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 could name multiple countries that this could be easily happening in; east, west, north, south, first world, second world, third world, capitalist, socialist, communist, dictatorship, democracy, republic.
Load More Replies...Had a rough time my soph year because my father insisted i get a job at 14. Not because we were struggling, he just wanted me out of the house. Only job that would hire an underage worker was a local newspaper as a paperboy. I had to wake up every morning at 3am to fold and deliver papers by 6am. I had over 300 customers spread out through my town. After delivering those papers i then had to get ready for school and my first class was geometry. I struggled so hard to stay awake. I eventually quit that job cuz i just couldn't handle only getting about 4hrs of sleep a night
I am terribly sorry for you. I sure hope all is well now.🤗
Load More Replies...If a child falls asleep in class, let them sleep, and talk with them in private afterwards. If out the reason for the behavior, and try to help.
Yes, I never slept in any of my classes but one day during history I did, at the very beginning of the class. I was woken up by the teacher at the very end of the class when everyone had left and I was so mortified ! But the teacher just told me that if I wanted to be able to enjoy the break I should probably go now but I could also stay and sleep if I wanted. It was so nice of him, I'll always remember it.
Load More Replies...When I went to school there was one teacher who did this to a guy. He didn't really hurt because the rest of the class agreed, that it was because the guy had long hair and the teacher was close to bald.
Load More Replies...I had a teacher in high school that ollored someone's nose with a marker when they fell asleep in the front row. The guy was a bully, so no one said a word.
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.
can it be used to tape the mouth of this "teacher"? 🙃
Load More Replies...Well if you have trouble open it yourself maybe have another think if it's the best snack to send your kid to school with... I understand that kids need help with some things and the teacher could have been nicer in the interaction but as someone says in another comment teachers don't have time to open all food for 20+ kids every day.
let’s study the problem backwards : why the parent gives to the child a lunchable the parent can not already open. it’s getting rid of the problem on someone else.
Sending your child to school with food they can't open without help and then getting angry that the teacher doesn't want to spend half of their lunch time helping them (and 7 other kids whose parents did the same) is absurd. Lunchables are an easy and quick way to pack a lunch- for you. No respect for anyone's time except your own.
Agreed. Besides, if the parent doesn’t have time to open up the lunchable and put it in a child-friendly lunchbox for their 1 child, how do they expect the teacher to have time to do it for 32 children? :p
Load More Replies...Gee, I thought the job of a teacher was to help his students learn stuff. My wife taught kindergarten for many years and taught her students much that was outside the curriculum. She taught a one-armed student how to tie his shoes. It was a milestone for him.
Little kids usually do not have the dexterity/strength to open those sorts of packages. You can’t teach a little kid how to have the hand strength of someone much older.
Load More Replies...I've taught my class to be independent. ( I had 2- 4 kids with autism and others with behavioral issues to unfortunatelycater to ) I couldn't always be there to help. I had them try atleast 3 times to open their own things. Some got it. Some you could tell mommy still did everything for them.
1. I literally and politely asked a teacher whether he could help me with something when the class ended. He replied with “no!” without even looking at me. 2. I explained I misunderstood a homework assignment and he asked me if my grandma was still alive. Confused, I answered that she was. Then he said I should try to explain this to her, like I was trying to fool him. Maybe she would buy it. 3. I was having fun with a friend, running into and bashing eachother during recess, as 10 year old boys do. We were both called faggots by the teacher. 4. My friend was a big guy. Teacher asked him if he had a bra yet. No wonder mental health is on the decline.
"They Both Tried To Laugh It Off Like It Was All A Silly Misunderstanding And Never Apologized To Me"
Believe it or not, some colleges do count that as plagiarism. Stinks, but there it is.
Load More Replies...It may sound dumb but, self-plagiarism is a thing. Need more context here to know if OP broke any rules. If the student had produced the artwork before the start of the course and was submitting the work on the course, then this could be considered unfair on the other students who had to produce an artwork within a particular timeframe.
In this instance though, OP made her art for the school project, it was graded and after all that was done, did she post it on her online portfolio. The prof only found “plagiarised” art on a Google search a year later.
Load More Replies...John Fogerty was once sued for plagiarising his own song by the person who owned the rights to it
Fantasy Records owned the rights to CCR's Run Through the Jungle and sued Fogerty because The Old Man Down The Road on his solo album sounded too much like it. Fogerty won.
Load More Replies...Using your own work can potentially be classified as plagiarism if it is something you previously published and you don't cite it in your new work. This is known as "self plagiarism". It is a problem because your teacher/professor is expecting you to do original work for your assignment. And you are only supposed to use small bits of other work that contribute to it.
It was a year after she submitted the piece, she posted a picture on her website
Load More Replies...A misunderstanding of what professionalism means and what rights their students have. Silly, yeah.
I got high scores n my EGD marks, specifically during examsfrom Grade 10 to grade 12. Very high. From 40 years of copying the old, worn out EGD exam papers, used year after year, exam after exam they were inaccurate. For a grade-10 school holiday project, I re-did all of them in TurboCad (I was the only one who knew the program properly) for the Department head. Yes I had every re-drawn test and answer-paper for every exam until my final year that could be used. duh
Like when Fantasy tried to sue John Fogerty for a writing song that sounded too much like another John Fogerty song. Out of spite, Joy Ang should create a couple of artworks and call them "Old Man Down the Road" and "Run Through the Jungle."
“Bad teachers are extremely rare,” according to decorated film producer, screenwriter, and English teacher Ellie Herman. But having seen her fair share of subpar educators, she found five common tendencies. One of them is having a noticeable dislike towards children.
“The number one quality I’ve observed in bad teachers is that they do not seem to like children very much. In high schools, this means they do not seem to find teenagers charming, funny, or interesting—ever.”
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.
If someone behaved this way toward one of my kids, they would be in big trouble, and not merely legally...
Load More Replies...My daughters (8 and 10 y.o.) were sex.ually assaulted by their stepfather, and children services accused me (their mother) of negligence, and tried to remove them from my legal custody because I allowed my daughters to miss school for body and mind healing. Apparently young girls mental health is not as important as perfect school attendance
That is horrible! This just makes us girls feel like our well being isn’t priority at all. The fact the so many of us get abused is one huge problem and then the aftermath of not getting support from the society is another kind of abuse. I am so so sorry this happened to you and your daughter.
Load More Replies...As a teacher my response in these situations was always "What do you need? How can I help you? Let's make a plan that works for you." I wasn't a saint. It was just common sense to me.
Unfortunately common sense can't taught, although alot of teachers SHOULD take a mandatory course in it!
Load More Replies...This is far more complicated than non-teachers would like to make it. Consider: OP stays home from school throughout much of 5th grade. Taking time to be with mom, or to be with family. That's what many people would say is right, yes? Well, what happens next school year? Does OP go on to 6th grade, despite missing out on the education that happened during 5th? I'd imagine that the same people who would want OP to be allowed to stay home would likewise say that it's heartless to "punish" someone because that person's mom had cancer. So, OP gets pushed into 6th grade. Now we have a student who missed a year of education (which doesn't just mean that there wasn't growth, but also means learning loss) being challenged to do work for which that person is unprepared. The 6th grade teachers then give OP bad grades (because the work is bad), and now what? Do you tell them they aren't allowed to do so, because it's punishment for mom having cancer? Do you see the edges of this problem?
