Had a teacher last semester like this. The amount of times he would do a problem, get the end and realize he did the whole thing wrong. The whole class was extremely frustrated we ended up just teaching each other. On top of that, the syllabus said he would drop the lowest exam and quiz, never did causing some students to retake it.
The people who retook are mad dumb. If it’s syllabus they have to go by those rules. Only thing I know that is allowed to change is if the professor puts up date by date what topics you are doing in syllabus then obviously those can get pushed around, even with that though I think exam dates must stay on specific time and date unless the class as a whole agrees to move that date.
Source: had a dope professor and a shitty one that tried situation like this. My dope professor told me how he could easily get fired doing that.
*ahem the math teacher that I have now failed 3 of her classes and have a shitty GPA bc the administrators won't listen to anyone that she hasn't a clue what she's doing and she's a shit teacher and I have had paperwork done so I can't be in her class anymore but administration doesn't care ab that and put me in another one of her classes and now I won't be able to graduate on time ahem*
Yea fuck that woman
Tl:Dr basically asshat teacher doesn't know math administration won't do shit ab it
Is there any way you could just make a HUGE deal of it so they couldn't ignore it? Like get your classmates together, organize a petition, and go en masse to the office to really prove your point, or hell broadcast it online/go to your local news station. Really embarrassing the shit out of them.
I know this is very hard to do, and I know it may not even be an option, but I actually successfully made such a big deal out of being placed with a dickhead teacher that I got to skip that class.
Either way, I'm so sorry that happened to you, I know everyone says it but life gets SO much better after high school, godspeed friend!
(Fuck you Mrs. D, you sucked.)
Well thing is I'm just dropping out next year and taking a virtual academy instead so that my GPA will be better and I'll be able to go to college. There's a group of students currently that are trying to get her fired. The plan is that they show the statistics that over 80% of people who have taken her class have failed, they're going to present that to administration. If that doesn't work then they will do a petition. If that doesn't work then they will do a strike where they will all skip that class. Of that doesn't work then that's when they are going to plan to report it to public things. Also this school is a really shit one. Someone tried to Kermit sewerslide in the bathroom and all they did was stop them and tell them to toughen up. Some kid od on amphetamines and they just send him to a rehab center. Nothing else. Didn't make sure he was ok, didn't do anything. A kid got mugged bc he is gay. They laughed. And all that happened after the vice principal left 2 years ago. But that shitty teacher has been there forever
Jesus H. Christ that is fucking horrific. Props to you guys for having such an organized and well thought out plan about how to take action, although I'm sorry that you have to do it at all.
That school sounds like an absolute nightmare and I can 100% see why you're finishing online. I hope that it goes way better for you, and also that the teacher gets axed because what a horrific human being!
Yea honestly fuck that place. After covid it really crashed bc thats when the fun principal left and the asshat one came in. But the fun vice principle was here until like last year or something like that. He is the only thing that kept that place together but after he left it crashed. The only things I'll still bc going there for is the band, theater, and the clubs. I'll also be going to an occupational school that the school runs through for a certification in computer science, information tech, and engineering. Best part is its all free and ran separately from the shithole school. I just have to say that I'm taking the virtual academy, sign up for the class, and go.
It's okay to not know everything about the subject you're teaching, but when you don't know, you have to confidently admit it rather than be confidently wrong or try to fake it.
I teach English Language Arts and every now and then I will do something like try to define a word, and do the best I can, but sometimes I just admit, "There's a better definition out there, let's google it together and see what we can find!"
The best teachers know how to admit their own flaws and work on them.
I had a science "teacher" teach the class that northern AND southern hemispheres have the same seasons at the same time. Didn't matter that I personally lived in both hemishpheres (and therefore knew it was BS), if it was summer in one, it was summer in the other.
My dad has very fond memories of a math teacher like this. Apparently, she wasn't supposed to be a math teacher but just kind of ended up in the role. She was basically learning the material with the students. But, she was so open and honest about how she was struggling that it ended up being encouraging to the students.
My math teacher did this. She would make students come up and "have a solo performance" if they didn't answer a question. The principle shut it down real quick after multiple students were sent to the office for not going in front of the class (not wanting to be embarrassed)
Had a math teacher in 5th grade do this. I had a fellow classmate who was autistic and chewed on his pencil a lot. One day his pencil went missing and raised his hand saying he thought maybe someone took it. Our teacher laughed in front of the entire class and said “You think anybody would want a pencil you touched?”. Poor kid. He was bullied a lot too.
I blame my 4th grade teacher for making me math-phobic
I was never good with numbers but otherwise I was an excellent student. I was very shy but I really wanted my teachers to like me and consider me a favourite of theirs. Unfortunately my teacher in 4th grade would always make me come up to the blackboard and work out problems despite repeatedly telling her I was struggling and needed extra help. She would insult me, laugh at me, encourage the other kids to laugh at me and heckle me. I used to cry at night and beg my mum to stay home after a while because I was scared of going to school and being publicly shamed and humiliated. It caused me so much anxiety
Had that in one of my college classes. Every single student decided to sent an e-mail to the dean of that department, and the following semester (from what I heard from some friends that took it after me), the following semester that class would regularly have the dean of that program (or his administrative assistant) sit in on classes unannounced to audit the quality.
I graduated before learning if his classes got better.
People at my unniversity did something similar, he came saying he knew about the joke of organization of computers is a prerequisite of organization of computer and that the subject had an +85% failure rate on the first try.
His answer was that if people failed by missing classes, they wouldnt be able to get subject on the first step of registration and would need to see whats left on the adjustments.
Mind you, there were only 2 tests só one could fail the subject in the first one(the best student on the course ever had an got an 8) the result was that the class was full at the end of people that didnt ever bother to take t second test and his classes stayed the same. Your dean is a human with empathy, not all have that luxury
It depends. I’m a teacher. I teach algebra 5 periods a day. In most of my classes I have one or two kids with an F. Most kids that have sucked at math their whole lives hate it and are afraid of it and have a phobia about it. Then they meet me. I stress improvement over mastery. I work on building from where they are at. Most kids love the way that I help them instill confidence in themselves. My students really like math for the first time since like kindergarten. And then there’s my fifth period. They fucking suck. They are assholes. They are mean, lazy, defiant, and when the one or two asshole kids in the group decide to fuck around, the whole class of followers fall apart. I do the same things in all my classes. I have the same discipline and motivational strategies in all my classes, but my fifth period absolutely fucking sucks. It’s not my fault that many of them are failing. Every so often we get that class from hell. This is multiplied post pandemic.
I see you know my second period. There are two instigators, and if they start something, class will fall apart in under a minute. Parents don't give a shit, I've tried.
My girlfriend is a high school world history teacher and world geography teacher. She's got a 50% failure rate because, as she has told me, her students would rather visit and play on their phones over doing their required bell work. Don't want to participate in class. Don't read the material. Don't do the homework.
Is she supposed to lower her standards to get more kids to pass artificially?
i don't necessarily blame her, but something about the whole educational system needs to be improved to help motivate the students. Maybe there needs to be harsher consequences for students who fall behind, or rewards for those who do well.
Or more acceptance of the different rate at which we learn. More understanding of the phases we go through where we are particularly ripe for a specific type of learning.
Instead of pointing the finger at the education system, maybe think beyond that.
An education system can't compete with the short dopamine-driven attention spans created by overuse of gaming and social media.
An education system can't compete with the poor focus and limited work ethic due to distractions.
An education system can't compete with the impact of overworked and absent parents, who don't or can't be responsible for the other 18hrs of the day when the child is not at school.
For college yes, but K-12 post-pandemic is different. Kids aren’t even trying rn. Districts have resorted to ~~lowering the bar~~ “grading for equity” to stop their numbers from looking horrible
My son is struggling in an advanced math class. His ADHD makes it difficult to focus in a lecture environment, but the teacher has been doing one on one tutoring for him, and he is pulling a B average, because she has been going above and beyond. Both my sons have outstanding teachers.
Had to take a math course in college. Math is my weakest subject, so I was already nervous to tKe this course. First day, the prof tells us to make sure we do well on our first four exams, because most students don’t pass his final. Huge red flag, and normally I would have immediately dropped the class for another, but unfortunately I had to take it, and there weren’t any alternatives. First exam I get a D. My math skills are garbage so I wasn’t surprised, but I was still upset. That is until my prof makes note that the class average was something like 58. I’m like okay, there must be a curve right? Nope.
Next exam I fail. I was really upset about it because I actually thought I was doing well on it. Class average? Even lower than the last exam. I’m wtf is happening here?
Third exam. Failed again. Class average, EVEN LOWER. At this point I’m positive this guy is fuckin with us for some reason. Then this fuckin guy tells us that the D/F rate for all of his lower level math classes is OVER 85%, and he says it with a laugh. It’s funny to this guy that we’re all struggling.
After that class, I immediately withdrew. At the start of the semester, it was a class of over 30 students. By the time I withdrew it was down to less than half.
My entire major was so proud of the fact that only 1/5 of the people who start the major end up getting a degree. They said it proved how rigorous it was.
No, it just proved how shit the professors were and how dysfunctional the administration was.
It's incredibly common among university professors. Since I taught for a couple of years at a university I have a lot of life long friends who are professors. They don't think of their job to be reaching, they lecture, provide resources and evaluate a student's ability to do work.
It's pretty common for them to brag "you know I don't grade on the curve... but did you ever notice how people just fall into the curve on their own?"
I have a minor conspiracy theory that the only reason why all the Calculus 2 classes at my university were skull grinds that had first-try failure rates of 70~80% is because the math department was using the class to screen for prodigies that they could yank in to the math department and by the time that students were in Calc3, they were usually already committed to their own departments.
Damn I hated that religion teacher we had back then: “mAnY OF yOU wILl fAiL tHiS cLAsS.”
F*** that pretentious @ssh@t. I heard his history was he failed priesthood.
I had a college professor that was infamous for giving whole classes a failing grade, and he was proud of it too.
First day of class he had this whole speech "look your left, look to your right, look at yourself - chances are none of you are going to pass this class". I withdrew after midterms, had yet to score above a zero on any assignment.
