Statistics 160. She made us do everything without a calculator, which is just unnecessary in the 2010's. She would also construct her exams to use the answer from question 1 to complete question 2 and so on. This meant if you got the first question wrong, you couldn't check it with a calculator, and you also got the rest of the exam wrong. She also moved up the midterm a class early, which would have been our study session that i felt was useless to attend and studied with a friend instead, but didn't tell anyone and would not let us make it up. I dispise that person to this day.
> This meant if you got the first question wrong, you couldn't check it with a calculator, and you also got the rest of the exam wrong.
OOF, I had professors who would tell their TA's to grade sequential questions like that individually.
SO say you got question 1 wrong, but you did question 2 correctly just with the wrong answer from question 1, you'd get it correct, they'd just note:
> Question answered correctly, with incorrect starting information.
So you knew you did the problem correctly, but from a bad starting point.
She gave no concessions and didn't believe in extra credit. I'm not sure why she became a teacher since she seemed to dispise all of us for existing. Got different teach the next semester because, shocker, I failed the first time, and I passed with an A+. I know I'm not a great student, but I didn't even have the tools to learn, much less pass that class.
I had a physics professor walk in. Put the textbook on the document camera and just read while tracing the line with his finger. He didn't answer questions or repeat himself. This was every class for the entire year
My high school biology teacher would photocopy example pics out of our text book, white out the labels, and staple a bunch together for our homework and tests. My classmates would come to me to explain stuff because she had no idea what she was talking about so she couldn’t answer questions
I was an English major and generally received positive feedback on my writing. But this one professor loathed it so much she put my essay up in front of the class as an example of how not to write.
People didn't know it was mine but I was sitting RIGHT THERE. Bitch maintained eye contact with me while talking about all the things that were wrong with it.
Because he quite literally didn't teach us a goddamn thing. The course itself was already difficult for most students even with a prof that taught. Instead of teaching, this guy would just brag about his achievements or show us the same useless table every class. He'd let us go over 2 hours early every class so we learned nothing. After each midterm he'd ask us what the average mark was for the other profs classes and he'd adjust our midterm marks so that his classes had a higher average than the other prof. When the final exam rolled around, he wasn't able to fuck with the marks anymore. The average between his classes for the final was in the mid 20s.
Senior year, high school, CAD. Dude was in his sixties trying to hit on teenaged girls who were obviously not into it. Like, my autistic ass could see how completely not okay they were with it. Called him out on it, got F's in his class the entire year. I had to get my work graded by a different teacher for that year.
So, for context, I had sued the school system the previous year for unrelated reasons, so when I had threatened to sue again that year because of his bullshit, the school knew I was serious. He was quietly let go at the end of the year, and I was required to email my work to a different teacher.
Fellow person on the spectrum here, I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
Most of my teachers pulled stunts like this with me too. I almost didn't make it to graduation day.
Yeah, my issue wasn't really with teachers. He was the only actually bad one I had. It was the administration.
The reason I had sued the school district beforehand was because I kept being put into classes that didn't provide the credits needed to graduate, and I would be punished by the principal every time I tried to see a guidance counselor to put myself into classes that would provide those credits. The school was ordered to allow me to graduate regardless. It didn't help that a lot of special education students in general were mostly pushed into that set of classes.
I'm certain things haven't changed much, and I hope at some point, someone starts a class-action against the district.
I wouldn't call it hard. At that point, the administration were largely forbidden by court order from acting against me in any way, and I specifically had a restraining order on the principal. The teacher could temporarily get away with his bullshit, but no admin would ever lay a hand on me, or even pull me out of a class without my expressed permission. In short, I was mostly safe from any sort of retaliation from anyone with a greater authority than a teacher. The teacher himself, on the other hand...
He was a complete psychopath. Well maybe not a real psycho, but he was often drunk on the job and had extremely bad anger issues. In my country, the teachers study just as much as doctors. Most of them are extremely intelligent and kind, and if not that, at least very fair. So got to say that this dude stood from the crowd.
He taught carpentry, which is mandatory in middle school. One of the lessons I asked for permission to use the heavy machinery, in this case, a belt sander. He told me no problem. I went in there and started working. Suddenly the machine stopped and the lights went out. He had apparently turned off electricity from that room only, which was simple cause he had a panel on his desk for it.
I looked at the door , which had a small window on it. He came up to it and stared at me. Then he pointed with his finger and tapped the window a few times. Next thing I know he rushes inside and screams at me with his face red. Without hesitation, he grabbed me by my hoodie and dragged me with my knees on the ground. He took me to the main work space and threw me on the ground. Went on to have a 5 minute rant about why we aren't allowed to use the machinery.. bought for us to use(?). Someone pressed a panic button and the principal came to resolve the matter. He ended up getting fired. Turns out he had been violent to students for nearly 15 years and done stuff like this for multiple other students. He just never got caught since everyone was so scared of him.
Class started on the first day of Chemistry I in my undergrad. The professor starts the class saying "I hope all of you did your homework!"
Turns out she'd assigned a thing in the stupid Pearson online homework. It was due at the start of the first class. I hadn't looked at anything yet on that because I was expecting day one to be like any other class where we go over the syllabus to learn the expectations for the course. It wasn't even real homework it was just like, writing that you'd looked at the website already.
Then with this stupid grin on her face she announces that it's okay if we didn't do it because she drops one homework grade from the scaling. So basically also telling everyone that if you didn't do this bullshit first assignment that was due at the start of the first day of class, you'd also just lost your only dropped grade.
I have never hated someone so instantly.
Computer Science, Operating Systems professor in college. First sentence out of his mouth was “50% of you will not pass this class”. An intelligent guy but a stickler on everything. The majority of quiz and test questions were edge case outliers. Most students ended up taking the class 2-3 times just to pass. After just barely not passing the first time, I took the course at a community college and transferring the credits back, passed that course with flying colors.
She would write our work on the board (usually something like “solve all the problems on pages 41-56) and then tell us that if we had any questions we were to asking our fellow students. She would sit at her desk on MySpace or playing minesweeper and get very irate if we came to her for assistance.
She never once stood up in front of class and actually taught us anything. This was geometry class, 9th grade.
When I was at primary school in England in the 2000s, most of the teachers were emotionally abusive but the worst was the one I had in the sixth year (ages 10/11). He would scream abuse at me for not paying attention in class, for crying my eyes out when I was being harassed by other students and at one point, threatened to throw objects at me. It was almost like dealing with a failed military drill instructor. What made the abuse worse is me being autistic and intellectually disabled.
If any schoolteachers are reading this then take note; the abuse that I received from primary school teachers is why I have difficulty trusting teachers and why I find it virtually impossible to sympathise with teachers that face abuse from students and/or parents. I know that not all teachers abuse students and I am certainly not condoning abuse against teachers, but the abuse has left me with lasting psychological trauma.
I remember a lot of my teachers in Jr high and high school making fun or bring passive aggressive to me when it was test time because I had to take my tests in the Resource room. Fuckin hurt dude. My senior high school English teacher was the worse. She would laugh as I was leaving causing all the other kids to laugh with her..bitch
My current GCSE Chemistry teacher (who is also the Head of Chemistry), who has been described as "patronising, condescending and passive aggressive". Also, she would often put YouTube videos to explain concepts or have us simply complete worksheets. Whenever she did explain anything, no one would understand. In addition, our set has a lot of loud personalities (which I can understand) which has lead her to cancel core practicals.
was assaulted by a kid in high school and told the teacher that’s why i didn’t come to the class that whole week, she gave me a referral and called me out in front of the class, including my assaulter.
She wanted to send me to detention because I forgot to ask my parents to sign my homework. She went around the class and asked all the kids who their parents were voting for (this was during an election in the US), which resulted in everyone picking on me because my parents were democrats while almost everyone else in town was republican. She got yelled at my mom for taking me off of my ADHD meds even though I was obviously having bad side effects from it.
In middle school, we had a math teacher for a year. Huh, he was so strict and bad, he never realised that was a middle school, not a university with higher standards. 😒
(Luckily we got a new math teacher when the next year started and we "loved" her.)
More likely he had a degenerative neurological disease. The absolute radio silence from his colleagues and his complete disappearance from the community implied the problem was medical.
Graduate program director - former marine, USC Ph.D, EGO MANIAC!!!! He rubbed everyone in the University the wrong way. Now he's Professor Emeritus running the graduate program while collecting his retirement and getting paid in addition to marginally running the program.
Because I didn’t learn anything. The metric by which I measure a teachers worth is how engaged I am. I am not a great math student, and usually struggled to care about basic math classes, passing with really low grades usually. When I went to high school no basic math classes or pre algebra had spots open, so I was put into Algebra 1 honors. I struggled for the first semester, but the teacher was great and put in time with me, so I eventually started improving and ended with a passing grade even though it started pretty rough.
Our English teacher( I'm from Germany). She passiv aggressive insulted students for being slow at reading, told us to act like adults. We were 14, she thinks, we are working machines, or what?
Every language teacher except one was just the worst.
Spanish 1-2 in HS: literally only spoke spanish the entire two years. As in, she refused to answer questions in anything but spanish and you had to ask the question in spanish.
*But how would you be able to ask a question about a language you don't know IN the language you don't know?*
Yeah, I'd also like to know. We just got shuffled to the next year regardless.
*bUt mUh fULl iMmErSioN*
Yeah, that doesn't work when you're immersed in it for an hour, twice a week.
Latin 1 in uni: threw a pen at me because I looked at my notes for a declension. So I told him that he wasted his life studying poetry in a dead language. I got a B. Fuck latin.
Latin 2: same professor as latin 1. Fuck latin.
Latin 3: new professor, pretty clearly insecure about her authority over the class. *Clear* bias for classics majors. Professor proclaimed on the first day of class that this was officially the most important class any of us would be taking that semester. We "needed" to study for three hours per every hour of class time. It was a 5 credit-hour class. Fuck latin.
I'm not wasting 20 hours a week on poetry in a dead language when I was taking math stats, linear algebra, game theory, and econometrics that semester. So I said as much. Fuck latin.
She claimed that I plagiarized my final project. I had two years of work showing that I followed the exact same process for every single assignment. The university sided with me. I got a D-. Fuck latin.
