Teacher Who Learns More From Her Students Than She Teaches Them Fired 

Never give up on your ionic bonds. That's wisdom.

The only thing unrealistic about this is that she got fired. In real life, they’d never fire you for something that small, only real offenses like swearing or not reporting a student who makes a finger gun.

It's funny how she totally nailed the mannerisms of these incompetent and mild-mannered teachers you very often encounter.

I’m sure she would make a great English teacher, though

So sad to see her go... she was really in her element in that job. Had such chemistry with the students, such strong bonds. This wasn't the solution - I wonder if she was unionized.

I don't think that vectors and photosynthesis are a part of chemistry curriculum...

Finally, a teacher with a heart of gold, and nothing else.

Fun fact: everything on that white board is so wrong it hurts

The joke is that they managed to fire a teacher

A pi bond between 2 hydrogens! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

that lady's face is PERFECT for the role. i don't know what it is about it, but like… it just really completed it.

I had a math teacher who couldn’t do the homework she assigned, regularly wrote the wrong answers to her own quizzes, and would ask another student in the class to give answers to questions that she couldn’t figure out. 🤦🏾‍♀️

I like how when she double underlines “Dream Big,” it inadvertently draws a double bonded hydrogen molecule. That is some well-informed, behind the scenes comedy writing.

Can we just appreciate how much effort goes into this, huge amounts of actors, funny stories, great camera work. Just a good job over all.

Not funny, but every TEDx speaker needs to watch this.

I had this one history teacher my freshman year who would just talk about how much he hated living with his parents, the loss of hair he had for a non cancerous tumor in his head, and that he hated his girlfriend because she never came to see him. And when US History did come up in conversation, it would usually be about which historical figure would win in a fight. A 3 day debate on whether Hamilton would win or lose against Jefferson type of debate. Such a pointless class

Jennifer should come north. Here in Canada, she would be an administrator --or perhaps even a educational guru.

I remember I had a cinematography teacher who never taught cinematography. Every class, she'd teach editing or copyright laws, or something else she knew nothing about, and we'd spend the whole class goofing off while she tried to figure out what she was trying to teach that day.

Oh god that double bond between two hydrogen atoms! That teacher deserve to be replaced for teaching inaccurate science!

1:38 - 1:48 This is too sad. The way she looks at them and the students awkwardly try to reciprocate her smile and then look away.

I love learning about photosynthesis and vectors in 10th grade chemistry

This isn't satire, this is just life.

I like how they casually slap in "learned absolutely nothing all year"

This video taught me more about education, than four years of high school.

I had a chemistry teacher that was an amazing guy. Dude was intense and very involved with us students making sure everything was okay with our minds and would often have long talks with individual students about life, politics, their home situation, etc etc. He was a friend as much as a teacher, and he was a damn good teacher, I think more people made A's on their finals in his class than in any other class on any subject. They fired him the same year.

If they did this at my school, there wouldn't be any teachers left.

This is fake They didn't even show her being on fire

I vomit a little looking at the whiteboard. I'd love to see how she synthesises compound OH8.

This was a problem in many math classes I've taken. That one class my junior year actually had a teacher that just taught in a straightforward manner and didn't talk about her personal life for 30 minutes. It turned out to be the best math class I ever had because it was an easier way to follow and didn't waste my time when I needed help later on.

That principal is the only normal person in the Onion world.

She's now fostering kittens, who love her back. It's a little sad when they have to leave to go to their new homes, but in the end, they help her more than she helps them.

This is both highschool and college. I took a Material Science Engineering class on the Mechanical Properties of Materials and my professor was this to a Tee.

She did not get fired. She graduated and it was probably the biggest achievement in her life.

I expected she would be a well qualified teacher, but she happened to be cliche and lost her job because of her words.

“Homework !! -Write down your five biggest life goals -How does chemistry relate to them?” yeah… she needed to go

god my cultural studies profs would always be on about this kind of shit in uni. Like oh really? we're both in this together and you're learning from us as we're learning from you? Okay then how about you take some money from your salary and use it to pay my tuition. If this is such an equal partnership it seems weird that I'm paying thousands of dollars to be here while you are being paid thousands of dollars to do the same.