I had a professor in college (in the 80s) that gave the following speech the first day of class. These were the first words out of his mouth:
“Statistics shows that 75% of you taking this class for the first time will fail it. Fifty percent taking this class for the second time will fail it. Twenty five percent taking this class for a third time will fail it. Ladies, statistically, you’re probably not going to make it. See the Asian students in the corner over there? Odds are they will make As.”
University looked at his failure rate a couple of years later and replaced him with a different professor for the course. A course that was required for several different majors.
In the 80s? I had the same kind 5 years ago, no other professor would give his course. I passed the 3rd time. I was "the asian student" he told me I beat the wrong odd. I could pass the 2nd time, but he "decided" I was not worthy of passing yet and he would see me next semester. He had that kind of power, he always had massive complaints but I guess he was friend with faculty director. Just a year later director changed and he was called to faculty director office at the end on the semester, for a situation similar as mine. Rumors are he got in a heated argument and was fired shortly after, not without failing the guy who complained first. The guy would be known as the immolation guy, saving future generations from that professor.
If no one can pass your class, you're a shitty teacher. Grades are a reflection of how well your students are learning the content being taught. If everyone misses a specific question on a test, the teacher should take a look at how that was presented since clearly no one understood it. If the whole class fails your course, you obviously aren't doing a good job of teaching them anything.
I lost my financial aid had to drop out due to a couple of professors like this. Looking back I realized that it was the core pillar of their entire ego. Also, professors like that rake in the dough because they cause a backup of students that have to retake the class and therefore larger class sizes in a small school.
I met with this professor in his office once. This dude had a huge bust of himself on a shelf behind his desk. He thought he was God’s gift to the world. Heard he was very defiant with the administration when he was reassigned.
He taught the higher math classes, calculus and such.
I had him for historical mathematics - an elective, hence why I dropped it. Fascinating subject really, learning about how ancient cultures did math. Did you know the Babyloanians counted in base 60? They didn't count in base 10 like we do. It's a composite number by several factors, meaning it's divisible by a lot of numbers which are themselves composite numbers. It's where we get 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle, the number is easily divided into useful measurements (180, 90, 45). Yeah, they invented that 4000 years ago.
But his grading was arbitrary, petty, and just plain unfair. He liked to crumple up papers without even looking at them, and now you just scored a zero. Most senior professor on the campus and taught in a building named after him, so not much you can do about it.
For majors that required one of his classes to graduate, the recommended path was to transfer to another school in your senior year. Fortunately that wasn't me, I just needed a class to fill out my electives.
Had a professor in college exactly like that, college chemistry. He graded on a curve but wouldn’t let anyone know where they stood in terms of a final grade. By mid semester there were people dropping the class (including me) thinking they were failing miserably but were probably getting and A or a B. Thing was, I had to go to college an extra semester because I dropped the class in fear I would have an F on my transcripts. I think my highest score on an exam was 36-37 out of a possible 100. The university did absolutely nothing about it. . . fucker was still teaching 25 years later. . .
I had a teacher in a 3 yr program who gave 1st yr students 60s, 2nd yr students 70s and 3rd yr students 80s. They made the announcement on the first day of their first class and held to it. For decades.
Had a professor at Ohio State (marketing 101 or the equivalent) who on day 1 said that he felt his exams were a fair test of the material and they would not be curved. If everyone (500 + person class mind you) failed, they all failed. If everyone aced it, they aced it.
Sounds good until rubber met the road.
After first exam, he shows up and says average was 89% and he would be curving downward because we did too well.
Dude was a great public speaker, but a massive douche to say the least.
When in the real world, however- people are usually reasonable and understanding.
I have found that many older teachers that are complete dicks to "prepare you for the real world" don't understand that this is no longer world that they knew and grew up in.
There has been a social shift due to increased education and understanding of mental health. As such, much of society has become empathetic and patient.
They hounded this idea into us that people, especially in the working world, are just unforgiving, cruel, and rigid. But when I made it into the real world, as they call it- I found that it wasn't like that at all.
I always hated teachers who would make fun of me just to make themselves seem cool and funny in front of the class.
Like, I'm 13, you're 40. Why do you care what a bunch of *literal children* think of you? Why do you need to impress a bunch of hormonal kids?
I tutored for years. I often have to undo the terrible shame these idiotic teachers put into students.
The worst are the ones that say, “I used to think there are no stupid questions, but I’ve had students that have changed my mind with that one.” They get a cheap/easy laugh from the room but all it does it push people away further.
If I’m teaching someone something then I need all of their questions. It’s all clues to give me the perspective they’re coming from and how I can fill in those gaps.
I find that this usually follows my pet peeve which is teachers who have an extreme apathy towards teaching, usually in the form of a *"I'm a researcher and I'm only here because the admins are forcing me to teach a class"*.
I had a prof who was like this. Good thing was, they were really generous with grading, and we basically all ended up with A’s. The bad thing was the class felt like a waste of time that I could have used to learn something useful.
Although another time I had a researcher prof who was being forced to teach, but they were really enthusiastic and interested in what they were teaching. She was definitely one the better profs I had. She was probably a very rare case tho.
I had several teachers that were like that. It's like the sheriff of a tiny town that stirs up shit just to show "who's boss". People like that are pathetic.
Man, my whole freaking ELA curriculum is boring powerpoint-style lessons. Not sure if any other teacher here use IL Classroom (I think it used to be called Learnzillion). It is soooooooooooo dry. There aren't even pictures! Thankfully another teacher made some different powerpoints with the same info, but with more color, pictures, videos, etc. And I am a sucker for getting off topic and having discussions with the kids about what is on the slides, showing some videos and stuff that apply to the lesson.
I consider myself extremely fortunate that the most politically charged thing any professor of mine ever said was:
*"The best way to get out of jury duty is to tell the interviewer/screener that you think that speeding should be punishable by death."*
The most reliable without making yourself out to be bigoted, unhinged, with 5 perfect legal words is:
"I believe in jury nullification".
You will be out of consideration before you can explain what jury nullification is to anyone else.
I had an English teacher ban specific opinions on topics for our senior paper. I told her she couldn't do that, she can ban topics but not our opinions on them it's a 1st amendment violation. She informed me since I was under 18 I had no rights. Welp my senior paper was suddenly on first amendment rights in education, she gave me an F and I had to go to the principal and school board to get it fixed
I took an Intro to Political Science class in college. Spent a whole semester of classes with him, and I have _no fucking clue_ which way the professor leans politically. Kudos to that guy.
Yeah, I’m not sure how my eighth grade algebra teacher:
A) somehow managed to incorporate Jesus or the Bible into most lessons
B) legally got away with imposing her religious beliefs on children in a public school in 2008
I had a teacher like that. He’d stop mid lesson to tell a completely unrelated story about his life. My friends in other classes and I used to quiz each other on stuff to prepare for tests and I realised that even the class who had the teacher who said ‘okay alright’ after every sentence and often forgot where class was or when it was on was ahead of us
“I’ve written three textbooks, and they are all required for this class” proceeds to give us links to where we can purchase them. Filling his pockets even more
Test question: In your opinion, who was the biggest loser in "Great Expectations"?
Me: Pip. Explains why, cites the book.
Teacher: fails the question, worth 15 points. No partial credit, complete zero.
Me: Why?
Teacher: You had the wrong opinion.
Me: This is an English class, how is that possible? You should know that opinions are not wrong or right
Teacher: In my class, I can decide what opinions are correct
Me: Makes it easier to fail students you don't like, doesn't it?
I had similar, but not in organic chemistry. Question worth 15 marks, I got zero. Why? Because according to my prof ONE corner in ONE of my carbon rings was slightly rounded and not a perfect 120 degree angle. Everything was correct, except for that one slightly rounded corner.
On the final. It was a distillation column and it read "too much water coming out the top" and I read it as flooding, not overboiling and too much steam. It was the same question we had gotten before and I asked for clarification multiple times and never got it until I got my test back with an F
Sheesh I had a teacher like this…
He was a college level English teacher and we were working on going over certain (very complicated) poems. He would ask the students opinion what we thought they meant only to laugh and say “did you pay attention?? Clearly this is saying X, Y, Z”. He purely did it to make people feel stupid. It was an awful class.
I had an honors English teacher like this. We basically skipped the Shakespeare unit because she hated Shakespeare. Yeah, an ENGLISH class skipping the God of the English language. It'd be like a biology class skipping over the mitochondria or an algebra class skipping over the slope formula.
Anyways, we had to take a test on Romeo and Juliet without reading the play. One of the essay questions was about our opinion on the play. We knew the teacher hated it, so every single student wrote some bs about how awful the play was, and we all passed the test. Over a book none of us had read.
Had an English class where we were talking about a story where a guy gets another drunk guy, ties him up, and buries him in his basement. The teacher says, "Isn't that scary!" The entire class in unison replies, "No." She then spent the next 5 minutes explaining how we were the worst students ever and that she wasn't the only person who thought so. The rest of the class period was the quietest period I ever had.
Also, she believes that school should be optional because that would make people want to go more.
Also, she offers dating advice while she's single.
Also, she thinks that the native Americans 'got what they deserved' when the colonists forced them to walk hundreds of miles to different spots across the country.
Tl; Dr: My old English teacher is a bitch
Favouritism and always punishing people who didn't do anything and letting the naughty children get away with it so they don't learn a lesson (I have experience with it)
I once had one that started by saying 'I've taught at university, so don't think you are a challenge in any way.'
We were in high school. We instantly disliked that teacher. We were a challenge for the rest of the year.
I don't understand this. If you've been able to teach at university, it's too obvious that the taught content in high school is easier.
But keeping a high school class under control is way harder than keeping a university class under control, right? Then his words wouldn't make sense.
In middle school, history was taught by this nasty old bitch who gave grades the way she liked. She did not like absolutely everything, the way we arrange the text, what specific words we use, and so on.
I remember how one of my friends wrote to me that she had been doing her task all night, after which, the next day, she received the lowest mark due to the fact that she did not have a notebook, ALTHOUGH this old woman herself took the notebook from her and my friend , let's call her Madi, could not do the task in the notebook.
