Terrible Teachers

What are some of the worst teachers you've ever had?
My 7th grade Social Studies teacher always got furious over the smallest things, sometimes forgot to hand me my worksheets, and was pretty immature.

I shit you not that this woman in her mid 20's fangirled over One Direction and IIRC Justin Bieber too.

My 8th grade science teacher was literally insane. She hardly corrected any of our assignments and instead made us correct our own, which is fair enough for normal worksheets, but she made us correct our exams as a class too. This might not sound so bad but personally I wouldn't really want my other classmates to know if I failed an exam.
Most of the lessons she taught were her reading off a powerpoint in bad French (she never conjugated verbs) and her throwing temper tantrums because we were talking too much. Yes, literal temper tantrums where she would smack her desk and scream at us to stfu. Nobody ever stopped talking because they couldn't take her seriously.
She also fangirled over Chris Hadfield. The then-53-year-old astronaut who recorded a music video in space or something. None of us understood it.
Sometime after the end of the year she and her husband got a divorce, and honestly you have to wonder why he would marry someone like that in the first place.

 

The only "bad" teacher I could think of, which wasn't that bad, was my 7th grade Social Studies teacher.

He favored the girls over the boys, and on pizza days would always bring an extra box of pizza to the class after we all ate our pizza :> He'd give the majority of it to the girls

He was also extremely liberal, and professed his "politic opinions" to us every other class. Overall, he was pretty funny lmao

 

4th grade - teacher made me cry during a math lesson (first time crying at school yo)

6th grade - crazy conservative history teacher, had pictures of her shooting guns above her desk, problematic relationships. I still loved her though
We also had this substitute teacher in science class at the end of the year. She was so horrid lmao we got her fired

7th grade - my history teacher never actually teached the class lmao, she'd give us packets and told us to read them while she checked her Facebook in class (then again, it was a gifted class) She was also obsessed with Hello Kitty and PEZ dispensers. Her husband was like, 20 years older than her, and her son dressed like a school shooter. Great teacher though.
There was also another teacher I had but I forgot what subject she tought (it was still a class for gifted students), anyway she just gave us really whack assignments.

8th grade - weird spanish teacher, we all thought her husband was cheating on her, brushed her teeth in the water fountains, swallowed mouth wash.
My science teacher was just... pretty loud... but nobody really liked her anyway.

9th grade - fuck my algebra teacher, i just hated her because she never actually explained stuff and she was so slow ahhhh.

10th (now) - i just hate my literature teacher..............

 

See, I don't know which teacher was worse, my Year 9-11 English teacher really wanted to be a drama teacher, but obviously she was my English teacher, anyway, she had a tendency to take us to the hall and make us act out scenes from books/plays we had read, now she managed to get a class full of socially awkward kids, and so, well, none of us wanted to do it (myself and my best friend most of all, we often hid at the back of the hall so we wouldn't have to do it, and when none of us wanted to present to the class our little scene she would get furious, screaming about how she tried her best to make classes fun for us (though none of us asked her to do this, and she could tell now that we didn't enjoy it) and then on the occasions we did actually sit in class and do written work, she would get annoyed if someone in class didn't understand what she was teaching, and then would start pretty much the WHOLE lesson again, and would then get mad that we didn't have enough time to finish and so would make us stay an extra few minutes, making us late to out next lesson (luckily for me though my sociology teacher understood and waited a few extra minutes before starting her lesson) and when we would be off sick she would expect that we instantly knew what we had missed AND managed to complete homework in which we hadn't received, and she wouldn't give the friends of those who were absent a spare copy of the homework. I got sick very often and so she would try and give me a detention almost every week, not that I ever went.

The second teacher was my Year 9-10 Maths teacher, she was foreign and couldn't speak English well at all, she had a very thick accent and would often get her words confused, so it took her a little longer to get through the curriculum, and God forbid if someone said 'I don't get it' because she would go over the WHOLE thing again, I am pretty sure we spent 45% of Year 9 simplifying algebraic equations, and so by Year 10 we was very far behind, I eventually managed to switch out my PE lessons with extra maths (which was originally for the not so smart kids, but they went over things my teacher hadn't) and then halfway through the year my class got switched with a lower level class, so we had a better teacher and the not so smart students got her, and the new teacher we had was amazing, he got us through a lot of what we missed really quickly, and though he couldn't manage to catch us up completely he did an amazing job. The old teacher got fired at the start of the next school year.

