Stupid teachers.

[mattttherman3]

Grade 5, Male gym teacher would sit in the change room and watch us change whilst eating an apple, gee, I wonder why he was gone after 1 year??

Grade 8, teacher would send my friend to the office every single day to the point where the principle stopped punishing him because he didn't do anything. He dropped a pencil one day, she sent him to the office, I was like really? What are you retarded? And I didn't get sent to the office. But she got me back, on her recommendation I was held back to remedial french in high school, to which I got the highest grade in the class and that teacher said it was a mistake to put me in. But that grade 8 teacher? It was her first year teaching and she's taught kindergarden ever since!

Grade 9 art teacher, I sucked at art but had to take the class, well whenever we did something she would come and patronize me:" awww, at least you tried!" and after the final exam, I asked out loud in class who got the worst mark:"YOU DID!" *****

Oh and there was this one sub who went up to every guy in the class and asked them if they were circumsized, if I was in that class, I would have tore him a new one.

 

[Hungry Donner]

My 8th grade math teacher had it out for me. I was a solid AB student and generally loved by my teachers, but for some reason he couldn't stand me.

One day I misunderstood some instructions and stopped handing in homework - I thought he was checking it in class. I didn't learn that there was a problem until over a month later when a progress report came home and I had a D in the class, despite usually excelling at math.After he explained the problem my parents asked why he'd never came to me about the missing assignments, and he lamely explained that I was, "next on his list."

Here's the kicker, I was participating in two competitive math programs at the time, one of which he ran. So in addition to seeing him every day in class I was seeing him once a week after school. And he said nothing.


Several months later I lost a binder. Every class room had a spot to put binders and books and things that were accidentally left in class, and after checking all of my rooms I assumed I'd never see it again. Some time later I happened to mention it to a friend while in math class and my teacher suddenly speaks up about how he has it. He went to the back of the room, to a desk he didn't use, and took it out of a drawer. So not only had he hidden it rather than putting it on the shelf, but he knew it was mine and he never handed it over until I mentioned it.


I have no clue what I did to earn this.

 

[soren7550]

I've had a few:

7th Grade: I had two different 'history' teachers. One was a guy who barely spoke English (his accent was so thick I can't even tell you what time period he was supposed to be teaching), and paid so little attention to what the students did, no one did any work (hell, I ended up never using a whole sheet of paper in that class for work. Did make a sword out of paper and duct tape though). The other teacher was a middle aged woman that we had once a week that all she did was ***** to us about tragedies. Thing was, more of the stuff she went on about weren't all that tragic.

9th Grade (I think): Had an Earth Science teacher that barely spoke English, and during a State Exam, she didn't give us any of the stuff we needed to complete the test until about halfway through it. No one passed that class (and I mean *none* of her students) and she left at the end of the year.

10th Grade (I think): My Spanish teacher took all the kids that didn't know Spanish (me included) and put them in a corner of the room, and ignored them for the year. Naturally, we all failed.

He wasn't a teacher, but my principal through years 8-12 was a complete moron. One time during a science class he sat next to me and asked how I got the answer to a question. I pointed out that the question was ungodly simple (I think it asked for a year something was discovered) and that the answer lied in the paragraph we were given to read, and he was dumbstruck by this revelation. He was also a creeper (students would keep saying how they'd see them in the student's bathroom digging out used paper towels to use), and a year after I graduated, he got fired for failing to give students Gym, thus resulting in a whole year worth of students being left back.

I can't help but feel that I'm leaving a few out.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

So in tenth grade we went on a skiing trip.

In cases like this one I always wish we could hear the "retarded student" version of the story so we had an idea what really happened.

I understand why you would think that I tell the complete truth, but maybe this will help you.
After that was finished 2 teacher came over to me and said that they thought that I was right and that they did not support his actions.

It's possible you are telling the truth, but then those 2 teachers aren't hear either.

There are of course bad teachers, lots of them, but the way you told the story makes me really wonder about the truth of it.

Anyway, continue on, I wouldn't want to derail the thread.

So the only reason you posted was just to say "you may not be telling the whole truth".

You sure got him!

It's not like this thread is just for passing personal anecdotes about. Let's post [citation needed] next to every one shall we?

A key tenant of Socratic learning is to challenge statements to bring them closer to the full truth (assuming there is only one objective truth, personally I doubt this). A one-sided account such as this is a fine example of it.

