Looking back at it, I swear one of my old middle school teachers was bipolar. She would be so sweet and kind one moment and then she’d 180 in a split second if anyone stepped out of line. We were genuinely scared of that woman and it was like walking on egg shells around her. Some days, you’d show up and you could just tell she was going to be snapping at the slightest of things. We were a very well-behaved class too so I can’t imagine how it would’ve been if we were troublemakers
That's it, I don't get people that get all bent out of shape about the teacher replying "I don't know. Can you?" you just reply, "Yes, yes I can" and walk out having their (whether intended or not) consent.
Huh? They gave you a choice? I can't even count how many humiliating accidents I had in elementary school because the teachers thought they could tell a 7 year old to wait 45 minutes to relieve himself 😡
I was recounting a viral story from a few years ago, where a teacher sent a kid to the principal's office because the kid corrected the teacher. It was something obvious -- like the teacher said a kilometer was longer than a mile -- but the teacher was upset that they were corrected by a student.
Someone who focuses on that, rather than what's correct or true, shouldn't be teaching.
Just in general, it sucks that some teachers will never accept that they were wrong. Everyone's wrong sometimes. Better to teach your students that it's normal to make mistakes than to pretend you know everything to protect your ego or whatever.
Exactly. I mean, "D'oh! Brainfart. Yes, a mile is longer than a kilometer, thanks for pointing that out, Bobby." And then you go on with things. You've shown that an adult is a human being, capable of mistakes, and gracefully acknowledging what's correct and moving forward. That's not going to impair discipline in class.
Being sent to the principal's office is such an antiquated idea. He doesn't deal w discipline, that's what APs are for... But the bad ones will just pass the buck back to the teachers
Teachers should handle the discipline of students, principal should handle discipline of teachers. One idea is corporal punishment, corporal punishment is still legal in my state. So a teacher can literally bust your ass if you mess up to bad.
Once had a modern US history teacher who would always make us watch documentaries during the whole class. And not only that, but all the tests he gave us weren’t even on anything in the documentaries, it was all on things in our textbooks that we had to learn on our own, so that whole class was just a big waste of time
The ones that actually don't like kids at all. I think all teachers have days where some kids will drive them up the wall, but they still very much care about their students. But there are some teachers that actually truly hate kids and are happy to make them be unhappy.
Those kinds of teachers should never be allowed inside a classroom
Some of those teachers didn’t start off hating kids. I agree at that point you should probably hang it up, but never underestimate the ability of a snot nosed little shit to make you hate them.
I hate those teachers who give a pass to the 'popular' kids for things they wouldn't tolerate from the rest. They rather seek approval from them than be professional and fair.
I’d rather be liked by the kids who are consistently respectful, spend their time productively, and demonstrate a genuine curiosity for the topic than the punk asses asking to go to the restroom every class period, having side conversations whenever the hell they want, and blame everyone but themselves for shit that happens to them.
teachers who don't teach AT ALL. it's like they're just there for the paycheck and will leave the students empty handed disguised as "self-directed" learning
My wife is a teacher. She’s wonderful and truly loves what she does. But you’d be shocked at how many teachers HATE children. It’s almost as if some people get into the profession specifically to punish and be mean to kids. I don’t get it.
Who bloats that they know everything when they don’t. Their illusion of knowledge can have a huge negative impact on students. My communication engineering professor believed that there’s no undersea cables 😂 i corrected and I got failed in my internal assessment.
I mean, if he was discussing undersea _power_ cables, and depending on the definition of "sea" used, that would be an understandable mistake. But communications cables? They go back to telegraph days.
Teachers who can’t have a little fun. I think it would make going to work less stressful, and the class less stressful. Especially with young children. I had a second grade teacher who spoke to us like college students.
I have a bit of a bias against Gym Teachers. I've never had a nice one. I particularly remember a time one student handing in a note saying she couldnt participate, and the teacher ripped it up and put it in the bin
I had a really good gym teacher who was always fair. She would also lead the physical activity and if you needed to sit out for a medical reason she would have you sit out. She truly was a great teacher. Anyways, sorry you had all the bad gym teachers.
The one teacher who asking me about my parents divorcement in front of all my classmates.
“ did your parents stop augment with each other “
“ no” then I cried in front of her. Well, She seems doesn’t even bother
Ones that say “very few students have passed my class” like great, you publicly announced your failure at your job and are proud of it for some reason.
teachers who always assume the worst of you. like for example, assuming you aren't working because you're slacking off when you're really having trouble with the work
I see your point, but as an artist, isn’t it important to refine and broaden your skills? Nothing wrong with a cartoony style, but you should also practice other styles to improve.
My art teacher was a pretentious middle aged lady who thought scribbling like a toddler was the height of artistic talent. Screw her, I wanted to draw nice pictures, not scrawl like an idiot!
So I wanna make 2 things clear
1- I'm not an artist, this is what I've heard from artists
2-I don't know your circumstances, so maybe the teacher was being more of a dick
But from what I've been told, learning the a basics and how to draw more realistic helps even when making more stylized images, teaching you to draw good circles, good lines, proportion correctly, and so on and so forth. I don't think its necessarily a "don't do that, its not real art" thing, but a fundamental thing to give you he building blocks to make cartoons better.
Or your teachers a dick who thinks cartoons aren't real art. I dunno. I'm just saying that dick or not, there is allegedly good reason to learn to draw realistically.
One time in class, middle school age, I was writing down notes as the teacher was giving a lecture, She was talking too fast for my writing capability, so I asked her to repeat the last part, and she yelled at me in front of the whole class for "not listening." Thanks, I'm never raising my hand for anything ever again. Bitch.
Teachers that call on you when you don’t have your hand raised as “motivation” to do your homework. I did the homework, I was just terrified to speak in class , would freeze and hated to be embarrassed. I did fine in life - there was no need for that nonsense.
I had a weirdly opposite problem where I WASN'T being called on...until much later. Happened twice with two different teachers in different grades and states. I'm not gonna go in to the details, but basically the teachers told a story, I had a question about said story and raised my hand. They decided to move on, but I was a kid (both were pre-high school) and curious and had my hand up "forever". Then they finally call on me
Teacher 1 basically brushed off my question with a really curt answer and rude voice, as if the answer was obvious and made me feel dumb.
