May 31, 2011 / Topic Ideas

Write about your least favorite school teacher

Topic #143:

Take revenge (or pity) on your least favorite school teacher – write about what you’d say to them now that you’re older and can talk to them as an adult.

 

 

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  2. My worst teacher of all time was a fifth grade math teacher. This guy was always drunk or hungover, and when he actually made it to school, we did nothing but watch the guy either sleep or do busy work. Because he had tenure, the school could not fire him. He was out of school more than he was in, and the substitutes we had could only give us review work. Because of this guy, I am for getting rid of tenure for teachers. There are so many new teachers out there that do a great job and because of the stupid tenure rule, they will be the first to go when cutbacks are necessary.

    I believe that a teacher should be judged on their merit and not the fact they have the right amount of years in. A lot of the tenure teachers aren’t worth having.

    My favorite teachers were the tough ones that most of kids didn’t like. That’s because they made them work. But you learned from those teachers.

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  7. Até os dias de hoje, Eu não tenho que reclamar de meus Professores
    todos eles ,eu gosto de todos, os velhos, e meus professores atuais,
    tenho tido por eles, compreensão e bons ensinamentos . Eu jamais
    os esquecerei .

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  8. The one that comes to mind was a teacher in fourth grade. Ms. Brown? Ms. B-something. I believe she may have been new too. She targeted me. I never got 100 in her class. My papers always had correct answers but she’d make a little red circle over a cursive line that continued a little too long and then take a few points off it. So I always walked away with 96 or 97 points. Never 100.

    For some reason, in her class, she used this Green/Yellow/Red/Black flashcard system. If you did something, she’d tell you to go up to this big board and flip the card over to Yellow. If you refuse, she’ll turn it to Red. Black meant a visit to the principal.

    Now, this was used in first grade and second grade by a couple teachers. I’ve always had all green. I never did anything to go to Yellow. It was a shock to walk into class in 4th grade and see this system up in her class. It felt like a ‘childish’ thing but I didn’t think twice about it. Somehow I kept getting yellows in her class. She’d pick me out for doing random stuff and I’d get yellows. There were a couple times when I received Red and had to miss out on a couple weeks of recess.

    It was just so mind-boggling because I was such a goody two shoes. I never interrupted the class or talked back or… I really can’t figure out what it is that I did that made me get targeted.

    As an adult, I probably wouldn’t talk to her. If forced to, I wouldn’t know what to tell her. If she’s still pulling acts like this on other kids, I’d tell her to grow up and stop being stupid. If this was something she did because she was new and didn’t know better – and then outgrew it, I’d tell her… nothing, I suppose… because she learned it on her own.

    I wouldn’t mind an apology though.

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  9. I had a teacher once who used to literally bang his head against the chalk board when we frustrated him (loudly). He often called us “fools,” and he occasionally would come to class, read a newspaper, and never say a single word to us for the entire classroom period. Good times.

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  10. I WAS a teacher of Art – in Secondary School in Northern Ireland – or thought I was, until a youg lady age 11 loomed over my desk and said, mediatatively, ” You’re not like a REAL teacher, are you?
    Perhaps I wasn’t. p[erhaps I was topo rlaxed and informal, borne out by the toung fella of a dimilar age, wholsaid to me as I led them out of the quadrangle to class, “What are we doin’ today Mickey?”
    I liked the pupils, but did not like the job of stuffing information into their tiny little minds. Not what education should be. The word ‘education’ comes from the Latin ‘educare’, ‘to lead out’. That’s what education should be – and often is not ….Pity ……

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  11. I loved or at least liked most of my teachers, except one in college and one in grad school. The college professor was supposed to be introducing us to Elementary Education; instead, he told war stories during class. The grad school professor teaching Marketing Management hadn’t changed his notes/business examples in 20 years.

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  12. I had chemistry teacher that, for some reason, hated me.
    I had private lessons at home so I get better at this subject, my private teacher told me I know for high grade, but this school teacher told me I don’t deserve even low grade. I had for 2 years water in knee, she told me in face, in front of whole class, that I deserve water in knee. She told me more stuff like that, but this was most awful. And I was still nice with here, because I didn’t want her to hares me. I really did know chemistry for at least B, but she gave me D.
    that was 11 years ago. I have no idea what would I say to her now, I probably wouldn’t even recognize her on street.

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  13. If I had the opportunity to see any of my teachers I’d give ’em a big hub & say thank you for what you tried to do for me & what you do for all of your students!

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  14. Não lembro já tem muito tempo, desculpe em não poder responder.
    Mas o meu maior professor é a vida, pois só ela é que nos ensina o que precisamos e o que devemos fazer!
    Abraços Mina!

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  15. I spent my elementary years in public school and no certain teacher stands out to me from those years. Then I went to a Private Catholic Jr/Sr high school and the 1 teacher that stood out the most was my math teacher Mr. T we will call him for the record. He had the most monotone boring voice that made you want to fall asleep and then he had a bald head and it was so shiney I swear the reflection from the sun would bounce off his head and blind me in class! He was always so serious and never ever smiled. I spent 4 years in his math class and I still dont “get” math like I should.

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