blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later

[Lucifer]

from The Matrix, dawg.  when neo says, "deja vu" cos he's seen the cat twice, there's a glitch in the matrix.

is it terribly sad that i know that? 

[Christopher McCandless]

from The Matrix, dawg.  when neo says, "deja vu" cos he's seen the cat twice, there's a glitch in the matrix.

is it terribly sad that i know that? 

Anyone who has not seen The Matrix is culturally deprived imo...

[DirtDawg]

from The Matrix, dawg.  when neo says, "deja vu" cos he's seen the cat twice, there's a glitch in the matrix.

is it terribly sad that i know that? 

Ahh! Of course.
I was pre-focused on his "deja vu" comment, without fully reading it, thinking that he was going to say we were ganging up on him again.

 


I have had all three Matrix episodes for a while.

I recently bought the four DVD collection, though. It has enhanced sound, additional Special Features and the Animatrix version. 

[The_Chosen_One]

...Anyway, somehow the topic of that old hellhole came up during my recent visit.  Turns out that teacher I had back then, who I hate even to this day, was some loser that none of the public schools would hire.  So, the principal of this private school decided to be nice and hire him.  Apparently he was putting this loser's best interests over those of his students.  For those of you who don't remember my bad-teacher rant, this is the asshole who gave me a math phobia.  Initially I liked math.  I even had my own scientific calculator at age seven.  I was aware of negative numbers before I was supposed to "learn" about them, and that annoyed this teacher.  So, the first time I had a bad day with the math, that was Mr. Loser's opportunity to make sure it was a REALLY bad day, and make me hate math.  The asshole enjoyed humiliating students in front of each other...

I wonder what Mr. Loser, the teacher who should not be teaching anyone anything, is doing now.  Hopefully not teaching anymore.

Not sure. If anything goes badly wrong in my life then I can become Mr Loser - and get away with it. No one wants to teach my subject in schools.

What subject?

I think that there's nothing wrong with being a teacher, just with using the position to abuse children.

If you become a teacher, then you won't humiliate students in front of each other like garmonbozia's teacher did or physically abuse students like my daughter's special education teacher did, so you won't become a Mr. Loser.

Same subject as Mr. Loser - Maths. Though I might get to teach A-level or GCSE politics too.

Well I would not abuse children (unless someone has the sense to bring back the cane - then I might give the dimmer ones a whack so they actually learn their timestables), but I would focus on making sure the brighter kids in my class get through as opposed the dimmer ones.

But what if the dimmer ones have learning difficulties? They probably can't help it and caning them would only make them worse. But I think bullies should certainly get the cane.

[Christopher McCandless]

...Anyway, somehow the topic of that old hellhole came up during my recent visit.  Turns out that teacher I had back then, who I hate even to this day, was some loser that none of the public schools would hire.  So, the principal of this private school decided to be nice and hire him.  Apparently he was putting this loser's best interests over those of his students.  For those of you who don't remember my bad-teacher rant, this is the asshole who gave me a math phobia.  Initially I liked math.  I even had my own scientific calculator at age seven.  I was aware of negative numbers before I was supposed to "learn" about them, and that annoyed this teacher.  So, the first time I had a bad day with the math, that was Mr. Loser's opportunity to make sure it was a REALLY bad day, and make me hate math.  The asshole enjoyed humiliating students in front of each other...

I wonder what Mr. Loser, the teacher who should not be teaching anyone anything, is doing now.  Hopefully not teaching anymore.

Not sure. If anything goes badly wrong in my life then I can become Mr Loser - and get away with it. No one wants to teach my subject in schools.

What subject?

I think that there's nothing wrong with being a teacher, just with using the position to abuse children.

If you become a teacher, then you won't humiliate students in front of each other like garmonbozia's teacher did or physically abuse students like my daughter's special education teacher did, so you won't become a Mr. Loser.

Same subject as Mr. Loser - Maths. Though I might get to teach A-level or GCSE politics too.

Well I would not abuse children (unless someone has the sense to bring back the cane - then I might give the dimmer ones a whack so they actually learn their timestables), but I would focus on making sure the brighter kids in my class get through as opposed the dimmer ones.

But what if the dimmer ones have learning difficulties? They probably can't help it and caning them would only make them worse. But I think bullies should certainly get the cane.

In that case then the responsibility of them would lie with the teaching assistant. Not myself.

[The_Chosen_One]

True. But I think the cane should be a last resort and it should be given by the headmaster/headmistress and written up in a book. I don't believe kids should get the cane for being slow learners.

[Christopher McCandless]

True. But I think the cane should be a last resort and it should be given by the headmaster/headmistress and written up in a book. I don't believe kids should get the cane for being slow learners.

Depends if the slow learning is their own fault or not - i.e. their own laziness.

[Lucifer]

But what if the dimmer ones have learning difficulties? They probably can't help it and caning them would only make them worse.

In that case then the responsibility of them would lie with the teaching assistant. Not myself.

so people with learning difficulties are the responsibility of the teaching assistants and not the teacher, are they?

christ on a pole... 

[odeon]

But what if the dimmer ones have learning difficulties? They probably can't help it and caning them would only make them worse.

In that case then the responsibility of them would lie with the teaching assistant. Not myself.

so people with learning difficulties are the responsibility of the teaching assistants and not the teacher, are they?

christ on a pole... 
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Welcome to Hadron's brave new world.

[Lucifer]

crap teachers in swede/finland, then - they don't teach you how to correct quotes properly.

[odeon]

I only had a teaching assistant...

[Lucifer]

I only had a teaching assistant...

but they're bound to be better than teachers, cos teachers are crap, everyone says so.

[odeon]

I only had a teaching assistant...

but they're bound to be better than teachers, cos teachers are crap, everyone says so.

Easy to solve: become an assistant.

I'm a spazz. I don't deserve a *real* teacher, anyway.

[Lucifer]

I only had a teaching assistant...

but they're bound to be better than teachers, cos teachers are crap, everyone says so.

Easy to solve: become an assistant.

too late - i became a spazz instead.  if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, and all that.

I'm a spazz. I don't deserve a *real* teacher, anyway.

true.  if your IQ is 170, and you can do maths, you can send people letterbombs instead, though.  will that compensate?

[TheoK]

He has no great ideas worth sending bombs for anyway.