Worst highschool teacher you ever had

[TheStatutoryApe]

One of those years, she was even more dead than usual and we had a substitute for over a month. The subsitute was pretty much clueless. On one of our tests, I had to write an essay about one of the short stories we should have read... except that story sounded like a chick story, so I didn't read it. I had to write my entire essay from true/false questions and multiple choice questions. I got a C on it... plus some of the strangest comments I ever read on one of my papers. Our substitute was positive I had read and understood the story, but who the heck was xxxxxxx? Geez, didn't she even read her own true/false questions? Probably a good thing she didn't. If she had realized I hadn't even read the story, she probably would have flunked me just on general principle.

I had an english teacher that would have us read kids stuff. When she told us that we were going to be reading a story by Edgar Allen Poe I was excited enough to go home and read it out of my own collection at home. When I went in the next day she handed out a children's weekly reader that contained a version of the story made into a play. I felt like burning it there in class.
Once she had us read a book based on a made for television movie (yes you read that right) and then asked us to choose a scene and write an analysis of it. I wondered what the hell we were supposed to analyze since the writing was so simple and straight forward (not to mention really terrible). I decided to have fun by making a psuedo-Freudian interpretation of a scene about the "cool kids" smoking cigarettes and pot at school in which I likened it to an orgy. I got an A though she made a worried sort of face when she handed it back to me.

 

[Ghost803]

High School U.S History teacher. The only reason he was teaching was because he was a coach. He listened to Rush Limbaugh or something and would bring all of that into class. Instead of teaching history, he'd start on rants about Clinton. At first he just did this maybe 8-10 mins of class. But after the first month, I had enough and embarrassed him in front of the class. Which wasn't that hard, since he didn't know a lick of American history. In return he told me that there was something wrong with me, and that someone my age shouldn't know so much politics/history. And of course his tirades got longer after that, trying to needle me. Apparently he did this to other kids too, cause he yelled out during class that there was this "CRAZY" hippie chick in his earlier class that I should hook up with and that us "loons" would get along. He did this after I embarrassed him again.

His name was Joey Ray, lol.

 

[Galteeth]

My fourth grade english teacher was a crack addict. She would go into the bathroom multiple times during class (we only had two teachers in fourth grade) to "freshen up her lipstick" She would give these weird convoluted assignments, then change them without telling anyone, and pick her favorites who she decided had chosen the correct ones to do (who of course, soon realized they didn't have to dop anything). She didn't like me, because I called her out on a claim she made (it was some argument about how to spell a word, I think it was the use of their versus there) anyway, we argued about it for the whole class, and it got really personal, her arguing that I thought I knew everything, and i wasn't always right, and i wasn't as smart as everybody told me I was, etc. Problem for her was, I was right. And I told my parents about it, and they got pissed, because they of course realized I was right, and so she got in trouble for it (not so much for being wrong, but for making such a big deal out of something so basic that she was wrong about). Boy did she hate me after that! Whenever we read stories, we had to write a reflective paper on the story (which was fine), a "reflective" paper on that paper (ok, whatever) a reflective paper on that reflective paper which reflected on the original (uh..) and then another reflective paper on the entire process, as well as an additional reflective paper on that paper. She eventually extended this process to include basic homework (such as grammar questions, i fondly recall writing about the minute details of the table on which i would do my grammar homework.) After the first semester, though she intially asked for all the reflective papers to be stored in a portfolio (which you periodiocally had to reflect on) she changed it to your five best reflective papers (I believe due to complaints from parents).

She was caught a few years later with crack in her lipstick, and the student counselor was fired as an accomplice.

High School U.S History teacher. The only reason he was teaching was because he was a coach. He listened to Rush Limbaugh or something and would bring all of that into class. Instead of teaching history, he'd start on rants about Clinton. At first he just did this maybe 8-10 mins of class. But after the first month, I had enough and embarrassed him in front of the class. Which wasn't that hard, since he didn't know a lick of American history. In return he told me that there was something wrong with me, and that someone my age shouldn't know so much politics/history. And of course his tirades got longer after that, trying to needle me. Apparently he did this to other kids too, cause he yelled out during class that there was this "CRAZY" hippie chick in his earlier class that I should hook up with and that us "loons" would get along. He did this after I embarrassed him again.

His name was Joey Ray, lol.

Did you? Man, that seems like a great way to meet somebody!