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

[DarkHourPrince]

Honors English teacher was talking about how people judge you by appearances and she looks at a friend of mine who has a little stud lip ring, nothing over the top or extravagant, a plain stud. She looked at my friend and went "like, how do you expect to get a job with that piece of metal sticking out of your mouth?" to which Therese replied "and how do you expect to keep a job with the clothes you wear?" This teacher, 7 months pregnant, would still wear tight dresses that barely covered her thigh. She seriously looked like she walked out of a strip club between her dress and the gaudy as all hell makeup she wore. She was the last person who should be talking about judging by appearance.

 

[EchetusXe]

My teacher once said that JFK wasn't a good leader because he was killed. Ya we spent the rest of the lesson telling her just how retarded she actually was

hahahaha, that is fantastic. Reminds me of Homer Simpson when he said of Isaac Newton or somebody "If he is so smart then how come hes dead?"

 

[spartan231490]

Im not sure it qualifies as ignorant the way you mean. But my high school chem teacher told me "heating water is an exothermic reaction"
1) heating water is a process, not a reaction, the chemical compound doesnt change.
2) Water absorbs heat energy when you heat it up, making it an endothermic process
3) When i pointed this out, she said "No, it's exothermic because the water feels hot."

It's really no wonder that so many people failed that regents.

 

[spartan231490]

Honors English teacher was talking about how people judge you by appearances and she looks at a friend of mine who has a little stud lip ring, nothing over the top or extravagant, a plain stud. She looked at my friend and went "like, how do you expect to get a job with that piece of metal sticking out of your mouth?" to which Therese replied "and how do you expect to keep a job with the clothes you wear?" This teacher, 7 months pregnant, would still wear tight dresses that barely covered her thigh. She seriously looked like she walked out of a strip club between her dress and the gaudy as all hell makeup she wore. She was the last person who should be talking about judging by appearance.

And yet she wasn't wrong. It's almost as hard to get a job when you have facial piercings as when you have tattoo's below the wrist. This is hypocritical, not ignorant.

 

[Raive]

OH man I got tons of these stories, but I can only think of my top 3 off hand.

My Kindergarten teacher screamed at me because I colored in a picture of an elephant with my pencil rather than a black crayon, saying: "Elephants aren't gray they are black!"

My english teacher in sophmore year of highschool heard two kids fighting outside the classroom, one of the kids was white and the other was black, he then called security. Afterward he turned to us and said: "I bet the black kid started the fight"

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.

 

[Chaos Incarnate]

My History teacher was writing notes about Egypt and misspelled it Eypt and even after I corrected him plus several other student's did he didn't believe it and even marked my correct spelling wrong on an essay.

 

[Aur0ra145]

I went to a great high school with amazing teachers, so I can't attest to anything being ignorant nor stupid.

I do recall two separate occasions when I was shocked and awed by my teachers.

First one was my freshman year of high school a teacher said to me and a friend in a cold even voice, "If you don't shut up right now, I'll drag you out of your desk, gut you and festoon my room with your innards. Then I will dance around my room merrily celebrating end of all my problems, you two."

The second was my freshman year of university, this was a poli-sci teacher...
"Seriously, who wants a ****** in a fox hole with them?" I was shocked, not because of the context of the quote, but because he was a poli-sci teacher, these guys are supposed to be super liberal.

 

[Les Awesome]

My history teacher said justin bieber was a boy
no joke =D

 

[Kragg]

My flatmates mother died when we were at school. He's not the brightest of the class, but he doesn't have any form of mental problems. After the funeral, we were dropped off (Well..not him, obviously) back at school, and headed to English.
Teacher: "How was Michael?"
Me: "He's handling it surprisingly well."
Teacher: "He probably doesn't understand the magnitude of what's happened yet."
Class: "......*Silence*
Me: "YOU FUCKING ****!"

Got sent to the principals office, but was totally worth seeing the ***** get fired over it when the entire class backed me up on what had happened.

I'm sorry but, what the fuck?
Besides being phrased clumsily what the hell was said there that is worth your reaction and losing her job?

When someone dies it often takes a while to get over the shock of what has happened and actually realise that that person is gone. Hence the phrase "it may take a while to sink in" is commonly used to describe someone's emotions after a death.

No, no, he has a point. Basically, this teacher called the kid too retarded to realise his own mother was dead.

No, the word retarded was never used, nor was the kid's intelligence ever questioned in any way. The teacher correctly identified the fact that "Michael" had not yet gotten over the initial shock of losing a loved one.

Maybe if the teacher had claimed "he doesn't understand.(period, full stop)" then you'd have a point. The word yet however implies that the knowledge will eventually come. The teacher may have phrased it awkwardly, but that doesn't warrant that reaction. If the teacher was in fact fired then it only proves that either the principal was an idiot, or both the poster and his class lied/exaggerated/bent the truth.

im thinking the last one, cause the teacher was def not in the wrong

 

[Morty815]

I was once given a floppy disc to do homework on from my I.T teacher and found pictures of him masturbating on it. When I told other students, he gave the headteacher a form to get me expelled, he said 'How dare you spread these lies about me'. He was so stupid he forgot that I still had the floppy disc, Headteacher Mr. Drew was not happy with him.

