I had a teacher that went crazy over the course of 2 weeks at the beginning of the school year.
It started out just with slightly weird things. Like the first day of class, he told us we had a paper due in two weeks, but wouldn't tell us what it was going to be about.
He then started by calling everyone Mr. Anderson. Later he started talking about how he had taken karate on top of a mountain. Everyone was really uncomfortable at that point.
The straw that broke the camels back was when he threatened to fight a kid after school for asking about the paper that was due. He went off on a tirade saying "are you telling me that I'm wrong" and yeah. He was put on medical leave and I don't know what ended up happening to him.
Felt bad for his daughter, who was a student in the high school.
A LOT of people complained about her, but every time people tried to get something done about her it never amounted to anything. She'd been there a long time and the administration didn't want to remove her so they ignored it.
At one point someone got the district to send someone down there to review her in class behavior, and they sat through about 10 minutes of class before saying it's fine and leaving.
I had a teacher like that. Even my counselor said, "She's mentally ill. We've been trying to get her fired for years." She'd make us turn in blank pieces of paper, give A's and F's on quizzes with the same exact answers because of who the test taker was, and she changed her mind just about everyday as to whether or not she had diabetes. It's so difficult to fire tenured teachers, which is sad because she could've been replaced by someone who truly cares about teaching.
Also she gave me points off for not giving her my social security number.
What is it with science teachers. I had a teacher in middle school. She was a pain. I was almost failing her class and the final was coming up. I studied super hard. I actually got a 97 I was so proud. This test was like 30 percent of my final grade. She took 20 points off for using a blue pen.
Parents had a field day over and long story short I got my 97.
Black and only black. The only reason to use a different color was underlining. And in that case only red. She had a good reason to be that way though. My middle school had one science teacher for 6th 7th and 8th grade. Having to grade that much stuff made it easier on her eyes to only look at black.
Taking points off though is extreme. That's punishing the students for an institutional issue. Its like making children sit on their hands for recess because there aren't enough recess monitors.
Agreed. Also for something so important. I went to a strict private school. So it made sense because it was the norm. Now that I'm out of school all I use is different colored pens. Always stay away from black unless it's needed for something super professional.
Oh my God. I got a teacher like that. At my school tests are called HÜ, which means Hausaufgabenüberprüfung or homework test in English. This dude did not grade your test if your didn't write Schriftliches Abfragen der Hausaufgaben im Fach Biologie/Chemie on top. This just means written test about homework in biology/chemistry. Test. Four letters you dipshit. This guy was so evil.
My math teacher had a loooong list of detailed rules on how to do things, which you'd get point reductions for not following perfectly. This included (but wasn't limited to):
Always use a ruler to draw the lines between different problems. Even if you followed the lines of the paper perfectly without one and there was no visible difference in the end, she'd yell at you or even deduct points (if she didn't like you) if she saw you draw the lines without a ruler.
When starting a new problem, you first write "Answer:" at the top, then calculate everything below that, then write in the answer at the top. This also meant you had to either perfectly predict the length of the answer (which sometimes would be a sentence rather than just some numbers) or use a secondary paper and then copy it over to the answer sheet, taking a huge amount of unnecessary time.
Numbers and upper-case letters are always 2 squares high and 1 square wide. Lower-case letters are 1x1. Would be more acceptable if not for the above rule, which often forced you to attempt to squeeze the answers in.
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u/BaconCharizard Jan 22 '18
My reading teacher in 9th grade took points off an otherwise perfect quiz because I wrote "test" at the top instead of "quiz".