Hey, just remember: "Students won't care what you know until they know that you care."

1:35 the best part is neither of those are typically taught in chemistry. They're bio and physics respectively

What's so comedic is that When I was in 10th grade My class had our teacher leave on maternity leave and we got a sub that had no idea about biology. They ended up replacing her after we took our mid-terms and complained

Teacher: I teach chemistry students: Teach us about photosynthesis and vectors. It really be like this these days.

I will say the teachers I learned most from were the ones who also listened to my point and we could have honest discussions about many things in a class

0:31 Of course, high schools think the purpose of the tenth grade is to prepare you for the eleventh grade. Not to prepare you for the real world, or anything like that.

I had a Chemistry teacher who kinda taught but didn't grade anything. He just gave out A's, B's, and C's based on how he felt about you. Some students literally wrote song lyrics as the answer in tests and got passing grades.

I guess they had really good chemistry... but not good enough Chemistry ;P.

Lol this was justified. This isn't satire, you can clearly see many incorrect structures :P O-H-O ?

1:46 on that faithful moment, a supervillain was Born.

This literally happened in my class. Our Chemistry teacher had some kind of mental problems that he forgets everything in front of the class. Even simple balancing equations. And the students always had to correct him. He always turn back and look at the smart kid for his approval on anything written on the board.

1:35 Poor guy learned so little that he doesn't even know that vectors and photosynthesis are physics and biology topics.

I guess the description was wrong or this history teacher really didn't know what she was doing.

Lol, a teacher being fired 😂

You laugh, I had a lecturer in university teaching "Recent history of the Middle East", laughingly saying she knew very little about the Arab-Israeli-conflict and learned about it via her students. Turned out she knew very little about the ME or its history or history or teaching in general. She was unfortunately not fired, but payed double the national median income by the taxpayer to be absolutely incompetent and to my knowledge still holds the same position.

"Never be afraid to ask questions. Ask as many questions as you want." "Why are you asking that? I already explained that. We're moving on now."

Oh man those "assignments" under homework are totally on point I don't know how many times I've had to state goals or other stuff in class, and then tying something barely related to the subject matter is also another thing done a lot.

You know you have hit the very bottom when teenagers want to learn

more sad than funny

I actually had a teacher who taught me nothing. It was one of the weirdest semesters of my entire life. Each class was almost surreal in how he managed to spend nearly an hour not teaching us but yet talking the whole time. I made an A of course...everyone made an A, but we didn't learn one thing I tell you. Nothing.

The acting is so good. Oscar for everyone

This was more sad than it needed to be

There are so many mistakes on that whiteboard. 😵‼️

Unrealistic, she would never get fired for this. Not in a US public school.

To be fair this was my chemistry teacher. She’d tell us a long winded story about how the two molecules are a couple and how they share an electron like you would pass a shopping bag to one another, because it’s important to support each other in a family. It went on...

did she just steal the tape dispenser or do teachers usually own those?

Actress as teacher is superb! That last smug smile, nod, and turn away was dead-on perfect.

Didnt go over periodic table Draws double covalent bond on door

There was chemistry in that class. The way that Brad and Jessica gazed into each other’s eyes in the back of the room. There wasn’t much on the board for them to look at anyway. Lol

Well I had a teacher like this and he always told me there will be something great out of me and to do what I like and never taught us anything from the strict curriculum. Now look at me, I followed his suggestions and I am world wide known in anatomy and medicine. He looked up to me one day and said " Computers are the future... What I have here is a 20 year old book. Go for what you believe in son, I admire you and reach further than I ever could." Wow such an amazing teacher... Everyone made fun of him but I took his advice.

I had a teacher like that. No lesson plans we'd walk in and basically whatever was on his mind was the lesson and the homework was voluntary.

Not one kid in her class knew what h2O was on the periodic table. Needless to say, none of her student's pursued a degree in chemistry.

A kid who learned so little that he thought that vectors and photosynthesis were part of the 10th grade chemistry curriculum...

The fact that most people don’t realize this was a skit..😂

0:18 Oxygen bonded to 8 hydrogens lmao

God I absolutely hate these types of teachers. The worst part is that you can never tell them that they aren't teaching because they're just so nice...

