Did you like your teachers at school?

mikebird

mikebird

Banned
I saw them as gods.
Same for uni lecturers

I can't respect anyone else seriously in the world

Two sessions this week and more to go. One involved the social profile I took with a link on this website. INSJ type is what I got again (maybe)

Other today was about being self-employed and... enterprise

This is fairyland tales for the simple-minded who struggled at school to cope with fractions, percentiles or trapezoid angles...

I've just been through teaching on how to interview, all the questions...

I'm not the one who needs to start at kindergarten again

Life ain't fair. It's upside-down. I knew this, years ago. There is not a valid way out

I wan't to teach people who stand in my way to prevent me from working.
I've been correcting grammar and spelling of recruiters and boiling over.
Just continually thinking this way will not help at all

What I've learnt about life since 1994 is what I seriously want to teach to schoolchildren.

Prophesy
 
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Abby

Active member
Heck, NO. for the most part, i got along with the students just fine -- it was the *teachers* who bullied me relentlessly, constantly calling me a "slacker", and saying i'd never amount to anything. little did they realize, it was due to a severe learning disorder (NLD, which made me extremely *nervous*, absent-minded, confused, disorganized, sleepy, unmotivated, bored, etc).

i realize there wasn't a name for it back then, but that's no excuse -- they should have known *something* was up, and referred my parents to a neuropsychologist, who would have seen those symptoms in other children before, and given them info on an appropriate educational setting for me...

whereas, *i* noticed this in my own child very early on, and took him to get evaluated. after he was dx'd with NLD, it suddenly dawned on me: "holy crap, i have the same symptoms." i then got evaluated myself: BINGO. (in summation: it took the person with the learning disorder to figure out that they had a learning disorder...WTF?).

when i ultimately went on to SUCCEED in life, i was very happy when my company threw it in my teachers' faces (albeit, unknowingly, via the town newspaper, when i got a major promotion). in fact, my salary was at least 10k *more* than the average teacher's salary in my hoity-toity, suburban school district...take THAT, you Nazis.



(oops, guess that's a bit more info than you were looking for, eh?!)
 
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Saaaroo

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They cared about nothing but themselves and the reputation of the school, my education at expense. From my experience, they make my blood boil
 
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jc972

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I absolutely loved a high school english teacher I had. She played janis joplin during class, talked of smoking pot and drinking to excess when when was a teen... I LOVED HER! She was cool and she was VERY attractive to be in her 40's. My welding teacher was totally cool too, he taught me advanced welding per my request as well as he was my boss after school every day doing plumbing and electrical work. He taught me a lot as with the english teacher. A certain math teacher is very dear to me as well, he taught 11th grade calculus and proved it was cool to live outside the box. He had a 1979 Ford pickup that matched my 1978 so we had common ground to begin with. I still keep contact with these three 10 years after I graduated.
 
rosewood

rosewood

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majority of my teachers never clued in to what was going on. some were quite insulting and mean. (i am so sorry for the rest of us who had to suffer like that, you all didnt deserve it.)

except one. she was my high school english teacher. Mrs. Lupton. all the kids made fun of her saying she looked like a heron. they were so mean.

i couldnt handle the social aspect of handing over my english paper to another student to be graded. so i didnt write anything unless i knew she would read it herself. of course if one does that, one will get failing grades from lack of work. so i had to tell her finally how much i loved her class to her face as i pled for my grades. and i wasnt lying. she combined examples art with literature from the same time periods as a form of history lesson/english lesson. her class was brilliant and fascinating.

i literally saw a light go on in her eyes, face, and her whole body language when i explained myself like that. it was as if she had an "ah ha" moment regarding me. i was still really nervous but she was quite kind to me. and she made me happy to go to school, that was so unheard of.

where ever she is, i bless her a million times over. :thumbup:
 
squidgee

squidgee

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Most teachers I don't really mind with the exception of a few. I've had one maths teacher I really liked and several I disliked, mainly because they seemed intent on making everyone contribute to discussion, made obnoxious jokes or didn't know anything about the subject they were teaching.
 
nodejesque

nodejesque

Well-known member
I loved all my teachers... k-6.
jr high and highschool teachers were bastards... not all but most. And university professors, were either amazing... or horrible. But yes... teachers definitely have the power to inspire change and ambition or to inspire hat and animosity.... you don't always luck out.
 
mikebird

mikebird

Banned
It's important to hear more about teachers who are bad. Nothing's perfect, but this is a very new reality to me, that a teacher doesn't do a good job
 
Pacific_Loner

Pacific_Loner

Pirate from the North Pole
^Same here too... Some I liked more, some I disliked. I've never expected them to "care" for me or whatever. Teachers have so much students, and I've always been the invisible one, so it wouldn't be fair to expect them to notice that I wasn't fine.

I remember feeling sorry for a couple of them who were obviously trying their best to help us and were just made fun of by the students in return
 
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telepathine

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Pacific_Loner said:
^Same here too... Some I liked more, some I disliked. I've never expected them to "care" for me or whatever. Teachers have so much students, and I've always been the invisible one, so it wouldn't be fair to expect them to notice that I wasn't fine.
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yep, that's how it was for me. i wasn't disruptive or outstanding. looking back, i only had one teacher that was truly bad, but suprisingly a handful (~5 that i can recall off the top of my head) expressed genuine interest in my well being beyond my schoolwork, in some cases more than my parents did at the time. i struggled with depression and extreme shyness from fifth grade onward, and one teacher made special accommodations for me without my asking. a few others actually pulled me aside and asked how life was outside of school. i couldn't open up to anyone back then but i appreciated their efforts. eep, recalling this is making me a bit emotional, in a good way.
 
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