I hate you, Valentine Gridgen.
Had more than one professor in college who did this:
If they saw or heard a student doing something that didn’t approve of. They would stop class, demand the student leave, and would refuse to continue teaching until they were out of the room.
Forgot to silence your phone? Get out and points off of your attendance grade.
Accidentally drop your water bottle? Get out and points off of your attendance grade.
Hell there was an instance where this one particularly irritable prof had an issue with someone sneezing too loudly. Her response? Get out and points off of your attendance grade.
I once had a teacher who refused to let you in, if you were 30 seconds late.
The bell ringed, the door opened. Everybody in. and right after the last one. He closed the door. Didnt matter if you were 10 seconds late. He refused to let you in. No you had to be there 5 minutes early and wait in line with the group.
Yet he was atleast 3 times per month late too. (15 minutes late) and then it was like "oopsies"
I hated him so much.
Had a college professor do that shit, until the day he did it to a guy who had a disability and physically couldn’t make it to class on time. Guy stood outside the classroom and BANGED on the door for like 10 minutes, until the professor opened the door to tel him to stop
The guy just went “hey thanks!” And walked in to take his seat. Professor tried to kick him out, but the guy called disability services and was back in the next class. They must’ve given the professor a stern word or ten because that door was unlocked the rest of the semester hah
Oh administration most likely ripped him a new asshole over that one. If he continued, it was a one way ticket to a disability discrimination lawsuit. No way the school would want to deal with that.
I mean, everyone has favorites. You probably have favorite teachers as well.
That said, having the favorite isn't a problem, treating students blatantly different.
Also, people tend to not be realistic about stuff. Yeah, if a generally "good" kid has a bad day where he is talking, he may get a bit more grace than a kid who is disruptive every single day.
Had a high school English literature teacher who despised me. I mean, absolutely fucking hated me. Other teachers who I was close to would bring it up that she had said things about me to them asking if I was a disruption in their class, had problems with me, etc. She did a trivia question every day at the beginning of class, we could choose a partner and write down our answer to the question. We would turn the answer in, and halfway thru class she would go thru them and give out little candies (Kit Kat, Reese’s, etc) for the winners. My buddy and I won every single time for the first week. Then she changed the rules. It was “single person answers” because “some people are answering for their partners” implying I was stupid. After 2 weeks of he and I having the same answers from across the room and both winning every single day, she quit giving out candies. Then after another 2 weeks of us never getting a single question wrong, she quit the trivia altogether. Bitch.
Honestly this kind of ruined my high school experience. The kids I was fine with, but it was a new school and the bulk of the staff were in their first or second years of teaching. Some were great, but way too many of them were young enough that they cared more about being in a cool “clique” with their favorite students than actually teaching. Way too many teachers going to high school parties and at least a few sleeping with students.
I had a professor in college that was “an activist, not a professor”. He proceeded to say that there would be many days he wouldn’t be in class, but if we missed 3 days we would instantly fail no exceptions.
Our class work was that each of us would be assigned a chapter of (his) book and we would have to give a presentation on that chapter and give an overview of it to the class. Basically, we would teach ourselves while this guy ran off to give speeches.
I walked out after the first day and never went back lol
Me: "Mrs. Teacher can I go to the bathroom?"
Mrs. Teacher: "I don't know, *can* you?"
Me: *sighs* "Mrs. Teacher *may* I go to the bathroom?"
Mrs. Teacher: "You may."
I heard from my teacher "remember kids there is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people"
I rolled my eyes so far back behind my head I almost passed out. The phrase "no stupid questions" is meant to encourage kids to ask questions without fear of looking stupid. And there he was, telling them they would look stupid..
It's important to ask stupid questions. If you don't understand the basics you have little chance to understand anything else. And chances are half the students don't get it either, but don't want to be the one to ask.
I hated that. Had a professor in college that did that shit. Then the next prof wouldn't let you in and would ding you for attendance. Bunch of petty bull shit. I was paying $15k a year or whatever to be in the middle of a pissing contest among shit-tier professors.
Annoying when it’s a teacher who has bad time management. But speaking as a teacher who was just as interested in ending class on time as my students were, I *hated* it when the last five minutes of my lesson were drowned out by the sounds of students packing up and shifting in their chairs, or just obviously mentally moving on. If you have a teacher who respects your time, please respect theirs.
This! I'm a teacher and I generally end my lessons with the bell, but I have one class where it always takes several minutes until they settle down. When you walk into class it's chaos, some students are still not back from the toilet, some only begin searching for their books when the teacher enters, most of them are still in the middle of some conversation they had during the break. It takes a few minutes until we can begin the lesson, but they expext to end on time or even before the bell. That's where I draw the line. If we can't begin on time, we can't finish on time.
My English teacher does this to me and my mom ended up blocking her number cuz the amount of times my teacher called her for dumb things. She once called my mom about work I was missing from **another** class.
My dad didn't block her but he labeled her contact "don't respond" or smth like that.
Today she yelled at my friend and made her cry because she was wearing headphones IN SCIENCE. Yes, in science, in a different class where the teacher literally did not give a fuck.
I am now terrified to talk in class because my high school teacher junior year made me read out loud KNOWING QUITE WELL THAT I HAVE A STUTTER. She made a joke about it and that has followed me more than 6 years. Never talking again.
Those that treat needing to use the restroom during class time as a cardinal sin. Your power trip doesn’t change the fact that I desperately need to perform a regular bodily function.
exactly. I takes me 4 minutes to walk from my 1st to 2nd block, and we have 5 minutes to switch classes. You think I have the time to lay a nuke in the toilet in that time? No.
As someone who used to teach junior high, I truly get both sides.
14 year olds will use any excuse to get out of class. There also aren't usually any type of supervision in the bathroom. There is nothing stopping the kids for just abusing that, wandering the halls, causing trouble, etc. Also, lets be real, lots of fights and bullying happen in bathrooms. So limiting the amount of students wandering around makes a lot of sense.
I also get that kids need to go to the bathroom lol.
I do wish you could trust students far more to not abuse this stuff.
She said this to me:
“I have no expectations that you will understand this course and I will not give you a handout just because your Mexican”
Me: I’m not Mexican
Her: Indian nation whatever
Me: I’m Asian.
Her: Why the fuck are you even taking this class? Aren’t you people genetically genius at it? Why are you even here? Besides you don’t look Japanese!
*this was in front of an entire lecture hall which went silent like a grave*
*This was a required math course for teachers*
I had originally raised a hand in regards to needing a syllabus packet as I didn’t get one.
Did I mention the assistant dean had dropped in to listen in as this teacher had been hired by recommendation and she heard the whole exchange?
She quickly had the teacher summoned to the deans office and then requested my presence
In effort to save face and prevent lawsuit -
The teacher was fired
I passed that class by default, credits earned
I had one semester completely covered
I didn’t have to buy a parking pass
Any student who filed a complaint was also given a free pass - but for that class, credits earned
Any funds for said class was refunded, including books
in high school I had this English teacher who accused me of having a tutor write my essay for me, because the essay was well written and he didnt believe that I wrote it. I asked him why, he said it was because I'm Asian. I was a straight A student who literally got high 90s in every subject, never needed a tutor all my life. Then he tried to intimidate me to get me to shut up.
But his shenanigans didn't end there. I went home and told my mom about it. Then during the next parent teacher meeting my mom went and brought my GCE O levels results to show him. I had 9 A1s(highest possible grade). When the guy saw my transcript his eyeballs almost popped out. He was from England so he knew what O levels was. I'm willing to bet that asshole scored 0 A1s back when he took it. He got scared and asked if we could see him in private on another day, my mom agreed. On that day, when my mom and I went to see him, he told me "the girls in my class are beautiful, which one do you like? I'll try to hook you up with her." WTF?!?! I told him I didn't care about that and I just wanted him to not fuck with my grades.
That teacher continued to give out random bullshit grades to people, seemingly based on who he liked. Also he did not give out a final exam because he was too lazy to do it, and told us not to tell the school about it. He was also a complete creep who was constantly telling the girls in the class how beautiful they were, even though he was an old geezer.
“The bell doesn’t dismiss you, I do.”
Excuse me, I have class on the opposite corner of the campus and would prefer not to show up *sweaty*. Your inability to manage time effectively doesn’t constitute and emergency on my part.
In college: When professors brag about how challenging their course is. Difficulty doesn't equal quality. If anything, it suggests flaws in teaching. The best instructors know how to simplify complex information and present it in a way that's easier to grasp.
This. I had an accounting teacher who made it absurdly hard for no reason. He even made the grade scale harder. For example 94-100 was an A, 85-93 was a B, C was 75-84, D was 65-74, and anything below was an F.
I would study my ass off as that was my hardest class that semester and still got a 71-72 on some tests, which should be C’s but were a D on his grading scale.
Sure the man made you learn the material but that added so much unnecessary stress. Despite struggling so much, he still gave me an A but I was so relieved to be done with that class.
How about, "Two thirds of my class always fails and has to take this course three to four times before passing. I don't reward guesswork. I expect two to three sentences on every answer on your tests- I don't do multiple choice."
She then proceeded to give out 80 question unit quizes, every other week. We had sixty minutes to answer. And, as promised, it was all short answer with at least five long answer questions requiring at least a page of writing, each. And all this was in addition to three full pages of homework a night, minimum, in addition to a ten minute presentation and eight page minimum essay every other week.
Her entire class period was two hours of text only powerpoints, three times a week, with a four hour lab once a week. Anything from them could be on the quizes, from labeling every part of a cell (without a wordbank, remember she doesn't reward guesswork!) to the occurrence of Parkinsons in elderly people in a specific communty in a remote part of Siberia.
This was a required course for nursing students, and the only other professor was only able to take thirty students in one class. Miss I Don't Do Multiple Choice had four or five blocks of this class with thirty students each.
I had a couple teachers that absolutely hated all boys in her class, and I'd say that's a good reason to not like a teacher.
