<p>I see a recurring theme with Physics teachers. Mine isn't that horrible, but she's really not a good teacher in general. Her explanations of things are really ambiguous and confusing. And the class moves so SLOWLY! It's already Februrary, and all the class has covered is metric units, velocity, acceleration, and forces. That's IT! It's four chapters in the textbook. </p>
<p>Further, her tests are all screwed up. She likes to include everyone's names in story problems, so she just drops them into her old problems, making for a pronoun issue. Who knew that "Rebecca" was a "he?" The story problems usually use numbers that make sense, but they're notorious for coming out the wrong way if you use a different formula than she did, when a good problem will be the same. </p>
<p>This teacher is probably my worst this year, but I've had far worse before. I just wish she would teach a little more. Granted, it's just regular Physics in a tiny rural school, but there's still no reason why the class can't cover more than four chapters in 5 months.</p>
<p>I hope adcoms are reading this thread since they are depending on the grades awarded by these nutty people to determine whether they should admit an applicant</p>
<p>Wow, apparently I have the only amazing physics teacher ever. :) He's such a good teacher that it almost makes me weep. Of course he's jokingly really mean to everyone and makes up test problems like "if [person in class] is launched off a cliff with an initial velocity of 30 m/s..." But still. <3</p>
<p>My worst teacher is APUSH. It's her first year teaching (EVER), and she's doing AP! it's insane. everyone fails everything but she gives great curves so it looks like we're learning... we're about two months behind where we're supposed to be, and I'll probably cry the day before the AP test. >.<
She once spent a whole class period nearly in tears because a parent called her and said she was a bad teacher. It was so sad I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. D:</p>
<p>Our freshman geography teacher made an interesting gaffe. We were talking about the Middle East, and since I'm Muslim, he suddenly asked me, 'Why do they call Pakistan's capital Islam -a -bad, wouldn't that translate to Islam is bad?'</p>
<p>Needless to say, I almost started laughing.</p>
<p>My Environmental Science teacher spelles and Capitalizes Randomly, allmoste like a Puritanne. It makef it quite sruftrating to to Reade her Claff Nottes fometimef. She doesn't really teach much, either. I mean, you can tell she's genuinely interested in the subject, but it doesn't really help her capabilities as an instructor?</p>
<p>My english teacher was the WORST teacher in the world. She can’t teach the class and grades you whether she likes you or not. Apparantly she didn’t like me and I had a d in her class and I’m an all A student. Thankfully I switched out of her class. When I was in her class she divided to class into 2 groups; the smart people and the stupid people. She was absolutely horrible. When I was in the process of switching out she and my counselor had a meeting and they concluded that I was stupid and shouldn’t be taking an honors class…thankfully my new teache was the one I had the year before tha was teaching general ed because they said they weren’t going to put me in an honors class…later in the year she asked a group of students to rank each student on whether they were smart or not…the worst part is that no admin believed me or other students when we reported he except one admin but he wasn’t in charge of the english deparment…ive had some pretty bad teachers but this one was abslutely the worst. God save anyone who has her in the future…I have more stories about her but there’s too many haha</p>
<p>My 8th grade science teacher was legitimately stupid. He probably had and IQ of 95 or so. The entire class [even people who were usually good students] completely goofed off in his class. Honestly, I could have taught the class loads better than him. He just went of on all these tangents and I’m pretty sure he had no idea what he was teaching.</p>
<p>While I liked her, my freshman geometry teacher was far and away the worst teacher I’ve ever had or heard of. She failed to follow through on her assurances that she would collect homework, and by the time she did, it was in 3rd quarter, and only on a rare occasion. On tests, we would take them one day, and the next class, she marked the wrong answers. We had to correct all of them for full credit, including the extra credit, resulting in exceptionally inflated grades, since tests were 90% of the grade and homework was collected sparingly. I remember that on our 2nd semester final, one of my friends in the class got at 48%, but finished the class with a 98%.</p>
<p>It was pretty sad though, since a good amount of our class hated her, because I was in a very low math class for the juniors and seniors in my class, but in an average class for freshmen like myself. One classmate prank called from her cell phone in the bathroom and told her that something bad happened to her son (rumors suggest that he was said to be kidnapped or killed in a car accident). Another student on another day used a universal Smart Board remote to continually turn off the board during the class where the teacher was being evaluated by our head principal.</p>
<p>My math teacher is a total screw up. She does not know what she is doing and I think she should be fired honestly. Why are there so many bad teachers in america? oh well guess it’s the current system. Seriously, it’s like impossible to fire bad teachers nowadays</p>
