I pulled this because I got docked half a point for the word "enthralled", saying it doesn't exist. To be fair english is a third language here. To be fairer to myself, she did dare me to show her the dictionary. I brought it in the next english class.
had an english teacher when i was like 9 years old that denied that “yore” was a real word when we were discussing homonyms of ‘your’, and i repeatedly told her to look it up but she just denied it and everyone laughed at me
i still get super pissed off whenever i think about that stupid bitch, i feel for anon
I had an english teacher who insisted, very vehemently, that the 2nd person didn't exist in writing and I spent years feeling gaslit when I could see it clearly did
I mean, I can't think of anything prominent piece of literature written in 2nd person, can you? It would sound psychotic to read an entire book written "And then you went to the refrigerator and ate a piece of your favorite pie."
There’s a series of books where you make your own decisions in the story and flip to whatever page based off of your choices. I can’t remember the series but it was from the 90’s or 80’s I believe.
I remember a really, really intricate one I read back in the 90's which was about this science ship approaching a black hole that had a wormhole inside it, and you got these choices on what maneuvers the crew would attempt, with most leading to a really violent, descriptive death, but some were good(?) endings where the ship successfully travelled through the wormhole, leading to all sorts of weird scenarios, like alternate realities which had negative gravity and everything lived inside of these giant clay-like balls floating around the other ends of black holes
I remember having to learn about the 2nd person through reading a book written in it, i think it was called the tale of despereaux. No clue if it is actually 2nd person or not, that's just what the teacher told us
in addition to choose your own adventure books, it’s even progressed to visual media (bandersnatch on netflix is a very cool experience, and arguably nearly all video games are a 2nd person centered form of media)
not much related but i read in 2nd person the first line of greentexts. because "be" used that way always confused me so just read it as a "you! imagine being me"
Honestly early education teachers do just straight gaslight the kids about stuff they’re not “supposed” to know yet. I knew about negative numbers and how they worked (only the basics) from the weather so I put a negative number on a subtraction problem, turns out the answer was “impossible” and I got it wrong. If it’s too complicated for the class to understand at that age, they just pretend it’s not real and the kids will find out eventually
I first learned about negative numbers in kindergarten (thanks mom). Fortunately, the first time I brought it up, the teacher had the sense to say something along the lines of "yes, that's correct, but hold off on that for now until more advanced classes."
Idk why more teachers don't do this, honestly. Like kids are smart enough to understand "that's correct, but negative numbers are for a more advanced class, try to solve it with positive numbers first". Even if the negative numbers kid solves it easily, teachers should always be prepared with something more advanced to give to the smarter kids
Fucking teacher did that to me too in 4th Grade.
I wrote "Camouflage" in this stupid journal we had to keep. She underlined every instance of it and wrote at the end "It is spelled CAMOFLAGUE". I was like wtf no it's not because I didn't know how to spell the word, I used the dictionary. Looked it up, and yep. Camouflage. I showed her the dictionary, she said it was wrong, she was right. I showed her a different kids dictionary and she said it too was wrong.
I brought a completely different dictionary from home, BRAND NEW, and it spelled it properly, and when I went to show her, she snapped at me and said that if I did not accept she was right, and the dictionary was wrong she'd give me detention. I ended up dropping it.
If this is real this is hilarious
Imagine genuinely believing that it’s much more likely that 3 official dictionaries got a word wrong than you simply having the spelling wrong in your head
Anon casually forgot to mention how they failed almost every other assignment in that class and expected the final to magically give them a better grade.
It's such a retarded American thing to fail students based on "other assignments". Exam grades should be the only thing that matters. Imagine you failed math cause you didn't do your precious homework.
That’s so stupid lol I‘ve taken classes with no exams before. Most jobs (unless you’re gonna do work in computer science or math) aren’t going to give you tests before or during your employment.
They will however likely ask you to do things like write reports and present on your findings, which is why it makes a lot of sense that those types of projects typically get similar weight to tests in a lot of classes.
Test taking is a skill in it of itself, and it’s not as applicable to the workforce as many other skills so it shouldn’t be the only one students have to develop
So what's the point of doing a presentation or homework? You can easily any time have someone else either do it for you or get so much help your input doesn't matter. At least in exams you test your own memory/problem solving.