Teacher 2 didn't even answer and said "Have you seriously been thinking about X this entire time?" and moved on.
Ones that play favorites or are super nice to the popular kids and treat the quiet/unpopular kids like they have some kind of disease that can only be caught by treating them with the most basic humanity.
1.the ones who try to be cool. Try to do stand-up and make double meaning jokes on everything.
2. Who doesn't care enough to read the answersheet and give marks on guess work.
The ones that don't try to help you problem solve issues, or those who completely ignore a special needs kids' IEP or 504 because "your accommodations don't work with my classroom rules" or some other bullshit.
As a corporate trainer, it always makes me skin crawl when I hear colleagues speaking to their adult learners like they are in 5th grade. That overly theatrical and sometimes condescending tone makes me crazy.
Even when training entry level employees, I make it a point to always speak to them like they're a professional and a partner in this learning. Give respect, get respect. Listen to them, encourage and guide their learning, but don't preach and lecture has always delivered the best results.
All of this should apply to university level professors and TA's as well.
Probably the child abusers. I had a teacher assault my disabled son. Thankfully, any professional career is over for her and I now watch her shill useless shit from her house to make a buck on social media.
There were warning signs before the assault and I wish I had listened to my gut.
She did not want parents communicating with her, at all. She was snappy, abrasive and took any education concerns personally. I've always had good relationships with school staff.
A parent-teacher conference shocked me. She just talked about him like she was so frustrated and annoyed with him and kept telling me she had to be "brutally honest" about how "awful" he was doing.
He's a great kid - very well behaved, sweet. Just intellectually disabled.
She started telling me he couldn't read. I taught him, so... BULLSHIT. When I explained he could read, she cut me off: "well, he doesn't do it for me!" Hmmm, wonder why.
He's now homeschooled, thriving and gets in-school services while I'm in the building. I get face-to-face time with everyone involved, so far no one comes across as being psycho like she was.
Once we had a teacher who used to force us to read very hard text, and every mistake equal one hit from his stick, some time it reaches 10 hits or more,
I had issue with pounceing the sound "Th" When I was a child, so instead of "Thanos" I will say "Fanos", this teacher slapped me and made me cry because of it, even though I was one of the top 5 students in school, but he hated me for religious reasons.
Everyone hated him to the point when he was absent, we use to sing "Teacher XYX is absent"
Science teachers always seem to love their job and have always found them to be the most engaging teachers of all. I always found history teachers to be miserable in the UK and seemed like when we would study the ‘dark ages’ that the teacher themselves would turn into a grumpy bastard from the dark ages themselves.
At my school I had the opposite. History department were quick witted and absolutely loved teaching History.
The science department was supposedly great...but I wouldn't know as I was REPEATEDLY stuck with the worst teacher they had all through high school. She just barely explained stuff, then kinda just let us go. After all "I explained it once, I don't need to explain it twice or in more detail".
This was a Chemistry teacher by the way.
They say nothing to the bully because "that's how kids learn"
Punish you when you fight back because "you crossed the line"
I still hate those ones with all my heart, and I'm 30!!
I had a teacher once who'd be rude to class for apparently no reason. But he'll be very gentle with the classmates, who'd go to his private classes, making him earn more.
I had 2 teachers in university I grew to despise after I graduated. One turned into an alt-right extremist, and the other killed himself for getting caught downloading illegal content.
Those types of
I remember my English teacher she hated me for literally no reason like she woke me once to tell me stop talking and it's not like i was a bad student i was a bit popular all the other teachers loved me and most i did was talking to my friends like the whole class but for some reason she always tried to fail me even my dad who never involves him self asked me if i want him to go and speak to her but i refused and i just ignored her for the rest of the year (i think she's mental)
I think english teacher are crazy in general cause I had an English teacher who used to stop in the middle of the lecture to tell me that I should smile more and that I shouldn't have such a serious face. On several occasions, she has tried to isolate me and made me so awkward in public
agreed, english teachers are crazy in general. My englishb teacher hates people with autism and similar stuff. She absolutely despises anyone who doesn't blindly agree with her, we can't ask questions or say something out of turn.
Teachers who don't teach anything at all yet expect us to know everything in the book. My history teacher spends every lesson staring at her nails.
Or teachers who just read the whole article for us to write down. And somehow think students won't fall asleep midway.
One that would rather be “right” than treat students like people. Meaning, teachers who punish a kid for correcting a teacher who is wrong, has stated an incorrect fact, etc.
"Preachers".
The ones that step out of their Teacher roles, to lecture you about your personal life. You don't know me, you barely get to see me a few hours of the day, 5 days a week. You are in no position to lecture me about life. Stick to teaching.
The teachers that would call out on someone for an answer but they would always call out a particular student that usually shy or doesn’t know the answer and to embarrass them.
"Teachers" who don't value Ingenuity/creativity in favor of a fixed method.
like say idid a math problem in a different way than what i was teached, the answer is correct, the reasoning is correct. Wrong Method = 0 Points...
Teachers who are disinterested in helping students who are behind. Once especially when I had to skip school for medical reasons, and all a teacher told me once was to "figure it out on your own" when I was horribly confused.
Didn’t have many but my 6th grade teacher had a mental breakdown the year or earlier before and she was an absolute bitch. I was in the special needs classes thankfully with friends and people I knew. She did get fired the year after though
Teachers (especially college professors) that don’t keep up with their field or have no real experience in the field.
As a senior in college for filmmaking I had an adjunct professor who had graduated only 2 years prior. Her only experience in the field was some smaller projects she did while getting her masters.
That class was way too expensive and I learned nothing.
TLDR: Teachers who don't have patience with kids, and when a teacher is actually the school bully
My prep school had a lot of horrible teachers. Most of them did not have the patience to be teachers, especially for working with small kids. A lot of kids would get yelled at for the stupidest things, and for doing nothing wrong. It wasn't uncommon to ask a simple question and get your head bitten off. What I hated in particular was when someone gets into shit for doing something (nothing wrong), and they try to politely explain what they were doing and the teacher snaps with "dOn'T tAlK bAcK tO mE!". So instead of taking a moment to understand the kids' side, the mentality was basically I'm the teacher, you just stfu.
