I don’t know that I had any particularly weird teachers. There were plenty with quirks, but nothing that would make a particularly interesting post.
But I remember a male teacher in high school who always slapped the female students on the rear end. Seemed inappropriate at the time, even in my innocent youth, and seems particularly inappropriate now since I am older looking back.
Most of teachers at my school were stranger
My biology teacher pulled the legs off a daddy long legs in front of us and told us that a few of us in the class would be dead in the near future
Then we had at my previous school a teacher who was a peadophile
After I took my geography exam the geography teacher told me I had done really well in fact I got grade f
I remember a female Dutch teacher (who later became principal) who would talk about how she would dream of the male students of the class. I thought that was weird.
I also had a physical education teacher that was that big that everyone was convinced he was taking anabolic steroid injections or something.
I had a teacher who would literally scream at us often. She went from zero to sixty in a split second. I had an eccentric chemistry teacher. I remember he was weird but I can’t think of any examples. The stoners smoked pot out in the field about thirty feet from his classroom and he would rant about that.
I had a really strange teacher for the 3rd grade. I failed the 3rd grade and had to go to summer school. After summer school I got an award and $25 US Savings Bond for most improved student. This was 1967, and twenty-five dollars was a lot of money back then. I remember getting a Coca-Cola out of the vending machine for 10¢ back then.
my high school teacher Mr. Vollertson…he would hand out licks with a wooden paddle for any small bother when he wanted…I got two different sets of licks from him and man, did it hurt. he would tell ghost stories…pretty cool guy except it was dangerous in that class since he so handily whipped us.
I went to the ninth grade twice and then dropped out of high school altogether. I had two English teachers in HS and they were both depressed individuals.
In college I had a psychology teacher who said controversial things which he never got in trouble for. He was a dick.
I remember the corporal punishment days, @jukebox@Charles_Foster My industrial arts teacher was really bad pattling (spelling?) the boys in the 7th grade.
I got spanked quite a few times in elementary school. We would try to put a notebook in the back of our pants to soften the blows, but the time I tried to do that I got caught. Oh those were the days and i hated school.
My second grade teacher wasn’t strange, but I didn’t like her very much. I don’t think she was a very empathetic person to be working with children in a poor area. I really can’t remember why. For some reason I started skipping school all the time in her class.
My strangest teacher was a civics teacher or social studies teacher in the 10th grade. Just because I didn’t like his type. Kind of geeky or worse.
Once of my favorite teachers told a lot of bad jokes. He let me read poetry that I wrote in front of the class, even though it wasn’t relevant to his subject at all. He thought it was funny. He was quite old, probably could have retired some time before.
My tennis coach was a bit odd. First, he’d give the tennis team rides to and from competitions, at least for those kids whose parents weren’t involved. He drove a Camry, and we’d have seven or so kids piling in it, plus him. He also tended not to show up to practices. He never once submitted our team photo for the yearbook. We designed t-shirts for the team, but he never had them made. He was my coach for two years. I have no evidence that I was on the tennis team because of the lack of yearbook info. Also, I eventually threw away all of my trophies, so I don’t have tennis trophies, either. On a nice note, if my mom was late to pick me up (always), he’d wait with me. Otherwise, it was just the tennis team organizing practices lol.