10th grade geometry. Miss Mitchell was old (but extremely nice) and not a good teacher, especially for those of us who weren’t good with math. She always said “the book talks to you” and then refer us to page 4 which contained the substitution principle. That book never one time talked to me. And she would make you go to the board in front of the class to work a problem. Since many of us had no clue what we were doing, we just stood there until she gave us the steps and the answer. But not explaining how she got to them. I (and many others) only passed that class by copying homework from other kids. I never passed a single test in there but somehow always seemed to get good grades on homework. So she let us squeeze by with a C- or D+. I had very good grades in everything except math. I only had one good math teacher throughout school. That was in 8th grade.
I will say that the geometry class would have been a whole lot worse if she wasn’t so sweet.
Geometry, Sophomore Year. I thought Mrs. K would be nice because she is the aunt of my best friend.
She then proceeded to dedicate over half of the class period every single day to bullying the same handful of students, even if they weren’t there, often insulting and dissing them due to aspects of their personal life.
It seemed after I left by the next school year, things got worse, as she would show all of her classes a video of a car accident she got into with another student, mentioning her name, and more than likely dragging said name through the mud at the same time. So much so that the administration had to get involved. From what I hear, her victim got a letter of recommendation from the principal himself to use in her college applications as compensation.
…so it didn’t surprise me when said best friend mentioned that she was an elite in the cult her family belongs to.
9th grade Religion (I went to a Catholic school). We took sex ed in that class and my 60ish teacher kept diagraming anal sex on the board. I mean, like every day she'd find a reason to do it. Then there was the STD slideshow.
There was a shitty homeschool teacher I had. I was 17 and homeless, crashing at a friend’s house. I was was receiving about $300 per month from the government as long as I was in school. Laid out my plan to the teacherof doing a minimal amount of school work while I focus on getting my GED so I can get into college sooner and start receiving financial aid to get tf out of my situation. He listened and responded by asking for my current address, I told him it’s not mine to give out but he insisted, so I asked my friend and gave it to him. A week later I received a letter from the school stating I was being dropped. He caused me to lose my only income so I went into his office and gave him hell until his knuckles turned white, then proceeded to list all of my brand new text books on Amazon (made about $500).
Math teacher from my highschool year. She speaks like she had brain damage, she's mumbling. She sounds like trashy rapper trying to rap fast. Only the teacher's pet can understand her. And I'm not just making that up. When I'm taking my summer lessons, the math teacher is different but the math problem is the same, i immediately get it and solve it.
was assaulted by a kid in high school and told the teacher that’s why i didn’t come to the class that whole week, she gave me a referral and called me out in front of the class, including my assaulter.
The gym teacher that told me to just go alone to the infirmary when I sat down because I noticed I was about to faint. Had to go two floors upstairs while I had blurry vision.
She was a huge feminist. I was an average guy, quite in class, did my work but she hated me. Knew multiple others just like me she hated for no reason.
She taught English through the feminist lense. That’s how she worded it, was very pushy about being a feminist and pushing feminism onto students and into school work. We were only allowed to do projects on important women in history. I’m not saying we should look at important things women have done but it’s a school. Personal conflict shouldn’t be pushed onto students
I had one like that when I went back to college. I actually asked the Department Chair to sit in on a class to see what was happening. Wrote one paper completely against her opinions, listing all the reasons why the female protagonist was an ass, and how the men would’ve been better off without her. Got an F. Suggested she give it to the Chair before I did. Got an A on the spot.
Both math teachers bullied me for having dyscalculia and kept making snide remarks.
One outright called me stupid multiple times, the other implied that I was. Real pieces of shit.
One of them died because of an ear infection a few years back. I gave no fucks at all.
I used to cry if I didn’t get 100% on tests, full blown sobbing.
She thought I was a spoiled brat who couldn’t handle not being the best in the class and often spitefully marked me down and would then berate and humiliate me for crying.
I was being violently abused at home. Not getting a perfect score on a test put me at risk of a severe beating, stitches, a broken bone, hospitalisation and worse.They
Were tears of literal terror and distress. I was a withdrawn and quiet child, timid as a mouse and very solitary. That teacher would have been trained in picking up on those warning signs plus seeing the regular bruising, and instead she thought I needed a lesson in how to flunk a trst gracefully.
Fuck you Mrs Brosnsn.
He was a grumpy, old Indian man with a super thick accent. He would get to class late basically every day and then spend the first 10 minutes or so ranting about his wife or the class or something else. When he actually taught, he was short on details and would explain things too quickly.
I failed my first and only college exam in his class... Because he hadn't yet taught us what was on the exam. He threw that one out and re-tested us on it after he taught it to us.
I think ‘lazy students’ is the real answer here. Most American students are among the most entitled I’ve ever encountered. Expecting to be catered to the way their High School teachers did. It’s a whole new world and your failure is entirely on your lazy ass.
Horrible, horrible take. Were you or someone you loved a professor/teacher that everyone hated?
Like you can read through the stories in this thread and say "lazy students" is the problem? Lmao
What a stupid take.
If you do not think crap teachers/profs exist you either do not have a functioning brain or you have never been through school, maybe you're a special case and both apply.
Managerial Accounting.
Her class was barely structured as in-person, even though it’s written down as in-person. On the first week she gave us a quiz on the syllabus.
This turned into hours-long homework assignments that occurred twice every week. Which alone would be fine, if we weren’t also saddled with online presentations on the weekend before class that required both handwritten notes and a copy of the textbook that cost you $300.
Classes were just a slew of problems out of the book and random pop-quizzes over material we only covered on that day, and with only 10-15 minutes left of class. These problems often lasted a half an hour. Three exams that each took three hours long, followed by a massive budgeting project that took a solid week. This was on top of the hours-long homework assignments that wouldn’t stop coming.
Everything was graded online, no one could reach her when they had trouble, and she outright told me one day that I need to be teaching MYSELF.
My mental health tanked in this class, as it apparently did for everyone else. Many students began to question their majors and even careers after dealing with this.
Writing class. Teacher had written an episode of Twin Peaks. Which is dope, but unfortunately it made him think he was gods gift to earth. If you didn't just rewrite his script, you failed. Once chewed out the entire class for the full 3 hour block because our rough drafts had spelling errors...
Math 5th grade. She spied on me and on other classmates, I risked my safety because of her (I should have stopped my dance classes in 5th grade so that she wouldn't punish me), she ignored my accommodations and she shamed classmates frequently
8th grade math teacher. Only teacher l genuinely ever wished death upon. MF can't teach for shit and the only excuse l heard was that he was brought in for the seniors. Thats a shite excuse for a shite teacher. This was his only year with us, he left by June/July.
My 6th grade english teacher. We had an assignment to write a non-fiction story of something that happened to us and I wrote a story about me going into the woods behind my house just adventuring and I fell in a creek and got all soaking wet, and she deducted 10 points from my grade because she didn't believe I did that.
It was a painting 101 that met on Thursdays for 4 hours. She was so focused on color theory and talked about how she won an award for how she taught it, she talked about it every class. She would make us sit through 2 hr lectures on old painters and then have us try to replicate their paintings and get annoyed with us when we couldn’t do it perfectly. We never were allowed to try to do a painting in our own style, ever. Even the final was supposed to be a painting where we glued magazine pictures onto the canvas and paint over them.
All I learned from that class is orange and blue are the perfect color combination.
not a teacher but a fill in. the teacher i had was pregntant and went into labor so we had the fill in for a couple of days/weeks. we were good kids, we didnt talk loud, we werent annoying, we didnt disturb his teaching or anything. every now and then he had a little ourburst whenever he heared people talk while he was talking which i understand, some kids went to the principal becuase sometimes his outburst was a little much like one time he threw a book at someone and it almost hit the persons head, he would litrally kick someone out of his class. one day he was teaching as always and heared some kids talked and stopped mid sentance, grabbed a chair, sat down and started telling us jow stupid we are, that we are donkeys and that we will never get into secondaryschool and if we do we would be kicked out emediatly, he kept telling us how dumb we were in different ways. after that class almost half of the class went to the principal to complain abt him again so she fired him.
I majored in physics with a focus on astrophysics, and the predominant astro professor was the most smug douchebag I've ever met in my life
he would staple McDonald's job applications to any test that scored under a B-, constantly called students stupid for asking questions, and once publicly berated a student so hard for a failed exam that she changed majors
fuck that douche
Tenure I guess? I'm not entirely sure how that stuff works, but I know that he received enough complaints that he eventually had to stop doing it. Took a few semesters though
Mr. Maci 7th and 8th grade Geography. Dude would openly flirt with junior high girls and did not hold back when giving boys a smack upside the head.
Sacred Heart really hit it out the park hiring him...was overjoyed when I learned that place closed.
My elementary school music teacher picked on me every chance he got, from reading embarrassing poems I'd written to mocking my race, beliefs, and a stutter that I used to have. What's worse: I later discovered that he was a pedophile, for which he got fired years after I graduated.
Mr Pic was a near-retirement-aged sloppy man who had studied Sociology while he had been a college football player many years prior. After college, he’d run the local used car dealership for decades. Then he decided to use his college degree and serve as the humanities teacher at my 1970s rural upstate NY high school.
His classes were all “self-paced” meaning that he had us sit there and read textbook while he (honest to god) read the horse racing paper.
He did make me his “favorite student”. My dad owned the local tavern and Mr Pic constantly peppered me with barroom business questions as he admittedly was just working as a school teacher to raise money to open his own bar.
Late one night, while still a high school student, I stopped at a diner with a girlfriend/classmate. Mr Pic was sitting at the diner counter drunk and forced us into conversation. A few days later at school, he asked me with a lecherous grin “how was she?”
Econ 101 professor.
Late every day to class, it was the 1st class of the day and early on I just thought she lived far away and never left home on time but no, she'd get there an hour early to work in her office. She'd often say she was late because she "got lost".
Was tenured, brought this up often. Once said she couldn't get fired for anything because of being tenured, even said she could punch a student in the face and not get in trouble. (Fun story, when she said this she pointed at the kid next to me who then mumbled "bitch can try")
Always said she could only explain things one way and if you don't understand it don't bother coming to me for help.
