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It's a nice discussion, so eh.

What terrible teachers might you have encountered over your years of education?

When I went through the last couple of years before "high school" I had a language teacher that had a most wonderful habit of giving me the same grades over and over again. I could have written Shakespeare level essays and she would still have given me that C+/B.
The same kinda went on with my math teacher. Always the same grades, always the same noted of needing to do something that I thought I had already done.
One time I wrote a project on body language. I got a C. I asked them (as both were my supervisor) what I could have done better. Their answer was that if I had done the presentation better, I would have gotten a B. Nothing on how to get an A, nothing on what in the written part that might have improved my chances of a better grade, just the knowledge that I might have gotten a B if my presentation had been perfect.

Same goes for my language exam a year later, before going to "high school". I got a B because I had forgotten to mention how many frame shifts there had been in the ad I had been analysing. Something I had actually mentioned to her, but told her I would put no time into because so and so.

My "high school" teacher in English was no better, but I think it is time for your stories now.