Worst teacher you've ever had.

brittanyjeanxo

Let me just start out by saying I respect teachers. Without teachers, we would be nowhere. Every occupation needs a teacher.

However, some people should just not teach! I'm currently in school for Medical Assisting. One of the courses I'm currently taking is Medical Terminology. This teacher is probably in her 70s and is either incompetent or is starting to lose her memory. She talks down to us like we're a class full of five year olds, and we have been going over and over the same 10-page chapter for two weeks now because she keeps thinking we haven't started it yet. She's constantly getting us confused with her other class (ONE class) and gets upset with us for not knowing something she hasn't taught us yet, then INSISTS she's taught us this already. She's always saying we'll have a test next week, and when we come in the next day, we have the test. Of course, because we all aren't five, we've learned to know our *kitten* either way and all do pretty well, but we aren't learning anything new and each term is only 10 weeks (we're about to go into our 4th week and have yet to get past chapter three. We have her every day.)

What's the worst teacher you've had, and why?

sassylilmama

8th grade Spanish teacher. She was from Brazil, did not understand the grading system thought were were failing if we had a score between 100-200. Let her young kids grade our papers. Did not really even try to teach us. Then she got deported.

Only to be replaced with a woman who flunked out of CLOWN school. She let us do whatever we wanted, had nothing but class parties and made us balloon animals :happy:

NO this is absolutely not a joke.

audram420

My A&P teacher in respiratory school was so not qualified to teach the class. She read straight from the book and if our answers didn't match the exact sentence in the book then we were WRONG...only because she knew nothing about what she was teaching. My class used to meet at the nearest B&N to re-study the chapters and stuff because it was the most worthless hour!

McKayMachina

My 6th grade homeroom teacher swore blood was blue before it hit the air. Even at 12 I knew she was an idiot. "Um...excuse me, Miss Penny? But, there's oxygen in your blood. It's your veins that look blue under the skin." I got detention.

audram420

Oh and my college soccer coach was a softball player...go figure!! She knew nothing of soccer and refused to let any of us who had played for years help her with drills or anything. Needless to say our first year we lost every game but 1 and that was because the other team was missing players. She was absolutely clueless as to how to run or coach a team.

kennethmgreen

My sixth grade teacher had me stand up during class one day and asked me "Isn't it time you lost some weight?"

ivyjbres

Only to be replaced with a woman who flunked out of CLOWN school. She let us do whatever we wanted, had nothing but class parties and made us balloon animals :happy:

I would so take that over my 1st grade teacher. Traumatic, I don't talk about it.

vodkaswigger

My youngest sister, a small petite 4 foot 10 30 year old is an English teacher in a high school and apparently gets a lot of respect ect, i just cant imagine her teaching rowdy teens, i laugh at the thought, but she says shes firm but friendly and they just take to her, she takes no crap so they dont give it, id love to be a fly on the wall as i do find it hard to picture her teaching in my head,as i know her! but she loves it xxx

lindalee0315

We had a creepy gym teacher who walked into the girls' locker room swinging his whistle after class nearly every single day on the pretext that he had to talk to the female gym teacher whose office was in the locker room. He changed my German last name which ended in "dorf" into "stork", which I was then taunted with for the rest of the year. The context was a ball fell behind the bleachers and I was the only one thin enough to get behind there and get it, so he called out, "Yo! Ritters-stork, you skeleton, go get that ball!" The class erupted in laughter as the game stopped and everyone watched as I scrambled behind the bleachers. I was at that age where you're so self-conscious about every little difference that I was truly humiliated. Add that to the fact that I was a Southern girl who just moved to Michigan and was constantly teased about my accent, and it made for an awful first year here.

NKF92879

Reading Methods for Elementary School Teachers. All she did was tell us how she had been a foreign exchange teacher in Australia and was going back next semester. She taught us NOTHING that wasn't in the text book. I learned more in my first two weeks of teaching reading a few years ago than I did in the entire semester I had her as a teacher. I will say she taught me what NOT to do as a teacher.

RollinDawg

2nd grade, I still have nightmares about that Witch! She was the meanest old lady ever.

aa1440

Third grade. Mrs. Walker. When I was young I was ambidextrous. Everytime she would catch me using my left hand she would hit me with a wooden ruler. I hated that.

funkyspunky871

My 6th grade homeroom teacher swore blood was blue before it hit the air. Even at 12 I knew she was an idiot. "Um...excuse me, Miss Penny? But, there's oxygen in your blood. It's your veins that look blue under the skin." I got detention.

