Who was the worst teacher you ever or still have?

[neferset]

Oh, this one is a toss up. There was one junior college teacher and one college professor who are pretty much neck and neck, but since people are talking about elementary grades...

My 4th grade math/English teacher (I still remember her name, but I won't say it here). She was asking all of us what we wanted to be when we grew up. When she got to me...Well, I don't remember what I said, but she told me I would have to go to college to be whatever it was so I had to pick something else. When I asked why, she told me that children whose parents didn't go to college can't go to college. For over a year, I thought that was a rule and I was very depressed about my future.

The next year after we moved, Mr. Sutton my science teacher asked who was going to college. Well, Mrs. Xxxxx said I couldn't so I didn't raise my hand. I was a pretty good student, so Mr. Sutton wanted to know why I wasn't going to college. I swear to you when I told him, his eyes turned red and smoke came out of his ears. Mr. Sutton was a hero, no mistake.

When I got my diploma years later, I was very tempted to photocopy it and send it to two teachers. One because he gave me the confidence I needed and the other to say, "See, I did it anyway." But, I'm very much afraid Mrs. Xxxxxx would have thought she was the one who inspired me. (She strikes me as being that self centered.) Unfortunately, I never found Mr. Sutton, so I never got to send it to him.

 

[FluffyColor]

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[Imp]

It's kind of funny now, but I had a college teacher, who taught two different subjects give the class I was in the other class' final. Made us keep the grade. He never returned after that quarter.

Had a high school history teacher that was also the basketball coach. I was one of the tallest guys in my class. After I repeatedly turned him down to join the basketball team my history grade went from an A to a C overnight. Administration reversed it and yanked me out of the class in a day.

Imp

 

[ducks4you]

REALLY sorry, Imp

--Those college grades are written in stone.
The worst college teacher I had was just a few years ago, when I was taking a Weather Class for a Science endorsement. He was really tough--we got no breaks, the deadlines were FINAL, and the online tests were brutal. I REALLY earned my "A" with him, BUT, he turned out to be one the best teachers I had, because he succeeded in teaching us the subject, DESPITE the fact that this was an introductory course. Real good old-time professor. Ican look at the sky and predict, right up there with my "Weather Channel" family. (I know it's weird, but I've been watching them since the onset, and they FEEL like family to me.)
FINE>...........I'll adjust my geek glasses and GO AWAY!!!!

 

[Imp]

Thanks ducks4you,
That was years ago, and I'm way over it now. It's just a great story. I'm fortunate that for each of the few bad teachers I remember, there are at least a dozen great teachers. Mr. Anderson, Mr. Wifli, Mrs. Bullock etc.

Imp- Yes I was a nerd in school, but then it wasn't cool.

 

[Missouri Maiden]

My 1st grade choir teacher! She told us Santa Clause wasn't real, and yelled at us for EVERYTHING! But, I have to say I know teachers have a hard job, and I like teachers (maybe not music teachers) I've been lucky to have only one bad teacher.

 

[fowler_chick]

my worst teacher was mrs michaels, she drove a gold trans am but i swore that once she drove it off school property is changed in to a witches broom ...had her for grade one......

 

[GrayDragon]

I went to a Catholic school one year. Don't remember the teacher's name, but to this day I still fear nuns.


Had a doozy just last semester. If you dared ask a question, his response was 'find it out for yourself'. Well, that's great, but could you at least point us to a book? I got marked down for a certain line of code, and when I pointed out that I had copy-pasted that line of code directly from the book, his response was, 'well the book is wrong, I don't get to control what book the school uses, you should have researched it further.' Well, that's great, so the textbook is wrong, you won't give us the right answer, and there are nearly a million sources out there between the internet and books on 'how to write javascript'. The code I wrote worked, it just wasn't too his tastes, but since he wouldn't tell us what his standards were, we couldn't meet them. Jerk.

Nearly half the class went to their counselors wanting refunds for the class, so I don't think he'll be there much longer considering the school went as far to as to say we could retake the class without being charged again.

 

[arabookworm]

I just remembered my 11th grade gym teacher. yelled at me because I once asked if we could use the roller blades and have a fun class. a lot of the teachers did that btw. they would do something different just for fun. but apparently i was insulting him and implying that his class was boring (it was).

and another time he made us run around the track and then up and down every set of stairs in the bleachers. I am afraid of heights and was literally stuck at the top of the stairs crying. and I have knee problems and have flat feet, so I can't run very fast. he yelled at me saying that I was obviously lying, I was not afraid of heights and did not have knee problems, I was just lazy and did not want to work.

I hated that class.

forgot to add that halfway through the class I severely burned both my legs when a pitcher I was making tea in broke. I missed school for several days because of this and had a doctors note, but he still didn't believe me. said "it can't be that bad" and made me run anyway, and then yelled at me that I wasn't going fast enough. which cause the pants I was wearing to rub all the new skin that was finally growing over the burns off.

 

[M To The Maxx]

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