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Best ‘Unhelpful High School Teacher’ memes

We all know one. You undoubtedly had one. Some of you probably even work with one. Just please say you're not one…

Lloyd Burgess
by Lloyd Burgess

The Unhelpful High School Teacher meme started as a simple stock photo called Teacher Pointing at Map of the World and soon became an amalgamation of every bad teaching habit, trait or cliché going.

The joke isn’t that all teachers are like this, it’s just a generalised personification of bad teaching. So hopefully you won’t recognise yourself, but you’re sure to recognise teachers you know, or some you’ve had. Here we go…

Unhelpful High School Teacher even got her own derivation, donning the cap of Scumbag Steve to become Scumbag Teacher…

And better yet, in true teaching fashion one helpful educator took to the internet to correct some of these memes (in red, of course)…

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