<p>My worst teacher was during my sophomore year of high school.</p>
<p>He was very unimaginative. He taught the class monotonously by reading word for word out of the textbook every day. He often dodged subject-related questions and was shallow in only grading the students by two tests per marking period (which students always cheated on due to his lack of supervision). He was too professorial, making many students dislike him. He was desperate to regain popularity and approval from his students. In result, he never wanted to discipline his misbehaving students (and he was taken advantage of the whole year because of that). By misbehaving, I mean committing (on a daily basis) acts that would normally get a person suspended. He lost so much respect, and for the rest of the year he could not even control the class. He continued to exacerbate the situation by constantly degrading himself in an attempt to make the students laugh. It got much much worse for him from there though. Of course, he was a very nice man who meant well, but I certainly question why he went into the teaching profession.</p>
<p>Have any of you ever had a really bad teacher?</p>
<p>We actually caught our other teachers making fun of her behind her back and saying how annoying she was. She was fired the next year (it was her first year). Enough said. She was * that * bad.</p>
<p>8th grade English teacher (He got fired twice – I love karma)</p>
<p>I’m guessing my phys. ed teacher (a.k.a the women that loves giving me dress code violations for no reason) will take over that list next semester. Everyone just hates her.</p>
<p>Haha Saugus, sounds like my Frosh Physics and Soph Alg2 teacher. If you didn’t do the work/want to do the work, you failed. Homework was 50% of your grade, tests were 50%. It was a hard, hard class, but perfectly fair, and those who put in the effort (do the homework, go up to his room in the morning to check your answers or get extra help = easy 100) were easily rewarded with A+'s.</p>
<p>Either Hon. Geometry or Hon. Pre-Calc. My Geometry teacher would every Friday pretend to be Oprah and the entire class would ask her for help with their “life issues.” She would write the tests and I would get the right answer but she’d mark it wrong because she didn’t understand it (and this is legit, my dad’s an architect so he confirmed it). Then, on one test a lot of kids got one particular question wrong and she couldn’t seem to understand what they didn’t get. So, I raised my hand and said, “Oh I think everyone is confused about cross multiplying with binomials.” I was promptly kicked out of class and my parents called for “spreading nasty rumors and making false generalizations” because there was a person in the class (me) who got the question on the test right so the statement didn’t apply to everyone. </p>
<p>Pre-Calc is just a train wreck. My teacher told us she studied Early Childhood Education in college and has never had math past Alg II/Trig. Whenever I ask her questions, she doesn’t know the answers and gets super mad at me. Then, during one of her random observations where the principal comes in to observe I’d asked a bunch of questions that she actually answered. Then, I promptly got my seat moved and lost 10 points on participation because I intentionally tried to ruin her observation and get her fired.</p>
<p>Bad math teachers just don’t like me. Seriously, I’ve never had behavior problems except for those two teachers. Math at my school is terrible. Ugh.</p>
<p>that sucks^ If there is anything I hate, its bad teachers. In all honesty, they deserve to get fired, no matter what effect that might have on their personal life, they don’t deserve to be ruining someone else’s education, especially in a subject like math.</p>
<p>I agree with the math thing. I’d probably be pretty good at it if I had a decent teacher before Sophomore year. Last year I got a B and this year I’m bordering an A, just because I’ve had a good teacher in the past two years.</p>
<p>My worst teacher EVER was my junior high English teacher. He played obvious favorites (I was one of them until I got sick of him, then he started to hate me, lol) and knew nothing about the English language. Half the stuff I think he made up as he went along. He was actually supposed to be a Spanish teacher, but the school is very small and poor so they don’t have many options. Plus, his family gives money to the school. He also felt like he had to be involved in everyone’s personal life. On top of that, he tried way too hard to try and get students to be friends, but he also constantly made fun of people in class. It was like having Michael Scott (from The Office) as a teacher.</p>
<p>My 7th grade Algebra 1 teacher. He couldn’t control the class and every day people would run around the class and yell. He would occasionally even send people to the principal but either they wouldn’t go or they would walk out and just hang around outside the office. One day the teacher sent 3/4 of the students out and the class was finally quiet. I learned more math that day than the rest of the year combined. Luckily it was only middle school so it didn’t matter .</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot about my 8th grade science teacher. He was incredibly awful. I had his class after lunch so my friend and I would study about 5 minutes before his class started and get over 100 on tests, lol. No one paid attention in his class, most people did homework from other classes. It was kind of weird though, right before I left the school he suddenly got REALLY strict. By that time, though, no one took him seriously, so it didn’t really matter.</p>
<p>12th grade Calculus teacher. Doesn’t teach at all, do now takes 20 minutes of class, read everything from the book, relies on students for answers, repeats the same motto every single day"homework a day makes a F goes away" or “do your math!” or “you must know the concept!”, stumps around when excited, never refers to students with difficulties, unable to explain math problems.
WHY DOES HE HAVE TO APPEAR IN MY SENIOR YEAR ?</p>
<p>In 9th grade my calculus teacher made me teach the class for a week because I explained in about 7 minutes the point he had been trying to make for a half an hour.</p>
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<li><p>6th Grade- Hairdresser turned Physical Science teacher. Knew nothing of the subject, class consisted of her reading from the book and everlasting worksheets. Gave me a 62 on my Science Fair project because it “didn’t relate to physical science”…even though she approved the topic beforehand!</p></li>
<li><p>7th Grade- Math major turned Life Science teacher. Fresh out of college, he knew nothing of biology and read straight from the book. Tried to be really strict but my class made fun of him for his Indian accent and never took him seriously.</p></li>
<li><p>8th Grade- My first Earth Science had a VERY short temper. She later took on teaching English, Math, and another science to replace fired teachers (I found out in 9th grade that she died of a brain aneurysm that summer. Everyone who came from my middle school was shocked.) To replace her, we had a 6th grade Social Studies teacher turned Earth Science teacher. </p></li>
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<p>The man was nuts. He would act really weird, crack crazy jokes, and even breakdanced once. We learned more about his life in the military than actual science. He’d go on 45-minute tangents about his or one of our lives; we once spent an entire class period talking about flying kamikaze pandas. During graduation, a handful of students had to sit in selected classes before the actual commemoration. I have really bad allergies, so I sneezed and snot came running out (Ew, I know). I asked to get some tissue (he didn’t have any) and he wouldn’t let me leave! I had to make tissue out of line paper, which hurt like hell.</p>
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<li>10th Grade- My Chemistry teacher was very nice but he’d let us cheat on everything and give us answers to all the classwork. I can’t tell you anything about chemistry except something called stoichiometry is involved. LOL</li>
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<p>Almost everyone got an A. Almost everyone failed the AP (somehow I got a 5…)</p>
<p>She would make up games for us to play, to learn biology. Hey, we’re AP students here, not 5th graders. We hardly did any labs. The ones we did, we did them online, through a virtual lab website. -_-</p>
<p>She wouldn’t let anyone go to the bathroom during class.</p>
<p>Like over half of all of his classes failed the SOL tests (state test)… L0L!</p>
<p>Also my world hist I teacher was terrible. I did projects and stuff, but they were not “nice” enough so I got terrible grades. My projects had accurate information too. I just didn’t make one poster colorful and it was black and white and I got graded off. I mean, really?</p>
<p>Then this year my Govt teacher… he thinks he’s a badass. Most annoying teacher ever. I have him first period, too!</p>
<p>All of my bad teachers were really nice or hilarious people, so I feel like I can’t dislike them. All of my math teachers except this year have been awful though.</p>
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