Help! Terrible Teacher at Boarding School

Sorry can’t be more help. Sometimes you just run into poor teachers. I’ve had my unfortunate share over the years.

I can see where your D would say “no physics” ever after this experience. I wasn’t a fan either in HS.
But in college I had to take it as a required class for my major. The class itself was as awful as I figured it would be but I muddled through. It was much more math intensive than I needed for my major.

The labs (totally separate) though were great! I learned SO much in a very short amount of time. Those I remember to this day. It’s probably how a “concepts” class is meant to be taught. “Show” not “tell”.

The physics building had rooms set up for a series of experiments (you did them on your own time within a certain time frame and then they’d change to a new concept). Busy place. Everything set up in advance to teach a specific concept and spend however long you wanted collecting data and recording results. Physics in action. Fun stuff. And that’s from a “no physics” person.
So “never say never”. If I had met that experience first I would’ve had more appreciation and patience for physics.