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50 Toxic Teachers Who Deserve To Be Called Out For Their Unprofessionalism (New Pics)
Teachers can be extremely influential people in their students’ lives. Even if they don’t realize it, one meaningful conversation might alter the trajectory of a child’s educational career. And while the educators that we love are remembered as saints for decades to come, the ones that we despised are never forgotten either…
Bored Panda has scoured the internet and found some of the most disturbing and disappointing images calling out teachers for displaying toxic behavior in their classrooms. From refusing to let students use the bathroom to writing heartless comments on assignments, these educators give the profession a bad name. And they deserve to be held accountable.
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#1
Teacher Taking A Child’s Hearing Aid As Punishment “Cause She Wasn’t Listening Anyway”
Maartje 10 months ago
That is the best comment, the ONLY comment that matters.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 10 months ago
Maybe they should give the teacher a lobotomy as she wasn’t using her brain anyways…
Tom 10 months ago
withholding medical assistance, theft - and generally being a miserable person not suitable for teaching. Time to fire this teacher .
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Michael Largey 10 months ago
As a teacher, i felt it was my job to be worth listening to. In fact, I aimed for irresistible.
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
Well, today I learnt something - I've spent all my 46 years here in the UK, and I've never heard of that phrase!
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Beth Wheeler 10 months ago
That's probably illegal and I would push for her stupid a*s to be fired.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 10 months ago
alright, yup. only at the first post and im P!SSED. how dare the teacher do this!! some people aren't fit for teaching, no matter how many degrees they have
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#2
Not Only Did He Not Let Her Use The Bathroom, He Gave Her A Detention For Asking
Julia Mckinney 10 months ago
Time to "Traumatize them back". *raises hand* "Teacher, do you WANT me to bleed all over the classroom?"
BookFanatic 10 months ago
I did that in middle school! Older male teacher vs 12 yr old. I won eventually, but the poor chair lost.
Load More Replies... Kit Black 10 months ago
We always told our kids that if they need to use the bathroom, and the teacher says no - get up and go anyways and then let us know when you get home because we'll handle the fallout. Likewise, if they're having a medical issue of any kind and the teacher refuses to allow them to leave the classroom, leave the class, go straight to the office and ask them to call your parents.
Alex Martin 10 months ago
Teachers are in a no-win scenario on this. Early on in my long-abandoned teaching career I failed at this issue. In meeting after meeting, the Assistant Principal in charge of discipline would announce for us to not allow students out of class for any reason. I think I was all of 23 years old at the time and of course I am going to do what I was told. I was covering for another teacher's class and did not know his students. A young lady came in at the bell and said she needed to go to the bathroom. I followed orders and told her no. She never said another word. About five minutes after class her mom comes in and just rips into me because it was her daughter's time. I felt horrible and apologized repeatedly. Then that same admin who told me to never let kids out of class calls me in and admonishes me for not letting this kid out of class. After that, every kid got a pass. Its been 27 years and I'm still angry.
Tommy DePaul 1 month ago
You were a professional. You didn't understand that some discretion was implied for instances like this? I'm reminded of the nuns who died when the convent was consumed in a fiery conflagration. You see, only the Reverend Mother had the keys to unlock the doors and at the time of the fire she was taking her daily nap. The rule was that no one was to wake the Mother Superior for any reason. And nuns are nothing if not obedient. You can legally k**l someone if it is to prevent someone else's death! Do you really have no command of logic? Go work on an assembly line. Hell you'll probably be paid better anyway.
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Beth Wheeler 10 months ago
My kids martial arts teacher is also the ISS teacher at the middle school. There was teacher that we had a problem with. One day Charles was in the hallway and a little girl asked to go and she was just bawling. That a*****e teacher ask a 12 yo girl if she was going to bleed to death. If I was her parents I would have knocked the hell out of him. Charles took her to the office after she came out of the bathroom to report it and call her parents. That teachers contract was not renewed.
Seadog 10 months ago
School sent my son home 3 days in a row (1st grade) for having a fever. On the 3rd day, the reality of it all came out. He asked to be excused and teacher refused. So holding in a BM will in fact cause a fever. Doctor was furious. He called the school and informed them if he heard of such a thing happening again he and the health department would be paying them a visit. We changed schools.
#3
While I Am Glad She Was Corrected, That's Such A Terrible Accusation On Her Part
Mel Colley 10 months ago
Just because one student lies doesn't mean they all lie. I'm sure if the teacher showed some empathy at first , she would have found the truth either way and she would have saved face.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Not criticizing the mom, but as a teacher I would have advised her to keep the child home. A weekend is not enough for a child to even begin processing the death of a parent. Instead, I would have come by their house after school to be there for the student and ask mom how the school could help.
Kit Black 10 months ago
Why would you send your kid off to school and not bother to inform them that your kids father had died, and it might impact their behavior???
brandyy17 10 months ago
that is a good question however the teacher is in the wrong. she assumed it was a lie then procceeded to accuse the girl of lying to her mother. this behavior will only deepen the childs greif and send them into a depression. bc of the greif they r already feeling they wont think about how to respond they will think they did something wrong instead. i do agree its not wise to send a child to school so soon after losing a parent or loved one but the teacher shouldnt have acted that way. they shouldve said ok showed sympathy and then confirmed it with the mother and upon finding out its true give her condolenses properly.
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Freya Fluharty 1 week ago
My father was in an RTA when I was 13. We found out early in the morning, went to see him in the hospital and afterwards I wanted to go into school. Arrived in the middle of an English lesson. They were reading a poem. I explained to my teacher what had happened and, although I didn't quite process it at the time, changed to a completely different, innocuous poem. I'd liked her before that, but when I twigged what she'd done (and why) - respect. Thank you, Miss Duffield. You were a d**n good teacher (and person).
Jayne 10 months ago
Oh, a similar thing happened almost 20 years ago to me. My uncle suddenly died (not even 50) and I went to school on Monday since I didn't know what to do. The deputy headteacher (and her son) called me a Satanist for wearing all black and being gloomy. I told him to get effed.
Bored Seagull 10 months ago
Teacher could've asked her mother without accusing her of lying?
Load More Replies...Looking back on my time in school, my memories of most of my teachers are a blur. I might slightly remember how they look, what subjects they taught and how much I struggled or excelled in their classes. But we tend to never forget the teachers that made us feel strongly, whether that was positive or negative.
I vividly remember having conversations with educators who empowered and encouraged me. And I’ll always appreciate how much they believed in me. But I also remember word-for-word the cruel comments that I received from other teachers that left permanent scars on my self-esteem. Unfortunately, not everyone is cut out to be a teacher.
#4
That Isn’t How You Pronounce It?
Limey 10 months ago
I once heard “don’t make fun of people who mispronounce words, it usually means they learnt them from reading”. 💯
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 10 months ago
tru dat! only found out about last year that cyan is pronounced "sai-ann" and not "cry-ann". who knew :/
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JP Doyle 10 months ago
My Grade 6 treated cases like this as a whoopsie. A la 'Oh my, you got caught by one of the weird words. I even thought it was said like that. It's really pronounced High-per-bo-lee." NO one ever laughed at saying something wrong because she showed us everyone mispronounces new words sometimes and provided a non-judgmental correction. She was one of my best teachers ever
Stannous Flouride 10 months ago
The term for mispronouncing words you only know from reading is sometimes called "Calley-ope (Calliope) Syndrome"
Debby Keir 10 months ago
Calliope is also a Greek name (often shortened to Poppy) and surprisingly pronounced calley ope in Greek.
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nicholas nolan 10 months ago
This is when I broke from Hank Green on Youtube. It was a video on misprounced words. He started fine and informative, but got SUCH a condescending tone in his voice as he went through. Like DUDE! Sorry I've only read a billion books and didn't have the benefit of a high grade education. I was sounding that s**t out and looking up definitions(if I couldn't understand it from context clues). Sorry I got it wrong.
Dusty's mom 10 months ago
My mom loved to tell her friends about my malapropisms, even in front of me. When I finally got mad her she tried to excuse it because it was "cute". Never happened again because it's not cute when I have a meltdown.
Pferdchen 10 months ago (edited)
I once said "Hippo crates" for "Hippocrates" but fortunately I was at home so only got laughed at by my family, mainly my older sister 😀 Looking back, it seems surprising that my public elementary school (I believe it was 4th grade) touched on Greek physicians & philosophers. As well they should, but are they still part of the curricula?
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
This happened with my sister. She was 19 and said "wockamole" for guacamole. It was so funny but she was laughing too we weren't laughing at her to be mean
Load More Replies... Vaa10 10 months ago
I'm not a native English speaker and I just realized that I would pronounce "hyper-bowl"
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
I am English lol n that’s how I say it 🤷♀️🤷♀️ it then I’m 60 n if people don’t like it that would be a them problem not a me problem 😂
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Jim Dixon 10 months ago
Mine was in 1st grade advanced reading, and I pronounced the word "Con" "Science" and was corrected, of course I argued about it, as I had learned to read phonetically, but I lost the battle, darn it!
Lupita Nyong'heaux 10 months ago
started reading harlequin romance novels when i was like, 8 or 9. i was grown before i learned that it's "di-SHEV-eled" and not "dis-HE-veled." lol
#5
That Was One Lousy Art Teacher
Pferdchen 10 months ago
Alberto Vargas was once asked why he only painted women. He replied "“Show me something to paint that is more beautiful than a beautiful girl and I will paint it." I can see this logic extending to Disney princesses and stuff. If the world around you is horrendous, why not draw something innocent and escapist?
