Who is the worst teacher you've ever had and why?
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My 1 math teacher I forget her`name but she sucks why cuz she passed out in middle of lechtures and didnt know how to teech oh and she drooled on papers making them look nasty
Well it was my Programming teacher. She was insane. Literally. She heard voices and somehow thought we were making them. It took a while for us to figure that out and until we did, we just imagined she was screaming/glaring at us for nothing.
She made a girl cry for writing with colourful pens and when she taught something, the whole world seemed to come at a standby as the seconds slowly mocked us. She was around for a year before being replaced. It was one odd year, full of teachers calling parents because no one showed up for class anymore.
She made a girl cry for writing with colourful pens and when she taught something, the whole world seemed to come at a standby as the seconds slowly mocked us. She was around for a year before being replaced. It was one odd year, full of teachers calling parents because no one showed up for class anymore.
My year 11/12 english teacher. A girl in my class made a point that exposed an error in the teacher's argument. Teacher was taken back and ended up responding with a veiled "because I'm the teacher and therefore right" statement. She marked one of my assessments poorly because she didn't reread the book we were doing a creative writing piece for (we had to write a scene that showed a nice character as a nasty character through twisting certain facts to suit our means). Also she was prejudicial against men and I don't mean that in an immature sense. Every time a female in the class made a slightly bold statement she would spout "you go girl" stuff and stayed mute towards guys and also gave a bunch of us a hard time about the way we answered questions. Also she ignored the females talking but got right up us guys for talking. Also she reported me to the principal for stating my opinion that shakespeare was pedestrian in quality compared to other writers. Principal didn't care but he was forced to phone my parents about it. Oh, and she wrote some definitions on the board (which there is nothing wrong with) but then had to explain her definitions. Definitions being things that are supposed to define in and of themselves. By the end of my time with her I was in her office at one point for disagreeing with her view on something, and I ended up telling her just what my problem with her was and got away scott free because I never once actually insulted her.
Year 9. We had never had a steady science teacher but this one took the cake. Mrs Wheelband. Like a stinky version of Anne Robinson who had no clue how to handle a class. Really made me hate science....
There was a shop (industrial arts) teacher in high school who had a very bad habit of focusing on the girls in the class a little... too... much. Rightfully, the girls were very upset and complained to the school administration, and he was fired after only one year. It was especially good, because we then got a really good shop teacher after that.
A science teacher and a health teacher at the same school would just show us random movies whenever they couldn't think of anything to do or just got too lazy. At least the health teacher showed us some movies that had something to do with the subject. In science class we watched Rocketman, Dances With Wolves and Chicken Run. Not exactly science class material.
A science teacher and a health teacher at the same school would just show us random movies whenever they couldn't think of anything to do or just got too lazy. At least the health teacher showed us some movies that had something to do with the subject. In science class we watched Rocketman, Dances With Wolves and Chicken Run. Not exactly science class material.
I had one teacher that yelled at every student for the slightest offense, called people idiots for not understanding her convoluted explainations, and made a girl cry once because she forgot to close the door to the classroom gently behind her.
She also made some disquieting passes at me. I was thirteen, it was a little creepy.
Still, don't think she was as bad as the dude who was only there to further his political career.
He bullied everyone except for the class he taught, which he pretty much just left to their own devices. If certain students are to be believed, he spent more time out of the classroom than in it.
Don't think one kid actually learned a single thing from him. Most of them laugh when they see his campaign posters nowadays.
She also made some disquieting passes at me. I was thirteen, it was a little creepy.
Still, don't think she was as bad as the dude who was only there to further his political career.
He bullied everyone except for the class he taught, which he pretty much just left to their own devices. If certain students are to be believed, he spent more time out of the classroom than in it.
Don't think one kid actually learned a single thing from him. Most of them laugh when they see his campaign posters nowadays.
My 4th grade art teacher, Mr. Hoover. Because my last name sounds like "hokey", every single time he saw me he'd sing the Hokey-Pokey, and if I could go back in time I'd kick him in the nuts so hard he'd choke on his own balls. Instead I merely got back at him by calling him Hoover-ville.
My psychology teacher from high school. She was quite oblivious, lost many students papers and claimed she never received them, was late on her grading, late on her teaching schedule and so on. And then one time I was screwing around with a lighter at my desk and I accidentally set my paper on fire. I slapped my hands on my desk putting out the paper fire and as a puff of smoke wafted up she only paused for a second and then continued with the lesson, never saying a word about it after.