Fancy words bro. I dun didn't get no Socratic learnin at my school.

Ok the problem with the argument is that he just keeps escalating it. First it was "I don't think that's the whole truth." So OP replies a with one clear sentence from a third party to provide perspective in order to counter this argument. So then the dissenter just flat out says OP could be lying.

 

[The Floating Nose]

My french teacher in my last year of high school was terrible. He loved to laugh at the other people because he tought he was superior and here's a story: After every "step" of a school year in Quebec (year is divided by 4 steps) after the first step my note was not very good. My parents went to see him and he said: "They will probably fail, i wouln't bother trying to help them" (me and my twin brother werein the same class) and did you know what happened ? WE PASSED HIS CLASS !!! YEAH FUCK YOU MR. DENIS FUCK YOU STRAIGHT UP YOUR CANDY ASS !!!!!

 

[Denamic]

In the 5th-ish grade, we had a teacher who would have bible reading classes.
In Sweden, no less. One of the most atheistic countries on the planet, where separation of church and state is strictly enforced, especially in edumacation. On top of that, her method of dealing with bullying was to bring the bullies and the bullied together for a private 'talk' where she tells the bullies AND the bullied to not fight each other. And then force both parties to shake hands and say they're sorry. PROBLEM FUCKING SOLVED.
She got fired.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

So in tenth grade we went on a skiing trip.

In cases like this one I always wish we could hear the "retarded student" version of the story so we had an idea what really happened.

I understand why you would think that I tell the complete truth, but maybe this will help you.
After that was finished 2 teacher came over to me and said that they thought that I was right and that they did not support his actions.

It's possible you are telling the truth, but then those 2 teachers aren't hear either.

There are of course bad teachers, lots of them, but the way you told the story makes me really wonder about the truth of it.

Anyway, continue on, I wouldn't want to derail the thread.

So the only reason you posted was just to say "you may not be telling the whole truth".

You sure got him!

It's not like this thread is just for passing personal anecdotes about. Let's post [citation needed] next to every one shall we?

A key tenant of Socratic learning is to challenge statements to bring them closer to the full truth (assuming there is only one objective truth, personally I doubt this). A one-sided account such as this is a fine example of it.

Fancy words bro. I dun didn't get no Socratic learnin at my school.

Ok the problem with the argument is that he just keeps escalating it. First it was "I don't think that's the whole truth." So OP replies a with one clear sentence from a third party to provide perspective in order to counter this argument. So then the dissenter just flat out says OP could be lying.

Mhm. You bring up a good point. The Socratic method is less concerned with who's telling the truth or not and more with what the truth is.

 

[Gavmando]

Our high school tried to bring in a rule where if you drove to school, you had to give the head office your keys and you would get them back at the end of the day.
It didnt work.

Our year advisor once demanded a mate of mine's car keys. He just laughed and walked off.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

So in tenth grade we went on a skiing trip.

In cases like this one I always wish we could hear the "retarded student" version of the story so we had an idea what really happened.

I understand why you would think that I tell the complete truth, but maybe this will help you.
After that was finished 2 teacher came over to me and said that they thought that I was right and that they did not support his actions.

It's possible you are telling the truth, but then those 2 teachers aren't hear either.

There are of course bad teachers, lots of them, but the way you told the story makes me really wonder about the truth of it.

Anyway, continue on, I wouldn't want to derail the thread.

So the only reason you posted was just to say "you may not be telling the whole truth".

You sure got him!

It's not like this thread is just for passing personal anecdotes about. Let's post [citation needed] next to every one shall we?

A key tenant of Socratic learning is to challenge statements to bring them closer to the full truth (assuming there is only one objective truth, personally I doubt this). A one-sided account such as this is a fine example of it.

Fancy words bro. I dun didn't get no Socratic learnin at my school.

Ok the problem with the argument is that he just keeps escalating it. First it was "I don't think that's the whole truth." So OP replies a with one clear sentence from a third party to provide perspective in order to counter this argument. So then the dissenter just flat out says OP could be lying.

Mhm. You bring up a good point. The Socratic method is less concerned with who's telling the truth or not and more with what the truth is.

I'm glad you agree. Trying to disseminate whats true and what isn't online is not possible. So, I'm just gonna go ahead and believe OP even though he could be talking straight out of his ass (but given some of these posts and my own experience with shithead teachers, his story is pretty believable)

 

[Hungry Donner]

Our high school tried to bring in a rule where if you drove to school, you had to give the head office your keys and you would get them back at the end of the day.
It didnt work.