Joe Reaves 10 months ago
Plus, Disney seem to make a pretty good income out of it, so why not?
Load More Replies... TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 10 months ago
i feel this. i used to be a artist up until 6th grade, when my motivation was shattered because i was told that "real artists dont use crayons". it took me until 9th grade before i got back into art, now im better then before :)
mary thelen 10 months ago
This piece is more than good enough, and I say this as one who's retired from a 40-year career as a professional artist. Keep drawing: you'll only get better and better.
Gavin Johnson 10 months ago
I started to draw about 6 years ago. I did it as a way to occupy my overactive mind, it slowed my thought processes down to a manageable speed. My pictures were largely utter garbage, just absent minded doodles to begin with. They served a purpose, they kept the demons at bay. Now I still experiment and doodle to occupy my brain but they are occasionally used by bands for their t-shirts, tour or gig posters. Do what makes you happy, the reward is in the doing, the freedom, to produce something that pleases you, the form is irrelevant and the end product is unique, know that it served you first and that’s where it can start and end. If it gets a wider audience that’s fine but it always starts with you.
Upstaged75 10 months ago
My mom is an art teacher. She's taught all levels. And no matter how "bad" someone is at it she would never do anything but encourage each and every kid. It's not brain surgery - you don't need to be perfect at art. I wonder why some of these people get in to teaching when they seem to hate young people so much?
My O My 10 months ago
What I really don't understand is why there are grades in art class. Never got good grades but sold some pictures later in life
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Zoe Vokes 10 months ago
Or believed that art is limited to certain styles. No pretty drawings, no cats or dogs, no cartoons, no personal style… Art is what the teacher likes and nothing more.
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Penguins Are Mammals Now
Catlady6000 10 months ago
That's how I got bullied by my teacher all the way thru 6th grade. 11-12 years old
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YakFactory 10 months ago
I recall that in Year 10 we were doing an English test. "Where do nuns live?" I answered "a monastery". Should have answered "a nunnery". I lived across the road from a monastery where two orders of nuns lived! Never forgotten that.
Lazy Panda 2 10 months ago
Yeo, they've taken monastic orders, they live in a monastery. Gender is irrelevant here.
Load More Replies... TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 10 months ago
this is like when i got in trouble by saying that orcas are dolphins(learnt it in wild kratts), and the teacher said im wrong because orcas are nicknamed "killer whales". i got in trouble for both saying they are dolphins, and for responding to the teachers "killer whale" comment by saying "they are also called the wolves of the sea, but that dont mean they are actual wolves!"
Bewitched One 10 months ago
Huh. I had no idea they were dolphins?! Thanks for that info! Lol
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Lee Banks 10 months ago
Got sent to the principal for saying 'commerce' was not a verb. Feel ya, buddy.
private Private (Matt) 10 months ago
I see. And did you immediately slap their mother for raising an idiot?
So what exactly makes a great teacher? Southern New Hampshire University notes on their site that the best teachers are strong communicators and excellent listeners. They know how to get through to their students, and they take the concerns of their classes seriously. Wonderful teachers also prioritize collaboration and are real team players, which sets a great example for their students too.
These teachers are flexible and accept when they need to change with the times. When it comes to lesson plans, they also find a way to make sure that both they and their students are engaged. Teachers that truly make an impact on their students’ lives are empathetic, patient and value real-world learning.
#7
The Difference Between This And A Business Meeting Is That A Business Meeting Is Actually Important
Amy Lee 10 months ago
Could you imagine someone so "professional" they willingly free bleed all over the clients chairs?!?
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superfluous 10 months ago
I think the gym teacher being fat is relevant to the story and not fat shaming.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 10 months ago
PE teachers deserve to rot in a very special version of hell.
#8
Just Gross. And So Many Stories Like This Of Terrible Boys And Equally Terrible Teachers
Dragons Exist 10 months ago
Anyone who forces someone to accept an apology clearly doesn't know how apologies work (and they're always the same people who think that you should always forgive someone when they apologize)
Ge Po 10 months ago
I'm sorry, okay? Can I go now? (Grumblemumblethatwimp.)
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 10 months ago (edited)
Speaking of charges, a real world charge of assault could be called for here.
Load More Replies... 10 months ago
Annnnnnd.....this is why bullies rule the world pretty much on all levels. Most of us are trained, from an early age, that standing up to objectively poor behavior is not socially acceptable.
Rick Murray 10 months ago (edited)
And... the school is encouraging sexual assault?!? If I had a daughter that went though something like this, I'd be on the phone to my lawyer, the police, and the LEA (in that order). They wouldn't know what hit them.
BrownEyedPanda 10 months ago
In her place, I would have rearranged that perv's face and DARED the teacher to interfere. My dad would have had a field day with her as well.
Kohl_Keene 10 months ago
In third grade, a boy started talking to my daughter about schmex acts and I reported it, the principal said it’s just boys being boys. I took it to the superintendent and got a no contact order between the boy and my child. Always go up the chain If it’s not handled properly.
#9
Why Would This Be Me
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Where I live, this is educational and medical negligence and if reported the teacher can be fired and deregistered so they can't teach again. There would also likely be criminal charges.
Sleepy children love Moon 10 months ago
pray tell, where is this amazing place you live? I would so like to have this happen to a few teachers from my youth
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 10 months ago
Why do these scumbags become teachers if they are just going to treat children like shít?
Holly Herr 10 months ago
Are you kidding? I had a student who had to be allowed to use the restroom whenever she asked because she had a bladder problem. I always let her go. The problem was she abused this, saying she had to go just when she just wanted to leave class. Many times I had to call the office to send someone to find her cos she’d been gone for more than 15 minutes. One time she was gone for 25 minutes and was found just wandering the school!
EJN 10 months ago
This is a big time NO NO. If a kid has an allergy, as a teacher it is absolutely your job to get them to a nurse ASAP. If you do not, as in the example post, you could be charged with negligent manslaughter if the child dies.
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
Yep, and it's a big time no to start wondering if they're lying or not. You're there to teach, not to 'diagnose' - the default response should be to immediately get medical help. Yes, some will be lying, but better to be accused of lenience than ignoring a medical condition!
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
Easy to see why pink Floyd wrote another brick in the wall ain’t it (sorry lol my fav band n I’m 60 )
Earonn - 10 months ago
Okay, but also: who taught Mat to be non-confrontational about important health issues?
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
As a person with a peanut allergy, it's downright dangerous - but it doesn't surprise me.
Load More Replies... Clearly, the teachers on this list could use a lot of lessons in the best practices described above. But sadly, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find amazing teachers nowadays. Low wages, long working hours, extremely high expectations and pressure to go above and beyond have many teachers feeling burnt out when they’ve barely even begun their careers. In fact, the West Virginia Education Association published a piece discussing why many teachers are walking away from the classroom permanently.
#10
The Power Of Words
Meister Geist 10 months ago
Long story short, I had an art teacher who failed me because the circle I drew wasn’t good enough. The drawings I did looked ‘deformed’ and ‘sloppy, poorly done.’ I have fine motor skill issues and hand problems. It’s very hard for me to grip a pencil while drawing or writing. She also failed most of the SPED students for similar reasons; to her, the art they produced wasn’t good enough.
Cerise Hood 10 months ago
I don't understand how art is graded, seems like it saps all the joy from art and exploring the possibilities
Coral 10 months ago
I am an art teacher and whole-heartedly agree. I don't "grade" students' art, if they complete a project, they all get 100%, regardless of skill level. I never want to discourage anyone from making art or being creative. Everyone has to start somewhere.
Load More Replies... JP Doyle 10 months ago
I had the same thing happen to me but with singing. The divas in choir kept dissing me. Made fun of me when my voice was changing, then dissed me even more when I was put right back in the first tenor slot after my voice stabilized. I eventually quit choir. It wasn't until I hot university when a friend insisted I rejoin choir and I was fawned over because of my voice being so good. Turned out I was bullied because I was a better singer than the HS divas and they didn't want to lose their solos. Eventually I found out I lucked out and kept my soprano range as I got older and wasn't a first tenor, but a countertenor. Ironically I ran across tapes my Mum recorded of our concerts and I could hear the terrible flaws in the divas voices during their solos.
Louisa Spoke 10 months ago
I was told my major art work was a farce and I would fail badly. Instead my art work for the higher schools certificate was placed in a touring art exhibition. My art teacher had to eat her words.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
My mother's art teacher used to tell my mom that her art was lame, useless, undisciplined, and so on. Unbeknownst to this teacher, mom was entering the exact same artwork into statewide competitions and winning awards for it. I think far too many failed artists with axes to grind end up becoming art teachers.
RobotMonkey God 10 months ago
my school art teacher refused to enter me for the final exam- dismissing my work as being "comic book influenced and childish". went to university, studied fine art, got a first........
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago (edited)
Assuming it's within an appropriate context, what's wrong with 'comic book influenced' art? There is serious talent involved in comic art and anime etc. An art teacher should understand that art is subjective anyway!
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Learner Panda 1 week ago
I hated art, mostly because I have no artistic talent at all. In the 16/17 age exam, I spent about seven minutes painting a step ladder with dirty bowls, then got up and walked out.
