History teacher (insane teachers anyone?)

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

My history teacher, Mrs. Mieres, is the stupidest American ever. She thinks America has to be the greatest place ever and won't take counter arguments.

Just a day ago in fact, she was talking about what a great place America is for inventions. she said that America invents 90% of inventions per year (where she got that statistic i have no clue). Anyways, this kid, Aaron, who isn't the typical fourteen year old crap-for-brains kid raises his hand and says "isn't it true that most of those inventions are never used by more than ten or so people." Now, loving America (like a conservative. conservatives love America like a four-year old loves her mommy; anyone who opposes mommy is bad. :evilgrin: (by the way thank Al Franken for that simile)) my teacher starts screaming "Why don't you tell that to Thomas Jefferson and Eli Whitney!" which ended the conversation instantly. what an insane idiot!

Anyone else have any insane teachers or bosses?

[yardwork]

1. Yes. I had teachers just like yours.

They give me insight into different points of view. It was painful at the time, but now I'm glad that I got the chance to hear them first-hand. It will make you a stronger person.

[southerngirlwriter]

2. Your teacher is an idiot.

Eli Whitney didn't invent shit. He only got credit for it because the woman who invented it couldn't get a patent because she was a a woman!!!

[woodstockjimi]

20. which invention...it's been awhile since i've been in school

[furrylitldevil]

29. Cotton Gin

Which is one invention I wouldn't personally want to take credit for, but I have the advantage of history on my side.

[rockymountaindem]

3. I had a history teacher like that in 10th grade.

She knew nothing about anything. It was pathetic. Almost every time she opened her mouth something untrue came out. The problem was that I had her during the 2000 election theft, and I was the only liberal in my class. It was hell. I feel for ya. If you can, gloat your ass off to her after Kerry eviscerates her hero Bush*.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

7. Heres something funny

She calls herself a democrat!

:wtf:

[JohnKleeb]

8. must be a democrat the same way democrats were democrats here

in da old dominion 140 years ago,
hmmmm screwed up teachers
Well dude when I spoke out against the war last year, and told the truth that Saddam was supplied by everyone's favorite Ronald Reagan.

[bluestateguy]

4. Eli Whitney?

So we should celebrate the invention of the cotton gin, the device that caused slavery to proliferate, thus leading us down the path of civil war? Perhaps this woman has heard of George Washington Carver?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

36. Yeah, it tells a lot she didn't say Edison or Graham Bell.

Why doen't the originsal poster show up one of these days with a T-Shirt with a Confederate flag and the caption "YOU LOST. GET OVER IT."?

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

53. LOL

Her American hero IS CONFEDERATE GENERAL LEE :wow:


but that is a good idea!!!

[AlFrankenFan]

5. That's so UMOROUS of you, Paul!

You forgot to mention how she's always about to "crack" (I'M GOING TO CRACK SOON!) because she starts us talking because she tries to tell some completely unrelated story about her "interesting" life.
Also, she can't say her H's (ironic she's a "istory" teacher :P), and though I know it's not nice to make fun of people with speech impediments, it's quite umorous.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

9. oh, you silly uman!

i forgot about that....
and that story about her cousin ue, well that was very "interesting"

[AlFrankenFan]

16. Think it's spelled "ugh"

But who cares, I know you suck at spelling :P

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

19. well, whatever!

and anyways, according to ms reed i dont spell GOOD at all. i got an 8/20 on that test. :7

[AlFrankenFan]

21. LMAO JEEZ! n/t

[LastKnight]

6. youll love this one...

thiers this one student teacher... hes only been off his leash for about two weeks and the whole first day i spent correcting him in class, he wasnt too happy about it

the second day i made my corrections of him after class, still not thrilled, but better than in class and in front of everyone

by the third day i gave up... i cant wait till his term is up and we get our real teacher back. he doesnt know crap about communisim, which is a problem when your teaching about the cold war.

oh and yesterday i heard him insinuate that McCarthyisim was a good thing. btw hes a die hard right winger.

i sleep through that class every day and my grade is a 99.76... and he wants to tell me im wrong? hasnt happend much in that class. imagine if i stayed awake.

-LK

[MrScorpio]

11. About your ST

Sometimes it isn't just creme that rises to the top.

Crap floats too.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

12. Same thing with her

i fallen asleep.... i think seven times in this year (she only caught me twice and i sit in the second row) and yet i have a 93% in her class. It would be better but i did really bad on some stupid essay. :grr:

[DS1]

10. I have a psychopathic Geography professor

Each morning he comes in having photocopied all the articles about natural disasters or large amounts of death onto transparencies for projection. Then he goes through them all and laughs.