The problem with your reasoning is that you don’t have any other options than go to school or not go. There are many ways the school could aid someone with problems. They could help the student with a workable plan and give support and solutions.
Load More Replies...What a total biitch. Imagine saying that to a kid. All she had to do was give a hug, show some support.
This is completely wrong. A teacher's job isn't giving hugs and emotional support. It's teaching. Hard to help a kid learn if the kid isn't there.
Load More Replies...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.
how do you even find the emails that you received 15 years ago?
Load More Replies...Honestly, what is most surprising that an email account (especially any kind of work account) would hold an email for 12 years! I thought most work accounts start auto-deleting emails at 3-6 months... unless it's an old personal email account through Yahoo or something, which seemingly hold email until the end of time itself...
Probably sorted his mails from oldest to newest on accident and thought it was a new one
The most likely explanation. Almost happened to me too (ie, replying to an old email).
Load More Replies...One of my former students was in a high level math class in college. He emailed me "The prof didn't come to class today, and I'm working on this problem. Am I doing it right?" This was followed by six pages of procedures and calculations. I was able to reply immediately and succinctly. "Yes!", I was pleased to respond.
Weird things happen. I freaked out my parents and in-laws when they suddenly got emails from me about arriving at my final destination for vacation. The emails popped up out of nowhere 4 yrs after I sent them. You can't be sure that the prof emailed on time and the email account got stupid and "lost" the email.
My school did something similar. I had a problem with my school computer, and I sent like 10 emails about it. They just told me, "Call this person". So I did. And they told me, "Oh, just call this person". No one ever actually told me how to fix the problem.
I'm starting my graduate program and found out if I pursue the PhD, it will take 8 years. I retire in 15 years so I think I'll stop at an MS.
To be fair: emails can get stuck in servers. It's far more likely than him going 12 years back in his inbox to answer old emails.
A Former Teacher Of Mine Publicly Ridiculing And Passing Judgement On Someone For Being Proud Of Their Sobriety
Jesus f*****g christ... Why do idiots feel the need to berate someone for their accomplishments, no matter how big or small they seem to them?
Not sure why you think needlessly shìtting on someone else's accomplishment deserves any attention, but here we are.
My old professor and even my old elementary school teacher ALWAYS likes and comments on my sobriety updates. Always means the worldnto me.
It really doesn't matter how long you have been sober, what really matters is that you are sober.
Exactly! It’s not “putting out a fire you started,” it’s “managing to climb out of an incredibly dark and difficult situation and build a better life for yourself.” Everyone who has achieved sobriety should be EXTREMELY proud of themselves!
Load More Replies...Disinterest in the subject they’re teaching is another tendency among bad teachers, according to Herman.
“If asked ‘why are you teaching this?’ will you respond ‘because it will be on the test’? Every teacher has dud lessons from time to time (believe me), but what I sense in the classrooms of bad teachers is that they have no interest in their entire subject.”
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.
As a non-autistic person, this would have had me very upset having to lie just to conform to someone’s expectation.
Load More Replies...Unless the first question is "are you alive?" and is worth 2 points, this is an assh**e move
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
that is just unbelievably sad, that even color-prints are not inside the budget.
Load More Replies...I was helping in my son's Kindergarten class one day as the students were taking turns doing something I forgot. Anyway, the teacher announces loudly "OK boys and girls, who hasn't went yet"
A teacher said that?? Good grief. Did anybody at any point say to you, "As you wish"? :-D
Load More Replies...Was it a spelling lesson? Or a learn your colors lesson? Because both of those birds are gray-ish.
Teachers very often are not allowed to print in color to save in costs. Even when teaching colors. Its very very very dumb but its not the teachers fault. Well, not always.
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.
Fun fact, in French, hôtel has an accent on the “o” to denote where an “s” used to be. So hostel and hotel in English both derive from the same French word and that teacher not only doesn’t know a valid English word but can’t spell “ isn’t” correctly
hostel: an inexpensive lodging facility for usually young travelers that typically has dormitory-style sleeping arrangements and sometimes offers meals and planned activities. -source Merriam-Webster
I don't think this English prof is qualified? Hostel is a word, it's like a hotel
This teacher obviously hasn't had his daily wedgie yet. I recommend fixing that.
Beloved teachers have one trait in common: they care. They are genuinely invested in their students’ success. But some are already emotionally checked out, and Herman says it shows.
“A central quality in truly bad teachers is that they seem to have stopped caring; this lack of engagement is reflected not only in their interactions with students (or lack thereof) but in their seemingly random choice of lesson topics.”
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.
First comes the flash, then comes the blast wave. The mushroom cloud can't be far away.
Would be interesting if that were the description from the students
Load More Replies...As a teacher, I would never hand that out and ask students to write about it. That's just asking for a S****y essay exam.
Well teacher, this looks like one of those black and white pictures that psychologists give to their patients to assess them. XD
This is the kind of thing my medical insurance does to me. I needed a surgery they denied for being "experimental" despite having been fully FDA approved for fourteen years. The forms to appeal were copies of copies that were completely illegible. My doctor partnered with a third-party service who would send us functional copies of the forms so we could actually fight it. After two years, I finally got my surgery. I feel badly for the myriad of people who need medical care but can't get it because there is no third-party service helping them and the insurance company doesn't deal in good faith.
My 3rd Grade Kids Were Given This Ridiculous Project
Must be able to relinquish any copyright or intellectual properties to the teacher.
I was thinking the teacher is trying to find ideas to make extra money or something too. Edit: corrected a typo
Load More Replies...When I was in college, if you didn't do an internship, you could do a culmination project. Those requirements match what you do for a culmination. It's at least 3 months of full time work It requires surveys, prototypes, production prototypes, focus groups, cost analysis, timeline analysis, the assistance of other specialists to provide concept ideas, artwork, a style guide for your fictitious company... That's a massive project for a 22 year old that's on the cusp of graduation from a school that teaches both engineering, rapid prototyping, design management, and marketing. Seriously, I interned but one of my buddies did a culmination project. His culmination was easier than this assignment.
We did a broad strokes business plan project that centered on the wooden games idea one of us had. Even that was too much info for college students to have about the idea if you ask me.
Load More Replies...And 99% of those toys will be made the parents. Who the hell expects an 8/9 year old to be able to do all that??
Sigh- you are so right. Projects like that are unfortunately quite common,
Load More Replies...Yeah except for the part where this was assigned to a third grade class
Load More Replies...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
Seriously. "Different" does not mean "broken"! You'd think that lesson would have been driven home pretty hard during the pandemic when neurotypicals started behaving an awful lot like neurodivergents do (when they're outside of quarantine) when they were subjected to the conditions of quarantine...
Load More Replies...I’m autistic and I'm finally accepting I’m just different and that that is ok after a life of feeling like I’m broken somehow. And yes, church people had a hand in me feeling lost and alone.
I am sorry for your experience. There is a show about the Bible called the Chosen. They are working on Season 5 and one of the most controversial decisions they made was to show the Apostle Matthew as autistic. It makes perfect sense from what Biblical history we have and I am all for it!