And then there was my music teacher, now this story isn't as bad as the others, but in Year 9 he had to teach my friends class Sex Ed, and he started talking to them about masturbation, and he then proceeded to tell them how he masturbates three times a day. And he also managed to 'accidentally' punch one of the students in the face

 

I remember back in Kindergarten, we had this teacher who absolutely hated us. Actually, the two Kindergarten teachers hated me. I remember I was trying to tell one of them I had to go to the bathroom while in the middle of a math class. The teacher who was talking just looked at me and continued. I asked again, and she kept talking. This was getting on my nerves, but since I was quiet and naïve I didn't speak up about it. And 5 minutes later, a boy in the class raised his hand, asked to go to the bathroom, and guess what the teacher did? She let him go. I then raised my hand again, and she gave me the most pissed off look. I remember she screamed at me and said, "One of our students are already in the bathroom! Wait your turn, Carmen!"

And another Kindergarten story which made me hate them both even more. I think it was on a field trip or something, but we were in groups. I got a really bad one, with a girl I hated, and a kid who didn't help at all. So, the girl kept manipulating and annoying me, calling me bad names, so I eventually went to go tell the teacher about how much she was pissing me off. The teacher literally acted as if I asked her to give me $100 ASAP. She literally snapped, "Does it look like I care? Get back to your group and stay there!" And turned back to her group. It was literally the happiest day of my life when they fired her 2 years later in 2009.

In 3rd Grade, we had several substitute teachers I hated. I'll be talking about one of them who was the Ultimate Asshole.

First of all, he had an obsession with heavy metal, and while we were all doing an assignment, we could just hear it blasting on his computer.
He wasn't the best teacher, so he made math class two periods instead of one. I eventually questioned it, and he looked at me with the death stare and just said, "I teach, you listen. Now shut up!" The class lasted an hour and a half, and he while he was "teaching," he was also scratching his ass. One of the boys eventually died laughing, and he was sent to the principals office.

A bit later into the day, my friend had asked if she could go to the nurse since her nose was bleeding. The teacher looked at her with a shocked look and spat, "Ask me when you break your arm! Get a tissue, ok?!" So, my friend burst into tears while her nose was bleeding. I handed her a tissue and comforted her for the rest of the lecture. A bit later, the phone rang. The entire class looked at him, expecting to answer it. He just stood there, clueless. When it stopped ringing, he looked right at me. "Carmen, next time you better answer the damn phone!!"

After that day, he wasn't allowed to do teaching again since so many parents complained, including mine. 6 months later, my friend left the school for good.

And now, let's set aside the class teachers for a second and talk about my Spanish Teacher. Let me just say, because I am Hispanic, while the rest of the kids got to write like a paragraph using fruits, I had to write like a complete essay. She kept doing this 3-4th Grade, but it stopped in 5th since I chose French over Spanish.

For half of the 5-8th Grade year, each class (7A or 7B) had "orientation." 5-6th was Art/Music, while 7th-8th was FACS/Health. While we were making our Sketchbooks in 5th Grade, my Art Teacher went and complimented them. But when she got to mine, she looked at it, shrugged, and out it back in the box. My friend and I both noticed this. In 6th grade, for the 3rd Quarter, she gave me a B for "missed assignments." Let me mind you, I was really sick, vomiting and coughing. And when my parents contacted her, she just said, "Oh, she missed 2 weeks of school, so 5 days of Art. We finished our perspective projects, and she didn't." She's still teaching to this day.

And let's conclude this with my 7th Grade Science teacher. She was this woman who was short-tempered and apparently hated us. Especially my friend and I. We were doing a science project for the science fair, and when we were done, she had to look at each one to make sure it good, with the Scientific Method included. My friend and I decided to work on a Photosynthesis project. She looked at it, and said to us, "Where's your data?" We had to make a chart, and we didn't. So, we set aside our recess time to make a chart. And when we did it, she looked at it and said, "It's not accurate to your Written Data!" So, we did it again, much more angry with every time she asked. She asked us a total of 3 times. The third time, we completely lost it, and just didn't do it. We got a B-, and when we were leaving to go home for the summer, she grabbed my arm and said, "I better not get complaints from your 8th Grade teacher saying you were a brat. I dealt with you enough."

Other than that, school's going great!

