Worst teacher you've ever had?

[SuperBigD60]

Either he was awesome, or manipulative.

Try genius

[WhiteWeasel]

Try genius

Well, awesome for the students. But I bet a lot of the other teachers would get upset about him manipulating kids to play "violence simulators". if they got their work done. I have a lot of cool teachers at my school, but some have their knickers in a atomic twist. One teacher in the 2nd cafetera noticed a kid collecting a bunch of leftover food like rolls, apples and juice boxes other kids didn't want. So with our stupid zero tolerance no sharing food policy, what he did was take the kids backpack and shake it out over the trash can.

[SargeRho]

My geology teacher, didn't know that Centigrade and Celsius are the same, here at least, where instead of Celsius they say Centigrade, also was claiming that the Earth is in fact growing. When I called him on his BS, I got detention... This is not your everyday stupid. This is advanced stupid.

[SuperBigD60]

Well, awesome for the students. But I bet a lot of the other teachers would get upset about him manipulating kids to play "violence simulators". if they got their work done. I have a lot of cool teachers at my school, but some have their knickers in a atomic twist. One teacher in the 2nd cafetera noticed a kid collecting a bunch of leftover food like rolls, apples and juice boxes other kids didn't want. So with our stupid zero tolerance no sharing food policy, what he did was take the kids backpack and shake it out over the trash can.

That sucks, man. Though, that no food sharing thing sounds like it's from an american elementary school, where every other kid "has a peanut allergy" or something.

I meant genius from the perspective that he knew exactly how to get kids to do what he wanted. ie, he was manipulative, and he was good at it.

My geology teacher, didn't know that Centigrade and Celsius are the same, here at least, where instead of Celsius they say Centigrade, also was claiming that the Earth is in fact growing. When I called him on his BS, I got detention... This is not your everyday stupid. This is advanced stupid.

Next level, dude. I know your pain, but my teachers always liked me enough that when I pointed out their mistake, I got rewarded.

[Redrobin]

My "Computer Animation" teacher. Holy crap. This was the worst class I have had. I could sit there all bell playing games and browsing reddit and he wouldn't care. The assignments were weighted funny where class/homework was weighted about 5% of you grade and projects were the other 95%, so if you do your easy as heck projects, you get an A. Also, the computer animation program was crap, and he talked to it in the morning. He was pretty creepy.

Edited March 25, 2014 by Redrobin

[Extemporary]

My "Computer Animation" teacher. Holy crap. This was the worst class I have had. I could sit there all bell playing games and browsing reddit and he wouldn't care. The assignments were weighted funny where class/homework was weighted about 5% of you grade and projects were the other 95%, so if you do your easy as heck projects, you get an A. Also, the computer animation program was crap, and he talked to it in the morning. He was pretty creepy.

I had a pretty lousy programming teacher once. The entire course was a series of online tutorials that he'd found (not made) so I watched them all without doing any of the practise, then did the final project. This was entirely in the first quarter of the semester. I played Skyrim on my laptop every day in that class for three quarters of the semester. I got 98% and an award. The teacher never learned which student I was, he only knew my name from the hand-in folder on the computer. On my report card he heavily praised my work ethic.

Regarding what SkyHook said last page, yes I most certainly did have a poor attitude in that class. But only because the teacher sucked.

[going-to-the-MOON]

My "Computers in Business" teacher. Seeing the name of the class, you'd think it be like a computer programming/spreadsheets/animation class... but nope, it's about stock trading and entrepreneurship(which doesn't even have to do with computers). Occasionally she'll put on a movie, but usually I sit around and am on here because there is nothing to do. Also, she's usually late.

[Rocketscience101]

I truly have never had a teacher that I have hated, or disliked. I have had classes I disliked, but even the teachers there note that I do ok in those classes. I'm mostly quiet, and just want to do my work. In the past I had issues with homework, but now I found a system.

That said, there was one teacher I did not like. You see, I was homeschooled most of my life, so language classes were not required. So in 5th grade when I got back in, I got put in a class with a wonderful teacher. We had a system in that school, were we learned one subject, went to another, then did went to spanish, or music, or gym, or art. I hated spanish. First off, the teacher wasn't doing a very good job. She would try to get us to do these assignments, but some of the kids, who thought this isn't my homeroom teacher, you have no power over me, would not shut up. So all she did was yell. I had to put up with constant yelling, and being incredibly confused the entire class. So I tried to continue spanish in 7th grade, when I moved up to middle school. That was the first class I flunked out of.

