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HexadecimalSky ,

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

SLfgb ,

That teacher is a sore looser.

lseif ,

a soar looser ?

SLfgb ,

🤪

zipzoopaboop ,

School was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. Should have skipped and abandoned ship ASAP

Duamerthrax ,

GEDs are a cake walk and if you get one in your early teens, it actually looks impressive.

Quexotic , (edited )
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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.

SomethingBurger ,

Two biggest groups of assholes in the world: cops and teachers.

andxz , (edited )

As I’ve worked most of my life in schools, and am married to a teacher I realize I have a bias, but some teachers do try their best to help every possible student.

I can’t count the evenings we’ve discussed certain cases and how to approach them.

We’ve been lucky in that we’ve mostly had the same students, as I worked with them as they were younger and when they switched up my wife got them.

We did work in special ed. though, focusing mostly on autism, so we’ve seen a lot of bad situations throughout the years, but I wouldn’t go blaming only teachers for that. There are also administrators, headmasters, outside influences and last but not least the parents that all play a role in every students education.

Then again this isn’t the US and I know how things look there in the educational sector, so your mileage may vary.

SomethingBurger ,

I’m not in the US; I’m French.

Teachers are the biggest losers ever. They enable bullying because they either don’t care or enjoy it (and a lot of times actively encourage it), they never admit to any wrongdoing ever, and worst of all do all of this for barely above minimum wage yet somehow are proud of their job.

Strawberry ,

worst of all do all of this for barely above minimum wage yet somehow are proud of their job.

What the fuck?

SomethingBurger ,

French teachers are paid around 2000€/month, so not quite minimum wage (which is at 1766€), but still insultingly low for a job that requires 5 years of higher education.

Strawberry ,

I was responding to the phrasing that seemingly implied that they should not be proud of their jobs because it doesn’t pay well

andxz ,

I mean, sure, I had a few bad teachers myself at certain ages, but there were good ones too.

Making it up to be some kind of power-trip seems wrong to me, although there certainly are a few of those.

I will say though, that teaching the same curriculum year in year out grinds down almost anyone.

I felt lucky that each student was truly different since their various issues needed such radically different approaches, but that was spec. ed., not normal school.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Skill issue, have parents that can afford a better school district.

muntedcrocodile ,
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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.

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.

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.

ShinkanTrain ,

Galactorrhoea. It’s when not pregnant people lactate.

Hupf ,

G*orrhoea is a weird group.

Eggyhead ,

OP was probably saved by that final exam score. Judging from the opening from the text, it seems they were not putting much effort into the class. Sometimes a teacher needs to be stupid for a student to realize they can be smarter.

pearsaltchocolatebar ,

Yeah, that was me in school. Never did homework, but aced the tests. A few teachers made me take tests sitting next to them because they thought I was cheating.

SuddenDownpour ,

The fine line between being put on a podium for being gifted (and thus getting bullied), being severely mistrusted because your genius shows up inconsistently (and not getting diagnosed ADHD), and getting victimized by a teacher because you unintentionally brought light on their own mediocrity (because you’re autistic).

SLfgb ,

😢

DiploRaucous ,

Personal experience says there is no line there. It can certainly be both -_-

Eggyhead ,

Well if you give the teacher nothing to properly judge you by, it’s not unexpected for them to judge you incorrectly.

conciselyverbose ,

Maybe if they took 30 seconds to explain to me why I still needed trivial busywork instead of just failing me when I got 100 on every test because the material wasn’t at all challenging, I would have done better 🤷🏼‍♀️

Fucking people over when they’re objectively right definitely does not improve engagement or effort.

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.

Kusimulkku ,

OP should stop being a sore loser

Rinna ,
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“Funner is not a word”

sirico ,
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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?

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