Bad Teachers

[Eilidh]

I'm guessing you've all probably have had bad teachers at one point but I've had these teachers for two years and it's really infuriating.

My English teacher is terrible, he doesn't seem to care if we pass or not and just makes us do essay after essay. Not to mention he doesn't help me with anything and despises our entire class.

My other bad teacher is my Modern Studies teacher.. she just cannot teach at all.. I don't even..
She just bases all her opinions on statistics and clearly has no common sense. Everyday we just copy down from a slide show and she reads off a piece of paper. And when the class suggested debates she just said "But you wont remember it" which obviously isn't true because the last test we got literally everyone in our class (a credit class, the top Modern Studies class) failed the KU part, which is the part she's supposed to teach. I mean really!

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/rant

But anyway, have you ever had a bad teacher and did you feel it affected your learning?

[Peppermental]

I've had bad teachers, but they didn't affect my learning. I remember what they say, read what they don't, and drink as much as I can and still get by in the process.

[Eilidh]

My English teacher said he had to go to a meeting but instead of leaving us work, he left us to watch glee. I was like
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[Jack]

I thought my English teacher was bad 'cause he used to arrive late to lessons, go off on tangents that had nothing to do with the subject and leave early to have a fag, but I aced English. Turns out he was pretty good after all.

[Clarissa]

I used to have this English teacher who was a nice guy, but a shite teacher. He used to ramble on about things, without letting us make notes and using as many long and complex words as he could as if he needed to prove to us that he was more intelligent and literary than us. He was also a failed writer, and slightly bitter about having to teach my set English at a low, GCSE level. He was pretty awful, but it turns out it didn't affect me.

Thankfully, I have the most amazing teacher now. She's passionate, and although she's really young, she's great. Yeahhh.

I have had some pretty bad teachers, which is ridiculous really, considering the school fees. My school tends to hire people who've just come out of university, simply because they went to Oxford or Cambridge... But if you're determined enough, it doesn't matter that much. I've done okay so far, despite one or two awful teachers...

[SapphireSeaBird]

I've had my fair share of them, but usually I manage to struggle along...
The only one I have now that I can really complain about is my biology teacher. He sucks. I mean, seriously. He can't control the class for starters, the girls sit and talk and the guys muck about, and he basically gets us to copy down from slide shows every single lesson, and he doesn't explain anything properly. I mean, we're a smart enough GCSE class as far as biology goes, but he seems to be in a different world altogether and it's almost like he's giving a university lecture -__-
And the nots he gives us tend to be completely irrelevant - you have to kinda read between the lines to pick out the bits you actually need for the exam.
And it sucks even more because biology is my worst subject... I am failing miserably.

Anyway, I'll end this rant here before it becomes too much xD

[lostbookworm]

I used to have a teacher (primary) who was the Wicked Witch of Kent. I used to believe in Dragons (I was 8) and I brought in a Dragonology book into class. Then, I had a discussion with one of the other kids about whether dragons were real or not, and the teacher came over and shouted at me, saying "Dragons aren't real!' The same teacher had previously shouted at a class of 9 year olds 'Santa Claus isn't real!' The teacher then went on to have an affair with the dad of one of my friends, and their parents broke up. Nasty.

[Lykaios]

My Media teacher this year is . . . awful. She has turned up at least ten minutes late to all of our lessons so far this term, then she always spends 10-15 minutes faffing about with papers and finding the online register, or she disappears to her office downstairs because she's forgotten something. What she teaches is just common sense as far as media goes, rtaher than anything substancially interesting or debatable. (last year my class were constanly debating with the teacher and it was great). We're doing Dizzee Rascal for our music industry section and she's been blatantly racist several times, despite 'teaching' us This Is Engalnd a few weeks ago and making us write an essay on the themes in it (one of which is racism as an effect of the National Front) and half the class just don't know what to think of her and the other half think she's a scatty hypocrite. You also have to repeat what you say several times before she hears you or takes any notice of you and she talks to you like you're seven rather than seventeen/eighteen, and doesn't seem to notice that half the class either don't turn up, turn up late because they expect her to be late, or spend most of the lesson with their head on the desk. >.<

/endsrant

Media's a pretty simplistic subject though, it's not really complex enough to be an A Level, so I don't think she'll effect my grades very much, it's just that I have to endure another ten months of her . . . /slitzwristz

[sayuri]

To be honest, I like my teachers. But the new English teacher is being retarded with essays. Last year our thesis statement could be anything. I think one time I wrote about how Shakespearean protagonist were like the heroes of Greek mythology in the way that they all had a 'fatal flaw'. It was probably my best essay. THIS year though, we have to write essays on the (singular) theme of the book, which is always "a lesson or a moral". Firstly, books can be interpreted an infinite amount of ways, and you're telling me there is only ONE right answer to what the book means? But it's the whole lesson/moral thing that irks me. That was the explanation we were given five years ago. His comment on my last essay was "Excellent paper but the thesis wasn't a lesson or moral". If it's excellent, then I should get an A. That's like, the definition of an A grade. He also dumbs down class discussion. I suggested something that I thought was hinted in the reading, and his response was "Well, we'll see.". Maybe I'm just bitter because my English teacher last year was awesome. If I had suggested something like that last year, he would have done his weird twitchy laugh and chair shuffle. Ugh.

Lol, a picture I took of my old English teacher:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs380.ash2/65800_1612138953355_1532701083_31489630_5381510_n.jpg

Doesn't he just look amusing? XD

[Bowie20049]

He looks like he's about to pimp slap someone o.O

[sayuri]

And that is why I love him :D.

[Anira]

I usually am pretty tolerant as far as teachers go (we all have things to teach), but I had a TA teach my english class last year and she was awful. She blatantly called out a kid in my class for being "white and privileged" saying he didn't understand when we were talking about a Spike Lee movie (she was Mexican or something). Plus, she approved my paper topic and outline (which is basically the paper but in bullets with full sentences instead of paragraphs) saying it looked really good and then gave me a poor grade on the paper. It was stupid. I ended up being able to switch out of the class.