My Worst Teacher [storytime]
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2024
- I've been reconnecting with my high school hobbies and I was thinking about one of the worst teachers I've ever had. He really shouldn't have been allowed to influence a room full of young people.
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This is taking be back to OG echo days, the nostalgia
Yea that sounds like small town American public school
This is giving OG echo 11 year old me is SCREAMING RN
MOOOOOOD!!!!
Ugghhh, I hate when high schools hire teachers who aren't teachers. For Christ's sake, it sounded like he didn't even have a degree.
Also for my first year of french, they didn't teach french. They made us do an English project on Francophone countries primarily in Africa for the purpose of seeing if we even wanted to learn french. It was ridiculous. This was in middle school and I'm in Junior year. Our school was kinda big, maybe a thousand people before quarantine but the high school's are bigger. Maybe they put more money into the high schools since their the ones with specialty programs, votech, etc.
is this in the US?? as an australian this seems like a north american thing lol
@memeju1ce it is lol
Also depending on the state like mine, you don't need a specialized teaching degree if you have a general educations degree for pre-highschool. It's terrible because they teach the wrong crap in middle school that the highschool teachers need to correct.
Oh Echo. I didn’t understand how bad what he was doing was at the time and actively encouraged his story telling to avoid learning. I remember he gave me the Spanish award at the end of the year and I didn’t understand why because I had learned no Spanish in his class. Now I’m back in a college Spanish class actually trying to learn and I’m so glad I have a much better teacher who is a native speaker. Our whole high school experience I look back and cringe because of how Mormon centric everything was. 🙃 Glad I was able to move away and change the way I viewed the world.
OH HEY Glad you were able to get out too! That whole town was a WILD place for a kid to grow up
If the teacher himself is giving you the answers to the quiz, that shouldn't count as cheating. Usually teachers go against cheating and encourage you to study. But if he's giving you the answers directly like a set of cheatcodes, thats on him, not the students.
Omg Echo! This is almost exactly like how my Spanish class was! I was the only one who wanted to learn so he made ME grade his tests. I told our middle school Spanish Teacher and she went to the principal and got him in trouble multiple times and then resulted me into TA'ing for middle school Spanish instead
My senior year cooking teacher was HORRIBLE
She'd just scold and yell at us the entire class about not doing good enough, and take up all the time we have for cooking, and then GET MAD we don't finish cooking!!!
When my boys were in school, things were horrid. They're currently 28 and 32. Even though they're was a zero tolerance for bullying, teachers, coaches, and administration bullied more than any student. The amount of bad teachers in schools these days are incredibly high. They make it really hard for the good teachers to keep students from giving up. My oldest refused to take part in any prom, dances, games, and even refused to go to his own graduation. It took the school months to get him his diploma. My youngest was able to get into the alternate high school his junior year as his grandfather had recently passed. Instead of graduating a year behind the rest of his friends, because several teachers would throw away his work without even looking at it, he graduated over a year earlier than his friends. The few times I tried to have meetings with staff, it ended with me leaving more angry than when I got there. Constant gaslighting, belittling, and downright lieing. I feel bad for my grandchildren and thankful I don't have to deal with America's education system anymore.
I went to a public school in Australia, and I had this art teacher who was similar, she would just tell us stories of her husband and her dog every day, the difference was that she was "on the board" (I never even knew what the hecc that meant) and so she could tell us that our art was bad, not elaborate, and continue talking about her life. She played favourites, only helping the popular kids out, I was lucky that the popular kids were not terrible people and mostly kept to themselves and their friend groups, one was actually a really kind person and very talented, but the teacher spent most of our classes giving her ideas and almost doing her work for her, which I think bothered the girl a little.
Anyway, I told my mum all my frustrations and how I was struggling because she only wanted us to use acrylic paints as a medium and that wasn't my preferred type of art, and mum asked if I wanted to take this up to a higher level to try fix it. I took it to the principal (who was an almost non-existent entity in the school because I'd never met this person in my two and a half years of going there) and within a week this art teacher was just fully ignoring me and failing me (I was also dealing with a death of a friend at this time and not doing well mentally)
I had never skipped a class in my life, but in year 12 (final year of school) I had a bunch of friends who asked if I wanted to just hang out in the senior tuck shop (or cafeteria, or foodary, whatever you guys call it where you're from) and I contemplated it for a bit, having never voluntarily skipping a class in all my school years, but the thought of going to that art class actually sent me into a panic attack and my friends made me skip it for the sake of my mental health.