Practice is one thing, but being graded on your practice? What if I had personal issues and couldn't do it? Now I must fail because assignments done outside of school time count towards my grade? I'll just pay the nearby nerd to do them for me and boom, nothing learned and teacher is none the wiser. Sure you can argue you can also cheat during exams, but thats way harder due to it being under supervision.
most jobs nowadays actually seek both, a college degree *and* practical experience. it’s why a lot of people on both ends are frustrated
graduates applying for “entry-level” jobs that want years of experience is common
experienced workers getting auto-rejected due to a lack of a college degree is also common
hence why so many unis have & encourage internships, co-ops, and research. more particularly for fields like engineering that require both a base level of formal technical understanding as well as field/plant experience
hasn’t been enough to just get a degree in a long while, but it still does help
I mean lots of those assignments aren’t group based. And if you have other people do it you’re not going to be able to do that once you’re in the workforce so you’re setting yourself up to fail.
You also can’t have someone else present for you, and presenting in front of people is definitely a skill that takes practice. It’s just as good of a show of knowledge to hear someone speak, because you can tell by their voice, body language, whether they read off the screen, etc. how well they understand the material.
And writing is perhaps the most important skill that exists and it’ll never stop being important. Students need to develop a voice and style that doesn’t reflect chat gpt if they want to stand out when writing college apps, cover letters, grant proposals, and even emails.
Both are important, as well as learning how to learn. If you’re gonna go to college taking notes and studying are all skills you’ll develop in school on basic subjects even though you probably won’t need a lot of that knowledge later.
There are a lot of things that should be taught in schools and aren’t though and some that don’t need to be taught that are
As if having any type of decree suddenly makes you superior in literally anything.
Learn why I spell it like that, then come back to the Internet, grandpa.
Sure, cause autocorrect doesn't exist. I'm sorry you don't know that since you only use your 2005 PC to browse reddit. I know smartphones are out of your league.
But please, keep talking about my spelling. Not like there's people who don't have english as their mother tongue and may get stuff wrong. But sure, you use your made up studies as your superiority complex then \^\^
In my school classes had a base of 2 major assignments and an exam for grading. The exam was worth only 15% of the grade, but failing it means you failed the class.
"one stressful exam" sounds like skill issue to me. I never had issues with exams, even if I didn't always do 10/10 on them. If you wanna get grades on assignments, go do practical studies like carpentry. But in majority of studies which are mostly theoretical, exams should be priority.
This depends on what you think the purpose of education is. If the purpose is to learn things, then homework shouldn't matter. If the purpose is to train citizens to be reliable, productive workers, then consistently completing homework on time is very important.
I don't see how doing school stuff in my free time makes me a productive citizen, rather than focus on actual stuff during school, just like work stuff during work.
What's the point of school if we can just homework everything?
Also notice how they say “the final English exam” and not “the English final”.
B/c it’s middle school, they don’t have a system where a single cumulative final counters for 50% of your grade like in many college courses (which TBH is a stupid system we have just accepted in colleges for some reason, a single exam counting for half your grade is crazy when you step back and think about it).
The “final English exam” probably counted for like 15% of the total grade and only covered matieral during the last month of class. Meanwhile OP bombed the other 4 exams a\that also each counted for 15% of the total grade and only turned in half their homework despite the teacher giving them multiple chances to turn it in for at least partial credit.
While some teachers are assholes, the *vast* majority of the time some middle or high schooler claims a teacher a”has it out for them” it turns out they literally didn’t do half the assignments then somehow expected the teacher to just give them a 75% on that assignment they *literally never turned in* instead of the 0 they deserved.
Same thing happened to me with Oceania. I asked the teacher, so which continent do New Zealand and Australia belong to? He said "it doesn't matter" and moved on.
does this guy go to and eighties movie high school or something where theres a big fat guy who takes your lunch money because who the fuck cares that much to make fun of you the entire day
He'll I'm 22 and I asked a question in a uni class and a few people laughed at me. That pissed me off, I don't think it was a stupid question and nobody else was saying anything.