Lol! That's my biggest pet peeve when people say that. Idiots...

Anyways, I'm a senior in high school, and my Brit Lit teacher is the absolute worst I've ever had. We spend the entire hour long period talking about random crap -- from 80s bands to amusement park rides. The students get her off track and KEEP her off track. I haven't learned a single thing in the two months I've been in her class. NOT A SINGLE THING. I think the worst thing about her is that we don't have a single due date for anything. I have no idea if/when I'm supposed to turn anything in. :grumble: Urgh, she frustrates me so much.

ninerbuff

I learned from all of mine, so can't say anyone was bad. But I do know there are bad teachers out there.

Hope228

I'm an Instructional Assistant at a 9th grade center. I work with students that have special needs.
I try to be helpful and pleasant to all the students and not just the ones I am in charge of. I work with many great teachers, but I also see some that are a huge waste of taxpayers money.

My worst teacher was in Middle school. She taught Gym. The most miserable experience. I was (and still am) a klutz! She was very frustrated with me and made no attempt to hide it. The more frustrated she got, the more nervous I became.
She told me I would never be good at anything that required any kind of physical ability.
She took away my confidence for years.

lindalee0315

And how could I forget the high school honors English teacher who never once looked at a paper, a fact I established conclusively by working in the phrase, "diamond studded daschund collar" into every single paper I turned in. The final exam was a collection of Trivial Pursuit questions which we all did together when he walked out of the room. (No, I'm not making this up). Nearly every class someone turned the topic to football which allowed him to talk about himself and his football days at Eastern Michigan University. We joked that the Bruce Springsteen song, "Glory Days" was written about him. Anyone who argues the tenure system does not need reform is, in my opinion, sadly mistaken.

Iamfit4life

8th grade P.E. teacher. Used to look up my shorts in gym class.

Skeevy skeevy dude. He ended up getting fired a few years later for an inappropriate relationship.

I blame him for half of the gym phobia that I had. And for the squat phobia. lol

funkyspunky871

My sixth grade teacher had me stand up during class one day and asked me "Isn't it time you lost some weight?"

BobbyDaniel

Two here...the first was my 2nd grade teacher who I am still convinced was bitter about an 8 year old being smarter than her. The 2nd was my 10th grade French 1 teacher who had a lot to do with me not being prepared for French 2 my junior year. She also "taught" (I use that term loosely) Spanish and would often get the classes mixed up.

jenny95662

my 2nd grade teacher who was so mean i would cry every day, mind u i never cried in kindergarten or first grade. once day she told me i would never see my mother again if i did not get the answer correct.

and my history teacher in 9th grade who was a drunk no lie she use to add it to her coffee and slure her words so much so ia friend tasted it when she left the room one day and her water was vodka. no one ever reported her though but soon after i moved on to 10th grade she disappeared lol

sassylilmama

Oh I forgot the 7th grade science teacher that pulled up 5 of us that had not gotten a good grade on a test and called us "THE STUPID 5" 9rather than Jackson Five. Talk about humiliating.

sassylilmama

my 2nd grade teacher who was so mean i would cry every day, mind u i never cried in kindergarten or first grade. once day she told me i would never see my mother again if i did not get the answer correct.

and my history teacher in 9th grade who was a drunk no lie she use to add it to her coffee and slure her words so much so ia friend tasted it when she left the room one day and her water was vodka. no one ever reported her though but soon after i moved on to 10th grade she disappeared lol

Oh I hope your mom ripped that 2nd grade teacher a new one. And I had a math teacher that drank "coffee" all day long too lol

bregalad5

My 3rd grade teacher made me sit behind the door for probably half of the school year.

Ok that may have been partially my fault for being disruptive. What can I say? I was bored out of my mind and still managed to get the award for highest average in the class in every subject :laugh:

bregalad5

my 2nd grade teacher who was so mean i would cry every day, mind u i never cried in kindergarten or first grade. once day she told me i would never see my mother again if i did not get the answer correct.

and my history teacher in 9th grade who was a drunk no lie she use to add it to her coffee and slure her words so much so ia friend tasted it when she left the room one day and her water was vodka. no one ever reported her though but soon after i moved on to 10th grade she disappeared lol

Oh I hope your mom ripped that 2nd grade teacher a new one. And I had a math teacher that drank "coffee" all day long too lol

Had a high school band director (he retired at the end of my sophomore year) who drank vodka and orange juice every day. We all just laughed. Awesome, awesome guy.

flatbellybella

Ahhh
I hate to even THINK about her but...

