Tell us about your best and worst teachers you had while growing up. The
worst ought to be interesting, so come on, tell us what you REALLY think.
I'll start with a few of mine...
My kindergarten teacher... BITCH! She sat and did nothing while the other kids fucked with me. But if I fucked with somebody, she damn sure noticed.
1st and 2nd grade... ASSHOLE!
I realize now that the way my brain is wired, I should be one of those people who LOVES math, and I did until this piece of shit fucked it up. I even had my own scientific calculator (late 1970's, blue fluorescent display) at age seven, and wanted to know what all the extra buttons were for. Well, that bastard got mad because I already knew about negative numbers before it was time to be taught about them, and "corrected" something I had written on the board during break time. I had written "2 - 9 = -7" and he switched the 9 and the 2, apparently failing to notice the minus sign before the 7. Later on, I was having a bad day when everyone was working on multiplication, got frustrated, and flipped out. He jumped on that opportunity, came storming over from his desk, and manhandled me out of the room. Years later, I had a flashback to that right in the middle of a calculus test. Yeah, it takes a real BIG man to manhandle a little six-year-old. Well, I'm 6'3" now and have a brown belt in karate, so that motherfucker better pray I never recognize him in a dark alley.
There were rumors that this guy smoked pot.
3rd grade... AWESOME! Different school. This teacher saw potential in me, and took extra time to get me moved into the advanced reading group and also to help me with my times tables (though it wasn't fun at the time). I was still scarred from the asshole 1st & 2nd grade teacher, so math was malassociated and these times tables didn't stick.
4th grade... BITCH! She didn't like me and made sure I got thrown into special ed for fifth grade. Okay, so me and some other guys fucked off in class, but god damn!
5th grade... Nice. This special ed teacher got me put in the gifted class that met one day a week. She realized I didn't belong in her class, namely because I was the only one in the class who didn't trash the room when upset. Those others in the class weren't bad guys. They probably just needed some anger management skills. I must have been a relief to this teacher. I bet when this special ed teacher took the job, she never imagined one of her students would take first prize in the science fair.
6th grade gifted social studies... Funny man. Used humor to keep everyone awake, but didn't take shit from those who fucked off in class. The classrooms at this school were like giant cubicles in a multi-acre cube farm, so when a teacher yelled at a student, EVERYBODY heard it.
Part of the fun was hearing another student you didn't like getting yelled at.
I'll continue later, and maybe include some of my college professors. In the meantime, let's hear about some of yours.