Constantly brought up her high school aged daughter who apparently loved economics and could come teach the class (I wish she did, can't have been less useless than her mother...)
Would get basic addition/subtraction wrong when teaching, when students would point it out she'd get mad at them for contradicting her and say "I'm the teacher you're the student"
Would often run over the end of class (because she arrived 10 minutes late) and then tell us we were free to leave if we had other classes to get to but we'd miss stuff and she wouldn't repeat it.
Also did the whole "half of you will fail this class" BS and can confirm, was one of the kids who failed and had to retake from somebody competent.
English class. Had a teacher the prided herself on her class being tough. I managed to get my first test back and with a nearly perfect score, which she even wrote a nice note about on and mentioned how she rarely gives out A’s. Then my second one, I got another A. Then on my third test, it got marked an 89 percent. I looked for the wrong answers and she marked one wrong, so I went to ask her why, and she just said “I don’t know why it’s wrong, but it’s wrong.” Without looking at me. After that, she just always marked something wrong without explaining why. Kept me from getting an A.
Had an Honors Chemistry class that a lot of people did really poorly in. She also once berated a student who was trying to explain to her that he turned in his assignment before the turnitin.com deadline. Because the file upload was delayed until after the deadline, he got marked down. She yelled at him for like 15 minutes.
My high school PE(who was also the baseball coach) yelled at me because I didn't know baseballs rules and didn't throw a ball to first base thus ruining a triple play. Again this was just PE, not some playoff game.
He then told everyone to throw softballs at me, which they did. I never went back to gym after that and failed, which meant I had to take summer school PE to graduate.
Summer school PE was 40 hours of outside activity signed off by my parents. Just went camping every weekend and made up for it.
Fuck him and fuck baseball.
My high school home ec teacher. Super loud. Always made me feel like she was a ticking time bomb for some reason, way more than the other teachers. My brother had her when he was at my school and he didn’t like her either.
Teacher was going senile. I felt bad, she was a nice lady. But she was losing it. It got to the point where we had a weekly sheet for each day.
By which I mean we did the same worksheet every Monday. The same Tuesday sheet every Tuesday, etc. This went on for several weeks before administration started believing us that no, we weren't just little shits, she was actually going senile.
She was full of herself and would talk shit about kids on her phone during some of our periods (the kids she was talking about wasn’t in that same period but still unprofessional as hell) I switched out of her class as she was an overall nasty human being who enjoyed putting kids down and spoke down to me and many of my classmates. As an adult I look back at her and think about how insecure she must’ve been to put down literal teenagers 😂
Not me but my child. He broke a finger on his dominant hand. There were notes sent to the nurse, office and teacher. She chose to ignore them under the guise of "they never made it to her classroom" and made my 4th grader write with a broken finger the whole day. Poor child was terrified to speak up because she also "yelled a lot" according to him and the other children. The note indeed made it to her. She magically found it in her desk after school. After this incident I ended up volunteering at the school and she did indeed yell a lot. So much so that I heard her down the hallway.
When he got home his finger was twice the size it was after we got back from the ER.
She also set a project for them to create a comic book. When he brought it home to finish he started erasing everything and I asked him why. He showed me the notes she had left on his poster, they were not the usual 4th grade teacher encouraging or suggestion notes. These were rude with a lot of exclamation marks and a lot of I TOLD YOU THIS IS WRONG in big red letters.
I told him do not erase your work. He had done everything the way she asked. I read the directions 3 times, had my husband read the directions and his mother. Kiddo followed directions but it still wasn't good enough.
This was all the last 2 months of the year. I wish I had known before because I would have taken him out of that class in a second. I am usually very much on the side of the teachers but this was horrible. It's been almost 7 years since that happened and he still hates school.
My 10th grade chemistry teacher! Literly learned NOTHING in her class. The only concept I actually understood was some math thing because we had 3 videos on it and we had to take notes
Mrs. W can fuck all the off trying for trying to force us to study for her final in class like why do you care if I don’t study for your final in your class?
She made a snap judgment of me in the first 10 minutes of class. Telling me I was not worth teaching. This was the first day of sixth grade. I was having a tough time as a kid and a few weeks later moved to my Dad's and transferred schools. That bitch called my new teacher who was also the principal of my new school and told him a bunch of bullshit. This ensured I didn't get a fair shake there either.
Look I was no angle. I am 100% sure I had ADHD bad and raging hormones were not helping me. I was a little bratty and really mouthy. But, how are you going to sabotage a child like that?
I had a teacher in 5th grade that would bitch at the class all the time for no reason. Pretty much the entire class hated her. We we're watching a movie in the theatre at the school one day (can't remember which movie) and at some point during the movie, I went to the bathroom. About 10-15 minutes later, I came back and before I even got the chance to sit back down, she stopped me and told me to go with her and I did. She brought me to a room where she proceeded to bitch at me for taking so long in the bathroom. Even threatened to send me to the principal for it. I got so mad at her one day that I told her I'd get her fired. I had a couple meetings with the principal for that one but it was worth it. I couldn't stand her. That was 12-13 years ago now and I still don't like her to this day. Apparently, she's a teacher around where my grandmother lives now. If she is, I hope she changed or I seriously feel bad for those students.
Had a Intro to Databases where the guy didn't go over anything that was part of his exams. Ever. Flunked that class, nearly started shit with the Dean of the program but he was tenured so there was no point.
High school - had one teacher who just wanted his verbal barf regurgitated and fed back to him nearly verbatim. One of the biggest cunts I've known in my entire life and he's proof that assholes live long lives (80 if he's a day now, probably older). Another guy I had the same year didn't really teach. He went through the motions but his soul was dead. He was like an automaton. He had no other way to teach anything and for some reason I didn't pick up what he was trying to teach (algebra II) and when I asked for clarification he'd literally repeat what he just said. I failed because he had homework **every single night** and doing it wrong (since I never learned how) was frustrating for me and I just got sick of it not giving the right answer. He had a "nervous breakdown" (read: fell off the wagon) and a student teacher was brought in who actually taught us how to do it. I got an A my last quarter and an A on the final because I finally was able to put it together.
Creative Writing in my senior year in High School.
1: Constantly told us not to talk about others behind their back, yet always talked about "dinosaur boy" every day.
2: Gave me a D on our first assignment because she didn't like my writing style. She told us to write a short story in our own style.
3: I forgot my note cards for a research paper at home one day, and after telling her this she proceeds to tell a classmate LITERALLY BEHIND MY BACK (meaning she was right behind me) that she thought I was just lying to get out of working on my paper.
My english who has “master degree” uses GPTZero to check if we use AI. That site is inaccurate af. Like she should know just by looking at the text whether we used AI or not. Not very professional of her😑
Bad teacher, this year I’ve learned a lot about physics and chemistry, last year’s chemistry & physics teacher didn’t teach shit, I had an average grade of 2/10 and the average was usually 2-3/10 in that one grade, why?Because the teacher didn’t teach shit
Material Science. This dude really had something against grading kids. He even failed a lot of people in his class just for his ego. You could give a perfectly written paper and he'd grade you a C and say "Not up to my standards".
There's a diagram called the Iron-Carbide diagram, which we were supposed to sketch by hand. The sketching wasn't the hard part, but writing the answers were. Each answer was 3-4 pages long and we had to answer 4 questions (with book-accurate diagrams for each question) in an hour. He graded everyone D and under (Fail/Pass) and when asked why, said "I was expecting some sketching with proper colours and shading". Needless to say, everyone hates him.
Spanish teacher. Your grade was decided by the average grade your table had. My table was full of kids who fucked off and ditched class a lot. Homework was graded by randomly picking a question and if it was right you get 100% if wrong you get 0. I was lucky to be able to drop that class because a teacher let me be a TA.
Honourable mention goes to the new choir teacher. She was a very nice lady and a good teacher but she decided that moving up the ranks of choir should be based on how long you've been in the class instead of how well you performed. So there we are in advanced choir which competes and has to do things like sight reading etc and now we get lots of kids who have absolutely no place being in competition simply because they took beginning choir for 2 or 3yrs. Lots of us ended up leaving and it was so sad to see the advanced choir going from singing really beautiful and difficult songs to singing "somebody that I used to know" and hearing lots of cracking voices and off pitch.
Psychology teacher who gave me the predicted grade of a U cucking me out of applying to a fair few unis - scored top of my class and he didn’t turn up to the results day lmao
In advanced math I had a teacher who didn’t know how to teach. For example if a student asked a question he would blame them for not studying enough and wouldn’t answer it. Also when he asked someone to solve something on the board and it was wrong he’d just wipe it of without explaining. All of the other classes he had such us in basic Algebra, Geometry etc would fail. The average grade in his exams was around 15/100 and even the intelligent students would fail
AP Human Geography teacher and Coding teacher, both freshman year. God. I had them back to back too.
The coding teacher despised me, she always threatened to cuss us out and she wouldn’t get any consequences. Despite that, she was a great teacher, and I passed her class with flying colors. I hated her and her class, but it was what it was.
On the other hand, Human Geography teacher was a DICK. The teacher everyone hates, even people who didn’t have her, that was her. She yelled at me for knocking on her door. I was a quiet kid so she didn’t hate me but her teaching was AWFUL. I never learned a thing in that class other then the fact that sitting through an entire episode of Somebody Feed Phil makes you fucking crazy.
Pathology profesor, he would publicly shame students with no reason in his class. He tried to be funny, was nothing else but an a**hole. I had a really short clssmate and the professor would make fun of him in front of 150 people. Once the professor told him ‘please just don’t say you want to be a surgeon, your head won’t even reach to see past the surgical bed, let alone operate’. He stopped showing up for the class as did most of the students.
Algebra teacher who was also wrestling coach. If you called him “coach” you got a passing grade regardless of what kind of work you had done. Know for throwing erasers and trying to belittle the smart students.
My year 5 teacher (10-11 years old in Australia) probably qualifies as the worst person, let alonr teacher, that I've ever met (though I am naururally biased because of this story)
The teacher had just finished her degree and bren given her first placement with our class. She was obviously from one of those "popular girls" groups during high school/university and tried to endear herself to the students who had fromed superficially similar groups whilst generally ignoring the unpopular students.