#11
What A Weird Thing To Assume
Clown fish 10 months ago
The teachers did this to me. My name is a different spelling on a common name we shall say it's Smith. I was 4 and spelling my name Smyth like it should be the teach called me stupid and said it's spelt Smith. So I started spelling it Smith. Anyway my mum comes for parents evening when I was 7ish and the teacher was showing my mum some work, I'd put my last name on one piece and my mum questioned why it was spelt wrong! So the next day I was now being told I'm Smyth not Smith!
Load More Replies... RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
In my first year of school I was signing things RTH because they are my initials. I was obnoxious, having somehow already mastered reading and writing at the age of three, so I knew about initials early on. (I was blessed with literacy, but I quickly balanced that by being awful at maths!) This one teaching assistant (I thought TAs were just a different kind of teacher,) would see RTH and have a right go at me, saying, "You can't even spell your own name! It's spelt RUTH - there's a U in it!" After this had happened a few times, I retorted (loudly, so everyone could hear,) "NO! You're wrong. I'm not called Ruth! It's RTH - those are my initials! You're a teacher - you should know what initials are, Mrs. Whittaker!" She never bothered me after that, and all my friends asked me to show them what initials were, so I was popular for a day! (To this day I can't see how she made that mistake several times, seeing as my full name was in the register and people called me by it.)
Damned_Cat 10 months ago
Years ago, in elementary school, we had a teacher that always pronounced Hispanic names incorrectly and then criticized the kids for pronouncing their own names correctly. She would say Ramma-rez for Ramirez or Lahp-ez for Lopez. It was ridiculous.
Min 10 months ago (edited)
I worked with a woman like that. Only Hispanic names, any other ethnicity she would say perfectly. It was infuriating.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 10 months ago
There's a woman at work called Staycy. I think it's kind of silly, but I wouldn't dream of trying to tell her that her name is wrong.
Regina Holt 10 months ago
What the heck? I can't even come up with a comment about how insane that was.
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago (edited)
It's a terrible disease, I'm-always-right-itis. It's unique in the fact that the symptoms of intense annoyance are to be found in everyone but the patient themselves.
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A̷͇̘̓͜l̷̼͇̣͒̌ͅȩ̷͍͙͗̅̀͊̏̾͘x̶̋̍ 10 months ago
Especially since the mother had said that the kid that had written this has already participated in several big competitions.
Load More Replies... Limey 10 months ago
This kind of thing always brings to mind my school experience. I was terrible at math, awful at home ec and dreadful at gym. As an adult I work as a computer programmer, make most of my own clothes, quilt and stitch, I taught aerobics for years and even competed as a bodybuilder for a couple of years. Makes you wonder at all the teachers that decided I wasn’t cut out for those things but I found them in myself.
Magpie 10 months ago
My friend was told that her English is so horrible that she wouldn't be understood in the UK. Well, well. She is now married to an Englishman and lives in Britain and there's nothing wrong with her English at all.
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 10 months ago
Negativity like this sticks with a person. I was (and still am) and avid reader and when I was 10, I told my teacher that I wanted to write a book some day. That woman busted out laughing and said "yeah right." I never looked at her the same way again.
Mar 10 months ago
but please tell me you did write or are writing one now
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 10 months ago
Does this teacher s**t on all the hopes and dreams of little kids?? At that age they want to be rock stars, athletes, or a space cowboy/princess. Yeah we adults get that it probably won't happen, but there's no need to be a jerk about it!
Sparkle 10 months ago
That's the beauty of working with young kids they still think they can do anything! I would never imagine taking what may be an impossible illogical dream away from a child!
Load More Replies... Frustrated teachers note that they’re fed up with budget cuts, violence in their classrooms and salaries so low that many have to take on extra jobs during their free time. Many educators also complain about being expected to work during every hour of the day, even when they’re sick. They tend to spend at least 40 hours a week in the classroom, but that usually doesn’t account for time spent grading papers, planning lessons and meeting with parents.
#13
That’s Not It, Professor
river 10 months ago
i had an anxiety attack in my acting class because of my severe performance anxiety. im in college classes at 17 with actual adults and so i was embarassed. i was like, ugly crying in front of all these 20 something year olds and my teacher made me continue my monologue. when i was physically incapable of speaking she said "what?? what is wrong with you??" very clearly angry with me. i kinda muttered that it was personal and she rolled her eyes and said "leave it at the door" and made me continue, she assumed i didnt know my lines but the joke's on her. i did continue my monologue and i did it through tears (the monologue was a mother recounting her dead son's funeral so i think it was appropriate). many people still dont know that my tears were genuine haha. i dont like my teacher :3
Michael Largey 10 months ago
So if all my friends and family stay alive, I'm exempt from assignments, right?
Oliver 10 months ago
This actually helpful for some people. My Step-Mom died and I went to school because it was a routine and I didn’t have to sit in a house full of sad people. People handle loss differently but if you’re a “go on with your life” person you shouldn’t shame someone who crumbles after a loss.
#14
Why Would You Incentivized That?
MicrowaveGoddess 10 months ago
my middle school did this too! the teachers just started ignoring the policy after weeks of complain tho
Random User 10 months ago
My third grader's school had a policy where kids got plastic "pennies" for good behavior, which they could then use to pay for a bathroom pass (I believe it was 5 pennies for one pass). If they didn't have enough for a pass, it came out of their weekly conduct score, which would be announced each time in front of the whole class (or they could "ask a friend" for some money) This system also led to kids not using the bathroom even if they could afford it, because they would rather use their money for snacks/toys/etc.
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
They bought snacks and toys with plastic pennies?
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 10 months ago (edited)
This is crazy! We don't get 'passes' for the toilet in Australia (not in my state anyway) and teachers would be unlikely to have taken note how many times a child has gone a week, they are too busy teaching. The only conditions are really, in primary school they go in pairs and in high school only one person can go at a time (to avoid them just hanging around with friends instead) but this can be amended by the teacher's good judgement.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
As a math teacher, I rewarded you on the depth of your understanding, not the strength of your bladder.
PiAnisum 10 months ago
We never had this during school times but I was too scared to draw attention to me and I didn't want to use the yucky school toilets, so I skipped drinking as much as I could and avoided going as long as I could. Today twenty years after leaving school I got diagnosed with a recurrring heavy UTI and have to take antibiotics for 1 1/2 months. During my whole work life and even on private occasions I struggle with drinking enough fluids to avoid UTIs. The doctor insisted that I need to drop the bad habits and give my body what it needs. Bathroom passes are a great way to teach kids to ruin their bladder health, but I guess it's in the interest of corporates to train their future employees to have no physical needs anymore, so they can work 24/7🙄
StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago
"Holding in pee may cause a urinary tract infection (UTI), pain, and more. In the long term, it can cause the bladder to stretch". The mum should tell her daughter this.
#15
That Is A Despicable Thing To Say To A Child
Michael Largey 10 months ago
"I doubt the students are all that wild about you either, Ms. Park."
Heather Menard 10 months ago
I had a teacher tell me I would never have friends. He was right.
Hime 10 months ago
A seasoned daycare worker once told me those kids acting out needed to be hugged. She told me about a little boy that everyone hated because he was just awful to everyone. She would grab him up and hug him when he started acting out and it worked! That kid always behaved for her and they had a great relationship. I tried it once on a child that was in my son's class that would just scream at his teachers and not even try to settle down. I asked him for a hug and I think he thought I was nuts, but it worked. I would take his hand and walk him to the reading area and sit with him and read a little book before I left for work. I think it helped him some. I think about him and wonder if he grew up okay.
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
The cynic in me means that while I completely see how it works and personally think it's great, I can't help but feel that a teacher hugging students, or a parent hugging someone else's child, would be at great risk of being sued. Such is the greedy, litigious world we live in… 😒
Load More Replies... Evelien Stijger Martens 10 months ago
I was the kid that was bullied a lot and when we had a reunion , when is was 20 or something and feeling good about myself, there was this teacher that said this: YOU!!!, the child nobody liked. Something like that gappened to me jears later with anouther teacher and he used to be my favorit. So you stand there and are flabbergasted, not knowing how to react.
Stannous Flouride 10 months ago
My 4th grade teacher had me leave the class so that she could ask them why I didn't have any friends. I know she meant well but it didn't help.
While many teachers don’t want to say goodbye to their careers in education, they all have to put food on the table. And at a certain point, it’s not worth it to struggle to make ends meet when you’re working one of the most stressful jobs. Not to mention the fact that teachers have very little creative control in their classrooms. The lesson plans are typically created by the state or school district and designed to ensure that students pass exams, regardless of whether or not they truly master the material.
#16
I Feel Horrible For This Child, Its The 4th Time The Teacher Would Not Allow Him To Go The Nurse For His Insulin
Maartje 10 months ago
Are they insane? That is an ADA violation in the US and that teacher and everyone else that is preventing that child from getting life saving medication, or , for that matter, eat when her sugar is low, should be sacked.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
This is crazy! I'm betting they don't know basic first aid either, if they didn't understand the urgency. Do teachers outside of Australia have to do a first aid course every five years and CPR refresher every year like we do?
nicholas nolan 10 months ago
In the US most have first hand experience with tramuatic wounds.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 10 months ago
As a teacher, I always knew which of my students were diabetic and learned from their parents what the individual signs of a problem were. When a problem happened, it was so much easier to manage if I spotted it even before the student.
