Worst teacher you've ever had?

The Aussie

I was in class one day when a "teacher " mocked a friend of mine for having a stutter, whole class erupted at that, next day the teacher was made to apologise with the school principle beside him, that w@nker was not back at that school the next year, I know he was the worst teacher I have ever heard of.

crybaby

A history teacher I had in first year and I think second year as well. She had no control over anyone in the classroom to the point where she seemed mentally handicapped to a lot of people.

Looking back on it I wonder just how she lasted in that classroom for so long because she had already gained legendary status long before I started school there.

oldyouth

The Brother who put his arm around me as said "Oldyouth, you're not going to do well in the Leaving Cert but a good looking lad like you will get a job anywhere"

Pompey Magnus

One day when a big chunk of my pre-JC class was away (can't remember why), our Irish teacher took the few of us that were left to the school prayer room, wheeled in the TV and proceeded to show us Deliverance. Watching the gay gang rape scene with a bunch of other teenage lads and a middle aged man whilst being stared at by a stern looking statue of Jesus was quite an odd experience.

An English teacher who I had briefly taught his Leaving Cert class a Shakespeare play that was not one of the Prescribed Texts. He discovered his error some time before the mocks but I imagine the remaining time before the exam was a little bit of a rush job.

9959

oldyouth wrote: »

The Brother who put his arm around me as said "Oldyouth, you're not going to do well in the Leaving Cert but a good looking lad like you will get a job anywhere"

Thanks for the laugh, marvellous!

markc1184

I had this one teacher in 5th year that was sidetracked ridiculously easy. By the time the timetable was finalised completely with people chopping and changing, I ended up have this lad for 3 subjects, maths, physics and advanced maths. What didn't help was some people in the class that liked to play on the fact that you could end up with basically a free class by just mentioning Fair City or The Simpsons. The guy was a genius though and was wasted as a secondary school teacher.

Had another teacher in 3rd year that brought waffling to a whole new level. Same teacher didn't turn up for 1 of our classes even though most of us passed him in the corridor, turned up an hour later with a snazzy new haircut.

Cantona's Collars

Had one who was an alchoholic & spent a year talking about classical Greek (he was our English teacher)
Another was a sadistic cunt who took great pleasure in hitting anyone for the slightest thing,watched him punch a fellow student full force in the head on our first day in secondary school. (He was a christian brother)

In 5th year we had a sweet teacher who was too soft,think she had some kind of breakdown due to the stress of dealing with a crowd of 16 yr old lads.

Ken.

We had a teacher who liked to give xxx word essays on mad subjects for not doing your homework. One day he told a lad to do a 600 word essay on the life of a blade of grass. He said no, teacher doubled it, guy said do, doubled again, guy said if i wasn't going to do 600 words you have no chance of 2400 words. So the teacher kicked him out.

As he was going out and passing the teacher he muttered something under his breath. The teacher took a swing at him. BIG FüCKING MISTAKE. The guy was an under 16 boxing champ and into judo. He battered the teacher to a pulp.

Teacher was never seen again.

It fell to the newly qualified female Religion teacher to inform a bunch of 14 year old boys about sex "education" (a word I use loosely!). In fact, for the benefit of younger boardsies, heres how sex-ed played out in the 80's and earlier.....

A girl no more than 24 gets put into a room with 35 teenage boys. She hands out some sex-ed books which NOBODY is allowed to open! Reason being we are about to watch a video. Nothing interesting, just about the growth of the human body expressed in clinical terms the average 14 year old wouldn't understand anyway. Come the end of the lesson, the books are taken back, unopened, and we are told if we have any questions to write them down and they will be answered next class.....

Five minutes before the next class, one guy stands up and says what we're all thinking. "Lads, I bet you anything she'll try to get out of this within 30 seconds. She'll warn us about one person laughing and tell us we're all not suitable for the promised Q&A session". Sure enough the teacher comes in and says exactly that. A couple of "I told you so" raised eyebrows go round the room, and sure enough, she says “right, I knew you wouldn't take this seriously”, and thus ended my sex education, a subject never returned to for the rest of my time in school.

Biggins

An Irish teacher.
He just came in, told us what pages to read in a book half the time and sat down, put his feet up and read the days paper.

cowzerp

Mr grey, name may or may not be real! St Brendans school artane, a complete toerag who had a few kids he didn't like and simply refused to educate them, would often throw kids out of class before they even done anything wrong

If i was told he died in pain i would laugh hard.

