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

[Dabono]

Teacher: "Name a bird."
I'd been reading some stuff about New Zealand, so I say 'kiwi'.
Teacher: "Wrong, a kiwi is a fruit."
I: "Yes, I know, but it's also a kind of bird"
Teacher: "That's impossible. If it's already a fruit, it can't be a bird as well."

Guess homonyms weren't in the teacher training programme.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

I know a girl who unfortunately shares a name with my dog. She is actually gorgeous and really kind. But honestly I can't take her seriously at all...

 

[Vault101]

my old school, specifically RE (religious education)

if I hear the fucking phrase "social justice" one more time.....

oh and a textbook claiming "homosexual feelings would pass." hmmmm

 

[Tallim]

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.

With the what now?! That's just...... I don't even know how to respond to that.

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

Stupid people should just be killed off, Too many morons on this earth you can't tell the difference between there arse and a hole in the ground.

[that was in regards to my link]

Although was aware of the Flat Earth Society I've never actually read anything about the "proof" before. That was frankly hilarious.

 

[Rastien]

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.

I call troll teacher, a friend of mine is a teacher and often comes out with ridiculous statements in a matter of fact tone to try and get his students to challenge him

 

[Nyaliva]

Anyone who fights for their opinions with extreme fervour, putting down anyone who has even the slightest difference of opinion and ignoring simple logic which renders their opinions incorrect.

Most of my teachers were pretty good, they knew what they were doing, but my principal was once talking about people not wearing their uniforms correctly and to paraphrase, she said "...and if you don't like it then tough titties!". I always respected her but I don't think anyone else who was there that day could take her seriously again.

 

[Conza]

The title is relating to a teacher of mine, a science teacher. A new teacher who has not been the most knowledgeable science teacher I have ever had. During the first lesson he taught us, the lesson was on magnetism, he said that the cause of the auroras was "The magnetic field of the Earth bending the light[footnote]Yes, photons of light...[/footnote] towards the poles." For those who are not science students, think about the fact that it takes a black hole many times heavier than our sun to bend light like that. Couple this statement with his general level of confusion and number of self-contradictions and corrections, as well as his Arnold Schwarzenegger accent and I simply cannot take him seriously when he teaches.

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.

Oh, and if anyone says they cannot take me seriously for the slight grammatical error in the title, I will kindly ask them to consume their own pancreas. It is there for effect damnit!

You'll love this one. I had 'the real' Mr. Ok teach me science for a few lessons as a substitute.

I started a tally, for the amount of times he used the word OK. I wish I still had it, in an 80 minute class session, he said the word dozens of times, I'm sure it was more than 50, even 60.

"Ok. So turn to page 65, and we'll look at chemical properties of titanium, ok." And on and on it went. It seriously stopped me from paying any attention, to the point where I had to, just had to, count the amount of times he said it, it was so mind numbing.

 

[RobCoxxy]

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.

Sometimes teachers deliberately feign ignorance to see how much their students really know. I hope this is the case here because anyone that confuses Communism and Fascism is an idiot (I'm looking at you tea partiers.)

Faith in humanity lost. I really hoped people couldn't be this stupid.

 

[Brandon237]

The title is relating to a teacher of mine, a science teacher. A new teacher who has not been the most knowledgeable science teacher I have ever had. During the first lesson he taught us, the lesson was on magnetism, he said that the cause of the auroras was "The magnetic field of the Earth bending the light[footnote]Yes, photons of light...[/footnote] towards the poles." For those who are not science students, think about the fact that it takes a black hole many times heavier than our sun to bend light like that. Couple this statement with his general level of confusion and number of self-contradictions and corrections, as well as his Arnold Schwarzenegger accent and I simply cannot take him seriously when he teaches.

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.

Oh, and if anyone says they cannot take me seriously for the slight grammatical error in the title, I will kindly ask them to consume their own pancreas. It is there for effect damnit!

You'll love this one. I had 'the real' Mr. Ok teach me science for a few lessons as a substitute.