Load More Replies...Autism runs in my family, i have aunts, uncles and cousins on the spectrum, my dad has autism and ADHD, and me and 3 of my 8 siblings are also autistic. I have 16 nieces and nephews and 9 of them are autistic, 3 also have ADHD and we teach them that it's amazing and to view it as a gift that makes them unique and special. Even the youngest whose 3 knows that autism is an amazing gift and openly talks about his needs. (He'll tell people he's overwhelmed or overstimulated and needs a break and explains to new nursery staff about his stimming and sensory issues etc.)
How the f could anyone know if jesus was autistic. Both are ridiculous here.
I have seen some speculation about the reasons why Jesus might have been autistic. It's of limited interest to me personally, but I do think it's useful to remind folk that we autistic people have been part of humanity from the beginning and are just part of the natural variation of human ways of being. The healing we often need as autistic people is to recover from the harmful ignorance of others.
Teachers have their favorite students; however, it won’t be an issue if everyone receives fair treatment. It becomes a problem when these biases become evident.
“The truly bad teachers I’ve observed tend to engage only with a small number of very compliant, eager students, ignoring the rest except to reprimand troublemakers,” Herman says.
We Are No Longer Allowed To Yawn In My College Course, With Points Off Our Grade As Punishment
"And don't come to film study night with a screwdriver, unless you bring enough for everyone" *me* "honestly, it's orange juice".
This Typo Caused Me To Fail The Entire Assignment
I don't know why students don't talk to their professors about these kind of things. I've been teaching for 15 years and when students catch my mistake and show it to me, I fix it and give everyone credit for that question. STUDENTS, TALK to your PROFS!!!
Yes, this! I teach post-16 and freely admit I'm not perfect... If a learner spots an error I thank them for it :)
Load More Replies...if one typo caused you to fail the entire assignment, you would have failed anyway.
So Rude And For What
Seriously. This doodle is done so well, I probably would’ve given a one-time extra credit point for it.
Load More Replies...One of my professors from the university is the opposite. He actually gave one extra point for drawing a cat on the exam paper. He also told the students about this in advanced. My friend jokingly said that she practiced drawing the cat instead of reviewing.
I had a biology teacher who'd give extra points if you made him laugh. So our quizzes and exams were just covered with doodles and jokes. One day he was grading and just started laughing so hard he was like doubled over. He shared it with the class and it was indeed hilarious. Wrong, but hilarious. I can't remember what specifically the joke was about, maybe mitosis? So the student got the answer wrong but then got a few extra points for making teacher laugh. Never thought I'd be writing fondly about Mr. Mac. 🤷🏿
Load More Replies...I am 50 years old this year. When I was 8, I had a teacher that saw that I doodled. I was always paying attention to her, but I was often looking down at my paper while she was talking. Instead of punishing me, me had me incorporate my drawing into the classwork. My parents asked her why she did that, and she explained that everyone learns different. She changed my life. I had many teachers after who pulled typical ego based stuff (look at me, don't doodle while I'm talking, etc). Today I am the Creative Director for a $10Billion technology company. I still doodle in meetings. Thanks Mrs Baker!
Same. I was disruptive because I was bored. Doodling helped.
Load More Replies...I wanna give the teacher the benenfit of the doubt and say maybe wanted to do this? 01-667383cf9f7ab.jpg
No need to ruin your cute doodle...! I feel sorry for this grumpy teacher.
In ela class I doodled King Arthur because we were learning about him— the teacher walked past my desk and then told me to “Erase that c**p”. Btw, I had unmedicated ADHD and me doodling that helped me focus— but when she told me to erase it, the only thing on my mind was the fact I had to erase it
Is it possible that the question (which looks to be some kind of bio question) asks about an animal, and the OP drew the wrong animal?
However, there are people who see some benefit in having their kids learn under bad teachers. Author Linda Flanagan is a mother of three teenagers, and here’s what she’s observed.
“An indifferent teacher can compel the self-motivated student to pursue his own interests,” she wrote in an article for HuffPost. “The teacher who spends class time devouring People while students fill out worksheets might not inspire, but she might prompt a little self-directed learning just the same."
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...
In my work assesments it's known we will never get a 100, if someone gives a 100 then the test is re assessed because it's to easy and the assessor is assessed to ensure they are marking fairly, and so would make it harder for those who don't get good marks and make alot more paperwork for the assessor... So we all get 90's...lol
The German teacher of my aunt would never give her good grades, like never, for a full year. But it wasn't just that she missed a few points, she would always have like 12% whatever she did. My grandfather was really pissed at my aunt so he tried something : He made her homework himself, and he got 5%. My grandfather is German, it's his native tongue. That's when he understood that the teacher was full of cr*p.
I have had jobs where the boss has stated that no one gets 100% on an employee review. Really great way to tell excellent employees it’s not worth it to be excellent, because you’re not going to get recognized for it.
At my last job, no one was allowed a 5 (highest score) on their performance review because "Everyone has room for improvement." Of course, you could only get a raise if you got a 5. It was a French company operating in the U.S.
Load More Replies...Always when I had a writing in an exam I'd always lose a mark even if I didn't have an error
Even other teachers hate teachers who do this. It's not the badge of courage this prof thinks it is.
My father went to a catholic boarding school, no one ever got 100% ‘because only God is perfect’
Must be a french thing. Once had a teacher fail me for using "x" in a multiple choice test instead of a "o". She thought I "crossed out the answer".
Apparently, My Answer Was Wrong Because The Teacher Forgot To Add An End Parentheses
No, a reason to hate online test software and teachers’ inability to proofread.
Load More Replies...A perfect example of computers that can’t think grading students who can.
Ok this was a typo. Teacher will give point back, if they are kind. We make mistakes too!
I never gave my students computer-graded tests. You learn where the student is in the learning process by grading it yourself. You see not only the what but the how and sometimes the why. The computer will see none of that.
Only if x is 4 or -4. If you take, say, 6 you would get (10)(2) = 20. You can't cancel out that x.
Load More Replies...My Teacher Only Lets Us Go To The Bathroom 3 Times A Month
Now, I can see if a teacher has had a lot of students leave the class to “go to the bathroom” when they’re actually just goofing off during class time, that they might try to curb that behavior by being a bit more strict about allowing students to leave the classroom. It going nuclear like this is only going to get the teacher in trouble when they don’t allow a student with a legitimate medical need to go to the bathroom because they already used up their three tickets that month.
Policies always have exceptions for medical and other needs.
Load More Replies...I never understood the obsession with denying bathroom breaks to kids in US schools. What's the point of having bathrooms in the building if the students aren't allowed to use them? It's degrading and a potential health risk. Denying the most basic of human bodily functions is utterly barbaric.
How do parents not kick up a huge fuss about this type of stuff? I have a few young family members with IBS and other bowel problems as well as a few with stomach/bowel issues caused by anxiety, not having access to a bathroom isn't an option for them.
Issues such as this are listed on the register in every school I have ever worked in. Parents simply inform the school of an issue, and teachers are informed said child must be allowed to go wherever. Decent parents also inform school of temporary issues to avoid embarrassment. Why would parents kick up a fuss later when all they need to do is tell the school in the first place.
Load More Replies...What kind of freak monitors and tracks how often one uses the facilities and how long it takes them to do so?
The ones who get in trouble with admin if they don’t?? My district has a computer program we have to use to log passes and if we don’t use it, we get a lecture.
