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	nekoneko 2007-10-10 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	I almost want to print these comments of DO NOT WANT and show it to everyone in my teaching classes. Wow. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

empy
2007-10-10 10:33 pm UTC (link)

I have another fine specimen for you: my first and second grade teacher, who drilled into us that Satan was everywhere. Yup, she told us with great relish that when you looked in the mirror, the devil stood behind you and drummed. He was also under the tables in the dining hall, in the toilet bowl(!) and in the shadows, to mention a few. Oh, and Hell was somewhere under Poland, a fact geologists had discovered when they drilled a hole a kilometre deep and lowered a microphone into the hole, suddenly picking up sighs and cries of agony. o_O

She was truly... special. (She also got three warnings before being fired when I was in sixth grade or so.) I like to think of her as one of the prime reasons I ended up an atheist.

Okay, that was both borderline OT and tl;dr. Go me.

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	rosehiptea 2007-10-11 04:28 am UTC (link)
	That Hell thing sounds like someone was getting her theology from the Weekly World News. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2007-10-11 07:09 am UTC (link)
	God, how I miss the Weekly World News. Sigh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ayezur 2007-10-11 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	Why did you hafta go and remind me? sob I heard the online edition was to keep going, though? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2007-10-11 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	It is! I love it so very much. Alien-fighting ninjas! Fishermen attacked by armed sturgeons! Mars is made of milk chocolate! I am very very tempted to sign up for their newsletter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jerel 2007-10-13 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	Is there life on Mars? Who the fuck cares, I want some chocolate! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	agent_hyatt 2007-10-12 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Oh, and Hell was somewhere under Poland, a fact geologists had discovered when they drilled a hole a kilometre deep and lowered a microphone into the hole, suddenly picking up sighs and cries of agony. ...I vaguely remember hearing about that. ~~I wonder, how would Hell affect the geology and tectonics of Poland and the surrounding region?~~ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-10-12 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	I think that's on Snopes somewhere. (Reply to this)(Parent)

quartz
2007-10-11 02:10 am UTC (link)

How about the fine example of what NOT to do when you're a teacher provided by my former professor who was indicted on 33 counts of mail fraud for using students’ SSNs? He got them off of the enrollment lists (the uni used SSNs as ID numbers at the time) and then obtained new social security cards, credit cards, and birth certificates using those numbers. When he was caught he claimed he was doing it as a wakeup call to the young people of the world and was merely showing them how easy identity theft really is and why weren't any of them greatful for all the effort he put into teaching them about real life?!? He got shipped off to jail and the uni changed to real randomized ID numbers the next quarter.

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	(Anonymous) 2007-10-11 06:05 am UTC (link)
	It was a social experiment! Really! (Reply to this)(Parent)

dragonfangirl
2007-10-12 11:17 am UTC (link)

Yeah! Those silly kids, how foolish were they in entrusting their identifying information to their schools... um... in allowing their parents to entrust their identifying information to their schools... um... in allowing their parents to conform to legal requirements of providing identifying information to their schools...

Maybe this would serve as a wake-up call for the school not to use SSNs as identifying numbers?

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My teacher horror story...let me tell you it.

singe
2007-10-11 03:25 am UTC (link)

God, where do I begin? It's been my fantastic luck to be plagued with the worst teachers EVER throughout my entire school career but I'll limit this to a few.

#1 - The band teacher who knew nothing about music but EVERYTHING about abortion. Every day us third graders got filled in on all sorts of anti-abortion rhetoric and never learned Note One of music.

#2 - The bulimic choral teacher (man, what is it with music teachers?) who would throw up in the sinks of the girls' bathrooms and decided to teach the class about proper stance by punching me several times in the chest. "See?! She has the proper stance! I just ...POW! ...can't... WHAM!...knock her over!" (At 12 I outweighed her by 50 pounds so it was only annoying.)

#3 - The high school art teacher who had a crush on me and wouldn't stop staring. (Age 14.) Ewwwww.

And so on. It is my fondest and most unrealistic wish for the future that the day will come when kids are taught by level-headed androids.

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	Re: My teacher horror story...let me tell you it. brennalarose 2007-10-11 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	Well, there's crazy teachers and there's "OH DEAR GOD DON'T MAKE EYE CONTACT!" Raise you the inner-city-trained Special Ed. Teacher who was convinced I was a problem child and need to be frog-marched to the principal when I had a nervous breakdown. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: My teacher horror story...let me tell you it. singe 2007-10-11 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	Euuuurgh, what a jackass he was. And why I never had a breakdown, myself, is beyond me. twitch (Reply to this)(Parent)

	agent_hyatt 2007-10-12 12:34 am UTC (link)
	All of my really bad teacher stories involve pedophilia, which is not of the fun. It almost makes the principal who died during a meeting with parents seem amusing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-10-12 06:29 am UTC (link)
	Now I'm intrigued. About the dead principal, not the pedoteachers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

agent_hyatt
2007-10-13 12:28 am UTC (link)

Everything I know is third or fourth-hand, because it was before my time, but as I heard it, the parent was yelling at him, he sort of flopped back in his chair, and the parent realized that he was dead. ~~One of the pedophiles (who was a new principal) was during my time, and the other was caught while my brother was in his class, so I know a lot more about them.~~

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	caito 2007-10-13 04:18 am UTC (link)
	One morning at a local elementary school (local to my home in Ohio, not where I am now), a teacher died in the second grade classroom. The kids thought she must have been really tired and needed to sleep, so they just quietly did busywork all day at their desks and no one knew what was wrong until the end of the say. (Reply to this)(Parent)

chibikaijuu
2007-10-12 02:51 am UTC (link)

Middle school history teacher whose fault it is I went to summer school - assigned a major project when I was out sick (excused, doctor's note), then told me I hadn't missed anything when I came back. Due date comes, leaving me going OMGWTF?

The kicker - it was a US history class and the assignment was to make a poster of your family tree going back to whoever immigrated here first. The girl who pasted a couple of magazine photos representing herself and her parents onto a piece of construction paper got the same grade my friend who had to trace her family back to the Mayflower *and* made a very nice hand-drawn poster got the same grade.

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