Clondalphian

We had a substitute history teacher in fifth year(all boys school) as our normal teacher was up the duff. This guy was your stereotypical D4 head,teaching in a school in Louth. This guy had no control over the class whatsoever. Lads constantly throwing pieces of paper in his hair. He flipped out one day and screamed at us "You are all British spies,you're not worthy of an Irish passport" Que eruptions of laughter from the whole class,bar one guy whose dad was British.He didn't make it easy for himself by handing back one guys essay who suffered from dyslexia by saying "get a dictionary".Funny enough on our last day he told us he' rather teach us than a class full of screaming teenage girls.

We also had a PE teacher who used to call the roll in the changing room while we were getting changed.He said it was to "save time".Anyone else think thats a little creepy?

books4sale

cowzerp wrote: »

Mr grey, name may or may not be real! St Brendans school artane, a complete toerag who had a few kids he didn't like and simply refused to educate them, would often throw kids out of class before they even done anything wrong

If i was told he died in pain i would laugh hard.

Ah yeah! Think he won the lotto that lad.

Retired and bought a huge house, sportscar and got a supermodel girlfriend, these days he spends most of his time on a Caribbean island relaxing, sipping pina colada's and admiring the glorious sunsets.

Amazing how life turns for some people.

cowzerp

books4sale wrote: »

Ah yeah! Think he won the lotto that lad.

Retired and bought a huge house, sportscar and got a supermodel girlfriend, these days he spends most of his time on a Caribbean island relaxing, sipping pina colada's and admiring the glorious sunsets.

Amazing how life turns for some people.

HA ha, Last i heard he had a stroke, I hope he lives forever in discomfort!!
I had a teacher who picked me up and slammed me into the blackboard and i much prefer him over this Bully who mentally persecuted the few kids he took a disliking too, many times i'd go up with my homework and without even looking at it he would x through it and make me redo it, so 1 day my mother done it and made sure all was correct and he done the same, she then knew i was been picked on and she came into the school and put him in his box.

He was made to apologise and was really sick to have to.

Arawn

Is had a teacher, She was about 25, an ass that could crack walnuts, toned body, cracking tits and a face that didn't hate children,her job/life yet. ****ing used to be impossible to concentrate on anything in her class.

cowzerp

Arawn wrote: »

Is had a teacher, She was about 25, an ass that could crack walnuts, toned body, cracking tits and a face that didn't hate children,her job/life yet. ****ing used to be impossible to concentrate on anything in her class.

you should be on the best teacher thread!

Teyla Emmagan

I wonder if these teachers were all alcoholics before they took up the position, or did the job drive them to it?

Mine anyway was also an alcoholic. She was a vicious, manipulative b(tch and an out and out emotional bully who 'taught' me in 5th and 6th class. She spent her life belittling us and playing mind games on us. Her favourite approach was (when you didn't know the answer to something) was the following:

Weapon: Did you study it?
You: Yes.
Weapon: And do you know it?
You: No.
Weapon: And would you know it if you had studied it?
You: Yes.
Weapon: So now you are lying to me as well as not doing your homework.

There is just no way out of that when you're ten years old.

She would also ignore you when it suited her - you'd go up to the front of the class for help and be standing by her desk for 10 minutes while she pretended to correct something. She absolutely destroyed my self belief when it came to maths - something I still struggle with to this day, mainly from going into a blind panic because I couldn't do my long division and being afraid to ask her for help. And then getting shouted at for not asking for help.

Anyway, this went on for years in the school. Dozens of parents must have complained before something was done about her (when about 10 years after I left, I swear to God, she was found passed out with a vokda bottle before school one morning in the bike shed). She was the trade union rep, the canny cow, and before that had been untouchable.

It's mad now when I meet people from primary school who were in that class, even 25 years on and we will still talk about what a vicious b*tch she was and the awful effect she had on us and how terrified we were of her. There must be hundreds of kids who passed through her hands who felt the same way. Very very wrong that someone like that would be kept in a position of power like that for so long. She nearly put me off Kerry people for life. And maths.

Deank

I went to a Christian Brothers School in D14, most of the teachers were average to say the least, mind you I was an utter little boll!x in secondary.

One of teachers used to let us smoke in her class, there was another science teacher that was a sadist, he used to love hurling lads around the class, and as for the Irish teachers, useless.

Anyway there is one incident that really sticks in my mind, we had a French teacher who was, let's say touched, not all there at all.
He had taken a particular dislike to one of the lads in the class, this lads dad had been in the school a while earlier and spoke with French teacher; now his dad had just had an operation for throat cancer and could barely speak, he subsequently died from the illness.
A while later we were in French class and the teacher asked this lad to recite some verbs I think, he made a complete balls of reciting them back, cue the teacher turning around to him and saying "you're just like your Dad, you can barely speak":eek:

There was uproar, can't exactly remember what happened next but the same teacher wasn't anywhere to be seen for a while, I think he had a stint in St. Pat's.

Roisy7

Had a science teacher who was convinced the sun moved around the earth...

books4sale

cowzerp wrote: »

HA ha, Last i heard he had a stroke,
.

