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[Hacp]

I'm a senior in HS and this year is supposed to be an "off" year for me. I signed up for an elective called Human Disease, which was supposed to be an easy class, since its an elective. It turns out that I got a new teacher for the class, and she has been extremely hard on my class the enitre term. She never teaches anything, which is normally alright because I usually study from the textbook anyways. But her tests are also way off topic. Here is an example of the type of questions she gives us...

Which of the following does NOT initiate DNA synthesis?
1) Poxviridae
2) Hepadnaviridae
3) Retroviridae
4) Togaviridae
5) None of the above

Keep in mind that she will never go over any of these viruses AND that they are only mentioned briefly in the textbook. I mean wtf is with that? It gets real depressing when you skip that question for later, and proceede for find 10 similar questions, all with terms that you have not heard, or heard very breifly, and a None of the above choice.

Please post your Horror teacher stories.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: Hacp
I'm a senior in HS and this year is supposed to be an "off" year for me. I signed up for an elective called Human Disease, which was supposed to be an easy class, since its an elective. It turns out that I got a new teacher for the class, and she has been extremely hard on my class the enitre term. She never teaches anything, which is normally alright because I usually study from the textbook anyways. But her tests are also way off topic. Here is an example of the type of questions she gives us...

Which of the following does NOT initiate DNA synthesis?
1) Poxviridae
2) Hepadnaviridae
3) Retroviridae
4) Togaviridae
5) None of the above

Keep in mind that she will never go over any of these viruses AND that they are only mentioned briefly in the textbook. I mean wtf is with that? It gets real depressing when you skip that question for later, and proceede for find 10 similar questions, all with terms that you have not heard, or heard very breifly, and a None of the above choice.

Please post your Horror teacher stories.

Get used to it. I'm a prof, and you'll find many teachers like this when you get to college. And no, I'm not like that!

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: Hacp
I'm a senior in HS and this year is supposed to be an "off" year for me. I signed up for an elective called Human Disease, which was supposed to be an easy class, since its an elective. It turns out that I got a new teacher for the class, and she has been extremely hard on my class the enitre term. She never teaches anything, which is normally alright because I usually study from the textbook anyways. But her tests are also way off topic. Here is an example of the type of questions she gives us...

Which of the following does NOT initiate DNA synthesis?
1) Poxviridae
2) Hepadnaviridae
3) Retroviridae
4) Togaviridae
5) None of the above

Keep in mind that she will never go over any of these viruses AND that they are only mentioned briefly in the textbook. I mean wtf is with that? It gets real depressing when you skip that question for later, and proceede for find 10 similar questions, all with terms that you have not heard, or heard very breifly, and a None of the above choice.

Please post your Horror teacher stories.

Get used to it. I'm a prof, and you'll find many teachers like this when you get to college. And no, I'm not like that!

Can I be your student !

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Hacp
I'm a senior in HS and this year is supposed to be an "off" year for me. I signed up for an elective called Human Disease, which was supposed to be an easy class, since its an elective. It turns out that I got a new teacher for the class, and she has been extremely hard on my class the enitre term. She never teaches anything, which is normally alright because I usually study from the textbook anyways. But her tests are also way off topic. Here is an example of the type of questions she gives us...

Which of the following does NOT initiate DNA synthesis?
1) Poxviridae
2) Hepadnaviridae
3) Retroviridae
4) Togaviridae
5) None of the above

Keep in mind that she will never go over any of these viruses AND that they are only mentioned briefly in the textbook. I mean wtf is with that? It gets real depressing when you skip that question for later, and proceede for find 10 similar questions, all with terms that you have not heard, or heard very breifly, and a None of the above choice.

Please post your Horror teacher stories.

get used to it, I had many teachers like that at college, you really do have to supplement your notes and read etc etc...

 

[tRaptor]

I hate my history teacher. OK, shes not that bad but not at all what I was exepcting. History at my college is pretty much a joke, its always been a class where you read the book and thats about it. I of course loved this becasue I needed to take like 3 hist/gov classes.

For whatever reason the previous teacher quit. By the time I've learned this I'm sitting in class with this nut. First of all she has not read the book, and the book SUCKS. So the tests, which are about 1/2 Multiple choice suck ass, most everyone got most of the mc questions wrong. This has happened with every test. Then she made us write some paper and a movie review. Now that dosent make me so mad, the old teacher would have never done that, but its ok I guess. Untill you get the papers back and she gives you a 70 or 80 or 90 and dosent write ANYTHING for comments on the paper.

 

[kravmaga]

I hated all my teachers up until I went to private school. The public education system in this country is the worst! Though, I guess it isn't typical for a kid to be moved from different states every 2-3 years; public schools don't really accomidate things like that. Still though I found that in public schools the teachers barely had a clue as to what they were trying to teach us and couldn't care less if children slipped through the cracks.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Eh, it's senior year, won't matter for the most part I imagine...

