<p>^ Lol, I wish I had her/him!!</p>
<p>Economics teacher.</p>
<p>Doesn't know **** about economics</p>
<p>oh man, that's my world history teacher..she called herself bodacious..enough said!</p>
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<li>i don't know why no one thought to get her evaluated*</li>
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<p>My freshman civics teacher was the head varsity football coach, and while I'm sure he knew a little bit about civics, it wasn't really...enough. The class consisted of reading the textbook and answering questions. Also, there was a decent football player that year (our football program stinks, so it's a big deal when one of the players gets recruited by anyone), so the teacher was always meeting with recruiters. He gave us extra credit nearly once a month for being "quiet" while he met with one of them. However, we kept these journals about our thoughts on current events...that was the one beneficial part of the class. I actually ended up liking him by the end of the year. Unfortunately, he died from cancer at the beginning of my sophomore year.</p>
<p>All the teachers who teach lower level social studies classes don't know what they're talking about. Luckily, the AP teachers are much, much better.</p>
<p>I've had lots of bad teachers...
I posted this about one in the Meanest Thing thread
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I don't know exactly if this qualifies as "mean"...</p>
<p>In seventh grade I had this teacher who was TERRIBLE! I didn't "hate" her persay but I wouldn't have minded if she had been fired. And I was willing to speed that event up quite a bit. Other students had gone to the counselors and complained about her [there're too many things to list here that she did which were worthy of complaint...] but the counselors thought it was just a personal problem with the teacher or something. So, I had the bright idea to start a petition. It was NOT a petition to directly get her fired... I was planning to go to the counselor and complain myself, and be able to have the petition of signed names as reference like "these people ALL feel the same way". But it could have been viewed as a petition to indirectly get her fired.. who knows. I was simply exercising my rights as stated in the first amendment!
Anyway, some little pansy student "told on me," and said "____'s got a petition out to get you fired!!!!!" to the teacher. I mean, I had like 400 signatures over like 2 days, lol. So, the teacher pulls me out of class and tries yelling at me and I was like, "right to petition," and she said "I've never heard of that!" And she was a social studies teacher for crying out loud!
Anyway, I ended up writing some little bit of a "letter of apology" which was more of a... "please don't get the other kids who signed it in trouble, it was all my idea, punish me if you have to punish anybody." She finally told me she was going to write me up for "undermining her authority," but that never happened.</p>
<p>Don't know if that qualifies as "being mean," but I made her cry a lot :[
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Hey, well here's a follow up to my post [#2] - I couldn't go to the counselor with my petition because she took it from me [search and seizure! ugh lol]. BUT I'm pretty sure that the administration got word of it at least, because there was some big to-do about it. Also like 2 years later, once I was in high school and away from her, she got fired, and her husband left her while she was pregnant.</p>
<p>Ouuuchhh.
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<p>That's the first terrible teacher and her consequences :]</p>
<p>The next was my AP physics teacher last year... he'd been an engineer for 30 years or something, never been a teacher, and all of a sudden - "hey, I'll be an AP physics teacher! Yay!" He suuuuucked. He taught us things backwards, which was helpful, since you just have to do the opposite of what you learned! :[ He was crazy. Once on his birthday [our school delivers this awesome cupcake to the teacher on their birthday] I ate his cupcake and he never found out. Oops. :]</p>
<p>^ I'm gonna laugh one day when your subordinates treat you the same way.</p>
<p>Hahah I'll laugh too, and slam their hea-----</p>
<p>Nevermind.</p>
<p>edit - besides, I will never be as imcompetant as those two were.</p>
<p>Oh, I also had a really bad freshman English teacher.
The first quarter of the school year I went to her three times about assignments that weren't posted correctly in the grade book (We have online grading. Powerschool is the program's name.). This continued throughout the year. I stopped counting though because I didn't want to know. It made the year pass by slower. I never read any of the books and would scores a B to an A on them. I just printed off sparksnotes from the internet, after all it was an open note/"binder" test. She couldn't remember anything. She was always on medication. One day she called me in truant when she excused me from the class. It was a long year of English.</p>
<p>INVENIAMVIAM- that cupcake anecdote totally made my day... </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>My Honors World History teacher accepted a better job offer and left us after the first semester. The replacement: a substitute who graduated from medical school and went to seminary school. He is probably completing his residency now. </p>
<p>He didn't know a thing about history; he just clung to the book the entire time.</p>
<p>Replacement teachers are almost never good, especially if he's trying to become a doctor.</p>
<p>Oh, my Geometry teacher would always say "ok". In one 90 minutes class period we counted around 500 ok's from him. It was really bad. I couldn't pay attention at all. His constant filler words made me want to go insane.</p>
<p>These stories are pretty funny!
In my Spanish I class,(for about 2 weeks though)..the teacher was a native Panamanian,didn't know the proper grammar,so he basically taught us the "wrong" Spanish..and we watched Selena or movies with Selma Hayek like 3 times a week..it was horrible lol</p>
<p>I had an AP euro teacher that was fairly new and disorganized... so we only just got to WW1 come the AP test.</p>
<p>Oh, and an AP chem teacher that didn't bother to teach us anything (literally, we had like 2 lectures all year, and like 120 labs, which we did on our own; he also never answered questions).</p>
<p>oh, ad @antimod, my liist (hurr hurr hurr) would have been longer had I not included just snippets and wasn't ready for seppuku come the end of week 2.</p>
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INVENIAMVIAM- that cupcake anecdote totally made my day...
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Yay, hopefuly_gtb, I'm glad I could brighten somebody's life with my shenanigans. :]</p>
<p>My Religion teacher of last year both thought he knew more than the students and didn't know anything at all. He didn't listen to us and when we asked questions he would only say, "I don't know." or "Only God knows." We didn't have good notes and so had to read the book, which was boring. </p>
<p>Biggest moment of stupidity in my class was when we got into a debate about changing the teaching style of the class, he said he'd listen to us, and he never did. Biggest in another class was calling a kid a piece of ***** and throwing erasers. At least, that's what I heard.</p>
<p>Not exactly a teacher, but one of those assistant teachers was teaching us one day.</p>
<p>She was honestly the dumbest human being I've ever met. One day she was teaching us about how to calculate angles in a polygon and claimed that a square has THREE sides! And the sad part is, she wasn't even joking. She was dead serious. So obviously someone who wasn't laughing told her kindly that she was talking about a triangle, not a square which has four sides. But she doesn't believe him! She starts arguing, and it gets intense. Finally we had to look it up in the textbook to prove it to her. True story. Honestly, she doesn't deserve to teach.</p>
<p>9th grade math. She'd come in 20-30 min late (we'd make bets), and preferred teaching us to fold oragami and telling us about her deteriorating health as opposed to math. When she did teach math, she would do it incorrectly. No one learnt a thing and I nearly failed 10th grade math.</p>
<p>One of the AP Macroeconimcs teachers at my high school was a socialist. It wasn't a big surprise when almost nobody in the class scored over a 3 (the other teacher's students all scored 4s and 5s).</p>
<p>Teacher showed videos EVERYDAY for the entire period...all year. Basically, my teacher would snore off. Except this time, he stayed awake. And then, someone fell asleep...(actually, the whole class did.) Then, he woke up and personally woke this one kid with a smack of a ruler before pressing play (and falling back to sleep.)</p>