Yeah man, just winding you up! Hope you got an ould laugh.

Sometimes its better to find the humour in life, the bitterness will eat a man from the inside out.

Wurly

I once had a history teacher that had us colouring in photocopied designs from the Book of Kells two weeks before our junior cert.

Then he'd get us to write chapters of the book into our copies, without explaining a word.

As you can imagine, the boredom and despair were palpable. We used to just sit around chatting. He'd go mad though - especially at me. I was 'the messer'. So he'd lift up my desk, take it outside and tell me to stay there. So i'd be sitting out in the corridor for 5 mins at my desk. Then he'd come out and lift the desk back in and to come in and be quiet. The most he moved me out and back was 7 times in a 40 min class. Headbanger!

sunbeam

I forgot about our second year college stats lecturer. After going AWOL for our first three computer labs he eventually turned up, told us he hadn't a clue about how to use a computer and we should just teach ourselves. We were supposed to do a project and half the class ended up copying the others.

He wasn't too bothered about teaching the subject material either. At the end of term he told us the actual questions that supposed to be on the paper before drawing a picturing of himself on the projector slide waving goodbye to us. He was long gone before the exam and it turned out that he had changed a few questions. I remember somebody in the hall complaining to another lecturer from the department and one of the questions was changed to make it identical to the one he had given us. :rolleyes:

Needless to say the external examiner had a fit and several people were marked down.....

shar01

I did the LC in 1989. French teacher was a wagon then... checked out ratemyteacher.ie recently... she still is!

Zut alors!

Harry Angstrom

sunbeam wrote: »

He wasn't too bothered about teaching the subject material either. At the end of term he told us the actual questions that supposed to be on the paper

I had a lecturer like that as well, a complete and utter spoofer. He was a city councillor and was more interested in his political career than teaching. Most of his classes only lasted 20 minutes (supposed to be an hour) and then he told us everything that was coming up in our exams because he didn't want people to complain him if they failed. The most annoying thing is that these spoofers are still drawing huge salaries and being protected by their Labour buddies in government :mad:

Roisy7

Nun taking us for sex ed in LC.

"There's evidence that the pill causes cancer. God will punish the immoral."

Cue uproar in the class and one girl saying, "Sister, I have acne, the doctor put me on the pill for that."

Nun (one of the worst teachers in the school). "Well then, X, you won't get cancer."

THIS WAS IN 2007!!!

Sgt Hartman

In CBS Primary School in Sexton Street Limerick we had this oul bat with gigantic brown sunglasses who used to enjoy thumping us over the head whilst wearing knobbly big rings on her knuckles. I was terrified of her.

In secondary school I had this frustrated spinster with a face like a gnarled parsnip for German. There was this kid in our class who having serious family problems and had terribly low self esteem. He was a really nice kid, quiet as a mouse. He would rarely attend class and he was also missing several school books. His mother didn't really care basically whether he went to school or not. That cnut of a teacher tore into him one day because he didn't have the German book we used. She told him that he had better get into town after school and buy all the books he was missing. If she had any brains or any sense of compassion she would have tried to find out exactly why that kid was in the situation he was in and would have tried to get help for him rather than tear into him like the aggressive old bitch that she was. If I saw her now I'd love to spit in her eye.

Roisy7

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

In secondary school I had this frustrated spinster with a face like a gnarled parsnip for German. There was this kid in our class who having serious family problems and had terribly low self esteem. He was a really nice kid, quiet as a mouse. He would rarely attend class and he was also missing several school books. His mother didn't really care basically whether he went to school or not. That cnut of a teacher tore into him one day because he didn't have the German book we used. She told him that he had better get into town after school and buy all the books he was missing. If she had any brains or any sense of compassion she would have tried to find out exactly why that kid was in the situation he was in and would have tried to get help for him rather than tear into him like the aggressive old bitch that she was. If I saw her now I'd love to spit in her eye.

The poor kid That breaks my heart.

bamboozle

Roisy7 wrote: »

Had a science teacher who was convinced the sun moved around the earth...

had a geography teacher who told us the earth came out of the sea...

thalia_13

A German exchange teacher who taught absolutely nothing in the months prior to the exams, oh except how to balance a window pole on his foot!!
A typing teacher who was drunk alot and locked us into the classroom more often than not..
A maths teacher who gave you lines for everything!!
An English teacher with an obsession wirh Seamus Heaney, enhanced by his Poet Laureate one year... I hate that oedipal old man and his crappy poems!