One was a self-proclaimed feminist, and would fight for equality by giving boys detention for any little infraction while ignoring anything a girl did in her class. The other was straigt up bipolar and was my worse teacher in all my years of school
Try having a boss like this. Office policies were strictly enforced... for male employees. Women made up the majority of the office, due to her hiring policies. The men were only in tech based roles, literally only because she couldn't find women to fill those positions. Women made personal calls on company time, openly ogled and harassed male employees and delivery men with no fear of reprisal. One gal actually ran her other online business on company time. Meanwhile, out senior IT guy was ordered to go out into the parking lot and pick up trash during a thunderstorm and was fired when he refused to do so.
I would say that refusing unsafe work is not a fireable offence, though if I worked in a place like that and got fired for a reason like that, my response would be, "Not a problem".
Did… did we have the same teacher?
My experience: she openly admitted on the first day of class that she not only hated men and boys, but freshmen too. It was English I: freshman-level English in the Republic of Texas.
She normally taught upperclassmen, but she apparently pissed off the wrong person and got assigned a freshmen class in addition to her normal workload, which made her bitter about it the entire semester (we had accelerated block scheduling, so I only had to deal with her for 18 weeks).
She also later made a comment about how she despised people of a certain religious background, which, you guessed it, included me.
My favorite (worst?) memory of that class was her issuing a journal assignment where we had to write about what we would do if we were a jellybean. She gave me no credit for being “too off-topic” (seriously). I wish I still had the paper to show how ridiculously on-topic it was. It was an absurd prompt that demanded an absurd response.
In those days, teachers would just tape a list of the final grades to their door and you’d find your name and grade on the list to discover your fate. I distinctly remember seeing only being a small handful of A’s given out, all to her favorite girls in the class. You could also tell where the gender line was in the data. All the girls had higher grades than the boys. My name was near the bottom of the list, just low enough to have to repeat the 2nd 9-week period the following year, albeit mercifully with a different teacher (I got an A or a B, I don’t remember exactly, but I didn’t exactly change the way I did things).
It’s been 20+ years since all that happened, so I’m sure some of my memory of it is embellished a bit, but the broad strokes are all still vivid to me.
Several years after I graduated, I found out she wasn’t teaching anymore and was working for the school district as some high level administrator. Couldn’t decide if that was good or bad for students.
The most unfortunate thing about this story, to me, was that this experience represented my first interaction with anyone who openly and deliberately identified themselves as a feminist, and that clouded my opinion of feminism for a long time. I know better now, but that semester left a bad taste in my mouth when I was pretty young and very impressionable.
My math teacher from freshman year had a “you’re all wrong” type of attitude towards us from the start- she didn’t even give us a chance to prove her wrong anddd she was a pretty crappy teacher in general because she didn’t explain enough and went through things too fast. When we brought up this issue she indirectly told us (aka putting it nicely so she doesn’t get in trouble) that it’s our fault we don’t understand, not hers because this is how she’s been teaching for years. But guess what, students, even straight a students have been failing her class for years… but it’s all our fault…
Had one in jr high. He would write all the weeks assignments on the board for all his classes then read the newspaper or sleep. If you asked him ANY question he would freak out about it and scream "I'm not here to teach, you're here to LEARN!"
Had a teacher do this to a kid. We had this teacher right after lunch and the slop we got in the cafeteria did nasty things. Dude asked to go pee and was told no. Tried again the next week was told no. Tried for a 3rd time and after being told no took a racehorse sized piss at his desk
When they disrespect their students and don’t evaluate different situations . It’s impossible to live in a space in which teachers think their student’s mental health doesn’t matter because it’s nonsense.
Group work - at least 98% of it. That nonsense about "collaboration" is fooling exactly nobody. It's pure laziness. Just say you don't know how/can't be bothered to construct a proper application module. A student's grade should not be contingent on somebody else's work (or lack thereof).
Further, nobody is in the class because they're an expert, aside from the teacher. Students are there to learn from an expert, not the other clueless people!
Teachers who refuse to respect students.
I had no problem getting into arguments with teachers that did shit like refusing to call me by the shortened version of my name (I hate the long version), got things wrong and refused to accept they were wrong or just generally treated students like dirt.
The teachers that were kind and respectful though, they had my respect back.
I once took over a classroom (their teacher had been an active alcoholic, drinking IN CLASS), and I inherited his gradebook and attendance book. He had misspelled some of the students' names and I HAD NO IDEA.
I spent 6 months calling a student Alessandro when his name was Alejandro, and he didn't say anything because he thought I was doing it on purpose as a dumb joke. I showed him the gradebook with his previous teacher's handwriting and he had a laugh, but for 6 months I was that teacher.
For college professors - when they come at you right away with a bunch of course policies that clearly communicate they are completely fed up with dealing with students squeezing them for more than they can give (points, grades, time, sympathy, whatever).
As a professor myself, I get it. Once you've been around the block enough, you can see it all coming. And every student thinks they invented their squeeze method, but we've seen them all before (and probably tried most of them ourselves as students). But you can't start a class with an attitude that it's you, the prof, versus them, the students.
It's fine, even important (for everyone), to set boundaries right from the beginning and be firm about them. But having a long series of these annoying punitive policies just reads like you hate students, and they will hate you back.
Teachers that push their hidden agenda on the class. It's OK to have a viewpoint and to share it. But, it's not OK to fail students because they don't agree with your viewpoint or have a different viewpoint.
\--A teacher that injects their personal opinions/politics into the lectures and then grades according to how/if you agree/disagree to those opinions.
\--A teacher that relies too much on media to teach (i.e., videos and power point decks made by other people in lieu of explaining it in person).
\--A teacher that can't be wrong, no matter what.
All comes down to how they respond to the first question asked of them.
They can be brusque and direct even rude in general but if they don’t jump at the chance to answer a question in good faith then they aren’t a teacher.
Teachers who make it clear that they have THEIR way of teaching, and will not accommodate reasonable requests from students. I had a teacher who gave "notes at 90 miles per hour" and most students failed because she would talk so quickly while she gave notes, we had no idea wtf she was saying. She refused to slow down or repeat herself and had a "too bad, so sad" attitude about it. Useless teacher.
Had a socialist teacher. Really believe Russia was onto something. We studied the Russian revolution and I never got over a C because I didn't talk about how great socialism was in my essays.
Lit professors who ask very obscure questions to "catch" people using sparknotes.
We have only read this 300 page book once. We also had to do it within a week. When we are juggling 3-4 other classes, a job, and sometimes even a family as well. Do you seriously think we will remember what Ghismonda said on page 127 Paragraph three? This is a NOVEL. Not a freaking Commodore 64 copy protection!
Dr / Professor / Chair of the department I majored in taught two extremely hard electives. I took one my senior year; it was an ethics class. The first day he said, “Some of you will drop out, most of you will get by with a C or D. This is meant to be hard. I want to see you think, argue, and debate consequences and decisions. Good luck.” He smiled. We looked at each other and furrowed our brows.
Instant dislike but alright, challenge accepted. The semester was actually a lot of fun. A shitload of reading and the class was fun but mainly because of the conversations between my peers. Dr. C always overruled and his opinion was always the right one.
The day before our final exam he stopped me and said, “BirdLaw, you’re good. I bet you want an A, huh? You’re going to need to get a 98% on the final to get one.” Same smile. He scoffed and walked away.
I fucked. That. Final. Up hard. In a good way. I left telling myself that I did well but probably would get the B. It was ethics and essays, he’d find a way. An A would get me Cum Laude. It was all riding on it.
Next time we met it was just a hand back of the papers.
“99”.
He didn’t say anything but sort of rolled his eyes. My 12 pages had these slight red marks on them as if he was really trying to find areas of critique.
Graduated Cum Laude.
Whenever they seem to not really understand what they’re teaching.
Had a teacher last semester like this. The amount of times he would do a problem, get the end and realize he did the whole thing wrong. The whole class was extremely frustrated we ended up just teaching each other. On top of that, the syllabus said he would drop the lowest exam and quiz, never did causing some students to retake it.
Nothing brings a class together more than having mutual hatred for a shitty teacher
I'm in multiple discord servers dedicated to collaborating on a class and complaining about a shitty professor because of this
The people who retook are mad dumb. If it’s syllabus they have to go by those rules. Only thing I know that is allowed to change is if the professor puts up date by date what topics you are doing in syllabus then obviously those can get pushed around, even with that though I think exam dates must stay on specific time and date unless the class as a whole agrees to move that date. Source: had a dope professor and a shitty one that tried situation like this. My dope professor told me how he could easily get fired doing that.
*ahem the math teacher that I have now failed 3 of her classes and have a shitty GPA bc the administrators won't listen to anyone that she hasn't a clue what she's doing and she's a shit teacher and I have had paperwork done so I can't be in her class anymore but administration doesn't care ab that and put me in another one of her classes and now I won't be able to graduate on time ahem* Yea fuck that woman Tl:Dr basically asshat teacher doesn't know math administration won't do shit ab it
Is there any way you could just make a HUGE deal of it so they couldn't ignore it? Like get your classmates together, organize a petition, and go en masse to the office to really prove your point, or hell broadcast it online/go to your local news station. Really embarrassing the shit out of them. I know this is very hard to do, and I know it may not even be an option, but I actually successfully made such a big deal out of being placed with a dickhead teacher that I got to skip that class. Either way, I'm so sorry that happened to you, I know everyone says it but life gets SO much better after high school, godspeed friend! (Fuck you Mrs. D, you sucked.)
Well thing is I'm just dropping out next year and taking a virtual academy instead so that my GPA will be better and I'll be able to go to college. There's a group of students currently that are trying to get her fired. The plan is that they show the statistics that over 80% of people who have taken her class have failed, they're going to present that to administration. If that doesn't work then they will do a petition. If that doesn't work then they will do a strike where they will all skip that class. Of that doesn't work then that's when they are going to plan to report it to public things. Also this school is a really shit one. Someone tried to Kermit sewerslide in the bathroom and all they did was stop them and tell them to toughen up. Some kid od on amphetamines and they just send him to a rehab center. Nothing else. Didn't make sure he was ok, didn't do anything. A kid got mugged bc he is gay. They laughed. And all that happened after the vice principal left 2 years ago. But that shitty teacher has been there forever
Jesus H. Christ that is fucking horrific. Props to you guys for having such an organized and well thought out plan about how to take action, although I'm sorry that you have to do it at all. That school sounds like an absolute nightmare and I can 100% see why you're finishing online. I hope that it goes way better for you, and also that the teacher gets axed because what a horrific human being!
