Everyone's had that 'one' bad teacher. What was he/she like?

Question

I'm looking for good stories of bad experiences with a teacher(s).

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Answer 1

He was mean, played favorites and made those of us that were not his favorites feel like total crap and told us that we were letting our parents down by being "brats" and "jerks" and "idiots". We were in 6th grade! This was in the early 80's when parents just went along with whatever the teachers said. He was the meanest man and worst teacher I ever had. I hope he realizes today how awful he was to us kids. Of course he's probably dead by now....

Answer 2

One of the only bad teachers I've ever had is my government teacher right now. He has only three rules for us: We can't say no to him(answering questions, etc.. inside the classroom-_-), we can sleep but can't put our heads down or let others outside see we're sleeping, and we are allowed to cut class 6 times a marking period(we have 6 marking periods a school year, so it's not that bad at all) and he will give us a 65(lowest passing grade). Now, he does NOTHING at all and lets us talk all period long until maybe the last 10-20 minutes, he always has questions for Do Now written on the board already and would ask us to answer... maybe he'd pick or let us volunteer.. but whenever we answer a question correctly he gives us CANDY. LOL.

Answer 3

My story is about a teacher my son had in 4th grade. My son is a good student and usually gets all A's. It was the 1st conference of the year. I wanted to discuss my son's Social Studies grade,which was a C+. I was concerned that he was having some difficulty or not understanding the material since all his other grades were A's. His teacher proceeded to tell me that he would rather see my son have to work hard to get a C rather than easily get an A. He felt it would be a better learning experience for my son to struggle to get a good grade rather than to get his A's so easily. He pretty much told me that the A's meant very little where as the C showed potential to learn and improve. Wow! I couldn't believe it! I walked out of that conference totally dumbfounded and frustrated. Come to find out the reason he was getting a C was because he had 2 children sitting by him who were severely ADHD and they were constantly talking and my son was having trouble hearing the teacher during that class. When the seating arrangement was changed,his grade rose significantly. I do want to point out that while I'm very proud of his A's,I would be just as proud of any other grade as long as he did his best. I still think the teacher had an odd way of looking at things.

Answer 4

Ugh,I remember it like it was yesterday.

First off,I grew up in a hispanic area.
I'm hispanic(I don't look it at all,so I was just the white kid.)

It was in first grade,I paid attention to that teacher all the time.
She would always find a reason to yell at me though,I was still learning to write and made the mistake of mispelling some words,writing passed the red line and so on.

She made it seem as if I did it all on purpose just to get her ticked off,so she yelled at me for awhile,for a LONG while.
Even when she was able to get the tears that she craved,she just kept yelling and yelling.

She was going to check the report cards one day,I left mine at home.She asked me where it was,I told her I forgot it and she went off again,I felt like she was going to beat the crap out of me.Worst she would do physically was slap me in the back of the head,but I would take that over some of the stuff she would tell me.

Another time I was in a group activity,the winners were going to get some little toys and things another teacher had brought.The team I was in won,I was pretty excited(I didn't have many toys at all).Went up to the desk to get the prize;she gave one kid an etch-a-sketch,the other kid got a little model car,and she gave me some blue pencil...there were alot of good toys in that box and she gave me a pencil,this may not be a big deal for a kid that had all the toys in the world but I didn't have anything.

She constantly yelled at me,never let me go to the restroom and every now and then she would slam a book or ruler on my desk.She always made some joke about me being white(or looking like it atleast)to single me out.Whenever she would call me up to her desk my legs would shake uncontrollably,because I knew she was going to yell at me whenever I got a wrong answer.I was an A n B student in her class,not the best but nowhere near the worst,but she would find every little mistake she could and punish me for it.

I think that's why I was so quiet throughout Elementary,Middle School and some of high school.Before her class I would talk to people easily,after her class I became a ******* mute,I would only talk if someone asked me a question.Over thirteen years later and I still remember that witch.

Eh,long story short:I am happy and she is probably miserable.

Answer 5

I attended 13 schools before graduating so I had a great many teachers. Most weren't bad just incompetent. Teachers college teaches a lot of theory but not how to teach. I learnt that in the Army the teach it deliberately. Consequences of not learning what you are supposed to there are a lot worse than repeating a grade.

Answer 6

A long time ago I had a teacher who thought she as a surrogate for Angela Davis. As as semi -conservative, she felt compelled to make an example of me and gave me "F's" no matter what I said or wrote. The next semester, with a different teacher, I made A's & B's with the same responses to the same course material.
Go figure.

Answer 7

Wow, some of these are pretty bad. My teacher was my 11th grade Honors English teacher. Anyway....I developed scoliosis and had to have corrective surgery during the Christmas break of my junior year. My counselor knew this and put me and my mother in contact with the Home School association because I wasn't going to be able to go back to school for the first three months of the spring semester. So, the Home School people never contacted us and I went back to school two and a half months earlier than I should have. I was in such bad shape that the teachers had to let me leave class ten minutes early so that I didn't get injured just trying to maneuver through the halls. This witch on my third day back to class said to me... "You're looking at failing this first six weeks period." 1)she knew I had been out with major back surgery 2) agreed with my guidance counselor to help me catch up for the three weeks I missed 3)was a fat ***** who looked older than her husband. I hated her. I didn't fail that semester or that six weeks because when I told my mother she went up to the school and talked to my counselor about it who just rolled his eyes like he wasn't surprised that my teacher would do something like that. She was the ultimate hater!

Answer 8

Chemistry teacher. We'd do whole chapters in 3 days. Flunked every test. But he bumped me up to a 60 so I wouldn't have to go to summer school. He was a nice guy, but just a really sucky teacher.

Answer 9

I just would like to know what you mean by bad, because i had a bad teacher who didn't teach at school so I didn't learn . it happened to me when i was 13 so I thought it was great to just waste the time. but as years go by you realize how bad it really was.

Answer 10

I think the universal quality of every bad teacher is that they care about something else more than the welfare and education of their students.
It could be their own ego-gratification, or a belief that the students had to fit into some system of thought, or even that punishment is 'good' for them.
I had a teacher in grade 6 (a burly former Olympic hockey player) who strapped me 8 times on one hand because I had bumped into a friend in the classrom while fooling around. It was more important for him to be absolutely in charge of his classroom. I have a suspicion that he also liked being feared: he certainly was after that. It took a couple of months for my hand to heal.