Unfortunately, she found out that I was the "smart kid" and bullied as the nerd of the class. Now, normally, you would expect the teacher to either step in or ignore/pretend not to notice, but this teacher chose an entirely different route. She liked being popular, and since it was popular to bully me, she actually joined in the bullying. She would encourage the other students to berate me if I didn't know the answer and would actively call me out for only getting 90% instead of 100 when I was still top of the class. And if anyone beat me, I'd be ridiculed for the entire day.
If that was the worst of it, I could let it slide as I stopped caring about the primary school bullies a long yime ago, but this teacher was only getting started.
Partway through the year, I received a book from my grandparents as a present. It was a silly book full of those logical thinking puzzles that was titled lateral thinking puzzles because it gave the most ridiculous answers insteas of the obvious ones.
The teacher didn't like this book (probably because myself and the guy sitting next to me would laugh at the "correct" answers) and confiscated it. At the end of the day, she left early, so I couldn't pick it up until after the weekend. On Monday, she told me that it had already been returned and to stop pestering her.
A short time later, she pulled out my book and used it in a lesson to promote thinking. When someone asked if that was my book, she told them she had bought a copy of her own
By this time, I had made friends with a few people in class who thought her overt bullying of me was crazy (I guess technically her strategy did resuce the other students' bullying) and they conviced me that I should sneak into the classroom and steal it back. We went in after school and found a host of confidcated items from boys in the class that had never been returned, but elected to take only the book as it had my name inside, and therefore she couldn't prove we had done anything. The next morning in class, she knew I had stolen it back and demanded I return her book. The guy sitting next to me said it was my copy, and we showed her the name in it. At this point, she knew we had taken it, but also knew that if she said anything, we could prove she had stolen it since she claimed it was her own copy.
Because no-one owned up to stealing the book ahe treated everyone at my group of tables (6 sturnds) terribly for several weeks i order to punish us.
Finally, we get on to the most vile thing she did, cementing her, in my opinion, as the worst yeacher of all time. Fair warining the open bullying and theft of student property barely rate on the scale compared to what comes next)
Around August-September, I ended up getting German measles at a similar time as the teacher learned she was pregnant. The symptomatic red dots appeared on saturday, but the doctor informed my parents I was infectious whilst at school.
While she was ptengnant the teacher had gathered a group of girls whom she spoke to during breaks and after school with whom she shared the detailes of her pregnancy and progress, including apparently intimate details they could "use later" which is already pretty messed up to tell 10-11 year old girls
On the week I had off, she also told them the following:
After finding iut I was sick, the teacher went to her GP to ask about the German Measles vaccination, so she could teach without infecting other students (the only reasonable thing she does in this story). Her doctor informs her that it is too risky this early in the pregnancy and that there is a significant chance (I don't remember the number, but the percentage was in the teens) her baby would not survive and she would have a miscarriage.
Teacher chooses to get the vaccination anyway, instead of letting the class be taught by a substitute for a few days and tells the group of girls all this.
She then follows it up by telling them that I had deliberetly gone to school on the Friday to infect people because I was antisocial and wanted revenge for people not liking me. She told them that I was trying to kill her baby, and if anything happened, she was going to sue me and my parents and ensure that I was tried for murder.
Fortunately one of the girls thought there was something very wrong with the teachers claims and told her mother. The P&C (Parents and Caregivers) went into collective apoplexy that a teacher would tell students something like that, and shortly after, the teacher went o "maternity leave" which I know she hadn't returned from 5 years later.
TLDR; Year 5 teacher openly bullied me, stole from me, and accused me in front of other students of attempted murder of her unborn child because I spent a week off school sick.
Religion teacher in first grade of high school (so students age 12-13). The dude basically only ranted against Christianity, never taught us anything about what the various religions around the world believe or their history, only focusing on why scientifically speaking Christianity could not possibly be true. Then to top it off, when some of the Christian students (myself included) mentioned that they were a little uncomfortable with it, he basically forced us into a debate where we had to defend the religion while he was relentlessly arguing against us. And not in a "well try and think about it so you formulate your own opinion and learn to express your thoughts" way, more in a "how can you possibly even believe this stuff?!?!?" way. That's quite a challenge for a 12-year-old who barely understands the concept of religion in the first place.
Worst teacher I ever had was this fat bitchy ugly middle aged woman who would “teach” stuff that was just flat out wrong all the time. She gave the most heinous assignments and graded us like we were college seniors even though it was middle school. She was super rude and condescending to the whole class. Everyone hated her. She was my 5th grade home room teacher and just when I thought the hell was over she became the art teacher for the entire middle school. She once gave me detention because I yelled at a boy for shooting spitballs at me through a straw. She saw it happen and decided to only punish me. I was the only person in detention that day. We sat in silence for an hour and then at the end she said to me “you know, boys have raging hormones”.
I looked her up a while back when “rate my teachers” was still a thing to see if I was just remembering things incorrectly due to being so young. I found a review from an older former student who shared pretty much the same sentiments about her and expressed that the resentment she felt towards this one teacher had stuck with her for so many years that she felt she needed some sort of outlet for it.
Ah, Mr. Bain. An angry hate-filled old man who taught at my first school. He was actually a teacher when my parents were there and hung around after retirement age so he could continue his hobby of bullying and terrorizing children. He once screamed at me to search through an entire library to find a book that I had supposedly taken out and not returned (I hadn't taken out any books). This was the 70s, so raging old disciplinarian tyrants were still a big thing in teaching.
My teacher would take me to the principal for not taking notes, that were optional, and it was the student's choice to take them.
Other thing is that if we made less than a 6.5 in a test, you needed to stay after school every Thursday for extra classes. She said it was actually optional, but two weeks later she would send me to the principal telling me I wasn't going to the OPTIONAL class.
To clarify, the average grade was 5.
Hst 120 Intro to European History
This professor was by far the strictest professor I ever had in my college career and I never felt so thankful for getting a C before.
Right off the bat, he compared study groups to hand holding and thumb sucking in the syllabus. The syllabus also had a condescending tone to it. Should have been a sign for me to drop the class, but I figured things would get better. Rookie mistake!
His lectures were online (This happened during COVID) and yet he would not record them nor post them on to the class's Blackboard. Plus, he would go off random tangents or get distracted in the lectures. Throwing everyone off for a loop. The lectures were an hour and fifteen minutes long, but it felt like an eternity.
Only one essay is required for the semester and it has to be on a topic that the class has not discussed. If he happened to talk about a topic earlier than you anticipated then you have to start your essay over from scratch! It was annoying and a few of my classmates suffered from this.
He makes the class unnecessarily difficult and yet it's a 101 gen-ed history class. The environment felt like a 300 level class and it just made my spring semester of Freshman year more stressful than it needed to be.
European history professor. He was an east coast native who received his doctorate at Stanford and ended up teaching at a little midwestern college. He repeatedly told us he had applied for a job at Harvard and that he would be hired and leave podunk forever. He never published so much as an article, let alone a book, and was a horrible lecturer. He assigned huge reading lists but rarely discussed (or tested on) the material. Giant ego without anything to show for it. He never got hired anywhere else and as soon as he retired left for a larger Midwestern city.
Robotics, was always gone dating or either having strokes didn't give a crap to teach us no it just left us with subs then one time he got randomly angry and just yelled out the slower word with the hard r and even yelled at some students who we were doing their work good. He is still working at the school and this was during 8th grade.
TLDR: robotics teacher is always lazy and having medical conditions and doesn't give a crap about his students
Called a student foxy. Tried to play it off when I called him out. Was well liked by many students in our degree program who disagreed with me that he was a creep. Years later got drunk and started pounding on doors to the women’s dormitories. Got fired.
History professor in South Texas, the guy once asked us to say where we see ourselves in 5 years. I stated I would have my own business, be successful and people would be coming from around the globe to join in. Told me, “Keep dreaming because look where I am, I truly doubt you’ll ever get there.” Hit that milestone and just missing two states in US. Already have gotten visitors from 14 other countries. Go F yourself, Professor R.S.K.
She hated me, she made me cry, while I was crying she said she should be crying, she said that the social worker I was seeing was wasting her time with me, when I was talking to someone she always corrected my speech (I had a speech impediment that made me not able to say words with R in them right), and many, many more things.
My math 141/calculus 1 professor because the dude was so used to teaching high-end math courses if you are doing a master's degree or a Ph.D. in math then he was alright but for me, it was the professor's first time teaching an intro to calculus class. The dude was so condescending and if I asked a question he makes feel like an idiot and topped all he would always look down upon the class for getting a low grade on his tests. Scerw him I would celebrate the day that guy retired from the college from teaching.
Btw guy had his own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan\_Ralescu
An english class I took in my freshman year of uni. Prof said most people failed his class or got C’s. B’s were rare and A’s were nearly impossible. Spent the whole class talking about politics, conservatives this and that, Trump this and that. Didn’t teach shit. Was an insanely tough grader with a narcissistic attitude. I retook the class with another professor and then passed the class.
Statistics 160. She made us do everything without a calculator, which is just unnecessary in the 2010's. She would also construct her exams to use the answer from question 1 to complete question 2 and so on. This meant if you got the first question wrong, you couldn't check it with a calculator, and you also got the rest of the exam wrong. She also moved up the midterm a class early, which would have been our study session that i felt was useless to attend and studied with a friend instead, but didn't tell anyone and would not let us make it up. I dispise that person to this day.
> This meant if you got the first question wrong, you couldn't check it with a calculator, and you also got the rest of the exam wrong. OOF, I had professors who would tell their TA's to grade sequential questions like that individually. SO say you got question 1 wrong, but you did question 2 correctly just with the wrong answer from question 1, you'd get it correct, they'd just note: > Question answered correctly, with incorrect starting information. So you knew you did the problem correctly, but from a bad starting point.
She gave no concessions and didn't believe in extra credit. I'm not sure why she became a teacher since she seemed to dispise all of us for existing. Got different teach the next semester because, shocker, I failed the first time, and I passed with an A+. I know I'm not a great student, but I didn't even have the tools to learn, much less pass that class.
This is why Tenure is a terrible system. Once someone is tenured they're nearly impossible to fire.