I think the most frustrating thing was that when we were allowed to choose our preferred medium that year, and I chose clay, this woman actually said "wow, this is what you were capable of? This is what it looks like if you put in effort, why haven't you done this the whole time?" and I had to hold my mental breakdown back because I swear I almost started friggin swinging on the bitch.
While I was in high school one of the English teachers was fired upon the retiring of the principal. I never had him personally but my friends who did didn't like him. We all found out that he was fired because he was never actually a licensed teacher. He lied about all the degrees he held and the principal who had retired knew the whole time. He taught at that school for 7 years
My high school was known as a "languages" school, known for offering many foreign language courses - so most students there were more inclined towards the human sciences. In that country all students are required to pass a standardized math test at the end of their education, regardless of whatever other subjects they chose to focus on. If they fail that final, they cannot go to uni or to get any decent job, so it's a big deal to do well enough in that test to pass it.
Our maths teacher SUCKED. He downright refused to teach us a subject that is scary and difficult enough with a guidance. We would read the text book and then he would call us to the front of the class one by one, mocking us relentlessly if we did something wrong, misunderstood something or even wrote the digit unevenly... he kept repeating that graduating high school is not mandatory.
Our parents complained and we managed to get a different teacher for our final year of high school, but the damage has been done - there have been several students who needed to retake the final test the following year. I passed it mainly because my parents could afford to get me private tutoring.
Doesn't really matter now(students who had to retake the test are happy and have good jobs), but my blood still boils whenever I think about it.
I had the Canadian version of this lmfao, I had a French teacher for two years of high school, who was so bad that he was forced to retired for pushing a student against a wall and screaming at them in front of their entire class, he would also talk about his dead mother a lot and if any of the equipment or technology in the room wasn’t working, he’d blame it on her, he’d also act very inappropriately towards the female French teachers (and female teachers in general), making gross comments or faces and jokes, so all in all, I don’t miss him lmfao, (I don’t think he’s dead, but he did move a couple provinces away after he “retired”
Wow, suddenly I'm glad my worst teachers were the one who yelled at me instead of answering my questions, and the one who called me "a waste of classroom space" and sent me to the library every day of that semester. I'm so sorry you had to go through thst shit!
I went through high school in the late 70's/early 80's and it was exactly as you're describing your education! My guess would be it's still the same way today. Things don't really change that much when it comes to humans.
I didn’t even go to a religious school and I had bad teachers. It was a small town though. I also knew my entire class. Thankfully, most of my teachers were chill. But it was my art teachers who were terrible.(which sucks, being an artist)
To make it brief and not too upsetting: but tw’s for those reading. (Abuse in various forms)
One of them used he religion as an excuse to bully students
The other not only married one of his former students (who he started dating as a student) but would regularly try to gr**m me which I hadn’t processed until after I graduated college.
My friends (who were a couple years younger) wrote a letter to report these two. They were dismissed and the teachers would then redicule them.
I had an art teacher for 3 years that didn't know how to draw and just taught us 30 minutes of art history and "color theory" and then gave us 15 minutes to draw something and never allowed to bring something home. She was quickly replaced by an actual art teacher. Also would not accept any drawing that didn't have a sketch for it in your notebook.
My physics teacher in high school was a retired (fired?) government geologist. He gave us our assignments at the beginning of class, then spent the entire class in the attached lab. The only interaction with us was occasionally barking through the doorway to keep the noise down. All of us were gifted program kids. Even the smartest kids were getting 50s on tests and quizzes. We felt like garbage.
He curved the grades at the end of each quarter so none of us failed. But we didn't learn anything. And for people with shakey confidence in their math and science skills, it certainly didn't help. My mum finally had a conference with him and asked if he thought I was learning anything. He shrugged and said nobody is going to fail and everybody is learning what they can.
For about 2 years of high school, I went to a private Baptist christian school, and some of the worst, most hypocritical teachers taught there.
They had a statistics/bible teacher who went on a massive anti-gay rant that amounted to 'any queers in the audience? Put them against the wall', or basically asking teenagers to out themselves.
My 9th grade Girls' PE teacher (the boys' basketball coach) was clearly sexually interested in the girls he taught, staring at our asses, rubbing some of my classmates on the shoulders, and whispered 'yeah, lower' once, when asking a girl to demonstrate how to pitch in flag football. He wasn't reprimanded at all for this, since he was a coach, and friends with the principal and head pastor.
