Unfair Teachers

[Twilight_guy]

No. Also, teachers don't hate any of there students. Anyone with the dedication to be and stay a teacher is doing it for the job and their love of learning (there's no money or respect in education). They are very unlikely to hate a student for any reason. My mom's a teacher, I know. Teacher's may have students they dislike having to deal with and may appear to be singling one person out but, it's very unlikely that one hates you.

I have never had a teacher give me an assignment that was unreasonable. I've had to do assignments that I detest and don't have the necessary time for, but I've never had an assignment beyond reason.
Doesn't matter anymore anyways, I is in college nowz!

 

[Lexodus]

That reminds me!
(copypasta'd from a dead thread for the sake of laziness)

Throughout my childhood, I was a precocious child, especially where English was concerned. I was also extremely lazy, and they thought I was either dyslexic or had Asperger's syndrome, but then administered all sorts of tests and I came out as a 99.7th percentile student. However, as I was lazy, I rarely showed my talents and my love of long words, so always got low grades. When I transferred to a new school at the start of year 3, we had to submit a piece of original writing, and I spent hours trying to get it perfect, because I had a fresh start and a chance to show what I could do to a person who didn't know what I'd been like before, and couldn't judge me because of it. All day I'd been anxious to see what my grade was, because I was sure it was some of my best work. When the assignments were returned, instead of a good grade, I was shocked to see "F. See me."
I went to see her, and she accused me of plagiarism.

Later on, during a spelling test, she spelled 'government' as 'goverment'. When I corrected her, she said that I was wrong, and when I insisted that there was an n in the word, she sent me to the headmistress's office. My parents were called, and the teacher said that I had been rude and told her that she'd spelled government wrong, and said to her that there was an n in it. My parents were quick to inform her that I was right.
I left that term (although not before a fat kid accidentally swung me into the corner of a building, sending me to hospital with concussion and requiring several stitches).

 

[Erja_Perttu]

My old school was absolutely fucked up. We had a credit system and in my class, where we be smart, you got one credit for an A* essay.

Skip to the bottom set, and you get three credits for bringing in a bloody PENCIL.

To top it off, what the credits physically were, were raffle tickets. You could win bikes, a dvd player, an mp3 player, vouchers and all sorts of stuff. Thing is because all the delinquent kids got credits all the time, they always won the good stuff.

They got fucking rewards for being the biggest assholes in the whole school.

To top it off, adding insult to injury, the prefects (senior students, whatever) were meant to have a school trip to Alton Towers for being awesome, teachers readily admitted our year rocked, that the school would go to pot after we left, the best year they'd had in a decade.

We didn't get our trip because they FORGOT to arrange it, but the vandals and the kids that skipped class, they got to go everywhere, water parks, adventure holidays, and I'm not joking, a fudge fatory.

Being smart in my school didn't get you a damned thing.

 

[HK_01]

Well, most of my English teachers were beyond crap.
But the one that really stands out as unfair would be my 7th grade English teacher...she had to have been bipolar.
Pretty much every day, she'd go from happy and joyful to a spiteful, nearly satanic creature.
Handing out our work was a particularly worrying time, as you never knew which version of her you'd get.
"Good job, Timmy, you got an A. Jonathan, you got a B+, good job! <color=red>SANDRA! HOW COULD YOU GET AN A?! YOU'RE USELESS, SLOVENLY, AND A HORRIBLE WRITER!"
I'm only exaggerating a little bit there.

You did not by any chance go to ZIS at the time? My 7th grade English teacher was exactly the same...

 

[TZer0]

Bleh. I remember an incident in about.. fourth grade when our teacher (who knew how things were in my class - horrible) was gone for day and we got some old hag (as I later found out) watching us instead. Anyways, I was sitting, minding my own business and doing assignments, thinking that things are probably going to hell in some minutes and I was right. Probably because the teacher had no idea that my class had a tendency to pick on people that are not considered "normal" by the average member of the class.. that is: everyone who is a geek/nerd, has a certain kind of disorder (dyslexia for instance) or having as much as a drop of "foreign" blood in you was enough.

