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good? Were the majority of them, that you had. Many teachers and the profession as whole are maligned sometimes

Most were good but there were a few rotten apples in there protected by a well intended but corrupt system.

Yes I was very blessed with great teachers. There was only a couple I didn't like. My racist second grade teacher who thought I couldn't speak English and put me with the kids who basically had to learn the alphabet again, donto being foreign or other reasons.

My 4th grade teacher was a bitch. Besides that I don't remember any other bad teachers. I liked every single one of them.

My parents moved to the best school district in the state. Hell yeah they were good.

I had a couple of stupid ass gym teachers but that was fine.

yeah

I quite obviously had undiagnosed adhd and that made school hard for me but a lot of my teachers were really good

Neutral, with a few good and bad.

I'd say it was 50/50. A lot of my teachers seemed to actively care about the students, and helping them succeed. Those were the good ones who were always willing to put in extra effort to make sure everyone was where they needed to be.

The others... Felt more like they just liked the authority of being a teacher. If you don't keep up, you fail and it's your fault, and they'd absolutely call you out in it. They mostly felt unqualified to work a job that is intended to nurture and help people grow and learn. They were very strict, quick to punish, and any extra effort put in had to be from the students to win the affection of the teacher.

KogaSteelfang posted...

I'd say it was 50/50. A lot of my teachers seemed to actively care about the students, and helping them succeed. Those were the good ones who were always willing to put in extra effort to make sure everyone was where they needed to be.

The others... Felt more like they just liked the authority of being a teacher. If you don't keep up, you fail and it's your fault, and they'd absolutely call you out in it. They mostly felt unqualified to work a job that is intended to nurture and help people grow and learn. They were very strict, quick to punish, and any extra effort put in had to be from the students to win the affection of the teacher.

were these mostly below avg. school districts? i had some bad ones just like almost everybody. But , do you think more highly of teachers as whole than say, most police?

I'd say 30% of them gave a shit.

The rest of them were either meh, or didn't give a crap at all. My History and Geography teachers were fantastic. Maths and English teachers were okay.

My Science teacher, absolutely fuck that guy. He is probably one of the sole reasons I disliked Science, and I used to love it until he became my teacher for 5 years in it. He seriously demotivated me and the rest of the class, constantly just copying shit off the board. Didn't do ANY practical work. The one time we were going to (Dissecting a frog), one kid swore and he used that an excuse to shut it down.

Again, fuck that guy, I sincerely hope he isn't teaching anymore, for the sake of other kids.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

I'd say 30% of them gave a shit.

The rest of them were either meh, or didn't give a crap at all. My History and Geography teachers were fantastic. Maths and English teachers were okay.

My Science teacher, absolutely fuck that guy. He is probably one of the sole reasons I disliked Science, and I used to love it until he became my teacher for 5 years in it. He seriously demotivated me and the rest of the class, constantly just copying shit off the board. Didn't do ANY practical work. The one time we were going to (Dissecting a frog), one kid swore and he used that an excuse to shut it down.

Again, fuck that guy, I sincerely hope he isn't teaching anymore, for the sake of other kids.

what grade was this in, the science class? supposedly the middle school yrs are like the worst. Do you not think all that highly of the teaching profession as a whole?

I've had many memorably excellent teachers, and any bad teachers were forgettably bad.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

I'd say 30% of them gave a shit.

The rest of them were either meh, or didn't give a crap at all. My History and Geography teachers were fantastic. Maths and English teachers were okay.

My Science teacher, absolutely fuck that guy. He is probably one of the sole reasons I disliked Science, and I used to love it until he became my teacher for 5 years in it. He seriously demotivated me and the rest of the class, constantly just copying shit off the board. Didn't do ANY practical work. The one time we were going to (Dissecting a frog), one kid swore and he used that an excuse to shut it down.

Again, fuck that guy, I sincerely hope he isn't teaching anymore, for the sake of other kids.

Made me think of my 7th grade science teacher and the time we dissected an earth worm. Before we started she berated the class for giggling and not taking it seriously even though everyone including the trouble makers were just sitting there in silence.

She was also the type of teacher who believed that if your grade wasn't 3 digits it meant you weren't trying hard enough.

CedarPointcp posted...

what grade was this in, the science class? supposedly the middle school yrs are like the worst. Do you not think all that highly of the teaching profession as a whole?

I'm from London so its probably a different structure. We have secondary school from Year 7 to 11. I had him for the full 5 years which is actually really unusual.

For the profession as a whole, I do think highly of the teachers who actually try, and am really appreciative for having them, but there are some who really don't have any business teacher a class full of students.

CedarPointcp posted...

were these mostly below avg. school districts? i had some bad ones just like almost everybody. But , do you think more highly of teachers as whole than say, most police?

I'm not sure about it being below average or not. I'd say it probably was since I live in small town and I had a small class full of hillbilly type people. But idk.

I guess I used to respect police more, since I was under the impression that they risk their lives to protect regular citizens. But the last several years have shown that it's the opposite. Teachers are the ones protecting the children and being put in harms way. So now I definitely respect teachers more, and they absolutely need to be paid more.

I had 3 good elementary school teachers out of like 8 (had a couple of mid year replacements from K-5).

Middle school was hell and if I had good teachers, I don't recall them because of the associated trauma.