The 9th Grade English teacher was fired for having an affair with the geography teacher. Both were married (iirc, both of their spouses also worked at the school) and the geography teacher also had a kid on the way.
I was part of the 98% of the school that was white, and wasn't singled out as much. But, if you were latino or black, you'd be treated as the problem child, especially if a teacher didn't like you.
Yeah, schools haven't changed much. My family moved around a bit during my childhood, and every school I attended had neglectful staff and, rarely, a good teacher or two.
They've given me my own list of bad memories:
I lost my ambidextrousness in kindergarten because teachers forced me to write right-handed; I've been suspended multiple times because of things I never said or did; my brother *got punched in the face on school grounds* and was suspended for three days longer than his assailant; and my whole Spanish class was shouted at for something that only I didn't understand, because the teacher had a "sink or swim" style of teaching.
I graduated in 2019, and I didn't know the diploma case they handed me during the ceremony was empty until I went home with it. When my angry mom called the school about it, the staff revealed they were holding onto everyone's diplomas for the entire duration of the last day's ceremony to discourage people from leaving early.
Schools are still bad.
Nothing to add about bad teachers, but I felt that frustrated hand clench in my soul
I graduated from Baltimore City College HS while it was still a 'Blue Ribbon School of Excellence", and while most of the teachers were great...there was Mr. Henderson. An elderly man who taught at Morgan State University but also somehow at my school? And he was the opposite of your teacher, Echo. He was impossible to pass. He was an advanced math teacher who treated us like college students, and his "points" system was impossible to achieve unless you already knew the material. I have dyscalculia and my handwriting, while legible, isn't great. I failed his class junior year and had to take Saturday School, where I passed with a 'B'! My guidance counselor, a truly incompetant woman, decided that despite that history, I should have him second-semester my senior year. On the days I bothered showing up to his class, I simply slept instead.
When I was in third grade I hated reading. I was very slow and ignorant to reading. And my teacher locked me in her classroom during every recess and lunch. To make me read the magic treehouse books... while everyone else was playing on the playground on the other side of the window
The worst teacher moments I have happened in kindergarten and in high school
Kindergarten story: So because of the fact I have learning disabilities I would have to leave my Spanish class and go get help with school work one day the lady who helped me wasn't there so I had to go to Spanish got a question wrong and the Spanish teacher proceeded to rinse me in front of the entire class for being half Cuban but not knowing any Spanish
High school story: My math teacher accused me of cheating and proceeded to berate me until I broke down sobbing and then when my parents found out he took me into a separate room and kept on asking me if I was better than everyone and therefore shouldn't be failed for the test
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Hey Echo, just wanted to say I think its awesome that you sent letters and went to your school board urging them to update their non discrimination policy. As a senior at the time you could've easily not worried about it as you'd be out of there soon, but you did it not only for your sister but for the generations of students coming after you. ⭐
i had a health teacher that, he wouldn't do it all the time but he did it sometimes and would say to someone while we where supposed to be in our silent reading time "Stephen, do you know/remember Whatshisnuts Mcwhatshispickle?"
"Oh yeah, no i know him!"
"Do you know how he's doing? Y'know, I taught him-." and would just go off for at least a majority of the period.
This same teacher also taught me health and math at some point and in health he showed us "Supersize Me". We didnt get to finish the movie because at the beginning of every class he would put it back a half hour or so, play five minutes, pause and then repeat a majority of the speal he told us the day before. it was like "okay, you told us this, we know, PLAY THE MOVIE so we can actually learn from HIM and not you, please? thanks."
As someone who grew up in a smaller city rather than a small town, the teachers in my schools were equally shitty, tbh.
I think the absolute worst teacher I ever had was absolutely insane, racist towards POCs (despite being a POC herself), and the type of person who'd go on about conspiracy theories. No joke, she tried to get us to watch Black Mirror as educational material, because she claimed all of it was real. One of the worst things this teacher ever did was force a girl to have her period in the class in front of everyone just because she never let students use the restroom during class hours.
I as well had a bad Spanish Teacher, and when I took her class it almost screwed me over. In order to graduate you had to have a sequence in a language, which meant three years of it. Any language you did in middle school counted towards the sequence. I had by the time I was in her class done two years in middle school and a year in high school of Spanish, and thus already had my sequence, but my guidance counseler/advisor claimed that I still needed one more year, only to halfway through the year ask me why I was taking a fourth year of Spanish that I didn't need to. This Spanish teacher was the only one who was teaching that level of Spanish, and it was her last year before she could retire, so she didn't care what complaints students or parents may have. I'm not kidding, she said that during the open house night at the beginning of the year.