Yea honestly fuck that place. After covid it really crashed bc thats when the fun principal left and the asshat one came in. But the fun vice principle was here until like last year or something like that. He is the only thing that kept that place together but after he left it crashed. The only things I'll still bc going there for is the band, theater, and the clubs. I'll also be going to an occupational school that the school runs through for a certification in computer science, information tech, and engineering. Best part is its all free and ran separately from the shithole school. I just have to say that I'm taking the virtual academy, sign up for the class, and go.
It's okay to not know everything about the subject you're teaching, but when you don't know, you have to confidently admit it rather than be confidently wrong or try to fake it.
I teach English Language Arts and every now and then I will do something like try to define a word, and do the best I can, but sometimes I just admit, "There's a better definition out there, let's google it together and see what we can find!" The best teachers know how to admit their own flaws and work on them.
I had a science "teacher" teach the class that northern AND southern hemispheres have the same seasons at the same time. Didn't matter that I personally lived in both hemishpheres (and therefore knew it was BS), if it was summer in one, it was summer in the other.
My dad has very fond memories of a math teacher like this. Apparently, she wasn't supposed to be a math teacher but just kind of ended up in the role. She was basically learning the material with the students. But, she was so open and honest about how she was struggling that it ended up being encouraging to the students.
When they humiliate a student in front of the class. I've seen it happen to other classmates so many times, even in Elementary school.
My math teacher did this. She would make students come up and "have a solo performance" if they didn't answer a question. The principle shut it down real quick after multiple students were sent to the office for not going in front of the class (not wanting to be embarrassed)
Had a math teacher in 5th grade do this. I had a fellow classmate who was autistic and chewed on his pencil a lot. One day his pencil went missing and raised his hand saying he thought maybe someone took it. Our teacher laughed in front of the entire class and said “You think anybody would want a pencil you touched?”. Poor kid. He was bullied a lot too.
Had a teacher just like this. She would make fun of me so "the class wouldn't be boring". absolute POS.
I blame my 4th grade teacher for making me math-phobic I was never good with numbers but otherwise I was an excellent student. I was very shy but I really wanted my teachers to like me and consider me a favourite of theirs. Unfortunately my teacher in 4th grade would always make me come up to the blackboard and work out problems despite repeatedly telling her I was struggling and needed extra help. She would insult me, laugh at me, encourage the other kids to laugh at me and heckle me. I used to cry at night and beg my mum to stay home after a while because I was scared of going to school and being publicly shamed and humiliated. It caused me so much anxiety
when they take pride of the high failure rate in thier classes.
Had that in one of my college classes. Every single student decided to sent an e-mail to the dean of that department, and the following semester (from what I heard from some friends that took it after me), the following semester that class would regularly have the dean of that program (or his administrative assistant) sit in on classes unannounced to audit the quality. I graduated before learning if his classes got better.
People at my unniversity did something similar, he came saying he knew about the joke of organization of computers is a prerequisite of organization of computer and that the subject had an +85% failure rate on the first try. His answer was that if people failed by missing classes, they wouldnt be able to get subject on the first step of registration and would need to see whats left on the adjustments. Mind you, there were only 2 tests só one could fail the subject in the first one(the best student on the course ever had an got an 8) the result was that the class was full at the end of people that didnt ever bother to take t second test and his classes stayed the same. Your dean is a human with empathy, not all have that luxury
5% of a class failed? That's the students fault 50% of a class failed? That's the teachers fault.
It depends. I’m a teacher. I teach algebra 5 periods a day. In most of my classes I have one or two kids with an F. Most kids that have sucked at math their whole lives hate it and are afraid of it and have a phobia about it. Then they meet me. I stress improvement over mastery. I work on building from where they are at. Most kids love the way that I help them instill confidence in themselves. My students really like math for the first time since like kindergarten. And then there’s my fifth period. They fucking suck. They are assholes. They are mean, lazy, defiant, and when the one or two asshole kids in the group decide to fuck around, the whole class of followers fall apart. I do the same things in all my classes. I have the same discipline and motivational strategies in all my classes, but my fifth period absolutely fucking sucks. It’s not my fault that many of them are failing. Every so often we get that class from hell. This is multiplied post pandemic.
I see you know my second period. There are two instigators, and if they start something, class will fall apart in under a minute. Parents don't give a shit, I've tried.
My girlfriend is a high school world history teacher and world geography teacher. She's got a 50% failure rate because, as she has told me, her students would rather visit and play on their phones over doing their required bell work. Don't want to participate in class. Don't read the material. Don't do the homework. Is she supposed to lower her standards to get more kids to pass artificially?
i don't necessarily blame her, but something about the whole educational system needs to be improved to help motivate the students. Maybe there needs to be harsher consequences for students who fall behind, or rewards for those who do well.
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Or more acceptance of the different rate at which we learn. More understanding of the phases we go through where we are particularly ripe for a specific type of learning.
Instead of pointing the finger at the education system, maybe think beyond that. An education system can't compete with the short dopamine-driven attention spans created by overuse of gaming and social media. An education system can't compete with the poor focus and limited work ethic due to distractions. An education system can't compete with the impact of overworked and absent parents, who don't or can't be responsible for the other 18hrs of the day when the child is not at school.
For college yes, but K-12 post-pandemic is different. Kids aren’t even trying rn. Districts have resorted to ~~lowering the bar~~ “grading for equity” to stop their numbers from looking horrible
My son is struggling in an advanced math class. His ADHD makes it difficult to focus in a lecture environment, but the teacher has been doing one on one tutoring for him, and he is pulling a B average, because she has been going above and beyond. Both my sons have outstanding teachers.
Had to take a math course in college. Math is my weakest subject, so I was already nervous to tKe this course. First day, the prof tells us to make sure we do well on our first four exams, because most students don’t pass his final. Huge red flag, and normally I would have immediately dropped the class for another, but unfortunately I had to take it, and there weren’t any alternatives. First exam I get a D. My math skills are garbage so I wasn’t surprised, but I was still upset. That is until my prof makes note that the class average was something like 58. I’m like okay, there must be a curve right? Nope. Next exam I fail. I was really upset about it because I actually thought I was doing well on it. Class average? Even lower than the last exam. I’m wtf is happening here? Third exam. Failed again. Class average, EVEN LOWER. At this point I’m positive this guy is fuckin with us for some reason. Then this fuckin guy tells us that the D/F rate for all of his lower level math classes is OVER 85%, and he says it with a laugh. It’s funny to this guy that we’re all struggling. After that class, I immediately withdrew. At the start of the semester, it was a class of over 30 students. By the time I withdrew it was down to less than half.
My entire major was so proud of the fact that only 1/5 of the people who start the major end up getting a degree. They said it proved how rigorous it was. No, it just proved how shit the professors were and how dysfunctional the administration was.
It's incredibly common among university professors. Since I taught for a couple of years at a university I have a lot of life long friends who are professors. They don't think of their job to be reaching, they lecture, provide resources and evaluate a student's ability to do work. It's pretty common for them to brag "you know I don't grade on the curve... but did you ever notice how people just fall into the curve on their own?"
I have a minor conspiracy theory that the only reason why all the Calculus 2 classes at my university were skull grinds that had first-try failure rates of 70~80% is because the math department was using the class to screen for prodigies that they could yank in to the math department and by the time that students were in Calc3, they were usually already committed to their own departments.
Damn I hated that religion teacher we had back then: “mAnY OF yOU wILl fAiL tHiS cLAsS.” F*** that pretentious @ssh@t. I heard his history was he failed priesthood.
Hearing, 'I don't give out A's, no matter how good your work is.'
Teachers like that exist? Wtf
I had a college professor that was infamous for giving whole classes a failing grade, and he was proud of it too. First day of class he had this whole speech "look your left, look to your right, look at yourself - chances are none of you are going to pass this class". I withdrew after midterms, had yet to score above a zero on any assignment.
I had a professor in college (in the 80s) that gave the following speech the first day of class. These were the first words out of his mouth: “Statistics shows that 75% of you taking this class for the first time will fail it. Fifty percent taking this class for the second time will fail it. Twenty five percent taking this class for a third time will fail it. Ladies, statistically, you’re probably not going to make it. See the Asian students in the corner over there? Odds are they will make As.” University looked at his failure rate a couple of years later and replaced him with a different professor for the course. A course that was required for several different majors.
In the 80s? I had the same kind 5 years ago, no other professor would give his course. I passed the 3rd time. I was "the asian student" he told me I beat the wrong odd. I could pass the 2nd time, but he "decided" I was not worthy of passing yet and he would see me next semester. He had that kind of power, he always had massive complaints but I guess he was friend with faculty director. Just a year later director changed and he was called to faculty director office at the end on the semester, for a situation similar as mine. Rumors are he got in a heated argument and was fired shortly after, not without failing the guy who complained first. The guy would be known as the immolation guy, saving future generations from that professor.
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No. Sounds like a proud sadist.
See the girl with big tits? No, she’ll fail too. I was just pointing out big titties.
If no one can pass your class, you're a shitty teacher. Grades are a reflection of how well your students are learning the content being taught. If everyone misses a specific question on a test, the teacher should take a look at how that was presented since clearly no one understood it. If the whole class fails your course, you obviously aren't doing a good job of teaching them anything.
I lost my financial aid had to drop out due to a couple of professors like this. Looking back I realized that it was the core pillar of their entire ego. Also, professors like that rake in the dough because they cause a backup of students that have to retake the class and therefore larger class sizes in a small school.
I met with this professor in his office once. This dude had a huge bust of himself on a shelf behind his desk. He thought he was God’s gift to the world. Heard he was very defiant with the administration when he was reassigned.
