7th grade - we had a teacher who used to tell us, "Smile! It's good for you!" and yell, "Walking feet are happy feet!!" if we ran in the hallways. Then she used to keep us in from recess if we talked while getting our jackets. She was a child psychologist. She ruined my sister's math career by never teaching math (I had her for history, so it was no big deal).
8th grade - we had this one teacher who taught social studies and reading, but never actually taught. I sat in the back of the classroom drawing and passing notes with my friend, or doing my homework. My other friend sat closer up, so she would read her books. The teacher would say, "Amanda, I know that you're listening, but if other people came in and saw you reading, they wouldn't think so." So she'd put her book away, and the minute the teacher turned around, she'd bring it back out. We also made this teacher cry by pronouncing the name of the town she lived in incorrectly on purpose.
Then there was our religion teacher. Total flake. Nobody liked her. Again, I drew and didn't pay attention.
9th grade - my science teacher sounds alot like yours, madpuffinkeeper, except we didn't do any of those experiments. And he used to tell us that we should behave because if we had the honors bio teacher next year, we'd be in so much trouble, etc.
My gym teacher was old and told us we were supposed to play volleyball by hitting the ball with the inside of our lower arms. We all nearly died from pain. And I got run over by a huge senior.
11th grade - this year SUCKED.
My history teacher was old and used to talk about his childhood in NY and about how he was a recovering alcoholic and about his old students. We never actually learned history.
My chem teacher was the worst. I remember doing an experiment where we needed to heat stuff overnight, but the stupid wench screwed it up, so it was really dry and chemically in my corner, and then she yelled at us for coughing! We did not learn anything at all in this class; I used to do homework with my neighbor (weird tables, not desks) and it was pathetically easy to cheat on her tests. Oh yeah, and the other chem class threw 48 paper airplanes out of the windows, and she did not notice a thing. The next couple of days (it was the end of school) she wouldn't let us open the windows, even though we were boiling (it's hot on the top floor).
Oh my God. My French teacher is from France. I've had her since freshman year. It's like being in French I for three years. She's insane. Like, she's funny to listen to, but you don't actually learn anything.
My English teacher almost beat the chem one in suckingness. She gave us a "study guide" to do for Grapes of Wrath. I didn't do it (my friend said it took her 8 hour to do, excluding the reading of the book). Then the wench changed the "study guide's" worth to 3 grades instead of 1, after she graded them since so many kids didn't do it. In the end, my parents had to drag it to the principal's, and we got it fixed, but my mom made me do the studyguide. It took me 12 hours. She read the book while I BSed the answers. What a waste of time. Oh yeah, I used sparknotes for practically every book and I did better than those kids who read the books.
So yeah, those were my awful teachers. >__<
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