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

Mrs. N 11th grade English - She was committed to helping us investigate literature and write at a sophisticated level. I absolutely despised her class. Every day was thoroughly planned. She held us to the fire when it came to writing well. She persistently tasked us with building on our knowledge. I just didn't plain like her.

But looking back, that was the most effective English class I had in high school. I wouldn't have struggled so much my first few years of college if I had four years of quality English teachers.

Mine I can’t even spell, Czech immigrant when the Soviets took over. She and her family immigrated to escape Stalin (she was a small child then).

She singled me out for all the opposite reasons because of the rumors from my drug arrests (3x for a single joint each, the last 2 because of friends not disposing of it by eating instead holding it or tossing it to be found). Threatened to get the county sheriff stationed at the school search me as I was across the room tutoring a hottie over the material (chemistry) as the teacher with thick E. European accent sucked at explaining. She also hated me for being able to figure out the material and teach it to my classmates better than her. I was the high score in her class after teaching the material to that year’s valedictorian!

She was just a bitch anyway. Neither of my sisters liked her either and they were goody 2 shoes. Yea being run out of your home and nation sux but after 30+ years: get over it!

I had a Mr. Merrit 7th grade in Memphis. He was elsewhere after that. Once he smacked his yardstick dangerously close to my knuckles and he was flabbergasted when I stood and took the yardstick out of his hand and tossed it out the 2nd floor window

He retrieved it when he got the principal who didn’t even bother to call me out in the hall, just said to apologize and not do it again.

Mark Nassif, math, Tara. Dude was hardcore. Had a final where just after he passed out the tests the school lost power. We all began to cheer thinking the final would be cancelled. Nope - dude pulled out candles from his desk, handed us each one, and we took our advanced math final by candle light. He and I fought all the time but that man could teach some math. My first 3 college math classes were a joke because of what that man taught me in high school.

Looking back, most teachers that I hated deserved it. There are certain ones to this day I wouldn't piss on if their arse was on fire.

Main one I can think of was a teacher in HS who taught what I do for a living.

I learned a lot but he is/was such a massive prick it is hard to give him credit for anything.

Did not help that he fricked up a number of things, such as assuming that the curriculum was changing to where we didn’t need the old books only to find out it didn’t… which meant we were learning out of Xerox packets for the whole fricking year.


I learned a lot of the structure and techniques for what I do now but it convinced me to go to a more applied area of the field rather than straight tech because it was such a miserable experience.

she gave me a zero on because she said that there was no way I had written it...but I had.
---and now you like her for that?

Damn Spicoli, did you ever order pizza during class?

Mrs. Shackleford 2nd grade Stonewall Elementary. She's draw little circles on the chalk board, make us put our nose in the circle, then spank us with a paddle for any little thing.

Don't think teachers can do things like that anymore.