Your Worst Schoolteachers

[Deleted User] · 22/03/13 - 20:30

I left school in 1980 and we had a few dodgy ones.

One bloke would throw the blackboard rubber (full pelt) at you if you leaned back on the chair this was usually after his trip to the nearby pub:)

The physics teacher was just terrifying, what made it worse for me was that I did not get any of it he might as weel have been speaking Martian. Is it me or were all science teachers weird?

Then there was the 1st year head and his swimming club, it sounds really dodgy now but at the time it just seemed he was just being really nice to pupils who did well in that year... I know that really does sound dodgy.

One teacher (a reall geeky one) was persuaded to dress as Batman for the 5th end of term review. Oh boy did he ever regret that.

We had some absolute gems though.

[Deleted User] · 22/03/13 - 20:34

I left in 2006 I think, we had one teacher who used to call people stupid cabbages and lock them in a cupboard for the remained of a lesson. It was like a packed storage room.

Another made a girl sit on the floor in the corridor (she was 15) outside the classroom, for popping and and speaking to a classmate before the class started. She wouldn't even let the girl go to her class. She was a supply, never came back after that.

zooooooooooooo · 22/03/13 - 20:47

My worst teacher was our games teacher who used to always hit us with a dap for no real reason. He would also line all the boys up in the corridor and the last two to get changed back into uniform after football would have to walk through all the other boys and he would make them hit and kick us.

Another horrid teacher was Miss Big Bum ( I didn't name her, but you can guess why she got the name) who would give out detention most days but only to the boys, so if one person did something wrong, boy or girl, all the boys would have detention. It was horribly unfair but being a fan of big bums it didn't annoy me then as much as it would now.

Pumping Iron · 22/03/13 - 20:48

We had 2 teachers get done for child porn.

TVGirl319 · 22/03/13 - 20:59

I left school in 1974, but I distinctly remember to this day the deputy head teacher we had at my secondary school!! Her name was Miss Braddock, but we all called her Bessie Braddock, cos of what she wore(mainly frumpy old clothes and Nora Batty type woollen stockings), and the way she used to walk. She was extremely dictortorial and a monstor disciplinarian!! I swear that she was related to Hitler!! I dont think she ever had a kind word to say to or about anyone, adult or child!! If anyone misbehaved in the school corridors, she would bellow out so that the whole school could hear her!! I hated her with every fibre of my being!!

TheSilentFez · 22/03/13 - 21:00

My current AS level Physics teacher is utterly hopeless. Nothing dodgy about them, but they couldn't teach to save their life. They are truly awful and are about as engaging as a snail doing the marathon.
Most of the time, people leave Physics knowing less than they did when they went in.

rick182 · 22/03/13 - 21:02

A science teacher who chucked me out of a class for saying the word pube

Vodka_Drinka · 22/03/13 - 21:02

Pumping Iron wrote: »

We had 2 teachers get done for child porn.

Yeah one of my old design and technology teachers got done for grooming and then having an affair with an pupil after I left.

In primary school our headmaster was a miserable old bastard who took everything way too seriously and didn't seem to understand that children are children and should be allowed to have fun sometimes. While all the other schools were at Alton Towers for their end of year trip we were being dragged around some stately home or museum somewhere. Everything had to be "educational" with him, even the last day before the summer holidays,

cnbcwatcher · 22/03/13 - 21:07

Kaylalou wrote: »

I left in 2006 I think, we had one teacher who used to call people stupid cabbages and lock them in a cupboard for the remained of a lesson. It was like a packed storage room.

Was her name Miss Trunchbull and did she have a cupboard called The Chokey?

Scuby · 22/03/13 - 21:17

My worst was the time my Mum died, My Dad had called the school to say I wouldnt be in until after the funeral, when I went back this deputy head called me to his study and asked why I hadnt taken a note to school to explain absence (could you imagine my dad writing a note to say his wife had died, anyway he had contacted the school.
) He bullied and shouted and I couldnt tell him, I was 11, so he gave me lines to do, my Dad saw me doing them and asked what on earth was going on, Suffice to say he went balistic.

Said deputy head got me back in the office and said something like "dear girl why didnt you tell me" not easy to come out with my mums dead. Bastard

[Deleted User] · 22/03/13 - 21:22

There were too many in my school who seemed to hate children. Definitely in the wrong profession and should have worked with animals instead as I'm sure they'd have shown them more compassion and understanding. Most of them were nightmarish and even to this day, whenever there's a social situation and I find out one of the adults is a teacher, I make a point of trying to avoid talking to them. No good can come of it.

zooooooooooooo · 22/03/13 - 21:23

Scuby wrote: »

My worst was the time my Mum died, My Dad had called the school to say I wouldnt be in until after the funeral, when I went back this deputy head called me to his study and asked why I hadnt taken a note to school to explain absence (could you imagine my dad writing a note to say his wife had died, anyway he had contacted the school.
) He bullied and shouted and I couldnt tell him, I was 11, so he gave me lines to do, my Dad saw me doing them and asked what on earth was going on, Suffice to say he went balistic.

