re: #98 zombie

LOL. You’re operating in a different plane of existence. You have no grasp quite exactly how “bad” it is when I say my school district had “bad” teachers.

One of my math teachers imagined himself a theoretician and was not interested in explaining things to students, and so instead stood at the blackboard scribbling equations and diagrams completely unrelated to the topic of the class (that any of us could tell) and mumbled to himself.

Another teacher did not know thing one about any kind of math, and furthermore did not know English. All he did was hand out workbooks on the first day and say, “Make answer. Book,” pointing to the workbook. That was the only sentence I ever heard him speak in English. He had a teaching assistant grade the workbooks. No instruction was ever offered.

And so on. You get the picture.

Yes I do. Every time I get freshmen, I start the hard work of de-traumatizing them so that I can start the hard work of teaching them.