Your Most Memorable Teacher Stories

Stormy · Dec 10, 2013 8:47 PM

We've all probably had at least one eccentric teacher. You know, the kind that uses class time to tell stories about her life, or the kind that lets his students watch R-rated movies in class if they all promise not to tell their parents. Or maybe it was a really annoying teacher who never understood you and always seemed to be out to get you for no good reason.

I have so many... interesting teacher stories that I figured I'd make a thread about it. tongue I don't want to make the first post too long with too many stories, so if this gets enough replies I'll throw a few more in later.

First one:

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So, what are your best stories?

Flapjacks · Dec 10, 2013 11:41 PM

I had an amazing English teacher in eighth grade who's probably still my favorite teacher I've ever had. He kept us on top of our homework, but in the right way. I never really felt like he was making us do work, but that he was trying to get us to do our work so we could do well later in our lives.
Actual Picture of him:

As for a story, there's many, but this is probably one of the best.

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Mr. John · Dec 11, 2013 2:09 AM

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36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Dec 11, 2013 4:27 AM

my 11th grade physics teacher seems like a good place to start with this. the things he said. it was just. amazing.

on the first week of the school year, he was looking at a poster of an airplane in his classroom, and said "LOOK AT THIS BIG MOTHERF- ... airplane!"

he would also tell us about his experiences shooting guns and hunting wildlife around his house.

his physics problems were interesting, and would consist of things like "okay, let's say a turtle is walking at 200 miles per hour." or "okay, so you throw a coconut off a cliff at 1,500 miles per second."

and then there were all those days where he'd just go, "alright guys, i don't feel like doing anything today. you don't feel like doing anything today. we're coming along pretty well, so let's just have a free day. try not to be too loud, and we won't have any problems."

he'd share random facts with us, like he was going on this big long thing about how to properly get coconut milk and how good it is or something. he'd just talk about pretty much anything, really.

Swaffy · Dec 11, 2013 5:22 AM

Sounds like he'd be an awesome dad.

RangerOfIthilien · Dec 11, 2013 5:43 AM

I have soooo many stories of this. Will post tomorrow when I am no longer weary in mind and body

Clock-la · Dec 11, 2013 11:03 AM

in year 7 we had a really nice maths teacher, but then he left after like 2 weeks of us joining, so we then had a really long line of substitute teachers in maths for a few weeks, some were nice, others were...ehhh ok.

Then we had Mr Nicoles join, he was AWFUL!!! he was way to strict! HE ONCE YELLED AT ME FOR SMILING AT MY FRIEND!!! and my friend onc went on Holiday to...I think it was France, and came back with a big novelty pencil, and she didn't bring anything else with her, and so she was sat with me and whilst we were doing the work she drew a line on my page, so I drew one back on hers, then the teacher saw and he screamed at my friend like crazy, then he moved her away from me THEN he yelled at her "AND PUT AWAY THAT BLOODY STUPID PENCIL!!!!" so she put it away and put her hand up and just said" can I please borrow a pencil"

He responded "where is yours"
"erm...you told me to put it away"

Then he had a right go at her on how having only one pencil is stupid and she had to stay back at break tongue

Swaffy · Dec 11, 2013 8:04 PM

If something like that happened, I would end up defending my classmate like
I would defend my own family member. Yeah, it isn't pleasant. But he would
back down real fast. Thankfully, every 'bad' teacher I've had in the past
pretty much left me alone because I've always been the calm kid. Most of the
time. But I was smart enough to know who to joke around in front of...

Clock-la · Dec 11, 2013 8:46 PM

oh not this teacher! he was a beast D:

and god our school was brutal...some of the students just thinking about it...urgh!

Stormy · Dec 11, 2013 11:10 PM

Some awesome stories in here so far. Here's another one of mine.

Let's call this teacher Professor Gordawg. If KL can think of a better nickname for him that doesn't give away his identity, I'll use that instead. tongue I'll probably be telling a lot more stories about him. By the way, when I used to have a reddit account this story got me over 500 karma, so you all had better appreciate it! >:|

Anyway, we had classes with Gordawg almost every semester for all four years of college for our major, computer science. If I had to pick only one word to describe him, I would say "eccentric" without hesitation. His curly, black and grey hair almost looked like an afro. At least one pair of glasses was stuck in the afro at all times. Sometimes just sunglasses, sometimes his wife's glasses. Up to three pairs of glasses could be on his head and/or face at once. He loved tweed and dressed kind of like a fifty-year-old hipster. Judging by the music that played from his office, I'm pretty sure he was a fifty-year-old hipster.

