My ****ing Health Teacher

[HCl- HydroCuccoLadic Acid]

Oh wait. She's not a teacher!!

...

OK. So, it's a good thing I only have Health one semester, lest I should go mad. I'm halfway there.

Sooo, we get into class... she says her usual "get out your spiral notebooks and begin the transition. Your assignment is written on the board. Once you finish the transition you may do it."

So, we do the transition and start working on the assignment. It's generally one of three things:

- Drawing, labeling, coloring, and captioning fifty gazillion drawings from our books. Along with this we get a "You must color them neatly" half-hour-long lecture. :/

-Taking notes, writing vocab, and answering questions. This I can see... what bugs me is the instructions: "You must answer the questions in question and answer format! You may not re-state." Because clearly we are all of fifth-grade intellect. Well, the ijits in the back are, but hell.

-Watching a movie and answering questions. We also sometimes just have to take notes as punishment for the ****heads in the back who just yell at each other the whole time. Thanks, jerkwads.

So, I know she doesn't sound that bad...

Except, did I mention that she isn't a teacher??

When we take notes on rare occasions together, she uses a powerpoint made by another teacher and just has us copy down the pictures on it and maybe a few facts. Then we have to label them. If we don't understand, well then she's no help because she didn't even put it together. :/

Also, while we're working on our assignments, she just disappears in her office.

Anything I've learned in my class at ALL I haven't learned from her, of that you can be sure. And ask my mom, some of our stupid drawing assignments take flippin' HOURS to complete.

She is also an organization freak. At the beginning of the class she forced us to buy a ginormous spiral notebook that MUST HAD A POCKET IN IT because we are incapable of holding our papers elsewhere. So, we buy this special notebook for her, and half of our assignments she forces us to cut and paste onto the pages of our notebook. :/

Sooo...

The main thing that bugs me about this class is that the teacher does not TEACH, our assignments are USELESS BUSYWORK, and.. well... the teacher is just one of those people you just can't stand.

Also, the kids in the back who pelt spidwads at each other while the teacher is in the office do NOT help my opinion towards this class.

OK, rant done. :/

[ZeldaGirl]

I hate teachers like that. Seriously, education should be taken seriously - those in the position to teach need GOOD credentials and need to be paid well; it should be a profession just as renowned as being a lawyer or doctor.

I'm sorry for you, CL. At least it's only a semester. *HUGS*

[Dr. Horrible]

I had a professor like that. The only thing he did every lecture was read the powerpoint slides that were provided online, and he hadn't even made those slides himself. He had a thick accent that made him hard to understand, and he in turn had difficulty understanding us or comprehending any questions we had. Nobody knew how to pronounce his name. The one time I know of that someone asked him how it was pronounced, he just said, "That's your problem."

[DELICIOUS POISON]

Here's a tip: You don't usually have to pass Health class to graduate.

[Chunky Kong12345]

Complain at the main office.

[HCl- HydroCuccoLadic Acid]

^ I would, but a friend of mine with a MUCH worse teacher (believe it or not) had a petition signed by about twenty students or so and had ten students go to the office to complain, and the Vice Principal completely shrugged it off. And since most of the kids in her class love her because you can slack off, I wouldn't even be able to get that much. :/

So, yeah. The main thing I hate about her is how USELESS she is. If she takes a final from some other teacher who actually teaches, I'm gonna fail and it's not gonna be my fault. I do my work, but it's really hard to learn when all you do in class is draw fifty pictures that don't even make sense.

[t3hDarkness]

This teacher is an important stop on the path of life.

The skills gained in her class will prepare you for the even more boring, time-wasting, and useless business meeting.

[Blake]

That is something I strongly dislike about high school. On some assignments and usually projects, you have to draw stuff and all the artistic like. I have terrible drawing skills and thus never could be interested in trying to draw something good. I know you can draw kickass pictures though, but I understand that you probably don't want to draw stupid crap like abstinence and saying no to drugs or whatever that class teaches.

And yeah like many people said, staff in the Highschool usually don't care if you're irritated or having trouble with someone.

The only way you would be able to get out of this mess would be to switch classes, though it's probably too late for that if it's even an option. I guess you'll just have to wait it out. Good luck.

Oh yeah and if you ask me, Highschool is the third of three Elementary Schools everyone has to go to(Elementary, Middle, High). Some mature by Highschool, but the majority don't.

[HCl- HydroCuccoLadic Acid]

^ I wouldn't mind drawing crap if it was art class. But it isn't art class. It's health class, and we spend the whole time drawing a picture of some clipart dude and his veins inside him. Then we draw a picture of the space between neuron cells or something. Then we copy a chart of shots you need at what age.

Most useful class evar. Not. :/

[I am nobody]

^But just think, if you're ever on a game show and are asked "At what age do most US children receive their fist chicken pox vaccine?" you'll know!

[HCl- HydroCuccoLadic Acid]

If only. Copying a chart ONCE that isn't on any tests or quizzes is NOT going to make me remember it. It's going to make me more pissed than I already am. :/

Thankies for the condolence though.

[Laika Come Home]

My health teacher gave us an essay once. A two-page essay. HEALTH CLASS.

Half the class didn't do it. The teacher went on to screech about how people should do their health homework until another teacher came into the room to complain about how loud it was.

[DELICIOUS POISON]

Yeah, like that was going to happen. Health teachers should know they mean squat. They should've picked a real subject to teach, like dragons and why we fear them.

[Laika Come Home]

Originally Posted by McSARS DOUBLE SARS

They should've picked a real subject to teach, like dragons and why we fear them.

That would be awesome, except they might make us sit through Dragon Wars.

[Dr. Horrible]

[HCl- HydroCuccoLadic Acid]

Usually when I complain about her people just kind of shrug and ignore me.

At that point, I retrieve my Spiral Notebook with all the crap she makes us draw.

I swear to God half of the pages are colored in drawings or copied out charts.

And what's really lame is that the stuff that is on the test is NOT the stuff she makes us draw. She's just like: "here's some busywork, kthxbai."

:/

[Blake]

Well at least you can draw iron knuckles, dart nuts, garos, and other badass Zelda enemies while looking busy at the same time.

[Crazyswordsman]

I know what teachers like that are like. They're the kind that teach straight out of the textbook and don't know what they're talking about. Take my 8th grade math teacher for instance. She was better at speaking German than she was at doing math. Or my Electrical Networks professor from my sophomore year in college, who ran away from the class and we all failed it.

I'm sorry you had to deal with this CL. I hope you get over it. -CSM

[Bomby]

I feel more and more tempted to make a movie called "I'm a Moron, But That's Okay" as I read the topic post.