I started a tally, for the amount of times he used the word OK. I wish I still had it, in an 80 minute class session, he said the word dozens of times, I'm sure it was more than 50, even 60.

"Ok. So turn to page 65, and we'll look at chemical properties of titanium, ok." And on and on it went. It seriously stopped me from paying any attention, to the point where I had to, just had to, count the amount of times he said it, it was so mind numbing.

Okay...
I kid, I kid. How did you not burst out laughing? After the 15th okay I would be hosing myself. I had a science subs teacher once, and she said everyone had to be dead quiet, my friend and I ended up laughing our asses off, hiding our heads under the table...

That is bad, surely the teacher notices?!

 

[0986875533423]

Anti-Semitism is a type of racism.

But isn't anti-Semitism against Jews (they that follow Judaiism, which is a religion, not a race)?

Racism can apply to both race and culture.

Oh, OK. Thanks for the clarification.

Bear in mind also that the line between religion, race and culture is very blurred when it comes to Jews. Becoming a Jew is very difficult, stopping being one even more so. There are many "non-religious Jews" now, being Jews who are secular or atheistic but retain Semitism as their cultural and racial identity.

 

[conithegreat]

The title is relating to a teacher of mine, a science teacher. A new teacher who has not been the most knowledgeable science teacher I have ever had. During the first lesson he taught us, the lesson was on magnetism, he said that the cause of the auroras was "The magnetic field of the Earth bending the light[footnote]Yes, photons of light...[/footnote] towards the poles." For those who are not science students, think about the fact that it takes a black hole many times heavier than our sun to bend light like that. Couple this statement with his general level of confusion and number of self-contradictions and corrections, as well as his Arnold Schwarzenegger accent and I simply cannot take him seriously when he teaches.

I had a science teacher like that in high school, minus the accent. If someone asked a question that was a slight(and i mean slight) tangent to the main lesson she would go to the back room and ask another teacher and then come back and say the answer. that happened a few times every day

 

[MikeOfThunder]

When my RE teacher declared that gravity wasn't real. That pretty much did it for me, but just incase it didnt, she said much more! Such as: "If you want to believe your a monkey..."

All my other teachers, including my main tutor (who was the other RE teacher) were good though.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

After writing the draft of my A level dissertation on 18th dynasty Egypt (that I later got an A for) my history teacher said 'Don't you think these books are a little complicated for you? Even I don't understand most of this stuff'

:|

No...

My 'Do what the teachers tell you' world was turned upside down that day.

 

[SwimmingRock]

A high school french teacher I had. First day of the year, he started going through the list of names to get to know us. He got to my name and said:"You're [my older brother]s little brother, aren't you? Don't bother making your homework. I won't check it."

Apparently, my brother would get into weekly arguments with this guy. Somehow that was my fault. Also, he used just about every possible opportunity to talk about sex.

Oh, and the time a creationist tried to explain to me that the theory of evolution states that we evolved from rocks. When I explained that evolution requires mutations in DNA and is therefor not fucking well possible in objects which do not contain DNA, she said:"So you agree evolution is impossible!" I gave up talking to her at that point.

 

[whiteshark12]

and also that hard drives are optical data storage devices.

They are though?

Optical laser reads information off the platter.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

My History teacher in High School. I don't know if it was the Curriculum or whatever, but during lessons on the JFK assassination I'm sure she prepared just by watching the movie "JFK". I mean sure the conspiracy theories are sort of the fun bit, but since then I've found out that most of what was taught in those lessons was bullshit.

oh and a textbook claiming "homosexual feelings would pass." hmmmm

In all fairness I'm sure I read the same thing in my Media studies textbook describing Bruce Campbell.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

and also that hard drives are optical data storage devices.

They are though?

Optical laser reads information off the platter.

Maybe I'm a bit out of date, but I thought the data was stored Magnetically not optically.

EDIT: Yep from the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Technology>font of all knowledge: "HDDs record data by magnetizing ferromagnetic material directionally. Sequential changes in the direction of magnetization represent patterns of binary data bits. The data are read from the disk by detecting the transitions in magnetization and decoding the originally written data."

You're thinking of CDs.