Did you think your HS teachers were strange?

[MolaKule]

Quote:
there must be some sort of rule that at least half of all college professors have to be bananas!


As an Adjunct Professor, it helps to be a little whacky and bananalike. It keeps the class guessing.

How do I know? Hehehehe!

 

[Jarlaxle]

A few from high school...

Never had her in a class, but the drama teacher was pretty cool, and fine with me always hanging around during rehearsals. She was a foreign-language teacher and spoke about five languages...including, of all things, Gaelic. IIRC, she was Moroccan. Technically, I wasn't supposed to be there, but she never said a word. (Liz was in the drama club.)

Freshman biology teacher was a real nut. Openly misogynistic, he enjoyed reducing at least one girl a week to tears. He did this to someone whose big brother was the captain of the varsity wrestling team (key word "big", he was in the unlimited weight class!), which nearly got the teacher killed. After a month, I told my guidance councilor that if he didn't get me out of that class, I would drop out! (He did.)

 

[mechanicx]

That's the one thing I never experienced in school was a misogynistic teacher. Almost every single one of them were the opposite and tended to be misandristic. I can only think of two or three teachers out of all them that seemed to like male students more but even none of those were really antagonistic towards female students.

 

[Jarlaxle]

He didn't LIKE anyone, except the ones who kissed his posterior.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
Originally Posted By: eljefino
We had an English teacher whose name rhymed with "Fluffy" so that's what we called her behind her back. A student with last name Tolle she called "For whom the bell Toll-eh'd." This whole inept department kept me from learning English until college, which mostly set me straight.

This doesn't strictly qualify but my 8th grade chemistry/science teacher had a PhD in chemistry but probably graduated at the bottom of his class. Or was too wierd to get a better job. He had an empty poland spring 5 gallon water jug and he put alcohol in it, shook it around, and dropped a match in. It shot blue flames out the spigot and made a fantastic noise. One girl was absent that day and the next day he gave her a full face shield and had her drop the match in as a gag. She still got burned somehow and had to go to the nurses office. He stopped doing that experiment that day and never spoke of it again!!!


Dude...did you go to my school?!?! My Chemistry teacher did the same thing! (Though I don't recall anyone getting hurt.)


I did that at home with a juice bottle and it was scary enough, he did that with a 5 gal jug?

 

[Benzadmiral]

What a cool topic. No, I don't recall any "strange" ones. There was an older Japanese woman who taught English at the freshman level. I did well in her class, but still disliked her, and nearly all her students actively hated her. She would sarcastically refer to students who gave a wrong answer as "you bright lights." We returned the favor by calling her "Tokyo Rose" behind her back.

My Spanish teachers were almost all attractive. Not Latinas, though.

Had a U.S. History teacher who looked more like a Mafioso than anybody should look. Refreshingly, he wanted us to learn *why* something happened in U.S. history, not just dates. As I recall he had a hard time keeping his eyes off one busty blonde in my class -- but then, so did I.

Chemistry teacher: older fellow, known as "Doc," with a dry sense of humor.

English teacher in sophomore year: very attractive lady, recently married, who was said to be into karate. She certainly was in good enough shape for it.

P.E. teacher: growly voice as if he'd been smoking cigars for 40 years (which was possible). We'd all line up, and if you weren't in your gym clothes, not "dressed out" as we called it, he'd growl your name and "ZEE-RO!" as your grade for the day. Oddly enough, nobody failed gym.

Had a geometry teacher who was attractive in a sallow sort of way. One day she was really under the weather, and told us to just sit and talk, QUIETLY, for the entire hour. We wondered if she had a hangover or something.

My Algebra II teacher was a matronly German lady. She had this neat trick to draw a circle: She'd get in position, then swing her arm in a big loop, the chalk marking out a near-perfect circle on the blackboard.

No, I don't recall any really *peculiar* teachers. Maybe the rules to be a teacher were stricter back then (late 1960s)?

 

[crinkles]

I have developed a great respect for my high school teachers, most of it since being out of school though. There were a few I did not like and still wouldn't, but it probably comes down to personality.