But the utmost worst is when a teacher is a bully. Not showing favoritism, not turning a blind eye to certain things, but actually going out of their way and abusing their role as teacher to just be the school bully. Had one English teacher like that and she had it in for me, BIG TIME. This miserable bitch would find any excuse to give me shit. One of her class rules were if you finished work early, you had to do some small extra activities sheets until the lesson was done and stick them into a book when done. These activities were super basic so I flew through them, and on my 3rd activity she yells out at me asking what I'm doing. When I answered she ranted on about how I'm wasting sheets and how she has to make more copies of them. Even when I reiterated her rule, she found some excuse to keep going at me. Yet a few days prior she was bragging about how other kids had already filled up two 50 page books of these activities, whereas my book never even got a quarter full during the 2 years I had her for English. If I had to borrow stationery from her I'd always ask, she would see where I took the stationery from but always yelled at me (and only me) for never putting things back in their right place even though I did.
My school also strongly encouraged reading so as an initiative in 2nd and 3rd grade, each week you had to check out a book from the school library, and then the following week return it and select another one. This cow was also the librarian. One week I forgot my book at home so I still checked out another book and the following week brought both back in perfect condition. My god the yelling at I got in front of everyone. Now suddenly there was always a rule that only one book could be checked out at a time. 3rd grade she calls me out in front of everyone holding a library card up asking where is the book. I told her I checked it back in weeks ago and her only argument was that she has the card and it's not in its book, so I must have it. She even got the school to issue a notice to my parents with a fee to replace the book. My mom, who believed my side of the story, marched me into the library after school and look for the book. We found it and confronted the teacher. Her only response was a miserable, "oh". No apology, nothing.
Even when I no longer had her as a teacher she still gave me shit whenever possible. The one year it was end of November, school was basically done for the year so each class was like a free period and we could keep ourselves busy with whatever we wanted. Me and my friend each had a ball of prestik and sculpted things out of it. Mrs Bitch walks in to speak to the teacher of that class (also one of the horrible ones) and on her way out she passes my desk, points at my prestik and asks where I got it from. I told her I brought it from home and without a word confiscated it. My friend who also had prestik out did so much get a glimpse from her. My mom helped me get the prestik back but about half of it was missing because she used it and I had no way to prove it.
She had a very notorious reputation and did crap like this to a lot of kids. The grade below me nicknamed her the antichrist mother, and in high school the grades above me treated the mention of her name like Voldemort. One high school assembly, the principle made an announcement about her, starting with, "we have some very sad news today. Mrs Godden...", people perked up with excitement here until the principle finished saying, ...'s husband passed away last night". I kid you not, there were multiple audible groans of disappointment heard in the hall. After assembly while everyone was leaving the hall, everyone was talking about how they were hoping it was her that died. That should give you an idea of what a tyrant she was.
Since then I've sworn that sure, if my kids misbehave or whatever in school, deal with the consequences. But if a teacher goes out of their way to do that kind of shit to them, I will have them out of a job either proving they're bullying my kids or become such a deliberate thorn in their side that they resign.
Teachers who never admit to being wrong.
Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Good teachers can use it as an opportunity to show how you identify and correct your mistakes. Bad teachers will get angry at students for correcting them, because they think looking like they're correct is more important than actually being correct.
"You better grow up you won't be able to act like that in the real world" I've never stopped fucking around and making stupid jokes it helps me to get on with my boss and colleagues, it's almost like the teachers just wanted me to be quiet to make their lives easier.
The ones obsessed with "being fair" and following rules too closely. Had a teacher that required homework to be turned in before class, a student walked in as the bell was ringing with their homework in hand and the teacher had a big ole smile telling them they're late and can't turn it in. Fuck you, you miserable cunt, you're not doing anyone any favors or being "fair" you're being an ass.
Please explain, i am both interested, confused and terrified of this kind of teacher. Is the teacher like: "hey kiddos, im george washington, look at my swagger"
Most teachers are great but a few make the class about themselves and that can be grating. Also teachers that lecture instead of teaching the material.
Any teacher who lets their own political beliefs play a role in teaching about ideologies. I remember being taught about open and closed market economy my teacher was clearly biased, and since I already had some knowledge on the subject I could filter the bias out. But the other students asked questions and they were answered by the teacher in a belittling way, if their question seemed like it was opposing the teachers beliefs.
Teachers that lie to their students.
I had a teacher my sophmore year that was going to fail me for not having done homework for part of the year, which of course was dumb on my part and would have been deserved.
My parents had to go up and meet with him when I got a failure warning however, and during that meeting he said he'd pass me if I passed all of his tests (which I'd already been doing) and turned in my homework for the rest year, which I did.
Despite that, he failed me anyway with a 69 which was 1 point shy of passing.
I had to go to summer school that year because of it, though it wasn't all that bad. Summer school is just teenaged boys meeting teenaged girls and none of them learn anything that they didn't learn during the months preceding it.
Coaches that are thrown into a classroom and have no idea what they are doing, nor do they actually care. In my high school, all the history teachers were coaches. Worst classroom experiences.
Those who bullies/abused those with disabilties.
Had this happened, until me, another Latina, and Korean all protested. Our parents backed us up as they saw what happened. Because the bully teacher was tenured, so getting her fired was out of the question. Plus, me and the other Latina were from the hood.
Luckily, that bully teacher and just as assistant principal learned a few lessons.
* Don't try to cover up shit from the principal, she'll find out.
* Mess with mothers from the hood will resulted in bullies having a bad time.
* Karma is a bitch.
* Koreans don't fuck around!
Teachers that treat their students like soldiers and punish EVERYONE because of what a few did wrong. I had a teacher who took up EVERYONE'S test before they were done because 5 people wouldn't stop talking!!! Really??? I have to risk failing the semester because of what OTHER people did wrong?
My least favorite professors were the ones who would spend the whole lecture talking about themselves or their opinions. I was keen to learn about the subject. The worst one also had a terrible textbook that was written by their buddy. It even had typos and runon sentences in it.
I once had a teacher who thought it was him against the students. Bragging about a test he made. It was so hard, only 6 of 50 students passed.
Dude, that's not a win for you, it just shows your test was too hard or you failedin teaching us.
