Ah, dude, I know what you mean. That's a big contributor to my hate of geography/history/social studies, is that to this day I have gotten crappy teachers who leave the room with a CD playing reading from the textbook and a few color and label maps and think that qualifies as teaching LOL.
Meh, pretty dumb at my school. We alternate between four classes every day for the whole year, but I sort of cheated the system and got the same math teacher for my two classes, meaning I see the instructor everyday, putting me leagues ahead of the other guys, and giving me some me-time. Also, biology seems to be filling up the niche left by art studies in that most of my friends are in the class, the teacher is lax, and the subject is interesting. So I guess I shouldn't complain.