I remember there being a weird kids at your school thread a while back. So I thought maybe some people want to share some stories about their teachers.
Alright, so I have this teacher who teaches IT. She is literally the dumbest teacher I've ever had. She treats the class (we're a senior high school class) like its kindergarten or something. One time we were watching some film about wave frequencies and on the film they said something. Then she repeats word for word straight after the statement made in the film. The she asks if anyone knows the answer to a question. Pretty much everyone says light and then other things since she said no. Then she tells us the answer, you guessed it, it was light. She also pronounces giga as in gigabyte as jiga as in jiggle (although she is from Argentina or something so It might just be her accent or something). Although she asks every Adam she meets if his name is pronounced Adam or Adem. On two occasions she has asked me where my speech is about 5 times in the space of a minute. It wasn't exaggeration or anything either. It's like she completely forgot what I'd told her. Then asks me to show her my speech, and I tell her its at home, like I've told her five times in the last minute. Also, one time I made some noise on the computer with sticky keys so everytime someone spams sticky keys, even if the sound is obviously coming from the other side of the room, I am to blame. She has pretty much no idea how to use computers. She tried to show people how to use powerpoint and add animations, but she used one animation per slide and told us that our powerpoints need to be like this and have 90 slides. She also removed the video game unit from the curriculum even though we had done it the previous year (kinda like preperation) with our old teacher, because she thought that we wouldn't be able to do it (more like she wouldn't be able to do it).
Just so you guys know, I am not exaggerating any of this at all.
my ap english teacher is a sarcastic dingus but he's incredibly smart and he refers to us as his "monkeys" (cuz we're dumb) and if we pass the AP exam he gives us $100 and a banana trophy each
My high school history teacher was a hardcore conspiracy theorist. I'm sure you can imagine how well those two things mixed.
I had one teacher in 5th grade that thought she was cool for bullying me and my friend, but mostly me. It sent me into a dark depression, and I can hardly even remember 5-7th grades because of it. It was just typical things like putting me in the spotlight for getting in trouble, or telling me to shut up even though the rest of the class is chatting their asses off. Those are two pretty petty examples, but she usually did some pretty mean things. Looking back at it, if she was having a heart attack in front of me, I probably wouldn't have even batted an eye. She was such a fucking bitch, man.
Although, my senior year of high school was pretty rad. My mythology teacher and art teacher are basically old kids, so I consider them less "respectable adult" and more "respectable friend". Those two would have probably let me just fuck around all day, but I usually tried anyway because I enjoyed those classes.
I had an APUSH Teacher who was absolutely incredible. He was a veteran and it was obvious he loved doing his job. He referred to the AP Exam as the "Big Kahuna" and how he needed to prep us for "D-Day H-Hour". He went into extreme detail for each chapter, and had fun teaching it. For example, one day he came in dressed up as Thomas Jefferson and had us sign the Declaration of Independence using a quill pen and ink. Another day he came in dressed up as a Revolutionary War soldier with a musket, and took everyone outside to show them the procedure for loading and firing the musket. He later did a repeat except this time he dressed as a Civil War soldier with a musket from that era. For a quick lesson on the invasion of Normandy, he armed us with paper balls and let us rearrange the room however we wanted. The objective was to keep him from getting to the other end of the room. He was a cool teacher through and through.
Earlier that year, he told us that he had the chance to retire after the year was done, but was unsure on whether or not to do so. The day after exams, he told us he decided to continue teaching because if you have to consider whether or not to retire, it's probably not that time.
The entire class applauded.
I had a pretty cool Science/Math teacher back in 6th grade but if you pissed her off she would get very angry. But she is one of those teachers that will be really pissed at you one day but the next day be super cool. She wouldn't hold a grudge against a student.
One day this boy and girl were having this argument. It was a skinny kid with glasses with some mean girl.
After lunch we all came into class and the teacher was like "Okay, settle this right now. Go ahead and fight if it's going to happen." The skinny kid started taking off his id and taking stuff out of his pockets ready to fight. It was eventually settled without a fight.
In 8th grade I had a Language Arts teacher who you would think he was kind of gay but apparently had an asian wife. He didn't like me because I never did any of his work. Fuck I was a lazy bastard in 8th grade. Also he wore shirts where his chest hair would stick out.
In...4th? grade (not sure it's been so long) I had a teacher who couldn't walk and so she had an assistant. Probably one of the more interesting teachers I had. She was a Toonami fan and let us watch DBZ movie in class ( episode where trunks and goten fight If I remember ). She once checked my test before it was over and told me what I had wrong.
