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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:36 pm

Tell us your the worst teacher/Professor you've ever had from Preschool to University

My one would have to be my French teacher, a control freak, doesn't let you sit where you want, doesn't let you talk. Takes everything so literally Rolling Eyes

I have to respect my own learning Confused

Everyone in the class hates her.

The blondest one would be my old English teacher, "Horses were invented 1851." and "French people speak French in france" Shocked

No...

Apart from that I've been pretty lucky..

Wait one more...she taught our class which was Extension Science last year and she had no idea how to spell or draw, biology was the hardest Laughing

, and she answered every hard question with "Ill get back to you later on that one"

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:52 pm

An old art teacher with a psychotic temper. He was eventually given the boot a few years after I left for beating the crap out of three pupils.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:04 pm

I went to a Catholic school and was at a state of war with each and every one of the Nuns. They hated me, mainly because by older brothers went there too --> Al, the oldest, threw a compass at Sister Mary Catherine and the pointy end embedded in her arm. John, the 2nd oldest, whipped a hamburger at Sister Anunciata and splattering it all over her habit. I accidently fell on Sister Theresa's leg and broke it. They were big time into beatings with their "Boards of Education". I despised them. But I carry no psychological effects from their physical abuse....really, I don't. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go dismember a few more hookers...

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:09 pm

My old Physics teacher Harry. He used to carry a broken pool cue (the thick end) with bodge tape wrapped round the splintered bit.

When he caught you not paying attention, BANG. On a good day it was your desk.
On a bad day, t'was your head.

Having said that, he wasn't the worst teacher as such. He was pretty effective.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

French teacher called Ms Meurice. She had a baton, and did the same as Mugatus teacher.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:13 pm

Ah, but I bet you passed french though eh Monsieur Craig? Wink

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How did you guess?

Laughing

'Bonnet de douche'

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:20 pm

...My French teacher is butt ugly, but my current English teacher...and last year's,year coordinator..

Anyway supposedly a (guy) teacher at our school was being investigated by the police for possession of Child Porn, all the students found out so he had to resign. I don't think they found anything..

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:23 pm

I had a crazy Marketing teacher, forgot her name, but she wanted to be called "Mushiba" for some strange reason. She would always dress in purple, even her car was... yup, purple. She was a nice crazy, but very earthy and always spaced out.

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@ Reaper, was that Rolling Eyes

at me?

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:33 pm

I had a college biology teacher who had a serious alcohol problem. In an hour-long class, he was habitually 40-45 minutes late.

The class was designed as a "basics" course for non-biology majors. When the exam came, he included lots of material on the exam that was not in the lectures and was not in the text, but which he ASSUMED we knew.

There were a bunch of folks in the class who were chemistry majors (or who otherwise had science related majors), who knew some of this material...they did ok on the test. But all the non-science students- literally every one of them - got "D"'s in his course. I think that, actually, all the non-science students in the course failed, but were given a "D" by order of the school administration - - which is hardly an adequate response by the school administration.

Bruin

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:35 pm

Oh, this is an easy one.

Last spring semester I took Visual Basic programming.

The professor is a total git. The text books are typical computer manuals, so not exactly easy to understand and if you have questions you arn't to ask him, you are to ask your fellow students. Heaven help you if they don't know the answers (most didn't).

We had a group project coming up but I missed the class that groups were set up because my mom had a stroke so I was picked up to go see her. I make the next week and ask to be in a group, but he won't put me in one, so I have to do the group project myself. After many attempts I just can't get it to work (the project involved programming we hadn't even covered in class yet), so I got some source code from a site and changed enough to make it mine (yes, I cheated, I admit it.. I saw no other option at the time).

The next lab project I ran into a problem and of course no student could help me so I decided to actually try and get his help. He said it was an error he hadn't seen before and didn't know what was causing it, but wanted a copy of my code. Having no clue how to fix it and knowing the professor wasn't gonna help, and knowing it was only gonna get harder from there that was my last night of that class. I'd happily take an F for a class I didn't need rather then put up with him one more day.

Of course this is all in brief, I don't want to be a total bore with even more annoying details.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:55 pm

Solid State Materials Engineering and Network Theory professor- Worst EVER! She repeatedly made fatal math errors. She would get halfway through a problem, screw up her math and then tell us, "You guys can figure out the math." Actually, we couldn't. If we knew how to do Calculus 9, we would have our degrees already. She would put problems on tests without first working them out herself, which resulted in numbers that couldn't be taken down any further than 1 or 2 steps. Eventually, due to our complaints to the dean and administrators, she was fired. She only lasted two semesters. They re-hired her again a year later. She got fired again. Twisted Evil

She teaches 9th grade algebra now.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:08 pm

I had a Grad Student PA that taught Engineering Calc 2. He was horrible, only one person made an A in his class and that was a friend of his, go fig. The class averaged a D. He would teach us chapters 1 thru 4 then give us a test over chapter 5. When we all complained about him, he would just say things like I thought I had led you up to the point where you could answer that, and then point to his butt buddy that made an A, as an example of what could be done in his class.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:10 pm

Where to begin..... Confused

We had a PE teacher that sexually abused 1st year boys

We had another PE teacher that often hospitalised boys when playing rugby.

We had a Pakistani head of English who hardly spoke any English.

We had a metal work teacher who seemed to have a heart attack every other term.

We had a Physics teacher that nipped out of class for a quickie with the tea lady.

We had a maths teacher that smelt worse that a vagrant.