600 dead over here *giggle*

40,000 dead in Bam *giggle* *get it?*

Then he laughs at Chernobyl and stuff like that.

[MrScorpio]

13. Whacko Alert!!!

Your boy has issues

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

15. one word..... ew

[ThePittsburghKid]

14. Here's a fun story.

I had this lunatic for an English professor my first semester of college (this was two and a half years ago, so the memory is still fresh). He was a total nut--you got five points taken off your grade when you were, and I'm not joking--more than 5 seconds late to class.

One of his favorite things to do was to take the rough drafts of our papers and critique, slam, and basically tear apart our rough drafts in front of our classmates. I had to do a analysis of the poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning. He looks over my draft of the paper, scoffs, and says "What is this, one of those cut and paste jobs? A student at your level can't write this well." I glared at the guy. Every single bit of writing on that paper that wasn't in the poem was all from my brain. After about 30 seconds of silence, I looked at him and said: "I don't know whether to thank you for the back-handed compliment or knock you flat on your back for accusing me of plagiarism." He just sort of grunted and went on. I made a few changes to the paper--streamlined, tweaked, that sort of thing. I turned the paper in, and a week later, I got it back. He gave my paper, which he thought was written so well, an F. I barely passed the class with a D. (I would like to mention the next year I took a class with a professor who was reputed to be tougher on papers than this guy was. I got an A.)

He was a total right-wing nut job, to boot. We had to go to his website and read a legal agreement about our class (he was totally paranoid about getting sued), and in his links section were link to to FreeRepublic, gun sites, various sites claiming the typical New World Order junk, and bizarre theories about 9/11. There was also a blurb about the nightclub bombing in Bali being the work of a US "mini-nuke".

Thankfully, he retired in 2003, so future students don't have to deal with him.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

18. sounds like my ENGLISH teacher this year

Her critiques aren't worth a rat's ass/ she gave me an 8/20 on some stupid test because she said i dot my I's too big and there were twelve words with the letter "I" in them. Plus, she gave out an "on demand essay" which 75 % of the class recieved an off topic for because they didnt mention an article that had no name in their essay which she said is plaigarism. She lets you do your homework in class however. but shes a RW bitch.


Although i did find out that she thinks Rush Limbaugh is an idiot.


My friend Samantha (AlFrankenFan) and I are convinced that one day she'll go insane, scream "ALRIGHT!" and drop her pants, revealing that she has a penis, as does Samantha's step-mom.

[ThePittsburghKid]

22. She penalized you for dotting your I's too big?

WOW. You provide a great, albeit scary, visual with the pants dropping description, by the way.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

23. yes, isn't she insane?

Another thing that disturbs me about her she has an innability to say "well". She always says you all did GOOD on your spelling tests like usual (thank you, Samantha for making me realize she did this)

and thank you for the compliment on the description. it burns an image in your head doesn't it :P

[Fenris]

17. America continues to be the world's leader in technology

And pulls in top talent in such fields as science, research, the arts and technology-based industries. However, there has recently been an upsurge in competition from European markets, specifically Scandinavia. The trouble is that the United States is being seen as less tolerant by many scientists and inventors, especially with the furor over stem cell research and gay marriage, and other bio-ethical issues. Such polarized issues portray the United States as less open-minded, something which is necessary for a creative environment. So she probably is not entirely correct, but her argument was not factually strong or well-supported. I could offer up all the statistics I need, but unless I give you written proof, you're taking me at my word.

As for America being the greatest place ever, you should ask her about Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War. And while you're at it, ask her about the centuries of mistreatment and utter decimation of the indigenous populations of America and the internment of the Japanese during World War II. And come to think of it, ask her about the bombing of Cambodia, or the CIA's secret operations during the twentieth century to install puppet regimes around the world more friendly to the United States. The list goes on.

My point is that if you teach a jingoistic and one-sided view of history, you aren't teaching history at all, but mythology.

Just a history teacher-in-training,
Neil

P.S. - People stop lying to you in college. But until then, take whatever your teachers say with a grain of salt.

And here's the article from which I pulled the information on American innovative decline: http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/feb04/208023.asp

[DrWeird]

24. Umm, what did Thomas Jefferson invent?

Wrote the Declaration of Independence, OK. Lousiana Purchase, sure. Avid architect, yup. Curious naturalist, absolutely.

But what great invention did he come up with?

If you don't know either ask your teacher for me.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

25. hehe, i know

Maybe she meant Thomas Edison. Regardless, she's an idiot

[Ladyhawk]

34. I've walked through Monticello and he was an inventor.

I specifically recall the automatic doors. It was over half of my life ago, so you'll have to forgive the fact that I can't remember how they worked. I do recall there were quite a few inventions in evidence at his home, but I can only remember the doors, specifically.