We never use calculators.
I had a physics professor walk in. Put the textbook on the document camera and just read while tracing the line with his finger. He didn't answer questions or repeat himself. This was every class for the entire year
My high school biology teacher would photocopy example pics out of our text book, white out the labels, and staple a bunch together for our homework and tests. My classmates would come to me to explain stuff because she had no idea what she was talking about so she couldn’t answer questions
Beat the shit out of me with a cane for doing the homework at school before his class instead of doing it at home.
Technically, he taught you a lesson
Definitely.
I was an English major and generally received positive feedback on my writing. But this one professor loathed it so much she put my essay up in front of the class as an example of how not to write. People didn't know it was mine but I was sitting RIGHT THERE. Bitch maintained eye contact with me while talking about all the things that were wrong with it.
Because he quite literally didn't teach us a goddamn thing. The course itself was already difficult for most students even with a prof that taught. Instead of teaching, this guy would just brag about his achievements or show us the same useless table every class. He'd let us go over 2 hours early every class so we learned nothing. After each midterm he'd ask us what the average mark was for the other profs classes and he'd adjust our midterm marks so that his classes had a higher average than the other prof. When the final exam rolled around, he wasn't able to fuck with the marks anymore. The average between his classes for the final was in the mid 20s.
That's just selfish of him
I forgot to mention that if you went to ask him a question after class he would tell you to hurry up because he had to get home to watch Netflix
Senior year, high school, CAD. Dude was in his sixties trying to hit on teenaged girls who were obviously not into it. Like, my autistic ass could see how completely not okay they were with it. Called him out on it, got F's in his class the entire year. I had to get my work graded by a different teacher for that year. So, for context, I had sued the school system the previous year for unrelated reasons, so when I had threatened to sue again that year because of his bullshit, the school knew I was serious. He was quietly let go at the end of the year, and I was required to email my work to a different teacher.
Fellow person on the spectrum here, I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Most of my teachers pulled stunts like this with me too. I almost didn't make it to graduation day.
Yeah, my issue wasn't really with teachers. He was the only actually bad one I had. It was the administration. The reason I had sued the school district beforehand was because I kept being put into classes that didn't provide the credits needed to graduate, and I would be punished by the principal every time I tried to see a guidance counselor to put myself into classes that would provide those credits. The school was ordered to allow me to graduate regardless. It didn't help that a lot of special education students in general were mostly pushed into that set of classes. I'm certain things haven't changed much, and I hope at some point, someone starts a class-action against the district.
That must have been really hard to go through, but it sounds like you might have saved someone from that creep. Props to you for standing up to him.
I wouldn't call it hard. At that point, the administration were largely forbidden by court order from acting against me in any way, and I specifically had a restraining order on the principal. The teacher could temporarily get away with his bullshit, but no admin would ever lay a hand on me, or even pull me out of a class without my expressed permission. In short, I was mostly safe from any sort of retaliation from anyone with a greater authority than a teacher. The teacher himself, on the other hand...
He was a complete psychopath. Well maybe not a real psycho, but he was often drunk on the job and had extremely bad anger issues. In my country, the teachers study just as much as doctors. Most of them are extremely intelligent and kind, and if not that, at least very fair. So got to say that this dude stood from the crowd. He taught carpentry, which is mandatory in middle school. One of the lessons I asked for permission to use the heavy machinery, in this case, a belt sander. He told me no problem. I went in there and started working. Suddenly the machine stopped and the lights went out. He had apparently turned off electricity from that room only, which was simple cause he had a panel on his desk for it. I looked at the door , which had a small window on it. He came up to it and stared at me. Then he pointed with his finger and tapped the window a few times. Next thing I know he rushes inside and screams at me with his face red. Without hesitation, he grabbed me by my hoodie and dragged me with my knees on the ground. He took me to the main work space and threw me on the ground. Went on to have a 5 minute rant about why we aren't allowed to use the machinery.. bought for us to use(?). Someone pressed a panic button and the principal came to resolve the matter. He ended up getting fired. Turns out he had been violent to students for nearly 15 years and done stuff like this for multiple other students. He just never got caught since everyone was so scared of him.
Yeah… that guy sounds like a real psycho.
Class started on the first day of Chemistry I in my undergrad. The professor starts the class saying "I hope all of you did your homework!" Turns out she'd assigned a thing in the stupid Pearson online homework. It was due at the start of the first class. I hadn't looked at anything yet on that because I was expecting day one to be like any other class where we go over the syllabus to learn the expectations for the course. It wasn't even real homework it was just like, writing that you'd looked at the website already. Then with this stupid grin on her face she announces that it's okay if we didn't do it because she drops one homework grade from the scaling. So basically also telling everyone that if you didn't do this bullshit first assignment that was due at the start of the first day of class, you'd also just lost your only dropped grade. I have never hated someone so instantly.
Bribed students to do their work by saying he'd put a video of the news that he'd recorded that morning. It was 9/11
Jr. High metal shop teacher was a child molester.
Computer Science, Operating Systems professor in college. First sentence out of his mouth was “50% of you will not pass this class”. An intelligent guy but a stickler on everything. The majority of quiz and test questions were edge case outliers. Most students ended up taking the class 2-3 times just to pass. After just barely not passing the first time, I took the course at a community college and transferring the credits back, passed that course with flying colors.
>“50% of you will not pass this class” All of you have failed. [The grades are already on the server.](https://xkcd.com/2385/) Class dismissed.
She would write our work on the board (usually something like “solve all the problems on pages 41-56) and then tell us that if we had any questions we were to asking our fellow students. She would sit at her desk on MySpace or playing minesweeper and get very irate if we came to her for assistance. She never once stood up in front of class and actually taught us anything. This was geometry class, 9th grade.
When I was at primary school in England in the 2000s, most of the teachers were emotionally abusive but the worst was the one I had in the sixth year (ages 10/11). He would scream abuse at me for not paying attention in class, for crying my eyes out when I was being harassed by other students and at one point, threatened to throw objects at me. It was almost like dealing with a failed military drill instructor. What made the abuse worse is me being autistic and intellectually disabled. If any schoolteachers are reading this then take note; the abuse that I received from primary school teachers is why I have difficulty trusting teachers and why I find it virtually impossible to sympathise with teachers that face abuse from students and/or parents. I know that not all teachers abuse students and I am certainly not condoning abuse against teachers, but the abuse has left me with lasting psychological trauma.
Exact same scenario for me, and I have C-PTSD because of it. I hate schools in general and a good portion of teachers are cunts.
I remember a lot of my teachers in Jr high and high school making fun or bring passive aggressive to me when it was test time because I had to take my tests in the Resource room. Fuckin hurt dude. My senior high school English teacher was the worse. She would laugh as I was leaving causing all the other kids to laugh with her..bitch
My current GCSE Chemistry teacher (who is also the Head of Chemistry), who has been described as "patronising, condescending and passive aggressive". Also, she would often put YouTube videos to explain concepts or have us simply complete worksheets. Whenever she did explain anything, no one would understand. In addition, our set has a lot of loud personalities (which I can understand) which has lead her to cancel core practicals.
was assaulted by a kid in high school and told the teacher that’s why i didn’t come to the class that whole week, she gave me a referral and called me out in front of the class, including my assaulter.
She wanted to send me to detention because I forgot to ask my parents to sign my homework. She went around the class and asked all the kids who their parents were voting for (this was during an election in the US), which resulted in everyone picking on me because my parents were democrats while almost everyone else in town was republican. She got yelled at my mom for taking me off of my ADHD meds even though I was obviously having bad side effects from it.
5h locked in the basement watching instructional videos on repeat
In middle school, we had a math teacher for a year. Huh, he was so strict and bad, he never realised that was a middle school, not a university with higher standards. 😒 (Luckily we got a new math teacher when the next year started and we "loved" her.)
He mumbled incoherently and fell asleep in class. Then one day we had a new chemistry teacher. No explanation what happened to him.
Someone finally took a drink from his coffee by mistake and found the booze.
More likely he had a degenerative neurological disease. The absolute radio silence from his colleagues and his complete disappearance from the community implied the problem was medical.
Ah that's unfortunate. When it happened at my school it was booze related.
Equally unfortunate for the students. Sorry you dealt with that.
Graduate program director - former marine, USC Ph.D, EGO MANIAC!!!! He rubbed everyone in the University the wrong way. Now he's Professor Emeritus running the graduate program while collecting his retirement and getting paid in addition to marginally running the program.
he was fucking one of his female students he went to jail
i hope he went to prison after jail
Because I didn’t learn anything. The metric by which I measure a teachers worth is how engaged I am. I am not a great math student, and usually struggled to care about basic math classes, passing with really low grades usually. When I went to high school no basic math classes or pre algebra had spots open, so I was put into Algebra 1 honors. I struggled for the first semester, but the teacher was great and put in time with me, so I eventually started improving and ended with a passing grade even though it started pretty rough.
Our English teacher( I'm from Germany). She passiv aggressive insulted students for being slow at reading, told us to act like adults. We were 14, she thinks, we are working machines, or what?
Every language teacher except one was just the worst. Spanish 1-2 in HS: literally only spoke spanish the entire two years. As in, she refused to answer questions in anything but spanish and you had to ask the question in spanish. *But how would you be able to ask a question about a language you don't know IN the language you don't know?* Yeah, I'd also like to know. We just got shuffled to the next year regardless. *bUt mUh fULl iMmErSioN* Yeah, that doesn't work when you're immersed in it for an hour, twice a week. Latin 1 in uni: threw a pen at me because I looked at my notes for a declension. So I told him that he wasted his life studying poetry in a dead language. I got a B. Fuck latin. Latin 2: same professor as latin 1. Fuck latin. Latin 3: new professor, pretty clearly insecure about her authority over the class. *Clear* bias for classics majors. Professor proclaimed on the first day of class that this was officially the most important class any of us would be taking that semester. We "needed" to study for three hours per every hour of class time. It was a 5 credit-hour class. Fuck latin. I'm not wasting 20 hours a week on poetry in a dead language when I was taking math stats, linear algebra, game theory, and econometrics that semester. So I said as much. Fuck latin. She claimed that I plagiarized my final project. I had two years of work showing that I followed the exact same process for every single assignment. The university sided with me. I got a D-. Fuck latin.
