[quote=AN][quote=CA renter]AN, flu was directing that last part at me. He’s not trying to make an actual point.[/quote]Whether he’s directing that at you or not is irrelevant. I totally agree with him that those are crappy teachers. But IMHO, those are not the worse. The worse teachers are those that belittle, demean,abuse, etc their students.
But it’s a little sickening to hear you defend them so easily (even though you say you don’t condone those behavior). If you defended those teachers so easily, how can I take anything you say as objective and unbiased analysis of the situation?[/quote]
I didn’t even realize we were talking about CAR until now. CAR if you took it because you think I was referring to you, I’m sorry you did, because I wasn’t…
Anyway, AN I was specifically referring to some of my public school teachers that were just horrible in different ways….And there were many of them, though some of them, as I said, ended up being entertaining…
First, there was my sixth grade math teacher…Who conveniently called me into a parent-teacher conference, because apparently I was (1) not paying attention (2) seemed like I was clueless on what was going on and (3) had a problem with focusing….
The sixth grade honors math teacher, mind you, had a thick Californian accent, complete with every other word coming out of his math was “dude”….And part of the reason why I was tuning out was because I couldn’t understand what the he was saying….
He could barely teach the subject, kept rambling as if he knew what was talking about…The conference was pretty hysterical. I mean, here was this teacher, obviously teaching a subject way over his head, trying to explain to my parents that math wasn’t my subject and how when I grow up, it’s probably best that I don’t pursue a STEM degree..Lol….I think that was the first time my dad ever expressed anything about public schools…the first thing that came out of my dad’s mouth was … “Are you kidding me? That is honor’s math in the U.S., and “he” is your teacher?”
Seventh grade honors math wasn’t much better. The teacher was sort of a mean nasty person.. I still remember she would give everyone a “blue slip” for everything, and send kids to the principal’s office for the smallest things…Her teaching skill wasn’t that great either…A lot of parents complained about her, but nothing happened… Personally, I got along just fine with that teacher.. She taught verbatim from the book, so I just ended up reading the textbook instead of listening to her.
High school wasn’t much better. The English (H) teacher had a really nasty temper…Blew a gasket if you sat too close, blew a gasket if you got up to get a tissue, or had to go to the bathroom, or just was a bad mood.
10th grade was actually fun… English (H) was taught by a surfer dude again… He shared with us that when he was a kid, he hated English and reading, so he got by with cliff notes and the comics version of required reading… I thought it was such a good idea and great tip, that I basically did the same thing that year and saved a bunch time by reading cliff notes and checking out movie versions of class novels….
11th grade US History AP was fun. It was taught by a diehard anti-Reagan guy.. He always went off the deep end about “Ronnie-nomics”… Thought JFK was God….Talked about cops being “pigs”, talked about revolting against authority, and talked about being “free”…He also talked about his view on relationships… (guy ended up having an affair with a former student in his class….uh yeah)….That’s all I remember about that class. We showed up, listened to his B.S. and stories and took the AP exam at the end of the year after cramming the last two weeks before…
12th grade was actually great. I had a real physics AP teacher and a real math teacher calculus BC teacher…Both intentionally flunked half the class the two weeks of school… Their way of weeding out the students that wouldn’t be able to keep up..Both stuck exactly to the topic, no BS, no crap…. For the rest of us that survived, we pretty much covered the first year of college during the entire year….Still my favorite two teachers…..
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Funny, how after all these years, it’s these things that stick in one’s mind….And supposedly I went to one of the better public schools at the time….