Then there was my Honors Algebra teacher. Now I am a smart student, and I can understand complex, and difficult to comprehend subjects, at my own pace. I had barely passed honors pre-alg. and the teacher there was not helpful, at all. The class moved way to fast, and she put me in the back. This was also, when i was feeling really depressed. It didn't help that I didn't do homework, and just felt lost on the tests. Eventually I failed the class, was pushed down into math 8, were suddenly, I flew through that class. In fact, I was the only one to get a full %100 on the final during the first semester. So my self esteem went up a tiny bit.

[mythbusters844]

I think that 90% of "bad teachers" are actually bad students with terrible attitudes.

That goes SOOO much for a Wood/Metal technology teacher I had. He's an AWESOME teacher, but only a select few students agreed with my opinion. The others thought he was a horrible teacher.

SOHO much

[Deathsoul097]

Well, last week my Visual Art: Design teacher failed the entire class for an assignment due date he hadn't even mentioned. Not only that, but he spends the next couple of lessons lecturing the class on how to work to a given due date, as we need to work towards a given due date.

As for my Numeracy teacher for the last couple of years, if the class started to get any louder than he liked it (which was pretty much silent) he would just shout and shout and shout. Given that our class was one of the most talkative classes in the school, the entire class was yelled at almost every damn lesson. For people like myself and my friends, who can actually be talking and working at the same time, this was very annoying. Thankfully, I don't have him for Calculus this year.

[Nuke]

i scraped my brain trying to think of which was my worst, but i never could figure it out. so i started thinking about what the best was, so i could find their opposites, still drew a blank. then it occurred to me, they were all bad. there were notables: there were cool teachers, fun teachers, teachers that cared, teachers that disposed the system in which they had to work, all constrained by politics, none free to do their job. its probibly not their fault. the school systems in murica are plagued by bureaucracy, politics and competing ideologies that they have completely lost sight of their original purpose.

they spend large amounts of their budget on expensive equipment and then put it all in storage out of fear of breaking it. we had a complete cnc robotics lab sitting in crates. of course that was something i wanted to learn about. but nobody at the school wanted be accountable for it in fear of loosing their jobs should something go wrong. the gym had enough basketballs for every student in the building, but they were in storage most of the time. we also had a weight room, but because of lawyers, you needed to go to a sports doctor to get checked out, and this was at parent's expense. some of the poorer parents protested, and as a result was that it was relegated to extracurricular use (they intended it to be an elective), it ended up turning into a hangout for class cutters. there were at least 50 computers sitting in there original packaging because nobody wanted to/knew how to set them up. dispite all these unused investments, they couldnt get us math books that were at our grade level, the ones we had were 10 years out of date (i suspected the new books were in a storage room somewhere in their original boxes). frankly i think the school had more closets than classrooms. you could have rented it out as as self storage, if it wasnt full of unkept promises and broken dreams. schools are a cesspool of special interest polluted with wasted potential, and thats before you add students.

Edited March 27, 2014 by Nuke

[tiger336]

Nuke if you want to learn about building robots, go look at first robotics, at the high school level it's FRC. Anyway back on topic I can't really think of any really bad teachers I have had.

[Nuke]

i already build robots. and i finished highschool back in 2000 (an an associates in some crap i am never going to use back in 2003).

my experience was the environment of murican education does not lend itself to creating good teachers. i sure as hell aint seen any.

Edited March 27, 2014 by Nuke

[Aghanim]

My current IT teacher is misleading. Not that he is a complete evil, but he said that brainware is a part of PC and bps stands for bytes/second. But its not the worst!

In my school, for some reason most humanities teacher are not correct in some way. The first one, at my year 7, gives us tasks and get angry at my friends because he have finished the tasks. And he pokes eyes. So, he was fired and replaced with another teacher. The first semester is normal, he tasked us to read glossaries. The second semester is hell. Real hell. He tasked us to make money box out of wood, which because we are in year 7 and the DT stuff is still in styrofoam stage, we asked him to allow us to make it from other materials. Fortunately, we are allowed to do that. But one of my friends still proceeds with making it with wood, and the result is that the teacher stole the money box for himself.

But that is not the worst. The worst is when he tasked to create holiday report that is related to weather, but instead of he grading it by content, he grades this paper by grammar. Yes, grammar in Humanities class. Let say that my friend's totally unrelated with weather holiday report got 90 while my extremely related with weather holiday report got 30.

Disclaimer: I'm not American