If you did your homework and filled out every answer in perfect Spanish , but left one blank because you did not know the word that you needed, she would give you a zero for the homework. You could not make up that zero. She'd then spend the class picking you for every question because "Clearly you felt like you knew so much that you didn't have to answer". Yet if you had written complete gibberish, like random letters and numbers, you would get a 100 on the homework. She never kept the homework, just looked to see if you had filled out all the blanks with something, so people would just write words in it in pencil, then erase and fill in with the answers when she went over it in class. I could not bring myself to do this.
I was having problems understanding the preterite tense versus present perfect versus imperfect. In my mind there is no need for three different past tenses, and it kept me really frozen in place. Thus a lot of the zeros I had for homework. My mom didn't get it either because she had never taken Spanish, so she at that open house asked the teacher if she would mind explaining it to her so she could help me, and in front of the other students parents, and some of the students the Spanish Teacher went "Ooooh yes, your child really has problems in class." but after humiliating me never bothered to answer my mom's question.
haha I had a middle school teacher who gave us answers like that. on the “practice” tests I would just only look at the correct answers so on the real test I’d only recognize the correct answer. I had that class when I was first learning how to draw so I spent the whole time doodling, good times.
Thinking of bad teachers, my high school Algebra I teacher is who I go to. He was an old man, and very overweight, and I had his class directly after lunch. He'd waddle up to the door a bit of time after the bell and let us in and, as we got into our seats, he'd write the night's homework assignment on the board, and then sit down at his desk and fall asleep. But luckily, I actually didn't see him much. See, when he wasn't falling asleep due to having just ate and having to travel a good distance, he was known to have all the pretty girls in his classes sit up front, and we students knew what was going on. So when, not far into the first quarter, he suddenly was on leave, and we had a substitute teacher for the majority of the rest of the year (he only came back in the fourth quarter), nobody was surprised, and the word was because of a sexual harassment complaint against him. I will never know the specifics, but it was at least close to being true, and the year after I had him was his last year, as he was forced into retirement. Should have happened much sooner (heck, he was a teacher when my mom went to the school, so who knows how long this sort of thing had been going on).
😂 I love the ethically sourced racoon toes, they are beautiful. Awesome points always make me happy
wow! it's been a LOOOOONG time since an echo story time and I LOVE!!! it
Wow this is WILD. How did this teach keep a job? Just how. Now i wanna go look at my old high school handbook calender things.
I'm like 85% sure it's because he was a member of the local church;
and so was the principal
and the vice principal
and the school board members
and most of the teachers
and most of the town
and you get the idea....
I had a Spanish class with even more rampant cheating than that. Our teacher told us on day 1 that whatever you got on the first test, as far as she was concerned, that was your grade and you needed to prove otherwise. I am overall a very good student, but terrible at Spanish. Fortunately... she was also 8 months pregnant and was only there for a few weeks.
Then we got a year long sub who could not possibly have cared less about that class. Each day, she gave us a worksheet for homework. The next day, we would go through the answers during class before turing it in. Everyone just did their homework in class as she gave is the answers.
The desks were arranged in 2 rows that formed concentric semicircles. For the oral exams, there was one person who actually was good at Spanish on the end of each row (1 native speaker and 1 very smart kid). The person next to them would copy their answers, then the next person would copy theirs and so on around the room. At the end of the year, even though I'm pretty sure all of is got just about every answer correct the whole year, we all got a B+. Highest grade I ever got in Spanish.
But that wasn't even the worst thing. Each day, during class, when the teacher turned her bac, one kid would stand on his chair and wind the clock forward. This was EXTREMELY obvious right in the middle of the room (as was the cheating). There is no way she didn't know. Classes were getting as short as like 20 minutes. We were finally caught when another teacher noticed the clock. They gave all the boys in the class a detention... except me because I happened to have been absent the day they arbitrarily punished half the class.
Your Spanish experience sounds kind of like my gov-econ experience. Government and economics was taught in senior year (so this was 2018-19), and my teacher was this old man who would never let us kids forget that he was old and therefore knew everything better than we did. He would go on these absurd tangents and rants, yet would also complain about us not taking notes. There are lines somewhere in my notebook for that class about how I refuse to take notes on a directionless rant. I wrote those down out of spite. I think the content he actually taught us about gov or econ that I didn’t already know would constitute about a week and a half in a class with a competent teacher. I’m also autistic and was undiagnosed back then, and I think it says something that most of the public meltdowns I had at school took place in that old fart’s class.