Said deputy head got me back in the office and said something like "dear girl why didnt you tell me" not easy to come out with my mums dead. Bastard

I'm sorry, he sounds horrible.

Most of our teachers were okay, but there was the odd few who seemed to enjoy being nasty to everyone.

RuthStar · 22/03/13 - 21:26

I can think of three, all from Secondary School (Started 03, left 08);

My former Tutor, I had her as my tutor in Year 7/8, and In year 9, all my friends were moved to a different Tutor group, I hated being on my own, in Citizenship lessons/registrations, so I requested to be moved to a different group, and my former Tutor, had a vendetta against me afterwards, I think she took it personally I left her Tutor group, I sadly had her, for Geography for the last two years of school, she was also bit of a werido aswell, quite a few times she had to be taken out of the class by other teachers for crying, if she couldn't handle it, she shouldn't have been a teacher imo, Still glad I moved, I had a lovely Tutor in the last 3 years of Secondary, she was literally the best thing about Secondary for me but I'll save that for a "Best Schoolteachers thread" someday..

My RE teacher, gosh, she was a awful nasty excuse of a woman, her husband worked at the school aswell, and he was a prat, He made fun of me, for having epileptic fits at school, I was having MRI's and all sort of tests at the time, and I didn't need to be reminded of it at school by a nasty teacher, anyways back to the RE teacher, She told everyone in Year 11, I was going to fail RE, made fun of a low Mock Result I'd done, It was humiliating, I got back at her though, by getting a C in RE (Funny I did so well at RE when I'm Atheist lol)..

& I've saved the worst till last, my Final Math teacher at School, He wrote some horrible comments about my ability at Math in my Math books, refused to let me go to the loo once, when I had a Kidney Infection (I had low attendance, so I had to go in, when I was Ill that day), and my parents complained to the head about him, and he was made to apologize, but I don't remember him ever apologizing to my face anyway, he even "looked" like a douche, walked around like he owned the school.
The funny thing is, My school, was a Special "Maths" school, each school has its thing, some are about Modern Languages, some are about "Sports", mine was Math, and none of my Math teachers in the 5 years I was there spotted my potential dyscalculia probelm, useless bunch they were, I blame them for my low GCSE in Math, they spent more time criticizing me for stupid things than actually helping me.

Oh and a tidbit, I had this "Teacher" who never actually taught me, not properly at least, who disliked me, A English one, I remember getting sent out of lessons she was subbing for another English teacher when I did nothing wrong at all, trust me I was a teachers pet in Secondary lol!..

Just reading this back, makes me realize why Secondary School was such a negative experience for me.

wantoosoon · 22/03/13 - 21:43

My primary school headmistress was extremely masculine. She would dress in men's clothes and wear aftershave.

She was a bully and used to hit people with rulers. She once hit my legs with a ruler in front of the school when was 6.

I'm glad the b***h is dead.

Madonna38 · 22/03/13 - 21:48

I'll never understand why some people go into the teaching profession when it's obvious that they despise children. I know kids/teenagers can be difficult but you do need some level or patience.

I had some awful teachers, I loved History but one of my teachers was atrocious. He hated children, he would go to any length to humiliate them or make them feel stupid. Luckily I had some brilliant History teachers after that who really made me fall in love with the subject.

Art was another subject I loved but I had the head of art who couldn't run a bath let alone a department. Her lessons were impossible to work in, you'd have the thugs chucking stuff at everyone and just pissing about and her screaming over by the sink.

Like I said though for every one shit teacher we had two good ones.

OMG how could I forget my maths teacher. I was good at maths until I had him. I was in top set and by the end of it my confidence was shot to shit. When anyone did crap on a test he would read the results out in order of who got best to who got the worst. I got the worst on the first one and he completely humiliated me. For our GCSE coursework a handful of us went to our old maths teacher (head of maths) and she helped us out, he hated that we had asked someone else. His wife was assistant head too and she'd come in every lesson to check girls had the right colour socks on and no make up or nail polish. She was vile and so was he. Match made in heaven.

clarribo · 22/03/13 - 21:48

My english teacher in 5th year was a bitter cow couldn't stand her, didn't put me off english though and my A-level teacher was one of my favourite teachers ever.

