Through my
high school experiences, I have discovered that even though some people may be
qualified to
teach, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are
capable or should be
allowed to teach.
Example 1 - The Dumb
Teachers should at least know about what they teach.
My (
evil)
Chemistry teacher is the subject in this example. First of all, half the class already knew more than she did, and my school is not particularly full of
smart students. The one thing that made me loose all
faith in this teacher was when she was teaching on the subject of
reaction times/
rates. She did not know the
difference between
surface area and
volume; stating that the two were the same thing, and had the same effect on the rate of a reaction (which is
not true).
This teacher was only in our
school for one year, and I was
unfortunate enough to have her.
Example 2 - The Biased
I, and many other people before and after me, have found that a certain
History teacher is overly biased towards the
females (and since the teacher is a
male, this may also be considered other things as well). I know only of one male student that was able to get an ‘A’ in his class, and the main reason for that was because he managed to
memorize the first part of the
Constitution before the teacher
expected anybody to have it memorized. I was also told that two students (a male and a female) turned in
identical papers, and the female student
received a
higher grade.
There are also the facts that the teacher
prefers girls to
wear skirts and
dresses rather than
pants, and that he does not want them to wear
jackets in the
classroom either. These things are more toward
pervertedness, and that also should not be
tolerated in teachers.
Example 3 - The Unjust Work Givers (or something like that)
Back to the same history teacher. The main reason I hated him so much was that all he did was give out
busy-work without having us learn anything. Since I objected to do any of the work, I got a ‘D’ the
second semester, and new rules that year stated that I had to go to
summer school, even with a ‘D’. (The good thing about that was that I ended up with the
best teacher I ever
encountered :)
Also, this history teacher has been at this school for
many years now, and
despite protesting students, he has not been
punished or
fired.
Example 4 - The Incomprehensible
Communication is the
key to
passing on
knowledge.
Even though I can tell that my
current Physics teacher is quite
intelligent and has
good intentions, I find him generally
unsuccessful at teaching a class. The reasons for this are because: his
speech is
unclear, and he is often
misunderstood; he is
unable to
convey thoughts and
concepts very well through
normal conversation, and therefore
confusing many people, and he is unable to keep a class’s
attention, which is particularly
challenging at this school. I know that he is very
smart and well
qualified at teaching (he has even shown me how he
corrected Steven Hawking at one time), but unless the teacher can make what he is teaching
understandable, it doesn’t do much good.
Now
don’t get me wrong; There are many
excellent teachers out there, it’s just that there are a few that shouldn’t be
allowed to teach for one
reason or another.