The "What was my teacher thinking" thread

<p>We all have teachers. Some we like, some we tolerate and some we want to strangle.</p>

<h2>This is the teacher rant board. Feel free to post whatever you want about your teachers. Gogogo</h2>

<p>I have a chem teacher. He teaches chem.I don't dislike him. He seems good and smart and y'know ok. BUT OH MY MERLIN STOP TESTING ME. He does these pop quizzes (we've had 4 this week) that are 30 points and things I need to study for. It's just... Give us one test with everything on it please?!</p>

<p>My US history teacher last year was okay, but the class literally felt like a middle school class (I was a HS senior at the time). She gave us this “study guide” for a final with all MC and T/F questions. Apparently she told us beforehand that the final was basically the exact same thing as the study guide. Since we already knew the answers we just had to find ways to memorize them.</p>

<p>In order to memorize T/F, I let T = 1, F = 0. Converted a string of T/F into binary then into base 10. Basically, I only needed to memorize one number in order to remember all the T/F answers. Got an A on the final.</p>

<p>In my freshman theology class, we were supposed to be learning about the basics of Catholicism. Instead, we ended up talking about football (my school is famous for its football team, among others, and my teacher was the former varsity coach), listening to rock music, chatting among ourselves, and reading from Chicken Soup and the Book of Questions (basically asking what one should do in random hypothetical situations). It was only when we got to the awkward sex-ed unit that he actually taught us something from the curriculum (he basically went on and on and on and on about anatomy for days - WITH pictures, as in photographs). And the day before every test, he would do an in-class review in which he would basically just give us the answer to every problem. So we basically just had to memorize all the answers and we would ace the test.</p>

<p>Also, my freshman history teacher did not teach us history, but rather his political opinions. That class was basically him denouncing everything written in our textbook and common beliefs about well-known historical events. He would call everything he didn’t like “bunk”. So a typical snippet of one of his lectures went something like this: “[in a low, raspy voice] Your textbook’s bunk! They don’t know what they’re writin’. They’re brainwashin’ you. So is the media. Is that good? No, that’s BUNK!! Just like [insert name of politician] is bunk! And [insert name of another politician] would do a way better job!” And then he would go on these random tangents having absolutely nothing to do with what we’re studying. I mean, we’d be learning about the Middle East, and he would somehow start talking about his wife and kids, or his most recent Bocci ball tournament LOL. And then he’d say something like, “Japan’s awesome! Commie China is bunk! South Korea is too small, so it’s bunk!” And I was sitting there thinking, “You did NOT just diss South Korea!!!” Anyways, he’s crazy. I mean, one would think that if he really wanted to us to take his side on things, he would present both sides in a logical, ORGANIZED fashion and have us choose, but that obviously did not happen…</p>