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EnderMB ,

I’ve had a few awful teachers or professors over the years. One professor that sticks out was a total asshole to me. I had to go for surgery and rehab on an injury, so missed two of his classes. I emailed ahead to ask if there was anything important covered that I should make sure to read about in the required text, and his response was “this is an ignorant comment, everything I teach is important, if this is your attitude you’re going to fail”. The man was such a cunt that 16 years later I still use his work and personal email address (note: don’t put your personal email in your book that every student is forced to read for your shitty intro class) as spam fodder whenever a dodgy website has a subscription or email box.

Pair that with another professor, who gave an assignment with tiers for extra credit, on the basis that you complete the first tier to be eligible for the second. I decided to go for full marks, and completed all tiers, but broke my code 10 mins before review. He reviewed, told me that it was great that I even attempted, and only marked me down for the case I failed - turning a potential zero into 90%. It was the final mark I needed to pass his class, complete my degree, and to get the prerequisite to join my masters degree programme.

Farts ,

Teacher acted like a dick but it’s fairly easy to get a 98% on the final and get a C. Anyone who has taken a class in a standard us school and given a shit about their grade will recognize that they are typically also graded on the other tests, homework, class participation, quizzes, projects, etc.

Might also explain why the teacher was kind of a dick. Maybe anon was the pain in the ass student that clearly had the intelligence to easily pass the class but rarely paid attention, never did homework, was often disrespectful, etc and then was shocked when the educator wasn’t willing to work with them.

Wav_function ,

Those kids are neurodivergent. Class isn’t set up for them.

Meds or lol C

Rinna ,
@Rinna@lemm.ee avatar

“Funner is not a word”

HexadecimalSky ,

In middle school I had to argue with a teacher that “Floral” was a word. I was unsuccessful in convincing him.

uis ,

I am happy when people online don’t try to dehumanize each other

rickyrigatoni ,

Every time someone cries about how teachers today are so underpaid and disrespected and nobody supports them, I just want to say that maybe it’s because all of those kids who grew up constantly abused by the school system grew up into parents, taxpayers, and lawmakers who have a distrust in the whole mess.

0ops ,

I’ve had awesome teachers. I’ve had just as many really shitty teachers though. And lots of simply mediocre. I totally support higher wages for teachers, but honestly less in sympathy for today’s teachers and more to make it a viable career choice and attract some actual professionals. So many teachers seem to only want the job for the authority (over kids? I don’t get it), and only get it because the school district is desperate.

I don’t know if raising wages would fix the problem, I just know that it would increase the pool of applicants, allowing the school district to be more selective.

oatscoop ,

So higher wages, better working conditions, and in exchange maybe be held to a higher standard of professionalism?

That would never work!!!111111

khaleer ,

If you don’t get it, then you are succeffull human being.

alienanimals ,

– Teachers are paid a shitty salary

– Most teachers end up being shitty

Truly a mystery. If only we had some decent teachers so someone could figure this out.

bulwark ,

I’m for sure in this boat. I can’t think of a single teacher from highschool that has a positive impact on my life. All of them seemed to not give a shit and a few seemed to genuinely hate their job and students. At least that’s what I remember.

I will say now that I have school age kids its difficult to not impose my feelings about teachers on them, but I see the same shit I got growing up 20 years ago.

z00s ,

Maybe the shit was on your own shoe

khaleer ,

Lawmakers know perfectly how uneducated massess are batter than educated ones. and the best way to make ppl hate educating themself, is to create school system as we see it.

GarlicToast ,

I have two professors that I have strong memory of.

The first thought classes that she was not qualified to teach. Using methods outside her narrow window of understanding hurt your score. She set a rule that if you ask for her to recheck a question on the final you will lose 20 points. On my final I had a minus 20 because she doesn’t understand powers of 2.

The second is brilliant but very absent minded. Gave us a badly worded question. It was meant to be a very hard question and I didn’t know the subject well enough to solve it. Used mathematical logic to prove he didn’t ask what he thought he was asking. And solved the very easy question he actually asked.