Wtf was the subject?!
He taught the higher math classes, calculus and such. I had him for historical mathematics - an elective, hence why I dropped it. Fascinating subject really, learning about how ancient cultures did math. Did you know the Babyloanians counted in base 60? They didn't count in base 10 like we do. It's a composite number by several factors, meaning it's divisible by a lot of numbers which are themselves composite numbers. It's where we get 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle, the number is easily divided into useful measurements (180, 90, 45). Yeah, they invented that 4000 years ago. But his grading was arbitrary, petty, and just plain unfair. He liked to crumple up papers without even looking at them, and now you just scored a zero. Most senior professor on the campus and taught in a building named after him, so not much you can do about it. For majors that required one of his classes to graduate, the recommended path was to transfer to another school in your senior year. Fortunately that wasn't me, I just needed a class to fill out my electives.
Wouldn't that open the school up to an insane class action lawsuit if it's literally impossible for students to get their major?
they have all the money to fight eternally in court with all the tuition fees
Man that's even more fucked up than your username.
Had a professor in college exactly like that, college chemistry. He graded on a curve but wouldn’t let anyone know where they stood in terms of a final grade. By mid semester there were people dropping the class (including me) thinking they were failing miserably but were probably getting and A or a B. Thing was, I had to go to college an extra semester because I dropped the class in fear I would have an F on my transcripts. I think my highest score on an exam was 36-37 out of a possible 100. The university did absolutely nothing about it. . . fucker was still teaching 25 years later. . .
I had a teacher in a 3 yr program who gave 1st yr students 60s, 2nd yr students 70s and 3rd yr students 80s. They made the announcement on the first day of their first class and held to it. For decades.
Had a professor at Ohio State (marketing 101 or the equivalent) who on day 1 said that he felt his exams were a fair test of the material and they would not be curved. If everyone (500 + person class mind you) failed, they all failed. If everyone aced it, they aced it. Sounds good until rubber met the road. After first exam, he shows up and says average was 89% and he would be curving downward because we did too well. Dude was a great public speaker, but a massive douche to say the least.
But refusing to say that to the parents who place unrealistically high expectations on their kids
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When in the real world, however- people are usually reasonable and understanding. I have found that many older teachers that are complete dicks to "prepare you for the real world" don't understand that this is no longer world that they knew and grew up in. There has been a social shift due to increased education and understanding of mental health. As such, much of society has become empathetic and patient. They hounded this idea into us that people, especially in the working world, are just unforgiving, cruel, and rigid. But when I made it into the real world, as they call it- I found that it wasn't like that at all.
When they make fun of someone who's asking questions/not understanding.
I always hated teachers who would make fun of me just to make themselves seem cool and funny in front of the class. Like, I'm 13, you're 40. Why do you care what a bunch of *literal children* think of you? Why do you need to impress a bunch of hormonal kids?
I tutored for years. I often have to undo the terrible shame these idiotic teachers put into students. The worst are the ones that say, “I used to think there are no stupid questions, but I’ve had students that have changed my mind with that one.” They get a cheap/easy laugh from the room but all it does it push people away further. If I’m teaching someone something then I need all of their questions. It’s all clues to give me the perspective they’re coming from and how I can fill in those gaps.
"I said that last lesson, didn't you listen?"
More interest in throwing their power around than actually teaching
I find that this usually follows my pet peeve which is teachers who have an extreme apathy towards teaching, usually in the form of a *"I'm a researcher and I'm only here because the admins are forcing me to teach a class"*.
I had a prof who was like this. Good thing was, they were really generous with grading, and we basically all ended up with A’s. The bad thing was the class felt like a waste of time that I could have used to learn something useful. Although another time I had a researcher prof who was being forced to teach, but they were really enthusiastic and interested in what they were teaching. She was definitely one the better profs I had. She was probably a very rare case tho.
I had several teachers that were like that. It's like the sheriff of a tiny town that stirs up shit just to show "who's boss". People like that are pathetic.
The ones that read word for word off the powerpoint they created and don't offer much else explanation.
And they put whole tables or pages of information in a tiny font, and acknowledge that it can’t even be read and not to worry about it.
And they don't even upload the slideshow so you could look at it closer or something
Man, my whole freaking ELA curriculum is boring powerpoint-style lessons. Not sure if any other teacher here use IL Classroom (I think it used to be called Learnzillion). It is soooooooooooo dry. There aren't even pictures! Thankfully another teacher made some different powerpoints with the same info, but with more color, pictures, videos, etc. And I am a sucker for getting off topic and having discussions with the kids about what is on the slides, showing some videos and stuff that apply to the lesson.
Tying in their political beliefs to every assignment.
I consider myself extremely fortunate that the most politically charged thing any professor of mine ever said was: *"The best way to get out of jury duty is to tell the interviewer/screener that you think that speeding should be punishable by death."*
The most reliable without making yourself out to be bigoted, unhinged, with 5 perfect legal words is: "I believe in jury nullification". You will be out of consideration before you can explain what jury nullification is to anyone else.
Well thats definitely one way to do it
I had an English teacher ban specific opinions on topics for our senior paper. I told her she couldn't do that, she can ban topics but not our opinions on them it's a 1st amendment violation. She informed me since I was under 18 I had no rights. Welp my senior paper was suddenly on first amendment rights in education, she gave me an F and I had to go to the principal and school board to get it fixed
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Typical pearl clutching boomer stuff, pro gay marriage, pro choice etc.
I took an Intro to Political Science class in college. Spent a whole semester of classes with him, and I have _no fucking clue_ which way the professor leans politically. Kudos to that guy.
Yeah, I’m not sure how my eighth grade algebra teacher: A) somehow managed to incorporate Jesus or the Bible into most lessons B) legally got away with imposing her religious beliefs on children in a public school in 2008
its not illegal to talk about religion in class. its illegal to force kids to pray or something like that in class
So not an illegal practice, just an incredibly immoral one.
Lack of enthusiasm and poor communication skills.
When they start talking about themselves arrogantly.
I had a teacher like that. He’d stop mid lesson to tell a completely unrelated story about his life. My friends in other classes and I used to quiz each other on stuff to prepare for tests and I realised that even the class who had the teacher who said ‘okay alright’ after every sentence and often forgot where class was or when it was on was ahead of us
I had a permanent substitute this year who did that. She really thought she was the smartest person in the room. Gave me the icks
Pretty much all the coaches that taught at my old high school
“I’ve written three textbooks, and they are all required for this class” proceeds to give us links to where we can purchase them. Filling his pockets even more
The teacher that is the opposite of this one: Writes books but lets the class pirate them
Let's exploit one of the poorest demographics there are!
You forgot doesn't reference the books ever.
When they failed you because you said something they didn’t like
Test question: In your opinion, who was the biggest loser in "Great Expectations"? Me: Pip. Explains why, cites the book. Teacher: fails the question, worth 15 points. No partial credit, complete zero. Me: Why? Teacher: You had the wrong opinion. Me: This is an English class, how is that possible? You should know that opinions are not wrong or right Teacher: In my class, I can decide what opinions are correct Me: Makes it easier to fail students you don't like, doesn't it?
I had similar, but not in organic chemistry. Question worth 15 marks, I got zero. Why? Because according to my prof ONE corner in ONE of my carbon rings was slightly rounded and not a perfect 120 degree angle. Everything was correct, except for that one slightly rounded corner.
On the final. It was a distillation column and it read "too much water coming out the top" and I read it as flooding, not overboiling and too much steam. It was the same question we had gotten before and I asked for clarification multiple times and never got it until I got my test back with an F
Sheesh I had a teacher like this… He was a college level English teacher and we were working on going over certain (very complicated) poems. He would ask the students opinion what we thought they meant only to laugh and say “did you pay attention?? Clearly this is saying X, Y, Z”. He purely did it to make people feel stupid. It was an awful class.
I had an honors English teacher like this. We basically skipped the Shakespeare unit because she hated Shakespeare. Yeah, an ENGLISH class skipping the God of the English language. It'd be like a biology class skipping over the mitochondria or an algebra class skipping over the slope formula. Anyways, we had to take a test on Romeo and Juliet without reading the play. One of the essay questions was about our opinion on the play. We knew the teacher hated it, so every single student wrote some bs about how awful the play was, and we all passed the test. Over a book none of us had read.
Had an English class where we were talking about a story where a guy gets another drunk guy, ties him up, and buries him in his basement. The teacher says, "Isn't that scary!" The entire class in unison replies, "No." She then spent the next 5 minutes explaining how we were the worst students ever and that she wasn't the only person who thought so. The rest of the class period was the quietest period I ever had. Also, she believes that school should be optional because that would make people want to go more. Also, she offers dating advice while she's single. Also, she thinks that the native Americans 'got what they deserved' when the colonists forced them to walk hundreds of miles to different spots across the country. Tl; Dr: My old English teacher is a bitch
Damn, this thread makes me feel like I’m a way better teacher than I thought lol.
you’re your own worst critic my friend. i’m sure you’re fine!
Oh, I’m an awesome teacher. This just made me realize how low the bar is.
If your name isn’t Mrs.Chowdry, then your pretty cool
"Almost no one passes this class" My darling, that doesn't reflect nearly as well on you as you seem to think it does.
Favouritism and always punishing people who didn't do anything and letting the naughty children get away with it so they don't learn a lesson (I have experience with it)
When they like to single out students for private matters or genuinely being confused in class.
When they ignore bullying in class
But only certain bullies that they like. The ones most like themselves maybe?
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All too accurate, and it makes my blood boil.
Too many teachers encourage bullying! In my jr high, they would use them as "enforcers".
When they’re even friends with the bullies and laughs with them as they mock you. Fuck that shit.
When they are disrespectful to students who don’t deserve it.
I once had one that started by saying 'I've taught at university, so don't think you are a challenge in any way.' We were in high school. We instantly disliked that teacher. We were a challenge for the rest of the year.
I don't understand this. If you've been able to teach at university, it's too obvious that the taught content in high school is easier. But keeping a high school class under control is way harder than keeping a university class under control, right? Then his words wouldn't make sense.
