"Skip the idiot steps" Bad Teacher stories.

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9. I had a high school algebra teacher who had some insane grading policies.

And when I was in his class I fought with him regularly on his BS. His philosophy was that the heading of your paper was more important than the problems you worked on. And the date had to be in a specific format. You had to have some things on the left side and some things on the right side. And if you deviated from the format at all (for instance the most inane requirement was that you had to have last name, first name) and if you forgot to say, put the comma between your first name and last name, he'd mark the whole paper wrong without even reading it. If you put the date in the wrong format (like Feb. 18, 2013 instead of 2/18/13) he'd mark the whole paper wrong. It was pretty much the math class from hell.