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This is a thread where you can vent about your terrible teachers, or compliment your good ones. Teacher talk goes here.

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Clicky:

Weird. I was just talking with my parents about some of the teachers i used to have.

One of my favorite teachers has to be my 6th grade teacher, Mr. Sichta. He was a lot of fun. I remember he had a bunch of shelves in his classroom where he kept animal skulls and dead animals in jars of formaldehyde. Also he had a microwave that he let us use if we wanted to have something hot for lunch.

I had a really bad health/P.E. teacher once named Mrs. Bruner. She was this older lady, and she had the standard old lady "back in my day" attitude, where she always went on about ow horrible our generation was. You know the type. Also, one time I told her I didn't like basketball, and she started talking about how I shouldn't worry about not being good at it (which I'm not). It was like she couldn't comprehend that someone could just not enjoy basketball.

That reminds me of another health teacher I had, I can't remember her name, though. She was mostly alright, but she was always saying to the girls how "all men are dogs". I swear, she acted like any man would rape a girl given a chance, which bugged the heck out of me, being a guy who would never dream of it.

Probably the worst was am English teacher I had once, Mrs. Gratz. She was completely insane. She would give tests that she said she did not expect anyone to get an A on, claiming that we hadn't finished all the material on the test because of how bad we were and stuff. I showed her by getting a 100. (Yes I was one of those annoying kids who aced all my tests) I remember once a student, Adam, who, don't get me wrong, was an idiot, put a strip of Scotch tape across the door, to "trip" her. Now, of course, it didn't trip her, rather she just ran into and it pulled right off the door, Scotch tape simply isn't that strong. And I'm sure when Adam put the tape there he new it wouldn't trip her, but she apparently didn't see it that way. She ended up filling out a police report claiming he had tried to kill her. True story.

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I got one teacher who doesn't know how to teach, and spends 95.8% of the time yelling and telling kids to shut up, literally.

The school administration knows, everyone in his classes has complained directly to the principle. They say they're working with him, but no, absolutely no change. They haven't done anything. So we're gonna go for a legal approach.

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Well, logically, if he is telling kids to shut up, then they must be talking when they arent supposed to. You cant take a legal approach against a teacher that hasnt broken any law, or even school rules. Especially when it is the students who are to blame.

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No, we talk in a whisper, and when we do talk, its only to say a few short words. And when we do start to talk very loudly,(I.E. a small group starts whispering), he tells us to shut it. 90.2% of the class is failing, and the only two that are passing have 80's. He sends at least half the class out on referrals for this whispering. Our old teacher was nice and 13% of the class was failing under her teaching, then she changed to teach to another class, and we got that class' teacher.

He sucks.

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OMG YES I ALREADY LOVE THIS THREAD.


Phillipe Vergon. 8th grade English teacher. Terrible guy. He has anger management issues, he cusses at the class (we're trying to get him to do it again so he'll get fired), he has trouble following his own rules, he rarely follows cirriculum, and at random, he'll have the class do something totaly irrelevent to learning the English language. For example: About a week after the Kramer-N-Bomb incident, he gets off task for two days and has us write an essay on racisim. I mean, Kramer shouldn't have done that and whatnot, but the dude shouldn't focus on racisim for two days. Its an ENGLISH class, not a POLITICS class. Sigh...

Also, similar to Cola, my brother had a North Korean teacher in his Japanese class. Here's the petition my brother wrote.
http://h1.ripway.com/Dewy/japanesepetition.doc

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I have a teacher like that, but the thing is, she does know how to teach. Its that she has ABSOLUTLEY no life. I am not joking. She has told us this before, and she stays at the school until about 8:00 pm. Also, she says we're extremley talkative, which we're not. Its because we are her only life and she doesn't know what else to expect. All we do is whisper and she'll take minutes off our lunch period for that day. I not even sure she can do that.

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my PE teacher. push-ups as a punishment? real original.

I could point out several alternatives that could give even my really athletic friend the jibblies. Which would you prefer?

My math teacher has no life, she doesn't teach things right, and she's extremely forgetful. And she moved us from 1st lunch to 3rd lunch just so she could be with the other math teachers.

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ok guys..lol the teacher i have...it no contest to the ones ive heard about so far..lol her name is Lisa Wisner...A.K.A the Idiot..lol i took the 3rd quarter exam for her today, and she said the class average on the exam was a 51...lol see anything wrong? its her first year teaching,so i have to give her a break on that...but still!the district hired her a week before school started as an emergency replacement...and the other day,lol..this is funny..lol..she has a giant cup of colored pencils..and we,during the middle of the class period while she is teaching, got up and sharpened about 10 of them in the electric sharpener all at once....she didn't notice..so with the super sharp pencils, we started to trow them at the celling...while she was teaching...still didn't notice..and we got like 8 of them stuck in the ceiling..lol..she never noticed..then about 20 minuets later,near the end of the period..just randomly in the middle of a sentence,she looked up at the ceiling,pointed, then said..who did that..and the whole class erupted in laughter...lol..she is so oblivious..this great, she gives us study guides whit thing of it she hasn't taught us...we do graded worksheets for homework,and she never takes them up and gives us 0's because she thinks we never turned them in..she looses out papers when she does take stuff up..lol its so much fun to be in her class...and do absalutly nothing..lol

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Just so you all know... teachers (like everyone else) routinely Google their own names. So if you write something online about your teacher and include their name, there's a very good chance they'll find it, and a good chance they'll be able to deduce which one of their little students you are, and the consequences will be unpleasant. Take heed, and don't do anything stupid.