DeHa 10 months ago
You're a good one. Wish my teachers had been like that. But alas - mine were the kind that told me "not to infect the other students". Like... Miss Ma'am, it doesn't work that way ;-D
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Stannous Flouride 10 months ago
I'd be there is person and probably, as mentioned at the top, be catching a charge.
Seadog 10 months ago
When I went to school, we didn't have to go for our meds, we carried them on us. I realize some have to be refrigerated, but if there were any students that had those, I never saw any of them, but any of the teachers not only would've let them go but likely would've sent someone with them to be sure they didn't collapse along the way. I have allergies and have always carried my meds with me, without question.
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Uncle Schmickle 10 months ago
I really don't believe this sort of story. No school staff member would refuse a child to take a break to have life - saving medication.
#17
My Little Sister's Notebook Checking
She's in the third grade and the teacher doesn't know the spelling of about?
Dragons Exist 10 months ago
Did the teacher 'correct' "about" to "aboute"? Is she living in the 1400s?
Stannous Flouride 10 months ago
Phonetic spelling of the Canadian pronunciation?
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Rick Murray 10 months ago
Hang on, did this teacher just correct an "h" with an "h" as well as misspelling the second "about" but seemingly not caring about the first? How many lonesome glasses of wine had been consumed before this was marked?
Shortstuff 10 months ago
My daughter came home with her homework marked FAIL..in big red letters. Teacher said my daughter's spelling of the local port of Lyttelton should be Lyttleton, and she should check her spelling. I photocopied a map, attached it to my daughter's homework, and wrote PASS in big red letters, with a note...Miss X, please check your spelling...it is Lyttelton.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
But the check marks are suspiciously teacher-y
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Teagan Gatewood 10 months ago
This reminds me of my first grade teacher. I turned in a story for a writing assignment and she told me to indent. After making the second copy she decided to tell me what indentation is. Finally, turned in with indentation she tells me its stupid. Its first grade, all of our stories are probably stupid.
Holly Herr 10 months ago
Good grief! She didn’t “correct” it the first time she wrote it the exact same way! And the misspelling?!
#18
This Is Why I Hate Telling People I Have It, And I'm Actually Medically Diagnosed
Julia Mckinney 10 months ago
No, we don't ALL have ADHD. Different people have different problems and there's no "one size fits all" solution to fixing, or at least ameliorating, the effects of the problem.
Ellinor 10 months ago
When I was 14 years old, the history teacher refused to give me and my 2 other classmates the accommodations we needed for our ADHD/Dysgraphia. She said that if she did that, we would have an advantage over our other classmates, and I replied that she had to follow the law and that her opinion didn't matter. After 10 minutes we both ended up screaming at eachother in the middle of the class, and in the end she gave us the accommodations.
OzymandiasTheManokit They/Them 10 months ago
my 8th grade basketball coach told me that ADHD is just a label doctors give when they don't know what's wrong with you. I was so tempted to rip out the rest of his receding hairline.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I have ADD/dysgraphia as well. I know they lumped ADD and ADHD together but I decided I just have ADD because I never had any hyperactive symptoms. My teachers constant write this on my report cards since 1st grade until I almost didn't graduate but mom didn't want a "labeled" kid. Thanks a lot. Really could have used the help and maybe would have not been grounded my whole life for sinking in school barely holding Cs despite my best efforts starting in 5th grade
Craig S. (EvilSausage) 10 months ago (edited)
I feel you. I have it. Wasn't diagnosed until age 34, though.
river 10 months ago
this is me when my mom says "everyone is a little autistic".......no???? i get that it's a spectrum and i am not diagnosed with autism (i planned to get tested but as of now i am not diagnosed nor tested) but many diagnosed people have said that it is an invalidating statement.
AsylumWalker 10 months ago
The spectrum is for the symptoms anyway. Not for not autistic to very autistic
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Lighting Llama 1 week ago
It’s the same thing with me when I tell people I have OCD. I’m obsessed with certain numbers, patterns, and feeling balanced (for example if something cold touches my right arm I have to have the cold thing touch the same spot on my left arm). It’s not all about making sure my pens and pencils are in a straight line.
Jaques Vellnix 8 months ago
As an autistic person and an ADHDer, I am personally insulted by this.
TheotTrans 8 months ago
I also have ADHD, and have had teachers that don't allow us to fidget or chew gum, even if it's in our learning plan
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#19
It Was Pretty Upsetting. I Never Had A Problem With My Name
Meister Geist 10 months ago
Had an similar issue like that with a long term substitute teacher, kid in class was named Ocean he literally got told “that’s a girl name that isn’t your real name.”
Simeon Nevel 10 months ago
Too late for you, but the proper response is to simply refuse to respond to anything but your correct name
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Most schools these days have to accept 'preferred' names anyway which should avoid this (in Australia at least)
Panda Cat 10 months ago
Well, some 49% of people in the US decided to let Trump and Elon get rid of anything like “preferred” pronouns.
Load More Replies... TheotTrans 8 months ago
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Caro Ansaldo 9 months ago
I'm a teacher. Nowadays, I am having LOTS of students who want to change their names for whatever reasons. Girls who want to be called with boys' names, boys who want to be called with girls' names, or they just don't like their names and want them to be changed to other names they like more. Do you want to be called (X)? Ok, I'll call you (X). I don't care what their names are, as long as they work in class and study. Why would I confront them or tell them they can't change their names if it isn't something that affects their learning? Who am I to tell them how they have to be called? Have the name you want, sweetie, but please, behave and work in class.
Peter Bear 10 months ago
Just return the favor. Call her 'Mr. Teacher' and see how long it takes for the fireworks to start.
#20
What A Horrible Man
Kabuki Kitsune 10 months ago
Professors with tenure, generally can't have their decisions appealed.
Load More Replies... Miriam Insidecor 10 months ago
Was there no Student Support service to discuss taking a break from school without being penalised?
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
My grandma was born in 1913. When she was about 10 years old, she was on course to get a special attendance medal, for not taking a single day off school. Unfortunately, her father died, so she got special permission to take half a day off to go to her father's funeral. After she finished school with perfect attendance except for the funeral, she assumed she would still get the attendance medal - but she was wrong. To the end of her days, she never forgot that. 1920s British schooling was hardcore!
EJN 10 months ago
Always check with the dean; your option is to take a break from classes and make them up later. If you have a decent teacher, you are sometimes offered the option of completing classwork at another time when these kinds of events disrupt studies. No one needs to be a hard a*s about it. (I'm a retired adjunct lecturer at graduate school level)
Fellfromthemoon 10 months ago
The professor might not be the culprit. In the sylabus, the requirements for the acceptance must be clearly stated and must be followed. If it says that only two absences are accepted, then at the third absence, the signature is lost. So, either the professor forges the presence, or doesn't give a signature.
#21
This Is Insane
Never Snarky 10 months ago
My geometry said in front of the whole class that I was too stupid to ever do any math and I should never take another math class in my life. Obviously, I had math fear after that. I panicked when I had to take calculus in college. I got a 4.0. Years of needlessly feeling inadequate. BTW, I got a C+ in that geometry class. I just messed 3 weeks of class because I was in the hospital.
MushroomHead22 10 months ago
in other words: teach got mad i was asleep. but really, im just asian
justagirl 10 months ago
dude. uncool. our eyes are typically slanted upward somewhat, but not as small as some people imagine.
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Teachers are often expected to juggle many roles at once without complaining at all or asking for higher wages. And unfortunately, this drives many great educators out of the profession, while leaving room for terrible teachers like the ones on this list. Educating the future generations is one of the most important jobs a person can have, so it’s crucial that we call out this toxic behavior in classrooms and ensure that it doesn’t continue.
#22
The Perfume Industry Begs To Differ
Snorkeldorf 10 months ago (edited)
What if they were lemon scones? For heaven's sake, most perfumes, colognes, lotions, etc. are made up of different ingredients that create the fragrance. The fragrance may have only one name, but that doesn't mean it's composed of one singular scent.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
Now I'm thinking of my Nana, who died when I was little. The smell of lemon dishwashing liquid always reminds me of her. She was such a sweet old lady. ^_^
#23
Was Told I Wasn’t Allowed To Write My Math Test Unless I Put My "Vape" Away
BookFanatic 10 months ago
I had an old one of my mother's. Bought ink for it and everything...then I realized being a lefty meant I smeared everything into illegibility as I wrote it. Very annoying.
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Seadog 10 months ago
There were only 3 or 4 of us that used fountain pens, 7th grade I think it was. They were soon banned because 2 guys got into a scuffle and one grabbed a fountain pen and started slinging ink, which resulted in the other grabbing mine and slinging back. In the end there were around 10 nearly empty pens and ink everywhere and on people that didn't get out of the way fast enough.
#24
If This Is How The Teacher Behaves In Public, People Should Be Questioning Their Behaviour To Students Behind Closed Doors
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Who told him to apologize? The police? Because they're the only ones who should be handling a case of theft.
Helen Rohrlach 10 months ago
I'm sorry that I got emotional about you stealing my products. I'm also sorry that I am calling the police on you.
Cydney Golden 10 months ago
Why would anyone be doing that at college? Why did the teacher also have a stall?
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
Unfortunately, I don't think many police would be happy to deal with a small-time crime such as this, even if there was CCTV footage or other evidence.
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Nikki Angulo 1 month ago
Who paid for the materials though? If the son did, then the teacher stole them, if the school or teacher did, then the son would need their permission to sell them.