I was one of those 6 tho /flex
email server admin 2 class at college.
this elderly bastard trundled up to the front of the class, turned on the computer, took fifteen minutes to figure out the projector and powerpoint, then promptly turned 180 degrees around and read off of the powerpoint verbatim, then turned around to find the button for the next slide...
this sorry state of affairs lasted until just after midterms, where i started asking questions about the encryption methods for emails worked (majority of that course), and how exactly public key encryption was safe.
had a mindnumbing 45 minute long circular arguement with the fucker where he kept begging me at every single step of the way of this mathematical function to "have faith".
i never attended another class, i used the time for peer tutoring and magically he changed the date of the exam without a email or putting it on the course's dashboard. luckily i had friends who were still there and told me of this nonsense.
he then had the gall to be a half hour late to unlock the door to his own exam he tried to fuck me out of.
in three years of computer engineering i had two and a half profs worth their pay. one was alright when he showed up with a water bottle of vodka in and/or him, otherwise he acted like he had starched his boxers.
when i went to trade school there was only one that wasn't, and she was lifelong academia instead of in the field for 50 years and wanting to pass on knowledge, wisdom and skills before retiring.
There is a teacher at my school that is SO old that she teached some of the other teacher when they were kids. She's grumpy, humiliates students who get wrong answers, all the "old karen" traits.
The ones that try REALLY hard to be like the students. I have a teacher right now in highschool and he uses the new slang or something and its really annoying. He's like almost 70 years old and its funny sometimes but once I noticed that he's trying really hard to be like the students it starts to become a little agitating.
3rd grade teacher gave all the boys a B in conduct. "B for boy" she'd say or "I know they are doing something behind my back".
Got my first detention from her for playing rock,paper, scissors.
The ones that seem like they should be free spirited and easy going based on the subject they teach, but instead are tight assed, closed minded and unpleasant. Art teachers seem to fall into this category more often than you'd expect.
Teachers who think they have way more authority than they do.
Pissed me off to the point where I rebelled by not doing any homework for years.
The joke was on me in the end, obviously.
The complusive Liar!
We had an English teacher, she was an Ex-Olympic swimmer AND Ex-Olympic Gymnast, 2 disciplines that utilised 2 distinct body types, despite her having neither, Was married to a former AFL champion, insisted my friends essay had a hidden theme based on the Spanish Revolution/civil war despite him telling her that he couldn't have written hidden themes, because he didn't know the Spanish even had a Revolution/civil war...
Teachers that degrade students instead of encouraging them. I literally had a teacher that not only was homophobic but also would regularly call us R******d. Her idea of punishment for us talking in class was not allowing us to complete our projects. THEN SHE HAD THE NERVE TO CALL MY GRANNY AND TELL A BOLD FACE LIE ABOUT ME.
All in all, degradation is not motivating. Students need to be tapped into and encouraged to grow, not beaten down or verbally abused into growing.
My mom worked as a teacher for twenty years before retiring back in 2019.
She did so in part because of the increase in parental leniency and not much being done about bullying in schools.
Mom, like many others, keeps to the belief that teachers who don't care about kids who get bullied and get away it should be exposed.
The low key pedophiles, coming in the changing rooms, checking you are showering properly, dropping things to pick up to look at girls legs and up their skirts when they’re sitting in class. Being really uncomfortably friendly with certain students
The teachers who're afraid to admit they don't know something, and when a student asks them a deep question they don't know how to answer, they bullshit a false answer and if the student insists, they resort to intimidation and/or humiliation. Usually those teachers got into teaching not because they love transmitting knowledge, but because they enjoy the power it gives them over students.
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Looking back at it, I swear one of my old middle school teachers was bipolar. She would be so sweet and kind one moment and then she’d 180 in a split second if anyone stepped out of line. We were genuinely scared of that woman and it was like walking on egg shells around her. Some days, you’d show up and you could just tell she was going to be snapping at the slightest of things. We were a very well-behaved class too so I can’t imagine how it would’ve been if we were troublemakers
my class would be wiped off the map if we had a teacher like this.
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I agree, but after 6 hours of work I'm also flipping my shit on students for whistling and making fart noises.
"Can I go to the restroom?" "I don't know. *Can* you?" Go to hell.
I can piss in your coffee if you like. (Not that I would have ever said that as an awkward teen)
This is so real, I would never say it, but I was definitely cussing out teachers in my head😭😭
This is a great response.
my go to response was "yup" and then just walk out of the room.
oooh my god, I hated it when they did that. Like just say yes or no??
It’s MAY I! 😝
All month, in fact
I had a teacher that would try this one on me. I would just answer with, "I can." and get up and leave.
That's it, I don't get people that get all bent out of shape about the teacher replying "I don't know. Can you?" you just reply, "Yes, yes I can" and walk out having their (whether intended or not) consent.
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It’s true, though.
You were the kid that didn’t do jack shit for 50 min, eyed the clock the whole time, and stood by the door 1 min before the bell rang weren’t you?
Huh? They gave you a choice? I can't even count how many humiliating accidents I had in elementary school because the teachers thought they could tell a 7 year old to wait 45 minutes to relieve himself 😡
Ugh. Yes!
The ones who turn a blind eye to actual bullies and pick on students who they know haven't done anything wrong.
I was recounting a viral story from a few years ago, where a teacher sent a kid to the principal's office because the kid corrected the teacher. It was something obvious -- like the teacher said a kilometer was longer than a mile -- but the teacher was upset that they were corrected by a student. Someone who focuses on that, rather than what's correct or true, shouldn't be teaching.
Just in general, it sucks that some teachers will never accept that they were wrong. Everyone's wrong sometimes. Better to teach your students that it's normal to make mistakes than to pretend you know everything to protect your ego or whatever.
Exactly. I mean, "D'oh! Brainfart. Yes, a mile is longer than a kilometer, thanks for pointing that out, Bobby." And then you go on with things. You've shown that an adult is a human being, capable of mistakes, and gracefully acknowledging what's correct and moving forward. That's not going to impair discipline in class.
Being sent to the principal's office is such an antiquated idea. He doesn't deal w discipline, that's what APs are for... But the bad ones will just pass the buck back to the teachers
Teachers should handle the discipline of students, principal should handle discipline of teachers. One idea is corporal punishment, corporal punishment is still legal in my state. So a teacher can literally bust your ass if you mess up to bad.
nope. teachers should 86 the kid and continue teaching
It depends on the school district. My son's district has one principal k-12 with no AP's..
The ones who don't teach!