It's a class about the death and the underworld and we saw a documentary that at one point showed the Aztec empire and they sacrificed to appease the sun God. In the temple, they had a big symbol of him. We then went on to talk about Christianity and how the horizontal part of the cross is supposed to represent earth while the vertical part represents heaven and he'll and where they join is where Jesus fits into the equation.
Well the Aztec symbol would have sacrificial blood poured over it which was supposed to summon the sun or something to devour it. So I asked if the Aztec symbol had a similar connotation of connecting Earth and the ethereal plane like the cross did.
That's honestly a really good question and I, too, am curious as to the answer. Fuck kind of class laughs at a guy asking for the symbolism behind a symbol they're discussing
>We then went on to talk about Christianity and how the horizontal part of the cross is supposed to represent earth while the vertical part represents heaven and he'll and where they join is where Jesus fits into the equation.
What branch of Christianity believes that? I've always heard that the cross represents the fact that he was literally executed on a cross, with no further symbolism (aside from subtle things like for protestants "it's empty cause he's resurrected")
I may have misremembered. But this website states it as horizontal being your relationship with people while vertical is your relationship with Jesus and God.
https://reasonsforhopejesus.com/what-is-the-vertical-and-horizontal-of-the-cross/
Further down, this website mentions horizontal being earth and vertical being God.
https://agapegeek.com/tag/cross/
'Vertical is an adjective, and it is normally defined as a line, that is at a right angle to the horizon. Therefore, we normally do not understand the concept of “vertical”, without first understanding what the “horizon” means to us. The word horizon is a noun, that is normally defined as the human perspective of the line where the earth meets the sky, or the heavens. Wow! Can you potentially begin to see, how these two lines we call vertical and horizontal, represent an intersection point? Could a point of intersection, represent God’s plan to come down from heaven, to meet with humans on the earth? I believe it does, and this information, just shouts LOVE to me. Maybe those that do not understand what an intersection is, are not as excited. So let us go over quickly, the concept of what an intersection is next.'
I don't know exactly if it's told that way in the Bible or if its some kind of scholarly interpretation? This was a few weeks ago. I also remember someone that day saying that the Romans usually crucified you with the cross either leaning on the left or right depending on something and that Jesus was crucified upright because he was guilty of both.
It's some stupid history class I'm doing based upon how the afterlife has developed since ancient times.
$100 is cheap. $250 is more like it, and of course there's a new edition every semester so you can't buy a used one. Don't worry though, the school bookstore you purchased it from will purchase it back at the end of the year. You can go grab a meal at McDonalds with the money.
I was homeschooled until 7th grade, when I went to a public school. First day of history class we had an ungraded pop quiz, which after we turned it in the teacher asked the questions again and had people raise their hands to answer. One question was “what does AD stand for after a year, example 2007 AD.” When it got to that one I raised my hand immediately, the teacher looked at me and said “oh this one is nothing special. Everyone knows it. Say it with me class.” And everyone goes “After Death!” And I say “no, that’s wrong.”
“Oh? What is it then?”
“Anno Domini.”
“Uhhh, that’s not English. That wouldn’t make any sense.”
Hated that smug, illiterate hick
Holy shit i lost braincells with your story.
What an absolute moron of a teacher.
"ThAts nOT EnGliSH" well Middle English and Old English have literally fuck-all similarities to Modern English but i aint seein nobody denying that they used to be English now have i.
Typical fucking middleschool teachers. I had a random teacher that gave me 16/20 on a History test and the exact same number on grades. I was the only one that ever contributed anything to classes,raised his hand,etc,everyone else didnt give a single fuck about the lessons.
Meanwhile some random schmuck that never said a single fucking word because he despised History,got a 17.5 on the test and a report of 19/20.
Its been 10 years. 10 fucking years. Ive finished my postgraduate studies in History,doing a Masters as well (despite the fact ill probably change fields but whatever) and im STILL pissed about that one. I fucking hate the incompetent idiots that are allowed to teach. Most teachers ive met with a few shining,glorious exceptions are either braindead or well on their way on reaching subterranean IQ numbers. I could go on for days.