One day he was lecturing our class of six other CS majors about something to do with Java that I can't remember. We were all taking notes. He suddenly interrupted the lecture and yelled, "<my name>, put that *bleep* machine away!" He thought I had my phone out under the table. I held up my hands, revealing no phone, and he just said "oh" and continued the lecture like nothing happened.

In this same class on another day, he was lecturing us about how we needed to stop being afraid of experimenting with our code. He looked around, closed the classroom door, and told us "This doesn't leave this room" before announcing that our class motto was now "*bleep*ing experiment," and I was the one who needed to hear it most. He told me specifically to write that down in my notes, so I did. My mom found my notebook open to that page when I was home from break and was very confused.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Dec 12, 2013 4:11 AM

that post reminds me of, again, my physics teacher, and how often he'd swear. almost every day, as i recall, he'd let out at least one h-word, d-word, or a-word (swears on this forum are censored, so).

RangerOfIthilien · Dec 12, 2013 5:36 AM

Stormy wrote:

Some awesome stories in here so far. Here's another one of mine.
Let's call this teacher Professor Gordawg. If KL can think of a better nickname for him that doesn't give away his identity, I'll use that instead. I'll probably be telling a lot more stories about him. By the way, when I used to have a reddit account this story got me over 500 karma, so you all had better appreciate it! >:|
Anyway, we had classes with Gordawg almost every semester for all four years of college for our major, computer science. If I had to pick only one word to describe him, I would say "eccentric" without hesitation. His curly, black and grey hair almost looked like an afro. At least one pair of glasses was stuck in the afro at all times. Sometimes just sunglasses, sometimes his wife's glasses. Up to three pairs of glasses could be on his head and/or face at once. He loved tweed and dressed kind of like a fifty-year-old hipster. Judging by the music that played from his office, I'm pretty sure he was a fifty-year-old hipster.
One day he was lecturing our class of six other CS majors about something to do with Java that I can't remember. We were all taking notes. He suddenly interrupted the lecture and yelled, "<my name>, put that *bleep* machine away!" He thought I had my phone out under the table. I held up my hands, revealing no phone, and he just said "oh" and continued the lecture like nothing happened.
In this same class on another day, he was lecturing us about how we needed to stop being afraid of experimenting with our code. He looked around, closed the classroom door, and told us "This doesn't leave this room" before announcing that our class motto was now "*bleep*ing experiment," and I was the one who needed to hear it most. He told me specifically to write that down in my notes, so I did. My mom found my notebook open to that page when I was home from break and was very confused.

Best picture he'd allow us to have online

Also some old fashioned rage comics we made of his classes, back when those things were still funny LANGUAGE WARNING TO ALL YOU CHILDREN AND SIMILARLY SENSITIVE SOULS

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Flapjacks · Dec 12, 2013 7:25 AM

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im sorry i couldnt resist

Anyway, I'll post another thing about that same teacher I posted about before, who will remain unnamed.
There were several running gags he had throughout the year. One I remember was whenever a class from the elementary school was walking past his room, (we had to share tracks) he'd hide behind his door, then jump out and either laugh creepily, scream, or yell "HERE'S JOHNNY!"

Clock-la · Dec 12, 2013 3:27 PM

Well today I got dirty looks from the lecturer, NO THANKS TO STORMY!!

Cyberbu//y popped into my head and I just burst out giggling, the worst part is I was sat by myself

Stormy · Dec 13, 2013 7:49 PM

Hahaha, I'm sorry, but that's too funny. XD

Spyro_For_Life · Dec 16, 2013 2:56 AM

Teacher stories... hmm. Okay well there was my Automotive Technology teacher that I had during my last semester of high school. He didn't teach the class. He would basically have us sit in front of computers and read everything we needed to know on this site online, and then take quizzes on each lesson. And then a test at the end of each unit.
Oh what's that? You made a 60? That's fine he'll just reset it for you. So you can keep taking it until you make a 100.
Heck, I had a string of 100s once and a 90, and he asked if I wanted to redo the 90 test to see if I could bring it up. I said no, but still, that is super nice.
also everyone just screwed around on Facebook and computer games but he just ignored them because they always get their butts in gear for the final test. And they did. I'm pretty sure all of us passed the class with the teacher barely going over anything.
Except for that day near the end of the semester when he kept waving different wrenches at us demanding to know what they were called and I thought he was going to clobber one of us with a ball-peen hammer. Fun times.