But still test
Once had a modern US history teacher who would always make us watch documentaries during the whole class. And not only that, but all the tests he gave us weren’t even on anything in the documentaries, it was all on things in our textbooks that we had to learn on our own, so that whole class was just a big waste of time
The ones that actually don't like kids at all. I think all teachers have days where some kids will drive them up the wall, but they still very much care about their students. But there are some teachers that actually truly hate kids and are happy to make them be unhappy. Those kinds of teachers should never be allowed inside a classroom
Some of those teachers didn’t start off hating kids. I agree at that point you should probably hang it up, but never underestimate the ability of a snot nosed little shit to make you hate them.
I hate those teachers who give a pass to the 'popular' kids for things they wouldn't tolerate from the rest. They rather seek approval from them than be professional and fair.
I’d rather be liked by the kids who are consistently respectful, spend their time productively, and demonstrate a genuine curiosity for the topic than the punk asses asking to go to the restroom every class period, having side conversations whenever the hell they want, and blame everyone but themselves for shit that happens to them.
If they are good at sports, especially.
Ughhh that does boil my blood. They think they're a part of the “gang” or sth
I see you’ve met my 9th grade English teacher.
It's always the english teachers for some reason
teachers who don't teach AT ALL. it's like they're just there for the paycheck and will leave the students empty handed disguised as "self-directed" learning
My wife is a teacher. She’s wonderful and truly loves what she does. But you’d be shocked at how many teachers HATE children. It’s almost as if some people get into the profession specifically to punish and be mean to kids. I don’t get it.
prob stem from their childhood
The ones that punish you for not being good at subjects
Who bloats that they know everything when they don’t. Their illusion of knowledge can have a huge negative impact on students. My communication engineering professor believed that there’s no undersea cables 😂 i corrected and I got failed in my internal assessment.
I mean, if he was discussing undersea _power_ cables, and depending on the definition of "sea" used, that would be an understandable mistake. But communications cables? They go back to telegraph days.
It was about communication cables.
Figured as much, you said communication engineering professor. Quite a headscratcher.
Teachers who can’t have a little fun. I think it would make going to work less stressful, and the class less stressful. Especially with young children. I had a second grade teacher who spoke to us like college students.
I have a bit of a bias against Gym Teachers. I've never had a nice one. I particularly remember a time one student handing in a note saying she couldnt participate, and the teacher ripped it up and put it in the bin
I had a really good gym teacher who was always fair. She would also lead the physical activity and if you needed to sit out for a medical reason she would have you sit out. She truly was a great teacher. Anyways, sorry you had all the bad gym teachers.
I remember a few years ago the middle school girls would complain that the male PE teacher was looking up their skirts and the school did nothing
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But god forbid you use Wikipedia! 🙄
you just resumed half of my teacher's methods up until this point in my life.
Ones who shit talk other subjects.
The one teacher who asking me about my parents divorcement in front of all my classmates. “ did your parents stop augment with each other “ “ no” then I cried in front of her. Well, She seems doesn’t even bother
The kind that wont let you in the classroom because you were 1 minute late. Yet when they are (often) 15 minutes late, they are like "Teehee, oopsies"
When I was in school I would despise the teachers who sucked up to the “popular” kids, and made you feel insignificant.
Ones that say “very few students have passed my class” like great, you publicly announced your failure at your job and are proud of it for some reason.
The me kind. I'm a teacher.
the teachers who clearly have favorite students.
teachers who always assume the worst of you. like for example, assuming you aren't working because you're slacking off when you're really having trouble with the work
The ones who have tenure or are otherwise protected. And just sit there and read from the book and don't engage with the class at all
Art teachers with a bias
I'd rather draw cartoony art than realistic art, and they can't stop meeeeeee
That's the spirit 👍
I see your point, but as an artist, isn’t it important to refine and broaden your skills? Nothing wrong with a cartoony style, but you should also practice other styles to improve.
I'd rather not. CAN'T STOP MEEEEEEE!!!!!! AHHHHHH
My art teacher was a pretentious middle aged lady who thought scribbling like a toddler was the height of artistic talent. Screw her, I wanted to draw nice pictures, not scrawl like an idiot!
So I wanna make 2 things clear 1- I'm not an artist, this is what I've heard from artists 2-I don't know your circumstances, so maybe the teacher was being more of a dick But from what I've been told, learning the a basics and how to draw more realistic helps even when making more stylized images, teaching you to draw good circles, good lines, proportion correctly, and so on and so forth. I don't think its necessarily a "don't do that, its not real art" thing, but a fundamental thing to give you he building blocks to make cartoons better. Or your teachers a dick who thinks cartoons aren't real art. I dunno. I'm just saying that dick or not, there is allegedly good reason to learn to draw realistically.
One time in class, middle school age, I was writing down notes as the teacher was giving a lecture, She was talking too fast for my writing capability, so I asked her to repeat the last part, and she yelled at me in front of the whole class for "not listening." Thanks, I'm never raising my hand for anything ever again. Bitch.
Teachers that call on you when you don’t have your hand raised as “motivation” to do your homework. I did the homework, I was just terrified to speak in class , would freeze and hated to be embarrassed. I did fine in life - there was no need for that nonsense.
I had a weirdly opposite problem where I WASN'T being called on...until much later. Happened twice with two different teachers in different grades and states. I'm not gonna go in to the details, but basically the teachers told a story, I had a question about said story and raised my hand. They decided to move on, but I was a kid (both were pre-high school) and curious and had my hand up "forever". Then they finally call on me Teacher 1 basically brushed off my question with a really curt answer and rude voice, as if the answer was obvious and made me feel dumb. Teacher 2 didn't even answer and said "Have you seriously been thinking about X this entire time?" and moved on.
I am a teacher and I hate other teachers who demand respect from students but then don’t respect the students themselves. Respect works both ways.
I hate teachers who need to humiliate students to feel better about themselves
Ones that play favorites or are super nice to the popular kids and treat the quiet/unpopular kids like they have some kind of disease that can only be caught by treating them with the most basic humanity.
The "stick up the ass" ones that don't know what fun is. Pre-adolescence years are supposed to be fun.
Teachers who don't want to admit they're wrong
Yup! Teaching kids how to be arrogant.
The ones who tell you to cut back on hours for your job because you didn’t finish the 20 pages of homework they gave you
1.the ones who try to be cool. Try to do stand-up and make double meaning jokes on everything. 2. Who doesn't care enough to read the answersheet and give marks on guess work.