[TheMightyFavog]

26. Had a history teacher in HS

Who had a home built set of pillories in his classroom. If you insulted someone in his class you had two options: Twenty minutes in detention or two minutes in the pillories. One day during Lent, (this particular lent, he had given up coffee) he had let an insult slip out, so he put himself in the pillories for two minutes! Hre he was, in the pillories facing the chalkboard, giving our lecture!

[ThePittsburghKid]

27. Home-made pillories?

And I thought my guy was nuts.

[TheMightyFavog]

38. Yeah, but

When we managed to get him put in the pillories, it was really funny. It's wish you had a camera moment.

[FatSlob]

46. Pretty effective tool, I bet...

I would have loved to see him in there.

[Character Assassin]

28. Yeah. I have. But I've some very explicit advice for you.

Never, ever, under any circumstances, pretend to be someone who you're actually not.

Word.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

30. I seem to have forgotten a little info

She calls pretending a bottle is a gun and shoving paper into it with a pencil pentending that the paper is ammo and the pencil is the "ammo rod" while some kid runs at you with a giant toilet roll thats supposed to be a bayonet a learning experience. what is that teaching us, exactly?

:wtf:

my theory is that they give kids that aren't in college the crappy teachers to see if they're actually willing to learn more

[AlFrankenFan]

31. lol good theory

:P

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. When I was in fourth grade

my teacher Miss B. decided that we weren't getting our books and notebooks out of our desks fast enough, so she had us stay after school for half an hour, practicing taking things out of our desks and putting them back.

We all walked to school, and parents began calling the school frantically when their fourth grader failed to show up at the usual time, so nothing like that ever happened again.

I had a seventh grade history teacher, Mr. A., who had lost control of the class, and there was one boy who was particularly out of control (The girls sat in back, combing the hair on their plastic trolls, making gum wrapper chains, and gnawing on cinnamon oil toothpicks--we thought we were so cool). Mr. A. finally lost it and made him stand in front of the room with his arms stretched out to the side, holding a textbook in each hand.

One day, Mr. A left with the flu in the middle of the day, so Mr. B, who had the period free, took over the class. He was known as a hard ass, so we were all on our best behavior, except for D, who wrote a note to her best friend. Mr. B intercepted the note, read it, said, "This is not what I would expect from a young girl who had any morals" and crumpled it up. D looked astounded.

Of course, we had to ask D afterwards what she had written. All she had written was, "I'm wearing my shirt out instead of tucked in because this skirt makes my butt look too big."

My senior high school teachers were all sane or nearly so, so I don't have any horror stories about them.

[Mobius]

33. Had a librarian that ripped out her hair and ran off screaming

straight to the nut house.

[youngred]

35. My Chemistry teacher

told the class not to believe in carbon dating because it hasn't all been proved...if he'd been teaching bio what do YOU think he would have taught rather than evolution?

[TheMightyFavog]

39. Yeah...

We have a fundie math prof (went to Wheaton, he told us a funny story about how he almost got expelled from there, I'll tell it to you in aonther thread if enough people PM me) here at UW Marinette that's kinda like that, too. However, our bio prof is great when it comes to standing up for science. He's heard and fefuted pretty well much every creationist/ Intelligent Design claim in the book.

[TXlib]

37. I was pretty fortunate

I had good teachers.

My American History teacher in HS taught us things that were omitted from the history books, like the use of biological warfare against the native americans (giving them blankets infected with smallpox), and the illegal internment of japanese americans during WWII.

Although one thing that burns my butter, to this day, was an english class (american lit) quiz, freshman year. There was a blurb after some piece of WWII literature we read that stated that "atomic bombs changed the face of warfare in WWII".

One of her quiz questions was "What changed the face of warfare in WWII?"

If you answered "atomic bombs", you got full credit; "atomic weapons" got you half-credit, and "nuclear weapons" got you nothing.

I answered "nuclear weapons". When I protested, she went to the physics teacher to see if it was the same thing; he answered that "nuclear weapons" referred to fusion weapons that were developed later. I was keenly interested in nuclear weapons even then, and I knew that he was wrong; "thermonuclear weapons" refers to fusion weapons, and "nuclear weapons" was a generic term encompassing both fusion weapons and fission (or commonly called 'atomic') weapons. The physics teacher did not admit that he was wrong.

What pissed me off so much, which i told my english teacher, was that those of us who regurgitated the exact phrase got credit, whether or not we understood what it meant, whereas those of us who used a different term for the same thing (showing at least some degree of understanding" got nothing. Even allowing for her requiring the EXACT phrase to see whether we had read the passage, she should have stated up front that only the exact phrase used would count.