It's sad because the state of education in most countries is one of hard work and low pay so even if you do get people who are passionate about teaching, they end up in the universities because at least there they get paid decently. Most people are just trying to get by and being a good teacher that fits the need of every child you end up with is a very difficult thing.
> paying a shitload for private schools
Ended up being what I got. We had three options for public schools because of we lived in this super thin district overlap. One had a mile-long waitlist because it was actually good. Then there was the one I went to. Then there was a third which was even worse.
The private school ended up being the best option anyways because my homeschool curriculum was essentially a year ahead of standard, so the public school was a repeat year for me (they refused to accept my test scores to skip a grade because they openly despised homeschoolers). The private school was the same level as what I had been doing so I actually moved through the curriculum like normal.
In grade school I asked my science teacher how the sun can burn in space without oxygen. She paused momentarily and told me to stop asking stupid questions. I went home and told my dad who was understandably pissed. He proceeded to print out some scientific papers about how the sun is actually a glowing ball of gas caused by nuclear fusion. The only problem was that 12 year olds were not the target audience for the papers he printed. I understood close to nothing of what I was reading. His heart was in the right place but it's safe to say I went to bed that night having no idea why the sun glows in space.
My teacher did something similar. Told us matter got destroyed once it entered a black hole. I asked how that was, since she had just told us matter couldn't be created or destroyed. I wasn't meaning to be argumentative, I was just a curious child.
Some teachers have huge egos and can't admit they don't know something. There is nothing wrong with saying you don't have an answer at the moment but you'll look into it and get back to the person.
I feel like that should be the fun part. The kids are obviously listening if they are asking questions and you can use that to show them how to find the answers. No teacher can be expected to know everything
Absolutely. My kids ask me some wild questions sometimes that I have absolutely no idea how to answer. Instead of getting frustrated I get excited because now I get to learn something new to teach them.
Technically it's not destoyed, as far as we currently know. It's compacted down, which is even more baffling. Anti matter is the only thing that can destroy matter and even that is an anomaly to us. It's hard for matter to learn about something that either compresses it down, killing us, or literally explodes being near us and again, killing us. In short, we lack the technology to truly understand them, and may never be able to as we largely exist in an expanded matter filled existence.
In the grand scheme, yes. The earth is super small compared to other Astral bodies. All that 'space' is still matter, but its invisible to us and insanely light. And it makes up something like 80% of our universe. At least what we have observed. We just keep observing larger and larger objects, many which baffle us. Seeing as we've only tapped the surface of everything, its all quite a lot and a ton of theories exist.
One of my English teachers was a bitch too. She picked on me and *only* me out of everyone in the class and was convinced I would fail English
I left with a B(itch)
I had a french teacher (I'm french canadian) who took away shit ton of points from a written exam we did where we had to write a spooky story because I wrote the story from the character's point of view and it turns out at the end he's dead. She said that "he can't be the one telling the story if he's dead". I'm like ?????? There are so many stories and books out there told from the point of view of a ghost wtf??? I protested but she didn't change my grade. Still pisses me off to this day.
Lmao as a language teacher I would be excites to read stuff like that. But grading creative wr8ting is dumb anyway imo. You can grade technique fairly but not creativity
I had an English teacher who disregarded whatever point I would put forward to class discussion but my friend right next to me would say the exact same thing and be told they were doing a good job. It really annoyed me
In math class, sure. In English class, reality can be whatever the teacher wants.
This is the primary reason why I heavily preferred math class to English.
Yeah, with math you can have objective mistakes, in English they just take off for whatever bullshit they want and decide how much they want to take off with the most vague rubrics ever.
When it comes to things like essays or creative writing exercises, teachers are given lots of leeway to decide if someone should get a good grade or not.
Was a teachers pet, took notes, always talked about books. She kept me after class one day for the Segs and kept that going for a year and a half until I was too old and she wanted a younger model.
I had an English teacher like this too. Always unfairly grading me compared to my classmates. For my final presentation I did a perfect 173 line soliloquy from Henry VI: Part 3. She gave in an “A” in the course and a bunch of respect (for the last couple of days) after that.
That reminds me of my pottery professor from comment that was notoriously sexist. She gradded my and the 3 guys effort with D grades while all the girls got As and Bs.