Our year advisor once demanded a mate of mine's car keys. He just laughed and walked off.

When I was at high school they were building a new addition, and for most of my freshman year there was greatly reduced student parking. Their solution? Parking passes were handed out by GPA. I grew up in a rural/agricultural part of New Hampshire where you couldn't get anywhere without a car, and many students had to work to help keep their families solvent. Grade-based parking spots did not go over well.


Also fun - when the new addition was finished the school was still technically overcrowded. However rather than build a larger addition they decided on a brand new soccer field, brand new tennis courts, and a very high-tech new track. (Previously the school hadn't even had a track, which was apparently embarrassing enough that they chose it over more classrooms).

 

[prophecy2514]

Had an italian teacher (that is she was "teaching" us italian) once who was incredibly naive. Start of class she'd walk in and set work - I'd sneak out of class for most of it with some mates, bout 40 minutes i'd say.
Then we'd sneak back in, teacher knew nonetheless, and even complimented me and everyone else who snuck out with how quiet and how well behaved we were. and then as a reward let us out early! Stupid. but god how I loved her beautiful naivety.

 

[Doopliss64]

I feel bad about this because he was actually a pretty nice guy, but...

In English class one year I was writing about the "titular character" of a book (I don't remember which) and he handed it back to me with a big red question mark over the word "titular." Maybe he thought I was talking about boobs or something?

 

[Whoatemysupper]

My sixth grade teacher:

-Made things up as she went along,
-Mixed up Florida and California,
-Believed Hitler was the leader of the Soviet Union (which still exists),
-Mussolini, the leader of Japan,
-Kicked a student for leaning on her desk while he waited to give her his work,
-Was the grandmother of one of my classmates and always gave her A's or A+'s.
Out of the goodness of my heart I ended up teaching the numbskulls all about 1914-1945 because she messed everything up.

She didn't last long, but every now and then she pops up as a substitute and my brain hurts every class I see her in.

 

[Dastardly]

And this one teacher, I'd ask him for a fish and he wouldn't give it to me. Instead, he'd give me this stick with a string on it. And I'm like, "Jackass, neither of these is a fish." And then he'd make me do these stupid activities like tying the string to the stick, or flicking it to and fro in some hilarious waste of time. He even gave us written instructions so we could "practice." Every damn day. He was probably just marking time 'til retirement. The whole time, we're all like, "Dammit, where's our fish?" But he would just ignore our complaints and give us the whole "You'll get it when you're older" routine.

I finally had to just teach myself how to fish with the stupid instructions. Stupid teacher was a waste of my time, and probably didn't know anything if he could even just give me a fish.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

I went to a public school in North County Dublin; I have one of these stories for pretty much every single day of the 6 years I spent there =P
That place would be the perfect setting for a sitcom about crazy/dumb teachers.

- On graduation night, it's tradition for all the graduating final year students to go out to a nightclub with the teaching staff. It's generally pretty hilarious and a lot of stories come out of it (you'll be hard-pressed to find any Irish person who pays into a bar and doesn't come out blind drunk). But on one occasion, a particular teacher shagged one of his students. Now this probably occasionally happens, but rather than be discrete about it, the genius actually went around bragging to the other teachers. He actually believed that it was perfectly fine because "technically she wasn't my student anymore." The funniest part was that he thought this act was something brag-worthy, rather than something that paints him as a desperate, closeted paedophile who jumps at the first possible opportunity to jump his students.

- Another classic was this legendarily insane woodworking teacher. He was this big, thick, dumb, lower-class Dubliner type who also coached the rugby team. He was renowned for blowing up at troublemakers and actually throwing shit at them or physically intimidating them. Ironically, he was fairly well-respected for being a Tough Crazy Bastard Who You Shouldn't Mess With. There are a hundred stories about him, but the most memorable one was how he lost his coaching job. During a friendly rugby match between our school and another inner-city one which were known to be dirty players, one of the inner-city kids made an illegal tackle (or something like that, I never understood rugby). Rather than appeal to the referee, this guy sprinted out onto the field and punched the kid in the stomach, resulting in a small riot. Which, in our school, is revered as a quasi-heroic act.

