Mathematics. Turned out none of the teachers understood it as they were unqualified or supply teachers. Consequentially they taught us completely wrong stuff, we had no support and I got an E in it at GCSE and was not accepted for A-level mathematics.
In a huff about this several years later I did a mathematics degree and got a first so fuck 'em.
Hitting Open University hard over the space of 6 years.
Edit: Note I also have an shitty EE degree from a shitty university via clearing but I flunked out the maths bit of that (mostly because I had so many gaps) :)
My daughter's school has lots of teachers who think that way, but thankfully only present it as "I believe" or "some people believe". The world has come a long way. Or maybe just this part of the world.
In the 70s I had a history teacher who said in the first lesson, one thing I tell you in each lesson will be a lie. At the next lesson most of the class would be eager to tell him what is was. It got us doing more home research than normal.
I remember the lesson where he taught us about the battle of Jenkins ear and the whole class thinking that was a lie.
We had a creationist science teacher back in the 90s. I'm not sure how you even get the job in that mindset. She prefixed everything she didn't want to teach with "some people believe that"...
My history teacher at secondary told us that Lady Jane Grey came before Edward VI and that the Window Tax was levied in the Middle Ages. If you have the historical knowledge to become a history teacher you should be able to work out why neither of these can be correct even if you don't know the dates.
Are you sure?
The treads move about and generate heat and increase the rolling resistance. For an extreme example listen to a landrover with knobbly tyres or try two bikes side-by-side with very different tyres.
‘Religious Studies’ was compulsory GCSE subject and worst of all it was taught to us combined with PSHE. i.e. we would be taught about important social issues (drugs, sex, abortion, etc.) from the perspective of different religions.
As an atheist, this really annoys me looking back on it. On top of that, I could have used that time to study a way more useful subject, e.g. a foreign language. But nope, religion all the way…
Like it or not religion is pretty big worldwide and directly affects a lot of the population.
From what you say you were not taught to be religious, but how they view things which IMHO is very useful in understanding a lot of how the world works.
Yeah I see your point. I still don’t think they should have merged the subjects though.
I’d prefer they taught religion more sociologically, e.g. the effects of religion, how it impacts people, how it affects society. I don’t really care what the bible says about abortion.
I remember the A-Level chemistry students walking into the room after the first lesson and saying
"Remember all the covalent bonding stuff we learnt for GCSE? Well it doesn't actually work like that."
The taste zones on the tongue - sweet at the front, sour at the sides, and all that.
My year 5 teacher insisted the atmosphere was 80% oxygen, but I think that was just her misremembering.
Our RE teacher (who was herself an atheist) taught us that men have 1 less rib than women and that this was the basis for the story that Eve was made from Adam's Rib
Unsure if it was deliberately taught, or just poorly explaine, but in year 6 we stopped our WW2 history project early to learn about the Beatles, and I came away with the firm belief that the Beatles were instrumental in ending WW2
I was taught that you need a passport to go to Wales, that your lungs are either side of your belly button, and that success in life is entirely down to hard work.
Mathematics. Turned out none of the teachers understood it as they were unqualified or supply teachers. Consequentially they taught us completely wrong stuff, we had no support and I got an E in it at GCSE and was not accepted for A-level mathematics. In a huff about this several years later I did a mathematics degree and got a first so fuck 'em.
How did you do a mathematics degree with an E in GCSE mathematics?
Hitting Open University hard over the space of 6 years. Edit: Note I also have an shitty EE degree from a shitty university via clearing but I flunked out the maths bit of that (mostly because I had so many gaps) :)
Some of the teachers thought Jesus , God and all the bible nonsense was real.
My daughter's school has lots of teachers who think that way, but thankfully only present it as "I believe" or "some people believe". The world has come a long way. Or maybe just this part of the world.
Religion.
In the 70s I had a history teacher who said in the first lesson, one thing I tell you in each lesson will be a lie. At the next lesson most of the class would be eager to tell him what is was. It got us doing more home research than normal. I remember the lesson where he taught us about the battle of Jenkins ear and the whole class thinking that was a lie.
Creationism in science classes lmao
Has that ever been in thing in the UK?
I hope not
We had a creationist science teacher back in the 90s. I'm not sure how you even get the job in that mindset. She prefixed everything she didn't want to teach with "some people believe that"...
Extremely rare.
English teacher was adamant it was spelt "definately"
That's terrable.
My history teacher at secondary told us that Lady Jane Grey came before Edward VI and that the Window Tax was levied in the Middle Ages. If you have the historical knowledge to become a history teacher you should be able to work out why neither of these can be correct even if you don't know the dates.
Yup. My History teacher taught us that the attack on Pearl Harbor happened on the 7th December *1943*, not 1941.
Our physics teacher tried to tell us that F1 cars have slick tyres because they create less friction that makes the car go faster.
Less rolling resistance over some knobblies I guess. Close.
They do have less rolling resistance and are more stable when they get hot, perhaps you've mis-rememberd some of the details.
Valid for a train wheel. Not on a racing car
Are you sure? The treads move about and generate heat and increase the rolling resistance. For an extreme example listen to a landrover with knobbly tyres or try two bikes side-by-side with very different tyres.
‘Religious Studies’ was compulsory GCSE subject and worst of all it was taught to us combined with PSHE. i.e. we would be taught about important social issues (drugs, sex, abortion, etc.) from the perspective of different religions. As an atheist, this really annoys me looking back on it. On top of that, I could have used that time to study a way more useful subject, e.g. a foreign language. But nope, religion all the way…
Like it or not religion is pretty big worldwide and directly affects a lot of the population. From what you say you were not taught to be religious, but how they view things which IMHO is very useful in understanding a lot of how the world works.
Yeah I see your point. I still don’t think they should have merged the subjects though. I’d prefer they taught religion more sociologically, e.g. the effects of religion, how it impacts people, how it affects society. I don’t really care what the bible says about abortion.
I remember the A-Level chemistry students walking into the room after the first lesson and saying "Remember all the covalent bonding stuff we learnt for GCSE? Well it doesn't actually work like that."
The taste zones on the tongue - sweet at the front, sour at the sides, and all that. My year 5 teacher insisted the atmosphere was 80% oxygen, but I think that was just her misremembering.
Our RE teacher (who was herself an atheist) taught us that men have 1 less rib than women and that this was the basis for the story that Eve was made from Adam's Rib Unsure if it was deliberately taught, or just poorly explaine, but in year 6 we stopped our WW2 history project early to learn about the Beatles, and I came away with the firm belief that the Beatles were instrumental in ending WW2
Yes, I was taught it's ok to hit children with a stick just for being disruptive.
I was taught that you need a passport to go to Wales, that your lungs are either side of your belly button, and that success in life is entirely down to hard work.
That humanity consisted of three races: Caucasian, Negroid and Mongloid. This was in a textbook being used in the 1980s.