<p>quote from my history teacher when I was going back to finish my essay test
"Well It looked good so I gave you an 100."</p>
<p>It was not even an essay yet. it was 2 1/2 paragraphs. Like i think i stopped mid sentence. </p>
<p>Even though this benefited me, I still think it is a bit of a teacher fail.</p>
<p>That "this is not going to work when you're in college" thing is a perfect description of my French teacher. I'm sure she knows French well, but she absolutely cannot teach it to us. She has no idea how to run a class which is why most people in there can barely say anything.</p>
<p>The only teacher I've had who really just did not get it was my Time to Speak teacher. Once, I used a word in an essay and she circled it and took off points because she thought it wasn't a word. Admittedly, it was a rare word, but come on, not that rare. And how often do students just make up random words?
We watched this video in there that was total BS like "You can change the shape of water molecules in your mind" and "Things you can't conceive of are invisible to you, so the Native Americans probably thought Columbus' ships were clouds" and she believed every word of it. Oh my gosh.</p>
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Once, I used a word in an essay and she circled it and took off points because she thought it wasn't a word. Admittedly, it was a rare word, but come on, not that rare
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The same thing happened to me! I put "anthropomorphism" on a ninth grade English test (the correct answer was "personification"), and the teacher believes to this day that I made up a nonsense word based off of Animorphs.</p>
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Some of the teacher-coaches I've had are pretty atrocious.
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<p>I can attest to this completely. My school is filled to burting with them. It's almost offensive to the students. </p>
<p>As for being smarter than teachers, I've gotten to the level with my English teachers that they have difficulty editting my writing. I've had teachers ask me if their correction was correct before.</p>
<p>rachael525-omg this happens to me i sort of just follow her correction so she will give me a good grade on the final draft but it is annoying when the teacher ruins ur essays.
Millancad-you made me laugh
and anthropomorphism isn't even a rare word lmao</p>
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I had a physics teacher who insisted that Hooke's law was F = kx and couldn't understand why it should be F = -kx.
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<p>If my Physics teacher saw another teacher like that he's probably tell us and include a healthy dose of the word "moron."</p>
<p>One of my favorite stories from him: a teacher at a school at which he used to work thought the alkali (?) metals got less reactive as you go down the periodic table rather than more reactive, so they put a block of cesium in water. Heh heh heh</p>
<p>(The physics teacher is entirely right about Hooke's law: k is a constant - taken from a table.. also, anyone who understands Newton..)</p>
<p>a) Cesium isn't sold in blocks, but in sealed in glass ampules under Argon gas, because it is >highly< reactive. One gram costs more than hundred dollars, and in my country you wouldn't even get it unless you have a very good reason.
All but one isotopes are highly radioactive (Tschernobyl!)</p>
<p>b) I've seen 1 gram of rubidium in 100 litres of water during a science demonstration. It was NOT pretty. They used a time delayed release, and still ran as fast as they could. It would have killed them - the tube exploded for Gods' sake. For your information, rubidium is higher on the table, so it's less reactive.</p>
<p>Moron.</p>
<p>ha lmao
i once had a science teacher who answered most of our questions with i dont know ha lmao
and my drama teacher was a complete psycho
he got fired AFTER teaching us</p>
<p>I didn't have him but one science teacher had a 30$ pass rate on the New York State Regents. 30% on the Regents, a test curved so much it's almost impossible to fail.</p>
<p>just a funny story:
2day in science class this girl was talking and the teacher goes " do you even want to be here.i am the predator and you are the prey,and i will eat you"</p>
<p>haha that made me laugh</p>
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<p>a) Cesium isn't sold in blocks, but in sealed in glass ampules under Argon gas, because it is >highly< reactive. One gram costs more than hundred dollars, and in my country you wouldn't even get it unless you have a very good reason.
All but one isotopes are highly radioactive (Tschernobyl!)</p>
<p>b) I've seen 1 gram of rubidium in 100 litres of water during a science demonstration. It was NOT pretty. They used a time delayed release, and still ran as fast as they could. It would have killed them - the tube exploded for Gods' sake. For your information, rubidium is higher on the table, so it's less reactive.</p>
<p>Moron.
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<p>Thank you. It was my teacher's story.</p>
<p>My English and Spanish teachers aren't exactly dumb. They just ...can't teach to save their life. </p>
<p>I'm sure they're good at their subject but they just have nooo idea how to teach high school students. Or explain things. And they both insist that they're always right. Like when they tell us we only need to do the first part of the worksheet and then the next day say that we have to turn in the whole worksheet..they refuse to believe the WHOLE class that they told us we only needed to do the first part..</p>
<p>It gets really really annoying when they disagree with something they said the other day..</p>
<p>And its annoying when they get annoyed about us asking questions because they can't explain things.</p>
<p>Yes. My physics teacher is a moron, and my calc teacher feels intimidated by smart people, lol!</p>
<p>My Honor's US History teacher didn't know the difference between a Republic and a Democracy.</p>
<p>my math teacher once said 2+3=6...
but thats just a mistake so I guess I cant really judge him on that...</p>
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My Honor's US History teacher didn't know the difference between a Republic and a Democracy.
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<p>How old was the judge?</p>
<p>^haha. Had to read it a second time, but still. Lol.
As far as being annoyed by incompetent people, my teachers are alright but the kid that sits next to me in ap lit...seriously, he circled words that he thought were too big.</p>
<p>My 6th grade English teacher actually thought that ironical was a word.</p>