Load More Replies...Pretty normal when you're a kid. I remember that from 3rd grade to 7th grade, one was not ever allowed to use the bathroom. Once we hit 7th, we only had 3 minutes between classes so if you did use the restroom, you'd be given detention for being late to class. There were times where I swear there were more kids in ISS than in actual classes. All due to being late for class, having only a pen in math or having only a pencil in English. Both of those being hanging offenses. I moved in 8th grade to a much better school where teachers didn't care if you had to pee. No hall passes, no nonsense. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
I don't think this is normal at all. Maybe in some areas of the world but in Germany, this would NEVER fly. Actually illegal, I'm sure
Load More Replies...Flanagan's example of a bad teacher is someone she describes as a "tyrant" and "petty dictator" who is more about control. She says having these people as mentors is a valuable experience when entering the real world.
"These skills will come in handy when it's time to renew a driver's license, contest an insurance payment, or dispute a cable bill. Having a tyrant for a teacher helps young people appreciate why abuses of power must be resisted throughout life."
This Teacher Is Wild
Dude for 200$ an hour I will pick that cotton and prepare field for next year. XD
Me being black,? I'm going with Hell no and take this question to the higher ups. Let's ask them if they'd pick cotton. Couldnt just learn about black inventors huh? Alfred Cralle made the ice cream scoop. Marie Van Brittan Brown invented the first home security system. I'll bet the teacher wasn't my same skin color. Like 50 shades lighter. These comments don't suprise me seeing as they're from non melaninated folks
But as an educator (though for much smaller kids), I think this is a perfect opening to a very interesting discussion. For that money? Sure, this pay sounds great. Do we know what the work entails? How hard is cotton-picking? How hard was it back in the days? Why DID the white plantation-owners use slaves? What did the system of systemical abuse of people with dark skin mean on the long run? It could be a very long-term (it's a MONTH, right?) project that starts an understanding of peach-colored kids why there are still issues - and what would need to change to create actual equality. Sure, this teacher could also just be a D**k and offensive. But we can't really judge from one picture, can we?
Load More Replies...Yea id pick that. The issue with people picking cotton is that they traditionally were not paid
I'm pretty sure that is the answer the teacher is going for. And then start a discussion.
Load More Replies...I was in class once, there was announcement over the intercom (paraphrasing here) that in honor of BHM, the cafeteria would be serving fried chicken, collared greens, watermelon, and grape soda. My room was dead silent for a moment as everyone's brains were rebooting from the collective WTF?! moment. After 5 seconds or so, one of the kids piped up "I don't know whether to be offended or get some, 'cause that sounds really good." I was chatting with him later that day & jokingly asked if he ended up getting any and if they also gave him some menthol cools. He lost it and had to run off to some of his other friends to repeat.
The point was not being employed to pick the stuff but that you were frigging enslaved.
Assuming the teacher knows their students,I could see this being jumping off point into the value of stolen labor.
I Would Hate That In My Classes
The author of this question should be : (A) shot (B) promoted (C) fired.
Reminds me of nursing school... "Yes, this is technically a correct answer, but it is not the MOST correct answer" 😖... definitely don't miss those days one bit.
You took the words right out of my mouth!😂. And no, I don’t miss those days either.
Load More Replies...Horrible Histories taught me that 'shy' was a viking word.. What did they have to be shy about?? Bloodbeard Olafdreadson: "Nae ye go first, I might pillage wrong-teehee"
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?
A lot of modern museums have interactive and accessible displays now. Ours has touch panels with audio and touchable models of artifacts. It's not just old things behind glass anymore.
It was not until reading your comment that I began to wonder about how blindness could potentially create increased risk for communicable illness among the blind. Tactile exhibits and buttons are great options for both learning and finding new "friends" to take home. Would definitely need hand sanitizer on a lanyard! And - on another note - COVID... how many "stand 6ft away" indicators ever appeared in tactile form... most were just thin vinyl stickers on the floor...
Load More Replies...Most art museums have guided tours for the blind that describes what you're seeing and other sensory exhibits for inclusion.
Yeah, but what are the odds the school would pay for that? If by chance this is an American school I'd wager somewhere between "slim" and 0.
Load More Replies...My experience is blind people can gain a huge deal out of a trip to a museum. The museums I have visited have special tours for those who are blind/vision impaired. They get to touch objects that are often behind glass, and have a tour guide trained in describing and interpreting the exhibits.
Which would be great if they were going on their own (or as a family trip). With the school paying for it though, most likely they're just shilling for the basic experience. Maybe a cheap guide who will give a basic explanation, but nothing fancy.
Load More Replies...Depends on the museum. We have several with smaller replicas of statues and textured versions of paintings for the visually impaired to get hands on with.
I don’t know if it’s still there, but I bet you would have loved the Tactile Dome at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Flanagan also experienced what she describes as “the idealogue” when her son’s seventh-grade biology teacher pushed his belief in creationism onto his students.
“It introduces kids to mankind’s endless capacity for self-deception. Warning: this lesson only applies when there’s a rational adult in the mix to provide a reality check.”
I Did My Biology Assignment. It Counted Me Wrong Because I Put Their First And Last Names
No, Rosalind Franklin studied a related, but different area. She worked on X-ray diffraction images of DNA. It was her work that led Crick and Watson to develop their theory of the structure of DNA. They were very concerned Pauling would get to the answer first, but Pauling's model proved to be incorrect. . . . When Crick and Watson were being proposed for a Noble, it was suggested Franklin be included. However, the rule was only live people (or people who had been alive on the 1st of February in the year the award was give. She had died a few years previously.
Load More Replies...A double helix is such a unique but simple shape that it was sort of unthinkable. Watson and Crick were staring at data about the content of DNA that seemed enigmatic, even contradictory. They had all the data, but couldn't make sense of it. As I understand it, the clarity of Franklin's imagery forced them to confront the accuracy of the data and see it in the starkest terms. But it was not the source of their data, nor the proof of their conclusions, nor previously unpublished, nor had Franklin used it to come up with their ideas, nor had it created "inevitable discovery." The reliably left-wing Guardian sums it up pretty-well: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/23/sexism-in-science-did-watson-and-crick-really-steal-rosalind-franklins-data What you're doing is like insisting Einstein stole the theory of relativity from Hans Lippershey (inventor of the telescope, not Galileo, by the way).
Load More Replies...My Teacher: "Go To This Link And Fill Out The Form"
I trained as a teacher, and I'll tell you that teachers are some of the most technologically illiterate people you'll ever meet.
Load More Replies...Ok, I think I goti it, but can't open the form :( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e1FAIPQLSdtxldJtxa1gl_IF5hWsqDmla720FlqMXgEj7QjkrM21ORJIw/viewform?vc=0&C=0&W=1
Subbing for another teacher I simply will not bother typing that in manually. Post it in google classroom or in Canvas. Besides: What madman writes out a long-assed hyperlink? If it's in google docs, then it's in google classroom. Could almost justify this with "Class wil lthe real Slim Shady please stand up? And the link looks like this" Oh that link? Yeah, it's insane to try have students type that in, so I didn't bother with it. We
What's the problem? I get that it's inconvenient, but this hardly fits with the title of "toxic" teachers.
I get this in relief notes from teachers: "show them this YouTube video; www.youtube.com/au57?_=....
