Who was the worst teacher you ever had?

The Young Wan · 05-10-2017 09:14PM #1

We all hear people lauding the teacher who "made me the (wo)man I am today" but what about those who didn't make as much of an impact?

Mine was the one I had for JC history. Their teaching tactic was less "impart knowledge" and "make them utterly terrified". A woman on a power trip. The entire class didn't perform to scratch on a class test once and she spent the whole period giving out to us for doing nothing.

She would lock students out of the classroom if they were late for class. Happened to me once.

05-10-2017 09:57PM

If it were me and my pupils were late then I'd probably lock them out too

pumpkin4life · 05-10-2017 10:03PM

I think everyone had that teacher who was always riding and getting the year off to give birth to that little bundle of joy.

I didn't have an Irish teacher for my junior cert. Too busy riding and not caring about the children.

:mad:

iamwhoiam · 05-10-2017 10:13PM

The nuns .

rossie1977 · 05-10-2017 10:20PM

First year communications lecturer in college.

Outlaw Pete · 05-10-2017 10:22PM

We used to have a guy that would talk to himself and go to sleep sometimes too.

Heard he had a nervous breakdown a few years after.

We used to have a teacher who, if someone was talking in class, would slap a sliotar of the back wall with a hurley. Mad as the proverbial brush.

James Bond Junior · 05-10-2017 10:23PM

I'm following just to see does anybody mention something I've done...:o:o:o:o:p:p

The Young Wan · 05-10-2017 10:28PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

First year communications lecturer in college.

DCU?

Snotty · 05-10-2017 10:34PM

Ummm, hard to pick, maybe the alcoholic that used to get drunk every lunch time and stagger back to class.
Or the young teacher straight out if training, used to cry every single class and storm out.
Probably the worst was a really smart guy, but he just couldn't teach, he didn't know how to explain the most basic things.

Hector Bellend · 05-10-2017 10:39PM

I tried to ride my French teacher.

I didn't learn much but I did love her

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 05-10-2017 10:48PM

Primary school principal who used to take the class when the regualr teacher was ill. The term "teacher" is a bit of a stretch, "violent republican thug" would be closer.

I missed having him as a full time teacher by one year and am thankful to this day for it. No tellimg how ****ed up I'd be if I'd had to put up with his **** full-time.

garyskeepers · 05-10-2017 10:50PM

we had this one teacher.,, he was a toe rag of the higest order..

he used to rub his cock on your elbow, and pick his teeth with 50 pound bills...

he used to make us clean and hoover his car as a punishment...

Burial. · 05-10-2017 10:51PM

garyskeepers wrote: »

we had this one teacher.,, he was a toe rag of the higest order..

he used to rub his cock on your elbow, and pick his teeth with 50 pound bills...

he used to make us clean and hoover his car as a punishment...

Wait, what?!

Conor Bourke · 05-10-2017 10:52PM

I went to Da Skool ov hard nocks n da university of life
/fulltimemadbastard

judeboy101 · 05-10-2017 10:54PM

Following this in case i am mentioned.

Noveight · 05-10-2017 10:57PM

When questioned about how little prep we were doing for the oral exam our LC Irish teacher told us it'd be no bother to us considering the amount of shíte we talked in class. Dickhead.

_Whimsical_ · 05-10-2017 11:00PM

My junior infants teacher who was the most horrible women I have ever met.
So many unpleasant stories.
One boy's water bottle went missing and she set up a "court" to determine who had stolen it while making it obvious she believed it was a little traveller boy. She made a square out of bookshelves, took each of us inside on our own saying this was the "court" where you couldn't lie and "interviewed" us, asking if we had seen this boy with the water bottle. Even at 4 we all knew exactly what was going on.
The boy who had lost the water bottle found it at home a few days later.

It was really stressful and we were all very worried about it and what was going to happen. It was a full scale psycho overreaction.

Mountainsandh · 05-10-2017 11:11PM

I had a brilliantly bad Spanish teacher at leaving cert level back in France (Bac). All we did for the entire year was read a few wacky Spanish short stories, a few poems, and nothing else. He was mostly too drunk to care, but when he got passionate about literature he was great.
We used to turn up for class, and more often than not he would be missing. We were allowed leave the school when a teacher was out, so we'd go for coffee at the bar round the corner and meet ... our Spanish teacher, guzzling red wine.

I made sure I had more or less what was needed (poem, text, whatever...) for the oral exam. I think we all had a note saying we had had Mr Cortada when we presented for the oral, and I remember the reaction of the examiner on hearing his name. They must have thought I did a good job by myself, because I got an 18/20.

kupus · 05-10-2017 11:15PM

Teachers, hmm that would be stretching it a bit far.

More like lifers just waiting out till the time of their retirement.