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I've seen it happen. Also, they occasionally google their student's names. A kid at my school got expelled for starting a myspace for one of our teachers without his permission. This kid was pretending to be him.

Aside from being a jerk on that account, the he tried making the teacher look bad by having cam[you know whats] be the top 8 friends.

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i hate all of my tyeahcters They're so not nice and none of them ever want to be nice to me. There was one time the other umm today when i was laughing at a joke my friend Dan made and my teacher was like YOU NEED TO BE QUIET NOW STOP TALIKNG IN CLASS NOW. and i hadn't really done anything. it was so mean

My teachers are pretty cool. The only ones I don't really like are my Spanish and Cooking teachers. They're like, clones. Weird.

lol i'd be willing to be money, that she wouldnt do that..lol even if she found it, she wouldnt know who it was..lol
EDIT: i love your Avy man!!!!..lol charlie!!

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stop poverty NOW!

You hate her because she was telling you to stop talking? What is she supposed to do?

He was laughing, not talking. If his friend's joke was funny enough, then that could've been hard to hold in.

What I don't get is how teachers scream at the top of their lungs to tell everyone to shut up.

HOLY CRAP there was a speaker at our leadership camp for band who HATED that. He was pretty cool. ^_^

Anyway, this is a pretty cool thread. XD

So, teachers who I don't like (be prepared):

- Algebra 2 teacher (last year) had NO freakin idea how to teach. She'd give us the extremely easy problems as examples, but on the tests, we'd be given the ones where you can't figure it out without a calculator, and obviously we weren't allowed to have a calculator on the test. Not even joking you. She was a really nice person, just a crappy teacher. What sucked is I had her during her first year at our school. I guess she didn't like me, cuz she suggested to my parents to pull me out of honors. I was like aslkdjfhaklsjdhf NO DANGIT! And I wasn't pulled out. Hah. XD
- Chemistry teacher is scary, to say the least? She gives out detentions and Saturday schools if she's in a particularly bad mood and you just happen to be the poor soul asking what the 14th point on her PowerPoint slide was. She gives freakin hard tests too. She's cool though. I guess it just depends on if you get on her bad side or not.
- Math analysis is boring as it is, but it especially sucks when you sit in the front of the class and the teacher has a freakin monotone. T_T I'd like to sleep, but I can't...and the tests suck, and there's always a ton of homework.
- English...ERG! I love this class, but honestly, she gives out way too much homework. And it's not like you can be mad at her cuz she just...never gets mad. >_> So you kinda can't be angry in that class. Boo. She's a harsh grader too, and she plays favorites. I got a B- on something I should have gotten an A on. (Maybe I just have bad luck with English teachers...it seems I always get the bad ones. Or maybe honors is just an insane dimension.)

Teachers that I think are freakin awesome:

- My band director...yeah. Band rocks. Enough said. ^_^
- German. Lehrerin. Is. Awesome. No question. When she's teaching, we're not allowed to take notes. The quizzes she gives are a half sheet long (>_>) and yet you still learn so much in that class. And she talks to us about everyday things in the beginning of class. It's awesome.
- AP Euro: this is pretty much how it goes. Teacher takes role. Teacher writes notes on board. "These are your terms for today, get started." Puahaha. XD
- My cultural geography teacher was reeally cool, even though she turned 60 last year. Probably one of the funnest classes I've ever had, and it makes me sad she's retiring this year. T_T
- Actually...any MUN teacher for that matter is awesome. They understand we're in there to debate and that's why we talk so much. XD
- My biology teacher was pretty awesome, although I don't know why everyone hated him. The only part I hated was writing the notebook. >_>

Yay. Now back to my chem and AP euro notes. T_T

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My Journalism/Drama teacher is one of those people who you would think is a really good role model, great teacher, blahblahblah. I just found out yesterday that he runs the camera at the spencer's store at our mall.

What does that mean?

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You aren't allowed to use calculators on your Algebra II tests? They are basically required in mine. Weird.

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GENGHIS KHAN!!!!!

My science teacher this year may be horrible, but last year's teacher was one of the best I've had. He had long brown hair and a long brown beard which earned thim the name Jesus. He had all this cool stuff on his desk, like a sheep's brain. He was also funny, and his punishments were hilarious. He was in a portable, so when this one boy who had been acting up all day made trouble for the last time(that day) our teacher said, "I've had enough of your nonsense. Go sit in that tree outside. And he did. This teacher also made some hard stuff easy to learn, so I got pretty good grades.

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I won't talk about bad teachers, as I haven't had one in a long while, and the last one that I thought was bad passed away half way through the school year.

