Unhelpful High School Teacher

Unhelpful High School Teacher

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Updated Sep 05, 2019 at 03:47AM EDT by andcallmeshirley.

Added Sep 09, 2011 at 01:57PM EDT by Don.

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About

Unhelpful High School Teacher is an advice animal image macro series featuring a stock photo of a woman standing in front of a map of the world and a chalkboard. The captioned text describes lazy or irresponsible teaching methods, as well as cliche expressions and retorts frequently used by teachers in interacting with students.

Origin

The base image comes from a Corbis Images[9] stock photo titled "Teacher Pointing at Map of World." The first Quickmeme[1] submission was uploaded on September 3rd, 2011. The image was posted to the advice animals subreddit[2] the same day in a thread by Me_bender titled "Unhelpful High School Teacher." It received 2163 upvotes and an overall score of 665.


REQUIRES 3-RING BINDER MERI NEVER PUNCHES HOLES quickmeme.com

Spread

Several examples were posted in a thread in the Mabination[6] forums on September 4th, 2011. The first single topic blog on Tumblr titled "Fuck Yeah Unhelpful High School Teacher"[7] was created on September 5th. On September 6th, derivative round-ups were published to BuzzFeed[3] and Memebase.[4] Smosh.com[5] published a "best of" collection on September 8th. Urban Savior[14] included it in their 25 Most Hilarious Memes of 2011 list and in January 2012, a series appeared on humor site Runt of the Web.[11]

As of February 2012, there are 370 submissions related to "unhelpful teacher" in the advice animals subreddit[8] and over 6600 instances on Quickmeme.[10]

Notable Examples


MAYI ASK A QUESTION? MERI quickmeme.com MULTIPLE CHOICE TESTS MERI ALLOFTHEABOVE" IS ELOTONEOFTHE ABOVE kmeme.com HATES CHILDREN MER BECOMES TEACHER HASN'T FINISHED GRADING FRIDAYS TESTS BY MONDAY MER SCANTRON quickmeme.com KIDS WERE MEAN TO HER WHEN SHE WAS IN HIGHSCHOOL SIA MER GETS HERREVENGE BY BEING MEAN TO YOU MERI YOU AREGOING TO USE CURSIVE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE quickmeme.com
PLAYS VIDEO IA MERI LEAVESCURSORRIGHT IN THE MIDDLEOFTHEFUCKINGSCREEN me.comm WRONG FONTONA PAPER MERI ZERO LECTURES CLASSABOUT WASTING TIME MERI FOR THE WHOLE PERIOD

Derivative: Teacher's Rebuttals

On September 10th, 2011, Tumblr user and English education student angewe posted a series[12] of 10 Unhelpful High School Teacher instances with her response placed in red text in between the captions, receiving 333 notes. The series was linked on Buzzfeed[13] two days later.


"COME AFTERSCHOOL IF YOU NEED ANY ADDITIONAL HELP And the only time this vear vou've tried to come is the one day when l had to rush home to my family.. ISNT THERE ASSIGNS LOTS OF HOMEWORK Because doing the homework made you read and writing things down helped you retain it and "checking it" will be the test... TOO LAZY TO GRADE DOESNTCHECKIT WHEN ASKED A QUESTION Because we just read the section where a sentence basicallyjust answered verbatim the question you just asked.. JUSTTELLS YOU TO LOOK INTHE BOOK

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Search peaked in September and again in December, coinciding with end of year lists. It is currently on the rise

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