[northofdenali]

40. My daughter's 7th grade Geography teacher

was absolutely insistant that there were NO moose in Alaska. (She was in Alabama at the time). My daughter, on her own, dutifully gathered up photos with information from the National Park Service, bibliographies of about 6 dozen books on moose studies in the Great Land, magazines (especially Alaska Magazine and Alaska Hunter). She wrapped all this up in a very neat package. She then placed it on this idiot's desk with a note, "What are these, CAMELS?"

Of course, she got suspended, and I was NEVER more proud of her!! Way to go, my beautiful precious child!! :loveya:

[Xithras]

43. Suspended for WHAT?!?!

When I was a freshman in HS, I had a geography teacher swear up and down in class that penguins only existed in Antarctica despite my insistence that they were more widespread. She finally ended the conversation with "Hey, I'm the teacher here and you don't know what you're talking about". I went home that night and collected a few dozen photos and stories of penguins in South Africa, South America, and many Pacific Islands. When I presented this to her the next day, she apologized IN FRONT OF THE CLASS, and suggested that the class take it as a lesson that you're never as smart as you think you are.

I certainly hope you fought the suspension!

[northofdenali]

49. Apparently, the Fundy neocon teacher felt the "note"

left with the packet was "disrespectful". Of COURSE it was disrespectful! I fought it all the way to the school board - no dice. Then I took her out of that school. New teacher/new principal just loved the story! The teacher who decided there are no moose in Alaska was fired for incompetence less than 6 months later.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

41. Had a whackjob of a history teacher once. 7th grade.

One year only. He'd refer to the 1964 military coup in Brazil like this: "and then, the government rightly came to the conclusion that choosing a President is too important a task to leave to the people..." :wow:

No other loony showed up in my entire school years, thankfully.

[ThoughtCriminal]

42. Western Civ. Prof was WAY to interested in torture

He could spend the entire lecture period on the nastier details of torture techniques of the Middle Ages.

I also disliked his emphasis on eccentricities of leaders rather than actual changes in civilization. Knowing every illigitimate child of English royalty was VERY important, knowing which technologies changed daily life and how they came about hardly worth mentioning.

My favorite part of the course was the evaluation.

[TXlib]

44. Maybe he was secretly into BDSM

[FatSlob]

45. She is right on one thing

America is the greatest place, ever.

Otherwise, she's an ass.

[adriennel]

47. a grad school prof

...used to share details about his impending divorce, what a horrible woman his (ex)wife was, ruminations on the thought that ALL women may be horrible, etc....none of which related to his economics class.

TEACH, DAMMIT! I'm paying $$ for this!!

[pfitz59]

48. 3 coolest, most Liberal teachers I ever had.......

stormed the beach in Normandy! Most vociferous right-wingers were 4F draft-dodging swine, or their stepford spouses! Your teacher has apparantly crwaled into a hole and won't come out. Remeber, its only one semester out of a long, long life! Take the high road.......

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

52. not just a semester

she teachs seventh and eighth grade and this is my second year. :grr:

[cally]

50. My HS Physics teacher refused to answer any questions from girls

Very few girls stayed in his class but I was stubborn and stayed. There were two girls and 26 boys. It was very noticeable so we would pass a note to a friend and ask them to ask for us. We'd all had years of classes together and were used to each other and helping each other out. Then I went on a senior, school sanctioned trip and came back to an unexpected Lab. I kept saying I didn't understand and he kept dissing me as a stupid girl. My friend and I got A's in all of our Science and Math classes. Finally, I got annoyed and just did the lab and shorted out the volt meter by mistake. He went on a rant in front of the class about how women should not be in science, women are idiots, it was so bad that I got up and walked out. I was not a student to walk out of class at that time in my life.

My Dad's was an inventor and my Mom was a HS Science teacher. I asked my Dad if he could fix the volt meter if I brought it home. My parents were the sort who never intervened with a school or teacher but my Dad got livid. He called the teacher and told him about all the folks he had hired and worked for him and how brains has nothing to do with sex, race or disability. The Physics teacher apologized in class the next day and was much nicer the rest of the semester.

All this from my very conservative, quiet father. He wanted his children to be scientists and I was his last hope for another scientist in the family.

[eyesroll]

51. Ooh! I had a math teacher

who seemed pretty normal, other than the fact that he looked like Ronald McDonald. I did well in his class, and he didn't care that my friend Joanna and I shared a programmable calculator in order to pass notes back and forth.

But the year after, a friend of mine was in his class. Aparently, over the summer, the math teacher underwent some sort of conversion, started some sort of philosophy/free thought club, and it turned out to be a front for his Jews for Jesus evangelizing. (My high school was about 50% Jewish, and most of the rest were Christian, so nobody appreciated him.)