He gave me a perfect score and a job.

Mycatiskai ,

Hand or blow?

rtxn ,

Boob.

Bassman1805 ,

I once got a C- on an essay, but for extra credit we could submit that paper to a state essay contest. I was a state finalist in that contest, with my only revision from the class-submitted version being spell checking Britan->Britain.

Fuck you, Mrs Wickham.

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

Ah essays. The most bullshit part of school because they just cannot be graded objectively and never are.

Bassman1805 ,

I mean, few things in life can be graded objectively so that’s not really the best standard to hold education to. There’s a lot of value in learning and practicing the skill of taking in information and then rearranging it into your own words, creating and supporting arguments from the knowledge you’ve gained.

But the subjectivity of it DOES mean that occasionally teachers will need to set aside their egos. Those who legitimately want to educate the next generation usually can do that, but some just enjoy having power over children and absolutely will not units forced to do so (and doing so will just create a new grudge against that student).

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

Well of course nothing can be graded 100% objectively but maths for example. Your answer is either correct or not. With essays the teacher can just decide they don’t like your argument and you get fucked. I my 4 years of secondary school none of the 8 guys in my class ever got the best possible grade on an essay. Even after we got a less demanding teacher the grades barely improved.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Had something similar in an english class back in 6th grade (Brazil, 12yo students) - I knew some english words better than her and I wish I was making it up. She would say to class that checkers is chess game, call muffins doughnuts and vice versa (and say it like “dougonoot”). Of course, she always ignored my corrections and told me I was wrong whenever she could, like with checkers (she probably assumed that because “checkered” translates to “xadrez” despite the meaning there being for the texture/stamp, an adjective, rather than the game “xadrez”, a noun)

So, one bright day, she gives us an exam where the first 10 or so questions are just True or False according to the text. I read the text, I read the questions and notice that they don’t reference the text at all. I quietly ask her if the text is right, because several words being referenced in the question are nowhere in the text and she just dismisses me, “Just read and you’ll find the answers”, so I sit back slightly pissed and do what every other student did: randomly guess. Next week, we receive the exams back with our grades, another kid asks the teacher if she could show where in the text the answers for the T/F questions were. She starts reading and realizes her mistake. “Sorry class, I forgot the second half of the text” - which was a total lie because “second half” implies that at least something would have used the first half. I guess she learned how to revise her exams, because the others we had during the year were fine.

Anyway, if you ever wonder why most Brazilians know jack shit about English, it’s because the mandatory English classes are fucking shit. My conspiracy theory headcanon is that this is on purpose to sell extracurricular English courses

Martinphipps ,

I wrote an essay in high school in which I compared Hamlet and Horatio to Starsky and Hutch or Batman and Robin. I was saying that Hamlet was trying to solve his father’s murder and Horatio was his sidekick. The substitute teacher didn’t like it so I complained to the regular teacher when he got back.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Started in a new school. Had to begin attending before I actually moved to the new house. First class the teacher says I am to spend the first week observing the class, and getting an idea how it functions. I will not be required to participate, or do work, until the start of the next week. At the end of that week he calls me over to his desk and, in a clearly annoyed tone, asks me why I had done no work that week. So I told him he said I wasn’t supposed to, not until the upcoming Monday. He then tells me I should have taken the initiative to do work anyway, even when told I didn’t have too. This showed I was lazy, and then he said I was being a smart ass for “using his words against him” for reminding him what the instruction, he gave me, was.

So I said, if you tell people not to do something, don’t expect them to do it. I can’t just know that they want the opposite of what is asked for. So he said he is gonna call my parents and tell them all about this. Then he asks for my phone number. I didn’t know it, we got into the new house the night before and all we had was suitcases, boxes, and mattresses on floors. So he tells me that trying to hide it won’t help, the office will have my number. So I tell him to get it from them, as I didn’t know the phone number yet. He calls my mom, and tells her “You know, your son acted like he didn’t know his own phone number, like that would stop me from calling” and my mom informs him that the phone was activated 2 days ago, and that I don’t know it. Then she said he huffed and then said “well the problem is, he didn’t do any of the work this week”. and she then told him I was informed not to, in fact, he put it in writing, and sent the outline of what he expected from me, home, on my first day.

