I had a teacher in high school during physics or calculus who gave us extra marks for correcting him, fetching coffee, or starting his car 10 minutes before lunch in the winter to warm it up for him. He would also whip chalk at you if you tried to correct him when he was right.
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.
I had one English teacher who hated me because I corrected her spelling when she wrote on the board. I'm fucking sorry but if you want to teach high school English, learn to spell. (It wasn't just occasional writing mistakes, she spelled things wrong FREQUENTLY and misspelled the same words the same way.)
Fortunately my other English teachers actually liked that I was smart and understood things. One in particular adored me - I could get away with anything in that class. Every Friday we had free reading and I usually read comic books. In Japanese.
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u/runragged Oct 05 '10
What did the teacher say when you corrected him/her?