whats the most ignorant thing one of your teachers have said?

[captaincabbage]

Try and trump this people! My Teacher, in her 60s at the time, told me and my best friend that frogs weren't animals.
What the fuck!??

 

[Jack_Uzi]

The day before the elections our sociology teacher shouted to us, as we left the classroom: "If you don't know what to vote for, vote....!" I thaugt that was very stupid and inappropriate.

 

[Evil the White]

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Oops, getting my global conflicts mixed up. Sorry.

Correction, he encouraged the south Vietnamese generals to form a coup against their president, which left South Vietnam without a strong powerbase or stable leadership, which probably cost them any chance they had in the war.

 

[Trikeen]

A substitute Science teacher i had sometime earlier this year was teaching us incorrect things and someone in our class spoke up and said 'Excuse me, this isnt right.' or something to that affect. She denied and the whole class assured her that, yes, it was wrong and that our fulltime teacher had taught us otherwise. She then proceeded to tell us that She was 'probably alot smarter' than our teacher. This substitute had just recently gotten her teaching license, whereas our regular teacher was a certified Marine Biologist.

The same substitute later informed several members of the class that they were 'idiots' and could best hope for jobs at McDonalds for the rest of their lives.

 

[Keepitclean]

When doing volunteer work at a local elementary school, one of the children in the classroom finished his math work amazingly fast, he was the first one to finish by quite a longshot. When I congratulated him and told him he did a good job (he didn't get a single question wrong and he showed all his work too), their teacher told me not to praise children that do much better than the others because it will make the other children feel bad.

Western Australia had a whole education system based on that sort of mentality for a few years it was called outcomes based education. There were levels that you were fitted into based on your work. The problem was that the levels were so broad that everyone got pretty much the same level. Think of it like an A-F system if you remove past C. So you are left with three possible catagories and no indication of how far up or down the level you were. I'm so happy that they changed it. The only subjects that it was slightly compatible with were English and Art.

 

[WolfThomas]

I was once thrown out from the class and had my work ripped up for using figurative speech in a fictional book we had to write for an assignment. We had to write about our characters taking part in a sport against a famous practitioner. I chose to have my character face off against Michael Schumacher at racing. To describe the feelings of my protagonist has he walking to his car I used the sentence "His heart slowed to what felt like a beat per second"... Not the best of writing but I was 8 at the time. My English teacher told me that "Your heart can't possibly slow to a beat per second" and then ripped my work in half. Then I told her that I was being figurative, I.e exaggerating to make it sound more dramatic. So she kicked me out of her class.\

A beat a minute is normal (albeit lower end)...

Was your teacher the Hulk? "HULK SMASH PUNY FIGURATIVE WRITING!!!"

 

[dragonslayer32]

A few years ago, i had a substitute teacher for history. I soon found out however, that this teacher also HATED my father as he used to teach him too. My teacher literally said to me "Mclaren(my surname), that is an interesting name. A Mclaren has never passed my class boy, and you will be no different". I soon showed him when i got an A.

 

[CouchCommando]

Teacher: Stop swinging on your chair please.
Student at back of class:Sorry sir I couldn't hear you, what was that?(loud back ground noise in music)
Teacher: stop swinging on your chair, if you fall over back wards you may hurt yourself and sue me and the school.
Student:Yeah what ever I'll be fine.
The teacher then jumps up from his desk grabs a timber flute case and hurls it at the students head, strikes the kid between the eyes, the kid then falls back out of the chair and splits his scalp open on the piano behind him.
Long story short the kid sued the school the teacher was fired,and the injured party settled out of court.
Yeah slight um over reaction.

 

[dfphetteplace]

Much like the kid whose mother died, my father died when I was in 6th grade. I missed a month of school because of him being sick and then dying. I went into my first class the day I finally went back to school and my teacher told me that I had to make up the work, which was fine. But the she asked why I was gone for so long and I replied "Because of my dad".
Mrs. Bigger (aka cunty-*****): Oh yeah, I heard he was sick. How is he doing?"
Me: "He's dead."
Bigger: "I don't believe you. You aren't getting out of your work. I'm going to the office and see what they have to say."
She leaves for a few minutes, comes back and sits at her desk and tries not to look at me.
Me: "So, what did they say?" She remained quiet.

