OK I'm taking this class for culinary arts at richmond technical center and I just finished the first semester in December and I'm taking it now... but I'm not learning nothing at all.. do you think I should continue this or give up... cause I'm not learning nothing...

Why aren't you learning anything?
What are they *teaching* that you aren't getting anything out of?
If you are getting loans you might be better off seeing if you can transfer to different classes or even a different school cause once you quit you have to start paying the loans back. If you get behind I think it is harder to try and start back to school if you change your mind again.
I wouldn't just up and quit though. Talk to another school that you would be interested in going to about your options.
If you ask at your school they would probably tell you whatever they needed to to keep you there.

There are many issues, 1. you paid for the class 2. do you need this class to take more advanced classes. 3. and often we really do lean things that we don't realie

My classes range from 250-400 dollars a class... and I just take one... but pay ever semester... my teacher is a master chief... but she has her own ways of teaching... I need hands on experience though.. shes not giving me that or any other in class.. and its like waste of money and time

Hands on experience comes later. You need to understand there is lots of theory behind these kinds of classes. If you can not handle it then it is time to find another profession.

I know the culinary school where I live has hands on training but like JH said there is most likely all the theory. Maybe ask people in 3rd and 4th semester if it gets any better than this.

It suppose to be hands on experience... matter of fact not doing anything in the text books... some people drop the class cause of it... last semester... teacher wasn't really wasn't there at all mostly cause she had her business and all... so I don't know

Instead of blaming the teaching, maybe the interaction in class is more individually centered. Meaning that it is UP TO YOU. Showing creativity and taking initiatives to learn more. Asking questions. Opening up to more ideas and thoughts. Part of these classes is also to learn business, and other theories. Time to become interactive.

Are there any other culinary schools around? Maybe you could spend a day there and see how they do things.
I quit art school back in the 70's because a couple of my teachers were like that.
The one teacher thought every guy had to be drawn like G. I. Joe or 'the drawing was distorted or deformed'.
They say some people just aren't good teachers because they know their stuff so well they can't relate on how to translate it into a teachable way.
I forget if it was Beethovan or Mozart they said could not teach music because of this.

I'll bet Einstein had a hard time teaching his theories and formulas too.

Finish this semester since you paid for it but see if there is another school or another option for next semester
But check and see what others who have gone through more semesters say.

Also get a copy of the curriculum for the other semesters and study up on the easier classes.
You can pay like $50. To $100. Dollars to "test out" of a class. Be sure you know it enough to do this because if you don't pass you still have to take the class.