Stupid teachers.

[TotallyNotABot]

I had a 9th grade French teacher that was totally incompetent. She would give 90s to some people if they CLAIMED to hand stuff in whilst losing the work of people who did hand their stuff in (then forcing them to re-do it only to find it AFTER it was done again). Her idea of teaching was to make us read a book, then answer stupid questions, then repeat for the ENTIRE year. The questions weren't even "what important thing did the main character do in chapter X?" but rather "what brand of soap does auxiliary character #76 use to wash his dishes?".

A specific example of her incompetence was during an exam. The idea was that we had to watch a movie and answer questions whilst watching the movie. Since it was a long movie, the exam was split over two classes, with different packages of questions for each class. The first package contained two questions about events that happened in the second part of the movie.

Oh, and the grammar exam had three impossible questions.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

My friend had a teacher in 5th grade who insisted you couldn't see the moon in the daytime to which my friend replied "Yeah you can. Just look outside right now. You can see it." He apparently argued with the teacher for like 10 minutes about it (somehow) and was sent to the principle's office.

 

[dvd_72]

Well I had one English teacher who was fired something like two months after being hired, only his contract meant he had to stay on for that year. Yea, you can probably guess he never really gave a flying fuck. You could not do the work he assigned, and when he asked you where it was you tell him you had already handed it in. Next thing you know, B+! And you didn't even have to put a pen to paper for it.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

I had a teacher who thought the world was flat, oval-shaped, and spinning real fast so that it appeared to look like a globe from space. I really wish I was joking when I said that. Frankly, I don't even understand how that even works.

 

[Shinsei-J]

When I got seriously sick I had to miss alot of school and I had a teacher who thought no matter what I said that I was just skipping.
I had given him doctors certificates and even got my doctor to write a letter to the school but he still said that I was fine and just skipping. In the end he had spread and told it as fact, the rumor much that all my other teachers just started ignoring me and didn't even bother to give me work. Eventualy I sorted it out by contacting the department of education and he had to give me an apoloogy that I never got but atleast my condition was propperly explaind to the other teachers.

He singlehandedly stopped my education for about a year, guy was a dick.

 

[RaikuFA]

I've had my 2nd grade teacher steal stuff from students and plant it in my desk.

Then in middle school I had a gym teacher who never saw the attacks on me nor the basketballs thrown at my face yet I'd get in trouble if I called one a asshole or something. Then she said if I ever told anyone else or if she got in trouble I'd get worse beatings.

But no one cares about it.

 

[drthmik]

I do not
but my Mom does
She has often told us about the High School chemistry teacher who was retiring the next year and who taught the class nothing at all but the school wouldn't let anyone transfer out of his class to the other chemistry teacher's class due to the old moron's pending retirement.
My Mom now regrets not telling her father (who was a chemist) since he would have gone to the school and (as my Mom puts it) stomped heads until they let her transfer.


Captcha: which hotel provides the best price guarantee?

... there's no option for "I don't stay in hotels so I wouldn't know"

 

[Amethyst Wind]

So in tenth grade we went on a skiing trip.

In cases like this one I always wish we could hear the "retarded student" version of the story so we had an idea what really happened.

I understand why you would think that I tell the complete truth, but maybe this will help you.
After that was finished 2 teacher came over to me and said that they thought that I was right and that they did not support his actions.

It's possible you are telling the truth, but then those 2 teachers aren't hear either.

There are of course bad teachers, lots of them, but the way you told the story makes me really wonder about the truth of it.

Anyway, continue on, I wouldn't want to derail the thread.

So the only reason you posted was just to say "you may not be telling the whole truth".

You sure got him!

It's not like this thread is just for passing personal anecdotes about. Let's post [citation needed] next to every one shall we?

A key tenant of Socratic learning is to challenge statements to bring them closer to the full truth (assuming there is only one objective truth, personally I doubt this). A one-sided account such as this is a fine example of it.

On topic: 1st year of 6th form (16-18 for non-brits) our regular Maths teacher took a nasty fall and was out very early in the term for the whole year. The sub they brought it was fecking useless. Couldn't teach the material, went on and on about his model trains, thrust his crotch in people's faces so they could 'look at his custom belt buckles'. A complete nonce.

I learned nothing in that class and had to work my backside off outside of class to figure things out, I ended up with an E for that year. At the end of the next year my 2-year average was a C, to do that I'd have had to get straight As all through second year when I had the head of the Maths department (y'know, a competent teacher) as my tutor. That guy very nearly wrecked my chance of going to the University I wanted to go to. I was not pleased.

 

[mattttherman3]

Grade 5, Male gym teacher would sit in the change room and watch us change whilst eating an apple, gee, I wonder why he was gone after 1 year??