 

[mplutodh1]

College is even better, profs who are only there to "research" or care only about their MBA or upper level courses, yet the University requires you to take the lower level to get a "well rounded" education.

I think by far the best was a professor I had for statistics, she drove an hour and a half to "teach" two days a week. No TA, no help elsewhere. She couldn't teach, had absolutely no comprehension of how the class was doing or if we even understand the topics. She asked us a question in class one day and no one responded, she then spent 40 minutes yelling (and I am not exagerating, she was livid) about how we hadn't been doing our homework (she wouldnt know because she never collected it) and weren't paying attention. Yet the best part was, all of us had done the homework, worked together outside of class in study groups and done more work then was assigned so we could try and understand the topics she failed to teach in class and would eventually test us on. At the end of the quarter the 6 people I knew well in the class of approx 20 did not pass, that said a little something about her ability to teach. Later found out she was asked by the department to no longer teach that course.

Moral of the story, welcome to the world of education! Fortunately though, for every 4 bad professors there are at least 1 awesome professor/teacher who will go out of their way to help you. Thank those that do!

 

[Corporate Thug]

soooooooooo whats the answer???

 

[darkxshade]

I've had a lot of college professors that were like that. They would repeatedly go off topic, fail miserably in teaching the material at hand, or just plain suck at speaking... so bad that despite having 5 redbulls in you their boring monotone voice would put you to sleep in seconds. After a while I decided it would be best to just cut the entire semester and only show up for midterms/finals. Instead with that time, I would spend it in the comfort of my own room studying the text myself following the course outlined in the syllabus and most of the time I ended up with an A because the horrible scores from the fools who actually went to class and did nothing else put me on top of the curve. Without a curve I'd still end up getting B's at the worst.

 

[DrPizza]

I absolutely hate those types of tests. I'm a teacher (and prof for one class), and detest multiple choice exams that force a person to second guess themselves. (Well, depending on where those terms came from.) Like the question you posted, I've seen them where my thought process is "nope, not A. Not B either. Nope, not C. Hmmm... wtf? I've never heard of D." It turns out that D wasn't in the book, or in the notes. But, somehow, to answer the question, I've got to know what D is, because of that choice E that's lurking there. And, there are a few twisted profs who see no problem with that.

 

[AdamSnow]

I had a teacher in College that was really F'd up... I hated it...

Every other day it would come in dressed like the opposite sex...

Day 1 : Man - Dan
Day 2 : Man with dress, wig, makeup - Danielle.

We had to call it by its "sex" that day or we got yelled at... Talk about freak me the F out EVERY OTHER DAY!!!

Couple years later I read in the paper that someone vandalized a professors home bigtime... It's last name was in the paper so I'm assuming it was the same it.

 

[darkxshade]

One of my friends in the past had a professor that gave a multiple choice exam and purposely set the choices such that all the answers were D... and for the final 5 questions(the hardest questions) he'd set the answer to A. For the most part everyone got the hint half way thru the test and just kept bubbling in the D's. And once they reached the last 5 questions, questions that was not covered or very dubious at best or not in the text at all, naturally, most of them randomly picked D thinking it was prolly the right answer... and so for the few students who actually answerd those questions correctly(By not picking D), depending on how many they got right, they would get an A-D while the rest of the class who were under a very messed up curve... well... it wasn't pretty.

 

[So]

My control systems prof. pissed me off, because I could tell the material wasn't that bad, but his lectures were completely disorganized, impossible to follow and he kept stopping to tell us how easy it was and that only idiots could not get it. Everyone did poorly in that class.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
One of my friends in the past had a professor that gave a multiple choice exam and purposely set the choices such that all the answers were D... and for the final 5 questions(the hardest questions) he'd set the answer to A. For the most part everyone got the hint half way thru the test and just kept bubbling in the D's. And once they reached the last 5 questions, questions that was not covered or very dubious at best or not in the text at all, naturally, most of them randomly picked D thinking it was prolly the right answer... and so for the few students who actually answerd those questions correctly(By not picking D), depending on how many they got right, they would get an A-D while the rest of the class who were under a very messed up curve... well... it wasn't pretty.

I'm sorry but if you do multiple choice tests by pattern you deserve to fail.

 

[totalcommand]

Originally posted by: Hacp
I'm a senior in HS and this year is supposed to be an "off" year for me. I signed up for an elective called Human Disease, which was supposed to be an easy class, since its an elective. It turns out that I got a new teacher for the class, and she has been extremely hard on my class the enitre term. She never teaches anything, which is normally alright because I usually study from the textbook anyways. But her tests are also way off topic. Here is an example of the type of questions she gives us...