She was also surprised one day when I was 1 of the only 2 people who aced a test because I paid no attention to the day before when she was teaching what was going to be on the test.
Sometimes I do miss those classes. Crazy to think how fast time went by.
HAHAHA I've been waiting for a thread like this, Back at my old high school i had this old Einstein lookin bastard for an algebra teacher, this guy was a total asshole, he was sarcastic, selfish, He helped the students when they needed it sure but, that still doesn't diffuse who he is, I remember this one time i was re-taking a test that i missed one day cause i was sick, And coincidentally the bastard starts throwing a damn football around while other kids are taking their tests to, it was a nerf football and it didn't hurt if it hit you but it's still ridiculous to do such a thing when students are testing, and this fucker was ABUSIVE to, he'd walk to the back of the room and just walk through the isles behind the students when we would do work and just stare at em, one time he walked down my isle and fuckin slapped the back of my head for gettin this question wrong, Guy was a real piece a ' shit.
Here's some of mine from a similar thread in the past
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;40657488]I had this one English teacher who was literally Satan. She made us write with wooden pencils only, and in cursive, but if we were turning in a writing assignment it had to be done in black ink and she would deduct points if you made a mistake and crossed it out.
Once we wrote about life on the American frontier, and I wrote this big dramatic piece about the fledgeling village being attacked by Native Americans because the settlers had been intruding on their land even after they went to the village's leader and asked them to stop, and she deducted points because one of the characters used the "politically incorrect" term Indian.
This one time we were supposed to make a board game about a current event, and my partner and I made one about stopping poaching of rhinos, elephants, etc., and she got mad because we sculpted one of the models in black clay, called us racist, and made us paint it white.
She yelled at me and my friend because after finishing this picture book project we swapped and looked at each other's work. She called us cheaters.
Near the end of the year she came in and said, "I went to the doctor yesterday. I have some bad news. I have cancer and have to have my arms amputated. Haha, no, I'm just kidding. But I do have cancer, though."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;40657542]Everyone was just silent, and when she said she was kidding everyone started laughing awkwardly, and then when she said she actually had cancer then everyone just sat there in silence while the teacher just stared blankly at the floor for the rest of the period
You don't have to rate hearts or anything, she didn't die. She beat it. Last I saw her she was harassing college students at Wal-Mart for wearing sweatpants in public.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;40657511]My "Advanced Quantitative Reasoning" teacher is also pretty odd. The first day of school, we go in, and he says, "Here's a tennis ball. Figure out how many of these it takes to fill this whole room." We measured using meter sticks and the two-foot-square ceiling tiles, and got an estimate like 477,000, and when we asked how many it was he said, "I dunno. I just wanted you guys to do it."
I mean, it was an alright intro because the course is all about applying principles and logic in situations but it was just weird.[/QUOTE]
I had this history teacher in high school who was straight up majestic.
He dressed as George Washington on President's Day.
He gave extra credit for exam answers that were notably clever, even if they were wrong.
He showed the class videos from JibJab to keep them interested in American Government.
One day, there was a bowl of fake plastic fruit on the table at the front of the room. Keep this in mind. This was a World History class, and we were talking about the medieval ages and the story of Thomas Becket. He dramatically told the story like he was putting on a play, getting members of the class involved to take part in his largely-improved reenactment of the events that lead to his death. The teacher was playing the part of Henry II, and while drunkenly ranting about the "troublesome priest" he threw his hand across the table like it was a banquet and plastic fruit went all over the place.
That's when I realized that this guy brought in an entire table centerpiece with plastic fruit because he knew he was going to need it to sell his lesson. The outcome of his efforts? A few days later I decided to pursue a career in teaching. I am now enrolled as a social science education major... so I can teach history.
Alright, let's see, cool and/or weird teachers...
- My history teacher in high school was [I]very[/I] strict, but in the middle of class she would begin to explain a related topic, and then expend the rest of the class talking about the world and what was going on at the moment. It was pretty cool
- My computer class teacher in high school was also pretty damn cool. Granted, he wasn't happy when someone slipped a Half-Life/Counter-Strike 1.6 installer in the network before the staff installed Deepfreeze on every machine. [I]But[/I], on our last classes in my 5th and last year, he just let us play, and even joined some of the matches.
