Post the best and worst, or maybe just most memorable, teachers or classes you've had here. You might want to avoid names, as I'm not sure they'd want themselves associated with a hacking site.
1st grade: My teacher was pretty awful, really. She seemed to hate me with some sort of a passion; when she taught us cursive I tried to make cursive numbers...at which point she showed the result to the class and actually mocked my work in front of them. Ouch. Incidentally there were three teachers at that school with the same last name as her and they all taught 1st grade. They were all also very nice. Behind her back I called her "Mrs. Gorgon," as it's only a one letter difference.
4th/5th grade: I was in a small school here, and 4th and 5th grade were taught by the same teacher. She was awesome, and completely restored my faith in teachers. Maybe it was just my simplistic child mind, but she was a really wonderful person.
6th/7th grade English: The real memorable part about this class was that whenever we were assigned a paper to write, the whole class would rent laptops from the library. I'd use the time to write my paper quickly and then use the remaining day or so to play games on the computer, since the teacher allowed us to sit wherever we wanted to work, even if that meant under the table or behind a bookshelf.
9th/10th grade Spanish: This guy was an absolute riot, and a great teacher to boot. Not a day went by in which the class didn't end up laughing their heads off at some point. One of the funnier things he would do is force students to write a half page, page, two page, or three page paper on why chewing gum in class is wrong if he caught you doing it, and when you handed it in he'd make you read it aloud to the class. This may sound horrible, but he would accept just about anything you gave him, leading to speeches about how birds will fly in though the window to snatch the gum out of your mouth, choke on it and die, force an evacuation of the school, etc. Probably one of the funniest teachers in the school.
11th grade Algebra: This guy was hilarious too, and a nice person overall, but he was an awful teacher. I mean really awful. His basic lesson plan was to teach us by showing us the most difficult, complicated problem he could come up with, solve it in the most convoluted, roundabout way he could think of, give us pathetically easy problems for homework to lure us into a false sense of security, and then bombard us on his tests with questions that made his examples pale in comparison. I...don't have fond memories of him.
12th grade Pre-calc: And on the complete opposite end of the spectrum is this guy. He wasn't very funny, but he knew how to teach the material effectively and is hands-down the best teacher in the literal sense of the word. Let me put it this way: about a quarter of the way though the year he decided to make us review what we learned in algebra last year (which for me was pretty much nothing, see above), which made me rather worried given my experience last year. But I learned more in a week with him than I did in an entire year from my previous teacher, and unlike what I learned last year I've fully retained everything this teacher has taught. Man, I wish more teachers could teach as well as he does.
1st grade: My teacher was pretty awful, really. She seemed to hate me with some sort of a passion; when she taught us cursive I tried to make cursive numbers...at which point she showed the result to the class and actually mocked my work in front of them. Ouch. Incidentally there were three teachers at that school with the same last name as her and they all taught 1st grade. They were all also very nice. Behind her back I called her "Mrs. Gorgon," as it's only a one letter difference.
4th/5th grade: I was in a small school here, and 4th and 5th grade were taught by the same teacher. She was awesome, and completely restored my faith in teachers. Maybe it was just my simplistic child mind, but she was a really wonderful person.
6th/7th grade English: The real memorable part about this class was that whenever we were assigned a paper to write, the whole class would rent laptops from the library. I'd use the time to write my paper quickly and then use the remaining day or so to play games on the computer, since the teacher allowed us to sit wherever we wanted to work, even if that meant under the table or behind a bookshelf.
9th/10th grade Spanish: This guy was an absolute riot, and a great teacher to boot. Not a day went by in which the class didn't end up laughing their heads off at some point. One of the funnier things he would do is force students to write a half page, page, two page, or three page paper on why chewing gum in class is wrong if he caught you doing it, and when you handed it in he'd make you read it aloud to the class. This may sound horrible, but he would accept just about anything you gave him, leading to speeches about how birds will fly in though the window to snatch the gum out of your mouth, choke on it and die, force an evacuation of the school, etc. Probably one of the funniest teachers in the school.
11th grade Algebra: This guy was hilarious too, and a nice person overall, but he was an awful teacher. I mean really awful. His basic lesson plan was to teach us by showing us the most difficult, complicated problem he could come up with, solve it in the most convoluted, roundabout way he could think of, give us pathetically easy problems for homework to lure us into a false sense of security, and then bombard us on his tests with questions that made his examples pale in comparison. I...don't have fond memories of him.
12th grade Pre-calc: And on the complete opposite end of the spectrum is this guy. He wasn't very funny, but he knew how to teach the material effectively and is hands-down the best teacher in the literal sense of the word. Let me put it this way: about a quarter of the way though the year he decided to make us review what we learned in algebra last year (which for me was pretty much nothing, see above), which made me rather worried given my experience last year. But I learned more in a week with him than I did in an entire year from my previous teacher, and unlike what I learned last year I've fully retained everything this teacher has taught. Man, I wish more teachers could teach as well as he does.
I should get a new layout.
Probably won't, though.
Probably won't, though.