This is horrible. Those characters, How do I know if it is "letter o" or "number zero"
My Son Misspelled A Word, So The Teacher "Corrected" Him
Teacher correction "way can't it be night." Icyww, should be "why".
I had a court reporting class and had to write out the following sentence from dictation: "Without further ado, ..." And that's how I spelled "ado", which means fuss or concern. My teacher marked it wrong and said it should be spelled "adieu", which is French for "good-bye". She was insistent that the judge meant "Without further good-bye, ..." (the two words are pronounced the same)
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 age/generation is about to be revealed, but there were times when that was normal
Indeed. And in those times it was perfectly reasonable because there was no other way to alert everyone at short notice. However... today we have the internet, and sending a mailer out takes seconds.
Load More Replies...When an ice storm shut down my college, my mother asked me if the college was going to refund the tuition for that day. And, yes, she was quite serious.
I remember the excitement of seeing deep snow, and running to the radio. We'd tune in to hear if our school had closed. Quite often we had to go into school anyway as the teachers had been instructed to go to their nearest school. (My Mam was a teacher.) This way if any child arrived in school there would be some adults around to look after them. There would be no formal lessons, and we'd get to do arts, crafts, games etc the whole day.
"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
You're an adult. If it wasn't safe to travel, don't. You can email your prof if you'd like but, you could also just apologize the next day. Or don't. You're paying for the class. It's your business. That's how it worked in my day. In 4 years I didn't have a prof that took attendance.
Well, then you're lucky. In MY day, early 90s--most of my profs took attendance. And we faced consequences for missing too many classes. I had an English Lit professor who regularly canceled class with no notice. I'd drive to class just to find a sign on door saying class was canceled. It happened at least weekly. But if I missed class, I was docked points. I never knew why he had to miss class. Clearly, it was none of our business. But I once stood in his office, describing some personal health issues that I wasn't actually comfortable divulging but he insisted he needed to know if I didn't want to lose points. It didn't matter that I was paying to be there. It clearly wasn't up to me if I could attend class or not.
Load More Replies...Never once in my 9 years did my undergrad or graduate universities announce on television news that a class was cancelled.
Load More Replies...My Son’s First Grade Teacher Sent This Home Today
Are you sure it will be enough to retake first grade?
Load More Replies...Cruel way to mark their work! Apart from the obvious c**p spelling, that's what shocks me.
I mean yeah, the teacher is pretty dumb, but that kid's penmanship and spelling are garbage, even for a first grader.
I agree. My handwriting and spelling was way better than that in first grade
Load More Replies...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.
Our behind-the-wheel driver's ed teacher regularly used us as a taxi to run personal errands. We once waited 20 minutes at her house while she went inside to find her son's tuba he'd forgotten. I mean...I guess we learned how to pull into a strange driveway...?
Pulling into a strange driveway may not work out well nowadays in the US.
Load More Replies...I was all set to say "Driving class? What a weird American idea!"... then I thought, "Actually, that's a great idea. If we taught children the rules of the road in school it might make the roads a safer place". We should do this.
Driver's ed is offered in high school. The car has two sets of controls, and a sign on the roof that says "student driver". The kid has to have a learner's permit to take driver's ed. If, for whatever reason, the person doesn't take the class, needs more help/practice, or just hasn't driven in a long time, there are also (independent) driving courses for adults.
Load More Replies...When I was in college, the custom was: if the professor is more than 10 minutes late with no notice, the students are free to leave.
I Received This As A Grade For A Quiz
I had that at an University exam once. You need 30 points to pass. What did I have 29.989 ...
My Teacher Printed The Video File On Paper
Online School Is Painful Sometimes
Technically x = 1, some people just say x to be simple and some people put 1x. Both are correct
Load More Replies...Honestly... that's still not finished equasion. But I guess it matters on the task.
The Article For An Assignment In Class Is Paid
This is normal. Usually you can get access to it via your college library
That used to be normal. Now everything is behind a paywall. Universities are no longer partnering for student discounts or free memberships and most media groups are no longer offering them.
Load More Replies...(whisper) You can sometimes bypass these by hitting Ctrl-P just as the page finishes loading and then save it as a PDF. Your timing has to be good, though.
You can also block this field that shows up with uBlock origin and it will proceed as if you had access
Load More Replies...Y'all, let me introduce you the 12 Foot Ladder: it's a site that will bypass paywalls. https://12ft.io/
Most of the time, 12ft.io as well as removepaywall.com don't work for Washington Post or New York Times. At least, that has been my experience.
Load More Replies...Some of these paywalls disappear if you open the article in Incognito mode on Chrome.
They used to offer membership, but when I recently inquired if they (the state university system) offered student access, accounts, etc. I was told that there were literally thousands of news/info sites they were requested to do so with, so they stopped doing it at all. They recommend students to encourage their profs to not use websites behind paywalls. So you can imagine the professors were ready & willing to completely rewrite their lesson plans. lol
Load More Replies...Most universities provide free access to the Washington Post. Check with your IT or provost.
Is it possible that a requirement of class is having access, or that the campus library has a paid account that can be used there?
Librarian here, previously worked at a college. I can 99% guarantee that they should’ve accessed the title through the library where there’s an educational subscription, but instead they just took a shortcut and googled the article title. This happened every single freaking day, multiple times a day, because these students wouldn’t follow instructions and would just do things “their way.” This is what university libraries are for!!!
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.
Oh it also penalises you if you have ADHD, are autistic (stupid eye contact rule), have bad internet, etc. Some good background info can be found ALL OVER. Some resources: cdt.org/insights/how-automated-test-proctoring-software-discriminates-against-disabled-students/, nytimes.com/2020/09/29/style/testing-schools-proctorio.html, hybridpedagogy.org/our-bodies-encoded-algorithmic-test-proctoring-in-higher-education/, theconversation.com/online-exam-monitoring-can-invade-privacy-and-erode-trust-at-universities-149335, theverge.com/2020/4/29/21232777/examity-remote-test-proctoring-online-class-education, theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374386/proctorio-racial-bias-issues-opencv-facial-detection-schools-tests-remote-learning, vox.com/recode/22175021/school-cheating-student-privacy-remote-learning, smc.edu/administration/governance/academic-senate/documents/2020-21/supplemental-documents/executive-supplemental/as-proctorio-survey-preliminary-results.pdf [survey], nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/bar-exam-labor.html, washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/12/test-monitoring-student-revolt/, vice.com/en/article/3an98j/students-are-easily-cheating-state-of-the-art-test-proctoring-tech. There are also many opinionated pages, such as eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/students-are-pushing-back-against-proctoring-surveillance-apps, eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/proctoring-apps-subject-students-unnecessary-surveillance, and two websites run by Fight for the Future: baneproctoring.com/ and the Proctorio-specific proctorioisworsethanaproctologyexam.com/. TL;DR: Proctorio is super discriminatory, doesn't even work, and similar software makes students GO INTO LABOR DURING EXAMS, pee in cups, et cetera. Oh and it makes it easier to hack. Did I mention that? See the (opinionated) techdirt.com/2021/12/22/proctorios-anti-cheating-software-exposes-students-to-hackers-say-dutch-education-officials/. Sorry if this feels like A LOT of links. Here's a list of independent organizations that I just linked to: Center for Technology and Democracy, The New York Times, Hybrid Pedagogy, The Conversation, Vox Media [parent company of Vox and the Verge], students at Santa Monica College, The Washington Post, Vice, Fight for the Future, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Techdirt. Edit: adding links.