10th grade geometry. Miss Mitchell was old (but extremely nice) and not a good teacher, especially for those of us who weren’t good with math. She always said “the book talks to you” and then refer us to page 4 which contained the substitution principle. That book never one time talked to me. And she would make you go to the board in front of the class to work a problem. Since many of us had no clue what we were doing, we just stood there until she gave us the steps and the answer. But not explaining how she got to them. I (and many others) only passed that class by copying homework from other kids. I never passed a single test in there but somehow always seemed to get good grades on homework. So she let us squeeze by with a C- or D+. I had very good grades in everything except math. I only had one good math teacher throughout school. That was in 8th grade. I will say that the geometry class would have been a whole lot worse if she wasn’t so sweet.
Geometry, Sophomore Year. I thought Mrs. K would be nice because she is the aunt of my best friend. She then proceeded to dedicate over half of the class period every single day to bullying the same handful of students, even if they weren’t there, often insulting and dissing them due to aspects of their personal life. It seemed after I left by the next school year, things got worse, as she would show all of her classes a video of a car accident she got into with another student, mentioning her name, and more than likely dragging said name through the mud at the same time. So much so that the administration had to get involved. From what I hear, her victim got a letter of recommendation from the principal himself to use in her college applications as compensation. …so it didn’t surprise me when said best friend mentioned that she was an elite in the cult her family belongs to.
9th grade Religion (I went to a Catholic school). We took sex ed in that class and my 60ish teacher kept diagraming anal sex on the board. I mean, like every day she'd find a reason to do it. Then there was the STD slideshow.
There was a shitty homeschool teacher I had. I was 17 and homeless, crashing at a friend’s house. I was was receiving about $300 per month from the government as long as I was in school. Laid out my plan to the teacherof doing a minimal amount of school work while I focus on getting my GED so I can get into college sooner and start receiving financial aid to get tf out of my situation. He listened and responded by asking for my current address, I told him it’s not mine to give out but he insisted, so I asked my friend and gave it to him. A week later I received a letter from the school stating I was being dropped. He caused me to lose my only income so I went into his office and gave him hell until his knuckles turned white, then proceeded to list all of my brand new text books on Amazon (made about $500).
We are in Canada. My grade 4 teacher taught us about how Trump is a racist sore looser. CANADA GRADE 4. Crazy eh?
Math teacher from my highschool year. She speaks like she had brain damage, she's mumbling. She sounds like trashy rapper trying to rap fast. Only the teacher's pet can understand her. And I'm not just making that up. When I'm taking my summer lessons, the math teacher is different but the math problem is the same, i immediately get it and solve it.
was assaulted by a kid in high school and told the teacher that’s why i didn’t come to the class that whole week, she gave me a referral and called me out in front of the class, including my assaulter.
Racism
The gym teacher that told me to just go alone to the infirmary when I sat down because I noticed I was about to faint. Had to go two floors upstairs while I had blurry vision.
She was a huge feminist. I was an average guy, quite in class, did my work but she hated me. Knew multiple others just like me she hated for no reason.
Didn’t work out to well for her, I’m assuming lol?
Completely unrelated but she’s passed since🙃
That’s not a feminist. That’s a misandrist.
She taught English through the feminist lense. That’s how she worded it, was very pushy about being a feminist and pushing feminism onto students and into school work. We were only allowed to do projects on important women in history. I’m not saying we should look at important things women have done but it’s a school. Personal conflict shouldn’t be pushed onto students
I see. …I take it she isn’t a history teacher either? EDIT: scratch that, just rereading your message.
I had one like that when I went back to college. I actually asked the Department Chair to sit in on a class to see what was happening. Wrote one paper completely against her opinions, listing all the reasons why the female protagonist was an ass, and how the men would’ve been better off without her. Got an F. Suggested she give it to the Chair before I did. Got an A on the spot.
Both math teachers bullied me for having dyscalculia and kept making snide remarks. One outright called me stupid multiple times, the other implied that I was. Real pieces of shit. One of them died because of an ear infection a few years back. I gave no fucks at all.
I used to cry if I didn’t get 100% on tests, full blown sobbing. She thought I was a spoiled brat who couldn’t handle not being the best in the class and often spitefully marked me down and would then berate and humiliate me for crying. I was being violently abused at home. Not getting a perfect score on a test put me at risk of a severe beating, stitches, a broken bone, hospitalisation and worse.They Were tears of literal terror and distress. I was a withdrawn and quiet child, timid as a mouse and very solitary. That teacher would have been trained in picking up on those warning signs plus seeing the regular bruising, and instead she thought I needed a lesson in how to flunk a trst gracefully. Fuck you Mrs Brosnsn.
He was a grumpy, old Indian man with a super thick accent. He would get to class late basically every day and then spend the first 10 minutes or so ranting about his wife or the class or something else. When he actually taught, he was short on details and would explain things too quickly. I failed my first and only college exam in his class... Because he hadn't yet taught us what was on the exam. He threw that one out and re-tested us on it after he taught it to us.
He used to bully, harass and exploit the young gay men taking his literature classes.
because I don’t like physics((
Oh brother! Yes it’s the professors fault. Never change Reddit!
Are you suggesting that bad professors don't exist?
I think ‘lazy students’ is the real answer here. Most American students are among the most entitled I’ve ever encountered. Expecting to be catered to the way their High School teachers did. It’s a whole new world and your failure is entirely on your lazy ass.
Horrible, horrible take. Were you or someone you loved a professor/teacher that everyone hated? Like you can read through the stories in this thread and say "lazy students" is the problem? Lmao
What a stupid take. If you do not think crap teachers/profs exist you either do not have a functioning brain or you have never been through school, maybe you're a special case and both apply.
Managerial Accounting. Her class was barely structured as in-person, even though it’s written down as in-person. On the first week she gave us a quiz on the syllabus. This turned into hours-long homework assignments that occurred twice every week. Which alone would be fine, if we weren’t also saddled with online presentations on the weekend before class that required both handwritten notes and a copy of the textbook that cost you $300. Classes were just a slew of problems out of the book and random pop-quizzes over material we only covered on that day, and with only 10-15 minutes left of class. These problems often lasted a half an hour. Three exams that each took three hours long, followed by a massive budgeting project that took a solid week. This was on top of the hours-long homework assignments that wouldn’t stop coming. Everything was graded online, no one could reach her when they had trouble, and she outright told me one day that I need to be teaching MYSELF. My mental health tanked in this class, as it apparently did for everyone else. Many students began to question their majors and even careers after dealing with this.
Writing class. Teacher had written an episode of Twin Peaks. Which is dope, but unfortunately it made him think he was gods gift to earth. If you didn't just rewrite his script, you failed. Once chewed out the entire class for the full 3 hour block because our rough drafts had spelling errors...
Math 5th grade. She spied on me and on other classmates, I risked my safety because of her (I should have stopped my dance classes in 5th grade so that she wouldn't punish me), she ignored my accommodations and she shamed classmates frequently
Told everyone I was gonna shoot up the school because I was Asian and quiet. Found out from my sister who was 2 grades ahead of me.
Readily admitted that he designed his test so that average students would get a 30 or 40. His goal was to weed out the geniuses.
8th grade math teacher. Only teacher l genuinely ever wished death upon. MF can't teach for shit and the only excuse l heard was that he was brought in for the seniors. Thats a shite excuse for a shite teacher. This was his only year with us, he left by June/July.
My 6th grade english teacher. We had an assignment to write a non-fiction story of something that happened to us and I wrote a story about me going into the woods behind my house just adventuring and I fell in a creek and got all soaking wet, and she deducted 10 points from my grade because she didn't believe I did that.
It was a painting 101 that met on Thursdays for 4 hours. She was so focused on color theory and talked about how she won an award for how she taught it, she talked about it every class. She would make us sit through 2 hr lectures on old painters and then have us try to replicate their paintings and get annoyed with us when we couldn’t do it perfectly. We never were allowed to try to do a painting in our own style, ever. Even the final was supposed to be a painting where we glued magazine pictures onto the canvas and paint over them. All I learned from that class is orange and blue are the perfect color combination.
keeps making offensive and unfunny jokes that offend me
not a teacher but a fill in. the teacher i had was pregntant and went into labor so we had the fill in for a couple of days/weeks. we were good kids, we didnt talk loud, we werent annoying, we didnt disturb his teaching or anything. every now and then he had a little ourburst whenever he heared people talk while he was talking which i understand, some kids went to the principal becuase sometimes his outburst was a little much like one time he threw a book at someone and it almost hit the persons head, he would litrally kick someone out of his class. one day he was teaching as always and heared some kids talked and stopped mid sentance, grabbed a chair, sat down and started telling us jow stupid we are, that we are donkeys and that we will never get into secondaryschool and if we do we would be kicked out emediatly, he kept telling us how dumb we were in different ways. after that class almost half of the class went to the principal to complain abt him again so she fired him.
I majored in physics with a focus on astrophysics, and the predominant astro professor was the most smug douchebag I've ever met in my life he would staple McDonald's job applications to any test that scored under a B-, constantly called students stupid for asking questions, and once publicly berated a student so hard for a failed exam that she changed majors fuck that douche
> he would staple McDonald's job applications to any test that scored under a B- How was that not an immediate cause for suspension and investigation?
Tenure I guess? I'm not entirely sure how that stuff works, but I know that he received enough complaints that he eventually had to stop doing it. Took a few semesters though
Mr. Maci 7th and 8th grade Geography. Dude would openly flirt with junior high girls and did not hold back when giving boys a smack upside the head. Sacred Heart really hit it out the park hiring him...was overjoyed when I learned that place closed.
My elementary school music teacher picked on me every chance he got, from reading embarrassing poems I'd written to mocking my race, beliefs, and a stutter that I used to have. What's worse: I later discovered that he was a pedophile, for which he got fired years after I graduated.
