My German 1 teacher was terrible. During the first week of class, she had us do a project on a famous German person that involved an essay. I did the project, hand-drew the required picture of the person I was assigned, fact-checked everything--the works.
When I got it back, I had gotten a 2/10 on my project, with what I had done wrong written at the end of the assignment--in German.
Naturally, since I had no clue what the heck I did wrong, I went up to her and asked, and she responded with, "You didn't write your essay in German."
WTF?! Not only had she never specified what language to write in, but this was literally the first week of the class; I didn't know any German yet!
That wasn't the first incident either--she would give us a test over our massive list of vocabulary the day after she gave it to us, never gave us enough time to learn anything before moving on to tougher work material, forgot what she had assigned us for homework, sometimes assigned us homework that she had intended to give her German 3 class, and when we asked her questions, her answers were never helpful.
The only kid who managed to pass the class with flying colors was this girl who was already fluent in English, and even she admitted that the teacher sucked. (And I want to add, everyone in the class worked their asses off just to be sub-par.)
I joined the class wanting to learn German because I loved the language--now I hate it.
I will agree though...most of the time, it's the students' fault for being a bunch of twitter-texting douchewaffles. The only year that I felt that student behavior improved was my Senior year of highschool--and even then, we still had all the underclassmen being underclassmen. I remember back in my freshman year, my biology class was so rude and so mean to this substitute teacher that she actually left the classroom to go down to the teachers' restroom to cry. It was brutal.
Stupid kids making random sex-noises while the teacher was trying to teach. -___- ughhh...I would never make it as a teacher.