*looking at this 30 min later* jesus what was I thinking that's a REALLY LONG post
Load More Replies...I would not allow my kids to install that. I would say to provide them computers in class and time during their normal class to do the work. Homework is BS before high school anyway.
The Lines A Fellow Teacher Gave A 7-Year-Old Student To Write 20 Times As A Consequence
Explanation: I must remember to forget the correct shoes to wear which means ( consequence lines = no meaning)
No, it does make sense; you've left out the word "not" in "remember not to forget." So building it up backwards: I must remember the correct shoes for school. I must not forget to remember the correct shoes for school. I must remember not to forget to remember the correct shoes for school." Overly verbose, but technically correct.
Load More Replies...The more concise way to put it would be “I must remember to wear the correct shoes for school”. Less for the kid to write and a hell of a lot clearer message.
I'm guessing the teacher made the sentence longer intentionally so the kid had to write the lines for a longer time. I remember having to write lines ("I will remember to bring gym [PE] clothes") in elementary school and I hated it. All it taught me was to hate writing lines and gym class (which I already hated, hence "forgetting" my gym clothes"). And how to spell the word remember properly.
Load More Replies...I'd be concerned about the kid's ability to *afford* the right shoes first
The person who wrote that incorrect and incoherent sentence is a teacher?? Dear oh dear, I weep for humanity.
The sentence is correct, but indeed incoherent. Took me some 4 goes to get what the teacher was implying
Load More Replies...When I was 7 I had to write out a long sentence 100x! Actually 500 it was 100 every night. My crime? My BFF and I were meeting in the bathroom to goof off.
When Teachers Give Diagrams Like This
Just retype the darn question! They probably don't know how to duplicate the graph.
My Four-Year-Old Daughter's Preschool Homework. "Match The Pictures" With No Other Context
I can only hope this relates to a classroom lesson. It took me a second to see the connection.
Kangaroo -- Frog. Both jump on two legs. Snail -- Snake. No arms, no legs. Slither/slide around. Bird -- Bee. Both have wings and fly. Fish -- Seal. Both have fins and swim in water. Dog -- Horse. Both have four legs on land.
This would be a great research study. Please group and explain your reasoning.
Quite likely, context was given in class, and OP's kid wasn't paying attention.
Apparently they have for a while. The copyright date seems to be 1973.
Load More Replies...This Sign Is On A High School Classroom Door
Teachers have been weirdly controlling and creepy about bathroom visits since long before Amazon existed.
Load More Replies...As a teacher, can confirm. They seem to wait for the 5-10 minutes when I'm explaining what they need to do for the rest of the class to interrupt me and ask to use the restroom. I don't make them ask, I have a sign out sheet because sometimes they don't come back and I can tell security exactly how long they have been missing. That or they ask directly after I've just given them a 10 minute break.
Load More Replies...Well, compared to some, that's fair. Not disturbing class as you come and go, and it's your responsibility to get notes from other students.
My high school was a massive, sprawling complex and the time between classes was exactly five minutes. That is not enough time to use the restroom and walk to a different classroom unless the three were directly next to each other, in which case you still have to carry everything because there was no time to visit your locker to exchange materials between classes.
What drives me nuts about this behavior from teachers and administrators is that the real world doesn't work like this. I've been in meetings with 4 C level people and their underlings and I'm the one running the meeting, yet I can still excuse myself to use the restroom and no-one cares. People gotta do what they gotta do. No one cares. Let people use the restroom, let people get a drink of water. Treat kids like adults and they will act like adults.
Really? "No one cares"? So you can be in the middle of explaining some project or assigning tasks and say, "...and so that takes us to our Q3 plans, which...oh, wait. I'm going to the bathroom." And people just nod along? Yeah, right.
Load More Replies...This is horribly passive aggressive, but some students will go to extraordinary lengths to try not to learn.
I 100% agree with this as a general policy, and challenge anyone to explain to me why it's incorrect.
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
I think some cultures would find this offensive,............ wait, I find this offensive
I think it’s pretty disrespectful to insist on addressing someone by a different name. And changing people’s names to something local sounding has some unfortunate implications as this has been used to oppress people. My name is still my name no matter what language we are speaking.
It’s a lazy attempt at what these teachers themselves have been taught as a classroom form of cultural immersion.
Load More Replies...Hey, teacher. Let's do total cultural immersion for in depth learning, and pretend we're living in France. And in France, people would be calling me by my real f*****g name!
Why is it expected from children and never from adults? As a kid, I was renamed Sandy for my English class (just to have an English-sounding name.) As an adult, nobody tried to give me a French or German name during language class. Or it was only my luck? (Edit: my real name is widely used in most Indoeuropean languages.)
We did it, too, in English. I don't even remember "my" name, but I admit that my German name is hard to pronounce in English. Still - the teacher forgot it in the course of a month anyway and kept calling us by our real names. Honestly - teachers have problems remembering the correct names - learning different ones on top is just dumb
Load More Replies...In Spanish class when I was in middle school we got to pick a Spanish name for ourselves. It was kind of fun. But we were never forced to use in on paper. Mine was Inez. :) The funniest one in high school though was what our teacher called this one guy named Jay. The letter J in Spanish is pronounced "hota". (It's not really a hard H, but it's difficult to make it look like it sounds) So Jay became Hota. For some reason it was funny for 3 straight years.
Same in my french class, I was Serge, and kindda fun to call my friends in our french names. But taking points, not cool.
Load More Replies...That was how they did it back when I was in high school. Quite annoying and pointless. At least in Japanese class they let us learn about Romanization by converting our last names to Katakana instead. Which was fun for the guy in class whose last name was Schlagelmilch!
We had this in class, too... but I didn't mind. And I don't remember anyone griping about it, either. Perhaps you're just a bit too easily offended?
My last name is French by origin, but since Napoleon there have been 'Rosier' in Flanders, and the name is no longer pronounced the French way. In middle school teachers tought it funny to pronounce it the French way, even though they knew the correct Flemish way. They could shout their heads off but I did not listen until they pronounced it correctly. Which is not hard, seeing in Antwerp (where I went to school) there is a square with the same name, which everyone pronounces correctly.
I've always found the idea of x name is this language for y name ridiculous. they might have the same word root, or same meaning, but they are DIFFERENT names. someone once insisted that my name is "Scottish for Jane" no it isn't. my name is not Jane in any language. my name is Sheena. I'm mostly English. I don't only go by Sheena when I visit Scotland, which I did once or about two or three weeks. it's my name whatever country I'm in.
Teachers Who Write Feedback Like This
i am happy to hear that you managed to see a lesson that can be inspiring??
Teacher obviously missed their vocation, should have been a doctor…
"I am sorry to hear that you managed to see a lesson has can of Imperial?"
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.
Why on earth would you do a job that has you so overworked you have to shout it? How about instead of telling a parent to chill, do something no fragile-ego “I got a generic BA in liberal arts, took a 5th-grade level state exam, then spent a year in theory/student teaching” has ever been able to do without utter esteem degradation & just apologize for your mistake of giving the kid the wrong paper. A highly insensitive mistake, but still a mistake. We all make. But most of us own them rather than deflect responsibility & blame. Sorry if this response comes across as insensitive, but I’ve dealt with my fair share of really dumb & uneducated teachers so CHILL!