Grade 8, teacher would send my friend to the office every single day to the point where the principle stopped punishing him because he didn't do anything. He dropped a pencil one day, she sent him to the office, I was like really? What are you retarded? And I didn't get sent to the office. But she got me back, on her recommendation I was held back to remedial french in high school, to which I got the highest grade in the class and that teacher said it was a mistake to put me in. But that grade 8 teacher? It was her first year teaching and she's taught kindergarden ever since!

Grade 9 art teacher, I sucked at art but had to take the class, well whenever we did something she would come and patronize me:" awww, at least you tried!" and after the final exam, I asked out loud in class who got the worst mark:"YOU DID!" *****

Oh and there was this one sub who went up to every guy in the class and asked them if they were circumsized, if I was in that class, I would have tore him a new one.

 

[Hungry Donner]

My 8th grade math teacher had it out for me. I was a solid AB student and generally loved by my teachers, but for some reason he couldn't stand me.

One day I misunderstood some instructions and stopped handing in homework - I thought he was checking it in class. I didn't learn that there was a problem until over a month later when a progress report came home and I had a D in the class, despite usually excelling at math.After he explained the problem my parents asked why he'd never came to me about the missing assignments, and he lamely explained that I was, "next on his list."

Here's the kicker, I was participating in two competitive math programs at the time, one of which he ran. So in addition to seeing him every day in class I was seeing him once a week after school. And he said nothing.


Several months later I lost a binder. Every class room had a spot to put binders and books and things that were accidentally left in class, and after checking all of my rooms I assumed I'd never see it again. Some time later I happened to mention it to a friend while in math class and my teacher suddenly speaks up about how he has it. He went to the back of the room, to a desk he didn't use, and took it out of a drawer. So not only had he hidden it rather than putting it on the shelf, but he knew it was mine and he never handed it over until I mentioned it.


I have no clue what I did to earn this.

 

[soren7550]

I've had a few:

7th Grade: I had two different 'history' teachers. One was a guy who barely spoke English (his accent was so thick I can't even tell you what time period he was supposed to be teaching), and paid so little attention to what the students did, no one did any work (hell, I ended up never using a whole sheet of paper in that class for work. Did make a sword out of paper and duct tape though). The other teacher was a middle aged woman that we had once a week that all she did was ***** to us about tragedies. Thing was, more of the stuff she went on about weren't all that tragic.

9th Grade (I think): Had an Earth Science teacher that barely spoke English, and during a State Exam, she didn't give us any of the stuff we needed to complete the test until about halfway through it. No one passed that class (and I mean *none* of her students) and she left at the end of the year.

10th Grade (I think): My Spanish teacher took all the kids that didn't know Spanish (me included) and put them in a corner of the room, and ignored them for the year. Naturally, we all failed.

He wasn't a teacher, but my principal through years 8-12 was a complete moron. One time during a science class he sat next to me and asked how I got the answer to a question. I pointed out that the question was ungodly simple (I think it asked for a year something was discovered) and that the answer lied in the paragraph we were given to read, and he was dumbstruck by this revelation. He was also a creeper (students would keep saying how they'd see them in the student's bathroom digging out used paper towels to use), and a year after I graduated, he got fired for failing to give students Gym, thus resulting in a whole year worth of students being left back.

I can't help but feel that I'm leaving a few out.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

So in tenth grade we went on a skiing trip.

In cases like this one I always wish we could hear the "retarded student" version of the story so we had an idea what really happened.

I understand why you would think that I tell the complete truth, but maybe this will help you.
After that was finished 2 teacher came over to me and said that they thought that I was right and that they did not support his actions.

It's possible you are telling the truth, but then those 2 teachers aren't hear either.

There are of course bad teachers, lots of them, but the way you told the story makes me really wonder about the truth of it.

Anyway, continue on, I wouldn't want to derail the thread.

So the only reason you posted was just to say "you may not be telling the whole truth".

You sure got him!

It's not like this thread is just for passing personal anecdotes about. Let's post [citation needed] next to every one shall we?

A key tenant of Socratic learning is to challenge statements to bring them closer to the full truth (assuming there is only one objective truth, personally I doubt this). A one-sided account such as this is a fine example of it.

Fancy words bro. I dun didn't get no Socratic learnin at my school.

Ok the problem with the argument is that he just keeps escalating it. First it was "I don't think that's the whole truth." So OP replies a with one clear sentence from a third party to provide perspective in order to counter this argument. So then the dissenter just flat out says OP could be lying.

 

[The Floating Nose]

My french teacher in my last year of high school was terrible. He loved to laugh at the other people because he tought he was superior and here's a story: After every "step" of a school year in Quebec (year is divided by 4 steps) after the first step my note was not very good. My parents went to see him and he said: "They will probably fail, i wouln't bother trying to help them" (me and my twin brother werein the same class) and did you know what happened ? WE PASSED HIS CLASS !!! YEAH FUCK YOU MR. DENIS FUCK YOU STRAIGHT UP YOUR CANDY ASS !!!!!