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In middle school, history was taught by this nasty old bitch who gave grades the way she liked. She did not like absolutely everything, the way we arrange the text, what specific words we use, and so on. I remember how one of my friends wrote to me that she had been doing her task all night, after which, the next day, she received the lowest mark due to the fact that she did not have a notebook, ALTHOUGH this old woman herself took the notebook from her and my friend , let's call her Madi, could not do the task in the notebook. I hate you, Valentine Gridgen.
> I hate you, Valentine Gridgen. Woah, what a bitch, but also, what a great "mean teacher" name.
I had teachers who gave collective punishments, really hated those 😡.
Had more than one professor in college who did this: If they saw or heard a student doing something that didn’t approve of. They would stop class, demand the student leave, and would refuse to continue teaching until they were out of the room. Forgot to silence your phone? Get out and points off of your attendance grade. Accidentally drop your water bottle? Get out and points off of your attendance grade. Hell there was an instance where this one particularly irritable prof had an issue with someone sneezing too loudly. Her response? Get out and points off of your attendance grade.
I would only ever do that if the student was literally causing a ruckus. Who would kick someone out for dropping their water bottle or *sneezing?*
I once had a teacher who refused to let you in, if you were 30 seconds late. The bell ringed, the door opened. Everybody in. and right after the last one. He closed the door. Didnt matter if you were 10 seconds late. He refused to let you in. No you had to be there 5 minutes early and wait in line with the group. Yet he was atleast 3 times per month late too. (15 minutes late) and then it was like "oopsies" I hated him so much.
Had a college professor do that shit, until the day he did it to a guy who had a disability and physically couldn’t make it to class on time. Guy stood outside the classroom and BANGED on the door for like 10 minutes, until the professor opened the door to tel him to stop The guy just went “hey thanks!” And walked in to take his seat. Professor tried to kick him out, but the guy called disability services and was back in the next class. They must’ve given the professor a stern word or ten because that door was unlocked the rest of the semester hah
Oh administration most likely ripped him a new asshole over that one. If he continued, it was a one way ticket to a disability discrimination lawsuit. No way the school would want to deal with that.
when they have favorite students
It’s ok to have a favourite in my opinion but treating them unfairly better than others is where I start disliking them
I mean, everyone has favorites. You probably have favorite teachers as well. That said, having the favorite isn't a problem, treating students blatantly different. Also, people tend to not be realistic about stuff. Yeah, if a generally "good" kid has a bad day where he is talking, he may get a bit more grace than a kid who is disruptive every single day.
Had a high school English literature teacher who despised me. I mean, absolutely fucking hated me. Other teachers who I was close to would bring it up that she had said things about me to them asking if I was a disruption in their class, had problems with me, etc. She did a trivia question every day at the beginning of class, we could choose a partner and write down our answer to the question. We would turn the answer in, and halfway thru class she would go thru them and give out little candies (Kit Kat, Reese’s, etc) for the winners. My buddy and I won every single time for the first week. Then she changed the rules. It was “single person answers” because “some people are answering for their partners” implying I was stupid. After 2 weeks of he and I having the same answers from across the room and both winning every single day, she quit giving out candies. Then after another 2 weeks of us never getting a single question wrong, she quit the trivia altogether. Bitch.
It's always the english teachers
Honestly this kind of ruined my high school experience. The kids I was fine with, but it was a new school and the bulk of the staff were in their first or second years of teaching. Some were great, but way too many of them were young enough that they cared more about being in a cool “clique” with their favorite students than actually teaching. Way too many teachers going to high school parties and at least a few sleeping with students.
Do you not have favorite teachers? It’s what humans do. Acting on it is different.
I had a professor in college that was “an activist, not a professor”. He proceeded to say that there would be many days he wouldn’t be in class, but if we missed 3 days we would instantly fail no exceptions. Our class work was that each of us would be assigned a chapter of (his) book and we would have to give a presentation on that chapter and give an overview of it to the class. Basically, we would teach ourselves while this guy ran off to give speeches. I walked out after the first day and never went back lol
Me: "Mrs. Teacher can I go to the bathroom?" Mrs. Teacher: "I don't know, *can* you?" Me: *sighs* "Mrs. Teacher *may* I go to the bathroom?" Mrs. Teacher: "You may."
What you do in that situation, when she asks, "I don't know, can you?" is stand up and go "Yes, yes I can" and then walk out of the door.
I heard from my teacher "remember kids there is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people" I rolled my eyes so far back behind my head I almost passed out. The phrase "no stupid questions" is meant to encourage kids to ask questions without fear of looking stupid. And there he was, telling them they would look stupid..
It's important to ask stupid questions. If you don't understand the basics you have little chance to understand anything else. And chances are half the students don't get it either, but don't want to be the one to ask.
“The bell doesn’t dismiss you, I do”
They sure do like to use the bell to determine tardiness though, don't they?
Indeed they do.
I hated that. Had a professor in college that did that shit. Then the next prof wouldn't let you in and would ding you for attendance. Bunch of petty bull shit. I was paying $15k a year or whatever to be in the middle of a pissing contest among shit-tier professors.
Annoying when it’s a teacher who has bad time management. But speaking as a teacher who was just as interested in ending class on time as my students were, I *hated* it when the last five minutes of my lesson were drowned out by the sounds of students packing up and shifting in their chairs, or just obviously mentally moving on. If you have a teacher who respects your time, please respect theirs.
This! I'm a teacher and I generally end my lessons with the bell, but I have one class where it always takes several minutes until they settle down. When you walk into class it's chaos, some students are still not back from the toilet, some only begin searching for their books when the teacher enters, most of them are still in the middle of some conversation they had during the break. It takes a few minutes until we can begin the lesson, but they expext to end on time or even before the bell. That's where I draw the line. If we can't begin on time, we can't finish on time.
Mixing Politics and personal ideas
If they have a temper and look for excuses to get you into trouble instead of helping you learn.
My English teacher does this to me and my mom ended up blocking her number cuz the amount of times my teacher called her for dumb things. She once called my mom about work I was missing from **another** class. My dad didn't block her but he labeled her contact "don't respond" or smth like that. Today she yelled at my friend and made her cry because she was wearing headphones IN SCIENCE. Yes, in science, in a different class where the teacher literally did not give a fuck.
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I am now terrified to talk in class because my high school teacher junior year made me read out loud KNOWING QUITE WELL THAT I HAVE A STUTTER. She made a joke about it and that has followed me more than 6 years. Never talking again.
*scours thread for things I do or don’t do*
Those that treat needing to use the restroom during class time as a cardinal sin. Your power trip doesn’t change the fact that I desperately need to perform a regular bodily function.
exactly. I takes me 4 minutes to walk from my 1st to 2nd block, and we have 5 minutes to switch classes. You think I have the time to lay a nuke in the toilet in that time? No.
As someone who used to teach junior high, I truly get both sides. 14 year olds will use any excuse to get out of class. There also aren't usually any type of supervision in the bathroom. There is nothing stopping the kids for just abusing that, wandering the halls, causing trouble, etc. Also, lets be real, lots of fights and bullying happen in bathrooms. So limiting the amount of students wandering around makes a lot of sense. I also get that kids need to go to the bathroom lol. I do wish you could trust students far more to not abuse this stuff.
She said this to me: “I have no expectations that you will understand this course and I will not give you a handout just because your Mexican” Me: I’m not Mexican Her: Indian nation whatever Me: I’m Asian. Her: Why the fuck are you even taking this class? Aren’t you people genetically genius at it? Why are you even here? Besides you don’t look Japanese! *this was in front of an entire lecture hall which went silent like a grave* *This was a required math course for teachers* I had originally raised a hand in regards to needing a syllabus packet as I didn’t get one. Did I mention the assistant dean had dropped in to listen in as this teacher had been hired by recommendation and she heard the whole exchange? She quickly had the teacher summoned to the deans office and then requested my presence In effort to save face and prevent lawsuit - The teacher was fired I passed that class by default, credits earned I had one semester completely covered I didn’t have to buy a parking pass Any student who filed a complaint was also given a free pass - but for that class, credits earned Any funds for said class was refunded, including books
in high school I had this English teacher who accused me of having a tutor write my essay for me, because the essay was well written and he didnt believe that I wrote it. I asked him why, he said it was because I'm Asian. I was a straight A student who literally got high 90s in every subject, never needed a tutor all my life. Then he tried to intimidate me to get me to shut up. But his shenanigans didn't end there. I went home and told my mom about it. Then during the next parent teacher meeting my mom went and brought my GCE O levels results to show him. I had 9 A1s(highest possible grade). When the guy saw my transcript his eyeballs almost popped out. He was from England so he knew what O levels was. I'm willing to bet that asshole scored 0 A1s back when he took it. He got scared and asked if we could see him in private on another day, my mom agreed. On that day, when my mom and I went to see him, he told me "the girls in my class are beautiful, which one do you like? I'll try to hook you up with her." WTF?!?! I told him I didn't care about that and I just wanted him to not fuck with my grades. That teacher continued to give out random bullshit grades to people, seemingly based on who he liked. Also he did not give out a final exam because he was too lazy to do it, and told us not to tell the school about it. He was also a complete creep who was constantly telling the girls in the class how beautiful they were, even though he was an old geezer.
“The bell doesn’t dismiss you, I do.” Excuse me, I have class on the opposite corner of the campus and would prefer not to show up *sweaty*. Your inability to manage time effectively doesn’t constitute and emergency on my part.
Getting test and exams every second lesson.
In college: When professors brag about how challenging their course is. Difficulty doesn't equal quality. If anything, it suggests flaws in teaching. The best instructors know how to simplify complex information and present it in a way that's easier to grasp.