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#25
No You Didn’t
Kristen Woehlke 10 months ago
I had a biology teacher in HS that owned a limo company. He was more into that! He wanted us to copy (write out) paragraphs from our text book. We knew he didn't read this c**p, so my friends and I put down lyrics to our favorite songs, mine being DANZIG.. Passed the class with flying colors!
nicholas nolan 10 months ago
You're lucky he didn't notice and want to talk to your Mother(94). You and your pal would have been real Misfits if you'd had to repeat the class.
Load More Replies... Chicken Mitten 10 months ago
I had a college prof who expected ridiculously long papers. I also had a hunch he didn't read them. I confirmed my suspicion by typing a one page paper and printing out an additional 9 copies to staple together. Aced the class.
Bookworm 10 months ago
I had a high school social studies teacher who was on a major power trip (so many stories I could tell about this guy), and loved to boast about himself and how awesome and infallible he was. One day the question he had us answer in our class notebooks was 'Why is war justified?' I, with my pacifist parents and historic-peace-church upbringing, was annoyed, and I had already had about enough of him by this point, so instead I wrote a couple paragraphs on why war isn't justified. Got the notebook back with the assignment marked 100%. (And he was totally the type to give me a zero and make me redo it if he'd noticed.)
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago (edited)
My cat and my c0ca1ne rocks… (And now I have that darned tune in my head… 😒)
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Joe Russo 10 months ago
As part of in-school driver's education, we all had to clip out car accident reports from a news paper (late 1980s) and write a summary of each of 25 articles. I wrote the first two, and then stream of conscious wrote another 17 or so (mostly having to do with Mickey Mouse for some reason). Turned out you just needed "pass" so I could have written 15. I was dead sure this guy was not reading 100 students * 25 articles each. He definitely just counted the number of them. :)
#26
This Is Disgusting And The Teachers Should Be Punished
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
WTF is with these peoples' obsession with controlling when kids go to the damn toilet? It's awful and disgusting.
Helen Rohrlach 10 months ago
Training them to be good little worker slaves.
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#27
Ma’am My Lips Are Cracked What Do You Want From Me
𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋 10 months ago
Thinking about the time my foreign language teacher ScReAmEd and SpAt at me across the room, “PUT THAT WATER BOTTLE DOWN [ewok], THIS IS NOT A PUB!”. It was genuinely one of the loudest, most shocking and surprising moments of my life. Whole class stunned, we were all working relatively quietly on some work and I had just casually picked up my WATER BOTTLE which was allowed to have a drink. God knows why but the battle axe hated me and chose that moment to scream at me. That moment became legendary and it was forever known, and often repeated randomly for years to come. Memes were made and all. So bizarre and strange. That teacher gave me PTSD I swear. She never picked on anyone else for drinking water in class either, but did used to have a go at me on random occasions for doing it, and even tried to give me detention on a Saturday for it once!
Kabuki Kitsune 10 months ago
This one is actually somewhat understandable. Back in the 90's, some companies started producing a colored lip balm which came in a small jar, not the typical lipstick tubes. A large number of schools passed rules about using these in class, because it was seen as a distraction to the student. IE, if they were putting the makeup on, then they weren't paying attention to what was being taught at that time. Given that the jars are very similar, it's reasonable to suspect that the teacher in question glanced over, saw the jar and just defaulted to the idea that it was makeup, and not carmex.
#28
Education Is Important
What kinda question is this? If you expect people to say "no that is impossible" just ask them "Is this possible" not "How is this possible."
xcooba 10 months ago
This scares the sh.t out of me. Poor kids, poor future. How can a teacher be this dumb? How is it possible?
Michael Largey 10 months ago
States are dealing with the crisis of teachers leaving because of the lousy money and professional disrespect not by improving salaries or working conditions but by lowering standards to be a teacher and allowing non-professionals in. Imagine how that would work with a doctor shortage.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
Kids like this should get extra credit for having a creative answer but they don't encourage creative thinking nowadays
xcooba 10 months ago
I think this is a basic logic everyone should understand. That is why I consider it so scary.
Load More Replies... Random User 10 months ago
Could also be interpreted as Luis eating 5/6 of the 1/3 pizza Marty left behind. Either way the teacher is wrong.
Connie Berggren 10 months ago
The kids answer is correct. Marty ate 4/6 of a medium or large pizza and Luis ate 5/6 of a small pizza. So the pizza was larger.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
The actual explanation is that is not possible to eat more pizza than Marty. I know the guy!
Sarah Belt 10 months ago
If the poor kid had trouble spelling "the", I think it's a bit early to teach them to test questions can be traps.
Seadog 10 months ago
Exactly why A&W's 1/3 pound burger failed. Idiot people think 1/4 is bigger than 1/3rd because 4 is bigger than 3.
ANTIVICTORIA 10 months ago
We don't know what the lesson was. It seems like the student was supposed to garner if it was reasonable or not.
#29
What A Nasty Thing For Him To Say
BookFanatic 10 months ago
Yes, and my first male teacher (4th grade) was the best teacher I had. Once I wrapped my nine-year-old brain around the fact that men can be teachers. Lol
Load More Replies... Pink kitty 10 months ago
Firstly she said 'no boys' not 'no males' and secondly why do you have to be a buzz kill? Are you jealous of a sixth grader?
Seadog 10 months ago
She should've come back with "oh, so you're a pedophile?". Be that would get his goat, especially if other parents and teachers were around.
Load More Replies... ANTIVICTORIA 10 months ago
I think he was just managing her expectations by telling her the truth? As opposed to magically reading her mind and knowing why she was enthusiastic?
Holly Herr 10 months ago
I taught an all girls fourth grade for 5 years. It was wonderful for me and the girls, for many reasons.
Kabuki Kitsune 10 months ago
Contrary to what others may see this as some fragile masculinity, or some attempt to one up a kid, or a gotcha as "Tiffany" posted in this tweet; it comes across more as a warning. The teacher making it clear to the daughter, that while there may not be boys whom she had problems with in the past (IE Bullying), because there will still be male teachers, she needs to be aware that things may not be quite as rosy as she would hope, and be prepared for that eventuality.
Sharkfin6 10 months ago
The middle school i attended ended up getting converted into an all-girls learning academy a few years after I went through it. According to rumors and official records some time later, the bullying, harassment and eventual sexual proclivities of the students ramped up immensely. I'm only pointing this out because it's important to realize that bullying is definitely not a gendered issue. This particular teacher is definitely a predator though.
#30
I Sincerely Hope They Became An Egyptologist
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 10 months ago
It's the original pyramid scheme
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ANTIVICTORIA 10 months ago
Egypt doesn't want any more White people coming and stealing their heritage for museums.
#31
A Teacher In Texas Asking Students To Rate Their Book 5 Stars In Order To Get A's
BookFanatic 10 months ago
That actually does sound like something an ethics teacher would do...
Load More Replies... Amy S 10 months ago
The small print says 'do not say "he's my teacher or I'm in his class"'.
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Scott Rackley 10 months ago
I would have given no stars and the review would explain I was made to. With a picture of that overhead.
ANTIVICTORIA 10 months ago
I'm guessing the books had to be read first. How else could they give a review?
RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
"Five stars. Excellent book, well written with a straightforward but thorough style. The author is clearly very knowledgeable on their chosen topic. Highly recommended."
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UpupaEpops 10 months ago
I had teachers at uni who wouldn't admit you into your exams if you didn't buy their books. For some reason this was legal.
#32
Racist Teacher Gets 3 Day Suspension After Telling Exchange Students To "Go Back To Working On Rice Farms"
#33
That's Horrible
Michael Largey 10 months ago
This school needs a system of getting health condition information to the teacher ahead of time. Without that, a teacher should be reminding herself that she doesn't know everything she needs to.
Dee Rutherford 10 months ago
I don’t think these teachers are here for the kids. If so, they make horrid teachers altogether.
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Dee Rutherford 10 months ago
A girl in 4th grade is not going to tell anyone. That is embarrassing enough without ridicule from the teacher and class.
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#34
I Hope He Got Fired
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
Why is your physics teacher trolling your Instagram?? If he made fun of multiple people it would still be wrong but settling on one person and making a slide show is disturbing and very stalker-like.
Bryn 10 months ago
i'm not sure with instagram, but sometimes things will pop up with people that are close to you or things they think you will like. I'm a teacher, and I've gotten recommended the accounts of students' parents. (I blocked them.)
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RosaTheWitch 10 months ago
My physics teacher bullied me in two ways. I was the fat kid, so he wanted any random excuse to have to weigh students in front of the class. Since my mental and physical health was in a rapid nosedive at the time, every time the public weigh-ins were planned, my mum let me stay at home, because she was worried that the bullying from the teacher and the students would cause me to 'un-alive' myself. (I did actually have a full blown mental breakdown just after I turned 15, and never went back to school.) Also, I had the misfortune to be given a regular desk at right angles right next to the teacher's desk. When he found out I was pyrophobic, he would put his bunsen burner as close to me as possible, and throw iron filings on it to make showers of green sparks that scared the heck out of me, much to the amusement of everyone in class.
#35
Whe Didn't You Tell Me
CanadianaKa 10 months ago
To be fair, I'm not actually sure why a birthday is a get-out-of-jail-free card for being late? (Not excusing the extreme behaviour of the teacher, but am confused.)