Blofeld · 22/03/13 - 21:52

I had a maths teacher who was obsessed with her cats and Romania for some reason. Every summer she would drive to Romania (she probably flies now, this is going back to 2002 when low cost flights to Romania were few and far between) for the duration of the school holidays and stay in some convent or something.

Anyway, for a semi-nun she was a very angry person. If you got something wrong in class she would just shout at you and ask if you were stupid. One time I remember my friend didn't know how to work something out and she just shouted at him "If you don't know what you are doing then how can I teach you anything?" to which he replied "Sorry, isn't that why you're here?" which she didn't like one bit and she threw him out the classroom. A lot of people failed that class and I blame it entirely on her teaching methods.

Another teacher we had was useless. He knew his physics stuff inside out, but could not control a class at all. People would mock him, throw stuff at him, laugh at him, storm out the room etc and he could never control them. He really should not have been put in charge of a younger class. The only ones who respected him were the older kids who were more serious about their studies. He would have made a good university lecturer as all the older years said he was an excellent teacher. Just the younger ones had no respect for him whatsoever.I remember once during my class he walked out and went home.

Eddie Badger · 22/03/13 - 21:53

I had a few really useless teachers back in the 70s. The worst was a chemistry teacher who got all the top chemistry pupils – we all had a or b passes for our O levels and he took us for our Highers. Not one person in the class passed, in fact half the class didn’t even bother sitting the exam. He would write some long chemical equation on the blackboard and then go into a screaming tantrum if we didn’t have the answer before he’d finished writing it. If he asked us a question and we got it wrong, he’d rant and rave about us being stupid. If we got it right he’d accuse us of cheating.

A few years after we left school a group of us were in a pub and he was sitting nearby moaning to someone about how stupid his latest batch of pupils were. We decided to go to another table and as we walked past we all accidentally spilled our beer all over him 

We had a few others such as a maths teacher who was a stuck up bitch who would only teach a small group of kids whose parents she knew. Another maths teacher who walked into the class at the start of term and said “I retire in April so I’m not wasting my time teaching you lot!” and we never saw him again.

There was a psycho PE teacher who would throw cricket balls at people – in the corridors and would insist on joining in any team sports. Anyone who scored against his team was guaranteed to have an “accident” shortly after. He got his comeuppance from a new head of PE who caught him bullying a 12 year old. This idiot was challenging the kid to a fight! Then the new teacher’s voice boomed out “If you want to fight someone, why don’t you come over here and fight me?” He left shortly afterwards.

SecretLifeoBees · 22/03/13 - 22:07

At primary school (in the 80s) my worst teacher was the one I had when I was 8/9. She was a complete bully, not to mention racist. If you weren't the child of one of her personal friends then I remember we had a chinese girl (Annie) in our class and this teacher used to bully her something rotten. One of my memories from that year is when for Easter we were all asked to bring in a blown out egg to decorate. Most of us brought in normal chicken eggs, there were a couple who brought in duck eggs, but this girl brought in a beautiful goose egg to decorate. Anyway the teacher said if anyone broken anyone else's egg they would have to give up their own. There was a girl on our table called Vicky who was one of the teacher's favoured ones as her mother was an old school friend of hers. Vicky was jealous over Annie's egg and deliberately threw her own egg onto the floor and blamed Annie for it, knowing Annie would have to give up her goose egg. Even though the rest of us on the table tried to defend Annie, the teacher refused to listen saying "Vicky would never do that blahblah" and she made Annie give up her goose egg to a now smug Vicky. :mad: Annie got given one of the spare chicken eggs as a replacement. I've never forgotten that memory and find it sad even now. Annie left the school not long after. I've always wondered if her parents discovered how she was being treated when she came home without her goose egg as that was just one of many incidents that had occurred.

The same teacher made my life a misery and after Annie left I became her next primary target. She thought nothing of making snide remarks in front of the rest of the class about how my dad "wasn't like everyone else's" because he was asian (I was the only mixed race kid in the school) and other remarks relating to his colour. Can you imagine that happening now? I remember I also stopped having violin lessons because of this teacher. Myself, Annie and Vicky all had lessons and we had to miss the last 15 minutes of a lesson once a week to go when the music teacher arrived. Every week our class teacher used to make this huge fuss about it, but only to me and Annie, Vicky was allowed to go without anything said. Every week, despite us all going at the same time, she used to demand that as we missed part of the lesson we had to therefore miss playtime to make up for it. Vicky never had to stay in though. :mad:

She used to love to try and humiliate kids in the class too. She used to accuse people of smelling, farting (and then making a fuss about opening the window), having headlice, being thick. I remember her once threatening to rip my work out of my geography book because she claimed I had pressed to hard on the page with my pencil.