I had a photography teacher in that same school that was something like 1/16h native American but kept playing it up and shoving it in everyone faces. She took it to the point of pretty much failing anyone that either wasn't native or didn't take native themed pictures.
Same high school again, we had a drama teacher that the students drove into mental breakdown and early retirement.
I had a grade school music teacher that would yell at kids until they cried, and then yell at any kids that went to comfort them as well as tell them that they will never be good at music and they are only crying to get what they want.
I also had a really amazing french teacher that was deadly accurate with throwing chalk from her little chalk pen. Also had an English teacher smack a disruptive student in the back of the head with a copy of "Lord of the Flies" and then ask the class if they saw anything, which none of us did
Edit: Just remembered a middles school shop class teacher, he was missing several parts of his fingers and had a glass eye. Awesome personality and teaching skills though, just a little shocking at first lol. At the least I still aspire to grow a beard as awesome as his.
I had a photography teacher in that same school that was something like 1/16h native American but kept playing it up and shoving it in everyone faces. She took it to the point of pretty much failing anyone that either wasn't native or didn't take native themed pictures.
Same high school again, we had a drama teacher that the students drove into mental breakdown and early retirement.
I had a grade school music teacher that would yell at kids until they cried, and then yell at any kids that went to comfort them as well as tell them that they will never be good at music and they are only crying to get what they want.
I also had a really amazing french teacher that was deadly accurate with throwing chalk from her little chalk pen. Also had an English teacher smack a disruptive student in the back of the head with a copy of "Lord of the Flies" and then ask the class if they saw anything, which none of us did
Edit: Just remembered a middles school shop class teacher, he was missing several parts of his fingers and had a glass eye. Awesome personality and teaching skills though, just a little shocking at first lol. At the least I still aspire to grow a beard as awesome as his.
i grade ten I had a pretty bad math teacher. I will say that he is very smart and intelligent but he can not teach of applied students. which I was.
and more recently, I had a business teacher who in college, would treat us as we were grade eight. it was horrible. also take note that the class was in their early to mid twenties
and more recently, I had a business teacher who in college, would treat us as we were grade eight. it was horrible. also take note that the class was in their early to mid twenties
Throughout public schooling, I was lucky enough to have the majority of my teachers care far more than is the stereotype for their position. I can only think of two teachers that I really didn't get along with, and I will openly admit that one was because of personal issues, but I didn't let that get in the way of learning and neither did she. Of that I'm grateful. The other teacher, however...
Back in high school, I moved mid-school year from a school with a system that covered half your classes in the first semester, then half your classes in the second semester for more focus on the individual subjects (called "block scheduling" if that is more familiar to anyone), to a school that covered everything all year. This put me ahead in half my classes and far enough behind in my other ones that I had to take computer class makeups. This comes into play later.
Anywho, the bad teacher in question was in anatomy/physiology, a class that I took more seriously than usual as it interested me and was pertinent to what would become my current major in college. I was ahead in that, coming from a very good teacher that covered half the text in the first half of the semester (the full time for the class back in the old system). I thought I was in good shape and was ready for a bit of review to buffer the GPA before covering new material. As it turns out, I was far more ahead, as the only thing they covered up until this class was lab safety for 4 1/2 weeks. Not only ridiculous in that you would only need a class period or two to really cover it, but we never did a lab :/
I can only imagine just how boring that class must have been.
So we were just starting on the first chapter of actual learning when I got there, and by the end of the year, we were on chapter 3. I pretty much just studied on my own the book she didn't cover. Nearly killed my love for the subject :[
Funny thing though, because I moved down halfway through the first semester from a class that essentially moved twice as fast, I had the info from the first semester. We had a standardized test about the subject from the government at the end of the first semester and I got nearly all of them right because I had a good teacher for that material
One of the students was understandably pissed though, asking the teacher flat out, "why didn't we cover any of this?"
Back in high school, I moved mid-school year from a school with a system that covered half your classes in the first semester, then half your classes in the second semester for more focus on the individual subjects (called "block scheduling" if that is more familiar to anyone), to a school that covered everything all year. This put me ahead in half my classes and far enough behind in my other ones that I had to take computer class makeups. This comes into play later.