#36
Had A Project In Art Class And I Put It In My Art Journal Without Thinking. I Turned It In With A Bookmark And Asked Her Not To Go Through It. I Got It Back With This On Every Page
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 10 months ago
No way. That's really crossing many lines. If someone looked through my non-school notebooks I would be so upset. And writing on it too.
MushroomHead22 10 months ago
ok... they submitted the book with a bookmark and said "dont look at the rest"... what in the hell did you expect them to do... now writing in it, thats just a d*ck move.
Load More Replies... Fellfromthemoon 10 months ago
When OP submitted their art journal with inappropriate material, they basically trolled the teacher.
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Orange Panda 10 months ago
Did they expect the teacher to remember what they said? One student out of how many? Unless you write it on the journal so they remember, you're out of luck.
Holly Herr 10 months ago
Just because the teacher wrote “ inappropriate “ doesn’t mean it was, though.
#37
Why Did Teachers Always Do This?
Tucker Cahooter 10 months ago
It's always been second nature for them to be grammar pedants. Even in ancient times, people were upbraided for writing "Romanes eunt domus"
Dragons Exist 10 months ago
The teachers who complain about "can I" instead of "may I" don't seem to understand the difference between grammatical correctness & common language
nicholas nolan 10 months ago
The correct answer is "I sure can" and go ahead and leave the room.
ANTIVICTORIA 10 months ago
So your Teacher, taught you a memorable lesson. And did their job. That's why Teachers 'always do this'. At least the good ones.
Elyse-the-Squid 10 months ago
Sometimes I think this reaction to things is funny and even educational, but let the kid go to the d*mn bathroom, you don't need to give them a full grammar lesson first
Caro Ansaldo 9 months ago
There's a phrase a teacher I had used to say when someone asked if they could go the bathroom: "Yes, you can, but you may not."
Uncle Schmickle 10 months ago
I was a victim of this in my younger days. My Mum's cousin was a teacher and pedantic. No big deal, because he was right.
#38
Teacher In My School Never Cleans His Bin Nor Asks Anyone To Empty It, There's Even A Half-Eaten Pie On The Floor
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
The cleaner at the school I work at said taking out the bins isn't in her job description, the teachers are meant to do it (or get the kids to) but they never do so she has to do it (except the ones in the kitchen and hall I work out of, I do those). She only works from 3-6 pm and has 5 buildings to clean, so I don't think it's too much to ask the teachers to do it.
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Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
Some one needs to sack the school cleaners !! That’s a daily task for em wel lit is here in uk lol
#39
My Professor's Handwriting
BookFanatic 10 months ago
I wonder if prof is left-handed. I'm a lefty and when i have to write on a board my handwriting is atrocious. Well, okay, it's atrocious in general...but it's worse on the board for some reason.
SirWriteALot 10 months ago
You're supposed to listen while he's explaining it on the board. And then take notes.
She who must not be named 10 months ago
This reminds me of my geography teacher for GCSE's. We had the smart boards and she would never use a new page, she'd just scroll around for a blank gap and she used to scribble so fast none of us could keep up. One day she'd drawn an arrow next to 'e.g flooding' but it was written so badly that one girl looked up and asked what leg flooding was. On the bright side it was hilarious and made for a good joke for the rest of the term.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 10 months ago
this is how my math teachers handwriting is. i just put little scribbles on my notes if there is a word i cant make out
#40
Teacher Wrote My Son’s Name On His Blanket In Sharpie. The Blanket Has His Name All Over It
Elyse-the-Squid 10 months ago
Considering the fact that there is a tag right there on the blanket for you to write the name on instead of on the fleece part, and considering the name is already on the blanket, this teachers stupid
Kathrin Pukowsky 10 months ago
I don't think this is unreasonable. Well, maybe a little. I mean, yes, it was personalized, but there could be another student that's a fan of David Beckham. It's pretty common for people in all sorts of shared facilities to mark their property, and sometimes the facility does it for them - like my grandma's clothes all had tags with her name when she lived in a nursing home. I'm just not a fan of the use of a Sharpie. Anybody can get a hold of one and write their name on other people's stuff. Something a bit more official, that can't be easily recreated would be a better choice.
#41
My Professor Is Blatantly Using Chatgpt To "Give Feedback" And Grade Our Assignments
All of my professors including this one emphasize the importance of not using ChatGPT for assignments and how they will give out 0’s if it gets detected.
So naturally this gets under my skin in a way I can’t even explain, some students like myself put a lot of effort into the assignments and spend a lot of time and the feedback isn’t even genuine.
I’m not even against AI, I use all the time and it’s extremely helpful to organize ideas, but never do I use it in such a careless manner that’s so disrespectful.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
Should hand the assignment back, marking the feedback as zero. Well, fair's fair, right?
Mreoww 9 months ago
Oh my gosh my English teacher too. It’s absolutely impossible to do anything right, because he uses ChatGPT to look for the tiniest corrections ever. Like, “this sentences could have been phrased like so and so, to make it easier for readers to understand”. Or “this word is good but it’s a bit jargonistic”. But the original sentence is good and isn’t wrong either, so I don’t see the problem.
Caro Ansaldo 9 months ago
I'm a teacher of English in Argentina (Spanish speaking country). Once I gave my students a set of personal questions, one of them being "Have you got any brothers or sisters?" One of them answered "I am an AI digital assistant and do not have any siblings." I asked her to do it again without using ChatGPT...
Jane Alexander 10 months ago
Mr Kim was in Parasite? I thought parasites got into people, not the other way around.
#42
How Is This Even Possible
Maartje 10 months ago
I had a teacher who refused to give me an A . Year long course, I had straight 100% for 3 semesters. Never an A. When during the fourth semester I had a harder time, he did drop my grade to be exactly correct but he never could be correct the first 3 semesters.
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago
This is preparation for life. After a merger, I was given a grade 2 grades lower than the one I'd been one. I was promoted the following year, and got 4.5 out of 5 on my appraisal the following year and was promoted back to where I had been.
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Tim Douglass 10 months ago
I had a professor who graded on a very strict curve. As a result, with a 98% in the class, I got a B. I was a bit irritated (it cost me a 4.0 GPA that semester) but not nearly as bad as the guy who ended up failing with better than a 75% score.
Seadog 10 months ago
Had a teacher that refused to give a 100 for the semester or final grade. Regardless of having all 100s or 100+ on everything because she said part of your grade is your attitude and personality and no one is perfect. The student that was robbed of his 100 was disliked by many but even they rallied for him to get his 100.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
Don't worry, they're just using horribly old computers with the Pentium FDIV bug in it.
#43
TA Forgets To Remove The Part Of The Email Where The Prof Mocks My Question Before Responding
#44
This Is Mean
Pferdchen 10 months ago
I see only one course of action: become a famous graffiti artist and, when you're famous, auction this off as a public humiliation of the teacher. Maybe this is how Banksy got started 😄
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
If I was the teacher I'd have put a note next to it saying "OMG this drawing is so cute! Well done!" But then I'm not a complete a*****e.
Holly Herr 10 months ago
I had teachers do this. I assumed it was cos they thought I was wasting time?
Rebecca McManus 10 months ago
My daughter used to doodle on all her school work, most of her teachers loved her doodles and commented in parent teacher meetings. Even those that weren't fans didn't deface her art, just asked her not to do it.
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
Back when I was in school lol 45 yrs ago I left aged 15 if I’d got that I would have put that on EVERY single page every time just to p**s the teacher off lmao
#45
Teacher Doesn’t Hide His Use Of AI
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I went to my daughter's middle school introduction assembly and it was basically about all the ways ChatGPT can help us at home and how it is incorporated into education and used all the time. I was so pissed what a waste of time
Orange Panda 10 months ago
To be fair, that's on the school district, not the school.
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The Question Was What Was The Relation Between Kant's Critique Of Judgment And The Weekend Trip To Connecticut The Professor Had Just Taken
SKW 10 months ago
In a college class about proofreading texts and correcting the mistakes, I asked if the word 'hurricane' shouldn't be replaced with 'typhoon' and my professor said that I was exaggerating. Was in 2018 and I'm still pissed about it :P
Margaret H 10 months ago
In an Italian class, I wanted to say "It was only a dream," but got one letter wrong and ended up saying "I was only a dream." The professor said, "Yes. A bloody nightmare." It may have been funny to everyone else in the class, but, to this day, I cannot speak Italian.
ROSESARERED 10 months ago
My grade one teacher was also my grandma's best friend. She yelled at me in front of everyone, including a cousin for not being able to play the piano...my grandma played the piano beautifully. She also kept me back at lunchtime, because ' my grandma wouldn't be hapoy if she didnt'...load of b******t. I went home for lunch, live 1½ blocks from the school. I had to run home, eat real quick, and then run back...still have no respect for Mrs Baldwin...she's long gone from this earth. I couldn't understand at 8 years old, why my cousin wasn't treated the same...
ANTIVICTORIA 10 months ago
Most of these just seem like people mad that teachers made them think.
#47
My Kid's Teacher Said "Gnome" Begins With N
Dave Walrod 10 months ago
I can't tell for sure, but it may be asking about the first sound (phonemic awareness), in which case the gnome indeed should be included. That's a pretty typical kindergarten skill to be working on (and in fact, it's one they'd get to before they really got into silent letters outside of sight words)
primeline31 10 months ago (edited)
This is a Kindergarten worksheet. I believe it's a notepad. The other one, the black & red one, is a napkin.