My 2nd year in university (nursing) my clinical tutor.
The lady was a WITCH. Made that semester hell... stress levels through the roof. Made almost everyone in her group hate the idea of being a nurse. It felt as if it was her mission to make all of us switch programs.
She would... push people to tears and even pick on people's differences and or "disabilities"
I may be a little sensitive... but not a day went by that I didn't leave crying lol
There was obviously something wrong with her. It was also her first year teaching and I hope to God it was her last (never heard word of her after that...)

I believe 100% in karma and I believe one day she'll get a taste of her own medicine :grumble:
WITCH!! (B) lol

Thomasm198

Several.

First was the Technical Drawing Teacher I had in 5th year - this is exactly what he said in class once (pointing at two drawings) "that's the same as that except they're different"

One of the lecturers when I was studying for a Law degree in college. Everyone reckoned that she was coked to the eyeballs. She could get through a 100 page lecture on Land Law in about 45 minutes (including 2 breaks of 10 minutes) :noway:

calibri

Organic Chemistry professor in uni. He was tenured, had been there for years, very old school. Did not like women in his classes and would make jokes at their expense frequently. One girl asked him about a particular step of a mechanism diagram during the class and he just smiled at her, turned away, and walked back to the front of the class, ignoring her legitimate question. He told a girl in his office hours that "Science is just too hard for girls to get."

He always gave his first exam two days before the final drop date for classes, so he could leave them on a table, graded. If you scored below an 80, he would staple a brightly coloured drop form to the front of your exam, with his signature on it. The exams were left on the front table so you would get to collect your exam with everyone knowing how you did.

More to that, he never explained anything. Asking him questions about homework was pointless.

LorinaLynn

A junior high history teacher who always called me by my last name, AND mispronounced it. Sometimes he'd call the boys in the class by their last names, but I was the only girl. He probably couldn't pronounce my first name, either. :noway:

One teacher I thought was bad at the time, but was really great, was my 8th grade Algebra teacher. She was strict and humorless, but you LEARNED in her class, whether you wanted to, or not. Too bad the only thing I actually remember learning in was how to yawn through my nose, because if she caught you yawning, you'd get detention. But it's been a skill I've used in life much more than Algebra! :laugh:

PegasusDeb

Wow, I guess I didn't have teachers that were that bad! Thankfully! I did have a history teacher that was quite odd, for halloween he dressed up as a woman, he was so "authentic" that we all thought we had a sub! Funny, just found out on FB that apparently that was a hint to his future! He is now a she! Doing comedy in the city! lol Just creepy!

PegasusDeb

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One teacher I thought was bad at the time, but was really great, was my 8th grade Algebra teacher. She was strict and humorless, but you LEARNED in her class, whether you wanted to, or not. Too bad the only thing I actually remember learning in was how to yawn through my nose, because if she caught you yawning, you'd get detention. But it's been a skill I've used in life much more than Algebra! :laugh:
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LOL I feel the same way about algebra! :yawn:

Ok, why did this not "quote"? Sorry! I didn't mean to steal this!

Hoppymom

Hi,
I am a teacher in early childhood with grad cert. in Special Ed. Where do I start?
6th grade teacher who used to assign extra pages of math when some of the boys misbehaved. The WHOLE class had to do them. I think she thought peer pressure would get the boys to change. I look back and see ADD and ADHD etc. Those boys weren''t going to change. This was at least once a week. I went from loving math to hating it.
In high school my young cutie pie Latin teacher used to sit on her desk in her super mini skirt, circa 1970, and flirt with the boys. EEWW.
Civics class-kids would get the teacher off topic and keep it that way not a lot of learning done.
In college we had a young male teacher who loved white slacks and red briefs. He dropped a lot of things and then bent over to pick them up. Red light district!!!!
Geometry teacher in HS ---used to leave the class several times a period and go smoke, fill up his coffee and use the restroom. One day some boys put Ex-lax in his thermos of coffee. Yep, he missed a bit more of class that day.