 

My former math teacher was very bad at explaining things and when somebody would ask for additional explanation she would proceed to say "but it's easy" and walk away. Half of her students failed the class and she got fired the next year. kek

 

8th grade science teacher for sure. She played favorites so hard it was obvious. She favored 3 kinds of people.

A) Cheerleaders, since she was the head of the cheer-leading team.
B) People good at science/on the science team.
C) Anyone that was popular.

If you weren't one of these kids, then on things such as written exams, presentations, etc. etc., you would always get a bad grade because it wasn't good enough for her. Meanwhile, the people who barely followed the instructions but were her favorites would get As, which is what bothered me. They didn't even have to be better, they'd just have to be her favorites.

Once, we had to do a presentation on anything in Science. (Before y'all slam me down on saltiness on how I wasn't a favorite, I had an A in the class and from this, so I really didn't care) A lot of people did really well, but a few people (her favorites) didn't do so well. She made us write down critiques on everyone else so she could have an easier time grading others for their presentations. (not talking loud enough, looking at what they wrote down instead of the class, etc.) Everyone who was too quiet or didn't look at the class or had a basic presentation somehow passed with 100%. They were typically one of the 3 people above. Meanwhile, some of the people who had these well thought-out and obviously rehearsed presentations all got Bs.

Take what you will from it, but I think it's pretty obvious as to what's going on there.

 

Back in the seventh grade I had this substitute teacher for about half a semester while my math teacher had and recovered from surgery. He was probably in his late 50's-early 60's. Anyway, he was blatantly racist to the black kids in our class (the class was primarily white, don't ask me why). He would send them to the principal's office and would get overly pissed at them even though they weren't doing anything wrong. I don't really remember much, other than him just constantly yelling at this one kid because he was constantly "talking," even though he was pretty silent throughout the class, and constantly giving him punishments which he didn't deserve. I'm pretty sure he got fired lol

 

Terrible is the wrong word. They have all had a hand in my experiences that have built my character and allowed me to be who I am right now. The weird experiences and possible neglect of students sometimes made me learn how to succeed even in those less than ideal circumstances. When I did not succeed, I learned how to deal with unfair failure, which is something I will have to get acclimated to. A teacher favoring certain students may be a like a boss favoring certain applicants for a job or coworkers for a promotion.

Some college professors are really frustrating because college is a lot of money for a semester long joke like my multivariable calculus professor (not going to go into specifics because I could probably write an essay about her). I beat my head against a wall (literally some times) with that class. I had to do a lot more outside of lecture work than I have ever done in my life, and I still ended up getting a B-. I knew my stuff at the end from work outside of lecture, but that class still brought my GPA down a ton. My schedule and amount of classes I took that semester was so bad that someone said if I got at least a 3.8 GPA (out of 4) that semester, they would give me $60. I came 1.33 short due to that grade in multivariable calculus. $6o is not what made me angry, rather the failed goal. However, now I will appreciate the decent professors a lot more. Also, I have learned to study better and to have better work ethic. I owe that to that less than average professor.

 

My current geography teacher is really bad (He also happens to be my year level coordinator)
He's not really that bad, he pretty much just gives us way to many assignments and marks me down on EXTREMELY SMALL things
Luckily he's taking long service leave next term so yay :)))

 

My memory is a bit foggy but my 6th Grade reading teacher Ms. Rembold I'm almost 99.9% sure she did not like me, I had changed schools right in before finals for starting 2nd Sem and into her class and I really don't think she liked that. For the final she barely gave me anything or any idea as to what it was, so I had to ask my classmates and mind you at the time I was super super shy since I had moved from across the country, and when I did my final(It was a speech) she kept interrupting me so I had to start over twice, and she gave me a bad grade because it was too long since I had to keep starting over, and yeah

Tl:dr
my 6th grade reading teacher was a jerk to me

 

This ones a bit long ago but it was my fifth grade teacher. She favored all the girls and see always said that it was a boy that was more likely to get into trouble. Also one time I hadnt turned in a homework assignment but it wasnt due yet and she still charged me for it and made me stay in for like 5 recesses :P

 

My religious studies/RE teacher last year. (Had to study it, don't have an interest in religion.)

Okay, so the guy really wasn't half bad, and he's a really nice bloke in person, but he literally taught us nothing and spoke to us about his life stories (which were improvised a bit.) from when he was growing up. But back onto why he wasn't the best teacher, there were quite a few times were he would tell us to get our books out, tell us to turn to a page, and then just speak to us and give me us maybe 5 mins work, thus the best scores people would be getting on tests were 60-75%. (My best was 74% last year.) So yeah, wasn't exactly that fun when you're trying to do well academically.