Which of the following does NOT initiate DNA synthesis?
1) Poxviridae
2) Hepadnaviridae
3) Retroviridae
4) Togaviridae
5) None of the above

Keep in mind that she will never go over any of these viruses AND that they are only mentioned briefly in the textbook. I mean wtf is with that? It gets real depressing when you skip that question for later, and proceede for find 10 similar questions, all with terms that you have not heard, or heard very breifly, and a None of the above choice.

Please post your Horror teacher stories.

Just off the top of my head, I believe that all virii initiate DNA synthesis in order to reproduce, so it would be (5). I could be wrong though, but this question does not seem that unfair.

 

[CheesePoofs]

Yes. He was a complete idiot who taught everything exactly by the book. According to him, the book was always right, even if he knew it was wrong. I had to spend an entire year with him, and still am doing an extra-curricular activity with him.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: totalcommand

Originally posted by: Hacp
I'm a senior in HS and this year is supposed to be an "off" year for me. I signed up for an elective called Human Disease, which was supposed to be an easy class, since its an elective. It turns out that I got a new teacher for the class, and she has been extremely hard on my class the enitre term. She never teaches anything, which is normally alright because I usually study from the textbook anyways. But her tests are also way off topic. Here is an example of the type of questions she gives us...

Which of the following does NOT initiate DNA synthesis?
1) Poxviridae
2) Hepadnaviridae
3) Retroviridae
4) Togaviridae
5) None of the above

Keep in mind that she will never go over any of these viruses AND that they are only mentioned briefly in the textbook. I mean wtf is with that? It gets real depressing when you skip that question for later, and proceede for find 10 similar questions, all with terms that you have not heard, or heard very breifly, and a None of the above choice.

Please post your Horror teacher stories.

Just off the top of my head, I believe that all virii initiate DNA synthesis in order to reproduce, so it would be (5). I could be wrong though, but this question does not seem that unfair.

Its not that question, but that type of question. The questions usually have 1 or 2 things that I have never heard of before, were never in the notes, and were either never in the reading or mentioned once in the whole 30 page chapter. It wouldn't be that bad if 70% of her answers didn't have None of the Above.

There are 2 teachers for my elective. In the other teacher's classes, the average is around a 95. In my teacher's classes the average is around an 80.

Ya, I know college is supposed to be hard, and the professors don't care, but heck this is an elective class (not supposed to be hard) taken in my senior year (not supposed to work). Instead of relaxing, i'm working my but off to maintain a barely respectable average in that class.

 

[JS80]

What do you expect? They are high school teachers.

 

[bharok]

Originally posted by: kravmaga
I hated all my teachers up until I went to private school. The public education system in this country is the worst! Though, I guess it isn't typical for a kid to be moved from different states every 2-3 years; public schools don't really accomidate things like that. Still though I found that in public schools the teachers barely had a clue as to what they were trying to teach us and couldn't care less if children slipped through the cracks.

Acutally my high scool was not so bad. the teachers were very good

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I had a Latin teacher in high school for four years who I absolutely hated. She was lazy (used the same purple pre-Xerox tests since the 1970s (this was in 1997-2000)), she was a general bitch, she called students out when they made mistakes, she screamed at students for getting anything less than a B+ and she had an OCD competition going on with several other Latin teachers in the state.

We were State Champions 9 years running, and she was OBSESSED with being the first school to ever win 10 state victories. We did, but only after dealing with her insane bitching for years.

Almost everyone in her class also cheated, and created a fvcked up scale for the few who didn?t cheat.

Basically the entire situation sucked.

She was UNIVERSALLY hated, but I talked back to her and threatened to report her to the school board for abuse, so she hated me more than most.

 

[GiLtY]

Wow I feel sorry for you guys. I'm in college now and I have not had a bad teacher yet. Probably b/c most of them are lecturers. But the professors that I had were among some of the best teachers I've had.

One Example:
My differential equations teacher is one of the most amazing guy that I've taken a class from. He brought absolutely no notes to the class, yet he could give you the most coherent lecture. Even if you are just scribbling down what he wrote on the board, if you copy exactly what he wrote, it'll still make sense to you weeks later. He derived everything on the spot, rarely made mistake; he said the reason he doesn't bring notes is to "show students that it is possible to derive the equations, and show [students] that it is not difficult to do so".

Kind of off topic, but just had to give prop to him.

--GiLtY

 

[LongCoolMother]

ive had my share of really amazing teachers and some horrible ones too. generally speaking, my high school (which is public) has some very good teachers if you take the advanced level courses. the regular classes have some crappy as hell teachers, but then again, it doesnt matter, because the people who take those classes dont care for learning anyway.

 

[dym]

Originally posted by: So
My control systems prof. pissed me off, because I could tell the material wasn't that bad, but his lectures were completely disorganized, impossible to follow and he kept stopping to tell us how easy it was and that only idiots could not get it. Everyone did poorly in that class.

are you in my class?

 

[dym]

elective classes in college are usually harder.

that's why they're elective (not for those who have no interest in the topic)