- When I was in cram school, preparing for university, my history and literature teachers loved to teach using theatre and mix their narrations with contemporary jokes (I remember he turned the Odyssey into a [I]mexican soap opera[/I], of all things)
- Now I'm close to finish my first term of university, and my psychology teacher has got to be one of the best teachers I've ever had. Period. He keeps the class interesting by joking with us and [I]about[/I] some of us. He's a pretty cool guy
- He's the complete opposite of my [I]other[/I] psychology teacher, who I met in cram school. He wasn't very talkative, but the man could portray someone with Tourette's for ten minutes straight in the most deadpan and sarcastic voice I've ever heard. He has a riot to listen, and it taught pretty damn well, too.
I had a cool old guy as my surgery professor and he was also my unit chief during my internship. He was with the times, he was, always showing up to work in snazzy outfits with an iPod in his ear, and a fountain of homegrown wisdom and life experiences. There was never a dull moment in his lectures, and he could crack some of the best jokes I've ever heard. He knew his job so well that by the time I finished up college, he was made head of surgery.
My old art teacher from around 7th-10th class was very weird and strict. He had one room where he teached several classes and behind that room he got his little smoking den where he smoked during every break, even during the art lessons sometimes. He often yelled at us for nothing and one time he literally called our whole class "niggers".
My woodworking class teacher was odd too but funny, guy was hooked on coffee and drank vodka in his car on breaks.
He was bit of racist too, whenever someone was wearing a hoodie or baggy jeans he called them something like "You look like a nigger straight out of Harlem/Bronx"
He did not remember anyones name except this one dude in my class who he also hated, we all usually did a quick sloppy job, the finished work was ugly and didnt fit together at all and we got the best grade for it, yet he made my mate work overtime and his job was made to perfection, and he still got a shittier grade then us.
This one time we were throwing knives into the wall because someone had drawn a bullseye on the wall with a pencil, I guess he heard us and walked into the room, yelled out "WHO THE FUCK IS THROWING KNIVES INTO THE WALL", he looked super pissed, but he just shrugged and walked away.
He watched porno pretty loud during class, could hear sex sounds in the other room.
At the start of every class he told us a weird story, I remember one being about two guys being on a raft and they had to drink their own piss to survive.
I would want to tell more, but this is all I experienced before the guy was fired for drinking on the job.
My history teacher is a young (mid 20s, I think) American guy, and has got to be the laziest teacher I think I've ever had
He takes weeks, sometimes even months to mark assessments (and these are worth credits, so it's important for our futures and stuff to know what we got on them)
Often prepares powerpoints for our lesson while he's doing the lesson, so he's talking about stuff then typing up the stuff he just said on the powerpoint.
Comes to school every day with a 5 o'clock shadow, and sometimes in the morning, hung over.
Has cups in the sink of his class (dunno why there is a sink in his class) that have been there for years, they've got cobwebs on them.
Combine all that with a very strange choice in clothes (he taught the class once with a tie on underneath a woolen vest) and an odd American accent and it sounds like a recipe for disaster, but he's actually one of the most knowledgeable teachers in the school, able to seemingly recite entire Wikipedia pages on any given topic.
That, and apparently he plays Call of Duty on Xbox. He hasn't outright stated his gamertag, but according to him, it has a historical figure in it.
An old teacher of mine had a neckbeard, would show up wearing Adventure Time shirts and would blast Skrillex all fucking day. He spent more time trying to chat up some Polish chick than actually teach, but he was a pretty nice guy. After a few months, he just disappeared off the face of the earth. He didn't get fired or formally quit, he just fucking disappeared. I wonder if he's still out there, hitting on uncomfortable Polish women, forgetting his job and playing Skrillex at dickishly high volumes. I miss Adventure Neckbeard Skrill :(
I also had a teacher back in primary school who decided it was a great idea to teach children about the evils of Capitalism and how Guevara was totally a cool dude. Other than trying to turn us into Communist revolutionaries and future terrorists, he was a pretty good teacher.
For Science class a few years back, we had a teacher for the first term of school who then disappeared leaving us with countless teacher aids for the rest of the year. Including this awesome teacher who gave everyone in the class As except for 3 people who got Bs (I got a B). Then our teacher came back halfway through the last term so they were both teaching our class at the same time. It was really weird, but hilarious, some moments were just golden in that class. I have no fucking clue what's wrong with my school.
in 6th grade i had a art class teacher that was basically a crazy feminist. first time we had her she was just pretty normal, on our second class with her she said shit like "girls are strong" "women needs to know what they are capable of" that wasn't bad in any way, just a bit odd because it was completely irrelevant.
the week after that she gave detention to ALL guys. she said "all girls can leave" and then she kept guys in the classroom until we missed our buss and then she let us leave.