CruelCoin · 05-10-2017 11:18PM

A teacher I was meant to have but rarely did.

Woman managed to perfectly time here pregnancies so that she was perpetually on maternity leave during term.

Think I had her for 6 months in 6 years.

the_pen_turner · 05-10-2017 11:20PM

pumpkin4life wrote: »

I think everyone had that teacher who was always riding and getting the year off to give birth to that little bundle of joy.

I didn't have an Irish teacher for my junior cert. Too busy riding and not caring about the children.

:mad:

we had a teacher like that (luckily she was a guidance 'teacher') in the 6years I was in school she was only there 1 and a half years. its crazy.

the_pen_turner · 05-10-2017 11:21PM

we had an alcoholic teacher. he would sit in his car at lunch and drink. I think they finally moved him on

monkeysnapper · 05-10-2017 11:23PM

In primary school we had this bitch of a teacher , god I hated her so much .

Anyway... Move on a few decades .... My sister bought a house and low and behold it was this horrible woman's house . ...sale eventually went through only after a load of bullshyte from this hag . Didn't she come up to the house a month after sale of house to say she forgot to take the curtains in living room but if my sister wanted to pay her she could keep them .

I tell you this.... If I had one wish in the whole world , never mind world hunger , my wish would be to be at that house the day she came for the curtains , I'd string the hag up by the bloody curtains and snap every one of her crooked fingers she used to poke us with in school.

The bitch!!!!

Burial. · 05-10-2017 11:23PM

pumpkin4life wrote: »

I think everyone had that teacher who was always riding and getting the year off to give birth to that little bundle of joy.

I didn't have an Irish teacher for my junior cert. Too busy riding and not caring about the children.

:mad:

A wan who taught in the school me and my brother went to had 8 children in the space of about 8 years. She'd triplets one time mind you but still. Must have been absolutely mad for the hop.

Nettle Soup · 05-10-2017 11:25PM

A Christian Brother who also became the principal.
He was despicable man and a bad teacher.
He eventually left the "Brotherhood".

Dan man · 05-10-2017 11:40PM

Had a few awful teachers but probably the worst was a primary school teacher I had who was eternally miserable and grumpy and putting people down. The very worst thing though was that she refused to let pupils go to the toilet in between breaks and lunch. Instead before each break she made everyone line up outside the toilets to use them. But if you didn't need to go at that time but did a couple of hours later during class, then tough luck.
Bloody disgusting really and cannot understand why anyone would think that was a reasonable way to treat anyone let alone young children.

PTH2009 · 05-10-2017 11:58PM

Never saw it myself but did anyone ever encounter teachers fighting physical or otherwise ?? I'd say it would be funny and would not be helped by all the heckling lol

maryishere · 06-10-2017 12:14AM

At school one teacher I had (secondary school) spent at least 50% of class time doing his own work / writing a book. He is old now and retired. His classes consistently got appalling leaving cert results but he was not sacked. Another teacher in primary school used to read the paper in class to amuse herself while we done something else.

greencap · 06-10-2017 12:58AM

A rambling half drunk guy with a speech impediment.

I was sat beside a psychopath twice my size who used to stab me with a compass.

Being in a class size of about 40 I was too far from the aforementioned ''teacher'' to hear his speech impediment in full flow on a subject that I'd have no later use for anyway.

I was told I was the problem and couldn't take the subject at LC*.
(*a qualification which was sold to me, for some years, as extremely important, but which would prove as valuable as a Venezuelan 2 peso note)

When I'd get home I'd be greeted by my mentally ill parent.

On Sundays I'd go to a church that was run by wealth hoarding pedophiles where I'd be told an omnipotent being would make everything alright in the end.

Ireland.

jaxxx · 06-10-2017 01:12AM

Not necessarily the worst teacher, but I had one who was a complete and utter nutter. I mean that quite literally, you'd swear he had broken out of a mental institution. During one class, some lads towards the back of the room were sniggering and having a laugh. He warned them once. Then they went and f*cked up by doing it again... He picked up a desk, and flung it across the room. The room was half empty but it flew a good 4/5 metres at least. I must've been only 15/16 at the time, but I swear I've never been more terrified in my life.

retro:electro · 06-10-2017 01:29AM

A maths teacher who got in my head so much I could actually hear her negative words to me in the LC exam and I ended up failing.

An Irish teacher who used to follow us to the toilet when we'd need to go and sit outside and wait for us to finish. He threw a chair at another student who called him a perv. He was our History teacher too and insisted on teaching us History as Gaeilge.

I was taught by nuns in primary school and they were all horrible. They'd never let you pee when you needed to go and would pick a student every Monday morning to stand up and give a summary of the Sunday sermon at mass to make sure we went.

Who was the worst teacher you ever had?

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