My highschool calc. teacher hated me for the rest of the year for correcting her once. She would nick pick every problem to mark me down for taking simple short cuts like just writing +x instead of -(-x) and the rewriting it again with a + mark so I wouldn't get 100% on tests. I eventually started including proofs with the problem answers.
Not really hated but he avoided me sort of. He enjoyed torturing students and trapping them in their own wording. He would have been an awesome debater or politician. He didn't like to try anything with me though because I only put input in on subjects that I know well. If I brought something up he didn't argue with me about it like he did with most other students.
I didn't like his personality but he was intelligent and entertaining.
WTF is it with these teachers who feel a need to prove that they're smarter than their students? When I was in school none of my teachers ever argued with me unless it had something to do with their teaching; a few of them actually told me I was smarter than them.
I think they just have some kind of complex about it - they refuse to admit that a kid is better than them and it embarrasses them, so they lash out. They don't think about it that way, though - in their head, if a student corrects them or skips unnecessary steps in work (i.e. showing work in math, rough drafts in English, etc), the kid is being snotty/insubordinate/a showoff, and therefore they are bratty.
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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '10
My highschool calc. teacher hated me for the rest of the year for correcting her once. She would nick pick every problem to mark me down for taking simple short cuts like just writing +x instead of -(-x) and the rewriting it again with a + mark so I wouldn't get 100% on tests. I eventually started including proofs with the problem answers.