re: Looking back, who was a teacher you hated…..

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but now that you are older, you can truly appreciate and understand why he/she was the way they were…

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No. They were being a fricking a-hole.

None. All of the teachers that I hated were complete bitches/jackasses. Now that I teach HS, the best thing I learned from the teachers I hated was how to not be like them

History teacher, at first.

Every day was an hour of lecture and taking notes the entire class. I hated the guy until I got to college and realized how well that paid off.

Every class would take 3-5 complete pages of notes, and I learned more in that class than any other.

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Mrs. Grotti, you’re the GOAT.

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And her husband was a GOAT mobster.

Slightly off topic but talking about teachers got me to thinking about my 7th grade English teacher. Class was fine and she liked me well enough, think I made a 98, but she was a black woman and it was November 2007. She comes into class one day and starts it off saying how she knows some of us are probably upset, but that we have to understand it’s finally time they had one. Most of the kids in class are looking around like what the frick is she talking about? She goes on to explain how white people have had 43 presidents and it’s only natural that black people finally get one. Mind you were 7th graders so you could probably count on one hand the number of kids that even realized a presidential election was even happening. She then started class as usual but to this day I thought that shite was hilarious.

ETA: that same woman also refused to believe Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and believed it had to have been some unknown black man, because why would a white man want to make a machine that made life easier on slaves. Never mind the fact that it made the process of harvesting cotton easier and therefore more yield and more money for plantation owner, or the fact that the invention of the cotton gin actually set back emancipation efforts.

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Mr Kotter, yeah, we teased him a lot but we got him on the spot.

Welcome back

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Had a professor that looked like Jesus for a Freshman English class. He was an old school hippy and hated all my papers because I wrote mostly from a conservative point of view (this was the early 90’s). He never could give me a reason for not giving me an A except that “he wasn’t a fan of the slant or style”. Took the next level class the next semester with a fair professor and basically wrote the exact same papers and aced all of them. frick that hippy piece of shite.

Martha K. Simmons-9th grade biology - Gainesville high school. The meanest lady, to this day, I have ever met. This was 40 years ago..

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But I just had a different teacher "open my eyes"

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Yep Gonthier would do that as well. He is a fantastic example of that. Took him over the summer one time and enjoyed his lectures. Even if they are tough, it meant something to me that they actually cared and knew all of their material.