My biologist teacher back in school infuriated me. I was really good at biology, did my post grad in biology and work at a private research institute today, I know I was good for my grade.
Anyways, I got a B with the reason "well you have to have something to aim for, if you get an A what will you work towards?" that was for my final grade as I was graduating. How the fuck am I supposed to improve for the next time when there isn't a next time?
I had a teacher in 6th grade assign group projects, and naturally my group was composed of all the kids she disliked the most. We were supposed to do a mock weather report for a selected region of the country, and got the northeast. We decided it was gonna be a hurricane report and went all in. Bitch gave us a D because, and I quote: "Hurricanes are a southern phenomenon, they don't happen that far north, you did no research and I would fail you but you managed to present it well enough."
Well guess what happened that summer? [Hurricane Floyd slammed into New England](https://www.weather.gov/images/mhx/19990916/Surge4.jpg) :D
I've been mad for years lol
I was shy and still afraid of authority due to my upbringing, took the L and assumed something was really wrong with me if doing my best only got me a D. Also didn't remember that hurricane until years later while also trying to forget the bad report day. But middle school was better, teachers were more specialized and experienced, plus it was her first year teaching solo, and I'm now ten years older than she was at the time, so I know for a fact she was probably dumb as hell outside of her primary education degree.
Even so, it would bring great satisfaction to run into her and demand she listen to my reasons why she was a big meanie who made home life just a little bit harder by unfairly punishing her dislike of our personalities through grades (us same kids did well enough in every other class despite being no less adhd addled).
I worked as a teacher and the amount of cunts in the field is staggering.
I will tell you one thing that may be painful to hear, but it's the truth. If you came to her with all your grief she'd be like: 'huh? Who are you and why are you telling me this?'
Like literally she wouldn't know you. Wouldn't care how you've felt.
I had an honors English teacher embarrass me in front of the class. We were wrapping up a unit on King Arthur and I asked near the end of the class if the material was going to be on the final (finals were about a month or so away) and she said they weren't. So, I asked why we spent weeks going over King Arthur when it wasn't going to even be on the final, and we still had to cover a Shakespeare play (Othello).
Instead of explaining her reason she raised her voice and asked the whole class if they wanted King Arthur to be in the final and pretty much everyone verbally said no, and the whole time she was facing me. I'm convinced that some of those stares gave me social anxiety.
Next year however I chose to drop back down from honors to regular English and the teacher was actually amazing at his job. He got me to be engaged with works like Hamlet and Huckleberry Finn. Some of the essays I wrote for his class were the first bits of my writing I'd call actually good too.
The honors classes Ive been in gave me the vibe that the teacher could half ass teaching because it was implied the student already got the course material. Every honors class I had was a waste of time where the teacher or professor talked about random bullshit and occasionally sprinkled in some learning there. Still pissed about the statistics class I took where the professor told us to go buy his book instead.
When I was in middle school I'd haggle and argue about grades with my teachers like a Turkish bazaar salesman. If this happended to me back then, I'd be protesting outside the principal's office LMAO
I once got a B because “your exams are enough for an A but you aren’t putting in enough effort so I an giving you a B so you’ll learn from this”
I complained to the principal, she was fired a few months later for a whole string of different reasons including dozens of complaints
I had a teacher in 3rd grade hard accuse me of plagiarising in front of the whole class because I used the word "fertile". I kept telling her that I knew the meaning of the word but wouldn't buy it and just humiliated me instead.
I remember seeing a letter posted on the internet a few years ago from a teacher to a student's parents. The teacher was pissed because the student was openly correcting him when he was telling the class that a kilometer is longer than a mile. The kid got disciplined for being right but the teacher couldn't admit that.
Teachers: you are freaking awesome. But the day you stop believing you can learn from your students is the day you need to retire.
This happened to me in 8th grade when I asked my English teacher why sometimes old time books had "an" in front of words that start with h. He very flatly said "No they don't. There are no books ever written that use an before an h I will give you $20 if you can show me one."
The next day I brought in a King James Bible and showed him Genesis whatever where it says "And Methuselah lived an hundred and twelve years before he begat [blah blah blah...]"
He laughed and said "Oh FIGURES. I should've known you'd bring a BIBLE."