And the obligatory alcoholic Home Ec teacher!
And you know what, I would still have respect for their authority, teachers these days have students who reckon world owes them everything.... They gave no respect or manners.., no wonder teachers dont seem to care anymore

suicide_circus

a sub irish teacher of about 24 who used to come in straight from the piss having not been to bed, still in his Copperface Jacks finery, stinking of booze and told us to STFU and then he went to sleep on his desk.

For Forks Sake

Had a look at ratemyteacher.ie there to see how many of the teachers that taught me are still in the school....it says a lot for the standard of education in the school when most of the teachers names are spelled wrong...

Super hoop

cowzerp wrote: »

Mr grey, name may or may not be real! St Brendans school artane, a complete toerag who had a few kids he didn't like and simply refused to educate them, would often throw kids out of class before they even done anything wrong

If i was told he died in pain i would laugh hard.

I had that fat **** for 5th or 6th class. C..t was the laziest man I've ever known.glad the man died in pain!!

LoonyLovegood

ken wrote: »

We had a teacher who liked to give xxx word essays on mad subjects for not doing your homework. One day he told a lad to do a 600 word essay on the life of a blade of grass. He said no, teacher doubled it, guy said do, doubled again, guy said if i wasn't going to do 600 words you have no chance of 2400 words. So the teacher kicked him out.

As he was going out and passing the teacher he muttered something under his breath. The teacher took a swing at him. BIG FüCKING MISTAKE. The guy was an under 16 boxing champ and into judo. He battered the teacher to a pulp.

Teacher was never seen again.

Had a teacher exactly like that, one of his personal favourites was "my life in a tennis ball".

Worst teacher I had was first and second year French, and second and third year religion. Couldn't teach us, gave us the Christmas/Summer tests two weeks before we took them, was a general wreck. I remember she was boring me in a class so I started tapping my foot, she FREAKED out and almost had a breakdown in front of the class.

Then there was the English teacher in first and second year who was a complete alcoholic. She generally took weeks off at a time - I wonder why I failed honours English for my junior cert and ended up with a B2?

Galwayguy35

There was a guy in our class who always found classwork tough, in primary school the nuns really got on his case but in 6th class the teacher was really kind and way ahead of his time, he took him aside for a part of the day and gave him a level of work that he could understand and made real progress with him.

Unfortunately that all changed when we went into secondary and he was hassled no end by all the teachers including one aul bitch who took real delight in calling out his exam results as "no grade".

He was a really nice fella but he left after 2 years as I suppose he could stick it no more.

BetterThanThou

There's a teacher in my school, while I don't have him for any classes, he has covered for my teachers a couple of times.
I swear, he's extremely fat, his face is extremely red, I'm guessing he suffers from extreme hypertension, and I swear, he's nearly impossible to understand, he has some kind of Cork accent, but it's so thick that I don't think even people from Cork can understand.
I remember once he was covering a Geography class, we were doing one of those quizzes where you're out when you get a question wrong, I ended up winning the quiz, which took up the entire class because no one could understand him, he reaches into his bag, takes a Mars bar out and throws it at me, not even in a "catch this" kind of way, he literally threw it at me as if he was trying to do some damage.

Absolute Zero

Had a PE teacher in secondary school, about third year or so. Used to just let us go out and play football while he sat in his car smoking fags and drinking whiskey. Died a few years ago.

Had another lad, he was a former teacher but I believed he used to just look after classes where the teacher wasnt around for a few years before he left. The class used to go mental and one day he flipped a lads table over. Was extremely funny.

Had an Irish teacher slap a lad, his father in the army so big mistake when he came in for a chat.

Had an English teacher who could not control the class, ended up having a nervous breakdown after we glued him to the seat, blocked the door on him and got ink on his pants.

Had a Biology teacher, complete farmer who used to love saying "Mitochondrion".

Had a civics teacher who couldn't control the class. Some young lads used to call him a Fa**ot behind his back and nothing said about it.

Had a teacher we used to call Hitler, she was a right tough bitch but in the end by sixth year or so she would start to respect you.

niallo27

Our primary school principal used the beat the bollox off us with a hurley, those were good days. No harm for some of them to get it these days.

ruthloss

We had a Nun who brought a toy telephone to class and demanded we "speak to God" and tell him how sorry we were for our sins!!!!!:(

Mary28

I had a crazy maths teacher, an absolute nut ball who'd never get through a class without screaming her crazy head off at us and regularly threw chalk, the wooden chalk remover thing and books at us. It used to really upset some of the girls & principal didn't listen to our concerns. She reeked of garlic, fags & whiskey, never changed her clothes & drove 120 miles round trip to the school each day cos she lived in a caravan in dingle & the school was in cork. In 2 yrs with her I only passed 2 maths tests (40%) of hers including mocks & I got an A2 grade in the LC. I bloody knew i knew the stuff but you couldnt argue with her. She was a young woman at the time, I'd be surprised if she's still going god help her.