Load More Replies... Holly Herr 10 months ago
There are some very stupid books that are purchased by someone who doesn’t care, apparently.
Melissa Hollowell 10 months ago
hahaha Came here to suggest Nome, Alaska as well!
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My Professor Doesn’t Show Powerpoint Slides In Full Screen
Tucker Cahooter 10 months ago
I've lost count of how many meetings I've been in where people fail to use the "Start Slide Show" command
Bec 10 months ago
I'm even annoyed when they are searching through the menu to find it, just click on the icon! The icon that looks like the projector screen!
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Rick Murray 10 months ago
The boss at work makes unreadable slideshows. I kind of wish somebody would take him aside and say that just because you can read it on the screen right in front of your face doesn't mean it's going to be readable on a big TV in the staff room by anybody more than a couple of metres away.
#49
I Would Literally Run
Cerise Hood 10 months ago
Not supporting the teacher, but was this for a physics lesson. I had a project for physics where we had to use our weight in kg in order to use it to create a unique problem. We could remain anonymous.
Amy S 10 months ago
We had a maths teacher do similar in a lesson on averages (not anonymously). It's not appropriate.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 10 months ago
May be taken out of context. We did this in my physics class as part of a lab on work and power.
BookFanatic 10 months ago
We had to do this freshman year of high school for gym class. Imagine a bunch of young teens being weighed in front of everyone. I guess I should be grateful they didn't call out the numbers...just wrote them down.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Wildly inefficient use of class time, as much larger sets of data are available on the internet in seconds. But if I thought this was a good idea, as a math teacher I would have weighed the faculty. (Probably a lot more outliers there.)
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
My PE teachers had one of those plastic things to pinch the back of our arms for body fat percentage. I believe they weighed and measured also. They were horrible fanatical a*****e drill sergeants obsessed with the National physical fitness scores.
She who must not be named 10 months ago
Apparently it's fashionable now. Makes me feel old because if I'd worn that in school I'd have been bullied for it
Load More Replies... Fellfromthemoon 10 months ago
Biology or physics class? If the data is not shared or anonymized (is that a word?) then it's ok.
Bookworm 10 months ago
It's not. What if there's a student with an eating disorder? What if another student sees the weight on the display? It's totally inappropriate. If you just need some random numbers, you can make up a fake data set of plausible weights.
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Sorry, Was That A Threat?
She who must not be named 10 months ago
Especially when spelled correctly in the first paragraph. Something seems a bit suspicious here
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Tropical Tarot 10 months ago (edited)
I had a teacher paint whiteout on the ear of a kid who had fallen asleep in class. It was 10th grade advanced English. In the mid 80s.
#51
My Little Sister's School Assignment. Written And Handed Out By The Teacher, And She Has To Find The Answers
She can't even figure out what half of these questions even mean.
General Anaesthesia 10 months ago (edited)
Is English also the teacher's non-dominant language?
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K. LNU 10 months ago
I can read most of this (Gen Xer here), but this teacher is missing many "the" (a definite article in grammar) as well as many other minor articles. It's like this teacher's first language isn't English. The last one gets me... "Which colour are national coloers of France?" Do you want one color or all three colores?
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
That's what happens when you leave out important connecting words
SirWriteALot 10 months ago
"where the national assembly" ... "which color are" ... sounds like AVE.
#52
Apparently (Red) Is A High School English Teacher. The Confidence In How Incorrect She Was. I'm Concerned For Said Students
Tucker Cahooter 10 months ago
No you don't. Go sit in the corner with the dunce's cap on. Bonus demerits for "It nice try"
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
Replace the word "your" with "you are." If it makes sense then you need to change your to "you're." If it doesn't make sense then keep the "your." That's the best and easiest way to put it because a lot of people don't seem to know.
Amelia Jade 10 months ago
My son's high school English teacher is the absolute worst when it comes to grammar and spelling.
#53
Teacher At My Former School Wrote This On A Second Graders Paper
Kristen Woehlke 10 months ago
Had a demon b***h for a 6th grade math teacher. I have an EXTREMELY bad learning disability in math. I can get it one second and like an etch-a-sketch, the next second everything is just gone and it's never coming back no matter what I do! I'm lucky I can add 2+2 and get 4 out of it!! Well, this demon of a woman every month we had like 10 sheets to do in what we were learning right then. Mine were always late or not done or whatever. She always called me out. "I don't understand how to do this. I just don't know!" I'd say. "Oh you know! We just went over this stuff! You're just lazy! You're the laziest child I've ever known!" To this day, I still don't know. I'm 48 now. That math wrinkle in my brain never formed.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
My algebra teacher was so horrifically mean to me in 8th grade. I didn't understand anything and she would write the hardest equation on the board and make me stand there the entire class knowing I couldn't figure it out. The other kids threw water bottles at me and laughed and called me stupid. I had lunch after and spent the whole of it crying in a bathroom stall. 8 years later she is a regular at my mom's salon where I worked and was so sickeningly nice it was disgusting. I really wish I confronted her.
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Professor Is Reducing My Test Score Because I Argued My Answer Was Correct
Sleepy children love Moon 10 months ago
wait how does it protect criminals? I thought it's literally supposed to do the opposite, to protect the systems and reveal the criminals/hackers
Science Nerd 10 months ago
A good cybersecurity protects criminals by keeping them from accessing the system? If we keep you from stealing data then you can't be guilty of stealing data. 😊
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 10 months ago
None of the mentioned. "Cryptocurrency theft of £1.1bn could be biggest ever": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2844nvwx8o
#55
Professor Gave My BF The Wrong Exam
Has this happened to anyone else? Any advice?
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
Boyfriend didn't notice all the questions were on a completely different subject? I've also never seen "As Ever" used as a sign off. What does it even mean
Michael Largey 10 months ago
The other class might just have been a different section of the same course and had a different test. (Common practice.) But why should the student be inconvenienced for a mix-up by the teacher? (i would have given him the option to take the "right" test and keep the higher score.
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#56
Professor Still Wants Student To Attend Zoom Meeting Despite Her Father's Funeral Being The Same Day. Says "It Could Take Your Mind Off Things"
Huddo's sister 10 months ago (edited)
Why isn't the zoom being recorded so student's who are absent can see it after. This is ridiculous. I would take it to their higher ups.
Random User 10 months ago
"I'd like to be consistent with all students because there are many who are having difficult times"?? What happened to equality not being about treating everyone exactly the same, but attending appropriately to everyone's different needs? Plus if so many are in fact going through hard times, she's being heartless and un-understanding to everyone!
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Equality is everyone getting the same, despite any differences between people. Equity is everyone getting what they need to to actively participate in learning. Equity is what teachers should be using. It's what I learned in my teaching degree.
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Harsh
BrownEyedPanda 10 months ago
Screw your expectations! Just do the job for which you were hired--TEACHING.
#58
Well At Least My Work Was Right
Michael Largey 10 months ago
In my classes, you had to have all the homework in to qualify to take the test. This worked well. Students who might not have cared about failing the test admitted that they hated to have to sit there and watch others take it.
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#59
My Boyfriend’s Accounting Professor Says He Uses ChatGPT For Everything
He just used it to teach everyone how 401k’s work and is actively promoting that they use it.
Text says “If I invest $12,000 a year into a 12% money market account, what will that value be in 15 years?”
Michael Largey 10 months ago
12% on a money market account. Put a picture of that missing decimal point on a milk carton.
Anthony Elmore 10 months ago
Ok, Imma let you in on a pro tip for AI. Don't use it on math. LLM models don't understand in depth concepts. They form connections between words and associate words with other words through said connection. This understanding doesn't extend beyond association. If you ask it to fill in the blank "I like apple ____", it might get this correct because it associates the structure of the sentence with a statement of approval of something apple-related. If you then ask it how many P's are in the word "Apple" it is just as likely to get the answer wrong because it doesn't know how to count the letters in the word, it just knows that you're expecting a number and may have examples in its training data that reference how many P's are present. The current state of of AI makes it suitable for ad libbing, but it is a terrible implement for problem solving.
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Is This A History Class Or A Philosophy Class?
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Unfortunately, most religious schools don't encourage students to ask themselves these questions. The school has answers already picked out for them. In my school, a teacher would have been fired for even raising question 9.
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Huddo's sister 10 months ago (edited)
They could be taking a theology class and I don't see anything pushy about this. It's just asking their own personal opinion.
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Tropical Tarot 10 months ago
I could see that being a legit test if they had to write it from the point of view of a civilization. So you understand different civilizations views on this. But as a straight paper in a non-religious school it's ridiculous.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 10 months ago
Answers to not increase your grade but it feels good: the Big Bang, no one, it always existed, inherently good, what you think is right, bullsh*t, more bullsh*t, to be a cultist, no, yes and he is holy
#61
My Daughter’s Teacher, The "Literary Specialist" Used The Wrong Form Of You’re In Their Email To Me
Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
No wonder people are graduating high school unable to properly read or write.
#62
Got Called Out By My Teacher Because The Essay I Wrote Was Flagging As AI
Wrote a report on my marketing and she checks on a AI detector and the essay I wrote is flagging as AI. What kind of a world do we live in.
S. Maxudov 10 months ago
They might have used grammarly or similar to clean up the grammar. Those set off ai detectors too.
