Good educators significantly impact a student's life. But so can the bad ones.
Today's list continues Bored Panda's series of articles covering some teachers' irksome and unprofessional behavior. While a few submissions are laughable, others prove that not everyone is fit for the job.
Some of you may have had similar experiences, so feel free to share them in the comments.
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Teachers Need To Understand Students Don't Always Sleep In Class Just Because Of Laziness
I Was A Teacher For 8 Years, And I Never Made A Student Feel Small After Asking For Help
The magic of washii tape! I partially open difficult things and then seal them for my kid.
"They Both Tried To Laugh It Off Like It Was All A Silly Misunderstanding And Never Apologized To Me"
Teachers Like This
I had the same reaction from a teacher when I was 17 and told her in confidence that I was having ptsd after a rape. “Well I can’t treat you any differently than your peers. You have to do the work just as anyone else.” B***h.
It Took Him A While
Just for some perspective, I emailed him in my 2nd year of undergrad. I have graduated from my undergrad, have two master's degrees, and I'm in the 6th year of my PhD.
That's why I wouldn't make a good teacher. Some time I'll get to answer those emails from 15 years ago.
A Former Teacher Of Mine Publicly Ridiculing And Passing Judgement On Someone For Being Proud Of Their Sobriety
Apparently Enjoying The Workout Is Part Of The Grade
As a mildly autistic person thus would have had me very upset because having to lie just to conform to someone’s expectation distresses me.
My Brother's Kindergarten Teacher Printed These Out For The Class
I used these books as a teacher. The colored version is in the classroom but they send home the copies for the kids to practice. This one is clearly not a great book to be in black and white. But do you think school districts have the money for color printing??? Keep dreaming
I Had To Do A Survey For Math And Made It As Simple As Humanly Possible, But According To The English Professor, Hostel Isn't A Word
The teacher, who is apparently an expert in English didn’t spell -isn’t- correctly.
I Had An English Final Exam Today, And I Had To Describe This Image. Teacher's Copy vs. Student's Copy
Looks like a black and white copy, of a copy, of a copy, of a copy, of a copy, of a copy, of a copy, of a copy, of a copy, of the original colour photo.
My 3rd Grade Kids Were Given This Ridiculous Project
Must be able to relinquish any copyright or intellectual properties to the teacher.
My Son Then Told Him That Was Offensive, Explaining That Autism Means Seeing The World Differently And That Jesus’ Perfection Was About Being Sinless, Not Neurotypical
my nephew is autistic and when he was 5 or 6 he was upset and started cry and said his brain was broken someone had said something to me it absolutely broke my heart. Being neurodivergent myself i know its not something that needs to be healed at all so this dude can bugger right off
We Are No Longer Allowed To Yawn In My College Course, With Points Off Our Grade As Punishment
This Typo Caused Me To Fail The Entire Assignment
So Rude And For What
My Teacher Still Refuses To Give A 100% Score
I worked at a French academy for a while. This is a French as Second Language exam, sometimes points are deducted for little things, as accent marks or punctuation, or even pronunciation if there is an oral component. But also native French teachers are notoriously demanding. And maybe the teacher is just a jerk...
Apparently, My Answer Was Wrong Because The Teacher Forgot To Add An End Parentheses
My Teacher Only Lets Us Go To The Bathroom 3 Times A Month
This Teacher Is Wild
Dude for 200$ an hour I will pick that cotton and prepare field for next year. XD
I Would Hate That In My Classes
I'm A Blind Guy, And My Teachers Tell Me They Don't Know Why I'm Not Looking Forward To The School Trip To The Museum. Can Anyone Guess Why?
I Did My Biology Assignment. It Counted Me Wrong Because I Put Their First And Last Names
My Teacher: "Go To This Link And Fill Out The Form"
My Son Misspelled A Word, So The Teacher "Corrected" Him
Teacher correction "way can't it be night." Icyww, should be "why".
Woke Up At 7 AM, Headed To Class In The Freezing Rain, Just To See "Class Is Cancelled" Written On The Whiteboard And The Door Locked. No Email Or Anything First
My Son’s First Grade Teacher Sent This Home Today
Our Driving Class Teacher Is Never On Time. She Should've Been Here 20 Minutes Ago
Things like this repeat all the time. Previously, we had to wait for her for 30+ minutes.
I Received This As A Grade For A Quiz
My Teacher Printed The Video File On Paper
Online School Is Painful Sometimes
The Article For An Assignment In Class Is Paid
This is normal. Usually you can get access to it via your college library
This Program Our Professor Wants Us To Use For Our Tests
The reviews all say it's spyware and that it ruins computers. In the past, we’ve used Honorlock, but this professor just had to be different.
The Lines A Fellow Teacher Gave A 7-Year-Old Student To Write 20 Times As A Consequence
When Teachers Give Diagrams Like This
My Four-Year-Old Daughter's Preschool Homework. "Match The Pictures" With No Other Context
This Sign Is On A High School Classroom Door
My French Teacher Gave Us New "French Names" About Two Weeks Ago And Takes Off Points From Your Exams And Daily Participation If You Don't Refer To Yourself By Your French Name
Teachers Who Write Feedback Like This
My Blind Child Came Home From School Today With This Homework
I've accidentally put work in people's cubbys who shouldn't have gotten it. WE ARE OVER WORKED! CHILL. It was probably an honest mistake and things happen.