I fit both in the first and third category listed. To sum it up: life was hell - and several times I felt that it was my fault (can't describe that feeling, probably one of the most sickening feelings ever). Our teacher knew that I and two other people in my class had a tendency get picked on, so she knew that in ~90% of all cases we weren't to be blamed, however, this inept woman hadn't been informed about this fact (and she didn't realize it too!). Perfect opportunity to have some fun with someone who can't defend themselves, eh?

Of course, someone starts teasing me, in this case, 3 of the girls in my class. What happens next, is probably the most stupid thing ever. I tell them to stop, the teacher comes over.. and gives me the blame - even with a warning: "I'm gonna keep my eye on you". I couldn't stand (or sit in this case) and take this s***, so I told her exactly what happened, the girls in question said that what I was lying.

The teacher gets pissed, sends me to the principal who gives me a note to be signed by my parents and sends me home. I'm not sure how angry I was at that point, but I probably would've walked through a wall of bricks if I had to. I got home, told my parents, they contacted my school, someone realized they were wrong and everyone (including the principal who gave me the note) got to say "I'm sorry", but not the teacher who had created this mess. The rest of the time at that school, whenever that teacher saw me she did her best to ignore me. She probably got in some trouble because of that incident. I'd have to say, it felt quite good when she was ignoring me.

 

[thousandfaces]

I cant pinpoint a specific event, but it really really reely pissed me off when a teacher/prof. made me write a 5+ pages essay. WTF!!?!?! Some subjects can be explained in 1 paragraph, but nooooo just fill that essay with BS.

 

[Neonbob]

Well, most of my English teachers were beyond crap.
But the one that really stands out as unfair would be my 7th grade English teacher...she had to have been bipolar.
Pretty much every day, she'd go from happy and joyful to a spiteful, nearly satanic creature.
Handing out our work was a particularly worrying time, as you never knew which version of her you'd get.
"Good job, Timmy, you got an A. Jonathan, you got a B+, good job! <color=red>SANDRA! HOW COULD YOU GET AN A?! YOU'RE USELESS, SLOVENLY, AND A HORRIBLE WRITER!"
I'm only exaggerating a little bit there.

You did not by any chance go to ZIS at the time? My 7th grade English teacher was exactly the same...

No...I was at a year-round school.
It was not fun at all in her classes.
Each teacher taught both Social Studies and English.
*shudders*

Yeah you know you have to hate those bipolars is not like being bipolar is torture inside your head, always feeling like shit, and knowing that shits like you make fun of them behind their back, having to take meds every morning and or night that make you feel physically ill all the time, just so you can step out of the door the next day to be made fun of and snickered at behind your back, yeah you have to hate someone with a incurable barely controllable mental DISORDER because it is their fault, right.... jackhole? *by the way I AM bipolar and I am disgusted on how you all view bipolarism, I hope your children are borne with the most severe fucking bipolar cases just so you can watch at how much pain a person goes through dealing with bipolarism.

It's not that I hate everyone who is bipolar. I'm sure that it's not fun, and that dealing with it is more than annoying for you. But the problem I had is that the bipolar person was a teacher. Someone who is meant to pass on information in a collected manner. Seeing how that has to be hard for people who are not bipolar, I don't know why she decided to become a teacher, or why she was hired.
THAT is the problem I really have with her.

And I'm sure my children will have more than bipolar disorders.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

I remember that as a child, I was so freakishly well-behaved that, after the naughty kids had... I don't even remember what it was.
All I remember is that they had done it over seven times, and I had done it once, with my impeccible behavioral record, and they called me out on it.
When I pointed out that I had done this thing only once, and the other children had probably, collectively done it +25 times in the past two minutes, she pretty much told me that they had higher standards for me than them, so I deserved to get in trouble while she let it slide for them.

I was seven years old.
Gee, I appreciate the faith in me, but for Heaven's sake. Why not just say, "Because I said so"?