And of course, something that has stuck with me for a while.

Back in Year 4/Primary 5 for me, we had a substitute teacher come in for a day or so. Nothing really happened the first day, apart from she really had a hatred towards me for some reason, idk why.

But then on the second day, because I had been "bad" for shouting out an answer in class, I was punished. We had this thing called the "reminder" system where there was 8 stages. 1st stage was a 5 min time out 2nd 10 mins, 3rd go to another class and 8th would be sent to principals office.
But yeah, I automatically went to 4 when she was there because of that. (I think it was pretty stupid to this day, despite being well... 9 years old.), The worst struck that morning. I got out of my seat to ask for an eraser/rubber, and I get yelled at. In my mind I'm just saying to myself: "Are. You. Joking?"
So yeah, I have to sit out the entire breaktime/recess because of this, and I was so upset and frustrated/annoyed because I was made to feel like I did some bad shit that really wasn't that harmful and punished hard. I literally didn't want to go back inside on an icy, -2 day in January.

And yeah, that's probably the worst experience I've had. Honestly, most kids my age just act like dicks to the teachers, for the class clown. Like hell, not gonna lie and say that sometimes it is pretty funny, but other time you just look like an idiot.

(I'm not a teacher's pet I swear.)
Apart from that, most of my teacher's are pretty chill, ofc there are some I don't like, but hey, you're not gonna be friends with everyone.

 

No offense... but how old are you?

 

My Biology teacher last year. She literally taught us nothing. Like, she was really nice, but her teaching skills weren't. I'm surprised I passed the class and exams, but it was pretty much just independent work and a lot of vocabulary.

 

I just passed the 7th grade...
letme tell you about my math teacher

He was the assiest, douchiest, stupidest man alive and may he rot in hell.

He would explain very unclearly, and ask for questions and if ANYONE had a question he'd flip out and scold the dude for "not paying attention"
If you didn't do one assignment he made it seem as if you had killed someone
omg.

 

Same my biology teacher taught nothing at all. She was rude and picked favorites. She would hand us a packet or notes and expect us to learn from it when we didn't learn anything. When we asked for help she would say something like "You should know this stuff I handed you notes to work on yesterday." I hated that teacher with a passion.

 

Disclaimer: I've actually been really lucky with my education so although I'm making out these teachers to be crap, I've never had a teacher who truly doesn't care about what they're teaching.

Bottom 5 (Not in order):

1. Y12 Stats - Actually one of my coolest teachers - he let us bring in pizza and cake for our final lesson, but he just couldn't teach. To be fair I think it was his first year working abroad (he's Greek) so he was probably still getting settled in. I didn't really notice I wasn't learning anything until in my first test I managed to draw a bar chart when the question asked for a box plot.
2. Y8/Y9 Geography - One of your typical really angry teachers, the sort where nobody ever tries anything on them for fear of being eaten alive. He was also really weird in this unique way, and at parents evening instead of saying how I was doing he effectively gave my parents a geography lesson. I think some people had difficulty feeling sorry for him when he 1) Got hit by a bus on his bike, 2) Got malaria - (he's recovered from both dw).
3. Y10 Chemistry - Pretty much the definition of a teacher right out of training and although a very nice person she had no idea how to control a class of 15 year-olds. Known to her students as 'potted plant' because she just wouldn't do anything unless it looked really serious. She's now known to most people in the school as the teacher who got prevented from teaching GCSE because she let a kid drink copper sulfate in her class.
4. Secondary School Music - Pretty much a legend by now. There's probably more memes about him than all other memes about the school combined. Couldn't tell you the standard range of a saxophone but probably knows what Bach had for lunch on the 15th March 1725 and which organ was in closest proximity at the time.
5. Y10/Y11 Maths - Definitely the worst teacher I've ever had. From what I've heard she wasn't even that bad for most other classes but for whatever reason she just couldn't teach us. Half the time she wouldn't seem to understand what she was teaching or would get it wrong + she always threatened that she would be grading us all badly for lack of effort then gave everyone good grades. I remember even forgetting a few things I used to know because I became so confused. She also often got her words muddled up or said something different to what she meant and said some pretty funny stuff that made no sense (which I have recorded on some notebook somewhere because I used to do that when I was bored).