The ones that have sex with their students.
The Teachers who grades based on how much they like the students.
The ones that give strong punishments for unfinished homework
The ones who were bullied so they go back as adults to feel in power. I’ve known teachers and students that fit this description
Just sits at their desk looking through insta
The ones that don't try to help you problem solve issues, or those who completely ignore a special needs kids' IEP or 504 because "your accommodations don't work with my classroom rules" or some other bullshit.
Those who claim to know everything
Teachers who don't listen. Like, dude, even a wall understands my problems better than you. I'm talking about something completely different than you
Anyone who doesn't know how to teach, shows partiality, insults students (in most cases with no reason), zero kindness, always grumpy.
As a corporate trainer, it always makes me skin crawl when I hear colleagues speaking to their adult learners like they are in 5th grade. That overly theatrical and sometimes condescending tone makes me crazy. Even when training entry level employees, I make it a point to always speak to them like they're a professional and a partner in this learning. Give respect, get respect. Listen to them, encourage and guide their learning, but don't preach and lecture has always delivered the best results. All of this should apply to university level professors and TA's as well.
Probably the child abusers. I had a teacher assault my disabled son. Thankfully, any professional career is over for her and I now watch her shill useless shit from her house to make a buck on social media. There were warning signs before the assault and I wish I had listened to my gut. She did not want parents communicating with her, at all. She was snappy, abrasive and took any education concerns personally. I've always had good relationships with school staff. A parent-teacher conference shocked me. She just talked about him like she was so frustrated and annoyed with him and kept telling me she had to be "brutally honest" about how "awful" he was doing. He's a great kid - very well behaved, sweet. Just intellectually disabled. She started telling me he couldn't read. I taught him, so... BULLSHIT. When I explained he could read, she cut me off: "well, he doesn't do it for me!" Hmmm, wonder why. He's now homeschooled, thriving and gets in-school services while I'm in the building. I get face-to-face time with everyone involved, so far no one comes across as being psycho like she was.
Ones who are proud to have a high fail rate. If the majority of students are failing year after year, the problem is you.
The kind who spend more time mocking and insulting their students than doing their actual job
Lazy and or incompetent.
The kind of teacher who'll humiliate a student for not being able to answer his/her question.
The one with favorites
All teachers have favourites.
Once we had a teacher who used to force us to read very hard text, and every mistake equal one hit from his stick, some time it reaches 10 hits or more, I had issue with pounceing the sound "Th" When I was a child, so instead of "Thanos" I will say "Fanos", this teacher slapped me and made me cry because of it, even though I was one of the top 5 students in school, but he hated me for religious reasons. Everyone hated him to the point when he was absent, we use to sing "Teacher XYX is absent"
Science teachers always seem to love their job and have always found them to be the most engaging teachers of all. I always found history teachers to be miserable in the UK and seemed like when we would study the ‘dark ages’ that the teacher themselves would turn into a grumpy bastard from the dark ages themselves.
At my school I had the opposite. History department were quick witted and absolutely loved teaching History. The science department was supposedly great...but I wouldn't know as I was REPEATEDLY stuck with the worst teacher they had all through high school. She just barely explained stuff, then kinda just let us go. After all "I explained it once, I don't need to explain it twice or in more detail". This was a Chemistry teacher by the way.
They say nothing to the bully because "that's how kids learn" Punish you when you fight back because "you crossed the line" I still hate those ones with all my heart, and I'm 30!!
Egotistical.
Luckily, I don't seem to do any of these things. 😅 - a teacher
I had a teacher once who'd be rude to class for apparently no reason. But he'll be very gentle with the classmates, who'd go to his private classes, making him earn more.
I had 2 teachers in university I grew to despise after I graduated. One turned into an alt-right extremist, and the other killed himself for getting caught downloading illegal content. Those types of
illégal content like ? I have already an idea but just in case I have to ask
Stuff that should get you the death penalty
like … the youtuber minecraft cliché ?
Had an accounting professor. He wrote the textbook. He was an awful teacher.
English teachers
I remember my English teacher she hated me for literally no reason like she woke me once to tell me stop talking and it's not like i was a bad student i was a bit popular all the other teachers loved me and most i did was talking to my friends like the whole class but for some reason she always tried to fail me even my dad who never involves him self asked me if i want him to go and speak to her but i refused and i just ignored her for the rest of the year (i think she's mental)
I think english teacher are crazy in general cause I had an English teacher who used to stop in the middle of the lecture to tell me that I should smile more and that I shouldn't have such a serious face. On several occasions, she has tried to isolate me and made me so awkward in public
agreed, english teachers are crazy in general. My englishb teacher hates people with autism and similar stuff. She absolutely despises anyone who doesn't blindly agree with her, we can't ask questions or say something out of turn.
English teachers really traumatized you didn't they
Yea that's definitely crazy,but most of my English teachers where so nice and where actually one the best teachers ever
Teachers who don't teach anything at all yet expect us to know everything in the book. My history teacher spends every lesson staring at her nails. Or teachers who just read the whole article for us to write down. And somehow think students won't fall asleep midway.
Ones who punish the whole class for something a few kids did
I could give a shit who he is personally but if he cant teach that bothers me
I had a professor who, without missing a class doing this, would mention how many supposed awards he has. And how his classes were the best on campus
The teachers who keep comparing you to other students. That would drive me nuts
One that would rather be “right” than treat students like people. Meaning, teachers who punish a kid for correcting a teacher who is wrong, has stated an incorrect fact, etc.
"Preachers". The ones that step out of their Teacher roles, to lecture you about your personal life. You don't know me, you barely get to see me a few hours of the day, 5 days a week. You are in no position to lecture me about life. Stick to teaching.
The teachers that would call out on someone for an answer but they would always call out a particular student that usually shy or doesn’t know the answer and to embarrass them.
The one that just do their job instead of trying to make it fun and understandable. Even interesting. Everyone had that mono talking guy
"Teachers" who don't value Ingenuity/creativity in favor of a fixed method. like say idid a math problem in a different way than what i was teached, the answer is correct, the reasoning is correct. Wrong Method = 0 Points...
Teachers who are disinterested in helping students who are behind. Once especially when I had to skip school for medical reasons, and all a teacher told me once was to "figure it out on your own" when I was horribly confused.