I actually respect the higher standard approach. Obviously it depends on the level of trouble but I recommend you take it as a compliment as in "yes you are just that much better that we expect you to keep it up". It also stands as a standard keeper and helps stop you from dropping standards.

 

[Strategia]

I cant pinpoint a specific event, but it really really reely pissed me off when a teacher/prof. made me write a 5+ pages essay. WTF!!?!?! Some subjects can be explained in 1 paragraph, but nooooo just fill that essay with BS.

I have to write multi-page essays regularly. It's called "schoolwork". Sorry, but this isn't an example of a bad teacher, just of a lazy student.

 

[Kriptonite]

My 8th grade English teacher was and is still in fact a *****. This is one of the only websites in which I don't swear, at all but this time I'm making an exception. Once during a test, I had dropped my pencil then proceeded to pick it up to find her hovering over my desk taking away my test accusing me of cheating. Also, the elementary school principal(who by the way somehow became the high school principal and still is) was and is also still a dumb boner of a person. One say I got on the bus with some snappers(or poppers, whichever you like. These things

Spoiler: They are harmless by the way

http://www.made-in-china.com/image/2f0j00BvUThYeJagotM/Fireworks-Pop-Pop-Snapper-RLT8500-.jpg

)
And gave some to my friend as well. He then called me down to the office later that day and tole me I'd be suspended if I ever brought illegal fireworks to school again. They are not fireworks, nor are they illegal.

 

[T-Bone24]

I cant pinpoint a specific event, but it really really reely pissed me off when a teacher/prof. made me write a 5+ pages essay. WTF!!?!?! Some subjects can be explained in 1 paragraph, but nooooo just fill that essay with BS.

Really? Is that it? That's not unfair, that's what's expected. I regularly have to produce up to 10 page essays, and you're complaining about 5? Just plain laziness.

OT: I was once sent out of the classroom, as part of an extra little lesson we occasionally get during spanish. Meanwhile, in the classroom, which I must stress I am not in, the teacher is giving out homework. I didn't know about this, nor was I told when I reentered the classroom. I was given a detention for not doing homework I wasn't told about.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Has anyone else has the situation of a Teacher being ridiculously unfair.

I went through about 3/4 of a year in Grade 11 handing up fairly average English Studies essays.. being fairly shit at the subject as I was. However, towards the end of the year we had to do an essay on a subject of our choosing on the film Life as a House. I actually tried on this essay, over 1500 words, handed it up, got it back marked a few days later and at the bottom of the last page the words "Please see me after Class".

I went to the teacher and she said failed me on this essay for this reason. It was so good, she didnt think I wrote it. She thought I had gotten it off the internet as passed it up as my own. I was so pissed off and now being almost 3 years later, I am still a bit bitter about this.

I think this teacher hated me, a lot of them did... I wonder why?

Similar thing happened to me freshman year for my Biblical Literature class. Kinda struggled all year and I work my ass off on a final paper. She down grades it thinking it was too good. I got her to make the points back though. So it's all good

 

[Anarchy In Detroit]

I had a professor who nearly failed me for missing one paper. I got to pass with a very low grade. Gee thanks.

His policy was that in his class you had turn everything in. I missed one paper. Must have skipped class and didn't get the due date, I didn't even know about it. Anyways, I go on with class getting A's on every subsequent paper and exam. I'm a beast in history and I always get A's (the one class where I do that). He hands out grades before the end of the semester. Much to my GREAT FUCKING ANGER I was failing. Fast forward, I'm in his office arguing with him about it. He pulls up my grades from the other teachers, A's. "Well you're obviously a good student and I know you're not lying but if I excuse you I have to excuse everyone."

Uhhhhh... No you don't fat man. I even offered to do it and E-mail him the paper the next day. No dice.

I wanted to spontaneously combust.

 

[Deleted]

Ahhh I hope she got/gets hit by a bus. One of those big double-decker ones that weigh more than a charging rhino.

