Yeah, science teachers are usually pricks. Here's another story:
First of all, I'm not a terribly unintelligent person. I went to a Catholic primary school, and despite the strict grading system, I was still an A+ studant. Matter of fact, I was tested and my IQ was said to be in the top 2.3 percentile in the nation. Then again, this is America, so that doesn't exactly say much. Anyway, on to the story.
In the 9th grade (now stuck in the public education system, as the tuition costs were getting out of hand) things were going along fine for me, though I had this asshole of a science teacher. One day I forgot to bring my textbook to class. I brought this to his attention, and rather than allow me to go to my locker and grab my book he got all pissy. He said to go out in the hall or he would "deck" me. Alright. I went out to the hall and this guy came up behind me and slammed me into the wall telling me that I was to stare at the wall for the remainder of the period., or else he would "deck" me. There were plenty of witnesses around, so rather than sucker punch this ogre of a man I ran like a pussy to a pay phone and called my parents.
To make a long story short, they threatened the school board, this fucker was forced into "early retirement" (though they let him finish out the year) and he essentially made the rest of my time in high school hell. Seems a lot of the other teachers respected this man and didn't like me for exposing him for the dick that he was (I saw him chase someone down and chokeslam them into a wall and my mom said that when she was in school he broke some girls arm). I ended up failing 9th grade and struggled to keep up my marks for the rest of highschool. I did fine with the rookie teachers, but whenever I had an oldschooler they'd flunk me by default. Yay!
It just go to show, one person CAN make a differance!