<p>Everyone’s talking about high school teachers but my enemy is a middle school teacher…the band director. He was…evil. He would yell for no reason. Then if he got mad, he would lock you in his closet and scream at top volume. This screaming in his closet became known by me and my friends as him “r<em>ping” people since he was constantly making sexual advances to both male and female (mostly male) students. He hated me as much as I hated him because I was the only one who had the guts to stand up to him. He had some complex that he was smarter and better than the rest of the world. He justified his intelligence by a reading words per minute test he’d taken in 3rd grade which said he had a 7th grade reading level (something like that). You could guess that It woulda almost killed him that I got a higher SAT score in 7th grade than he got senior year. He went on some fit on me for “bragging” that I can solve a Rubik’s Cube (nothing worth bragging about). Oh and he would call everyone losers and say that we’ll all be unsuccessful in life. If anyone quit his class he’d make their life hell (most people got suspended *framed for something they didn’t do</em> within a week). All the teachers were terrified of him- so much that we couldn’t do any fundraising for our science class because he wanted more business for his band’s fundraising. When the science teacher wouldn’t back down, he went to the superintendent’s office and said that she was breaking laws. He ruined what could have been a 4.0 every trimester (Not that it mattered since it was middle school) by giving me a B+ everytime (usually around 89.6 or more; twice it was 89.9, just to screw with me.) Overall he ruined music for me, but he is ranked as one of the best (and was the best music teacher in the US in 1990-something.) He also did teach me how to play an instrument and made it possible for me to selfteach myself another. But he’s most likely satan in human form. Everything I’ve said is true in case someone doesnt believe me. I know this is long but I really despise the guy.</p>
<p>My Calc BC teacher is terrible. Thank god for my amazing AB teacher or I would abhor calculus. I would excuse him for his relative age except that he is SO. LAZY. i think he became a teacher because he had no other choice. ugh. i really hate that class. Like he is the model of what you DON’T want your life to become.</p>
<p>I hate lazy people. They bother me so much. Plus, he reminds me of tofu, so pale and jiggly looking; it’s unpleasant to see him lecture.</p>
<p>My American History teacher last year was just awful.</p>
<p>We sat there for thirty minutes doing nothing at the beginning of class until she decided to give us some kind of busy work and that was our thing for the day. We took notes, but she just parroted what was said on the slide, said nothing else. She never bothered to actually lecture.</p>
<p>She didn’t even try.
Didn’t even try.
Didn’t. Even. Try. </p>
<p>I also had a teacher who was apparently INCREDIBLY psychotic to another class…she actually yelled “I *<em>**king hate you all” and called the entire class c</em>*ts on the last day. She was very preachy and religious and went as far as saying anyone who wasn’t Christian would go to hell.
She’s still teaching. 0.o</p>
<p>This is pretty long, because I’ve had quite a few really atrocious teachers. </p>
<p>My chemistry teacher at my old school admitted to hating me, two of my friends, and one other kid. She had a kid completely removed from the course because he couldn’t get to an after-school study session, suspended someone else for forgetting one piece of homework even though he had a perfect record up until then, and routinely cracked jokes about other teachers and kids.</p>
<p>I don’t do business management, but the business management teacher once subbed my maths class. He made “joking” sexual advances at several of the boys, delivered a monologue about his surname so nonsensical that I thought he was drunk, announced that the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and the IMF were a Jewish cult, “joked” that one of the guidance staff (I’m not sure if this exists in most schools–they do mock university interviews and career advice), who has a limp, was of no use to society and that there should be a place to put people with limps down like dogs (sic), and declared that Protestants were worse than rats. He then showed us a documentary about timber which had nothing at all to do with maths class. I think someone must have reported him on multiple counts of racism, sectarianism, and Aktion T4-ism, because the next time our maths teacher was ill, we had an external sub. Mr. Kill the Limping still teaches business management, though.</p>
<p>My maths teacher, though, isn’t very good, though he’s better than the business management one. Sometimes, we spend half of a period being taught nothing because he digresses so much. I have a suspicion that he’s paranoid, as he goes on about how today’s society is apparently engineered to make its citizens stupid and how 7/7 was supposedly an MI6 experiment. But, when he does teach, he’s a very good teacher. He just doesn’t often teach.</p>
<p>My current physics teacher goes really, really slowly. Three years into the course and we’re still doing Ohm’s law and angles of reflection. :|</p>
<p>American Lit honors (sophomore year) teacher. He literally taught maybe 5 or 6 days out of the year, and even then it just consisted of him reading aloud from the previous night’s homework in his nasal stutter. The other ~175 days he showed random/irrelevant movies or told us to prepare group presentations, which we never ended up presenting. Our Scarlet Letter test, which we took term 1, had passages on it that were NOT from the book. We asked for it back for months so we could go over it; I guess he lost it, because he kept saying “we’ll discuss it” until the last day, at which time he claimed he’d already given it back.
He was pretty racist, too. He had these really strange “black” voices/accents that he’d put on for Jim (Huck Finn) and Tituba (Crucible). It was just really offensive and unnecessary.
The worst part was that he was a COMPLETE creep. He used to talk about following girls to the bathroom, and he would come up to the girl behind me in class and just breathe on her for the whole period. Worst year of my life…</p>