Doing this one a little different… I like a good soliloquy or monologue in literature, movies, and television; however, as to prevent this topic from becoming another edition of:
"Only Kev is stupid enough to share all"
I have decided to defer until 3 posts have been made to this topic…
You can look at this from several perspectives including — worst teacher you had or worst teacher by reputation — or you may address both these and others — address it anyway you want — I don’t care… As I have stated before, I will not personally post a topic that I am not willing to comment upon — Actually, I have already made my selections but decided to wait until the aforementioned 3 Postings to Comments…
So without further adieu let’s get this party started with:
Worst Teacher @ THS Back in Our Day
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WOW !!! Never thought I’d get this kind of response on virtually opening day — the 3 in just over 24 hours after posting — thought I’d get to type my piece in about a week… Oh well…
Back on topic Worst Teacher @ THS… I’ll list the by reputation and those I had the "honor to experience first-hand"… Mrs. Young, Col. Jones, Clarence Owen Brown (twice), Mrs. Fountaine, Mrs. Tucker, Arthur Allen, Ranson…
Worst of the worst — that is the question before us… The Candidates with brief comments:
Clarence Owen Brown: I was one of the few and not so proud to experience 2 years of this boredom… Honors Biology 5th Period and Chemistry 1st Period — after lunch and first thing in the morning — ZZzzzZZzz — you can’t set it up any worse than that — First "D" ever on a report card in Chemistry — by the grace of God I finished with a "C"… Unlike Jason, I do believe the man is brilliant, just can’t teach… Last I knew, he was boring 7th graders to death at Grace Christian… Somebody save the children !!!!
Mrs. Fountaine: For all her deficiencies as mentioned by Janet, the overall joke for a class, and more that could be said — copying down those English Rules actually stuck in my head allowing me to soar under Mrs. Alexander and return to Honors English for the senior season… Learned something — it wasn’t her fault….
Mrs. Tucker: If luck had prevailed and the class placement gods had smiled upon me by allowing me to experience French II under her tutelage thus escaping the slaughter that would come (Jan ’06 — M&L Topic: #4) — I still would rate her as the definitive case to end teacher tenure…
Arthur Allen: Some mixed feelings here as I enjoyed listening to him most of the time — but simple facts, I was in there to learn physics and other than objects fall at a rate of 9.8 meters per second squared — I know nothing…
Ranson: One word… ISSUES — woman knew her stuff but was INSANE… She was still doing that nuclear war fear mongering in ’90 after the Berlin Wall fell — caught a little heat from the administration at that time too… I didn’t cater to her — my paper on that crap was "F" for content "A" for grammar (most papers were the other way around) for a grand total of a "C" (best paper I wrote in HS) probably pissed her off that my paper focusing on "Peace Through Strength" and deterrence lead by President Reagan holding the line against the Soviets, could not receive a lesser grade… Here’s too ya — Sandy — we won the Cold War…
THE WINNER: Tucker… Helped the old GPA in the Freshman year but left me totally unprepared for a future class… Brown and Allen as bad as they were ended up being non-factors — there was no follow up class in HS that depended on what I learned under them. Lessons learned under Crazy Sandy actually propelled me to Honors English at DeVRY…
August 17, 2006 9:28 PM
Partial retraction:
After further review, the inclusion of Ranson in this listing was probably in error — I stand behind the above statements but that does not detract from the simple fact that the woman knew her stuff and expected excellence from everyone — and that is something I believe in firmly and practice… She did have ISSUES and that Death Stare — even where I sat at the back of the room, it could make you uneasy — borderline terrifying… Overall, my writing skills were expanded in her class. Unfortunately this was also the time my penmanship went to hell and well before everyone had a PC they could use to type papers — that probably accounted for some of the grammar errors as it was during this time I was literally forced to begin typing papers…
Again — she was good — and probably should not have been included under the category of Worst Teacher — but my policy is to let the original statements remain so that there will be no conflict in anyone’s memory regarding what had been presented. There will never be any 1984 fact changing, democratic spin doctoring, etc., here…
One last thing… That English IV Final was truly INSANE…
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