We had a female Geography teacher that would cop off with anyone at a school disco

We had a French teacher that would often burst into tears and scream at us "all men are bastards"

We had another two teachers sectioned under the mental health act.

Shocked

Ahhh those were happy days... Shocked

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:57 pm

We rotated classes 3 times a day in 7th grade, 3 subjects per period. Mr. Edwards taught History, Geography,& Social Studies. He was a dead ringer for Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith) from the old "Lost in Space" TV series and projected the same prissy, ridgid, spiteful disdain for the unworthy. An unrepentant Southern apologist, he once actually became choked up while discussing General "Rawbuht" E. Lee. And make no mistake, he'd raise his hardwood paddle to any hide on the wrong side of his disfavor. That biatch had holes drilled in it to raise welts!

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My first computer teacher was probably my favorite teacher, but...

He had come into teaching as a career change, and I think once he got there he found he hated it. He was great if you got him talking about his National Service days, and it helped that I took to computers like a duck to water, but sometimes he would just be in a bad mood and he'd tear into you given half a chance. Over the year these episodes got more and more frequent. By the end I don't think he could bear to be around kids. He only lasted the one year.

His department head was a terror until we got to sixth form, and then he was great. Just couldn't handle kids again.

Of course, as the kid who was always last to be chosen for any team, (if I couldn't get out of it altogether,) PE teachers were not my favorite. I always remember one yelling, "If you don't shut up back there. I will tear your arm off and hit you over the head with the soggy end."

Not as bad as in earlier times though. My great uncle never forgave his two older brothers for him getting the cane on his first day of school, simply because they were his brothers.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:23 pm

Like R8 I went to a Catholic school and the nuns were all obviously Nazi/SAS trained. Never forget the dreaded rattle of the rosaries as they thundered down the corriders wielding rulers which they used on knuckles with apparent glee. Hate them even now. Turned me off religion for life, seriously.

One teacher used to bring her calf (baby cow) in, leaving it in her car in the daytime. Never figured that one out, although we had to take turns taking it for walkies at break time.
German teacher mad as a hatter who must have been at least 80 with REAL rolly eyes - you never knew who she was talking to.
RI nun teacher who truly truly believed that if Adam & Eve had not committed the original sin, there would be no need to sleep or eat, no need to work, it would be daylight all the time - her idea of a perfect world Confused

without original sin, she also believed fervently in Adam & Eve, Darwin wrote fiction. Exclamation

A nun headmistress who strongly resembled a screaming skull and was a true nightmare to behold even when seen rarely attempting a cruel smile.
I think they were all recruited from the ex prison wardens association or the local loony bin.

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When I was 11, my Asian maths teacher, Mr Batty, was an asshole, always twisting your ear, he used to do it so hard, that your ear would be red and sore all day long, I was talking to a friend one day during his class, and didn't realise he had come up behind me, he grabbed my ear and twisted, I could feel his nails digging in to it, when he let go, I threw my books at him and called him bastard or something, then I lost my temper and hit him with my chair, he put his arm up to stop it and I broke his new digital watch which had a calcultor on it, asshole, he sent me to the headmasters office and followed me there.

He told the headmaster what happened, I told him he dug his nails in to my ear, headmaster told me to hold me I was getting the cane and told me to hold my hand out, I said no and kept my hands in my pocket, told him I was refusing it, in our school, you get suspended/expelled for refusing the cane, he asked me again, I said no, he said, go home, you are suspended/expelled, result, I was off school for about 8 weeks before they let me go back Laughing

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Mr. Ackers (or Akers) our math teacher. He used to carry unruly kids (usually me) around by their ears Shocked

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:33 pm

Ass-hole-teacher in 4th form.
(Edit: 5th; on the secondary)
A classmate whom I disliked very much had a harelip, was ugly, small and primitive.
This "teacher" threw his keys at him, took him by his ear and painted his face with coloured chalk and forced him to say I-don't-remember-what.
Having suffered this, the guy spit into the teachers face and although being very young at that time we succeeded in hindering our classmate's dismission (although he sucked, too).

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:38 pm

Professor?

My prof of national economy.
He had a problem with us students, was wearing a white turtleneck pullover instead of a suit and told us:
"I really don't know why I have to stand here. I'm an orchid breeder. That's my real profession"

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:47 pm

Another one in primary school (for insiders of the german school-system):
When I was nine my parents had to move from northern Germany to southern Germany (let's say from Germany to Bavaria Very Happy

).
Of course I had a lot of problems with the new classmates there; I even didn't understand their language sometimes.
I wasn't bad at school at that time, had social problems, but inspite of this my teacher Ruth D. (Later Ruth B.) told my parents not to take me to the Gymnasium (secondary school, grammar school, something like that) due to my low intelligence Evil or Very Mad

.
I only heared about that some years ago, and - THANK YOU MUM AND DAD -
they absolutely ignored that advice.
So I went to the Gymnasium, studied law and now am a lawyer with a low intelligence. If my parents had listened to Ruth D. I wouldn't be here, BTW.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:21 pm

When I grew up in England, I went to a Catholic school that was run by the most evil Irish nuns. I was only a young lad at the time (4-6 years old) but I remember the absolute evil that ran that place. They used to hit us with bloody rulers for crying out loud.

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I had a college Biology teacher called Halitosis Harry eeeew
He made us dissect frogs and drip atropine on their hearts. Hated doing that, but what was worse was he decided to adjust my platform and dropped the poor wee frog down whilst its heart was still attached to the equipment.
The heart went flying over the class and splatted on the window..

Another teacher at college had such a boring voice that he'd send you to sleep by saying hello in the list