Hey, my class had 700+ graduates and I’ll tell you that teachers like that still very much exist. My math teacher barely taught and gave us copies of tests to study.
Yeah that's what my high school economics teacher did. He told unrelated stories (less inappropriate for kids but still weird) and then did slide shows on the answers to the test. I only had to deal with him for a semester and the curriculum was completely useless so I just did other things while he spoke.
One time I actively decided not to look at him while he told the stories/ went over the slide show and he started yelling at us! Like because I WASN'T putting up with him that day it gave him the excuse to yell at the other 30 people who were sleeping or whatever. Why he chose that moment I'll never know, but the kids sat up for that one class and the next class it was back to normal, but now I had this pressure to keep him happy. Idk it felt wrong but no one wanted to deal with it and I had other things in my life to worry about.
my geography and then sociology teacher was one of the ancient story telling types. he traveled A LOT, and i think he might have been military.? that’s how he “taught” by random stories of his life. until he got in some kind of trouble. taught properly for a couple weeks, then started putting on movies for us. it took us weeks to get through ‘supersize me’ because he’d leave the room and someone would rewind the movie and he wouldn’t notice. he eventually noticed a few movies in and decided we were scamming him (hey i wasn’t part of it??) and started teaching properly again. until he went on a cruise and he apparently had a whole story about a nose injury. and then the kids started asking him about the war or whatever and it was back to that bullshit. he rarely taught us any material from the book, didn’t grade homework, often miscounted roll call, and somehow i passed both end of year exams and both classes. sometimes he’d even bring his guitar in and would play it and sing to us for an hour! geography and sociology!
In middle school i had a science/math teacher that taught us punnet squares and graph axes using her abusive ex husband as an example. The lazy X husband laid on the ground while the whineY kids were up and complaining. When her husband (the dominant gene) was home, our teacher (the receive gene) would hide away and not be seen, but when the husband was gone, she would be free to go about as she pleased and be visible. I think about this so regularly lmao
This, and the conspiracy-theorist story, has to be some of the wildest stuff I've heard teachers do. What makes them think this behavior is okay?
Im in my thirties now, most people didn't understand these topics and therefore turned a blind eye, but I experienced a LOT of this in the 90's and 2000's, whether it was trying to dye my hair, wear anything other than a tshirt and long skirt/pants as a female, or having shitty teachers who clearly aren't teaching because they enjoy it or have a passion. I've helped get 'art teachers' fired for giving students impossible to achieve projects and then criticizing them harshly without any consent when they didn't mimic classical impressionism perfectly... in middle school art class. Or my ex homeroom teacher, the literal pedophile who would look down my shirt because I was going up a cup-size every grade as my body changed, and teenagers with DD's were his type. This was in the CAPITOL city of my state. I shudder to think how bad it could have been in podunk mormon nowhere. *throws up a little*
This was my science class…freaking science! Except that he started everyday trying to teach then would get side tract so because his lesson plans said he went over that with us he would test us on the topics still. Which meant required to learn from the book to pass and SOL for those that couldnt learn that way and had to cheat to pass a required class
reminds me of the sub we had in chemistry who became our actual chemistry teacher after our original chem teacher got fired for drinking in class/drunk driving, the entire class would purposefully get him to go off on long unrelated tangents so they didn't have to learn and i ended up getting a c in chemistry because I wasn't actually learning shit. both of them had...really rancid opinions and would state them in class.
Love an echo video always
God this is giving og echo storytimes. Good times. Nice to see you posting!
Love your work Echo. So glad you're still here.
Loved this video! I always love your story times ❤
im so glad that your posting again ive missed your videos! also congrats on your wedding im so happy for you!
This was wonderful!! Thank you so much for sharing! I was watching your videos while experiencing stuff like this at my high school, and getting to listen to you always felt like such a privilege, not to mention a comfort. If you feel like doing story times like this in the future, and they're relatively easier for you to produce, they would be such a lovely edition- no pressure of course!! Just wanted to express the joy you bring
This is such a nostalgic video format for you omgggg. Also, do you still know any Spanish?
Nostalgia style youtube for real girl lol appreciate the hell out of it.