I did not get my $20.
He seemed like he would have been an ok guy to be around if you were a grown up, sort of snappy and wry. But he clearly thought kids were dumb as hell and needed to be crafted into function by his sagacious hand.
I had a math teacher I hope burns in hell one day. Good teachers are very important, unfortunately some of them are mentally ill and purposely make some students lives a living hell. It’s as bad as power tripping cops in my eyes.
Only teacher that ever went irrational screaming at me was an English teacher because I got someone else to get the monopoly money change I needed to buy articles for a newspaper project. She stormed into my study hall with my homeroom teacher and he looked mortified and embarrassed for the way she was acting. I could have left it at that, but making a joke about her being on the rag ended with a suspension.
I once got into a big argument with my English teacher because she caught me playing cards with my table. In hindsight I was not entirely reasonable with my point that since we'd all finished the work we should be able to do whatever we wanted, but she herself was somewhat immature and made a big show of confiscating the cards, and the argument really bubbled over at the end of the day when I came to pick them up and she told me she'd thrown them away (they were a custom set that I'd gotten as a gift).
That is my most hated teaching method, where they go in a certain order and every time it favours the first person.
I remember some guy got mad at me at a "cadet" place because I flat out could not name a new thing he wanted naming, when there were about 15 people before me who named some things I did know but I couldn't say them again.. The first person just named the easiest thing and got classed as someone who would know everything else by the stupid logic.
I had a teacher do that to me twice, but the class was on my side. I mean they didn’t say anything but gave the “dude wtf is wrong with the teacher” look.
Also had my English teacher tell me Hellfire isn’t a word. She asked me to define it too. Smh
Had a chemistry teacher that was firm that "undiscovered" wasn't a word. You can't un-discover something. He would give us half a mark for a question if we used it on our practice exams (e.g. "why wasn't this used" "it was undiscovered at the time").
I brought in a dictionary (not even a new one, it was pretty old) and showed him the word at the end of class. He has a laugh about it and shooed me off, then stopped marking us down.
What teacher doesn't take a free chance to educate like this?
My English teacher ok'ed my project. I laid it out, got it ok'ed a 2nd time. Made it final and turned it in after 2nd ok. I had stayed late to finish it. she took it to the office. I got expelled for doing my homework.
True if you look at the situation its also a practice for anger management too,you can't exactly tell your teachers or bosses to go fuck themselves without facing any consequences.
If the teachers deserves it of course,but yea thinking back i should have cussed out some of my high school teachers that has royally fucked me over and that's the least that they deserved.
That actually happened to me in college kinda. Bitch professor didn't like me and failed my essays because fuck you, that's why.
Proceeded to get a perfect score on her final which was multiple-choice/She couldn't bullshit her way to flunking me. Looking back I really should have reported it, but the seething look I saw on her face when I saw the grade posted was priceless.
Very similar incident happened in my high-school class except on a graded assignment, teacher simply stared at me as if I was stupid for being right and didn't revise the assignment's grade. I tried going to the principal who said: " Scoring the paper is to the teacher's discretion and I can't(((won't))) do anything" paraphrased ofc, but dear lord that pissed me off
I hate teachers like this. It reminds me of my teacher in 2nd grade that used to use embarrassment as punishment and make people that acted up stand in front of the class on display.
The first time we were taught multiplication she was teaching us a worksheet while we had a copy in front of us and we were supposed to be following along. I went ahead and did the whole sheet instead of following along because I had an older sibling teach me multiplication over the summer. She saw me doing this and slammed her pencil down, stopped the class, pulled me up front and said "You're apparently so smart, I want you to come up and be the teacher".... "Go on, teach the class"... Then as I stood there embarrassed because I was a kid, she checked all of my answers on the sheet in red for not following instructions. I took home the sheet and showed my parents. All of the answers were right. My parents were pissed.
Fuck you Ms. K!
Had a math teacher like this who just hated me.
Any time someone around me was doing something bad she blamed it on me.
Any time I got a good grade on an exam she said I was cheating (she had placed me away from the whole class so I don't think it would've even been possible if I tried to).