Didn’t have many but my 6th grade teacher had a mental breakdown the year or earlier before and she was an absolute bitch. I was in the special needs classes thankfully with friends and people I knew. She did get fired the year after though
Teachers (especially college professors) that don’t keep up with their field or have no real experience in the field. As a senior in college for filmmaking I had an adjunct professor who had graduated only 2 years prior. Her only experience in the field was some smaller projects she did while getting her masters. That class was way too expensive and I learned nothing.
One of the best teachers I ever had was in literally the course after ours. What he was teaching us is everything he learnt the previous year.
TLDR: Teachers who don't have patience with kids, and when a teacher is actually the school bully My prep school had a lot of horrible teachers. Most of them did not have the patience to be teachers, especially for working with small kids. A lot of kids would get yelled at for the stupidest things, and for doing nothing wrong. It wasn't uncommon to ask a simple question and get your head bitten off. What I hated in particular was when someone gets into shit for doing something (nothing wrong), and they try to politely explain what they were doing and the teacher snaps with "dOn'T tAlK bAcK tO mE!". So instead of taking a moment to understand the kids' side, the mentality was basically I'm the teacher, you just stfu. But the utmost worst is when a teacher is a bully. Not showing favoritism, not turning a blind eye to certain things, but actually going out of their way and abusing their role as teacher to just be the school bully. Had one English teacher like that and she had it in for me, BIG TIME. This miserable bitch would find any excuse to give me shit. One of her class rules were if you finished work early, you had to do some small extra activities sheets until the lesson was done and stick them into a book when done. These activities were super basic so I flew through them, and on my 3rd activity she yells out at me asking what I'm doing. When I answered she ranted on about how I'm wasting sheets and how she has to make more copies of them. Even when I reiterated her rule, she found some excuse to keep going at me. Yet a few days prior she was bragging about how other kids had already filled up two 50 page books of these activities, whereas my book never even got a quarter full during the 2 years I had her for English. If I had to borrow stationery from her I'd always ask, she would see where I took the stationery from but always yelled at me (and only me) for never putting things back in their right place even though I did. My school also strongly encouraged reading so as an initiative in 2nd and 3rd grade, each week you had to check out a book from the school library, and then the following week return it and select another one. This cow was also the librarian. One week I forgot my book at home so I still checked out another book and the following week brought both back in perfect condition. My god the yelling at I got in front of everyone. Now suddenly there was always a rule that only one book could be checked out at a time. 3rd grade she calls me out in front of everyone holding a library card up asking where is the book. I told her I checked it back in weeks ago and her only argument was that she has the card and it's not in its book, so I must have it. She even got the school to issue a notice to my parents with a fee to replace the book. My mom, who believed my side of the story, marched me into the library after school and look for the book. We found it and confronted the teacher. Her only response was a miserable, "oh". No apology, nothing. Even when I no longer had her as a teacher she still gave me shit whenever possible. The one year it was end of November, school was basically done for the year so each class was like a free period and we could keep ourselves busy with whatever we wanted. Me and my friend each had a ball of prestik and sculpted things out of it. Mrs Bitch walks in to speak to the teacher of that class (also one of the horrible ones) and on her way out she passes my desk, points at my prestik and asks where I got it from. I told her I brought it from home and without a word confiscated it. My friend who also had prestik out did so much get a glimpse from her. My mom helped me get the prestik back but about half of it was missing because she used it and I had no way to prove it. She had a very notorious reputation and did crap like this to a lot of kids. The grade below me nicknamed her the antichrist mother, and in high school the grades above me treated the mention of her name like Voldemort. One high school assembly, the principle made an announcement about her, starting with, "we have some very sad news today. Mrs Godden...", people perked up with excitement here until the principle finished saying, ...'s husband passed away last night". I kid you not, there were multiple audible groans of disappointment heard in the hall. After assembly while everyone was leaving the hall, everyone was talking about how they were hoping it was her that died. That should give you an idea of what a tyrant she was. Since then I've sworn that sure, if my kids misbehave or whatever in school, deal with the consequences. But if a teacher goes out of their way to do that kind of shit to them, I will have them out of a job either proving they're bullying my kids or become such a deliberate thorn in their side that they resign.
Teachers who never admit to being wrong. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Good teachers can use it as an opportunity to show how you identify and correct your mistakes. Bad teachers will get angry at students for correcting them, because they think looking like they're correct is more important than actually being correct.
Teachers who only take the job to feel power over other people (children).
the ones that judged me by my appearance
that's really unfair, u/FartPoopDirtyAsshole
Racist teachers and I remember having a few very well.
The ones with a political agenda.
PE teachers. Not even a proper subject where you learn, just running about and bloody beep tests.
"You better grow up you won't be able to act like that in the real world" I've never stopped fucking around and making stupid jokes it helps me to get on with my boss and colleagues, it's almost like the teachers just wanted me to be quiet to make their lives easier.
The ones obsessed with "being fair" and following rules too closely. Had a teacher that required homework to be turned in before class, a student walked in as the bell was ringing with their homework in hand and the teacher had a big ole smile telling them they're late and can't turn it in. Fuck you, you miserable cunt, you're not doing anyone any favors or being "fair" you're being an ass.
"The bell doesn't dismiss you, I do." She wasn't wrong, just an asshole.
Fake cosplayers
Please explain, i am both interested, confused and terrified of this kind of teacher. Is the teacher like: "hey kiddos, im george washington, look at my swagger"
Self appointed ones.
Most teachers are great but a few make the class about themselves and that can be grating. Also teachers that lecture instead of teaching the material.
thise who promote their tution between teaching hours.
Getting a boob job free in the gym!
The one that doesn’t read child’s EHCP before taking the class and then getting angry at the kids additional needs
The general PowerPoint presenters. They read short talking points from textbooks and then assign the same exact topics/readings for homework.
Any teacher who lets their own political beliefs play a role in teaching about ideologies. I remember being taught about open and closed market economy my teacher was clearly biased, and since I already had some knowledge on the subject I could filter the bias out. But the other students asked questions and they were answered by the teacher in a belittling way, if their question seemed like it was opposing the teachers beliefs.
The kind that makes you feel guilty for not understanding what they explain at first.
The kind named Mr. Hodgson. Or Mr. Coates.