I had a really bad high-school English teacher one year. In class, we did wordfinds. Every f*cking class! Just... wordfinds. At the end of the class, we'd all hand them in and they'd go in the 'Chocky Draw', where we could win a chocolate bar of some kind -- or should I say, the popular kids would win. Sometimes, they didn't even need to finish their wordfinds; they just won. I entered every single time and did not win. (I was the disabled freak everyone else bullied.) At the end of the term, I pointed this out to the teacher and he seemed really apologetic and offered me a chocolate. That was one of the only times in my life that I ever turned down chocolate, but I feel like I won a moral victory that day.
On the flipside of that, for the English paper I've just finished in uni, I had one of the best professors. He possibly overloaded us with content, but he was a lot of fun. He even gave each and every one of us a paper muffin-cup-thing filled with M&Ms to get us through our test on Monday, which was adorable. I will miss him.
I missed those types of videos
ahh you came into a place i was working at like a year and half ago and i alway regret that i didn’t say hello!!
I had a very similar experience experience with Spanish, not the teacher but my upbringing and views on it. It sucks. Thank you for sharing.
I don't know how big my graduating class was, however I can say my total school population was just over 2000 students in a school built for 1400.
We still had awful teachers. My high school psychology teacher tried convincing me that all pain is good, and that being asexual is not a thing. Note that I'm a grey asexual trans masc (at the time, ace agender, changed recently).
"small town school" ~proceeds to list number of students in an average european highschool~
Honestly with the given state of america's education system and the overall shortage of long term teachers, faculty like Echo's teacher are EXTREMELLLLLLY common.
As a graduating senior this year, i think there's not so much of the socially problematic behavior described in the video but the lack of actual educational content being consistently covered in class hurting students across the nation. More and more teachers are being overworked and underpaid for being (in my opinion) full time educators AND stand-in parents, and to be honest, you can see the burnout being reflected in the kids' attitudes toward learning.
Passing students just to past them is already hurting the younger grades -- I can only imagine what we'll say about our students right now in the future when looking at larger related events like the covid-19 pandemic, virtual/hybrid learning, and the role of technology in the classroom...
Sorry for rambling and i love this video 😀
I went to a very small school, and our US History teacher did nothing but rant during class, primarily about how he wasn't getting those fat checks the 'natives' were getting because he was only 1/32nd (???????????? I heard this rant repeatedly. I don't know what fat checks he's imagining) Native American inter spaced with anecdotes about the military doing questionably stupid and or dangerous things that probably should not have been said in front of a bunch of preteens. I learned ZERO PERCENT American History that year and instead learned to wear ear buds with my hoodie up so I didn't have to hear him. I'd just make sure my book was open and in front of me and read the novel in my lap. He gave zero fucks about whether or not we were actually listening to him, he let us collaborate on tests, and for all of the written 'essays' I wrote short stories (sci fi, fantasy, and some romance) the entire year and he never caught on, just gave me As on all of them for... volume of words I guess? HORRID. ABSOLUTELY HORRID.
If you think that was bad then wait until you hear about my school! One class, Earth Science, the teacher had this awful policy from the beginning that he would only give us 5-10 minutes to do an assignment then after that if you weren’t done you had to take it as homework, there was no slowing down for others or working ahead and I was lucky my brain was smart to finish with seconds each day each assignment because there was no way I’m going to have homework, which made me not like Science in my last year of high school and I loved Science! Another was Psychology, loved the class but hated the teacher, one time someone was being mean to me, used a pencil to defend myself, he told and I almost got in trouble, that moment made me hate him, another one was Computer Programming, I thought I was going to like the class but the problems were me and the other students didn’t understand anything the teacher thought us and I’m like well he was a decent math teacher but this is where I realized no I don’t like Computer Programming and after nine weeks I wanted to switch to another class but they were all full so I had to withstand another nine months and was lucky to pass with like a C+ or something like that, didn’t care about getting As anymore during my last year of high school, I don’t think there was a teacher that I liked high school, even ones that were “respected” or “good” have said something I didn’t like or have made me mad and the only decent ones were the German teacher and the Computer Graphics teacher, the only good teacher I did like was actually a American Government student teacher, I liked him and on his last day of the class when he was going to leave, Pizza party even though it wasn’t allowed, snuck that in because the class was close to one of the door exits!
