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Who was your least favorite?

Favorite teacher, third grade English teacher. (I want to a language immersion school.) She was just nice, and I really look up to her.

Least Favorite, ninth grade literature teacher. She was teaching us a book that had FGM in it, so she had to teach us what that was. The day she was going to teach us, her (8-10?) year old son was sick, so she brought him to class. Instead of modifying the lesson plan, she decided to teach us FGM by (1) covering the projections with her hands. (She didn't really get how projectors worked; they just projected onto her hands) and (2) using slang terms like "va-jay-jay" and "hoo-ha" to describe female genital mutilation. It just seemed disrespectful.

Wow. That is... pretty bad. You'd think she would've had the kid wait in the office or something for an hour instead. Or given you busy work.

Yeah. :/ I can understand not being able to find a sitter in time, and needing the hours, but seriously.

Fave was probably my Biology teacher in HS. He was super nice and let me do extra projects and stuff to keep my grade up because I suck at test taking.

Least was probably Health/Parenting teacher. She was a total bitch who thought my brother's pregnant GF walked on water but hated the shit out of me for some reason.

Mr. Kelly was my favorite. He made us write huge papers that took a whole semester to write. And I loved every moment of it!

My least favorite is every Spanish teacher I've ever had. For some reason, they are always weird.

I've had lots of favorite teacher, so it's hard to pick one. Maybe my eighth grade English teacher because she was the first one to tell me that she enjoyed my writing.

Least favorite was my high school art teacher. I have zero artistic talent, but needed to take an art class and she always held up my work as examples of what not to do. Then she would tell me in this fake nice voice that it was a shame I would never get better at drawing since she saw how it frustrated me. A few years later, I had the pleasure of telling her she had a huge fine due to overdue library books. The look on her face was priceless.

My favorite teacher was Mr. Potter, my long-term substitute teacher in 11th grade American History (he would go on to be hired permanently later on).

My school was a Catholic girls' school. He came in after my original teacher went on maternity leave in November or December, and we had gotten up to the mid-1800s, leaving him to teach us from the Civil War to Reconstruction. He immediately got to work teaching us like we were West Point cadets, and I mean that in the best way -- he lived and breathed history, his lectures were incredibly rich and delivered with edge-of-your-seat gripping storytelling, his assignments were challenging but purposeful and truly educational (and interesting), and I never once caught any sign of him dumbing anything down or skipping over anything because we were silly young girls. That was such a rarity from the male teachers in that school!

He is the reason I became interested in history, especially military history. There are so many experiences I wouldn't have had in my life if I hadn't had him as a teacher -- even one of my favorite books (Pat Barker's "Regeneration") is something I read because of my interest in military history, thanks to him. I can't quantify the impact he had on my life after having him as a teacher for only 2/3 of the school year.

Here is his obituary.

About a year ago, I picked up a book in my local used bookstore that I had always intended to read (Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth -- there's that interest in military history again), and when I opened the front cover to check the price, I saw his name written on the fly leaf and was so overwhelmed with feelings I nearly cried. (And heh, I bought it but still haven't read it yet, oops at me.)

least favorite - off the top of my head, high school chemistry teacher. I have arthritis in my back so I had a note that I gave to my teachers beginning of the year saying that I needed one text book for the classroom and one for home. I never did get that in class textbook - and she docked me points for having to look at a classmate's. Not to mention that she claimed I never did my homework but that was proven false since, you know, she had graded it.

(and for those wanting a good WTF moment - her pets were the jocks and cheerleaders)

Favourite... probably one of my art teachers. He was a really nice old guy who actually let us draw properly. And one of my German teachers - he was a really knowledgeable person who actually appreciated people thinking a bit outside the box (especially when it came to poetry interpretation).

Least favourite... well, where to start. I can't possibly list them all because we had such a high number of complete psychos and assholes at my school. There was that hysterical harpy who kept throwing chalk, her huge keyring and on one memorable occasion, her shoe at students. The lazy as fuck math teacher who never even once prepared his own lessons and kept messing up anything he was supposed to teach us. The teacher who kept bullying me for no reason at all. The several drunkards who showed up hungover or drunk. The paranoid guy who was convinced someone was trying to kill him.
The list goes on and on.

Favorite...I've got two favorites.
Favorite 1: 12th grade English teacher, Mrs. Hamilton. Good gravy, it helped that she didn't teach us in a dry and boring way. She got us INVOLVED. She had us draw our own comics to interpret Beowulf, had neat little mnemonics for grammar stuff...just, I loved her teaching style.
Favorite 2: My main psychology professor in college, the kind of dynamic guy who jumped up on tables and used like a dozen colors of chalk, and wasn't afraid to reference the popular culture of his youth (IE: classic TV that even my generation knew) in class.

Least favorite: My 9th grade English teacher who pretty much bullied anyone who wasn't an athlete--even the Quiz Bowl/Academic team members. Like literally, she'd talk over you and then dock your participation grade if you weren't one of her precious fucking athletes.

My second grade teacher, Miss Bailey. She was young, nice, easy-going about my horrendous track record with homework, and would let me play on the class computer if she was staying late.

Worst was my third grade teacher Mr Sparks. He had some very old-fashioned practically abusive ideas about punishment, and apparently resented me because a couple of years earlier he'd had my eldest brother and Mum had got pissed off at him for what he did to Grey. He left at the end of third term and was replaced by the principal's wife, who was a good deal nicer.

My whole attitude in life took a turn for the slightly worse after third grade. I also apparently had trust issue with male teachers after that, though they were subconscious.

Edited 2017-01-08 14:35 (UTC)

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