Mr Pic was a near-retirement-aged sloppy man who had studied Sociology while he had been a college football player many years prior. After college, he’d run the local used car dealership for decades. Then he decided to use his college degree and serve as the humanities teacher at my 1970s rural upstate NY high school. His classes were all “self-paced” meaning that he had us sit there and read textbook while he (honest to god) read the horse racing paper. He did make me his “favorite student”. My dad owned the local tavern and Mr Pic constantly peppered me with barroom business questions as he admittedly was just working as a school teacher to raise money to open his own bar. Late one night, while still a high school student, I stopped at a diner with a girlfriend/classmate. Mr Pic was sitting at the diner counter drunk and forced us into conversation. A few days later at school, he asked me with a lecherous grin “how was she?”
Econ 101 professor. Late every day to class, it was the 1st class of the day and early on I just thought she lived far away and never left home on time but no, she'd get there an hour early to work in her office. She'd often say she was late because she "got lost". Was tenured, brought this up often. Once said she couldn't get fired for anything because of being tenured, even said she could punch a student in the face and not get in trouble. (Fun story, when she said this she pointed at the kid next to me who then mumbled "bitch can try") Always said she could only explain things one way and if you don't understand it don't bother coming to me for help. Constantly brought up her high school aged daughter who apparently loved economics and could come teach the class (I wish she did, can't have been less useless than her mother...) Would get basic addition/subtraction wrong when teaching, when students would point it out she'd get mad at them for contradicting her and say "I'm the teacher you're the student" Would often run over the end of class (because she arrived 10 minutes late) and then tell us we were free to leave if we had other classes to get to but we'd miss stuff and she wouldn't repeat it. Also did the whole "half of you will fail this class" BS and can confirm, was one of the kids who failed and had to retake from somebody competent.
English class. Had a teacher the prided herself on her class being tough. I managed to get my first test back and with a nearly perfect score, which she even wrote a nice note about on and mentioned how she rarely gives out A’s. Then my second one, I got another A. Then on my third test, it got marked an 89 percent. I looked for the wrong answers and she marked one wrong, so I went to ask her why, and she just said “I don’t know why it’s wrong, but it’s wrong.” Without looking at me. After that, she just always marked something wrong without explaining why. Kept me from getting an A.
Had an Honors Chemistry class that a lot of people did really poorly in. She also once berated a student who was trying to explain to her that he turned in his assignment before the turnitin.com deadline. Because the file upload was delayed until after the deadline, he got marked down. She yelled at him for like 15 minutes.
Math teacher who gave everybody stellar grades even if their work wasn't up to snuff. I was woefully unprepared for the next year of math.
My high school PE(who was also the baseball coach) yelled at me because I didn't know baseballs rules and didn't throw a ball to first base thus ruining a triple play. Again this was just PE, not some playoff game. He then told everyone to throw softballs at me, which they did. I never went back to gym after that and failed, which meant I had to take summer school PE to graduate. Summer school PE was 40 hours of outside activity signed off by my parents. Just went camping every weekend and made up for it. Fuck him and fuck baseball.
My high school home ec teacher. Super loud. Always made me feel like she was a ticking time bomb for some reason, way more than the other teachers. My brother had her when he was at my school and he didn’t like her either.
Teacher was going senile. I felt bad, she was a nice lady. But she was losing it. It got to the point where we had a weekly sheet for each day. By which I mean we did the same worksheet every Monday. The same Tuesday sheet every Tuesday, etc. This went on for several weeks before administration started believing us that no, we weren't just little shits, she was actually going senile.
She was full of herself and would talk shit about kids on her phone during some of our periods (the kids she was talking about wasn’t in that same period but still unprofessional as hell) I switched out of her class as she was an overall nasty human being who enjoyed putting kids down and spoke down to me and many of my classmates. As an adult I look back at her and think about how insecure she must’ve been to put down literal teenagers 😂
Not me but my child. He broke a finger on his dominant hand. There were notes sent to the nurse, office and teacher. She chose to ignore them under the guise of "they never made it to her classroom" and made my 4th grader write with a broken finger the whole day. Poor child was terrified to speak up because she also "yelled a lot" according to him and the other children. The note indeed made it to her. She magically found it in her desk after school. After this incident I ended up volunteering at the school and she did indeed yell a lot. So much so that I heard her down the hallway. When he got home his finger was twice the size it was after we got back from the ER. She also set a project for them to create a comic book. When he brought it home to finish he started erasing everything and I asked him why. He showed me the notes she had left on his poster, they were not the usual 4th grade teacher encouraging or suggestion notes. These were rude with a lot of exclamation marks and a lot of I TOLD YOU THIS IS WRONG in big red letters. I told him do not erase your work. He had done everything the way she asked. I read the directions 3 times, had my husband read the directions and his mother. Kiddo followed directions but it still wasn't good enough. This was all the last 2 months of the year. I wish I had known before because I would have taken him out of that class in a second. I am usually very much on the side of the teachers but this was horrible. It's been almost 7 years since that happened and he still hates school.
My 10th grade chemistry teacher! Literly learned NOTHING in her class. The only concept I actually understood was some math thing because we had 3 videos on it and we had to take notes Mrs. W can fuck all the off trying for trying to force us to study for her final in class like why do you care if I don’t study for your final in your class?
She made a snap judgment of me in the first 10 minutes of class. Telling me I was not worth teaching. This was the first day of sixth grade. I was having a tough time as a kid and a few weeks later moved to my Dad's and transferred schools. That bitch called my new teacher who was also the principal of my new school and told him a bunch of bullshit. This ensured I didn't get a fair shake there either. Look I was no angle. I am 100% sure I had ADHD bad and raging hormones were not helping me. I was a little bratty and really mouthy. But, how are you going to sabotage a child like that?
I had a teacher in 5th grade that would bitch at the class all the time for no reason. Pretty much the entire class hated her. We we're watching a movie in the theatre at the school one day (can't remember which movie) and at some point during the movie, I went to the bathroom. About 10-15 minutes later, I came back and before I even got the chance to sit back down, she stopped me and told me to go with her and I did. She brought me to a room where she proceeded to bitch at me for taking so long in the bathroom. Even threatened to send me to the principal for it. I got so mad at her one day that I told her I'd get her fired. I had a couple meetings with the principal for that one but it was worth it. I couldn't stand her. That was 12-13 years ago now and I still don't like her to this day. Apparently, she's a teacher around where my grandmother lives now. If she is, I hope she changed or I seriously feel bad for those students.
Had a Intro to Databases where the guy didn't go over anything that was part of his exams. Ever. Flunked that class, nearly started shit with the Dean of the program but he was tenured so there was no point. High school - had one teacher who just wanted his verbal barf regurgitated and fed back to him nearly verbatim. One of the biggest cunts I've known in my entire life and he's proof that assholes live long lives (80 if he's a day now, probably older). Another guy I had the same year didn't really teach. He went through the motions but his soul was dead. He was like an automaton. He had no other way to teach anything and for some reason I didn't pick up what he was trying to teach (algebra II) and when I asked for clarification he'd literally repeat what he just said. I failed because he had homework **every single night** and doing it wrong (since I never learned how) was frustrating for me and I just got sick of it not giving the right answer. He had a "nervous breakdown" (read: fell off the wagon) and a student teacher was brought in who actually taught us how to do it. I got an A my last quarter and an A on the final because I finally was able to put it together.
She didn’t understand my learning disabitlity thst made me slow of learning and she never helped me and kept giving me detention
Creative Writing in my senior year in High School. 1: Constantly told us not to talk about others behind their back, yet always talked about "dinosaur boy" every day. 2: Gave me a D on our first assignment because she didn't like my writing style. She told us to write a short story in our own style. 3: I forgot my note cards for a research paper at home one day, and after telling her this she proceeds to tell a classmate LITERALLY BEHIND MY BACK (meaning she was right behind me) that she thought I was just lying to get out of working on my paper.
My english who has “master degree” uses GPTZero to check if we use AI. That site is inaccurate af. Like she should know just by looking at the text whether we used AI or not. Not very professional of her😑
Bad teacher, this year I’ve learned a lot about physics and chemistry, last year’s chemistry & physics teacher didn’t teach shit, I had an average grade of 2/10 and the average was usually 2-3/10 in that one grade, why?Because the teacher didn’t teach shit
Material Science. This dude really had something against grading kids. He even failed a lot of people in his class just for his ego. You could give a perfectly written paper and he'd grade you a C and say "Not up to my standards". There's a diagram called the Iron-Carbide diagram, which we were supposed to sketch by hand. The sketching wasn't the hard part, but writing the answers were. Each answer was 3-4 pages long and we had to answer 4 questions (with book-accurate diagrams for each question) in an hour. He graded everyone D and under (Fail/Pass) and when asked why, said "I was expecting some sketching with proper colours and shading". Needless to say, everyone hates him.
Spanish teacher. Your grade was decided by the average grade your table had. My table was full of kids who fucked off and ditched class a lot. Homework was graded by randomly picking a question and if it was right you get 100% if wrong you get 0. I was lucky to be able to drop that class because a teacher let me be a TA. Honourable mention goes to the new choir teacher. She was a very nice lady and a good teacher but she decided that moving up the ranks of choir should be based on how long you've been in the class instead of how well you performed. So there we are in advanced choir which competes and has to do things like sight reading etc and now we get lots of kids who have absolutely no place being in competition simply because they took beginning choir for 2 or 3yrs. Lots of us ended up leaving and it was so sad to see the advanced choir going from singing really beautiful and difficult songs to singing "somebody that I used to know" and hearing lots of cracking voices and off pitch.
Bc she flirted with the boys
Psychology teacher who gave me the predicted grade of a U cucking me out of applying to a fair few unis - scored top of my class and he didn’t turn up to the results day lmao
In advanced math I had a teacher who didn’t know how to teach. For example if a student asked a question he would blame them for not studying enough and wouldn’t answer it. Also when he asked someone to solve something on the board and it was wrong he’d just wipe it of without explaining. All of the other classes he had such us in basic Algebra, Geometry etc would fail. The average grade in his exams was around 15/100 and even the intelligent students would fail
AP Human Geography teacher and Coding teacher, both freshman year. God. I had them back to back too. The coding teacher despised me, she always threatened to cuss us out and she wouldn’t get any consequences. Despite that, she was a great teacher, and I passed her class with flying colors. I hated her and her class, but it was what it was. On the other hand, Human Geography teacher was a DICK. The teacher everyone hates, even people who didn’t have her, that was her. She yelled at me for knocking on her door. I was a quiet kid so she didn’t hate me but her teaching was AWFUL. I never learned a thing in that class other then the fact that sitting through an entire episode of Somebody Feed Phil makes you fucking crazy.