this is the stupidest part, what she did her actually caused her to be fired.
one whole lesson she put a bunch of fem-nazi propaganda on the overhead projector and she seriously said "pretty much all of you will grow up to be rapists" while she held a lecture for 1 hour about how bad every man is.
then she gave our class an assignment where everyone would co-operate to make a large poster displaying how all men are sex obsessed and how we objectify women.
my former english teacher is a total boss
if someone came in late and didn't apologize for it, he'd tell them in an angry and very loud voice to come through the door again and again and again until they figured out to say "i'm sorry i'm late", after which the reply was always a jovial and chill "hey, no problem!"
his belt buckle was always a Pac-Man ghost, he plays american football and is totally into american culture in general - even has a classic rockabilly cut with sideburns - and is just a fun guy to be around. also huge, due to his hobby
one time one of the worst teenyboppers in our class wasn't paying attention to what he was saying, so he yelled out her name so hard everyone in the room jumped and the chemistry/physics teacher - whom he had sort of a friendly rivalry with in everything - came from the other side of the school to ask him to keep it down. dude's got the lungs and pipes of an opera singer, he never gets actually mad at anyone but uses his voice to indimidate troublemakers, to a great effect
a few years later, when we were in physics, he strode into the room, smacked a magnet onto the blackboard and yelled at the teacher to "EXPLAIN THAT!"
also, we watched lots of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers in class. that was rad, although due to my leet language skills i was the only one who could keep up with what was going on
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also, woodworks teacher. crazy jolly dude
at the start of the first lesson with him he was explaining the basic rules. a brat asked if we were allowed to fight in class
"SURE, BUT ONLY WITH ME!"
then he asked if he could kick him
"YOU'LL KICK ME, I'LL KICK YOU, AND THEN YOU KICK THE BUCKET!"
My former woodwork teacher prior to teaching worked at Rare and worked on the grahics for the Donkey Kong Country games.
He was a pretty cool guy as well.
A long time ago now, back in Year 10 towards the end of the school year, our substitute Industrial Engineering teacher really just stopped giving a fuck about us doing our work. It got to the point where during one lesson (in a computer lab) he brought in a TV and a relevant video to watch on it, but he closed the classroom door and let us log in to the computers and play Halo multiplayer. He said that if anyone knocked on the door, we were to turn our monitors off and swing around to watch the TV. He even joined in on the multiplayer. This was some old bloke who once told a student to 'shut your fucking laptop lid'. That kind of person.
That kind of shit (playing games during lessons and having teachers not serious about teaching) bit us on the ass when we all started the broader Engineering Studies course for Year 11. About 20 of us started the course then, yet only 7 of us would walk into the examination hall for the final exam after our last week of Year 12.
[editline]10th July 2014[/editline]
But anyways more relevant to recent times, the lecturer for an Accounting course I did at university last year was once a Forensic Accountant. Travelling around the world, digging up incriminating financial data on people cheating the tax system (if I recall correctly). That's pretty cool I guess.
I had several good and bad teachers, but only one completely inept teacher that was so bad he was the laughingstock of the whole school. He wasn't even allowed to teach classes despite holding a degree in English and landing several past teaching jobs (all of which he fired for being incompetent) So what did he do? He was our study hall monitor. Here are a few things I remember about him since he left soon after my Freshman year.
In our study hall we had pay phones, and so some cheeky students would learn the number of the pay phone and call it. This teacher, we will call him Bernard, would let out this high pitched sigh and walk up to the pay phone to shut it up. However, he was ocd as hell so if he didn't reach the phone in a certain amount of steps he would audibly say "shit" then turn around, walk back to where he sits, and carefully walk back, watching his feet the whole time and counting. He did this for everything, a certain number of steps to the door, to the drinking fountain, to his desk, etc. He also had this goofy as hell walk in which he threw his arms out in front of him like a exaggerated power walk.
He also had a hard on for Football, and believed that he was qualified to coach. They humored him and let him be a assistant even though that, like all things, he was totally incompetent. Basically they only allowed him to stand on the side lines and encourage players. One time one of the players jokingly asked him to best stop a ball carrier. He then rolled up his sleeves, and ordered the player to run at him at full speed and "He will show you how to stop one of em bastards". Well, long story short the player, who as twice as big as him, [B]hit him so hard that he was knocked the fuck out[/B], like on the ground, stars above the head knocked out.
