teach me.

за революцию, товарищ.
was the cake good?

My Art History teacher used to leave the room during an written exam to go smoking. Every single time. And then marvelled at our grades. Ma'am, you're not qualified to teach.

shut up, you'll ruin it for everyone.
OT: i have a worse teacher in my english department.
she, honest to macjesus, has scotch in her desk and left school for a year, possibly for drug rehab, then never actually told us... she seems to be stoned out of her mind all the fucking time.

the class is easy though. you do fuck all until the exam then you get fucked.

 

[Tanis]

Most Christian folks I talk religion with...this seems to happen.

They've NEVER read their bible, but seems to be experts in it...even when they mix up stories and take things out of context.
>_>

 

[ecoho]

This is a sample of the things the teachers and chaplains at my school taught us:

"When girls lose their virginity on their wedding night, they bleed to represent the blood sacrifice that used to take place in the Old Testament. I should know, I'm a biology teacher."

"I wouldn't vote for anyone who was atheist or openly gay."

"Evolution says that we mean nothing."

"Every word in the bible is true. It says so in John..."

im so sorry man, this this is just wrong and im fucking catholic.(except the atheist thing see my OT on that)
OT: people who say their atheist, now before you all attack me here is why, logically religion is like insurance, id rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it

Edit: im sorry i didnt make this clear before when i say "people who say their atheist" i mean the little bastards who pull that line if you say god bless you to them when they sneeze.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

i wouldnt call her the worst teacher, but morally maybe not so... uh wholesome? she called me after class, and spent an hour puttering around the fact that she wanted to bring me home for her and her husband to have sex with. Was a very.very.very. awkward year after that

 

[oktalist]

My biology teacher, in the interval at a hockey match: "is that water they are spreading on the rink, or liquid ice?"

 

[Mordwyl]

the lesson was on magnetism

#$&*ing magnets, how do they work? Miracles.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Now to the point: Have any of you Escapees ever had a situation like this where, for some or other reason, you could no longer take some seriously? All the better if said person was a teacher / in a position of power over you.

Freshman year, one of the studens in my class announced that he was a Furry/Voraphile.

I just couldn't take anything he said seriously any more. Especially after he tried to defend attraction to underage girls "normal and moral". He envoked Godwin's law so much in debate, it was just too funny.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

My bio teacher last semester. He thought the world was flat, but it just appeared round because it was spinning so fast.

Needless to say I couldn't take him seriously ever again.

......You're making that up. I absolutely refuse to believe that anyone living in the modern world could possibly still think that the world was flat. Is it possible he was joking? Or that you made that up?

OT: Last year, my English 102 teacher was asked to explain what the US political parties represent by a girl who who was new to US and could barely speak English, and new exactly nothing about American politics. He answered her by explaining(with a completely straight face) that "Democrats want equal rights for everyone, and republicans...don't." I kept expecting him to laugh and then explain it better, but no, he just left it at that.

 

[Daverson]

Uh, he's kind of right. It's a bit of a simplification, but he's right...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29

Auroras result from emissions of photons in the Earth's upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 miles), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of solar wind and magnetospheric particles being funneled down and accelerated along the Earth's magnetic field lines; excitation energy is lost by the emission of a photon of light, or by collision with another atom or molecule:

I think you misunderstand something there.

The solar wind consists of particles, not photons, though emitted by the sun. These particles are relatively slow, taking weeks to reach us (compared to about 8 min. for light) and are ionized so they can get caught in the magnetosphere.
The "emission of photons" only happens up there at the poles where the charged particles give off photons. I think I won't get into detail here, but it is the solar particles that get bent and then emitt light related to the kind of elemental atom they are.

Anyway, I had this math/physics teacher once that had no idea what she was talking about most of the time, that managed to almost electrocute herself in an experiment and was so stupid people would just get their tests back, correct them and tell her she made a mistake there.
I kid you not, at times there were ten people at her desk at the same time with the same stuff. All of them got more points/better grades out of it...

Stand back ma'am! I've got some science here!

Photons can be 'bent' in a powerful enough magnetic field, but not in the same way that ionized particles are. A strong enough field can force a photon to split into an electron/positron pair, which will usually be travelling in a different direction when they recombine. It's not bending in the classical sense, but it has a similar observable effect, so it's sometimes referred to as such! (link) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delbruck_scattering]

Anywho-

Back when I was in primary school I had a substitute teacher who tried to tell 0.9 + 0.1 was 0.10 (pronounced "nought point ten"). I think that was the point when my childhood ended... =/

 

[Magicmad5511]

Had a pottery teacher that would always complain about me and my friend's work being late but would constantly give second chances to the annoying kid next to me.

This is the first reason I stopped taking her seriously as a teacher.

The second is she didn't notice that the annoying kid never worked anyway and just threw knives at the clay and made little people to chop into pieces. There were at the most 12 of us in that classroom and she never picked up on it, or at least never put a stop to it.

 

[Hunter15]

yeah one of my friends became a brony, now i will never take him seriously

 

[Gincairn]

From a couple of women at work

Points to the television showing a picture of George W Bush
Girl 1: "Who's that?"
Girl 2: "I think he's the king of America or summink"

Picture changes to Tony Blair

Girl 2: "Not sure who he is though"
Girl 1: "He's the prime minister of America"

I shit you not that conversation actually happened.

It left me finding it difficult to take anyone I work with seriously.

 

[the spud]

My history teacher is a complete dumbass. Let me give you a list of some the things he has taught us:

Christopher Columbus was the first to find America because everyone else thought the earth was flat
Marco Polo was a great adventurer who explored China (he probably didn't)
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb (in reality he just stole the idea from someone else)
The civil war was the bloodiest war (that was actually WW2)
If you are a soscialist, you go against everything America stands for
"Obamacare" is completely unconstitutional
And finally, he decided he could just skip a section if he just showed us Forrest Gump.
Edit:

From a couple of women at work

Points to the television showing a picture of George W Bush
Girl 1: "Who's that?"
Girl 2: "I think he's the king of America or summink"

Picture changes to Tony Blair

Girl 2: "Not sure who he is though"
Girl 1: "He's the prime minister of America"

I shit you not that conversation actually happened.

It left me finding it difficult to take anyone I work with seriously.

Hahahaha, that's funny. I would have had to walk out of the room to catch my breath if that happened.

 

[JCBFGD]

My US History teacher last year first said that Hitler decided military tactics based on tricks his dogs would do. Then, months later, he said that America was the first democracy ever. Athens was the first, and America's a friggin' republic. I want to see him fired =/

Captcha: (notably upplicip
lolwut?

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

......You're making that up. I absolutely refuse to believe that anyone living in the modern world could possibly still think that the world was flat. Is it possible he was joking? Or that you made that up?

Nope [http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/] From what I understand, some people really are that foolish.