Yeah - I had teacher grades 7-9; probably worst teacher I ever had (thought mockery & humiliation were fine pedagogical tools, almost as good as big wooden paddle), and definitely the creepiest (I seriously would not be at all surprised to learn he was a kiddie-diddler) - but he had one redeeming quality: sometimes he would assign Hee Haw or Laugh-In as homework.
Peter (who is not confessing to sometimes claiming he did when he didn't.......)