Perhaps the most legendary fuckup he had was when he was trusted with closing up the football stadium after a game. He managed to lock himself inside the stadium, but being the super athlete he though he was this was no problem. How to get out? Well, jump the fence of course! He got to the top alright, but as he was coming down his arm sleeve got snagged on the top of the fence, and since he was so short he was left dangling off the side of the fence. He was up there for two hours before someone finally heard him yell. During the whole time they were getting him down he was insisting that he could get down himself but "appreciates someone coming out this way so he will let them do the work"
After he left I wondered what happened to him, until the day I saw him working as a one of those guys who places groceries in bags at Wall Mart. He was getting yelled at by his supervisor for once again fucking up. A few years later I heard that he ditched the wall mart job and somehow landed a job teaching English.
[QUOTE=Captain Kep;45347456]I had several good and bad teachers, but only one completely inept teacher that was so bad ...[/QUOTE]
That was funny and pretty sad at the same time.
OP's teacher sounds like my old swedish teacher, she was horrible and had a very strong german accent.
I have some really awesome teachers tho, my teacher in computer science used to work with Bioware (coding) and helped with the first Mass Effect and Dragon Age games.
Also, my current english teacher, not only is she hot but she actually treats us like intelligent beings and gives us fun and useful tasks.
Both she and the computer science teacher are really chill and understanding.
my 11th grade history teacher was a massive homophobe
i specifically remember him going off on a rant about how allowing gays to marry would be a slippery slope and that things like bestiality would be next
it was pretty awful, other homophobic students were agreeing with him while the rest of the class was just stunned, i specifically remember one goody two shoes kid who liked to suck up to him just sitting with his hands over his face like he was actually quite torn about the whole thing (the kid seemed like an open-minded nice guy, and so did the teacher, up until this point - i mean we all knew he was a devout christian and retired marine but jesus christ)
the teacher was generally a nice guy, he appreciated other cultures and races and what not, he was just a MASSIVE homophobe
so there's that
and then two of my 7th grade teachers were super hot
one was this really new cute math teacher with a really nice butt (she was also a cheerleader in school)
the other was my literature teacher (also pretty new), she was a cute half-white, half-japanese chick and she had this short hairstyle - with a really big rack and nice butt as well
they were really nice to me too, encouraging me to keep working at stuff whenever i was falling behind
oh and my 8th grade literature teacher looked like ron jeremy
sounded like him too
My middle school art teacher had a habit of pulling a chair up next to me and asking for personal advice, which was weird because at that point in my life I was the last person she should have been asking. She liked to tell me about her kids too.
My Spanish teacher around that time was a self-proclaimed Spanish boxer who had stapled a pair of boxing shorts to one of the bulletin boards in his classroom and liked me because he was drinking buddies with my mother. He gave me an 'A+' on a project that I never passed in and told me to finish it by the time I graduated high school. I learned less than five words that year and passed with an A average.
My geometry teacher was once mistaken for bigfoot. Loved that guy.
I took an HTML course sophomore year and I still regret it. Five months of learning how to italicize text with the worst teacher I've ever had; a socially-awkward middle-aged woman who still uses Windows 98. She was a "Certified Microsoft Office Instructor" who not only taught HTML but several business and [I]medical classes[/I]. She's not even employed by our school. I was once accused of cheating for putting effort into my work, "something that no student would ever do." Her claim to fame was our school website, which was the stereotypical trainwreck that public school websites seem to be: cooltext.com buttons, a stock picture of our school's mascot, scrolling text, the works. I still have nightmares about it.
My business management teacher is in her mid 70s iirc and writes the letter 'f' as the [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Hand_Written_7.svg/34px-Hand_Written_7.svg.png"]continental European/Latin American '7'[/URL]. She threatened to annihilate me once.
Our history teacher made a slideshow presentation of the gas chambers/fallen victims during World War 2
She picked the fucking midi version of Radiohead's No Surprises and it was distorted by how god awful the projector speakers were.
She really didn't like me after me and a couple of our friends audibly tried to supress our laughter
My AP literature teacher was an old grandmotherly lady who would constantly make very casual jokes about her & her loved one's inevitable mortality - i.e. "You know how when you have a dog sometimes you say nonsense to it and it listens anyways? Well I don't do that anymore because my dog's been dead for two years, but still"
really nice lady, though - her english class was the most casual environment ever (probably due to her being on her last year before retirement)
I had a teacher and she was mean
I had an awesome Latin teacher and I swear this guy looked just like how you'd imagine a Roman Consul would look. He came in on Halloween dressed in a Toga as a Roman Senator and only spoke Latin the [B]entire day[/B]. It was like a scene out of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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