I have a lot of other ones too. I went to school in a pretty redneck area in Michigan, so I had a lot of experiences with dumb teachers. I was had a government teacher that refused to believe the reality of the Iraq invasion, and I'm sure to this day still believes there were WMD's. I got into so many arguments they finally moved me to another government class.

 

[dfphetteplace]

I was once thrown out from the class and had my work ripped up for using figurative speech in a fictional book we had to write for an assignment. We had to write about our characters taking part in a sport against a famous practitioner. I chose to have my character face off against Michael Schumacher at racing. To describe the feelings of my protagonist has he walking to his car I used the sentence "His heart slowed to what felt like a beat per second"... Not the best of writing but I was 8 at the time. My English teacher told me that "Your heart can't possibly slow to a beat per second" and then ripped my work in half. Then I told her that I was being figurative, I.e exaggerating to make it sound more dramatic. So she kicked me out of her class.\

A beat a minute is normal (albeit lower end)...

Was your teacher the Hulk? "HULK SMASH PUNY FIGURATIVE WRITING!!!"

A beat a minute is dead. I'm sure you meant bps though. Anything below 60 bpm is bradycardia.

 

[Hoplon]

I was once thrown out from the class and had my work ripped up for using figurative speech in a fictional book we had to write for an assignment. We had to write about our characters taking part in a sport against a famous practitioner. I chose to have my character face off against Michael Schumacher at racing. To describe the feelings of my protagonist has he walking to his car I used the sentence "His heart slowed to what felt like a beat per second"... Not the best of writing but I was 8 at the time. My English teacher told me that "Your heart can't possibly slow to a beat per second" and then ripped my work in half. Then I told her that I was being figurative, I.e exaggerating to make it sound more dramatic. So she kicked me out of her class.\

A beat a minute is normal (albeit lower end)...

Was your teacher the Hulk? "HULK SMASH PUNY FIGURATIVE WRITING!!!"

A beat a minute is dead. I'm sure you meant bps though. Anything below 60 bpm is bradycardia.

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No, i get it, the phrase was "like my heart was beating once a minute" a simile, for everything feeling like it had slowed right down.

Not that the heart had slowed down at all.

 

[eggy32]

Probably the time my religion teacher asked my class to mark one of her other class's work. We were 5th years and she wanted us to mark 1st year work. Fair enough.
One of the answers involved silent movies to which my teacher asked me "Do silent movies even exist?" She was serious.

Also when she tried to pronounce annihilate and pronounced it anhilate. Leaving out the first "i" It took the class well over a few minutes to convince her of the proper pronunciation and she still got it wrong after that.

Or the time I had my arm in a cast and she was yelling at me to write faster.

I did not like my religion teacher.

Wait, I remembered another. She was also my history teacher and criticised the project I had spent a whole year on as being too good. She believed I just copy & pasted it all from wikipedia. She decided to ask me questions on it to prove I knew it. I got question one right. But that wasn't enough. Question 2 I got half-right because I misunderstood her. She immediately declared that I had not read a single word of the project and decided to fail it.

Then there was the time she got us to help some younger kids carry some boxes that were going to charity down to the foyer and set them up in a nice pile to be taken away later. I get down there and they are all collapsed. I put the stuff back in as best as I can and the younger ones blame our whole class for making a mess and mixing up the items in the boxes. Did she listen to us? No, of course not!
I know alot of this probably isn't ignorance but fuck I just wanted a place to vent.

I really want her dead.

 

[Ilkenaal]

Well once, I had a teacher say that plastic bottles produce female hormones, and that drinking from your average bottle was going to turn you into a pansy

And another time, the same teacher said that margarine is one molecule away from scotch-tape


True. Fucking. Stories

While plastic bottles don't produce oestrogen, they do contain chemicals that function like it. Also, margarine is "one molecule" away from being scotch tape, just like it's one molecule away from being any other kind of molecule that exists... Maybe the teacher meant that the margarine molecules are one atom away from being scotch tape. It may even be true, but it doesn't really matter. There are plenty of molecules that are only a couple of atoms different from each other, but still have wildly different properties.