This motherfucker held a grudge until the day I no longer saw him again. He even lied about the situation to other teachers, so when I started their classes, I got a lot of “Oh, Mr. Heckman (real name, fuck him) told me about you” in a sardonic tone. This started a 2.5 year shit storm with this school, that ended with them paying my tuition to go somewhere else.

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Remember kids intelligence lead jobs don’t mean intelligent people the opposite is true also

RobertoOberto ,

I cannot make sense of this comment. Perhaps someone can sprinkle in some punctuation?

Duamerthrax , (edited )

I had a high school civics teacher tell the class that the the 2nd to 10th richest people in the world were the Walton Family heirs(Walmart). I knew at the time that Steve Ballmer was like the 5th or something. I brought in a printout of the Forbes Top 50 Richest people and he coped by saying that if you combine the wealth of the Walton family, they’d be in the top 5.

That was probably one of the more benign falsehoods that teacher taught.

Buddahriffic ,

Sounds like a teacher that hadn’t yet learned that you never stop learning. Was probably going off an outdated list and didn’t realize his fun fact had an expiry date on it.

Duamerthrax ,

This person had a very static view of the world, but I’m not sure the Waltons were ever that rich. Sure, Walmart is a huge chain, but there are bigger industries then retail.

Buddahriffic ,

You’re right, a number of them have individually risen decently high on the list, even at the same time, but the family has never dominated it like the original statement said.

This is actually news to me, too, because I was under the impression that there had been a time period where the Waltons’ wealth dominated most others, either before Gates rose to the top, or maybe with him in the top spot but then cleaning up most of the rest of the top 10 list.

muntedcrocodile ,
@muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee avatar

Got failed for a programming test. Discovered during the practice tests that it was a vm that would run your code for a variety of test cases. Turns out it was a linux vm and said test cases and answer where in a big plain text file that was accessible by the program when being run. Wrote a universal solver that simply read the file checked which case was being checked and returned the correct answer. Got given zero for cheating.

qarbone ,

I mean, yes. You were cheating.

The fact that it was simple to cheat doesn’t make it not cheating.

Thanks for the story tho

Graphy ,

Hah fr

I had to write blueJ tests for a class that my wife randomly volunteered me for. So in an hour I threw together ten really easy hello world type tests that the kids world submit to web cat.

The instructions all said don’t just print like 4 if it was asking you to add 2+2 then return and print the sum.

All the kids got it right by printing and returning the correct answers but my wife’s coworker at the library had an aneurism when they realized they could just print the 4.

dch82 ,

Although it was cheating, IMO they should at least have given you credit for ingenuity.

You have the mindset of a proper hacker (the old fashioned definition of course).

As someone (I can’t remember who) said, the best way to get something done is to assign it to a lazy but genius person.

ID411 ,

You do get credits ingenuity. In the Ingenuity Exam.

this was Linux class

conciselyverbose ,

They should have said, good job, now do the actual assignment.

Because clearly you aren’t learning the relevant material that way.

Quexotic , (edited )
@Quexotic@sh.itjust.works avatar

I remember a 7th grade teacher making fun of my computer knowledge as I had made some fun adjustments to the qbasic gorillas game. She said “you act like you know more than anyone else does” trying to shame me in front of the class. My response? “That’s because I do.” As flatly as I could. She was silent.

I have software developer in my title now.

NormalPerson ,

Did you ask them to fix your title yet?

Quexotic ,
@Quexotic@sh.itjust.works avatar

Aaah appealing to my imposter syndrome I see. Noice!

Thank you for the laugh.

0ops ,

I think they meant the typo

Quexotic ,
@Quexotic@sh.itjust.works avatar

Even funnier. I am not a software develoer. It’s odd that my keyboard won’t even let me write it that way without extra effort.

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