Swaffy · Dec 16, 2013 10:27 PM

I love relaxed teachers. They make you be okay with spending time learning.
I don't remember much from my history of teachers, but I do remember in
high school a teacher had a potato cannon contest. Now that's pretty freakin
awesome in my book. They (some guys and my class) went out to the little
soccer field and shot one of them. Unfortunately, most of my school memories
are depressing so I have a hard time remembering my teachers.

Clock-la · Dec 16, 2013 11:27 PM

we had one that was too relaxed...he didn't teach us anything!! D:

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Dec 17, 2013 1:57 AM

another teacher i had, he taught Spanish. he was a very respectable man, and he always tried his best to teach the students, but a lot of them didn't seem to care enough to give it the amount of effort he needed out of them. he always told these jokes that pretty much only i understood. he said some really interesting stuff over the years, and i'll try to remember it and post it here for you.

the worst (and yet most interesting) part, though, is that sometimes things would just get to him, he had a really stressful time at our school, and he would spend the better part of a class ranting about something instead of teaching us.

usually the administration.

he really didn't hold back when he talked about the administrators to us. he'd always call the principal "The Little Prince" or "el principe pequeño". xD apparently they didn't want him grading papers with red ink because red is too psychologically harsh for students, so they asked him to start grading things with green ink. this is seriously what we had to deal with at my school.

one time they had him and some of the other teachers at a meeting and he was telling us about it. someone wrote the word "parergon", and asked the teachers what the word meant. he answered "paragon, misspelled by an idiot." big_smile

he was a great teacher, but every now and then something just got to him and he had to vent. he's probably still doing that, actually.

Clock-la · Dec 21, 2013 12:00 AM

oh I LOVED our French teacher! she was so sweet!

She never really taught us (but I HATED French since we had the horrid old crow I'll tell you about her later!) but she was so sweet! she would teach nus one word then just let us draw for the rest of the lesson :-P and on the last day we just watched Shreck!

so about the evil French teacher...she left after the 1st year she was HORRID.
very strict and always in a bad mood, and one time I was waiting with my best friend to go into class, my friend was joking around and pushing me. suddenly the teacher grabs me and turns me around
"YOU WERE PUSHING HER!" she yelled at me
"no- she was push-"
"NO I SAW YOU!!! I SAW YOU!!" she carried on, and before I could say another word she pushed me into the storage cupboard, locked it, and left me in there.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Dec 21, 2013 1:36 AM

good grief. no wonder she left after the first year.

that reminds me of a certain math substitute we had who left after a short period of time. the normal math teacher left for a job at another school, i think, and the school brought in a series of substitutes instead of one long-term substitute.

i could sum up our experience with that guy with the sentence "he taught everything wrong for two straight weeks and then we had to un-learn it."

i think he also said he was a former member of some kind of spy group which is totally (un)believable, and he also pointed out at lunch that chocolate things on a certain tray were definitely a sign that the tray belonged to a black kid in our grade.

AND THEN THE SCHOOL BROUGHT HIM BACK TO SUBSTITUTE SOMETHING ELSE THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

shayanjameel08 · Dec 24, 2013 7:43 AM

The one who taught me how to type by lightly touching my knuckles with a ruler when I made a misstep. A skill I have used all of my life, so far.

Spyro_For_Life · Dec 24, 2013 4:23 PM

My physical science teacher a few years back once went around the classroom singing 'Tetris' over and over again and clapping. I can't remember the significance of Tetris now. Something about patterns of 4? I don't know. And she made us sing a song about electricity with her.
And we played broom ball. Where you basically take a bowling ball and you have to push it with the broom all the way around the desks and to the door, and then back. Which is a lot harder than it sounds.
...AND THEN for the teachers vs students talent show one year, she and two other older teachers did a flapper routine with song and dance and it was glorious
the science teacher's daughter (who was also a teacher at the school) was standing at the back of the auditorium covering her face in embarrassment the whole time.
In short, Mrs. Americo was fabulous.

Prism · Dec 30, 2013 10:23 PM

My 4th-6th grade band teacher was hilarious! I'll just call him Mr. E for privacy reasons. Mr. E had a son named A and a daughter named L. (Those are not their real names.) A was in 7th grade, so he no longer taught him, and L was in 5th grade. So, I was sitting in the band with the other students, and A walked through the room. Mr. E said "Hey A, what are you doing? Checking out chicks?" A just walked across the room to another door on the other side of the room. Mr. E said, "You're leaving already? You forgot to kiss your sister goodbye!" (L was also in the room) I was laughing so hard that I thought I might explode. xD

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