My Spanish teacher was fired because she did not have a teaching degree. Oh also while I was having a panic attack she put me in front of the class while all of the kids laughed at me. The day before this happened my friend took his own life and I had found him. So yeah that was fun lmao
Most of my yeachers have been good. Except for my kindergarten teacher who would yell at me if i cried. A lot of problems tho came with the speech therapy at my school. I was in it since i was 5 and i struggled a lot since none of them had been taught how to help children. I finally gratued from it in 6th grade when we got a new who had been taught i got everything done in that year since she knew how to help us learn
My favourite Spanish teacher was a flight attendant/ tour guide in Spain , she learned Spanish as a second language but she did Languages [edit because I repeated by accident, : ] as a degree ,, she told nice anecdotes mostly vaguely linked to the language/ or country ,, but was similarly very tangential and a crap teacher , she was year 8 so it didn't matter,,
63 people is crazy to me. my graduating class was 13
I agree that the story about the armpit hair was definitely inappropriate. Like, how would he feel if someone described a feature of his body and called it disgusting? I don't think that teachers should be barred from telling personal stories entirely, but commenting on people's bodies like that shouldn't be allowed.
With all the horrible teacher stories I've heard, I think that someone could make an interesting video on why the American public school system is terrible and there is no accountability. I have no personal experience with it, I was homeschooled.
my shitty racist history teacher had this amazing style of review where he would hand out the test and go over it answer by answer. He'd say, 'so for question one it cant be A, that doesn't make sense, cant be c or d either.' and then look at us. he did this for every question on every test
I've been out of school of 5 ish years but I had a couple trash teachers. I had one teacher who was just putting a bad situation. The sophomore history teacher quit and they didn't replace him so they had All of the other sophomore teachers teach one history class a day. He was an English teacher and very good at it from what I heard. But I was in AP in honors classes so I never actually had him for English. He did not care and I did not care. He would tell us to read a chapter of the book each day we would literally just sit and play PUBG all class. At one point he came up to me I'm asked why I was in his class and that I should be in the AP history class. But I told him I was already taking four other AP classes and didn't have time and he understood. Every Friday we would have a test and he let us bring a half page study guide. This wasnt super uncomfortable in my school. But he didn't make his own tests just used the ones from the text books so I downloaded a copy of the teacher's version of the text book and wrote the answers for my "study guide"
I think bigger school have worse teachers. My graduating class had about 2000 kids. Aka I went to a big school. Also from Arizona but from a very big city. I had a teacher once tell me to unalive myself and the school did nothing. As far as I know he’s still a teacher.
Yoooo this made my blood boil, I am so sorry you had to sit through those stories and political lectures and misogyny.
I went to a charter school and had a really tough spanish teacher. He ended up being fired because the parents hated him (cuz he wouldn't just pass their precious kids), but i was lucky enough to have him for 2 years.
You could tell he really cared about what he was teaching, and wanted us to come away from his class with spanish we could really use, and knowledge about countries that speak Spanish.
I wish he could have taught your Spanish classes too, Echo.
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I had a teacher in HIgh School who disliked that I corrected her early in the year (it was a Science class something I study and she was teaching incorrect information I care about people knowing accurate information!) so from then on she marked most of my correct answers wrong on tests was cruel to me and intentionally tried to fail me.
I went to the principle (vice principle actually) and showed them the first test where she marked my correct answers wrong and explained what was clearly happening. Rather than get her in any trouble or force her to do her job correctly they corrected the test. When it happened next time I started taking the tests alone in the office with the vice principle or an administrator who would then collect the test and mark it then submit my grade. I also took any other projects when unfairly and inaccurately marked as failures. Then they would regrade it and change my grade. I passed with an A+.
However how in the world was she allowed to get away with this?
I kept bringing the injustice up too and asking them to hold her accountable but as long as I could get my marks fixed they were disinclined to take any other actions it seemed. Or maybe they did and she literally just ignored them and this was the only work around they could figure out?
Not sure but that’s not all the horrific stories I have but one quick one I’ll share.
He sounds like he like em young since he didn't like body hair (you know, the not child thing to have). But that isn’t surprising when he was a mormon 😅
Crazy teachers show up anywhere. Even in way larger public schools.
(Aside from whatever status he had in town its also incredibly hard to fire a teacher especially a long standing one so that didnt help)
My worst is still a third grade teacher i had. The best part in highschool i learned that she had been passed around to so many diffrent schools and still was so bad she was capping the number of students that can switch classes within the same school so you'd need to switch schools. Thats not even the most of it with her. All learned this because an art teacher's kid was in her class.
