Teachers -- Should They Really Be Teaching?

We have all heard of the occasional cringe-worthy teacher, one that's super strict or overloads you with work. These teachers, however frustrating, are just trying to get us to do work. As much as it pains me to be admitting this, their efforts are probably good for us in the long run.

No matter how torturous they seem.

No, these teachers are not who I'm complaining about. I'm complaining about the legitimately stupid teachers that make me think: if that's the teaching standard nowadays, I could train my hamster to become a teacher. That is not the message a student should be getting from their teacher.

The teachers who honest to god just cannot teach. Their teaching techniques are more painful than helpful and no one actually learns anything. The teachers who even the smart people admit do not have the talent for explaining, so much so that they take pity on you and teach you themselves.

Those. Teachers. Just. Make it. So. Hard.

My exams are coming up, and we need to study for about half a years worth of work which will be tested on the exam. While reviewing for the subject that was taught by the aforementioned -- honestly just terrible -- teacher, I realized something.

I wasn't reviewing the work. I was learning it.

The teacher was so terrible at teaching that I had to re learn everything because I didn't understand it at all when he taught it. So pretty much in the classes I had been like:

It's not just me, either. All of my classmates, even the ones known for being smart in this area, are completely befuddled when it comes to this class. We don't understand what is expected of us or how to go about it, how to do the work, which equations will be needed -- none of it! Our teacher just cannot teach.

He spends way too much time on work that does not matter, not enough time on the work that does, and skims over way too much because of his super-high expectations.

As you can tell, I am super impressed by his teaching abilities.

This isn't the first time I've been plagued by terrible teachers. I had another one, back in the seventh grade, that honestly taught more like a university professor than a middle school teacher. Pretty much every lesson went something like this:

Teacher: *background buzzing noise, a.k.a lecturing*
Student One: Hey. Hey, what's he saying?
Student Two: I dunno. *shrugs*

End Of Lesson

Student One: Hey. Hey, what did he talk about?
Student Two: I dunno. *shrugs*

I am not even exaggerating here. This actually happened. Multiple times.

I don't know if this is just the way I see it, or it other people see it the same way, but I think that if you're a teacher you have the responsibility to be able to  -- oh, I don't know... teach?

But maybe that's going too far.

So that brings me back to the title of the post -- teachers. Should they really be teaching?

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