Worst teacher you've had stories/rating

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<p>On a scale of 1 though 10 rate the story above you. One being wow thats not bad, that teacher seems pretty good. Ten being geez man! How'd you survive the class! </p>

<p>Alright, the worst teacher I'ver ever had has got to be my Spanish teacher last year as a junior. Let me start off by saying the pass rate of her class (60 or higher as a grade) for Spanish 1 is in the 70-74% (forgot exactly what it was) and for Spanish 2 it is 47 or 49% (these are out of the kids who have already passed Spanish 1 and were allowed to proceed to Spanish 2). </p>

<p>She couldn't speak proper English, was hard to understand, and she refused to answer any questions we had. When we asked questions she would call us stupid saying that we did not have "the gift" or whatever the heck that means. We were not issued textbooks, so we either got it from her and her teaching the first time or we were out of luck.</p>

<p>By the end of the year I had a low B average (my lowest grade ever) and we had one final assignment to be graded, which would be a good percentage of our grade (Around 10-15%). It was a coloring project we had worked on in class (not allowed to bring it home) for a little over TWO WEEKS where all we did was color in a bunch of printed pictures (I've never been so bored in my life... I felt like a preschool kid). I followed the instructions: color inside the lines, use bright colors, be creative, and use so and so sized poster board. </p>

<p>When grades came back I looked and saw a 50/100 on the ridiculous and pointless coloring project. This brought my grade from around a 84 to a 79.4, my very first C. The teachers explanation for my grade, the colors I picked were not Mexican enough and were ugly. </p>

<p>Thankfully I don't plan on attending any highly ranked universities and my A's in my AP class kept my GPA high enough to still be in the top 10% of my graduating class (which I thought I was out of until today when I checked) so, it won't impact me all that much. </p>

<p>Now its you guys' turns to share your stories</p>

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<p>I’d give your story a six.</p>

<p>Mine is also my Spanish teacher from last year. He had already been fired from five area high schools one year after another before he came to my school this year. He couldn’t speak English well enough to communicate anything that didn’t have to do with food, sex, or alcohol. </p>

<p>After tests, he wouldn’t let us study for any other classes. Instead, he had us color something he printed from online for 15% of our grades. And his tests were terrible, too. He literally went online, used Google Translate to translate something from Spanish to English, and made us translate it back, for fifty questions.</p>

<p>He never taught anything. There were days when he wouldn’t even talk to us once. He would write assignment numbers from the textbook on the board and we’d do them on notebook paper and turn them in on the last day of the week. Even if it was meant to be a spoken exercise, we weren’t aloud to talk and instead had to write what we would say.</p>

<p>He made us get out a pencil and paper when we walked in and set everything else at the front of the room so we couldn’t get to it. If we didn’t, we got a detention.</p>

<p>He would make us wait out in the hallway for fifteen minutes during the class period before he would come open the door.</p>

<p>He spent all class, every class drinking beer from his green plastic water bottle that he hoped would hide the fact that he was drinking, while watching porn on his computer. No joke. Once, he accidentally left the sound on. It was terrible. And not only did he watch porn, he would try to get live shows from the people in the class. He made my girlfriend and me stand up in the front of the class and kiss. He asked us to do more than that but we refused.</p>

<p>He told my friend that in Mexico, he could get beer because they don’t card you and told my friend that he would drive him there if my friend wanted.</p>

<p>I found his Facebook. It proves that he is an alcoholic pedophile who has an unhealthy relationship with the shiny silver car that his drug-cartel-running dad bought him.</p>

<p>And last but not least, he called some of the people in my class idiots and told the whole class their sucky test scores.</p>

<p>My school REALLY needed a Spanish teacher.</p>

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<p>Health Teacher- 11th grade</p>

<p>He’s mean and yells a lot; he gets really mad about the tiniest things. I’ve heard he drinks and smokes- and he’s a HEALTH teacher! If students miss tests (even if it’s because of an AP test or something), he doesn’t let them make them up. It doesn’t matter how nice you try to be towards him; he’ll still be mean.</p>

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<p>I would give it a 3/10</p>

<p>The worst teacher I’ve ever had was my Spanish teacher, she was the least helpful and most rude teacher I had ever had. She would literally just read out of the textbook and nothing else and if you came to her for help she would tell you to go look it up in the textbook and if you told her you couldn’t find out from the textbook she would just say you weren’t paying attention during class and refuse to help you.</p>