Ms. Le-Harkins, my English teacher, is my favorite teacher right now. She makes me laugh, and sometimes I feel like we aren't even in school when I am in her class. She makes things so much fun, and everything she assigns is so easy. Many people in the class think that I am a teacher's pet, just because I love her so much, but that's okay with me.

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Well, I have had so many teachers that I'm not going to mention the past ones.

My literature (LEAST FAVOURITE CLASS) professor... oh my land... she's okay, but I just can't freaking understand her half the time. I'm not a native speaker of the language here, and to me she just sounds like "blibbidy blaugh barroco jibblie jibblie Cadalso hominy hominy hoo... grumblecakes... balbahblabhhablahbalbhahaghlahga"

Fortunately, though, my other professors are much more intelligible.

I love this one professor I have... I don't know why! He's just great! I sit there and listen raptly (and can take a lot more notes...). Well, it's one of my favourite courses.

One of my classes is over next week, and I'm disappointed. The teacher is this nice young dude, who is... extremely beautiful...

Cleverdan, a sheep's brain, LOL. That reminds me of one time several years ago when I went to a band competition that takes place in a school. For a while, we were sitting around in a classroom, all very bored, and this one (weird) guy started trying to freak people out by showing them a fetal sheep that was in a jar in a cabinet: "Look!! Pickled sheep!!"

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In my experience, most teachers have no business teaching. Seriously, the standards should be higher for the people who will be educating children. I know it isn't the easiest job to get, but sometimes I honestly must wonder how some of the idiots I'm forced to deal with managed to slip through the system and get a degree.

I one time had a teacher named Mr. Christ. He pretty much matches your description. He wasn't a great teacher, since he usually pulled the "Read this so I can go outside and catch me some smokes" card. But hey, he did get replaced eventually.

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GENGHIS KHAN!!!!!

that sounds like the time we caught Mr Richards smoking.
"is there a fire behind there? we should check it out. oh, never mind, it's the math teacher."

Hoo boy. o_o I really wanna talk about a couple of my teachers. I just need to decide on which ones first.

How about my Spanish teacher? We'll call her Sra. N.

Sra. N is Cuban and moved here when she was like, eight or something. I suppose that means she qualifies as being a "native speaker," meaning she didn't just take Spanish in college and then go on to become a teacher of the language. One redeeming quality about Sra. N is the fact that she can and does admit to making mistakes. Unfortunately, she is under the impression that she makes said mistakes mainly while speaking in her native tongue.
Anyway, all of that aside, she can be an enormous betch sometimes. Like giving us an assignment in which we had to write 11 summaries, in English and Spanish, rough draft and final copy, all handwritten (nothing typed), of the eleven stories in a packet of myths/legends she gave us. Now she claims that we "knew about that assignment since the fifth [of March]." No, she gave us the PACKET on the fifth, and was delightfully vague in the details of exactly what the hemmorhaging FSCK were supposed to do. This assignment resulted in her being complained about to somebody in Guidance.
Don't get me wrong. Sra. N is a good teacher, but she's one of those teachers who you really hate while you have her, but after your year with her is over, you're glad you had her class because she is really dedicated to preparing us for next year. I just wish she could come to terms with the fact that more than 75% of her students are only in her class because they have to be for their IB foreign language credit - not because they have a genuine interest and desire to be bilingual.

Alright, I want to make up for the ventyness of that bit up there with a happy story.

When I was a wee lass (i.e. before I moved to Florida), I lived in the great state of Ohio. I've been in exceptional student education programs since first grade. (Yes, it's ESE. Most people don't realize that there are two types of ESE: the retarded - excuse me, disabled - children and the gifted kids. I'm one of the latter.) In third grade, I transferred schools because the county said so, and at this second elementary school, the gifted program was called ExCEL. I don't remember what it stands for. Anyway, the ExCEL teacher was Mr. Kroner, who was the most awesomest old man ever. XD I loved leaving my class for an hour every Thursday to go do stuff with Mr. Kroner and the other ExCEL kids. We did all kinds of stuff, including taking apart a really old proto-laptop computer. You know, those big, severely beige rectangles that weigh about the same as your average toddler.
Anyway sad part: last year for Christmas my mom and sister and I went back up to Ohio. During the visit, we went to my old elementary school and I got to talk to my third grade teacher (whom I seem to remember as being a lot taller and less...dumpy-looking). We wanted to see Mr. Kroner too. But he'd changed schools. D: I think I'll go Google him now. Just to see.

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Sigh... my Algebra teacher went wacko today. We have a test tomorrow, and only three kids have A's (I am one of those three). I finished my unit review early, so I decided, hey, why don't I bring out my book? So I did, and the teacher notices and virtually sprints to my desk. She picks up the book, throws it to the ground, screams that I have "cheek" and nearly gives me a d hall. Hopefully, she won't, and this will play itself out, but still, she was really being a freak...

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GENGHIS KHAN!!!!!

Saying someone has cheek is just asking for that person to say "you want cheek? I got cheek!" and moon the accuser.

Note: StrongRad should not be your role model.

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