Who was the worst teacher you ever had?

Question

Here is my story... what is yours?

ha ha - good old ms. spain. she was psychotic. 4th grade year, advent espicopal day school in birmingham, alabama (a very affluent private school). she once emptied her daughter's ballet bag (underwear and all) out in the middle of class bc she was mad at her for forgetting to put something in there. even though i didn't care for her daughter, i remember feeling really sorry for her (the daughter of course). she had 3 *pets* who could do no wrong and got to do everything special. (yes, she really did call them that.) she would read our math notebook grades out loud to the entire class and make comments about our intelligence - humiliating to anyone who wasn't her favorite. she also had fights with her husband in the middle of class and assigned up to 4 hours of homework a night (for 4th graders!!!!). she turned a blind eye to the bullies (to the point of calling the poor victims liars and making examples of them in front of the class - whi

which only made it worse). 90% of my class left that school after that year directly bc of her and went to other schools. i hope this woman isn't teaching today and hope she got fired then, although i doubt it. to this day, this is one of only 4 people in the world that i truly, truly hate and would not save if they were about the be run over by a bus. harsh i know, but true. that woman was bonkers.

Answer 1

My 12th grade AP Biology teacher- Mr (Herr) Formica (I called him "Tabletop")- when he found out I was not the daughter of anyone he knew, he refused to call on me by name. I was always "you" or "next" or "the girl". He would go through the role call, "Amanda", "Jennifer", "Next", "Paul". He also had a profound aversion to actually teaching anything... believed in rote memorization.

Honorable mention: My 7th grade Reading teacher, who determined that no kid can actually write. When I turned in a well-written homework assignment she accused me of plagiarizing, in front of the whole class. She flunked me on all of my assignments until after an in-class assignment that I did just as well as the others I had done at home. No apologies... she just quietly changed the grade. Meanwhile all my classmates went on believing that my parents did my homework for me.

Answer 2

In college I had an awful French teacher. I had just had surgery so was probably a little emotional anyway. He would call on me and when I answered he was say SPEAK LOUDER. I would repeat it louder and he would say SPEAK LOUDER. Again and again SPEAK LOUDER SPEAK LOUDER I CANT HEAR YOU! I left the room in tears finally. The old guy probably needed hearing aids! Actually he came after class to make sure that I was ok. That shocked me!
His grading policy was that for every error he lowered you a letter grade. Have you ever written in French??? Forget one accent and you have a B. Forget and accent and agree wrong twice and use the wrong vowel once... you have an F! That is crazy because you can still understand what I wrote. I was still communicating. I dropped when it was clear that I would get an F.
Took the same class next semester with a different teacher. Turned in the same work without changes... got an A! So unfair. Cost me over $1,000.00 because he was just an unfair teacher. It was also rumored that no female could get an A in his class.

Answer 3

My worst teacher was Mr. Rodriguez, He was my algebra teacher my sophmore year in high school... Well, here is why, We had a click of people who copied every aspect of every work done in that class. It was myself, and 3 other girls. Our work was exactly the same everytime, and yet we all got different grades. The girl who sat up front and wore a skirt everyday to class always got the A. This other girl got the B, The Fat girl got a D, and I always got an F. It was so ridiculous. You could tell that this idiot did not know what he was doing... It was ok, he eventually got fired for suspected inappropriate behavior with students. On my final exam I told him he should just pass me because what would it matter to him, he wasnt coming back... Needless to say I took geometry again my senior year.

Answer 4

I have a few, actually. Starting with my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Heavener, he punished me for things and other students would do the same and they wouldn't get any punishment! There was my 7th grade pre-algebra teacher, Mr. Roach, who was 70 something then, I hope that old idiot is dead! He hated me and didn't help me at all even if I asked! My 9th grade geology teacher, Mrs. Dedekian, treated me like crap, I never did anything wrong, I put effort in everything, yet she called me a 'Future flunky of America' How wrong is that? For tenth grade, it was Mr. Van Ness, my bio teacher, he was nice, he didn't hate me, but he was so boring - I only stayed for the rats! This year, 11th grade, I think it's gonna be Mr. Dunnicliff's chemistry, he is as boring as Van Ness, I haven't had enough time to figure out if he's gonna like me or not, but if I stay, it's for the birds in the class! WHat I would do for animals, huh?

Answer 5

wow. i can't remember her name. probably b/c it isn't worth remembering! she was my high school chemistry teacher. to this day, i know nothing about chemistry. sad.
she was fresh out of college. she did NOT want to be a teacher. she wanted to be a nurse. but i guess she couldn't get into the field yet or something so she had to take a job teaching to get through the year financially. we suffered for it. she didn't know anything about teaching. she was so young she tried to relate to the students as a "friend" not a "teacher". she was friends with the football players and cheerleaders (and no, i'm not jealous, i was "in" that crowd and didn't like her phony crap) and ignored others. kids who wanted to learn had to do it w/ tutors or get help from the other chemistry teacher. she often would say "i don't know" to questions when asked and if kids didn't understand she didn't know how to explain it any other way. that was the first time in my academic career that i ever saw an "F" next to my name. i managed a "C" in that class and to this day......still don't know anything about chemistry! good thing i teach 2nd graders!!

Answer 6

I remember in 10th grade math we had a Teacher who immigrated from Africa and she could speak a spec of English. While we where desperately trying to understand what she was saying she would get frustrated when we kept asking her to repeat herself. She was also very confused on how to run the class and would often just stop in the middle of class,sit down and review her notes while the rest of us just talked and joked around. Eventually it got so bad that I guess one of the students talked to their parents about the class and the assistant Principal and a person from the board sat in doing one of our classes. She was aging confused and frustrated with us right in front of her boss. No surprise a few days later we had a substitute and we never saw her aging.

Answer 7

Ms. Depert, second grade teacher who my mother actually reported and got me transferred out of her class. We lived across the street and my mother would watch her single out and physically beat a kid on the playground, mercilessly, usually with some kind of ruler or other weapon.

Special mention: Mr. Thorne, the principal, who, in all his wisdom, decided that we were not to be told of Kennedy's assassination.

Pathetic but notable: Mr. Elder, who I had two years running for government/social studies. He was in just WAY over his head and had no capability to control a class of jr high kids. I think he had early dementia, and he lost his son in Vietnam the second year. We went a little easier on him for a while.

Answer 8

6th Grade. I had my cousin for a teacher. Not that, that wasn't bad enough, but she was bad. It was a long painful year. However, a close 2nd (probably tie) was my 5th grade teacher, a nun. She taught us nothing. To get a passing grade you needed to sit quietly with your hands folded (preferably you were a girl). She hit often, breaking many rulers until a kid brought a paddle in for her. Eventually she used it on him. I had a nun hold me up against the wall once because I told her to shut up (bad voice while trying to teach us to sing) when she asked me what I said, I repeated it. Ouch!! Another nun, asked me what I said in class and I told her it was none (no pun) of her business. Come to think of it. Most of the nuns I had in grades one through six were iffy. Probably why I became a teacher-set it straight.

Answer 9

I had an economics teacher last semester that used to just rattle off information at lightning speed while jotting them on the chalkboard in chiken scratch and erasing them right after he wrote them, and never explaining anything in a manner in which it was absorbable. Most of the class got D's. He knew what he was talking about, but had no ability to convery it to an intro level class.

Answer 10

Mr. Nichols, 10th Grade Geometry. What a waste of space. He didn't do anyting except talk about Football. Although one day we snuck into class early and replaced all the chalk with Mike & Ikes candy. He was so mad, it was our finest moment!