<p>Just kind of curious...have you had a really terrible teacher that you would like to vent and rant about? I think that I have had two that really stand out in my mind:</p>
<p>My first terrible teacher was in sixth grade. He was a science teacher, but we did not learn much science. He would often get off topic about things - I remember one day he said that if you keep on telling somebody something, even if it's absurdly false, they will start to believe it after awhile. That's all we talked about for a couple of days. What made him really bad, however, was his bad temper. Once he got mad for no reason, picked up a big stack of graded papers, and threw them across the room. Another time he took part of this broken podium (the part where you put your paper on) and threw it across the room. It barely missed a kid's head. To top it all off, he got so mad at this kid once that he ripped the kid out of his desk and it crashed on the floor. He was yelling at the kid at the top of his lungs and shoved him out of the classroom. That was so awkward. Another time he got mad at the kids and said, "okay, if you think you are so smart, then teach the class yourself!" and he just sat at his desk and made some kids get up and read from the textbook. </p>
<p>Another terrible teacher was a social studies teacher in middle school. He would tell us to read a section of out a book and do the questions at the end of the section. Then he would sit and play on his computer for the rest of the period. He would say the answers out loud the next day, sometimes ask kids what they got as answers, and then he would say, "okay, when I call your name out, tell me what grade you got!" so everybody was obviously going to say they got all of them right. Since he was so obsessed with his computer, he never noticed the rampant cheating that occurred during tests (which, he would have us trade and grade with friends by the way, so everybody would always get one hundreds on the tests, lol).</p>
<p>First Grade. We had recess about once a month, <em>if</em> we were lucky. Our teacher gave us second grade words for spelling… so I struggled a lot. My teacher one day literally took me aside and said “Stephanie, You’re dumb.” She had my parents have me tested for IQ and disorders and everything. They all came back normal, except for the fact that I was ADD. So my parents told her to put me at the front of the classroom, so the next thing she does is move me to the very end in the very last row. Four rows back and in the corner isn’t good for a kid with ADD… Oh, and I had three-four hours of homework each day. And when we were taking standardized testing, we had no time limit, but I was taking a really long time, because I’m a slow worker, and the teacher told me that the rest of the class was waiting on me and that I needed to hurry up, so I guessed on the rest. Oh… and we had PE every day (so I guess that made up for a lack of recess), but I missed it a lot, because she made me stay inside and finish work. And then when we had recess (which wasn’t very often at all) she always made me finish work. Then she failed me. Terrible teacher who crushed my self-esteem. My parents promptly removed me from that school and I went onto the second grade and did amazingly well and was tested for Gifted.</p>
<p>11th Grade. AP US History. The teacher was terrible. He didn’t know anything. He said a lot of wrong facts. He made racist and homophobic comments. We did two DBQs the entire year… and even those I didn’t turn in. He told us that learning was up to us and that he wasn’t going to teach to the AP (or to US History for that matter…) I didn’t turn in anything or do any work and I ended his class with an A… I don’t know how he graded, but you literally could do nothing and not turn in anything and come out with an A. And then on top of that… he wrote on your report card how good of a student you were… haha Nice guy… but he was not very good at his job. I got a 2 on the AP US exam, btw, and an A in the class…</p>
<p>I had a chemistry teacher who really pandered to the athletic/popular kids. She was really wrapped up in who was dating who, in-group gossip, etc. Getting her attention if you weren’t cool was NOT easy.</p>
<p>We didn’t learn anything at all that year. The teacher was a total pushover. We didn’t have a midterm or final exam even though it was a school requirement for all classes to have one. We messed with her so much. She had these pet rocks that she kept in her classroom. Whenever she went outside to talk to a student, we took her pet rocks and taped them onto the chalkboard. It was crazy, mayne. She got nothing done. Ever. One time we spent an entire class (1 hour 30 mins) talking about who should take home something we were doing in class. I’m surprised she’s still teaching.</p>
<p>my first bad teacher - 5th grade. She was just generally unintelligent. She only taught at my school for 1 year. I’m not sure if she got fired or just left. </p>
<p>last year - 11th grade - my Java/computer science teacher was terrible. She did not really teach us ; she expected us to learn from a java book that was equally bad. If we asked for help, she would just do it for us. We never learned the basics. We completed assignments by copying code from this one kid who had previous programming experience. None of us knew what we were doing. The teacher actually left halfway through the semester for family issues; we then had a sub who didn’t know anything. It sucked. I usually just played flash games for half the class lol.
It’s my understanding that most highschool computer science teachers are bad in general.</p>
<p>@AU Girl: You’re 1st grade experiences were horrible. You should’ve petitioned for a transfer! I don’t think it’s healthy to have no recess at that age. </p>
<p>My worst teacher was the Art teacher I had for 1st-5th grade. Then she conveniently moved to the middle school and I had her for 7th grade. She grades everything on whether you’re an artist and picks favorites. I got a B+ in the class. :(</p>
<p>My chemistry teacher was like that too. She really played favorites (and I was one of them). She was, however, an amazing chemistry teacher. Her class was one of the (if not THE) most challenging classes I’ve ever taken and she was really helpful (to bright kids). I would say she is in the top three best teachers I’ve ever had.</p>