High school was godsdamned amazing, and the teachers were the best of a very underappreciated bunch (though a public school, it was the only school in the district that you had to test into; you also had to maintain a 2.5 average to retain enrollment but that was never anywhere near an issue for must of us; my class's average GPA was like 3.2 for 114 students).

Undergraduate courses thoroughly sucked until junior year. I had one "transformative" instructor as a junior, and another as a senior. The rest during the last two years were largely sufficient, with a couple being pretty good.

So yeah, very mixed bag for the sum of it, but with the exception of my early university years, it was pretty alright from age 14 on.

El_Marsh posted...

I had 3 good elementary school teachers out of like 8 (had a couple of mid year replacements from K-5).

Middle school was hell and if I had good teachers, I don't recall them because of the associated trauma.

High school was godsdamned amazing, and the teachers were the best of a very underappreciated bunch (though a public school, it was the only school in the district that you had to test into; you also had to maintain a 2.5 average to retain enrollment but that was never anywhere near an issue for must of us; my class's average GPA was like 3.2 for 114 students).

Undergraduate courses thoroughly sucked until junior year. I had one "transformative" instructor as a junior, and another as a senior. The rest during the last two years were largely sufficient, with a couple being pretty good.

So yeah, very mixed bag for the sum of it, but with the exception of my early university years, it was pretty alright from age 14 on.

yeah most guys say that middle school was the worst for them. But whey do middle schoolers seem to be the worst behaved?

CedarPointcp posted...

yeah most guys say that middle school was the worst for them. But whey do middle schoolers seem to be the worst behaved?

A combination of emerging puberty and being introduced to other kids is a recipe for disaster.

I think middle school would have turned out better for a lot of us if we were in small school districts with only one elementary school.

I had only 1 teacher I'd consider bad. Not that every single one was crazy good either but most were just sort of average

the bad teacher would sometimes just walk out of class for 5+ minutes at a time (who knows where he went) or get random students to teach the lesson for the day instead of him because he didn't feel like it that day

I guess they were good. Other then science, PE, and JROTC I didn't pay attention most of the time so it is kind of hard for me to tell with some.

I passed all my test so maybe they were?

I will say I had 6 teachers that took an interest in me outside of just school a PE teacher(elementary), math teacher(7th grade), math/science teacher(5th grade), biology teacher(10th grade), and 2 JROTC teachers(high school). So, I will say those 6 I do know were good.

kirbymuncher posted...

I had only 1 teacher I'd consider bad. Not that every single one was crazy good either but most were just sort of average

the bad teacher would sometimes just walk out of class for 5+ minutes at a time (who knows where he went) or get random students to teach the lesson for the day instead of him because he didn't feel like it that day

My Spanish 2 teacher would lecture for like 5 minutes out of 40 and we'd spend the rest of the class just working on our assignments.

I forgot my worst teacher. The horticulture teacher in a vocational class I took.

For the first half of the year things were fine,cand normal. He got a little friendly and personal with some of the students which I thought was weird, but the other people loved it. Thought of him as just a guy.

Well... He started separating me from the rest of the class sometimes. I thought it was because he noticed I work better alone, but that wasn't it. I still don't know what his problem was, it was a weird half hate half pervy situation.

Like, one time he assigned me to assemble the watering lines for a greenhouse. Then he took the rest of the class out. Later he returned started helping me assemble the pipes... And saying things like "Yeah, that's right. I want you to slide your pipe into my hole. That's right, now screw it, screw it real good. Let me know when it gets hard."

It made me SUPER uncomfortable. So I went to my principle and tried to drop the class, but it was way too late in the year for that. The principle asked me why, and I was too embarrassed to say, so I just told him to forget it. But I guess he mentioned it to my teacher, because he loathed me after that.

One day he made me shovel two tons of sand and wheelbarrow it to the opposite side of the building while he took everyone else out for pizza. By the end of class I had bloody blisters and he still yelled at me for not finishing. I couldn't even hold a pencil for days because my hands were so blistered. Which,veas my own stupidity I guess. I knew I wouldn't finish the job and instead of quitting, I kept trying.

He ended up nuking my grades anyway. Somehow he "lost" every grade and assignment for the entire year and wanted me to spend a week alone with him making it all up. Instead I told him I didn't care since I didn't need his class to graduate and skipped the last few weeks of his class.

I had two notably bad teachers. The rest were fine or better.

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Barely any bad teachers. I can only remember two really, maybe 3. And all of them were bad mainly because they couldn't control the class.

I can only remember two or three teachers being outright bad.

One of the weirdest incidents was in 7th grade. The science teacher gave out some quiz she found on applied science. It was examples of every day situations and what would happen. You needed a solid grasp of simple machines, minor physics stuff, etc. Like three of us passed it and this woman threw a fucking fit and called everyone stupid.

I got like an 80% and she asked me in front of the class how I managed to know all of this, yet everyone else couldn't be bothered to understand it. I explained that most of it wasn't learned in school. All of the simple machine stuff were things I learned from old episodes of Tennessee Tuxedo from the old timey Underdog show. It was how they'd break out of the zoo. She threw a fit and I was sent to the principals office for mouthing off. Thankfully, the principal was cool about it and just let me play Oregon Trail in the computer room until it was time for the next class.

Like 85 percent average.

10 great.

5 rotten