Load More Replies...'Discuss with your child the danger of touching things' Oh well geez I'll make sure to sit down with my kid whose only method of investigating the world around them is to touch it how to safely identify insects without touching them... with an added reminder lesson on handwashing after hunting that last entry.
Just hand it back blank in the morning...tell the teacher "I literally saw none of those things on my scavenger hunt"
This is tough. I'm assuming that OP's kid was the only blind one. If so, there are a lot of seemingly weird rules about accommodations that often require teachers (even against their will) to give out all assignments to all kids no matter what. It can sometimes be stupid (like here), but the idea is often to minimize calling attention to differences, or make a kid feel like an outsider. Teachers are not given leeway to make these decisions themselves.
To be fair, the person in charge of visual impairment differentiation in school might have let this go - assuming it would be a class activity and the class assistant could have easily made this into a sensory activity and joined in. As homework though, it's different. I think twinkle is the big problem here. Many teachers use it without really thinking, and it's not that easy to edit.
Kindergarten Homework Is Kicking My Butt. "In Front" Or "Behind"? I Got -2 Points For This
ambiguous at least, all answers are correct... chair is in front of table, and in same picture table is behind the chair...
but if the instructions aren't specifying an object, then all of these answers are correct. the very first glued picture (top left)... the horse is in front of the fence, but the fence is behind the horse.
I mean, how are you meant to know which of each item they are asking is in front or behind?
There are no wrong answers! It’s all relative. (This is like the bellwork I gave my physics class to introduce the concept of motion: How fast is “fast”?)
The clouds are behind the rainbow. The rainbow is behind the clouds. Or is it the other way around?
This Stressed My Son Out. Literally Impossible
That was my guess, too. Except it would need to be a curve, not just a circle, since you need four sides, not just three.
Load More Replies...I asked Coargth'ath of the Void, Seer of Boundless Chaos, and he just started crying. So there's that.
Make 2 of the "sides" have a 180 degree angle between them... so ... a triangle?
Tetrahedron? Maybe? There's still 4 corners though. Tetrahedro...5d268c.jpg
A triangle? But they're talking about 3D for the sides, and 2D for the corners, or just one face of the 3D model for just 3 corners. Poor kid. :(
My Kid's Science Teacher Assigned An 82-Question Packet To Be Done Over Spring Break
There seems to be a misunderstanding of the concept of homework.
Load More Replies...Hmm, 8th grade science is frequently a “tested” subject (like, major standardized testing), and testing frequently starts right pretty soon after spring break. I’m wondering what pressure the teacher gets about students having high scores . . .
I would have sent it back with a strongly worded note reminding the teacher that they are only the teacher during the school day.
But remember, school is more important than family and home life and you know, just being a kid without tremendous pressure & demands.
Load More Replies...My 4th or 5th grade classes did packets like that all year round and i absolutely loved them. I was always done long before they were due and i aced each of them. I was already to high school level courses by the time i completed those grades. My teacher actually wanted to bump me past 6th grade and into 7th the following year. My mom agreed with doing that... my dad wanted to actually hold me back a year because i was already a year younger than my peers (started kindergarten at 4 instead of 5) and smaller. Ended up just continuing school as normal
What. The. Heck. I don't do homework over break and don't expect my students to, either!
Do not spend more than 8 hours a day on your work. (I think I’d contact the principal.)
Homework during break? How mean -- how cruel!! Delicate flowers need their rest.
No Point In Studying For The Final
This means that you have done so badly in other exams that to get a passing grade you will need a higher score than is possible - its not difficult if somewhat a funny way to put it -
Which is all based on a curve that brought your perfect 4.0 classwork & exams down to a 2.9
Load More Replies...So you did nothing all session and somehow you thought a calculator would tell you anything else?
Bell curves. You could have done outstanding all session and still been brought down to a a level so low you couldn’t make it up unless you gave 152%
Load More Replies...Yeah, really. Clearly, this kid will need to retake the class.
Load More Replies...Yeah, sounds like OP really dropped the ball with this class. Agreed that studying for the final is pointless. No idea how this post belongs with "toxic teachers."
Teacher Not Happy With Marching Band Score And Award
Band teachers can be wild. Had one in elementary school that used to throw recorders, ukuleles and chairs at students. Like 6 year olds. Or maybe it was just the 80’s that was wild lol.
I Didn’t Know People Actually Covered Clocks In Schools
I have anxiety and fear of running out of time is a huge part of it. When taking exams or doing timed activities I have to be able to see a clock or I'll think I'm running out of time and rush thinkgs
Load More Replies...Tbf a lot of my teachers covered the clocks brcause they stopped working years ago
One of my colleagues had a sign above his class clock - "Time Is Passing. Are You?"
Nah, I don't cover it--it's digital so I just put it on the 24-hour clock! I actually try to teach them this concept, though, as most Spanish-speaking countries use it. They figure it out pretty quick!
The college I teach at only has clocks in the hallways. I had to buy a watch :)
but surely, say, you've been given a worksheet to complete during the class, having a clock you can see actually helps you learn time management?
The Way My Math Teacher Numbers His Worksheets
Not to mention you must write microscopically to show your work on questions 10 and 14.
I think I did that math sheet this past school year lol
I Really Hate My Teacher
It's not funny. The caveats make it even less fun/funny.
Load More Replies...Distressing. Had a teacher once who asked if I liked him and got angry when I told him “ not especially”. Don’t ask if you don’t want me to be truthful ye of fragile ego.
My other doctor once asked me how I liked my new doctor. I spent several seconds thinking where he sent me lately. He looks at me and says "It's me, I'm talking about me". "Well, I don't know you enough and right now I don't like you much". He didn't like that either.
Load More Replies...Poor punctuation made the instructions terrible too. Statement logic is especially important for programming. Where an oxford comma can make a HUGE difference.
Why, oh, why, do people not uses the Oxford Comma???? It makes a glaringly humoungus difference using it.
Load More Replies...Your secret is safe…until the teacher leaves the papers on their desk.
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...
Warn the professor that they will be expected to pay your medical bills.
All Of My School's Printers Are Auto-Configured To Print Double-Sided. However, My Programming Teacher Requires Code To Be Printed Single-Sided
Requires code to be PRINTED? We would get kicked of computer class for that at university 😂 we have to give them the code as a python script or something but never ever print code
The first thing I was told when I started learning programming is "paper doesn't crash." This was from someone whose backup was printout of code in three-ring binders. In my head, I still hear that internalized voice saying "paper doesn't crash" as a cornerstone of programming, though I've trained myself to ignore it.
Load More Replies...I literally had to hand write code for one of my classes (C++). Pun intended.
We used to print line feed, daisy wheel, 80 character printers at my college. Direct from VAX/VMS. That was the only free printing. It was 10 cents a page for laser, $1.50 for wax thermal, and $2.00 for the other kind of deprecated color method that I can't recall. It wasn't ink jet and color laser wasn't a thing yet.