 

[Denamic]

In the 5th-ish grade, we had a teacher who would have bible reading classes.
In Sweden, no less. One of the most atheistic countries on the planet, where separation of church and state is strictly enforced, especially in edumacation. On top of that, her method of dealing with bullying was to bring the bullies and the bullied together for a private 'talk' where she tells the bullies AND the bullied to not fight each other. And then force both parties to shake hands and say they're sorry. PROBLEM FUCKING SOLVED.
She got fired.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

So in tenth grade we went on a skiing trip.

In cases like this one I always wish we could hear the "retarded student" version of the story so we had an idea what really happened.

I understand why you would think that I tell the complete truth, but maybe this will help you.
After that was finished 2 teacher came over to me and said that they thought that I was right and that they did not support his actions.

It's possible you are telling the truth, but then those 2 teachers aren't hear either.

There are of course bad teachers, lots of them, but the way you told the story makes me really wonder about the truth of it.

Anyway, continue on, I wouldn't want to derail the thread.

So the only reason you posted was just to say "you may not be telling the whole truth".

You sure got him!

It's not like this thread is just for passing personal anecdotes about. Let's post [citation needed] next to every one shall we?

A key tenant of Socratic learning is to challenge statements to bring them closer to the full truth (assuming there is only one objective truth, personally I doubt this). A one-sided account such as this is a fine example of it.

Fancy words bro. I dun didn't get no Socratic learnin at my school.

Ok the problem with the argument is that he just keeps escalating it. First it was "I don't think that's the whole truth." So OP replies a with one clear sentence from a third party to provide perspective in order to counter this argument. So then the dissenter just flat out says OP could be lying.

Mhm. You bring up a good point. The Socratic method is less concerned with who's telling the truth or not and more with what the truth is.

 

[Gavmando]

Our high school tried to bring in a rule where if you drove to school, you had to give the head office your keys and you would get them back at the end of the day.
It didnt work.

Our year advisor once demanded a mate of mine's car keys. He just laughed and walked off.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

So in tenth grade we went on a skiing trip.

In cases like this one I always wish we could hear the "retarded student" version of the story so we had an idea what really happened.

I understand why you would think that I tell the complete truth, but maybe this will help you.
After that was finished 2 teacher came over to me and said that they thought that I was right and that they did not support his actions.

It's possible you are telling the truth, but then those 2 teachers aren't hear either.

There are of course bad teachers, lots of them, but the way you told the story makes me really wonder about the truth of it.

Anyway, continue on, I wouldn't want to derail the thread.

So the only reason you posted was just to say "you may not be telling the whole truth".

You sure got him!

It's not like this thread is just for passing personal anecdotes about. Let's post [citation needed] next to every one shall we?

A key tenant of Socratic learning is to challenge statements to bring them closer to the full truth (assuming there is only one objective truth, personally I doubt this). A one-sided account such as this is a fine example of it.

Fancy words bro. I dun didn't get no Socratic learnin at my school.

Ok the problem with the argument is that he just keeps escalating it. First it was "I don't think that's the whole truth." So OP replies a with one clear sentence from a third party to provide perspective in order to counter this argument. So then the dissenter just flat out says OP could be lying.

Mhm. You bring up a good point. The Socratic method is less concerned with who's telling the truth or not and more with what the truth is.

I'm glad you agree. Trying to disseminate whats true and what isn't online is not possible. So, I'm just gonna go ahead and believe OP even though he could be talking straight out of his ass (but given some of these posts and my own experience with shithead teachers, his story is pretty believable)

 

[Hungry Donner]

Our high school tried to bring in a rule where if you drove to school, you had to give the head office your keys and you would get them back at the end of the day.
It didnt work.

Our year advisor once demanded a mate of mine's car keys. He just laughed and walked off.

When I was at high school they were building a new addition, and for most of my freshman year there was greatly reduced student parking. Their solution? Parking passes were handed out by GPA. I grew up in a rural/agricultural part of New Hampshire where you couldn't get anywhere without a car, and many students had to work to help keep their families solvent. Grade-based parking spots did not go over well.


Also fun - when the new addition was finished the school was still technically overcrowded. However rather than build a larger addition they decided on a brand new soccer field, brand new tennis courts, and a very high-tech new track. (Previously the school hadn't even had a track, which was apparently embarrassing enough that they chose it over more classrooms).

 

[prophecy2514]

Had an italian teacher (that is she was "teaching" us italian) once who was incredibly naive. Start of class she'd walk in and set work - I'd sneak out of class for most of it with some mates, bout 40 minutes i'd say.
Then we'd sneak back in, teacher knew nonetheless, and even complimented me and everyone else who snuck out with how quiet and how well behaved we were. and then as a reward let us out early! Stupid. but god how I loved her beautiful naivety.