Worst teacher you've ever had?

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 07:34PM #1

Just curious.

My worst was my 2nd year maths teacher, complete pushover and couldn't explain stuff for his life...

Example:

My class used to throw shoes around the classroom. On numerous occasions the shoe would land right in front of him. What did he do? He gave it back!

No wonder I can't do factorising!

steddyeddy · 27-11-2012 07:36PM

My chemsitry teacher did'nt know what an amino acid was (thats pretty basic). He didnt care either. Chemistry was a job to him and all that mattered was that he ticked some boxes for what experiment to teach.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 27-11-2012 07:36PM

The woodwork teacher was an alcoholic and spent his time throwing lumps of Red Deal at pupils who werent listening to him.

Other teachers were pedo priests............soooo take your pic.

Pilotdude5 · 27-11-2012 07:39PM

Junior cert English teacher. She spent all her time pointing out people's flaws and appearance. My mother and aunts had her as well back in the day so the family hates her.

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 07:39PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

My chemsitry teacher did'nt know what an amino acid was (thats pretty basic). He didnt care either. Chemistry was a job to him and all that mattered was that he ticked some boxes for what experiment to teach.

I had an English teacher who thought Donegal shouldn't have a capital letter. Seriously..

steddyeddy · 27-11-2012 07:40PM

m0ynihan wrote: »

I had an English teacher who thought Donegal shouldn't have a capital letter. Seriously..

What was his reasoning behind that :S?

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 07:41PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

What was his reasoning behind that :S?

I don't have a clue. I know it's a bad place, but it's not THAT bad!

danslevent · 27-11-2012 07:43PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

My chemsitry teacher did'nt know what an amino acid was (thats pretty basic). He didnt care either. Chemistry was a job to him and all that mattered was that he ticked some boxes for what experiment to teach.

If someone qualified as a Chemistry teacher they would know what an Amino Acid was. If he didn't then he lied about his degree and should have been reported.

itac · 27-11-2012 07:44PM

Had a subsitute History teacher for the Leaving, who was also an actor who'd been on Ros na Run, with a faux American twang, wore a leather jacket and who bore more than a passing resemblance to the Fonz. His way of teaching was to read some event from the history book to us, and then launch into a story about how said event related to an audition he'd once had.

He was teaching in an all girls school, and seemed to be under the impression that as he was Fonz-like, we would all fall in love with him. Or at the very least, think he was cool. Strangely enough, neither of those things happened....

Wompa1 · 27-11-2012 07:44PM

Had an Irish teacher in Secondary school who wasn't a qualified teacher. She worked as a secretary and helped out when someone left. She just kept doing it. Her idea of controlling the class room was leaving the door open so maybe the vice principal down the hall would hear the noise. Got nothing done.

My junior infants or whatever that class was called. The teacher use to hit as a motivator. I can still remember writing a c instead of an a and getting slapped.

The principal of one of the primary schools I went to beat kids with a bamboo stick, she was a nun. The other nun in the school would jab her thumb into your back if answered a question incorrectly. If you got one right, you got a chocolate mouse.

Then the principal of another elementary school I went to would straight up beat the crap out of the students. He'd come in hungover a few times a week and we'd spend hours the morning after a big soccer match just talking about how the match went. He was kind of cool though because of that and for choir practice we got to sing Oasis songs.

Had a gay biology teacher who explained that semen was kind of salty in taste. Which was a life lesson that was really helpful to know. He'd spend most of the class talking about his personal life...

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 07:44PM

danslevent wrote: »

If someone qualified as a Chemistry teacher they would know what an Amino Acid was. If he didn't then he lied about his degree and should have been reported.

A science teacher in my school didn't know what K stood for in the periodic table. That's inexcusable really.

3ndahalfof6 · 27-11-2012 07:44PM

Myself.

ShamoBuc · 27-11-2012 07:45PM

Goegraphy teacher in 1st year - I never did the summer test as I went to the Gaeltacht for the last week of school - gave me an F for years conduct in class!! Fúcker!! Only F I ever got. I wasn't that bad, surely an E would have done:pac:

steddyeddy · 27-11-2012 07:46PM

danslevent wrote: »

If someone qualified as a Chemistry teacher they would know what an Amino Acid was. If he didn't then he lied about his degree and should have been reported.

Unfortunatly I think he did know but couldnt be bothered to explain it. Anyway we had alcoholic teachers too. It's incredible hard to get rid of a teacher especially if a 16 year old boy is doing the complaining.

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 07:47PM

Wompa1 wrote: »

Had a gay biology teacher who explained that semen was kind of salty in taste. Which was a life lesson that was really helpful to know. He'd spend most of the class talking about his personal life...

He sounds great :rolleyes:

opinion guy · 27-11-2012 07:47PM

danslevent wrote: »

If someone qualified as a Chemistry teacher they would know what an Amino Acid was. If he didn't then he lied about his degree and should have been reported.

OR c) his boss put him teaching something that wasn't in his degree. This used to be common place. I think they've changed it in last few years or are trying to. But often teachers taught things that weren't in their degree.

Show Time · 27-11-2012 07:48PM

An old B*****d when i was in fifth and sixth class who was only marking the time till he finished up teaching.

Boscoirl · 27-11-2012 07:50PM

Yahoo

Google is much better

Fromthetrees · 27-11-2012 07:50PM

My worst teacher made us do homework everyday!!!

Best teacher by far was the lad who used to say who ever could get the loudest bang off the desk with their penis would win the prize of a free lollipop, ah man, I got so many lollipops from him, was a bit of a teachers pet really, stayed over in his gaf loads of times because I was such a good pupil, let me sleep in his bed and everything, pure sound, think he's in jail now for some reason or other.

