School's a full-time job, packed with stress and anxiety and worrying about your future. The last thing anybody needs is to spend a chunk of the day in the company of a teacher who was clearly never intended to interact with human beings.
Sometimes these teachers go beyond cluelessness; sometimes the problem is that teaching is pretty much the last thing they should be doing.
Here are the five most dreaded types of teachers, in reverse order of dreadfulness:
5.) The Monotonous Robot
It is physically impossible for this guy to make anything interesting. Whether he's explaining vague economic trends or announcing that the school appears to be on fire, it always feel like the oral equivalent of watching paint dry. He means well, but his microprocessors are unable to compute this emotion we humans call "love."
4.) The One Who Plays Favorites
Maybe one of her students had a brother or sister she adored; maybe she just silently ranked everyone by hair color on the first day. Either way, this woman knows exactly whom she likes, and that list is not subject to change, and you are not on it. She and her favorites giggle and dote on each other, one step away from basically making out right there in class, while everyone else wonders why their tests don't come back with smileys and encouragement all over them.
3.) The Harshest Possible Grader
This guy has the stern, unwavering gaze of a drill sergeant, the angry growl of a drill sergeant, and, well, the everything else of a drill sergeant, except the part where he's not one. Instead, he's a teacher, one who grades everyone like he's constantly trying to win a bet over how many students he can fail. Everything he writes with his red pen incites tears and groaning. He always seems shocked by everyone's ignorance, and even if you do know the material, he'll find something—anything—to hate about the paper you just turned in.
2/1.) TIE: The Teacher Who Detests You Specifically/The One Who Hates Everyone, Ever
On one hand it's horrible when a teacher always just glares at you like you recently ran over his dog, because you're singled out by his ire, and that's a blow to even the happiest student's self-esteem. On the other hand, it's equally bad for all concerned when he acts like everyone just ran over his dog, at the same time, presumably in some kind of clown car or military vehicle. In both cases you're getting treated unfairly, and you're not sure why; it's just a matter of whether sharing that misery makes you feel any better. Either way, it's an awful situation to be in (unless you actually did run over his dog, in which case you're kind of on your own).
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