I had a lot of fucked up teachers in high school (they say teachers are typically nice people, but they are people nonetheless and can be just as fucked up as anyone). First story: It was my English class in Sophomore year. It seemed every kid in that class was so immature that it was like a fucking zoo. If a stranger walked in and heard/saw some of the shit that went down in that class, they would legitimately believe it was a Special Education class. Anyway, there was this one Asian guy who was much bigger and stronger than me, though he was nonviolent and never bullied me. There were quite a few times that he would say really quickly “Teacher! Teacher! Teacher!” to get her attention. It wasn’t too loud, but it was still stupid as fuck. One day because I looked really nerdy in high school, he asked me to do his math worksheet for him. Now, I suppose most people in that situation would either refuse or purposely put in the wrong answers, but I wanted to be clever. So I wrote “Little Bitch” for the name. When he saw that, he said “Teacher! Look what he did to my math homework!” When she saw that, she gave me a fucking detention. I asked her after class why she did that, and she said “I was in that same situation too in HS. I would just put in the wrong answers.” Bitch. Story 2: This one took place Junior year in my Chem. class. There was this old ass man as a sub. for a couple of days. On the first day, nobody payed attention to him and I just listened to music on my CD player. On the second day, nobody paid attention to him again and I was just listening to music on my CD player. He got mad at me cause since I looked like a nerd, he wanted me to be a good student. I tried to ignore him, so he ripped the fucking headphones out of my ears and broke them. I didn’t want to get expelled, but when I consider all the shit that happened to me later in life, it would have been worth it to beat the shit out of him. One problem about a teenager fighting an old man is that someone would probably help the old man. Anyway, I went to the Principal, showed him my headphones, got a couple other kids to back me up, and got him in trouble. Story 3: Senior year English class. I went to a Mexican HS, though I’m white (which was ok cause I like Mexican girls the most). Near the beginning of the year, our teacher (who was sexy and young) had us read an article about white privilege. I was pissed. It was obvious to most people that I came from a bad family and was a lot poorer than most of the other students. I tried to go to the Principal and get her ass fired, but he didn’t give a shit. I have quite a few more stories if anyone’s interested.
In your first story, your teacher was more interested in teaching English than running a zoo. In your second story, YOU decided to listen to music, rather than learn chemistry because of the age of your teacher. While in the third example, it seems as if you simply did not like the subject matter, so rather than discuss issues that affect all of us, you blamed the teacher for discussing them. I am glad that I never had to teach at your school.
In the second story, he was a sub and didn’t know jack shit about chem. Besides, even though I ditched school a lot, I was always able to pass classes. Here’s something interesting I heard. Have you ever heard the term “C- Student”? It’s a student who’s smart enough to do the minimum amount of work in class and still pass with C-s.
Yes we have a similar grading system in the UK. While some "C" students are working hard to improve their grades, a large percentage of them are quite bright and simply too lazy to do anything to improve their grades. Needless to say, it is never their fault when they fail to get into university or secure a decent job. You must be brilliant at chemistry, (one of the subjects that I taught in my younger days) to have kept ahead or the class while listening to music. From your post, I have little doubt that I would have simply written on your end of term report, "Works extremely hard, to avoid doing any work". No doubt you would have exerted yourself for a few minutes in your efforts to get me fired.
Wow, and we wonder what is wrong with young people. I was expecting a story that was actually showing teachers are crazy. Like my gym teachers, I had two crazy ones. 1st. One talked of sniffing glue and. kickedme out of her class for a week because I forgot my gym equipment once. She committed suicide. 2nd one 8.5 months pregnant, kept telling us how strong she was ... then says, I can do a hand stand. Why a teacher needed to prove this I do not know, so she decides to show us... she. Kept trying. And with being front heavy it was difficult. I was getting nervous she was going to fall... so she tries. For about the 10th time and almost gets up and I see her belly shift... and get nervous and started to laugh. I laugh when nervous. Kicked out again for a week. 3rd English teacher. Kicked out for a week. From his class too. He asked the class a question and everyone who agreed with hisstood on one side of the room and those who didn’t agree stood on the other side. 4 didn’t agree. I was one of the 4. He turned his back to us 4 and talked to the large group for 30 minutes. We were standing there by the window. I was bored and picked up a magazine. Dropped it by mistake. He turns around angry and starts yelling at me. Asks me where I would rather be, I said anywhere but here,... and I was kicked out again. He also use to play those meditation tapes in class and make us all put our heads down and have the sand drain out of our bodies. Talked of his nuts that he ate and when he told us where he kept them stated that now he would have to put them elsewhere because he didn’t want his nuts stolen. 4th. Took auto mechanics because boys were in the class. East Indian teacher who bragged about not taking his teachers exam or attending school. Paid someone else to do it. Came from money. Our school had a big Christmas show. You had to audition. We had a lot of talented dancers and singers at the school, Getting selected was not easy. This teacher with a thick accent wanted to sing Beatles songs for it. He was not selected and claimed it was because he was brown. Anyways, he subjected every class he had to listening to him sing. Went to class and for an hour we all stood in the shop listening to him sing beetles songs. It was terrible. Next class he doesn’t show up. He is gone for 3 months. Returns with pictures of him and his elephant. He just decided to up and leave for India for 3 months.
I find it hard to believe an Asian kid asked you to do his math worksheet, and after reading your stories, why were the teachers fucked up?
I am waiting for "Story 4" About the teacher who spent all day sitting at his desk filling out job applications. LOL In fairness, it was not entirely his fault the the school was not a place of academic excellence, but he seemed to be doing his fare share to turn it into a zoo. But I suppose he only selected his place of learning because he liked Mexican girls. I wonder how he felt at the end of the year when they all got better grades than he did.