Ive also had a pretty bad college one that i had to drop because in his 2nd level english class (so low that minors would fully be able to take) all of his corse i saw included (typically young & female) characters getting SA or R or he would take the most sexual angle possible. Like the one thing that had no angle on that said that the author was a sexual deviant. Like what idk need to know that even if i did why put it that way. Needless to say i emailed the dean. (This was an online class too couldnt imagine how aquard inperson would be)
In Germany ITS Not command as far as i now to have written down discrimination Things, WE also dont realy have counselors at least i never hat until university, ITS more comon to have a social worker BUT where i went from classes 5-13 our social worker was discriminating agains basically any Kind of Mantel illnes, (i worked in our First aid group, No nurse ether) i mean shaking autistic Kids Düring a meltdown, telling Personal information about a studient infront of there whole class. At one Point WE Had a girl aroud the age of 14 in the First aid room because she self harmed and got to a Point where she wanted to die, Letter for her parents preped and all. I remember coming in that room (i was 16 myself) with our social worker grabbing the arm of the girl in with she self harmed vilontly, screaming at her what a Piece of unthankful shit she was for even strugeling let alown wanting to die. There also was an other Student in the room ( around 13 If i remember correctly) from our First aid group banging His head at a wall, because he couldnt handle IT (He in that time wasnt allowed to do any mantel health related cases because of Family issues), but our social worker didnt allow him to leave the room. I was so upset and send her Out of the room. Neadles to say the girl didnt Said anything afterwords so i calles an Ambulanz... I brought this up to our Prinzipal and got kicked Out vor a week and sent to our social worker for "intense Training" ( baisical the worst punishment they Had) for the wohle week after, because i was "promoting disobidience and selfishness" in other students...
Sorry for the spelling, fighting against German outocorrection and my poor knowlige
if you’re wondering about policy stuff nowadays, at least in my old school, things got a lot better compared to the 2000s but then once Trump was elected and particularly once Covid hit, sooo much went to shit ((the president of the school board was even pictured on Capitol grounds on January 6th and she’s still a board member))
it’s starting to be built back up now though thankfully. and that’s all props to the students (including me for a time) and some wonderful parents and community members!!
^if you want to learn more about it look up Pennridge School District PA, there’s been a ton of articles
Bruh, my grad class was 11 people 😂😂😂 (But it was a rELiGiOuS pRiVAtE sCHoOL, of course)
This sounds so much like my private Christian school experience unfortunately. We had so many teachers who were not qualified to be teaching the subjects they were teaching. Ironically, my Spanish teacher was probably one of very few teachers who was qualified to teach her subject because she was an actual native Spanish speaker, unlike, for example, my personal finance teacher who was a pastor at a church and turned every class into a Bible study instead of teaching us about money (I'm still a Christian myself so not hating on teaching the Bible as a concept, but we literally had a separate dedicated class for that. This one was supposed to teach me how to not go broke lol). Most of the teachers I had weren't trained in the subjects they were teaching with the exception of maybe two or three and just did the best they could to teach based on the material they were given. It says a lot about the quality of our education that a large percentage of the staff was in someway related to the administrator and his wife. I guess it's hard to find good teachers when the school doesn't have enough money to pay good wages though. As for the environment, it was incredibly toxic for a lot of students. Rampant homophobia, transphobia, aggression toward other religions, etc. I had what I would consider a good experience there because I ended up in groups and clubs like theater that really helped me, but I still almost got expelled twice for being gay, something I was then also bullied relentlessly for over the following years. Overall, it was a disaster. It's really sad looking back and realizing how horrible the situation was, because at the time I felt like there were teachers and other people there who were genuinely advocating for me, but I can acknowledge now that it did not make up for all the crap I had to endure in the process. So yeah, unfortunately there are definitely still places like this. I think it would be harder in a public school environment, but in private school's like mine, it's the wild west.
Echo as a Spanish speaker got a b
My English teacher in 7th grade was the exact same except left wing, in 2016. Nary a day passed where she didn’t rant about trump for 80% of the class
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No, it’s much worse than when you went to school! Today I find it very difficult to find a person that can read and write. The systems have made it that students know more about leftist ideology than reading and writing. When I hire someone I get them to do a basic righting test and most just walk out because they have not pickup a pen since the second grade.
I'm stuck on the cat story... Poor baby... Also, sounds like sperm donor. The stories he tells...and laughs about. He's been scolded by ALL of my sis-in-laws & sister every visit for his stories. He will not stop... He was a pastor.
About tangents, they do still happen. But it is more like practical life lessons than political opinions. at the minimum they all try and get the lesson done before the hour is over and we actually learned something.
I remember my teacher got pissed that a ceiling tile fell and talked about asbestos in buildingings and how there isn't anything that can be done about it because renovations would be too expensive.
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Taking notes on what not to do for when i become a teacher📝🫡