Up to about grade 3 I feel like my teachers genuinely tried, helped, and were good.

Grade 4 was my first experience of a bad teacher. Quite often late to class. Wouldn't teach, we were given the book and told 'read chapter X today.' and no noise was allowed. assigned seats you couldn't leave until you were allowed. You basically couldn't talk until recess/lunch.

Grade 5? Same teacher. Normally you get a new teacher each year but... it took virtually no effort to pass his tests. "What is the name of the author, William __________?" A, red, B, true, C, Shakespeare, D, banana.

Grade 6, Not perfect teacher but was overly positive and enthusiastic. everyone got a playful positive nickname.

7? Same teacher as 4 and 5. Seriously. He even admitted he was helping us by not being too difficult he would threaten us with tests. Rarely actually happened.

Grade 8? Everyday sports. New teacher but they didn't want anything to do with anything that wasn't sports. We followed many sports in class. We would get tested on NHL stuff every year. For other subjects, he would literally just read the textbook to us. Never asked us questions, never tested us. BUT he got facts into everyone's brains. omg everyone really got everything he taught. He put everything in terms of sports and making everyone understand.

High school?

Suddenly we were at the big games. Our teachers actually taught. culture shock! even gave us tests. Even more shocking, it seems like other elementary schools were also bad.

But now we had personality problems. Grade 9 english, she just got divorced. Told us that all the boys in class will be failing. Not that we can't try but we weren't smart enough to possibly pass. She assigned seats such that a girl is sitting next to each boy. She said the girls weren't being punished, it's just the only chance the boys might be able to cheat off the girls and maybe pass. Each boy ended up with 51% final score. The ultra smart asian boys who probably had 100% got 51% and we beat by their parents.

Religion teacher was gone for a month. He used his coat and his hand to describe what the foreskin of a penis was like and how it gets erect. Never did find out but he got into some serious shit. the community was losing their mind over it lol. Religion class became sex ed, but imagine a catholic priest coming to class to teach sex ed to 'correct us' ya well what you're imagining is not even close to how bad it actually was.

math is my favourite though. First month was 'review' of what we should know from elementary school. I never once opened the textbook and I did no homework. teacher never said anything. The day before the test was a summary coverage of maths. At the end the teacher just goes off on me. Calling me a loser who hasn't done anything and when I fail the test he will have me removed from the class. He never let me say anything.

We did the test and next day we get the results back. I was the last one to get the test back who got the 2 bonus questions right scoring above 100% and he immediately grabbed me by the arm after realizing it was me and dragged me to the principal for cheating. Principal was like, 'how'd he cheat?' like obviously i didnt copy a neighbour. Teacher stormed out of the office when he didn't know how i cheated.

Couple weeks later.. geography test had bonus question that used the coordinate system. It's a trivial question but apparently it was a 'cheater testing question' nobody else was able to answer the question correctly. So I was accused for a second time for cheating. I didnt find out until years later the teachers were friends and they were just being abusive.