<p>Can you guys post stories of the worst/stupidest things your teachers have done? This'll probably be interesting to read.</p>
<p>My gym teacher yelled at all the girls in my class calling us “prissy, prima donna, b******”
all because we agreed in the locker room to play kinball and when we got outside and took the ball out one girl went “I don’t want to play kinball, I thought you said we were playing pinball”
She also called us bullies because we picked the same teams every day.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher once left the room for half the class to take a cell phone call.</p>
<p>6th grade, my teacher gave me two days of detention because i coughed during the pledge, no joke.</p>
<p>8th grade, my spanish teacher got arrested in North Carolina on statutory rape charges, shes a woman btw.</p>
<p>10th grade, 1st week of school, my Advanced World Civ teacher gives me a C in the class, because she forgot to grade my signed syllabus, before that happened she said that shes obssesed with keeping grades and won’t ever miss a day or paper of grading, buuuuuullllllllll.</p>
<p>Arguing in with my teacher in front of the class for 15 minutes about the quickest way to construct the center of a circle.</p>
<p>I won!</p>
<p>1st grade: Got my card pulled because I sat down before everyone else after saying the Pledge of Allegiance</p>
<p>7th grade: My Algebra 1 teacher gave me a 93 on a test because she didn’t want me to get a 100 (but she gave the Asian girl a 100 when she clearly had a wrong answer)</p>
<p>9th grade: My Art teacher never gave me a 100 on ANYTHING because she doesn’t believe in perfection (even on the warm-up assignments or notes)</p>
<p>10th grade (this year): My Chemistry and Physics teacher lost my homework for both classes and dropped my grades to 88 and 72, respectively.</p>
<p>In 8th grade on Valentine’s Day, my Algebra I teacher was on the phone for literally the entire class period talking to a florist about delivering flowers to the school for her from her dad.</p>
<p>I attended a private religious school in the 60’s and 70’s. My 7th grade teacher offered to collect all of the yearly Weekly Reader and Scholastic Book Club money (N- 8 school) and then she ran off with it - left her husband and child behind, too! It was several thousand dollars, which was a lot more money then than it is now. As far as I know, she was never found.</p>
<p>When my D attended a private school for gifted students, her favorite teacher (and ours) was arrested for having kiddie porn on his computer which included recipes for cooking and eating children. We referred to him as “Hannibal Lecturer” for awhile. None of the kids at the school was involved and there was no evidence that he ever participated in such activities or that any such things really occurred, but it was still rather disconcerting. What was even more disconcerting was how much all of the students and parents liked and trusted this man.</p>
<p>On a more pedestrian note, I got into a fight with my D’s history teacher one year because she didn’t know the difference between Mary Tudor and Mary, Queen of Scots. As a history buff, her incompetence inflamed me.</p>
<p>My French teacher doesn’t allow us to sneeze or say ‘bless you’ in her class. She doesn’t allow us to use the restroom. This one girl asked to go and she got a detention. She rants all day about how disrespectful we are and how she can just not teach us and still get paid. She chased this guy down the hallway and dragged him by his backpack. She also looks like Beeker from The Muppet Show. I hate her so much.</p>
<p>In junior high, each year we had a gymnastics unit in PE that I dreaded. I am SO uncoordinated that even doing a somersault was really hard for me. We were expected to do a routine on the uneven bars. I was so scared I started crying. Then dear Ms. L. took me aside and said, “You know, if you lost a little weight, gymnastics would be a lot easier for you!” It still makes me furious when I think about it - I was a little chubby, but certainly not obese.</p>
<p>Apparently, a kid in French IV AP wasn’t allowed to go to the nurse after breaking his arm because, in the heat of the moment, he couldn’t remember enough to say "je pense que je me suis cass</p>
<p>I had a substitute teacher cry and run out of my classroom, leaving my class for the whole block without a teacher. That was when I started taking advanced classes…</p>
<p>EDIT: She was crying because of how bad my class was.</p>
<p>My AP Chemistry teacher kicked a kid out of class because he didn’t feel like answering his question and didn’t like when the kid wouldn’t take no for an answer. For two years in a row, he also yelled at Chinese exchange students for speaking in Chinese in his classroom.</p>
<p>The Honors Algebra 2/Trig teacher referred to the Galapagos Islands, in all seriousness, as “the place where Charles Darwin created the biggest fraud of all time.”</p>
<p>Saugus -</p>
<p>At least he’s not the Bio teacher!</p>
<p>The story of the bathroom reminded me of how my one son was supposed to get detention because he didn’t ask to go to the bathroom in his foreign language. I objected.</p>
<p>Another teacher made my oldest son see the school psych because he commented one day in 2004 that the war in Afghanistan would take forever because the US had provided the Taliban’s predecessors with so many weapons. The teacher told him he was scaring his classmates and sent him to detention. He said “Haven’t you ever heard of Iran-Contragate, weapons for hostages, Charlie Wilson and the mujaheedin?” and she said NO! This was his history teacher. I am dreading this year because my youngest will have her, but at least with him she’s only going up to the Civil War, which I assume she believes is the rivalry between Dear Abby and Ann Landers.</p>
<p>P.S. The shrink asked the school to send him the teacher next because my son didn’t need his services!</p>
<p>My freshman physics teacher graded notebooks based on how much we colored our notes and how pretty our notebooks were. I didn’t know that, so I got a 0 on my notebook even though I pretty much outlined every chapter in the textbook that we had to take notes on. The dumbest student in the class, a cheerleader (the physics teacher is the cheerleading coach so she gives special treatment to cheerleaders), got a 110/100 because she used a ton of colors.</p>
<p>I had a teacher who decided my disability wasn’t real. That was the worst.</p>
<p>Arguably most would find my sophomore english teacher to be the worst–she was in her mid-to-late eighties and, while obviously once a brilliant person, had kind of lost it. Twice she didn’t show up to class for twenty minutes (of a 45 minute class), she tended to fall asleep, kids would play Sardines in her room and wait to be found, people would kinda insult her to her face and she wouldn’t understand, which I thought was sad. She didn’t grade most of her substantial assignments. Once she asked an Asian kid why his eyes were closed. Eventually mid-year she got sick or something and then only came back to teach grammar on Thursdays until they could ask her to leave at the end of the year. She comes back and volunteers for free now…she’s very sweet so it’s not like I dislike her, but Lord, we wasted so much time in that class. I stayed up all night once writing a paper for her once that wound up being the only paper that met her time limit (over five minutes), and never got a grade on it.</p>
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Same. My AP Chem teacher also decided my disability (dysgraphia) wasn’t real and docked me for my handwriting the whole year.</p>
<p>He didn’t get in trouble because the school never gave him my 504 plan to begin with. He’s still a scumbag, though.</p>