<p>She also had no control what so ever of the class, she constantly mismarked exams and the worst part would have to be when she had given us a study guide to use to practice for our final exam and almost none of the stuff on that guide was on the exam. I literally felt a sinking feeling in my heart when I opened my exam booklet.</p>

<p>She had actually gotten laid off last year but because my school is already the worst(or second worst) in the district and no teacher wants to work here they had to rehire her.I got what would be considered a B in Canada but she if definitely the only teacher I can say I truly despise,hate, and loath with all my heart.</p>

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<p>I imagine most of these will be at least partially made up.</p>

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<p>Sorry about her. 2.5/10</p>

<p>My worst teacher was my AP Government and Politics teacher. Prepared me…yeah, no.
She copied “her” slideshows off the internet, her tests had crazy typos.
I once fought back 27% because her answers were wrong.
Many of the questions had to do with Europe. I was in United States Government and Politics.</p>

<p>The vast majority of the year we researched various congressmen and presidents, not preparing us for the exam.</p>

<p>We never did a single essay.
Everyday we did news stories for about 20 minutes. </p>

<p>I got a 5 on the exam only because I already knew a lot of the material.</p>

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<p>2/10 I mean you got a 5 while she taught i little outside the guidelines almost seems like a plus. Plus its kind of hard to envy writing no essays. Also most teachers copy slide shows</p>

<p>There was a teacher that retired the year i took his class so i never had him but i heard he was terrible and was known for denying people the ability to take the AP test if he thought you wouldnt get a 5 (to raise his average).</p>

<p>However my worst experience was with my middle school typing teacher. She absolutely hated me. She consistently thought i was cheating by looking at my hands and gave me a D in the class until my mom intervened and she allowed me to get a C if i had 10 hours of typing over a weekend. She twice called me in front of the class to explaining how stupid i was and how wouldnt go anywhere in life if i couldnt type because computers were important. Also at the time i was in band and every week we hand to skip 1 class to go to our lesson and refused to let me go which ruined my attendance grade for band. Nothing more that can put into words without writing a story except that she was a grouchy old women who was obnoxiously into her daughter and absolutely hated me. Also i do remember failing to ever receive candy which she gave out everyday to students (undoubtedly the worst part ;)). Id also like to mention she taught us by having us sign up for a program that students (parents) had to pay for and then proceeded to eat her lunch. And when i was struggling she wouldnt take the time to help me so my mom had to teach me how to type. Thank god i had her in middle school.</p>

<p>She was definitely worst than the drama teacher that was charged with sexual harassment and molestation so we had to have a sub for half the semester</p>

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<p>Seems pretty bad. 2.34/10</p>

<p>My art teacher was a total freak.</p>

<p>This guy was so weird. Day one he introduced us to clay and showed us some of his sculptures, all of which were of naked women with unnaturally large hips and breasts. There was about 15 of these sculptures, each crafted in fine detail. It was extremely disturbing how he would go about caressing the statues and taking pictures of them. On top of that, they were apparently made to look like former students (graduates of course), Even when he demonstrated how to mold clay, he molded it into women. This guy was in his 40s and he had to be a stoner because on top of his eyes always being bloodshot he smelled like weed. Not to mention some of the kids recognized as “dealers” were good friends of him. But there’s more…</p>

<p>Whenever we were going through graphic art, he used photos of topless women being groped by men. Nobody was certain where these photos came from but people came to the conclusion that they were from pornographic videos he contained on his work computer. He had a file on his computer titled “not porn” that everyone saw floating on his desktop when he was opening photoshop. He accidentally clicked it and up came thumbnails of his pornographic stash. That’s right, we saw his porn stash.</p>

<p>He also came to school wasted once a month or so. Yes, there were complaints, but the school never managed to do anything because the ******* cleared everything up before a faculty member could actually see that he was doing wrong. The schools around here are pretty acclaimed too, which makes this even more disappointing.</p>

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<p>@ AmberDA: Sorry, I didn’t rate! I’d give it a 7/10.</p>

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<p>I’d give that a what is this i dont even / 10.</p>