That H=H bond made me irrationally angry 😡

Everyone had this teacher once.

She was a history teacher teaching chemistry?! Must be in a right to work for less state.

Description and video disagree. 9th grade vs 10th grade. History Teacher vs Chemistry Teacher. Is it part of the joke?

8 hydrogens connected to oxygen, nitrogen has 4 bonds, oxygen molecule without pi bond and molecule O-H-O as the icing on the cake. She's definitely a great teacher

This isn't funny guys, I actually had a terrible Chemistry teacher in high school that did nothing but show us videos of Super-size me and "Save the Planet" type-movies. Apparently his background was being a famous Geologist. On my last year, my class had to make up for 2 years worth of IB curriculum.

As someone who still keeps in contact with some of my high school teachers this is pretty spot on

Read the title and thought I was having a stroke.

The people who think teachers find every reason they can to get you in trouble were bad kids themselves, change my mind

Reminds me of my chemistry teacher. She knows what she's teaching, but not really at the same time... We wasted a month learning about something that was excluded from the curriculum...

I'm from Maine, very small town. In highschool out of the 20 or so teachers i had, 18 were great. 2 were trash. I was a stoner loser who always slept in class, but i realized my senior year how lucky i was to have such passionate, caring teachers

Did she just do a double bond on a Hydrogen molecule?

Oh my god this was legit my high school Chemistry teacher. 😂 She was so incredibly sweet, but we all joked she should have been an elementary school librarian.

Lol first thing she does is draw a double bond between Hydrogens 😂

I thought she learned how to cook meth from her students like in Breaking Bad.

How did they get to fire her, it's near impossible?

she was about to give up and he defeated by the firing. but then she saw the power and determination of youth. and once again she was inspired to muster courage to pick up the box and move on.

Had a biology instructor who had a bad habit of starting off saying something out loud and then muttering the rest to herself. For example, she would say something, then would add extra notes to what she just said, except those parts were quietly added, like how you might correct yourself in a conversation ("Okay, so maybe so and so didn't *literally* do that, but it was close enough..." That kind of thing, except with biology and for an entire hour). Worse yet, the test we took each week never looked anything close to the notes she had us write down verbatim. She provided the notes, we just copied them. While I understand not wanting the students to quote back the information word for word, which anyone can do, writing down notes all class (that was Tuesdays. Thursdays, we had lab, so we weren't even going over those notes) isn't teaching. For me, at least, it won't stick if I don't hear more on how the information I'm being told is actually used in the world. I remember making note cards to help memorize the information and understand it better and it helped nada. Lab was alright. I usually hate depending on others for a class assignemnt, wanting to pull my own weight, but her muttered instructions each class combined with her confusing notes made it hard to understand what she was asking of us. I would get really sick that year, causing me to miss a lot of class. With everything combined, I decided to save my grade by just dropping my classes. Either way, I knew I was screwed when the 4.0 students were whispering her method of teaching was causing them to make C's.

Most onion skits are obvious but this could easily confuse someone

Wait wuddya mean the onion tells satire stories? I swear she's my teacher. Well minus the getting fired bit

That hydrogen double bond made me reevaluate my life choices

I dont recall anyhting from school, not even college or the past month... I google everything now

Ah, the H8O molecule. One of the most important chemical compounds in nature.

It lowkey really annoyed me because she was a chemistry teacher but they were bringing up biology and physics topics

How did she even get the job? In my country, becoming a teacher takes at least 5 years of studies containing three internships, school training classes with supervisors and it is followed by 1,5 years of referendary during which you teach with a mentor. It is impossible to teach nonsense and inaccurate statements after that (unless you suffer from mental illnesses) because you wouldn't even get through university exams. I had a 65 year old physics teacher with dementia but this did not stop her from explaining how atoms work. She forgot names and why she was going into the staff room but still managed to explain properly.

This is actually kind of depressing and realistic for The Onion.

That was poignant, individualism versus duty and a greater good

These teachers can be okay until the end of the class, they give a massive pile of work for homework because we didn't finish it in school.