I had been listening to a talk show on radio about this very subject and heard some listeners relate their past stories. In a nut shell here is what I experienced as well as some of those stories.
1. Teacher who barricaded herself behind several piles of books during class in order to NOT view the kids in class. She taught little, just gave out assignments.
2. Teacher who was just out of University and took on the teaching job of High School students, who got enamored of her sexual prowess and thereby wore mini skirts and sat on her desk just enough for the girls to get angry and the boys to get turned on….nevertheless we learned nothing in that class as she NEVER presented anything in the way of learning our subject..after two months of not getting anything done and our complaints not heard or acted on,and her getting more strict ( complete silence in class or she won’t teach ( extreme). We all revolted and walked out of her class , never to return. The principal finally realized that she was too young to teach students too close in age of herself. The temptation was too great and she might had a bad situation with an underage student. ( 1960’s)).
3. Teacher assigned homework then sat and read her novel the whole hour and 30 minutes.
4. English teacher told us that we all have one hour to come up with a novel idea and write about it.He did nothing except grade the papers in the end. However a good side to that was those that liked to write flourished.
5. One listener told of a story of her Rural school teacher who separated the classroom according to there economic status.She placed the rich kids near the window seat rows and the poor kids to her left then all year never acknowledged those poor kids and turned her back on them..the lady telling this story stated that because of this blatant disregard to those in poor economic times, she herself, became a teacher and respected everyone regardless of status. She later became an Educational Administrator.
6. We had an excellent Science teacher who met an attractive fellow teacher in the same school and would ignore the class by leaving to meet her in the hallway! We caught on.
7. Several stories of abusive teachers,autocratic and demanding, some that should had retired as they soon tired of there career choice.
8. Some that should never had taken on a teaching career since they clearly hated working with kids.