<p>I never had this teacher, but my middle school had a short Spanish teacher who always yelled at her class. She failed most of the kids, and once she made a kid cry. It got so out of hand that one of the kids locked her in a closet. LOL</p>

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<p>I’ll give that a 7/10
Not my teacher but this year one of the intg science/anatomy teachers randomly stopped showing up. A week later he was arrested after taking all his clothes off in the kids section of Barnes and Noble that was about 45 mins from the school. Everyone that had him said he never taught anything and would just make his students watch myth busters and went it came test time (science dept gives same tests to every class) they all failed except for some honors kids.
They hired another teacher who was fired 3 days later because she lied about her degree.
After two months of subs they switched the allied health teacher (she was also on an interim basis) over to that class because she just got her degree after the regular allied teacher came back. Ironically enough she was the daughter of the science teacher I had :D. She made her students actually do the work so everyone **<em>**ed about her and even called her a c</em>*t to her face a few times. We graded their tests from the teacher that didn’t teach and the class average was a 37. I liked how tough my science teacher was and she’s one of my favorites.</p>

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<p>4.5/10</p>

<p>old P.E. teacher arrested for child pornography. Story made it to local newspapers and programs.</p>

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<p>9.5/10
In eighth grade I had a redneck English teacher who was very outspoken about her political and religious views and–if I remember correctly-- said there was a special place in hell for gays. Not to mention, she absolutely sucked at teaching English and was corrected multiple times.</p>

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<p>7/10
Middle school teachers can be the worst</p>

<p>I had an engineering teacher (still employed!) when I was a freshman who showed pedophilic tendencies, and frequently watched porn in class. One of my friends told me of an instance when he went to use his computer to print something out, there was porn in the search suggestions. Other friends even said that he left his porn window open when he called students over to his desk. He often shows favoritism to female students, and sometimes yelled at male students for no reason (myself included). He didn’t even get up and teach, he just told us what to do and expected us to do it. Never helped us with anything. He was funny though and could have been a likable teacher if he wasn’t such a pervert/dick.</p>

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<p>8/10
I have a similar story: teacher has a foot fetish. Absolute foot fetish and always wore sandals to class every single day. The hottest girls (it was a guy teacher) could be wearing short-shorts, low-cut tops that show tons of cleavage, and do their hair/makeup but he always showed favoritism to the girls who wore open-toed shoes (especially heels). He even started favoring some guys when they started wearing sandals.</p>

<p>To test the extent of the fetish, some girls started texting in class, cheating on exams, and leaving class early, and as long as they were wearing open-toed footwear, they got away cleanly. </p>

<p>On the last day of the year, he came to class and took off his shoes and propped his feet with his desk and encouraged others to do the same. When everyone did this, he cancelled the oral final and told us to leave early.</p>

<p>TLDR; extreme foot-fetish teacher does not give a crap about any other part of the body.</p>

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<p>9/10 That’s really creepy. :|</p>

<p>I had a middle school science teacher who was really bad at teaching. He never explained anything to us and told us to look everything online. Classes were unproductive because he just didn’t care. That’s not the worst part of it though. On a school trip which he chaperoned, he kept hitting on some of the girls. In particular, he was flirting with a tour guide. He would invite her over to sit next to him and then curl his arm around her waist so she can’t run away. Then he would put his face really close to hers and talk to her in a creepy way. His eyes would wander all over her, commenting on how sexy or hot she is. He’s a married man. </p>

<p>I guess it’s not really that bad, but yeah.</p>

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<p>7/10. I had an awful Algebra 1 teacher. She absolutely could not teach to save her life. When I would ask her questions she would tell me to go home and Google it. She never graded anything until like the week before the grading period was over so there was hardly any time to bring a grade up. She was psycho over direct eye contact and I would always forget about this so she jumped down my throat a lot. It got to the point where I just stopped asking her things. She also gave ridiculous amounts of homework, A minimum of 50 problems a night. It was by far the worst class and worst teacher I’ve ever had.</p>

