What is there a rule that chem teachers can't be cool or something? I, uh, sort of kind of really pissed mine off when my reply to his indignant why are you doing math during my lecture was that his lecture wasn't teaching me anything I couldn't get from the textbook faster on my own. >> This actually inspired him to focus for the rest of period, but caused my classmates to yell at me for making the teacher turn scary. <<

Yeah, I don't think it actually did much for their psyches, they were screwed way before that. <3