Worst Teacher Ever

[Broomjockey]

I remember in class that students would ask about a method they had learned that was faster. My teacher would explain that yes, that was one way but first we were to learn the more comprehensive way till we understood it than move on to the simpler method (that was usually more complicated).

I've had teachers who have done that, but he didn't even pause between showing us the other method, and he surely didn't explain. He just flipped out and said if I was so damned smart (yes, he swore), then I should leave.

[Miyon]

My 5th grade science teacher told us that the reason that we have winter is because, well its really hard to explain so I made a drawing.

We get Winter because the whole earth was further away from the sun then during Summer.

[crazylegs]

We get Winter because the whole earth was further away from the sun then during Summer.

How did he explain that the northern hemispere has winter and the southern has summer...? Sausage Earth theory?

[Broomjockey]

We get Winter because the whole earth was further away from the sun then during Summer.

But...that's wrong! I learned on Science Court that during the Northern Hemisphere's winter, the earth is approximately 5,000,000 (either miles or Km, can't remember which) *closer* than during the summer.

[Evil Queen]

Astrological Units use kilometers, not miles.

But, hey, it's Science Court! I miss that show...

[Miyon]

How did he explain that the northern hemispere has winter and the southern has summer...? Sausage Earth theory?

It was a she, and no she didn't explain any of that. Being in 5th grade we didn't know she was wrong. At 10 you usually believe what the teacher tells you.
This wasn't ages ago, it was about 1980 when the earth's rotation was scientifically known.

I used to think I had made it up in my head (like a dream or something) that she would have said that but in highschool an old friend and I were talking and he remembered it the same way.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I used to get in trouble all the time for paging ahead in my textbooks because I had just about everything mastered before the rest of my classmates did.

And yet I didn't get into the gifted and talented program in school until 6th grade, my last year in elementary school.

Home schooling was never an option with me; not with both my parents working.

[Cats]

I used to get in trouble all the time for paging ahead in my textbooks because I had just about everything mastered before the rest of my classmates did.

And yet I didn't get into the gifted and talented program in school until 6th grade, my last year in elementary school.

I never got such a chance to get into a better program (though a classmate of mine did, and rubbed it in everyone's faces). I blame that as one of the biggest reasons for my eventual dislike of the education system. There was no challenge anymore, and it became such a huge damn bore, so I just stopped caring; with the exception of the teachers who taught well and knew how to relate and keep a student's interest (those I highly respect). I love to learn, but I do it at my own pace now.

Hell, I used to read the Atlas and the Encyclopedia on a daily basis when I was in FIRST GRADE for heaven's sake. It took me a long time and I barely remember most of it now, but as a youngin' I actually read all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia collection we have in the house cover to cover. Of my own free will.

[Crow The Robot]

My sucky teachers:
Elementary school
A woman who would not accept answers on multiple choice questions unless you gave the letter and the answer , for example:

On Customerssuck.com the two letter abbreviation EW stands for :
A. Electric Walrus
B. Eccentric Wallaby
C. Entitlement whore
D. Eclectic wombat
E. Entertaining whale
She wouldn't accept your answer unless you said C: Entitlement Whore
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In high school we had a health , teacher, and head of the anti-drug club who was arrested fo selling crack cocaine.

In college there was a professor who would toss you from a class if you didn't agree with there and her minions(TAs ) about everything no matter how wrong, for example, when she misidentified the Confederate battle flag as the Confederate national flag, and i corrected her, she called me a member of the KKK and said I should be lynched., some of the kids in the class applauded her. I reported it and later her TA said I wasn't welcome in her community of learners, I was not disappointed. She had tenure.

[Kiwi]

The year I was 13 I had to teach my math class how to read a 24 hour clock

instead of trying to teach the class the easy way (-12 from the time) he tried giving us this convuluted formulea, the whole class was sick and tired of this teacher anyway he was flippin useless.

When I told him how I was taught to tell time (6 years of private tutors on top of regular school because of my dyslexia) he thought for a minute and was like... that is a better way ok were going to use kiwis way. I even had to walk him through it, -1 from the first hour, -2 from the second... as if it says 2300 2-1 is 1 3-2 is 1 so its 11pm if your converting from 24 hour to 12 hour clocks, then reversing it to go the other way. He had students count on our FINGERS up 12 hours... how freaking useless!

It was so frustrating in Highschool because I was much further ahead in some subjects and so far behind in others because of the dyslexia and crappy teachers.

this man had been teaching(confusing) maths for 20 years at that point!

He also refused to teach us socatoa for trig, we all stayed behind one day as a class and worked our way though it using the text book, nearly the whole class had it down in 10 minutes, this was after almost 3 lessons of NO ONE understanding his trig method which was once again, convoluted.

That was the one good thing about my highschool, you all had the same classes together except for tech classes for the first two years, so you became closer as a class. I can not count how many times we had to stay in over lunch and go over a bungled attempt at a teaching job to make sure everyone understood what the hell they had just "taught" us

I HATE teachers who have tenure, I havent dealt with one who hadnt given up.

[ano]

when I was in 10th grade, a new english teacher came on staff to teach literature, composition, and to brush up our grammar skills. Two of the highest ranking guys and me used to rag on her all the time in class, correcting her b/c her grammar was improper, her recall of historical events sometimes sub-par, etc....it got to her so much that she reported the three of us to our discliplinarian (private, Caholic school, and I saw a lot of that office during high school!)...apparently our picking on the new teacher caused her such distress that she even cried over it. I felt bad once we were informed the effect we were having on the poor lady and still do, to this day. we toned it down after that...but at least she didn't try to force us to accept her errors!

[ano]

Two of the highest ranking guys and me

lol the internet is forever...what I meant to say: "Two of the highest ranking guys and I"....

[sportsmom]

please tell me that was fake... that was fake right... wait... it's not

I weep for our children...

Sadly, I didn't even consider the possibility that it might be fake considering my oldest dd had a teacher say just last year that the Egyptians built Stonehenge. WTF?!?!?!

[Broomjockey]

the Egyptians built Stonehenge. WTF?!?!?!

Please tell me that was just a brain fart. I mean come ON. Not even in the same areas of the world!

[AdminAssistant]

During elementary school, I was always daydreaming, reading ahead, reading other books, enacting melodramas on my desk with my pencils...you name it. Thinking back, I think now I'd probably be diagnosed as ADD, because I never paid attention. I was BORED. My parents never wanted to move me ahead because they wanted me to stay with my age group (and I really didn't have the social skills).

I remember once, in 1st grade, the teacher called me up. She asked me to read some paragraphs out of her book - and was amazed that I could with no problem. I usually tested as reading 2 grade levels above where I was. I wasn't as strong in science or math - but if you can read well, you can learn it more easily. We had Gifted & Talented, but it wasn't all that great.

I just had a student ask me, after I walked her through a previous lecture, "How do you KNOW all this stuff?" Some people (moi) have a gift for reading comprehension and retention of information. Others can deal with numbers, which are NOT my friend. Everyone has their skillset. The student, actually, wants to be a freakin' engineer, which I think of as infinitely more difficult than anything in the humanities.