Who was your worst teacher?Follow

Grade school, high school, college... whatever.

I'm taking a psychology class to knock out some required credits in school and my class is taught by some elderly woman who was a psychologist for 25+ years or somesuch. The first day, she has us all introduce ourselves and say why we're taking the class, what we plan on doing with our majors, yadda yadda. She has some kind words for everyone.

The second class, we're going over the principles of scientific research and how important empirical evidence is and the risks of letting variables affect your research, etc. The last part of the section is about pseudo-psychology (phrenology, graphology...). She goes into a twenty minute spiel about how psychic powers are real and talking about how psychics are important for solving crimes and stuff.

The third class, we go over the study guide from the section. She wrote the study guide. She passed out the study guide. She has no fucking clue what is on the study guide and continually gives us nonsensical wrong answers. When students stop and say "Wait a second... 'Freud is considered the father of accurate ' makes no sense", she repeats the inaccurate answer she gave a few more times and then skips ahead to some other question. Or else blames it on "probably being a typo".

The fourth class, we go over more study guide fun (on another section). Same deal. Some lady makes the mistake of calling her "Mrs." and she goes on a five minute tear about how it's "Doctor". Then we take a test.

I've had teachers who were obviously bored and uninterested. I've had instructors who were obviously overqualified for the class and was way over our heads (had a "Principles of Econ" instructor who had only ever taught graduate level courses). I've had teachers who were just disorganized or naive or were otherwise fluff. But I think this woman is my first truly incompetant instructor.

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Mrs. Henry. Highschool Ancient History.

She claimed that Atlantis had been discovered. She also claimed that all current technology (such as the computer I am typing on right now) were reverse engineered from Alantean artifacts. Her lectures dealing on the Senate, were not the ancient Roman senate but rather the American senate 40 years ago. When questioned about the Republic she had no clue what was happening.

I also had a friend that took Accounting with her. He regularly allowed friends to copy his work. A girl that copied every single homework assignment off him got 95% on the work, he got 72%. The work was completely indentical.



Edited, Feb 2nd 2007 4:50pm by bodhisattva

Worst teacher I ever had was probably my World Civ professor my freshman year of college. Poor guy was a total alcoholic, and came to class totally wasted at least 5 times. He got fired after that semester, but I got an A in his class, so I guess it wasn't all bad.

Second worst was the professor that taught Sociology. We was from somewhere in east Africa, and was legally blind, so he relied completely on student workers to do his typing and grading. Turned what should have been a couple of fairly easy sociology classes I needed for my major into a real adventure.

My seventh grade Home Economics teacher was drunk, required us to accurately identify perfumes as course work and gave me my only failing grade ever because I didn't sew well.

Of course, she was not quite as freaky as my typing teacher who had a prominent hump and would pick her nose and hack alternately while we completed our exercises.

Grade 9 computer science. Teacher failed me on a project (it was a rocking project consider it was written in QBasic) for hacking QBasic because I was able to get the mouse to work. I probably taught that teacher more that year than he could fit in his tiny brain.

Seriously though, who teaches programming in QBasic...school system sucks.

In middle school, I had to argue with my science teacher about blood not really being blue before it hits oxygen. I'm not kidding. I told him to look it up.

I hope he made you do math.

:)

My worst teacher by far was for one of my Theorhetical and Applied Mechanics classes. He was obviously overqualified to be teaching a 100-level freshman course, so he glossed over a lot of very important details that were, no doubt, very easy for him. When asked to explain a concept, or to further clarify something, he would ridicule and degrade the student that asked the question instead of answering them. Eventually, everybody just stopped asking questions, then stopped attending class all together.

It got to the point where students were going to College of Engineering to register complaints. We had a dean from the College sit in on no less than 4 different lectures to observe throughout the semester. I'm not sure what happened to him after that semester, but I'm pretty sure that the Facebook group dedicated to hating that man still lives strong.

High school, English/American lit, Ms. Carlisle. This woman was flat racist. She HATED EVERYONE that wasn't black. She and went head to head three years in a row. She insisted that every month was black history month. September, we studied Booker T. Washington. Every month at the minimum we studied a different black author. It wouldn't have been so bad had we been studying them in a relevant class, but I can't see where Countee Cullen and Lanston Hughes fit in a British lit class.

Miss Muranaka in the 5th grade. She screamed at the TOP of her lungs at this boy Kawika, who hadn't brought his homework that day or something. People talked later how you could hear her two buildings away. Later some kids saw her in the teacher's lounge smoking two cigarettes at once.

My gym teacher's wife in 9th grade. He was supposed to teach gym one half then health the next. He had a hard time with the whole Miracle of Life video thing, so he had his wife do it. Not only did she show us the Miracle of Life, she also brought in her own personal birth video. So she's standing there next to the television smiling ear to ear while the entire class watches in silent horror at her kid coming out of her hairy snatch. Truly disturbing for a class of freshmen.

It was reverse for us, we tortured our sex ed teacher. She really should have been expecting it since it was an RC highschool.

I remember we were firing off questions really fast one after another and she was answering them when this one kid asked "What colour is *****" and she responded really fast without even thinking "White" to which the class gasped 'how did you know'. The lady went beat red and ran out of the class room. If I remember right the Vice-principal finished off the remainder of our classes.

Did he saddle up and ride?

No, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been hard to convince him to. Maybe I could have just offered to teach him science.

Nexa

I loved most of my high school teachers. The worst hands-down was Mr. Bunn. He was an old-South type that used to tell you about his KKK meetings in the woods, loved UVA, and gave students nicknames like "the class blonde". He was intelligent enough and well-versed in the subject area (history), but he was an absolute paternalistic racist prick. I remember once, he told a Baptist sutdent, really nice girl, that her religion was made up and she was an idiot for believing in it. She tried to present her argument, but he screamed at her until she ran from the room crying, then told the rest of us how some people can't handle a reasonable argument, never for once thinking it was his ******* attitude that upset her.

In college I had a Sociology of the Family Professor that continually alluded to the fact that a single-parent household could not be called, and in fact was not, a family in the true definition of the word. He also went on about adoption and gays a lot. Looney.