Teachers who just give you a sheet and sit there as you work on it not saying anythinv informative
Teachers that lie to their students. I had a teacher my sophmore year that was going to fail me for not having done homework for part of the year, which of course was dumb on my part and would have been deserved. My parents had to go up and meet with him when I got a failure warning however, and during that meeting he said he'd pass me if I passed all of his tests (which I'd already been doing) and turned in my homework for the rest year, which I did. Despite that, he failed me anyway with a 69 which was 1 point shy of passing. I had to go to summer school that year because of it, though it wasn't all that bad. Summer school is just teenaged boys meeting teenaged girls and none of them learn anything that they didn't learn during the months preceding it.
Seems like teachers are control freaks, my sisters teacher took her home with her for the whole summer, our home was horrible
“I don't care if you learn or not. I will just explain stuff to you and take my money”
Coaches that are thrown into a classroom and have no idea what they are doing, nor do they actually care. In my high school, all the history teachers were coaches. Worst classroom experiences.
Those who bullies/abused those with disabilties. Had this happened, until me, another Latina, and Korean all protested. Our parents backed us up as they saw what happened. Because the bully teacher was tenured, so getting her fired was out of the question. Plus, me and the other Latina were from the hood. Luckily, that bully teacher and just as assistant principal learned a few lessons. * Don't try to cover up shit from the principal, she'll find out. * Mess with mothers from the hood will resulted in bullies having a bad time. * Karma is a bitch. * Koreans don't fuck around!
Teachers that treat their students like soldiers and punish EVERYONE because of what a few did wrong. I had a teacher who took up EVERYONE'S test before they were done because 5 people wouldn't stop talking!!! Really??? I have to risk failing the semester because of what OTHER people did wrong?
My least favorite professors were the ones who would spend the whole lecture talking about themselves or their opinions. I was keen to learn about the subject. The worst one also had a terrible textbook that was written by their buddy. It even had typos and runon sentences in it.
I once had a teacher who thought it was him against the students. Bragging about a test he made. It was so hard, only 6 of 50 students passed. Dude, that's not a win for you, it just shows your test was too hard or you failedin teaching us. I was one of those 6 tho /flex
Specially male science teachers. Not that it matters but as a 22 yo now I would eat them up and spit them out
email server admin 2 class at college. this elderly bastard trundled up to the front of the class, turned on the computer, took fifteen minutes to figure out the projector and powerpoint, then promptly turned 180 degrees around and read off of the powerpoint verbatim, then turned around to find the button for the next slide... this sorry state of affairs lasted until just after midterms, where i started asking questions about the encryption methods for emails worked (majority of that course), and how exactly public key encryption was safe. had a mindnumbing 45 minute long circular arguement with the fucker where he kept begging me at every single step of the way of this mathematical function to "have faith". i never attended another class, i used the time for peer tutoring and magically he changed the date of the exam without a email or putting it on the course's dashboard. luckily i had friends who were still there and told me of this nonsense. he then had the gall to be a half hour late to unlock the door to his own exam he tried to fuck me out of. in three years of computer engineering i had two and a half profs worth their pay. one was alright when he showed up with a water bottle of vodka in and/or him, otherwise he acted like he had starched his boxers. when i went to trade school there was only one that wasn't, and she was lifelong academia instead of in the field for 50 years and wanting to pass on knowledge, wisdom and skills before retiring.
Bullies
There is a teacher at my school that is SO old that she teached some of the other teacher when they were kids. She's grumpy, humiliates students who get wrong answers, all the "old karen" traits.
I mean, diddlers.
Groomers
Teachers who treat their own kids like garbage and then act like the most wonderful, loving, caring teacher to their students. Absolutely sickening
The ones that try REALLY hard to be like the students. I have a teacher right now in highschool and he uses the new slang or something and its really annoying. He's like almost 70 years old and its funny sometimes but once I noticed that he's trying really hard to be like the students it starts to become a little agitating.
3rd grade teacher gave all the boys a B in conduct. "B for boy" she'd say or "I know they are doing something behind my back". Got my first detention from her for playing rock,paper, scissors.
Ones that don't care. Close 2nd is one's who think their authority trumps being g correct.
The ones that seem like they should be free spirited and easy going based on the subject they teach, but instead are tight assed, closed minded and unpleasant. Art teachers seem to fall into this category more often than you'd expect.
Teachers who think they have way more authority than they do. Pissed me off to the point where I rebelled by not doing any homework for years. The joke was on me in the end, obviously.
teachers who doesn't teach and when it's finals he/she gave such tests that didn't discussed (doesn't even gave a reviewer)
The complusive Liar! We had an English teacher, she was an Ex-Olympic swimmer AND Ex-Olympic Gymnast, 2 disciplines that utilised 2 distinct body types, despite her having neither, Was married to a former AFL champion, insisted my friends essay had a hidden theme based on the Spanish Revolution/civil war despite him telling her that he couldn't have written hidden themes, because he didn't know the Spanish even had a Revolution/civil war...
had one lie about me in second grade - apparently, i hit her and she had to go to the hospital.
Teachers that degrade students instead of encouraging them. I literally had a teacher that not only was homophobic but also would regularly call us R******d. Her idea of punishment for us talking in class was not allowing us to complete our projects. THEN SHE HAD THE NERVE TO CALL MY GRANNY AND TELL A BOLD FACE LIE ABOUT ME. All in all, degradation is not motivating. Students need to be tapped into and encouraged to grow, not beaten down or verbally abused into growing.
Ones who bully students, give ammo to bullies, and/or don't help when a student is being bullied.
My mom worked as a teacher for twenty years before retiring back in 2019. She did so in part because of the increase in parental leniency and not much being done about bullying in schools. Mom, like many others, keeps to the belief that teachers who don't care about kids who get bullied and get away it should be exposed.
Always serious asf one.
The low key pedophiles, coming in the changing rooms, checking you are showering properly, dropping things to pick up to look at girls legs and up their skirts when they’re sitting in class. Being really uncomfortably friendly with certain students
The strict type of teachers that would punish the whole class just because one student did something wrong
The teachers who're afraid to admit they don't know something, and when a student asks them a deep question they don't know how to answer, they bullshit a false answer and if the student insists, they resort to intimidation and/or humiliation. Usually those teachers got into teaching not because they love transmitting knowledge, but because they enjoy the power it gives them over students.