Anyway, I don't really have any stories of ignorant teachers, but some of my friends had a sort of incompetent English teacher a couple of years ago. Our school was visited by students from Italy, and the teacher told them that "It isn't ice bears walking in the streets." (I live in Norway)
When my friends told him that the correct term is "polar bear", he said "I think both are correct." This was in the Norwegian equivalent of high school, by the way.

 

[WolfThomas]

I was once thrown out from the class and had my work ripped up for using figurative speech in a fictional book we had to write for an assignment. We had to write about our characters taking part in a sport against a famous practitioner. I chose to have my character face off against Michael Schumacher at racing. To describe the feelings of my protagonist has he walking to his car I used the sentence "His heart slowed to what felt like a beat per second"... Not the best of writing but I was 8 at the time. My English teacher told me that "Your heart can't possibly slow to a beat per second" and then ripped my work in half. Then I told her that I was being figurative, I.e exaggerating to make it sound more dramatic. So she kicked me out of her class.\

A beat a minute is normal (albeit lower end)...

Was your teacher the Hulk? "HULK SMASH PUNY FIGURATIVE WRITING!!!"

A beat a minute is dead. I'm sure you meant bps though. Anything below 60 bpm is bradycardia.

Ach, I was tired and I misread it.

 

[RootbeerJello]

Not really ignorant so much as bafflingly idiotic. Fourth grade social studies (history):

Teacher: When the Native Americans killed a buffalo, they made sure none of it went to waste. The bones were often used as tools or weapons, and the fur and skin were made into clothing.

Me: "Use all parts of the buffalo". Isn't that a saying?

Teacher: -giggle- why would there be a buffalo in the classroom?

 

[Andreas55k]

My teacher INSISTED that Greece wasn't a part of Europe. I even pointed at the FUCKING MAP we had in the class, and she still wouldn't concede.

Try and ask her if Denmark is a country.. If she says that its a city, hit her form me... XD

Sorry...

But thats just stupid...

 

[Andreas55k]

I have had 2 douchebag teachers:

1. My english teacher at the age of 13 would always be racist towards my irish friend and she was beyond retarded. Example:

Friend: what do you think they do at area 51
Me: probably some secret weapons experiments with prototype technology
Friend: Yeah, that might be why they shoot you is you attempt to get to close.
Teacher: No, it is a place where they store toxic waste and theydo that to protect you1!
Me: they shoot us to protect us?
Teacher: Yes
Me:LOLWUT?!?!?!?!

2. My recent maths teacher was a fucking prick. He would actually call me a "Gay" and a "******" in class infront of the class for no reason. (I am not gay, he was the one that would sometimes lay on the table with his shity open during class.)He would also constantly blame me for everything, even one day I was not in the room, I was out getting something and I could hear "OLIVER SHUT THE FUCK UP, ******!" from the class. He would also call my friend a fucking retarded communist.

And i guess he saw the Communist part as an insult?

 

[Luke5515]

Our world history teacher pronounced things wrong all the time. We called her an idiot because she tried convincing us that coup d'etat was pronounced like it's spelled. Like coupe day taat. Then she said that it had multiple pronunciations.

 

[Lionsfan]

Well besides being told all the time I had no real work ethic and would probably fail in college the only big ignorant thing was my french teacher said a song by Metallica was actually by a French Rock Band. Some kid did a project about french bands and music and Ride the Lighting came up. I told the kid that he fucked up on his project and she said that it had to be a french rock band since this kid was straight A's and I was pulling a D in her class. So I backed up my claim and when she still didn't believe me I caller her and fat moron. That ended the argument pretty well

 

[Custard_Angel]

"The greatest honor anyone can have is to have their skin turned into a tribal drum after they die."

Facts:
1. Public primary school
2. VERY hippy music substitute teacher
3. I was in grade 3

Verdit:
Fuck. Hippy. Bullshit.