This Keyboard At My College. Teachers, Don't Let Us Clean It
When you add a comma between "teachers" and "don't let us clean it", it sounds like you're ASKING them not to let you clean it :P
Also, shouldn't it say "The teachers won't let us clean it"? Don't feels a bit like the wrong word to use here, IMHO
Load More Replies...Why are you instructing teachers to forbid keyboard cleaning (with your erroneous comma)?
The Teacher Knows My Daughter Is Being Treated For ADHD And Marks Her Down For Playing Tic-Tac-Toe. What The Heck?
Teacher is probably annoyed because the kid beat her at the tic tac toe.
So she’s penalized for doing the correct work fast enough to have time left over…
I don’t think that’s the worst way to say it. Obviously ADHD can’t be ‘cured’, but treating also usually means just managing symptoms when it comes to neurologic/mental conditions.
Load More Replies...Our Physics Exams Were Accidentally Thrown Out
Yeah, and the solution wasn't, "you have to completely retake the entire exam again."
Load More Replies...So either way, the people whose packets were lost, through no fault of their own, are penalized? How is that a solution and/or remotely fair?
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.
Or instead of pressing "k" or the spacebar (or even clicking on the screen) they have to slowly and carefully maneuver the mouse over the play symbol on the bottom left and click it to pause the video? Every teacher I've ever had does this.
If you move your cursor to the left edge of the screen the bar will disappear.
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
...it also looks like units were required as part of the answer.
Load More Replies...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.)
teacher has a point. you are supposed to use *words* to describe things. if you showed this to anyone who doesnt know anything, they arent gonna be able to understand a thing.
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
My math professor when I was a Freshman in college used to erase the board with his sleeve. If the guy in the pic was wearing a sweater I'd swear it was the same one!
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.
That teacher was clearly not petty. They gave a very nice comment to it and if the person didn't use the formatting that is required, they get points deducted.
Load More Replies...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.
I didn't know kids actually still did this. I mean, I did in school. But my daughter's high school mails their yearbooks out over the summer, so there's really no way to do yearbook signing. But back in my day you'd just ask someone, "will you sign my yearbook?"
Load More Replies...Our yearbooks were just passed around in each class so everyone who wanted could sign. I have signatures in the front, back, inside, everywhere because some teachers decided to write poems, nice stuff, etc. Some guys, of course, decided to be really stupid and made some awful comics for everyone.
That’s sad. If I’ve ever had a student in class, I always ask if I can sign their book!
In my primary and secondary school, we signed each other’s school shirts instead of a book. My art teacher did a funny doodle on mine!
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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...Some of these teachers had me wondering what century these teachers lived in! The sheer pettiness, lack of understanding of childrens' needs and cruelty in some cases left me shocked. Thes are NOT typical teachers, and should not be in this profession.
I'm a lifelong volunteer in a major global youth organization. I have always thought of my self as a teacher - and I do it for "love of game". There was a thing circulating around a while back about something people would be surprised to learn about you, and my answer is "Despite my gruff and unapproachable exterior, I remain a kind and patient teacher of youth". I do not know who these people are here, but they're not teachers.
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.” This was said by George Bernard Shaw in his 1905 stage play 'Man and Superman' . Over a century later, and (really?) the derogatory phrase (is) often thrown at educators in a disparaging way (that) stubbornly persists. ----------------- I copied this from https://www.ethicssage.com/2023/04/those-who-can-do-those-who-cant-teach.html The grammatical corrections and the comment of despair in parentheses are mine.
I've always hated this quote because it's so disrespectful of a profession which really is a vocation. Being a teacher - or rather,a good teacher - requires many skills, including not only the ability to explain things at the level of your students in such a way that they actually learn, but also needs patience, understanding and kindness. Many primary teachers loathe teaching teenagers, and many secondary teachers would be terrified facing a room of little ones, but they do respect their different abilities. But many people think it's an easy job, and give unwanted (and not very useful) advice, while it's a badly paid and often derided profession. I much prefer the quote that "teachers are the ones who teach everyone else, for every other job". Much more accurate, and more respectful.
Load More Replies...I'm currently working as a TA for two teachers at the same time and oh my god the subject knowledge they have is pushing me to the brink. They said that a regular pentagon has only 1 line of symmetry (it has 5), they were unsure of the statement 'lower in pitch means it gets quieter' and they pronounced apartheid "apartheed" with emphasis on the 'th' as in thimble
I once had an English teacher insist that the word "obstreperous" doesn't exist, and it must only be used in Ireland because she didn't know it. Cheeky cow! She wasn't a brilliant teacher, either, now I come to think of it...
Load More Replies...People tend to believe that because they were once students, they know how to teach. That's like thinking that because you watch sports, you're ready to coach a team. What you see in the classroom (or at a game) is a fraction of what a teacher does, and is stripped of the context of the job. Dealing with parents, admin, school boards, districts, laws, accommodations, and more is incredibly complex. There are often a host of reasons behind what teachers do, but students only see the one thing that makes them mad.
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...Some of these teachers had me wondering what century these teachers lived in! The sheer pettiness, lack of understanding of childrens' needs and cruelty in some cases left me shocked. Thes are NOT typical teachers, and should not be in this profession.
I'm a lifelong volunteer in a major global youth organization. I have always thought of my self as a teacher - and I do it for "love of game". There was a thing circulating around a while back about something people would be surprised to learn about you, and my answer is "Despite my gruff and unapproachable exterior, I remain a kind and patient teacher of youth". I do not know who these people are here, but they're not teachers.
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.” This was said by George Bernard Shaw in his 1905 stage play 'Man and Superman' . Over a century later, and (really?) the derogatory phrase (is) often thrown at educators in a disparaging way (that) stubbornly persists. ----------------- I copied this from https://www.ethicssage.com/2023/04/those-who-can-do-those-who-cant-teach.html The grammatical corrections and the comment of despair in parentheses are mine.
I've always hated this quote because it's so disrespectful of a profession which really is a vocation. Being a teacher - or rather,a good teacher - requires many skills, including not only the ability to explain things at the level of your students in such a way that they actually learn, but also needs patience, understanding and kindness. Many primary teachers loathe teaching teenagers, and many secondary teachers would be terrified facing a room of little ones, but they do respect their different abilities. But many people think it's an easy job, and give unwanted (and not very useful) advice, while it's a badly paid and often derided profession. I much prefer the quote that "teachers are the ones who teach everyone else, for every other job". Much more accurate, and more respectful.
Load More Replies...I'm currently working as a TA for two teachers at the same time and oh my god the subject knowledge they have is pushing me to the brink. They said that a regular pentagon has only 1 line of symmetry (it has 5), they were unsure of the statement 'lower in pitch means it gets quieter' and they pronounced apartheid "apartheed" with emphasis on the 'th' as in thimble
I once had an English teacher insist that the word "obstreperous" doesn't exist, and it must only be used in Ireland because she didn't know it. Cheeky cow! She wasn't a brilliant teacher, either, now I come to think of it...
Load More Replies...People tend to believe that because they were once students, they know how to teach. That's like thinking that because you watch sports, you're ready to coach a team. What you see in the classroom (or at a game) is a fraction of what a teacher does, and is stripped of the context of the job. Dealing with parents, admin, school boards, districts, laws, accommodations, and more is incredibly complex. There are often a host of reasons behind what teachers do, but students only see the one thing that makes them mad.