I had a german teacher who was actually german. I think she was from east germany and had emigrated sometime. I had and have great respect for her, but she was very hard on us, I think in a good way. I wasn't the best student to her and she didn't waste time on people who didn't show her respect. After year 11 a replacement teacher took over and german class was never the same without our "lieutnant".

I adored my Year 12 english teacher. She'd cry in class because other kids were pretty horrible to her. But she led me through lots of great stuff like shakespeare really well.

My science teacher was the biggest nerd - and kids treated him bad. But he was a great teacher to me and I developed a lot of respect for him over the years.

Year 10 math teacher was probably my only teacher crush even though she was married and a bit of a wallflower.

Can't say I had any really bad teachers - i was very privileged to go to a good school and get a good education and I would thank all of my teachers personally if I could.

 

[eljefino]

Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral

No, I don't recall any really *peculiar* teachers. Maybe the rules to be a teacher were stricter back then (late 1960s)?


I think they tried harder. Instead of the unemployment line there was the front line in Viet Nam to fall back on. The flip side was some people got into teaching (for the draft exemption) who otherwise wouldn't have. Some were great, some awful, but there was always a stack of resumes.

Of my co-workers, the older ones (now retirement age!) know how to string a sentence together and do other "old school" stuff.

 

[GreeCguy]

I had some good teachers - there was one in High School that all of us would have walked through fire and over broken glass to make her happy. She was strict, but she made you feel like she really cared about you beyond the classroom. To this day, I have a huge amount of respect for her.

I had some that were different and some who should have never been teachers to begin with.

My German teacher was from Germany. She was ancient and dyed her hair flaming red. Standing 5 feet tall, she might have weighed 90 pounds. If you didn't know the answer to a question she asked, she would throw the eraser at you, (and her aim was deadly). One time, she grabbed the stapler by mistake, (I think) and threw that instead. Luckly the student dodged the stapler. It hit the wall and broke which made her go into a rage about how we made her break her stapler. When she got really mad, she would curse us in German which is where I learned all my German curse words.

Our English teacher was a rather chesty young single blonde who would come to class every Monday morning with a hangover. She would tell us all to study quietly while she sat at her desk with her head in her hands, leaning over her desk. She ALWAYS wore low cut dresses or blouses which for some reason, made all us guys want to sit on the front row of class, (especially on Mondays).

Physics teacher was a former jock football/baseball star from years back. His class consisted of telling us of his glory days on the field. All you had to do was attend class and listen to his stories. If you threw in a question like, "how did you psych out the second base player?" that was an automatic "A." Needless to say, I got an "A" in Physics without learning a thing other than some very boring stories about baseball games and football games from this guys high school days.

And finally, our gym teacher. If we were running laps, the last one in line got a kick in the behind as he yelled "faster, faster!" If he got really mad, he would run up, grab you by the hair and yank you around for a while." I remember one time, another fellow and I got into a fist fight on the field during gym. Here comes the gym teacher who grabbed both of us by the hair, banged our heads together a few times and yelled something like "not on my time!" I google searched his name and found out he is living not too far south of where I live today. I wonder, if I stopped by to visit, would he remember me?

 

[Jarlaxle]

I might visit the psycho with a ball peen hammer.

 

[wander2039]

My stories is about the same as other's. Just a couple to note..

The Spanish teacher was a hotter than all get out. To make it worse she lived within 1/2 mile of me not to mention her whole family.

The History teacher was a laid back vet. One of the best teachers ever had. Wasn't hard to pass that class but still learned somehow. Love anything History and this maybe why.

For the most part all my teachers were normal. I tended to blend in and didn't have much trouble. Showed up and tried and even with severe case of what they call ADHD today somehow passed.

 

[PandaBear]

When I was in an all boy Catholic high school, we had a young English teacher that was right out of school and only about 7 years older than us. One of the student call her "sweetie" and was sent to the principal's office, and was expelled right away.

Sexual harassment policy in action, students are not immune to it.