- There was also an unfortunate teacher which my class had for Irish, who we drove to a nervous breakdown. She'd spent 20 years teaching kids in the country (who she claimed were far more respectful to the Irish language than us Dubliner brats) had absolutely no idea how to control the class. The reason it got so bad wasn't because we were a bad class (we were probably the most well-behaved in our year), but because the second control started to slip away from her she'd use increasingly draconian punishments. It started with forcing us to write entire chapters word-for-word for minor offences like talking in class, and got worse. Maybe country folk accepted that kind of stuff, but it created an intense atmosphere of rebellion in her class.
One time, we were doing a test, and afterwards she told us all to put them in a neat pile on her desk. But as more and more people put their papers on her desk, the pile got less and less "neat", which evidently drove her insane. She grabbed up all the test papers, and with seething fury crumpled them all into a giant paper ball and stuffed them into her trash bin, then demanded fiercely that we "rummage through her bin, find our paper, and put it back on her desk in a neat pile this time". Naturally, we all said "fuck that" and tried to leave, at which point she ran to the door, physically blocked our exit, and told us that if we tried to leave she would give us zero marks and we would fail her class.
This resulted in a massive shitstorm during which she took a "voluntary leave of absence" for like a month. A lot of parents wanted to see her fired for incompetence but it just doesn't work like that.

I have like 12 more teachers to mention but this post has taken too long to write anyway...

 

[Kuroneko97]

I remember in fifth grade having to retake a test on the water cycle three times because my class was too stupid to understand it. The teacher even outright told the class, after announcing the third test, that I may not have to take it, since I got 100's on the last two.

Had to take it anyway. Got another 100.

Later in middle school I had a sub for science class. She gives out a handout. I finish it early, so I start drawing some comic I had been working on. Later she gives out another, and I start putting away my sketchbook. She takes it as she reaches my desk, and when some kids speak up, she says it was because I was "drawing while I should have been working."

The thing that infuriated me more was that she was FLIPPING THROUGH IT. It's my fucking personal property, and she's looking at comics I didn't show my closest friends, or my family.

And then there was my 8th grade math teacher. In her class, every day, some dumbass had forgotten their homework at home, but I made sure to have it. So one day, I did forget it. In my locker. I told her this, and she IMMEDIATELY starts ranting on me about how I "always remember my sketchbooks and coloring pencils" and "don't care about school or learning." She didn't yell that much at the kids who forgot it every single day.

I guess my teachers weren't as retarded as some others. Still pissed me off.

I'm already getting too pissed, so I can't talk about that retarded "freshman seminar" teacher whom the school got out of fucking retirement because they realized what a pathetic excuse for a class "freshman seminar" was and couldn't get any decent teachers for it.

Seriously. That woman must have sucked some really powerful cock to have ever become a teacher. Well, maybe not that powerful.

[small] Feels nice to rant sometimes.[/small]

 

[GenericAmerican]

I went to a Christian Private school from 8th through 12th grade. . .so every single god damn one of those worthless bastards.

The most sheltered, moronic, an phobic of anything that wasn't a Baptist, people you'd ever meet.

We made one cry once. . .and quit his job; best day of my life. *To bad his replacement was the single worst teacher on the planet*

I swear I still have nightmares about that school.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Not a particularily stupid teacher, but a bad one altogether. I made her cry (Not proud of it) because of the argument that you cannot be in a country if you don't know their language. It was a stupid argument in retrospect.

 

[kortin]

Most of my teachers were rather stupid.

"No, wikipedia is not a valid source of information."

Listen, if you don't want us to use wikipedia, just say it. There is no reason to come up with some bullshit reason for us not to use it.

Also, my 5th grade math teacher was racist. Against white people. It was okay though, until he said something that upset my black friend. Then it really was racism. Remember guys, it's okay to be racist against white people, but if you upset a person of any other skin color, it's racism. Then they looked into his records, found that every single white kid in the class was consistently lower than any other skin color, looked into it more and found that the low grades were not deserved.

He was fired.

 

[Psychoninja7]

I had a Film Studies teacher. She was horrible and everyone hated her. We usually sat in class and did nothing. At all. She was just bad. We barely even did anything related to film.
But that's not the worst. I had done a piece of work for an assessment (Which we spent weeks on this when we started doing work) and she was saying it was professional looking. A piece of work I had made in five minutes. She said this at LEAST five times in different classes. But she wouldn't take it because it wasn't made in a program for kids. This was secondary school, year nine. I'm not kidding. It was only until the last class did she actually take it.
Dumbass teacher.