Quote From: gwarrior6
Have you ever had a teacher in school that you absolutely despised? I do. It was my fifth grade teacher. She yelled at her students and seemed to be in a perpetual PMS state. The big thing that made her the "worst teacher I've ever had" was the following account.
I was enrolled in a year-round program. It was the middle of July in south Texas and 100 degrees at 90% humidity. The portable we'd been using was being serviced for the day, so we couldn't stay there. What does the teacher do? We stayed OUTSIDE in the 100 degree heat for THE ENTIRE DAY!!!!
One student collapsed from heat stroke at one point during the day, and being fair-skinned, I received a deep sunburn, increasing the chances of basal cell carcinoma later in life. The stupid woman exposed the entire class to heat stroke and dehydration, which can KILL you, btw- an electrolyte imbalance can stop your heart, which is why it's SO important to stay hydrated (there was NO cooler full of bottled water, her answer was to "find a water fountain"). 10-year-olds HAD NO BUSINESS being outside the ENTIRE DAY in 100 degree heat, no clouds in the sky, slowly dying of dehydration.
There are many different alternatives to the torture she exuded on her students. She SHOULD HAVE called everyone's parents for permission to take us to the library or other air-conditioned building. Then tried to get a bus from Transportation to come out. If she was too stupid to keep a list of parents, take them anyway. If I were a parent in the situation, I would want the teacher to exercise COMMON SENSE and choose the air-conditioned building over an Auschwitz-like oven in the event that I couldn't be contacted. She wouldve gotten in less trouble with me keeping the children SAFE than having a student COLLAPSE!!!
If she couldn't have gotten a bus, then call up a few room mothers, they would have been glad to offer transportation to the Public Library. The safety of those kids should have been her primary concern and I hope she got in trouble for it. I think the parents would have been more forgiving if she had bothered to take everyone out of that dangerous situation and actually took care of her students.
Congratulations, the criminal negligence she displayed nominates her for "THE WORST TEACHER I"VE EVER HAD".
Our oldest son's 5th grade teacher, and the 5th grade para-pro tie for the "worst teacher" award...the 5th grade teacher singled out our son every day for being the slowest to get his things together and in his backpack at the end of the day, making the whole class wait for him...
And the 5th grade para-pro (not a teacher, but a "helper") was running a program called "Young Astronauts", for the higher achieving students (they didn't have a real program for the kids who were ahead of the rest academically). The program was supposed to be a fun way to learn about astronauts and space...well, she pretty much wanted the high achievers to know what it feels like to "fail"...she said so herself...she would send home impossible worksheets...our son managed to get them done, with a little help...as they were the kind of riddles that a kid wouldn't "get" on their own...he "failed" because he admitted that he got help from his parents...the rest of the kids "failed" that assignment because they couldn't answer the riddle questions...and this is the way the class went, until we pulled our son out...it was totally counter-productive and did NOTHING to build self-confidence and self-esteem...she was there to tear the kids down...
