text: who was the meanest teacher you ever had? i had an english teacher in the 8th grade who was a witch. she would punish the whole class if one kid was talking, and would have these materials checks, so if you forgot one pen, you get a zero out of ten points. plus, she was sexist and racist. somehow, she held a grudge against me and my friends for no reason. she would always pick on me and called me by last name instead of my first name like everyone else. once, we had to write buisness letters, and my brother and i wrote to the same company. even though the letters were different, we had to redo our letters, for partial credit. without a doubt, my freshman year history teacher.  to start, he had more dui's than anyone i know.  he was/is an alcoholic who took out his anger on the girls in the class - and it was always the girls.  we did a unit on slavery and for a full two weeks he informed the class that all the girls were slaves and that the boys could treat the girls horribly during class for that entire two week period.  back then, we had to put up with it.  nowadays, he wouldn't have a job.  the sad thing is he still does teach...