Senna · 27-11-2012 07:51PM

Worst Secondary School Teacher; Complete alcoholic, which wouldn't be the worse but he just had no interest in teaching, he'd just sit at his desk and start reading from the text book, no interaction and never deviated from the text.
I had him for History in first year, but out of the 30 in his Leaving Cert Maths class only 3 passed. He still teaches there 15 years later and I doubt he got any better.

Worst Primary School Teacher; My 3rd and 4th class teacher was obsessed with the Irish language, we'd spend 3/4 hours everyday on it while other classes spent 1 hour. She'd be teaching Geography/History and she'd try and throw Irish into it. There was a compliant put in about it by one of the parents and the next day she just lost it with the class, saying we HAVE to spend this amount of time on Irish and how its so important. She wasn't even a native Irish speaker, years later I found out she opened a Gael Scoil, figured.

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 07:51PM

Fromthetrees wrote: »

My worst teacher made us do homework everyday!!!

Best teacher by far was the lad who used to say who ever could get the loudest bang off the desk with their penis would win the prize of a free lollipop, ah man, I got so many lollipops from him, was a bit of a teachers pet really, stayed over in his gaf loads of times because I was such a good pupil, let me sleep in his bed and everything, pure sound, think he's in jail now for some reason or other.

What's he in jail for?

Agricola · 27-11-2012 07:51PM

Irish teacher in 2nd year. I'd imagine it was her first teaching job. Couldnt control the class. People just talked over her. She resorted to calling in the principal to dole out the threats.......every day! Im amazed I got through Irish that year considering I didnt do a tap.

She'd obviously picked the wrong career and I heard later on that she left teaching.

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 07:53PM

Senna wrote: »

Worst Secondary School Teacher; Complete alcoholic, which wouldn't be the worse but he just had no interest in teaching, he'd just sit at his desk and start reading from the text book, no interaction and never deviated from the text.
I had him for History in first year, but out of the 30 in his Leaving Cert Maths class only 3 passed. He still teaches there 15 years later and I doubt he got any better.

Sounds like my JC English teacher, he was so lazy that he had recorded every book he ever needed onto a tape, played it during a class, and about every second day would pause it and tell us to underline something, complete waster. He also made us buy a book for 30 euro which we used once, which is just plain stupid.

Shryke · 27-11-2012 07:56PM

opinion guy wrote: »

OR c) his boss put him teaching something that wasn't in his degree. This used to be common place. I think they've changed it in last few years or are trying to. But often teachers taught things that weren't in their degree.

Also relatively few people qualify in Chemistry in Ireland. We have a big pharma industry and a lot of non-nationals get positions because we're not producing enough chemists. I imagine that reflects in the classroom.

steddyeddy · 27-11-2012 07:57PM

Fromthetrees wrote: »

My worst teacher made us do homework everyday!!!

Best teacher by far was the lad who used to say who ever could get the loudest bang off the desk with their penis would win the prize of a free lollipop, ah man, I got so many lollipops from him, was a bit of a teachers pet really, stayed over in his gaf loads of times because I was such a good pupil, let me sleep in his bed and everything, pure sound, think he's in jail now for some reason or other.

Yea I had a similar teacher I think my brothers burnt his house down for some reason.

ArtyM · 27-11-2012 07:57PM

Wompa1 wrote: »

Had a gay biology teacher who explained that semen was kind of salty in taste.

Wonder what the Leaving cert examiner thought when that fact was included in a student's answer.

We had a teacher who was too lazy to even hit us, instead he would stand at the top of the room with his fist extended and make the student run into it.

Was kinda funny to watch, when it wasnt you doing the running.

Dravokivich · 27-11-2012 07:58PM

Tech Graphics teacher, a couple of days before we split for the leaving cert, admitted to us that he did not know what the requirements would be to pass the exam, what level of detail was required to be enough to get the marks and such.

Wasn't much of a shock, when he was doing something new, we corrected him, based on the examples in the book.

steddyeddy · 27-11-2012 07:58PM

Shryke wrote: »

Also relatively few people qualify in Chemistry in Ireland. We have a big pharma industry and a lot of non-nationals get positions because we're not producing enough chemists. I imagine that reflects in the classroom.

Well I take it more people qaulify in organic chemistry than physical chemistry anyway here. Our teachers (and teachers of my friends) said stay away from physical chemistry unless you'r brilliant at maths!

Il Trap · 27-11-2012 07:58PM

m0ynihan wrote: »

A science teacher in my school didn't know what K stood for in the periodic table. That's inexcusable really.

I know a history teacher (degree subject and all!) who didn't know what 'war of attrition' meant. World War I is an important part of the LC course and as far as I am aware, the JC aswell. That's not just inexcusible, its quite unbelievable.

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 08:00PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Well I take it more people qaulify in organic chemistry than physical chemistry anyway here. Our teachers (and teachers of my friends) said stay away from physical chemistry unless you'r brilliant at maths!

Physical's the moles and stuff yeah? That stuff's a nightmare!

OneArt · 27-11-2012 08:01PM

Had a maths/biology teacher who would read from the book word-for-word. She would then do an example problem on the board (straight from the book) and spend the rest of the class telling us to practice and study ourselves. If you asked a question, she would read the explanation from the book.

She had no way of explaining things in her own words, we would've been better off studying the subject ourselves. Although in our very last biology class my friend and I decided we'd actually try and make her do her job. She did her usual reading from the book, so we kept asking more and more questions, basically pretending we hadn't a clue.

She ended up giving us a proper class for the first time in four years. So she wasn't really a sh!t teacher, just horribly lazy.

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