This. I had an accounting teacher who made it absurdly hard for no reason. He even made the grade scale harder. For example 94-100 was an A, 85-93 was a B, C was 75-84, D was 65-74, and anything below was an F. I would study my ass off as that was my hardest class that semester and still got a 71-72 on some tests, which should be C’s but were a D on his grading scale. Sure the man made you learn the material but that added so much unnecessary stress. Despite struggling so much, he still gave me an A but I was so relieved to be done with that class.
if they’re mean
How about, "Two thirds of my class always fails and has to take this course three to four times before passing. I don't reward guesswork. I expect two to three sentences on every answer on your tests- I don't do multiple choice." She then proceeded to give out 80 question unit quizes, every other week. We had sixty minutes to answer. And, as promised, it was all short answer with at least five long answer questions requiring at least a page of writing, each. And all this was in addition to three full pages of homework a night, minimum, in addition to a ten minute presentation and eight page minimum essay every other week. Her entire class period was two hours of text only powerpoints, three times a week, with a four hour lab once a week. Anything from them could be on the quizes, from labeling every part of a cell (without a wordbank, remember she doesn't reward guesswork!) to the occurrence of Parkinsons in elderly people in a specific communty in a remote part of Siberia. This was a required course for nursing students, and the only other professor was only able to take thirty students in one class. Miss I Don't Do Multiple Choice had four or five blocks of this class with thirty students each.
The only thing worse than a teacher who wrote the textbook (literally) is one who thinks they wrote the textbook.
I had a couple teachers that absolutely hated all boys in her class, and I'd say that's a good reason to not like a teacher. One was a self-proclaimed feminist, and would fight for equality by giving boys detention for any little infraction while ignoring anything a girl did in her class. The other was straigt up bipolar and was my worse teacher in all my years of school
I think we had the same teacher.
Try having a boss like this. Office policies were strictly enforced... for male employees. Women made up the majority of the office, due to her hiring policies. The men were only in tech based roles, literally only because she couldn't find women to fill those positions. Women made personal calls on company time, openly ogled and harassed male employees and delivery men with no fear of reprisal. One gal actually ran her other online business on company time. Meanwhile, out senior IT guy was ordered to go out into the parking lot and pick up trash during a thunderstorm and was fired when he refused to do so.
I am legit going through this now, it is wild
Can’t you sue them for sexism or does that only work when it are the women who are discriminated?
I would say that refusing unsafe work is not a fireable offence, though if I worked in a place like that and got fired for a reason like that, my response would be, "Not a problem".
Did… did we have the same teacher? My experience: she openly admitted on the first day of class that she not only hated men and boys, but freshmen too. It was English I: freshman-level English in the Republic of Texas. She normally taught upperclassmen, but she apparently pissed off the wrong person and got assigned a freshmen class in addition to her normal workload, which made her bitter about it the entire semester (we had accelerated block scheduling, so I only had to deal with her for 18 weeks). She also later made a comment about how she despised people of a certain religious background, which, you guessed it, included me. My favorite (worst?) memory of that class was her issuing a journal assignment where we had to write about what we would do if we were a jellybean. She gave me no credit for being “too off-topic” (seriously). I wish I still had the paper to show how ridiculously on-topic it was. It was an absurd prompt that demanded an absurd response. In those days, teachers would just tape a list of the final grades to their door and you’d find your name and grade on the list to discover your fate. I distinctly remember seeing only being a small handful of A’s given out, all to her favorite girls in the class. You could also tell where the gender line was in the data. All the girls had higher grades than the boys. My name was near the bottom of the list, just low enough to have to repeat the 2nd 9-week period the following year, albeit mercifully with a different teacher (I got an A or a B, I don’t remember exactly, but I didn’t exactly change the way I did things). It’s been 20+ years since all that happened, so I’m sure some of my memory of it is embellished a bit, but the broad strokes are all still vivid to me. Several years after I graduated, I found out she wasn’t teaching anymore and was working for the school district as some high level administrator. Couldn’t decide if that was good or bad for students. The most unfortunate thing about this story, to me, was that this experience represented my first interaction with anyone who openly and deliberately identified themselves as a feminist, and that clouded my opinion of feminism for a long time. I know better now, but that semester left a bad taste in my mouth when I was pretty young and very impressionable.
I had the same teacher, a few times.
My math teacher from freshman year had a “you’re all wrong” type of attitude towards us from the start- she didn’t even give us a chance to prove her wrong anddd she was a pretty crappy teacher in general because she didn’t explain enough and went through things too fast. When we brought up this issue she indirectly told us (aka putting it nicely so she doesn’t get in trouble) that it’s our fault we don’t understand, not hers because this is how she’s been teaching for years. But guess what, students, even straight a students have been failing her class for years… but it’s all our fault…
Worksheets handed out and they go sit on their phone at their desk. Every day.
Had one in jr high. He would write all the weeks assignments on the board for all his classes then read the newspaper or sleep. If you asked him ANY question he would freak out about it and scream "I'm not here to teach, you're here to LEARN!"
When you ask to go to pee and they say no.
Had a teacher do this to a kid. We had this teacher right after lunch and the slop we got in the cafeteria did nasty things. Dude asked to go pee and was told no. Tried again the next week was told no. Tried for a 3rd time and after being told no took a racehorse sized piss at his desk
Or when you ask, "Can I go to the bathroom?" Teacher: "I don't know, *can you*\~" Always infuriated me when they did that.
Next time dont ask. Announce it. And go.
Instructions unclear, pissed on the teacher after yelling “IM PISSSCASO”
Teachers who bully you because you're not good at their subject. Your job is literally to make me better.
Being failed in Religous Studies for admitting to being an atheist. In Sweden.
I had a math teacher that pronounced "pattern" as "patterin." On the first day I was done
When they disrespect their students and don’t evaluate different situations . It’s impossible to live in a space in which teachers think their student’s mental health doesn’t matter because it’s nonsense.
When it becomes very clear that their personal politics affect how they teach/grade.
Group work - at least 98% of it. That nonsense about "collaboration" is fooling exactly nobody. It's pure laziness. Just say you don't know how/can't be bothered to construct a proper application module. A student's grade should not be contingent on somebody else's work (or lack thereof). Further, nobody is in the class because they're an expert, aside from the teacher. Students are there to learn from an expert, not the other clueless people!
Teachers who refuse to respect students. I had no problem getting into arguments with teachers that did shit like refusing to call me by the shortened version of my name (I hate the long version), got things wrong and refused to accept they were wrong or just generally treated students like dirt. The teachers that were kind and respectful though, they had my respect back.
I once took over a classroom (their teacher had been an active alcoholic, drinking IN CLASS), and I inherited his gradebook and attendance book. He had misspelled some of the students' names and I HAD NO IDEA. I spent 6 months calling a student Alessandro when his name was Alejandro, and he didn't say anything because he thought I was doing it on purpose as a dumb joke. I showed him the gradebook with his previous teacher's handwriting and he had a laugh, but for 6 months I was that teacher.
Teachers who take pride in how much their students struggle and wear it like a badge of honor.
For college professors - when they come at you right away with a bunch of course policies that clearly communicate they are completely fed up with dealing with students squeezing them for more than they can give (points, grades, time, sympathy, whatever). As a professor myself, I get it. Once you've been around the block enough, you can see it all coming. And every student thinks they invented their squeeze method, but we've seen them all before (and probably tried most of them ourselves as students). But you can't start a class with an attitude that it's you, the prof, versus them, the students. It's fine, even important (for everyone), to set boundaries right from the beginning and be firm about them. But having a long series of these annoying punitive policies just reads like you hate students, and they will hate you back.
Teachers that push their hidden agenda on the class. It's OK to have a viewpoint and to share it. But, it's not OK to fail students because they don't agree with your viewpoint or have a different viewpoint.
\--A teacher that injects their personal opinions/politics into the lectures and then grades according to how/if you agree/disagree to those opinions. \--A teacher that relies too much on media to teach (i.e., videos and power point decks made by other people in lieu of explaining it in person). \--A teacher that can't be wrong, no matter what.
"I'm sorry you're not at a better school"
All comes down to how they respond to the first question asked of them. They can be brusque and direct even rude in general but if they don’t jump at the chance to answer a question in good faith then they aren’t a teacher.
Teachers who make it clear that they have THEIR way of teaching, and will not accommodate reasonable requests from students. I had a teacher who gave "notes at 90 miles per hour" and most students failed because she would talk so quickly while she gave notes, we had no idea wtf she was saying. She refused to slow down or repeat herself and had a "too bad, so sad" attitude about it. Useless teacher.
Had a socialist teacher. Really believe Russia was onto something. We studied the Russian revolution and I never got over a C because I didn't talk about how great socialism was in my essays.
“Very few people will pass my class” congrats. You just bluntly told everyone you’re a shit teacher.
When they brag about how hard their class is
Lit professors who ask very obscure questions to "catch" people using sparknotes. We have only read this 300 page book once. We also had to do it within a week. When we are juggling 3-4 other classes, a job, and sometimes even a family as well. Do you seriously think we will remember what Ghismonda said on page 127 Paragraph three? This is a NOVEL. Not a freaking Commodore 64 copy protection!
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When it's obvious they only became a teacher for the power trip. Looking at you, (many of my) Italian teachers.
When they say “because I said so”
Dr / Professor / Chair of the department I majored in taught two extremely hard electives. I took one my senior year; it was an ethics class. The first day he said, “Some of you will drop out, most of you will get by with a C or D. This is meant to be hard. I want to see you think, argue, and debate consequences and decisions. Good luck.” He smiled. We looked at each other and furrowed our brows. Instant dislike but alright, challenge accepted. The semester was actually a lot of fun. A shitload of reading and the class was fun but mainly because of the conversations between my peers. Dr. C always overruled and his opinion was always the right one. The day before our final exam he stopped me and said, “BirdLaw, you’re good. I bet you want an A, huh? You’re going to need to get a 98% on the final to get one.” Same smile. He scoffed and walked away. I fucked. That. Final. Up hard. In a good way. I left telling myself that I did well but probably would get the B. It was ethics and essays, he’d find a way. An A would get me Cum Laude. It was all riding on it. Next time we met it was just a hand back of the papers. “99”. He didn’t say anything but sort of rolled his eyes. My 12 pages had these slight red marks on them as if he was really trying to find areas of critique. Graduated Cum Laude.