So I come into school, and find that I’ve got to go see one of my English teachers at break. So I think, ‘hmm, ok, probably not anything too bad.’
Anyway, at break, I go to see him, and find out that I’ve got to cut off 700 words from my English coursework, because he gave the wrong word limit, and shows the syllabus, and yep he’s right, 2000 words :mad: Not an easy thing to do on something that’s only 2700 words.
Ok, so a bit of background on this person. Allegedly from University, with some sort of degree in Victorian Literature, he comes to my school. Now, this guy doesn’t know Dickens for (sugar), and he chose to do ‘Hard Times’, a fairly difficult novel, especially when compared to the other choices. This would be fine, if he knew what the hell he was talking about. A sample from a lesson:
Teacher: “Erm, yeh, Mrs Gradgrind is married to Mr Bounderby.”
Me: “Surely she’s married to Mr Gradgrind…”
Teacher: “Oh. Yeh.”
Teacher: “Utilitarianism is important in this novel.”
Me: “What’s utilitarianism?”
Teacher: “Erm, I dunno.”
Anyway, you get the concept.
So as I’m about to start cutting down my coursework, I remember that the other English set, the one with the good teacher, definitely had the word limit of 3000. So I go to their teacher, and ask her, and sure enough she’s absolutely 100% sure that that’s the word limit. So I go back to stupid teacher, and he’s sure that it’s 2000, I look at the syllabus, and he was marking my work on the wrong criteria!
So then I had to spend 5 minutes trying to hunt down the other unfortunate souls convinced that they had to cut down their piece, before my next lesson, of course, he couldn’t do that 
Anyway, upshot is that I’m more convinced than ever that he should be fired, he’s not a good teacher, and he doesn’t understand his subject or the subject matter than he purports to teach.
Sorry for the lame rant, but I was pretty annoyed. Feel better now though 