Ew, Those teachers....and You Know the Ones I'm Talking About.

Pre-College Issues High School Life
1

<p>We have all had them. Those teachers that are so ignorant of what they are teaching that you think you would learn more by stapling the textbook into your head than having to try learn it from the teachers themselves. </p>

<p>Now, I want to to tell me the worst teacher you have ever had, what the taught(or didn't in this case), and a the greatest moment of their stupidity. We want details.</p>

2

<p>haha my algebra 1 teacher couldn't spell her own subject.
she began the year with lessons on place value and long division. she also had to constantly refer to the book lol! yes, algebra 1.</p>

<p>in all fairness, she wasn't really a math teacher- she was supposed to teach music, but they need a math teacher. but omg, what a mean person. she would scream at us at least three times a week. </p>

<p>the funniest experience with her was when there was a fight in her class- two big tough guys duking it out, knocking over everything, etc. Ms. M screamed and ran out of the class and down the hall without calling security or anything lol!! Shortly after that incident, she married a man 35 years her senior and joined a motorcycle gang. not kidding.</p>

3

<p>My permanent substitute for Honors US History (my regular teacher, who was amazing, got deported to Iraq) was a college senior. And he wasn't a smart college senior. He practically failed high school or something.</p>

<p>The stupidest thing he ever did was during a debate about whether or not Lincoln made the right decision with Fort Sumter. He compared it to something about a couple going to the movies together? I didn't really understand the metaphor, nor did the rest of the class, so we spent lunch period that day mocking him. He also had an incorrigible habit of saying "all right" twice in every sentence and relating everything to the construction of the Erie Canal.</p>

<p>I'm very happy that I'm not having him as a teacher this year. <em>knocks on wood</em></p>

4

<p>I can't really think of the absolute worst teacher (in terms of incompetence), but I have an absolute worst substitute teacher story--
She came into my 8th grade tech class, and I swear on my life she was stoned-- her eyes were bloodshot and glazed over, and she was completely unresponsive. In fact, instead of telling us what we were going to do, she just fell asleep on her desk.. for the entire 45 minute class. We tried waking her up several times, but she just ignored us.</p>

5

<p>^ Oh my god. You know how people just say lol when something is just kinda funny, well, that is not me. I seriously just burst up, because the image of her reminds me of "stoner chick" who works in a food stand at the pool. She always looks high, and one day, I peered though the window, and she was standing with her head on the metal trash can. I stood there, kinda freaked out, until, after 30 second of waiting, whe looked up and said, " Ya want something food to eat for you." It was amazing. I would hand her a dollar and she would think it was a five and give me change. Ah, she was crazy.</p>

6

<p>^LOL, that is so funny!</p>

<p>I have not had a bad teacher in HS (which is good, considering the cost), but I had an...interesting sub for English in seventh grade. She was like Umbridge. She even looked like toad, and she had those chain thingies that keep your glasses on. </p>

<p>Anyway, she just gave us some bogus assignment and started reading. When I went up to ask her a question, I saw that it was...a, uh..., romance novel of some sort with less than fully-dressed people on the cover.</p>

<p>When our class got too loud for her, she got up, walked to the front of the room, and then did the "stop" sign that conductors do. It was strange.</p>

7

<p>I never had a fully incompetent teacher, but my U.S. History teacher couldn't keep his class under control and I was ready to kill the people that disrupt the class almost everyday.</p>

8

<p>And that "ready to kill" attitude is what got you kicked out of school. ;)</p>

<p>I kid, I kid.</p>

9

<p>That's what spooked the student body, so yes, it got me kicked out of school.</p>

<p>I've developed much better social skills and got a girlfriend since :)</p>

<p>I just hope I don't get kicked out of Dual Enrollment.</p>

10

<p>Wow...Antimod...that is...um, cool?</p>

<p>Lol, Just kidding. Anyways, what exactly did you do?</p>

11

<p>Joking about violence, mumbling menacing statements, and the occasional "I'm gonna kill you". </p>

<p>People have been so paranoid against Asians ever since Virginia Tech.</p>

12

<p>6th, 7th, and 8th grade English teacher. It was partly our fault, since we didn't even try to learn, but she should have exercised better control over us. I entered high school with a 5th graders knowledge of English lol. It was horrible.</p>

13

<p>Ok, so I wrote notes for the first week or so of that aforementioned philosophy class, and posted a couple of them on another board (this was back when I still had a laptop). I apologize for the redundancy (in light of this thread) since this will be a direct copy+paste. Here is that post:</p>

<p>


</p>

<p>Ok, that's it.</p>

14

<p>I should keep a journal like that. I would probably come up with more stuff than you.</p>

15

<p>This year, Bio I, we started off the year with this timid man (can't even remember his name) who just said "Mkay" everytime we asked a question instead of answering it. After he took two weeks to move through the introduction chapters of the book that aren't even part of the curriculum, we switched teachers. He ended up with some non-IB class and probably got eaten alive, poor guy.</p>

16

<p>I had the WORST summer school physics teacher EVER... He is not that good at math and upper level physics himself. He only gives us problems that comes with an answer key. He is from Haiti and he can't speak english also. Honestly, I have a harder time understanding his accent than understanding physics. He gives us homework TOTALLY irrelevant to the test. Since he sucks at speaking english, he just reads off the book because he would NEVER know how to put it in his own words. It takes him forever to grade our tests and his grading system is sooo messed up! </p>

<p>The Worst moment was when he started going over the final exam review with this answer key. He explained why the answers were the way they were. Like 1/4 of the way, everybody started to realize something was wrong 'cause Nobody was getting anything right. It turns out that answer key was NOT for the Final exam review and the teacher didn't even know it.</p>

17

<p>The Assistant Dean of Discipline, who has now left to coach baseball in England, had taught Latin I for one year when one of our veterans went on sabbatical.</p>

<p>The first day, when he was introducing himself and the course syllabus--being all serious, sarcastic, and threatening--he wrote the school's Latin motto on the board. He spelled it wrong. I mean, wow. WOW.</p>

<p>As a tutor, I had to pick up where he had left off, and it wasn't fun.</p>

18

<p>Well, the incompetent award for my schooling has to go to my eighth grade Earth Science teacher. I don't think we EVER had a class duscussion. Test prep/notes/"learning" if you can call it that, consisted of the teacher giving us the questions/answers to the test on a sheet of paper. We then had to copy them to flash cards and study them, word for word questions and answers. Class time was spent drawing models from the book. You were marked down if your lines were straight and if you didn't outline with a dark marker. I had to take the class again freshman year since I moved and the new district switched the order the classes are taken. All I knew going in were the basics that everyone knows, and the basics I figured out on my own. None of it I had learned the previous year. </p>

<p>I also had a teacher the same year who was your average perverted teacher. He was the US History teacher, Gym teacher, and Girls' Vollyball Coach. Girls would button their shirts higher when they went in his room. He's the reason I play tuba though, so I can't be too mad. I walked in one of the first days of PE and mentioned band for some reason I now don't know. He asked me what instument I played. I responded with trumpet. His response still shocks me, "Isn't that a guys instrument?" I came back the next day telling him I now played tuba. Boy did he have the perfect face expression. I didn't learn anything in his class either for that matter.</p>

19

<p>Earth/Space Science Honors teacher...</p>

<p>Ex-artillery man...and boy, did he suck at science.</p>

20

<p>our bio teacher made us write our names on a nametag for our desk (paper folded over) and then draw a picture of our favorite animal on the back</p>

<p>she was promptly fired by the end of the semster</p>