Anywho, the bad teacher in question was in anatomy/physiology, a class that I took more seriously than usual as it interested me and was pertinent to what would become my current major in college. I was ahead in that, coming from a very good teacher that covered half the text in the first half of the semester (the full time for the class back in the old system). I thought I was in good shape and was ready for a bit of review to buffer the GPA before covering new material. As it turns out, I was far more ahead, as the only thing they covered up until this class was lab safety for 4 1/2 weeks. Not only ridiculous in that you would only need a class period or two to really cover it, but we never did a lab :/
I can only imagine just how boring that class must have been.
So we were just starting on the first chapter of actual learning when I got there, and by the end of the year, we were on chapter 3. I pretty much just studied on my own the book she didn't cover. Nearly killed my love for the subject :[
Funny thing though, because I moved down halfway through the first semester from a class that essentially moved twice as fast, I had the info from the first semester. We had a standardized test about the subject from the government at the end of the first semester and I got nearly all of them right because I had a good teacher for that material
One of the students was understandably pissed though, asking the teacher flat out, "why didn't we cover any of this?"
Trigonometry. 10th grade. God that guy was awful. He didn't even have a Math degree, he had an English one. He couldn't get through a single class without having to redo an example problem because he screwed it up.
The absolute worst part of the whole thing was one time he spent 15 mins covering a topic, then when two questions about it showed up on a test: THE ENTIRE CLASS GOT THEM WRONG. When we brought this up, pointing out that not a single person got either question correct, his response was (and I wish I were making this up): "That just goes to show you guys aren't paying enough attention in class."
To this day, I think I hate trig because him. Calc was fun, though.
The absolute worst part of the whole thing was one time he spent 15 mins covering a topic, then when two questions about it showed up on a test: THE ENTIRE CLASS GOT THEM WRONG. When we brought this up, pointing out that not a single person got either question correct, his response was (and I wish I were making this up): "That just goes to show you guys aren't paying enough attention in class."
To this day, I think I hate trig because him. Calc was fun, though.
English teacher in 12th grade. Couldn't stand her teaching, and the material she taught us was so...bleeeaguuguhuguhhhhhhhhhhh. One day, she gave us a paper assignment with one of the worst prompts I ever received, so instead of following it, I wrote a paper telling her why the prompt sucked, why her teaching sucked, and why most people don't like her, both in the most respectful but brutally honest way I possibly could.
I got a D on the paper, so it wasn't a total fail.
I got a D on the paper, so it wasn't a total fail.
Well I had the same homegroup teacher from year 9-11. She talked to us like we were babies and could not teach for shit. I believe my friends and I spent the entire year talking and still got A's for our final assignment.
In year 9 I had a really weird science teacher who made inappropriate passes at the girls. The only things I can remember him ever saying is "Ryyyyyyan!" and "I make my years sandwiches all at once and freeze them."
In year 9 I had a really weird science teacher who made inappropriate passes at the girls. The only things I can remember him ever saying is "Ryyyyyyan!" and "I make my years sandwiches all at once and freeze them."
From my experience, that's most of the music teachers I've ever had. But their jobs tend to be some of the most stressful school teaching jobs you could have. Doesn't justify making kids cry, though.Rayne870 said:
I should add one more teacher from my school: an English teacher who spent at least half the class time, every single class, telling jokes. It's like he had a new stand-up routine every day. Unfortunately for our education, his humorous ways only endeared him to most of the students and teachers, who, being high school students, would rather sit and listen to a comedy schtick than actually do any learning. He even gave himself his own holiday every year, where he and the students just had a little party in class, and the school was A-OK with it. Didn't help that he just sucked at teaching to begin with when he actually got around to trying to teach once he ran out of jokes for the day. Didn't learn a single thing from him. At least I learned something from the teachers I mentioned before, despite their bad habits. This guy was just BAD.
I'd have to say my 9th grade English teacher. Near the beginning of the year, she had everyone take a personality test, then gave the class her results. Hers was completely opposite mine on all scales, so... that can't be a good sign. One day, half the class failed to do a homework assignment (myself included, although it was the very first one I'd missed, and a pretty minor one). So she gave everyone who didn't do it detention. No warning beforehand that anything like that could happen, and she hadn't given detentions previously. After that I pretty much stopped caring about the class and homework, which I'm sure is not what she intended, but just the way she did it made me not want to do anything she told me to.
