The worst teacher (and ooooh am I tempted to give a name...) was a doozie. He threw chalk at students, pencils, blackboard erasers, and finally a clipboard. The day he threw the clipboard at a classmate I was actually out of class. See, my parents decided to fight the system and try and get this teacher ousted. We had meetings of all the classes' parents at my house, and then the day before I got pulled out, I was pulled into the principals office. I was so scared and had never been in the principals office! The principal told me she was very sorry to see me go, but my parents were demanding that I be moved, and the other fifth grade teachers all had full classes. I moved to a different school, and on my first and only day there we had a field trip to a science museum! I came home to a message from the school that the teacher I had left had hit another child with the clipboard he was throwing this time. Apparantly his aim was getting better....
I'm really amazingly lucky to be able to say that I've had many good teachers. They are distinguished in my memories with the following characteristics: kindness, openness, selflessness, more challenging environments, more consistent educational feedback and other positive things. I have found that some of the best were teachers who tried to teach things in a way that was unconventional, and things that were possibly beyond the "scripted" way suggested.
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Wow! He threw a clipboard at students! That is crazy! I'm really sorry that happened. If someone did that nowdays they would be sued quick!
ReplyDeleteI also had a teacher that threw objects at students, mostly the boys. He threw books, chalk and erasers as you described. It makes you not want to ask questions because he might get mad and make you feel stupid. I am glad that your parents would not put up with that sort of behavior from a teacher. I would have to hold my husband back if a teacher threw anything at our kids!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a negative, unproductive and scary environment to have a teacher of all people act that way. It seems that the school's response was for you to be punished, not the teacher. Talk about taking the easy way out. I am glad to see that your worst teacher was an anomaly and that you experienced teachers that were positive and creative in their teaching styles.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's an extremely bad teacher. Sounds like the type of person that leaves you wondering why that person even decided to go into teaching. It's a good thing your parents decided to take action when your school seemed like it was slow to do so...I wonder how something like that is handled by the administration?
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