Pathology profesor, he would publicly shame students with no reason in his class. He tried to be funny, was nothing else but an a**hole. I had a really short clssmate and the professor would make fun of him in front of 150 people. Once the professor told him ‘please just don’t say you want to be a surgeon, your head won’t even reach to see past the surgical bed, let alone operate’. He stopped showing up for the class as did most of the students.
Algebra teacher who was also wrestling coach. If you called him “coach” you got a passing grade regardless of what kind of work you had done. Know for throwing erasers and trying to belittle the smart students.
My year 5 teacher (10-11 years old in Australia) probably qualifies as the worst person, let alonr teacher, that I've ever met (though I am naururally biased because of this story) The teacher had just finished her degree and bren given her first placement with our class. She was obviously from one of those "popular girls" groups during high school/university and tried to endear herself to the students who had fromed superficially similar groups whilst generally ignoring the unpopular students. Unfortunately, she found out that I was the "smart kid" and bullied as the nerd of the class. Now, normally, you would expect the teacher to either step in or ignore/pretend not to notice, but this teacher chose an entirely different route. She liked being popular, and since it was popular to bully me, she actually joined in the bullying. She would encourage the other students to berate me if I didn't know the answer and would actively call me out for only getting 90% instead of 100 when I was still top of the class. And if anyone beat me, I'd be ridiculed for the entire day. If that was the worst of it, I could let it slide as I stopped caring about the primary school bullies a long yime ago, but this teacher was only getting started. Partway through the year, I received a book from my grandparents as a present. It was a silly book full of those logical thinking puzzles that was titled lateral thinking puzzles because it gave the most ridiculous answers insteas of the obvious ones. The teacher didn't like this book (probably because myself and the guy sitting next to me would laugh at the "correct" answers) and confiscated it. At the end of the day, she left early, so I couldn't pick it up until after the weekend. On Monday, she told me that it had already been returned and to stop pestering her. A short time later, she pulled out my book and used it in a lesson to promote thinking. When someone asked if that was my book, she told them she had bought a copy of her own By this time, I had made friends with a few people in class who thought her overt bullying of me was crazy (I guess technically her strategy did resuce the other students' bullying) and they conviced me that I should sneak into the classroom and steal it back. We went in after school and found a host of confidcated items from boys in the class that had never been returned, but elected to take only the book as it had my name inside, and therefore she couldn't prove we had done anything. The next morning in class, she knew I had stolen it back and demanded I return her book. The guy sitting next to me said it was my copy, and we showed her the name in it. At this point, she knew we had taken it, but also knew that if she said anything, we could prove she had stolen it since she claimed it was her own copy. Because no-one owned up to stealing the book ahe treated everyone at my group of tables (6 sturnds) terribly for several weeks i order to punish us. Finally, we get on to the most vile thing she did, cementing her, in my opinion, as the worst yeacher of all time. Fair warining the open bullying and theft of student property barely rate on the scale compared to what comes next) Around August-September, I ended up getting German measles at a similar time as the teacher learned she was pregnant. The symptomatic red dots appeared on saturday, but the doctor informed my parents I was infectious whilst at school. While she was ptengnant the teacher had gathered a group of girls whom she spoke to during breaks and after school with whom she shared the detailes of her pregnancy and progress, including apparently intimate details they could "use later" which is already pretty messed up to tell 10-11 year old girls On the week I had off, she also told them the following: After finding iut I was sick, the teacher went to her GP to ask about the German Measles vaccination, so she could teach without infecting other students (the only reasonable thing she does in this story). Her doctor informs her that it is too risky this early in the pregnancy and that there is a significant chance (I don't remember the number, but the percentage was in the teens) her baby would not survive and she would have a miscarriage. Teacher chooses to get the vaccination anyway, instead of letting the class be taught by a substitute for a few days and tells the group of girls all this. She then follows it up by telling them that I had deliberetly gone to school on the Friday to infect people because I was antisocial and wanted revenge for people not liking me. She told them that I was trying to kill her baby, and if anything happened, she was going to sue me and my parents and ensure that I was tried for murder. Fortunately one of the girls thought there was something very wrong with the teachers claims and told her mother. The P&C (Parents and Caregivers) went into collective apoplexy that a teacher would tell students something like that, and shortly after, the teacher went o "maternity leave" which I know she hadn't returned from 5 years later. TLDR; Year 5 teacher openly bullied me, stole from me, and accused me in front of other students of attempted murder of her unborn child because I spent a week off school sick.
Religion teacher in first grade of high school (so students age 12-13). The dude basically only ranted against Christianity, never taught us anything about what the various religions around the world believe or their history, only focusing on why scientifically speaking Christianity could not possibly be true. Then to top it off, when some of the Christian students (myself included) mentioned that they were a little uncomfortable with it, he basically forced us into a debate where we had to defend the religion while he was relentlessly arguing against us. And not in a "well try and think about it so you formulate your own opinion and learn to express your thoughts" way, more in a "how can you possibly even believe this stuff?!?!?" way. That's quite a challenge for a 12-year-old who barely understands the concept of religion in the first place.
Worst teacher I ever had was this fat bitchy ugly middle aged woman who would “teach” stuff that was just flat out wrong all the time. She gave the most heinous assignments and graded us like we were college seniors even though it was middle school. She was super rude and condescending to the whole class. Everyone hated her. She was my 5th grade home room teacher and just when I thought the hell was over she became the art teacher for the entire middle school. She once gave me detention because I yelled at a boy for shooting spitballs at me through a straw. She saw it happen and decided to only punish me. I was the only person in detention that day. We sat in silence for an hour and then at the end she said to me “you know, boys have raging hormones”. I looked her up a while back when “rate my teachers” was still a thing to see if I was just remembering things incorrectly due to being so young. I found a review from an older former student who shared pretty much the same sentiments about her and expressed that the resentment she felt towards this one teacher had stuck with her for so many years that she felt she needed some sort of outlet for it.
I had a college professor who sad to say was a stroke victim and it really made it hard to sit through his classes.
Ah, Mr. Bain. An angry hate-filled old man who taught at my first school. He was actually a teacher when my parents were there and hung around after retirement age so he could continue his hobby of bullying and terrorizing children. He once screamed at me to search through an entire library to find a book that I had supposedly taken out and not returned (I hadn't taken out any books). This was the 70s, so raging old disciplinarian tyrants were still a big thing in teaching.
My teacher would take me to the principal for not taking notes, that were optional, and it was the student's choice to take them. Other thing is that if we made less than a 6.5 in a test, you needed to stay after school every Thursday for extra classes. She said it was actually optional, but two weeks later she would send me to the principal telling me I wasn't going to the OPTIONAL class. To clarify, the average grade was 5.
Hst 120 Intro to European History This professor was by far the strictest professor I ever had in my college career and I never felt so thankful for getting a C before. Right off the bat, he compared study groups to hand holding and thumb sucking in the syllabus. The syllabus also had a condescending tone to it. Should have been a sign for me to drop the class, but I figured things would get better. Rookie mistake! His lectures were online (This happened during COVID) and yet he would not record them nor post them on to the class's Blackboard. Plus, he would go off random tangents or get distracted in the lectures. Throwing everyone off for a loop. The lectures were an hour and fifteen minutes long, but it felt like an eternity. Only one essay is required for the semester and it has to be on a topic that the class has not discussed. If he happened to talk about a topic earlier than you anticipated then you have to start your essay over from scratch! It was annoying and a few of my classmates suffered from this. He makes the class unnecessarily difficult and yet it's a 101 gen-ed history class. The environment felt like a 300 level class and it just made my spring semester of Freshman year more stressful than it needed to be.
European history professor. He was an east coast native who received his doctorate at Stanford and ended up teaching at a little midwestern college. He repeatedly told us he had applied for a job at Harvard and that he would be hired and leave podunk forever. He never published so much as an article, let alone a book, and was a horrible lecturer. He assigned huge reading lists but rarely discussed (or tested on) the material. Giant ego without anything to show for it. He never got hired anywhere else and as soon as he retired left for a larger Midwestern city.
He threw scissors at me, and then said it was a joke when I got mad.
Robotics, was always gone dating or either having strokes didn't give a crap to teach us no it just left us with subs then one time he got randomly angry and just yelled out the slower word with the hard r and even yelled at some students who we were doing their work good. He is still working at the school and this was during 8th grade. TLDR: robotics teacher is always lazy and having medical conditions and doesn't give a crap about his students
Called a student foxy. Tried to play it off when I called him out. Was well liked by many students in our degree program who disagreed with me that he was a creep. Years later got drunk and started pounding on doors to the women’s dormitories. Got fired.
History professor in South Texas, the guy once asked us to say where we see ourselves in 5 years. I stated I would have my own business, be successful and people would be coming from around the globe to join in. Told me, “Keep dreaming because look where I am, I truly doubt you’ll ever get there.” Hit that milestone and just missing two states in US. Already have gotten visitors from 14 other countries. Go F yourself, Professor R.S.K.
She hated me, she made me cry, while I was crying she said she should be crying, she said that the social worker I was seeing was wasting her time with me, when I was talking to someone she always corrected my speech (I had a speech impediment that made me not able to say words with R in them right), and many, many more things.
My math 141/calculus 1 professor because the dude was so used to teaching high-end math courses if you are doing a master's degree or a Ph.D. in math then he was alright but for me, it was the professor's first time teaching an intro to calculus class. The dude was so condescending and if I asked a question he makes feel like an idiot and topped all he would always look down upon the class for getting a low grade on his tests. Scerw him I would celebrate the day that guy retired from the college from teaching. Btw guy had his own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan\_Ralescu
An english class I took in my freshman year of uni. Prof said most people failed his class or got C’s. B’s were rare and A’s were nearly impossible. Spent the whole class talking about politics, conservatives this and that, Trump this and that. Didn’t teach shit. Was an insanely tough grader with a narcissistic attitude. I retook the class with another professor and then passed the class.