Kindergarten Homework Is Kicking My Butt. "In Front" Or "Behind"? I Got -2 Points For This
This Stressed My Son Out. Literally Impossible
My Kid's Science Teacher Assigned An 82-Question Packet To Be Done Over Spring Break
No Point In Studying For The Final
Teacher Not Happy With Marching Band Score And Award
I Didn’t Know People Actually Covered Clocks In Schools
The Way My Math Teacher Numbers His Worksheets
I Really Hate My Teacher
My University Cancelled Class Today Due To The Weather (A Freezing Rainstorm Caused Thick Layers Of Ice All Over The Campus), But My Professor Still Wants Us To Go To Our Lab
Oh we had that happen at uni once. Every professor cancelled their respective class except for one - he was the vice dean (or whatever you call the dude one rung lower in jurisdiction than the dean is) and his class was an 8am class. He cancelled it eventually, when the government announced closure because of the blizzard...
All Of My School's Printers Are Auto-Configured To Print Double-Sided. However, My Programming Teacher Requires Code To Be Printed Single-Sided
This Keyboard At My College. Teachers, Don't Let Us Clean It
The Teacher Knows My Daughter Is Being Treated For ADHD And Marks Her Down For Playing Tic-Tac-Toe. What The Heck?
Our Physics Exams Were Accidentally Thrown Out
I Hate Teachers That Leave The Cursor On The Playbar
meh. youtube sometimes doesnt make the UI go away even if the mouse isnt on there.
My Scores On A Test. I Have No Idea What They Mean
This Is An Answer To An Assignment My Friend Sent Me
Actually, neither answer is correct. It says 'to 2 decimal places'. So the answer is 230.00
My Teacher Put Her Voice Volume Device On The Speaker And Then Played "10 Hours Of Static Noises" Until Class Was Over
Teacher Worded A Question Wrong And Marked My Answer Wrong Even Though I Did What The Question Said
I was on the state committee that assigned points to “standard” answers to the free response portion of the state math exam. I had to argue with the other committee members for ten minutes to get them to agree that a graphical answer was just as valid as an algebraic one, and deserved just as many points. (They wanted to assign it zero points.)
The Way This Professor Erased The Board
When erasing a white board or chalk board, erase up and down. Going side to side makes your butt jiggle
I Lost My Perfect Score Because I Wrote The Date Wrong
While I can feel you, I understand why the points were deducted. Things like APA or MLA styles usually have pretty strict guidelines you have to adhere to. Since the points deducted didn't seem to affect the overall grade, I would say this is fair. You are not likely to make the same mistake again in the future.
I've Been At This School For 13 Years. There's 200 People In My Class, And Today Is My Last Day Of School. Not A Single Teacher Offered To Sign My Yearbook
I'm not going to assume a student wants me to sign in their book - I'll wait till they ask. Might have been the case here too.
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It would be better to say that these people arent teachers ar all.
Load More Replies...I’ve been teaching 30 years. I tell every young teacher the same thing: 99% of the job is being calm, patient, and reasonable.
As a teacher, I’m not excusing bad teachers (and some are HORRIBLE), but people think teachers have much more autonomy than they really do. Or have endless amounts of times/resources. Teachers are micromanaged to within an inch of their lives. Plus a ton of these are “this online program marked this answer wrong because of such and such format”, but teachers have access to those quizzes/tests. We can go back and add points if the program marked something as incorrect that wasn’t wrong. And frequently these programs import directly from mandated curriculum resources, so teachers can’t even change the “correct” answers even if we wanted to (see: lack of autonomy). I ASSURE you this happens because it happened in my district last year and teachers were SO frustrated because it was sold as this big time-saver (just import and the program grades it, easy peasy!) except we would still have to go through and manually check each answer PLUS deal with students freaking out/angry parents
Because the (incorrect) program grades would automatically upload to our online grade reporting system and would be visible until teachers had time to regrade and do a work around to input the correct grade into the online system, etc.
Load More Replies...It would be better to say that these people arent teachers ar all.
Load More Replies...I’ve been teaching 30 years. I tell every young teacher the same thing: 99% of the job is being calm, patient, and reasonable.
As a teacher, I’m not excusing bad teachers (and some are HORRIBLE), but people think teachers have much more autonomy than they really do. Or have endless amounts of times/resources. Teachers are micromanaged to within an inch of their lives. Plus a ton of these are “this online program marked this answer wrong because of such and such format”, but teachers have access to those quizzes/tests. We can go back and add points if the program marked something as incorrect that wasn’t wrong. And frequently these programs import directly from mandated curriculum resources, so teachers can’t even change the “correct” answers even if we wanted to (see: lack of autonomy). I ASSURE you this happens because it happened in my district last year and teachers were SO frustrated because it was sold as this big time-saver (just import and the program grades it, easy peasy!) except we would still have to go through and manually check each answer PLUS deal with students freaking out/angry parents
Because the (incorrect) program grades would automatically upload to our online grade reporting system and would be visible until teachers had time to regrade and do a work around to input the correct grade into the online system, etc.
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