I could reel off a whole catalogue of her behaviour. My mother said years after when I told her the full extent of how she had treated us that it was the only year I had a lot of time off school. No wonder I was absolutely terrified of the woman!

Sorry for the long post..... DS is great therapy.

[Deleted User] · 22/03/13 - 22:12

I was at primary school in the 1960s and I was terrified of one teacher her name was Mrs Rogers which shows what an effect she had as can still remember her name.

At secondary school in the early 1970s we had an art teacher that would hit pupils on the head with a rubber hammer (try doing that these days - not!)

I was a weird child and always got on with teachers that my classmates hated but the 2 teachers above really affected my schooldays.

exlordlucan · 22/03/13 - 22:17

Short arsed Stott the woodwork teacher and Baffa Baily the sports master.

[Deleted User] · 22/03/13 - 22:29

I'm in my last year (6th of school) and I've had some stinkers:

My primary 7 teacher screeched at me once because I did P6 work instead of P7 work even though she told me to do P6 work :rolleyes:. A P6 boy in my class who's also in 5th year at my high school was treated really horribly by her, he even said today that he saw her on a ferry and when she tried talking to him he moved closer to his mum. Vile woman.

A female RE teacher in 1st year who was fired for slapping my friend across the face (he was a little git, but not that bad)

A Modern Studies teacher who used to spit as he spoke, I thought he was OK but I was glad I wasn't in the front row :eek:

Also before I started high school my ex best friend was three years older and she told me in 2004 that a Biology teacher had an affair with a 3rd year :eek:

ChristopherJ · 22/03/13 - 22:30

I suppose my school's worst was a maths teacher who made the front page of The Sun after regularly giving a 13-year-old girl extra maths tuition in the stock cupboard.

rbdcay · 22/03/13 - 22:33

wantoosoon wrote: »

My primary school headmistress was extremely masculine. She would dress in men's clothes and wear aftershave.

She was a bully and used to hit people with rulers. She once hit my legs with a ruler in front of the school when was 6.

I'm glad the b***h is dead.

I remember our form tutor hitting everyone in class on the knuckles with a ruler because we were all a bit late after the lunch recess. She was a terror and everyone knew never to cross her.

She once stopped me from going to a school play because I has gotten my uniform dirty during playtime. Everyone else was allowed to go. I was hysterical.

stuntmaster · 22/03/13 - 22:47

What a good topic in here.

I wonder if any of my ex teachers ever read this? I hope they do.

Primary school, nearly died teacher said I was quiet so ignored me. I was suffering an Asthma attack. My mother had minutes to spare and luckily my local doctor was close to the school. the name? Mrs Hobbs. Along with the snotty receptionist who if you were suffering an asthma attack used to force you to say 'please can I have my spray' clearly you can't if you are panting for breath.

Mr Petts. yes reckons I was deluded. I used to stare out the window. No I did that because I suffered hearing loss and found it hard to understand; getting no help left me bored.

Now secondary school.

Field day here.

Mr Burton, the year head who frankly never gave a toss. So a fellow pupil wrecks my bag and spills the contents, I wallop them one only to be suspended for it then told to perhaps get a better bag? Who was he kidding.

when being beaten up afterwards I got suspended for retaliating. apparently they heard the 'crack' when I hit back on the nose.

My friend who was half German and half Russian suffered a vile attack. He was with me and one of the lads younger brothers tried to torment him did well to ignore it. sadly he got physical and my mate gently pushed him aside, older brother got involved with his mates. brutal attack kicked in the head and stomach then finally spat on, with chants of 2 world wars and 1 world cup. I was incensed but I knew better than to take 3 of them on. poor bloke was out for 3 weeks+ severely bruised. Yeah Liam Woods never forget that bastard, caused me shit too. fractured cheek bone.

science had acid thrown at me, missed my head and drenched my blazer, because that blazer was so thick it didn't penetrate my skin. had it neutralized and discarded.

I had a right gut full there. so glad to have left.

loads went on at that school. they said I'd never get to my dream job, 'wasn't good enough'

then we have workplace number 1 compass catering, yeah hated that too. 'you missed a spot' 'you can't do this' 'you can't do that' 'its the rules'

Well to all of you that I've mentioned, if you are reading this
I DID GET TO COLLEGE
I DID GET TO UNI
I AM MICROSOFT CERTIFIED
I AM IN MY DREAM JOB EARNING A PROPER WAGE
SO UP YOURS, IVE WON. NOT YOU!

There got that off my chest. Had to be said.

[Deleted User] · 22/03/13 - 22:50

I refer the OP to my post (#5) in this previous thread on a similar subject;

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1685287&highlight=mr+moon

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