I corrected her once about the definition of a square (it's always also rectangle) and to be honest I thought she was going to murder me (for real). It was obvious I had really twisted the knife here because it got worse after that.
She'd do crazy stuff like talk about number distribution neither mean/median/mode. We'd do some type of very quick experiment (think like stacking Jenga blocks on end or rolling a six sided die) and the whole class would show the distribution of results. Then our grades would be based off of how far away from the mean or median we were. Well I was really "good" at the experiment so I was a huuuuuuuuuuuge outlier. I got an F.
She eventually transferred me from the high performing class to the low performing class. I was friendly with many kids in my grade and the first day I walked one my good friends jokingly said "what's his smart ass doing here?" to which we all laughed and if course she got pissed. Rode it out the rest of the year though. It made the next grade rough because I was back in the high-performing/accelerated class but kind of burnt out by it all.
Yeah in this particular case there was no union involved, just inept administration.
The principal was simply not good at reading people or situations and so it was rare that the proper corrections were made.
Her VP was incredible but ultimately she refused to acknowledge his input on a lot of things. I think she realized she was severely incapable/he was the real deal. He went on to be (and still) a very successful/respected principal at another school I nthe district.
All my other experiences were great though at that school, no real complaints!
Had a public speaking teacher in freshmen year that was fucking awful. As a part of class one day she had us all draw cards from a deck of topic cards like we were at a wine mixer in our mid 40s. My card was "Where would you like to float over in a hot air ballon?"
I have a fear of heights and I would never want to do this. I tried to ask her to draw a new topic card but she would not let me draw one, so I did my best to talk about going over Mt. Fuji or some shit. Well she didn't think that my answer, and a couple of other male students, answer wasn't good enough after it followed a girl talking about her surviving childhood Lukemia and I was going to have to do it again next class.
I dropped that class that day. Come to find out years later from my then girlfriend that woman was fired because it was proven she was giving male students worse grades than female students for the same body of work and had been for years.
I also watched this woman tell the classroom that 1 in 4 women would be raped at college by pointing to 1/4th of the women in class and saying, and I'm not bullshitting, "You're going to get raped, and you're going to get raped and you're going to get raped." In retrospect I should have marched straight out of that classroom into the Dean's office because that is the most egregious thing I have ever witnessed a teacher do as an authority in a classroom. Imagine a man pointing at one of their female students and saying "You're going to get raped." As a way to punctuate the statistics of college sexual assault.
That in 1/4 statistic is so dumb
It’s based on a questionnaire of women asked how many times they were sexually harassed when in college.
This was also in the same area as well.
What counted as sexual harassment wasn’t specified so if you felt sexually harassed, it counted as so.
And then the word sexually harassed somehow gets translated into rape, by some people, and now we have the “1/4 women get raped in college” statistic from like a decade ago
I always feel bad when I see this stories. I used to be a teacher and can’t imagine being like this. If this EXACTLY same scenario happened to me, I’d high five the kid and make a point to use that word as much as possible (it’s a fun word tbh). I wouldn’t scorn the kid for making me look stupid. Super fucking lame. This is why tenure for teachers sucks.
My english teacher was awesome. She expected much more from me and tailored a lot of paper topics to interest me specifically. I spent most of the class playing pokemon yellow and being obnoxious until I realized she was making all this effort just for me. I like to think we ended that class as friends.
Another english teacher let me work on the zodiac cipher’s because id read all the books they were going to read that semester and could prove it.
I also had a teacher go out of her way to torture me for 2 years and ended up with 473 detentions (hour and a half on fridays after school) (i stopped attending because theres no real repercussions to that). She hated me because i was “too big to be a 7th grader”. She was a nutjob. Wrote me a detention because her car alarm went off once. I was in her room ofc. Fuck you mrs goines. Every single day of your dogshit life.
And thank you to mrs babb and mrs rameriez
I forgot the exact context but when I was in like 2nd grade, the teacher and us students were all talking about something, and I said to the teacher “plus it helps you in the long run”. Then the teacher just looks at me blankly, and puts on this condescending tone that you can tell she thinks I’m an idiot, and says “that’s right, it helps you run” (again I don’t remember the context). And back then when she said it, in my head I was like lady, why in the world would I add such a useless comment to this class discussion and why do you think I would say anything like that
Schools are full of bitter middle-aged women who backslid into teaching after their preferred profession shitcanned them
I’ve known them to actively discriminate against male students
One time in seventh grade our math teacher got into a straight up argument with our entire class that there were 51 states in the US. We live in the US. There was a flag with 50 stars hanging on the wall next to the door.