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<p>In eight grade, I took Spanish I Honors. I was really excited to take my foreign language. My teacher, Mrs. Poole, seemed really nice and took a liking to me. For the first couple of weeks, we didn’t learn much, and Poole didn’t really explain things that well. As the year progressed and we began the 2nd quarter, the “bad” kids in our class (there were about 6 or 7 of them) began to take advantage of the passive nature of our teacher. They replied to her with snark comments and played the whole overly-enthusiastic card. Then, it got worse. <em>cue the dramatic music</em> The semester came to a close and exams were complete. Top-secret information was leaked, and all of the kids in Spanish soon found out that due to our teacher’s lackluster skills, the semester exam was curved 30 points. 30 POINTS!!! Some of the kids began to start harassing our teacher even more, and it quickly started to escalate. They began throwing scissors during class, they played hide-and-seek which resulted in a large metal filing cabinet being tipped over, and they went on her computer and changed their grades while she was teaching. Somehow she never seemed to notice the aforementioned behaviors. Not soon after, our teacher started to show signs of psychological wear. Her make-up was always messy, as was her hair. She always seemed to be in a scramble to figure out what to teach. One time, she showed us a documentary of people illegally crossing into the US from Mexico, and one of the characters in the film got sick and died. Mrs. Poole then proceeded to cry uncontrollably during class.
Midway during the 3rd quarter, people reported seeing the principal and vice-principal talking to Mrs. Poole after school. They mentioned that she always looked distraught during those talks.
One day, I went to make up a test that I had missed. During a free period I had, I went to her classroom and told her I was ready to take the test I had missed. For whatever reason she seemed to see ecstatic to see me. As I said, she loved me for no reason. She told me she would just need a minute to print the test out for me. Soon afterwards, she tried to print it. The printer signaled that it was out of paper. She told me she would print it out on her “good paper”, and she proceeded to shove a manila folder into her printer only to receive an error message. And I then told her to try regular paper. <em>face palm</em>
While I was taking my test, she continually told me that it’d be fun to gather up all the “good kids”, the ones that didn’t disrupt class, and start an “Underground Mole Society”. As she said whatever the heck that was, she was obviously holding back tears. After that day, I made sure to never be in a room alone with Mrs. Poole. Soon after that incident, Mrs. Poole was put on a leave without pay, which was the principal’s way of saying that she was fired. A replacement filled in for her, and we crammed an entire year’s worth of material into the last quarter of the year. And, surprisingly, everyone passed the district’s exam. However, several people decided to retake the class.
Ultimately, it was not Mrs. Poole’s fault for her disastrous attempt at landing a job at our school. It was the fault of the students that went out of their way to harass her. They destroyed her property, almost decapitated people as they three scissors across the room, and made a fake Twitter account for her. However, people did find out that she used to teach AP Spanish at a nearby school of a different county.
No one knows what happened to her or where she is.
And that, my friends, is the tragic tale of Se</p>

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<p>6/10 and that’s because the story of Senora Poole sounds like the case of a timid teacher with nightmarish students. Heard it before. I have a much better one if not 2 and it’ll be more concise and brief than the headache above.</p>

<p>Mr. McGhee or Prof. McGhee (unfortunate that this is the name of the school at NYU that I’m applying to…) was my biology teacher in high school about 13 years ago. Four things stuck out. He ate the insides of a dissected frog because we gave him $100. He constantly mixed up the animal kingdoms and plant kingdom classifications while placing them in the wrong order. He always wore his lab coat anywhere we saw him from the grocery store, lifting weights in a gym to fishing in the mountains. He lastly choked out a student in a head lock who actually was getting picked on in a class. Gone after that incident. The other odd ball…I’ll dub as Master P. Craig Pierson had a PhD in Chemistry and a long history at a chemical plant as a director but had no clue how to teach nor what is a classroom. The guy was ancient when he started teaching. If he even taught. Nuclear physics and organic chemistry were the lectures in Chemistry I of sophomore year. I am not exaggerating that. We were able to get him enjoying the title “Master P” as in the ignorant unknown acknowledgement to the rapper. He would give you the answers and explanations to every exam including the final as well as explain an entire section to the class with answer keys included. This did not help us as it was way too advanced and huge to even copy in time. I recall that everyone failed his algebra class the first semester he taught. The highest grade didn’t reach above 50%.</p>

<p>The genius professor who can’t teach high school and should be in Cornell University and the mentally disturbed biology teacher with a lab coat fetish.</p>

<p>You rate either one or together as a whole.</p>

<p>Negatives are possible because it’s that damn cool.</p>

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<p>Bummmmmmmmmmmpppp</p>