One time, she gave a quiz to see if we'd read the part of the book we were supposed to (I hadn't - I wasn't a very good student that year). It was on the holocaust, so I made what I considered reasonable guesses as to the answers. One section was purely true/false, and I ended up answering True on all of them without realizing it. She later pulled me aside and asked if I'd even read it at all, to which I said no. She said her main reasoning was it looked like I'd stopped caring and just answered all True. That would have been a valid argument, except for the fact that I only missed one question. I think she just didn't like me at that point.
I ended up getting I think a B, D, F, and F in that class, then A+ on the final because as much as I skipped on the homework, I knew my stuff. And she hated that about me. Couldn't understand that people could learn without busywork.
One time, she gave a quiz to see if we'd read the part of the book we were supposed to (I hadn't - I wasn't a very good student that year). It was on the holocaust, so I made what I considered reasonable guesses as to the answers. One section was purely true/false, and I ended up answering True on all of them without realizing it. She later pulled me aside and asked if I'd even read it at all, to which I said no. She said her main reasoning was it looked like I'd stopped caring and just answered all True. That would have been a valid argument, except for the fact that I only missed one question. I think she just didn't like me at that point.
I ended up getting I think a B, D, F, and F in that class, then A+ on the final because as much as I skipped on the homework, I knew my stuff. And she hated that about me. Couldn't understand that people could learn without busywork.
The worst teacher I ever had was Ms W.
I was on an exchange year at a very prestigious University. Given that we were all adults, and our retrospective countries were paying quite a bit of money for having us there, she taught us and spoke to us as if we were 5 year old children. The woman just could not teach. Her method consisted of talking to us VERY slowly for one hour and a half on Thursday mornings. We were not allowed to make notes as this was considered "not paying attention".
Graaah, I had to put up with her for 6 months, it drove me crazy.
I was on an exchange year at a very prestigious University. Given that we were all adults, and our retrospective countries were paying quite a bit of money for having us there, she taught us and spoke to us as if we were 5 year old children. The woman just could not teach. Her method consisted of talking to us VERY slowly for one hour and a half on Thursday mornings. We were not allowed to make notes as this was considered "not paying attention".
Graaah, I had to put up with her for 6 months, it drove me crazy.
In college my friend Mike convinced me to take a "Woman's Studies" class with him, I will never forgive him for that.
There were 16 people in this class, he was the only guy, and I felt more out of place than he did. His exact words after we got out of class the first day were "And I thought you were butch", "So did I" was my response. Every other person in the class was a man hating psycho who considered me the female equivalent of an Uncle Tom because I had guy friends and didn't buy into their "All men are evil." schtick.
The professor was even worse. Her definition of discussion was "i'm right, you're wrong, now unless you plan on agreeing with me shut up." She'd assign papers and ask us to support a viewpoint, all of which boiled down to "Are men evil?". It was pointless, you could make a claim, back it up with facts, point out flaws in the opposing view, but unless you agreed with what she thought you couldn't get higher than a B. Eventually we caught on to this, and started agreeing with her even though we knew she was psychotic just because we knew we'd get an A for doing so.
I got an A in that class, but it was the biggest waste of time i've ever had to do.
There were 16 people in this class, he was the only guy, and I felt more out of place than he did. His exact words after we got out of class the first day were "And I thought you were butch", "So did I" was my response. Every other person in the class was a man hating psycho who considered me the female equivalent of an Uncle Tom because I had guy friends and didn't buy into their "All men are evil." schtick.
The professor was even worse. Her definition of discussion was "i'm right, you're wrong, now unless you plan on agreeing with me shut up." She'd assign papers and ask us to support a viewpoint, all of which boiled down to "Are men evil?". It was pointless, you could make a claim, back it up with facts, point out flaws in the opposing view, but unless you agreed with what she thought you couldn't get higher than a B. Eventually we caught on to this, and started agreeing with her even though we knew she was psychotic just because we knew we'd get an A for doing so.
I got an A in that class, but it was the biggest waste of time i've ever had to do.
one of my home room teachers said that me being bullied is my own fault
PS I had too have conversations with her (about my absence due to bullying) and talking too her is like talking to a skipping CD dear god! she repeats the same sentence time after time after time! she only talked and never listened!
another teacher put me below my capacity (IE me not learning anything)
PS I had too have conversations with her (about my absence due to bullying) and talking too her is like talking to a skipping CD dear god! she repeats the same sentence time after time after time! she only talked and never listened!
another teacher put me below my capacity (IE me not learning anything)