Stupid teachers.

[auron200004]

Our sophomore English teacher was gone on maternity leave for the entire first quarter of school. The substitute we had was sub-par (geddit?). Our entire class hated her and she was completely unused to teaching actual students, I would wager.

Anyway, one day, one of the girls in our class managed to convince the teacher that she had some rare affliction where she would occasionally cough up blood. Fast forward a few days. The student brought fake blood to school, coughed, and burst a blood packet in her hand. The substitute teacher bought it, and the girl went to the bathroom to proceed to "meet" with her boyfriend. She didn't come back until the next hour. The next day, the sub was gone and our regular teacher had returned, so the girl never even was questioned.

Little did we know at the time, but our regular teacher hadn't actually planned anything at all for the year. So my entire sophomore honors English experience went as follows: read Julius Caesar, read Of Mice and Men, go over grammar that we learned in 7th grade, do stupid skits and art projects, end of year exam. We (and by we, I mean me and a few of the other higher-ups in the class) had to correct her on many things, including grammar.

I didn't hate her as much as I did the sub (who was a complete fool), but I resented her for depriving me of an actual education for three quarters. It didn't prepare me at all for AP English Literature and Composition my junior year.

 

[Dan Steele]

Ah good old Mr. Stone of Paloma Vally High School.This man was an idiot to the extreme. He always ate candy in class. One time he dropped a lollipop wrapper on the floor and asked the students to pick it up "Because I might get AIDS." ignorant was and understatement

Then there was Mr. Houser, the idea of separation of church and state never occurred to this man. He fought constantly with the LGBT club at school and constantly sided with the cathloc club. This man should have been fired for that reason alone.

 

[Emperor Nat]

My GCSE RE teacher wasn't great. I remember that in one lesson we made posters (it's RE, what else are we going to do?) and naturally, I drew a priest.

Between that lesson and the next, someone drew a jester's hat on the priest. The teacher ended up saying it was blasphemous (bearing in mind I went to a Catholic school) and throwing out the poster.

The funny thing is that my dad is ordained within the Church of England. When I told him about it, he said it was silly to call it blasphemous and offered to go in and talk to the teacher wearing both his dog collar and a jester's hat.

Sadly, he never did it. :/

 

[Cyfu]

I remember another teacher who wasn't exactly teacher material, literally.
So I live in a small town in Norway and being that I'm in a small town in an already small country there was no one to teach Spanish.
So they got a great idea. They could hire this guy called Rodriguez. Now for the "literally" part, HE WANS'T A TEACHER! he was a marathon runner from Cuba. Yeah, really. So 8th grade when we were supposed to have books, he said that we didn't need books and that we should just takes notes as he talked and he would just do everything on the blackboard. I guess that would work if we didn't watch a movie every month. That's not all, right next to our school there's this cafe that was owned by his (spanish speaking) friend. every now and then the class went over there to order some ice cream or something. The way he integrated spanish was that we had to order it in spanish. It didn't go very well. we tried, but since he hadn't actually taught us any Spanish it was pretty hard.and the books we were supposed to have in 8th grade we got in 9th grade. so when he finally got fired the new teacher was like "oh dear" when she found out how bad we were in spanish.

I remember when we had an test where we had to present ourselves and describe ourselves. He gave me a 5 because even though i didn't perform well enough to get a 5 knew that I could if I wanted. wish everyone gave grades like him. would make school a lot more chill.

 

[Dogstile]

You know after reading most of this thread I am seeing a lot of really stupid people who dont understand how things work and I am not talking about the teachers.

Most of my teachers were rather stupid.

"No, wikipedia is not a valid source of information."

Listen, if you don't want us to use wikipedia, just say it. There is no reason to come up with some bullshit reason for us not to use it.

I hate to break it to you but wikipedia is not a valid source of information. Its not just because the information could be wrong its that the information can be edited. Its also because it is neither a primary or secondary source.

Hell, there's even a quick workaround, which is to cite the sources wikipedia uses. Easiest workaround ever and yet people don't seem to know how to do it. I used that little trick last year in my uni written work and they didn't seem to care.

For fail teachers, i had one who was a terrible science teacher who constantly talked about stuff we learned back in year 7 (we were in year 11 by this point) and usually attempted to "catch me out" by asking me every, single, fucking, question. Doesn't matter that I answered every question so well that she actually had to stop me from citing sources and exploring tangents because I would just keep going, mainly in an effort to get her to leave me the fuck alone.

It would be great if she was relying on me to carry the class, but she usually followed my giving me detention for "being a smartarse". I never understood her problem. This was the same teacher who regularly stormed out of the class in tears due to people not doing what she said.

One occasion sticks out, where she stormed out so the "clown" moved a bin in front of the door. She walked in, heard the door hit the bin and promptly booted it at the nearest student. I'm surprised she didn't get fired for that.

There was another time where she asked a guy who was talking (everyone was talking) if he wanted to teach the class. Naturally he said yes and everyone shut up, got the books out and started taking notes when he talked. As soon as she realised she was being beaten at the teaching game by a mere student, she told him to sit down. Once she started talking everyone else resumed talking and pissing about. She had another tantrum, wonderful woman.

 

[hotsauceman]

I will never forget a Sub we had that we called "Miss Bodunkudunk(Because she had a huge well, y'know)" This is a senior in highschool class. In our sociology class we where studying crime, She threw aside our curriculum for the day and said "You are all nice young adults(Advance class) you wont need to know about crime because you will never get in trouble" she then ask what we want to do when we grow up, when she got to me i said "go to jail for tax evasion" She thought i was serious.

OH, and then there was the gym teacher that though he could outbox a 4 star general whose son the Gym teacher just got in trouble.