 

[DarkHourPrince]

Honors English teacher was talking about how people judge you by appearances and she looks at a friend of mine who has a little stud lip ring, nothing over the top or extravagant, a plain stud. She looked at my friend and went "like, how do you expect to get a job with that piece of metal sticking out of your mouth?" to which Therese replied "and how do you expect to keep a job with the clothes you wear?" This teacher, 7 months pregnant, would still wear tight dresses that barely covered her thigh. She seriously looked like she walked out of a strip club between her dress and the gaudy as all hell makeup she wore. She was the last person who should be talking about judging by appearance.

And yet she wasn't wrong. It's almost as hard to get a job when you have facial piercings as when you have tattoo's below the wrist. This is hypocritical, not ignorant.

This is only one of far too many horror stories I had about this woman... She was a terrible teacher, sexist, homophobic, racist, you name it.

 

[UberNoodle]

My flatmates mother died when we were at school. He's not the brightest of the class, but he doesn't have any form of mental problems. After the funeral, we were dropped off (Well..not him, obviously) back at school, and headed to English.
Teacher: "How was Michael?"
Me: "He's handling it surprisingly well."
Teacher: "He probably doesn't understand the magnitude of what's happened yet."
Class: "......*Silence*
Me: "YOU FUCKING ****!"

Got sent to the principals office, but was totally worth seeing the ***** get fired over it when the entire class backed me up on what had happened.

Sounds like a pretty innapropriate reaction to me. I don't see what the teacher did to deserve such a response from you, or to be fired. Perhaps I am missing something from your story, but what exactly was so offensive? The teacher's comment was condescending at worst. Your reaction was appears entirely improportionate.

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

In 4th grade science my teacher said that george W.bush was the best president ever.and JFK was the worst and he said that if the iceburgs all melted the water level would SHRINK!he was a retard but he was very nice

 

[Diligent]

I don't know that this is ignorant, but it was the weirdest thing I've seen a teacher do. He was a substitute in history class.

He came in, rested his arms on the desk, and rested his head on his arms, face down.
About 25 minutes pass, the class getting rowdy and talking to one another at this point.
Mr. Perry is still lying on the desk.
Abruptly he stands up, chair scraping on the ground, and shouts "I HATE MY LIFE!"
Class falls silent.
He proceeds to turn around to the bookshelf with a glass door, and stares at his reflection with his hands behind his back for the rest of the class, while everybody sat in silence.
Bell rings, complete waste of class.

 

[UberNoodle]

im thinking the last one, cause the teacher was def not in the wrong

Exactly. It shows how selfish many kids seem to be nowadays. They demand respect from their elders yet don't give any themselves. It's a symptom of a generation or two of parents who have kids in order to have 'best friends' rather than CHILDREN. No, kids are NOT 'little adults'. They have to do a lot of growing up before they can claim that right. Calling the teacher a 'f**king c*nt' is way out of line, and it should have meant expulsion, not the firing of the teacher.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

I had an 8th grade U.S History teacher who commented on the Terry Shiavo case (back when it was the top story in the news) "Well, she's not really there anymore and is nothing more than a vegetable..they should just pull the plug and save everyone the trouble."

I promply stood up and said that her comment was out of line. I'm not consevative by any stretch but I do detest people who think a human being has no worth simply because they're currently unable or no longer able to communicate or move their body.

 

[UberNoodle]

"Well, but you must remember that Bullshit is an entertaining show."

He said that to me after he said that alcoholism is a disease. I said it was already proven to be BS by Bullshit. (It's included in Alcoholic Anynymous episode)

He didn't even bother to look at the damn episode, just outright judging it that it is completely false based solely on its nature.

What a load of shit. I got seriously offended, to think that they actually bring all the sources together and base them to a conclusion.

It would depend on the use of the word 'disease' and the aspect of acoholism being looked at. I don't really understand nowadays how making mistakes has become a stoning offense. People spend so much time splitting hairs instead trying to understand eachother. Is it the effect of 'passive education' via TV so that people expect everything, perfect and in a 'single pill'? This thread is pretty shocking, for some of its teachers but mostly the students.

BTW, nothing was 'proven' by that show. The modern 'disease theory' of alcoholism is a THEORY accepted by many and critisised by many. At the moment a term like 'prove' seems premature.

 

[unoleian]

Uhm, probably when my 10th year Biology professor pretty much said that homosexuals=AIDS. Oh, and there was some rather graphic extrapolation on the hazards of anal sex. School didn't like that. I can't recall the exact statement, it was a decade ago, now, but it was certainly a very ignorant blanket statement, that ended up getting him suspended and subject to review.