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    My high school chem teacher, while explaining soap micelles, went on a tangent saying that we don’t really need soap to wash ourselves and that he personally never used soap while bathing, I liked that teacher but TMI and gross.

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    My chemistry teacher didn’t understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn’t entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.

    My anatomy and physiology teacher told the class he believed the entire Middle East should be nuked, after showing the wikipedia article on Ross Perot and talking about how the country is in decline because Perot lost the presidential election.

    He also body shamed women during class, and told women that if they are behind on cooking dinner they can just throw some garlic and onion in a pan and their husbands would smell the good aromas and not know any better.

    He also required students to dance and he video recorded every dance, this was not optional and had nothing to do with the curriculum, but it was treated very seriously like an end-of-class thesis. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to worry about what he was doing with those video tapes. This was at the same high school where it turns out one of the coaches was molesting the students.

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      The only agreeable thing here is that sautéed garlic and onions are yummy. The rest is some serious 😬

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      I thought you were talking about college instructors until you mentioned high school… especially because you referred to “women” instead of girls…

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    I had a teacher who claimed that dinosaurs weren’t real. She said that people just naturally love patterns so when we find random bones we arrange them into shapes we like. Someone in the class said what about skulls that are just one bone and she ignored it lol.

    That was many years ago and it’s still stuck in my memory as one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

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      reminds me of my biology teacher who before teaching us evolution explained that she is being forced to teach it against her will so we can pass tests, but that she disagrees with it and that we shouldn’t feel pressured to actually believe evolution … this woman was teaching my AP biology class in senior year of high school, and previously had worked in the medical field and retired as a teacher

      obviously Christianity was involved

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      Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.

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    Only boring people get bored.

    Utter nonsense but it was said to my boy by a junior school teacher. Was an interesting conversation when I talked to her at parent teacher day.

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      Sounds like the words of a boring teacher who’s incapable of meaningful self-reflection as to what they could maybe improve upon

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    I had a teacher during sex ed start yelling about how you gotta work on and please your lady not a “wham bam thank you ma’am”, his words. Now not in 7th grade sex ed it wouldn’t have been so weird. Same teacher had a diabetic fit and started yelling and writing E over and over while grading our tests.

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    college instructor for Communication 101 went on several unprompted rants about how depression wasn’t real because it couldn’t be detected with brain scans

    even though it, uh, absolutely can? also nobody asked you anyway dude???

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    History teacher told us that NASA found alien machines on the dark side of the moon.

    Midway through his speech he fell asleep in his seated walker, woke up shortly after and then the been rang.

    He was neither physically nor mentally fit to be a teacher.

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    I remember in High School where we were pressured into having to choose a political party for our US Government class.

    Yeah I thought the 2-party system was stupid then too and absolutely refused to pick a side. It was clear to me then, even as a teen, that people’s opinions change over time as they themselves change. Party loyalty is bullshit.

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    I wrote a paper on the origin of the y chromesome in biology class in college and the professor docked me points with the note written in the margins “I don’t think humans and papayas have a common ancestor.”

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    5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly

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      my 7th grade biology teacher dedicated a lesson to why evolution was false and her base argument was that she never evolved in her entire life, therefore evolution was false.

      i suspect that a majority of the students agreed w her.

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      Never seen that movie, but wouldn’t teleportation just kill you from the demolecularzation or whatever?

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        In the movie it did worse: mangle you on reassembly because a fly got in the teleporter with you

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    A middle school teacher asked for an analogy about something, I don’t remember what specifically, but I raised my hand and excitedly said “Oh! Like how math can help you understand music and music can help you understand math?”

    The teacher looked at me like I was a total fool and said “music has absolutely nothing to do with math, how could you possibly think that?”

    Since I was a snarky little punk, and I knew I was right, I said “have you heard about the circle of fifths? Let me tell you about it” and I proceeded to explain the mathematical beauty of music to the entire class. I even had sheet music in my bag from my piano lessons, so I pulled it out and showed it to everyone to explain the bars, tempo, and time signature, all of which are based on mathematical principles.

    She was not happy to be proven wrong in front of a class of fifth graders.

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      music has things that can be described mathematically in ways that are largely historical, but not axiomatic in a math sense. but if learning music helps you learn math and/or visa versa, power to you.

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      Lol. Pythagoras - considered one of the gods to maths teachers - explicitly talked about the mathematical beauty of music. Where was this person trained?

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        Goood question. I hadn’t thought about her in ages, but it’s funny how random memories of her class are coming back now. She was a shitty teacher, she clearly didn’t want to be there.

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    Not my story but from my boyfriend. In English class they were supposed to write a review about a movie. He wrote a negative one about The Last Airbender from M. Night Shyamalan. First she argued that “iceberg” is not an english word (this took place in Germany) and that he should instead use “icy mountain” they had to look it up in a dictionary to convince her otherwise and then she took points away because “why would you write a review about something and not recommend it”.

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    8th grade Earth Science teacher. I shared a fun little factoid I had just learned: if you’re standing on the North Pole, every direction is south.

    She disagreed and spent like 20 minutes explaining why that was wrong. I didn’t understand most of what she was trying to convey, but I do remember hearing “you can go north but in a southerly direction.”

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    I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.

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      Remember when that stray bullet hit the side of that Honda? That was a clear attack on the american plexiglas industry