Had a presentation in Spanish class once, my partner cried and sat down so I had to have a conversation with myself about whatever the stupid topic was. I got a C, she got an A somehow. I protested to get it raised and she proceeded to “lose” every piece of homework and multiple quizzes the rest of the year
Had a spelling quiz in 2nd grade. Teacher told us to spell "the same". I thought it was weird that it was a question but spelled it correctly anyways. Later during checking she told us it was spelled "desame". I still hate her to this day
Most people have a story like this. We have a very strong sense of justice when we are young. The interesting thing, is that it exists in animals as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequity_aversion_in_animals
I remember writing "octogenarian" on a list of words we had to come up with which we thought were interesting. The teacher said that "scientific jargon doesn't count" (I'm in STEM and she knew that) while in fact of course it's just her own lack of vocabulary. My exam results were not unlike the ones mentioned in the post.
Each day humanity suffers because of incompetent teachers.
You didn't make up the word she claiming that she's never heard the word gobbledygook.
Just because it's a funny word doesn't mean it's not a word. That's like claiming onomatopoeia is in a real word.
I remember this one time where the English teacher challenged the class that he would remove his clothes and dance in the class and then run away like that if anyone got the answer right. It was basically a slightly tricky like where you had to use "had had" as a part for it to make the right sense. I sat in the last row because I was usually bullied a little and also had my desk assigned there (I asked). Anyway, I get it right somehow and the next 3-5 rows of students look back at me. I'm sure the teacher heard it lmao ..... I don't know why I'm sharing this story
But these days my English isn't as good as it used to be. Brain rot and suicidal thoughts took its place. Hey gotta cope alright
I had an English teacher who didn't know how to pronounce the name "Tobias." She invited it was "Toe Bee Is"
Had another who pronounced Necromancy as "Neck Rom In See."
I had teachers like this. They didn't like that I coasted through school getting good grades so even though I would ace the tests they'd give me Cs because of my 'low effort'.
still sounds made up.
1. Its on 4chan (99% of things said on 4chan are made up)
[2.It](http://2.It) uses 4chan slang which I doubt were commonly used 15 years (or so) ago when anon went to school
Possible, but not that unlikely.
When I was in middle school, my art teacher graded the same exact project different for every student.
What I mean by that is, we had to make some dumb paper mannequin and what we did was pass around the same one for the whole class. Her favorite student got a perfect score, the actual owner of the mannequin got average and the one Moroccan student got a failing grade. When we revealed to her what we did, she said that the doll got worn out after getting passed around and that's why the score got lower. She graded us in alphabetical order. Her favorite kid was the last one to get graded while the Moroccan kid was 4th.
You can say that she knew about it as she was grading us, but with the way she was reaching for explanations it was obvious she didn't.
I had an English teacher who hated me in 9th grade. I explained this to a friend who was her teachers pet and she said.
“Yeah she thinks you don’t care about school”
Which was fucking insane because I had straight A’s other than her class, and English is one of my stronger subjects because it was so easy. I remember I did really well on a test and she thought I cheated. She was a fat nasty hating bitch and I wish I remembered her name.
The true sore loser was the teacher. The op should send her Christmas card year with the same story written on it and 'it taught him there are sore losers in the world and they won't change... Better to accept your C and move on '
We were playing Pictonary in class grade 9 1997, it came up as T and one of the options was name a band. I wrote The Troggs and my teacher thought I made it up so no point. Fuming still lol
Seriously! 1997, assuming your teacher would have at least been born in the 60s or close to it. Surely they had heard of the troggs. Every fucking highschool band plays it.
I felt this on another level. You can’t beat crowd mentality, the only benefit of having this typa shit happen to you young is that you grow to be unbothered by what others think and only want self-validation.
However it can also make you into somebody desperate for others approval.
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