As opposed to normal white buses that don't? Haha

Dumbest thing my teacher did to me was fail me on some thing called 'notebook check' where she checks our notes. Our NOTES! For studying, as in its not the teacher's business! How the hell do we know what she looks for in notes, is beyong me. I just wrong down shit she wrote, some kid used all sorts of coloured highlighters and wavy lines and got 100% on it. And guess what she failed the damn final exam.

I pointed this out to my teacher but I got a detention for 'acting rude towards her'.

 

[Starke]

Not a malicious one, but I had an English teacher in college who was in stage 1 (IIRC the earliest stage) of Alzheimers. The one and only time I ever intentionally plagiarized a paper was in her class, where I copied word and punctuation from a book I had lying around in a fit of pique. Here's the kicker, the author was British, so was the punctuation. Her only comment on the paper was that it's citation format was incomplete. Not wrong, incomplete.

I did have a teacher in third grade who decided I was too heavy and decided to put me on a "diet" which basically meant keeping me from having lunch.

 

[bluepilot]

Ha ha, some of these stories are so funny and make me so happy that school is finished.

I was treated unfairly by my Chemistry teacher, and I brought it on myself to be honest. We were studying moules in class and as far as I am concerned they are furry little mammals that dig. I could not get my head around the mathematics (never my strong point) and I naturally failed the test a week later.

Since I failed, I had to retake the test. Before this, the teacher gave a `make-up` lesson to those who had failed. He taught us all the answers to the test and the re-take was exactly the same test. So, instead of learning the theory, I just memorised all the numbers and got full marks.

Thing is though, after this, he thought I was some kind of chemistry genious and always asked me questions first in class or called me up to do those chemical mathematics things.

As I said, I brought it on myself.

 

[Oneirius]

Yesterday, english class. The teacher gave me back my project on which I have worked the whole summer.
She failed it. Gave me a zero.
You know why? Because, lacking the actual instructions sheet, I have answeared all of the project questions instead of only three of them. She didn't even check any of my answears, just flat out marked the whole project as a zero.
A fucking zero. I could have not presented her with anything, and get the same grade.
I was fucked because I did MORE then I needed to.
It was so freaking infuriating.

 

[Roxas1359]

When I was in the 7th grade my P.E teacher found out that my uncle was her old boss. My uncle was a principle and in the district for 37 years and he was going to fire the p.e teacher because he had gotten too many complaints about her and how she treated the students. Well after she found out I was her old bosses' nephew she was always putting me on the spot to make fun of me. The worst part was when I was getting bullied I went to her for help and she said she would take care of it. When it didn't stop my parents,teacher,and principle had a meeting and when my parents said I was still being bullied she said that I never went to her to get help when I did.

 

[batuea]

Yeah you know you have to hate those bipolars is not like being bipolar is torture inside your head, always feeling like shit, and knowing that shits like you make fun of them behind their back, having to take meds every morning and or night that make you feel physically ill all the time, just so you can step out of the door the next day to be made fun of and snickered at behind your back, yeah you have to hate someone with a incurable barely controllable mental DISORDER because it is their fault, right.... jackhole? *by the way I AM bipolar and I am disgusted on how you all view bipolarism, I hope your children are borne with the most severe fucking bipolar cases just so you can watch at how much pain a person goes through dealing with bipolarism.

Well perhaps someone who has bi-polar has no business in teaching in the first place, if it causes such issues to them and obvious distress to the children, thought about that? Also threatening peoples children is not the best way to make people sympathise with you.

Yeah that's what my bosses said to me about all the different jobs I have had. I cant even get a job now because of my work history especially when they called previous employers on why I was fired/let go. Haven't had a job in 1 1/2 years, but sent probably over 120 applications, not even MC' Donald's will give me the time of day. Social security wont even consider me, due to mental disability not being considered qualifications except mental retardation. So the fact she has a job should be praised and maybe if school students were more respectable teachers would not be under so much stress.

PS: I am not wanting sympathy, I just want bipolar suffers to be accepted in society, some thing that will not happen.