Cerise Hood 10 months ago
Don't know the full story, but had a really awful plagiarism checker that flagged "The" and my own name as plagiarized
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
In highschool we had to use turnitin.com to check for plagiarism. It was annoying.
#63
Why She Up In There Bare Foot
Heather Menard 10 months ago
If you are talking like that I think you are the one who is trifling.
Nikki Angulo 1 month ago (edited)
Honestly, I walk around my class in my sock feet when I’m not with students, my feet get hot (and sweaty) in those shoes!
MalayDragon 10 months ago
We all just going to skip over the fact the Teacher is not wearing shoes?
SweetCheesySpaghetti 10 months ago
Same reason why the other person is wearing crocs that are too big with socks
#64
When Professors Weigh Their Grades Like This
My problem is that the low percentile given to homework almost makes it hard to do. Where's the motivation when it'll only affect a whopping 6% of my total grade?
Nikki Angulo 1 month ago
The problem with grading homework, is that teachers don’t know how much help students got with it. More emphasis should be on work done in class though.
#65
This His How My Professor Presents His Slides
Heather Menard 10 months ago
Maybe you should show them how to present them properly after class. They maybe don't know how.
#66
Physics Teacher Refuses To Use Corresponding Colors
Michael Largey 10 months ago
I had a sign in my classroom with the names of the colors - all printed in another color. The trick was to read it out loud correctly. It pointed out the difference between a thing and its symbolic representation.
#67
Pay Thousands Of Dollars For A Masters Program And It Is All Virtual. The Professor Rattles Off Info The Entire Class Never Stopping. When Asked To Clarify, This Is The Email Reply
#68
This Email From My Professor
Random User 10 months ago
I'm sure at least one person read just the subject line and didn't show up that day.
PattonPawter 10 months ago
The subject line said that class was canceled, but the actual email said that class wasn’t. Presumably this is a test to see if anyone actually reads the emails, but there’s a better way to do this.
Load More Replies... Craig S. (EvilSausage) 10 months ago (edited)
Years ago, I was in a very large college class. So large it met in an auditorium sized study hall, meeting once per week. Well one day I showed up for class and found no professor, and only a handful of students. Everyone was very puzzled, until I remembered having gotten into class late the previous week. So I asked for a show of hands - how many of us had been late on the same day as I was. And wouldn't you know, they all had. And that confirmed it: class was canceled and the prof had announced it at the outset of class. But he didn't write it on the blackboard (like we could have read it, as far away as some of us were in the nosebleed seats). So we missed the announcement and just didn't know it.
#69
Thank God I Graduated In 1965
Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
You got a s**t teacher, don't let that turn you off higher education entirely. There are a lot of good teachers there.
Kenneth Barns 10 months ago (edited)
Well there is a chance that the curriculum included a course objective "to learn this specific method of mathematical operations", which the OP utterly failed to demonstrate. After all, undertaking a course in mathematics (or, indeed, any uni course) is about acquiring new skills, not just about generating a correct answer. (A calculator or a Wikipedia search could do that!) Unfortunately, the OP equates being exposed to new perspectives and new skills as "indoctrination". Perhaps college is not for her, and she is better being surrounded by those who validate her belief that she already knows everything at the tender age of 19.
Upstaged75 10 months ago
Kids learn lots of valuable skills in college. Not just academic ones either. I don't recall a single professor ever trying to indoctrinate me though. Maybe they weren't doing it right? ;)
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Because so many teachers in the past had similar ideas, when I was studying teaching (2009-13) it was stressed that we mark any maths question right if it was correct, regardless of method used to reach it. They were actually excited to see different methods or working problems out.
SirWriteALot 10 months ago
Maybe when the objective is to get the right answer. When you're supposed to use a certain method and you don't is like getting asked to write about the WWII and you write about Puppies ... it's a fail.
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Hassel Davidhoff 10 months ago
I dropped out of college too and I work in a competitive field with college educated people and I earn more money than a lot of my co-workers who pursued a masters degree. It can certainly be done.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Any student who validly solved a math problem in my class with their own method got recognition before the class and the method named after them when used the rest of the year. "Today, class, we're going to solve this problem using Bugsy's Law of Cosines."
#70
Teacher Must Be Over 50
Troy Parr 10 months ago
Back when people actually typed on typewriters it was correct to use two spaces after a full stop (period). So this teacher probably had it drummed into him/her to use two spaces and no doubt still believes it to be correct. However, people who learned "keyboard skills" instead of typing would not have learned this. Most Word processing software (or "apps" nowadays) regard two spaces as incorrect and the internet strips out extra spaces. This is another example of Old Skills disappearing.
Caroline Nagel 10 months ago
I learned to type on a type writer 40 years ago and I still sometimes use two spaces after a full stop. It happens without thinking, motor memory is strong.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 10 months ago (edited)
Some people on the internet write such long incomprehensible run-on sentences that I gladly welcome any period that eventually comes along, regardless of the number of spaces following it.
SirWriteALot 10 months ago
I guess it's not "wrong", more like a personal preference by the teacher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
Upstaged75 10 months ago
I still do that. Just out of habit though. It's automatic to me at this point. Like the Oxford comma. And no, I've never used a typewriter - we did actually type that way on computers in the 90's. But yes, I'm 50. :)
Bryn 10 months ago
Not anymore it's not. If you're using a typewriter, yes but not modern computers.
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#71
What Is This. Professor Cut My Marks For Writing Too Much. I'm A 3rd Year Student, Obviously The Answers Would Be Long
Neil 10 months ago
I have to side with the professor on this one, especially if it was part of the assignment. Part of the lesson is learning how to be concise with your completeness.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
In high school our theology teacher assigned us a 5-page paper. when asked if it could be longer than five pages, he replied, "Sure. Just mark the five pages you want me to read."
Foxinamug 10 months ago
I had a uni lecturer that gave a fixed penalty for word counts (let's say it was 10%). One student would write double the word count and get 90% on most papers while those of us who kept to the word count struggled to reach the top tier (70% in UK universities) because the word counts were so small it was almost impossible to fit all the needed content in, no matter how concise you write. Most people gave up on the word counts after that
#72
Child Shows Creativity, His Teacher Doesn't Care
General Anaesthesia 10 months ago
Innovation? Creativity? Effort? It's a computer font so none of the above. Just irritating. Imagine having to read and grade twenty of those eyesores.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
If the teacher assigned a humorous essay, just doing it in comic sans font would not get the job done.
#73
My Teacher Always Leaves The Mouse On Screen
Nikki Angulo 1 month ago
I am Gen X (so definitely born before 1995, Qijian) and it drives me nuts. I always move the mouse away from the toolbar area so it won’t be on the screen.
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Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I have never encountered such a toxic group of teachers and administrative workers as at my daughter's elementary school. They should not be around children. Every time I go in there I see an adult towering over a cowering child and screaming at them. I walked in on the PE teacher screaming at my daughter as she was coming out of the bathroom for "giggling" and the look on her face when she saw my irate a*s storming towards her was priceless. I am usually quiet and don't like confrontation but it's like a "red red red fire anger" button is pushed when you see a teacher bullying small children
Earonn - 10 months ago
Well done! And I hope that worm will never again dare to harass children. (Just in case it's needed: I have a garden and two shovels, just saying.... ;) )
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
I had my share of bad teachers from elementary school through grad school, but not sank to the level of most of these.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
I found junior school boring because I was way ahead of the other kids. As an example, I was reading teenage and adult level science fiction (John Wyndhams, JG Ballard, HG Wells) before I was ten when the other kids were reading large print books with pictures on every facing page. So there I am reading a book (Chocky) and this idiot teacher is "no you aren't, you can't". Come on lady, ask me what it's about. A few times of stuff like that, and me asking what she considered inappropriate questions (like me wanting to know more about the topic) and she decided that I would spend my days at the back of the room facing the wall and not allowed to participate in the lesson at all. After a while of doing that, I would be present for role call and would then wander off. The teacher didn't care. The 💩 really hit the fan when mom had to pick me up early and nobody knew where I was.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
The police found me about a quarter of a mile down the road, sitting in the local library reading. Which the librarian had told the school a few times before but nobody cared and I kept turning up so they just pointed me to interesting books and discreetly kept an eye on me. That random librarians had more sense than an entire school was quite something when my mother brought social services into it. I don't know what happened to that teacher, I was moved into a different class with a teacher who would recommend books. And, like mom, was smart enough to gloss over the nutty stuff in Ballard's books that I didn't understand until I reread them as an adult and...whoa...little Rick really missed that!
Load More Replies... MalayDragon 10 months ago
My youngest daughter had a grade 2 teacher full on confiscate a hair clip she was using to keep her hair out of her eyes because it was "not school uniform", Now before people ask yes there is a uniform and yes there is a small section about hair accessories, but even the Principle thinks and has openly discussed and advised that hair accessories (Hair ties, Clips etc) are fine in whatever colour as they're usually to small to worry about. What's worse about this is that this one teacher would only target the girls in her class, every other girl in the school was fine to wear anything in their hair no matter the colour, My only thought for her reason behind this power trip behaviour was that she herself had very thin hair to the point she appeared to be going bald. I'm sorry lady it's not my little girls fault that you're loosing your hair.
Ban-One 10 months ago
It saddens me to read things like that. I'm a high-school teacher since 25 years now (non-US) and luckily I've never encountered colleagues like these. Or at least not that I know of (you never know exactly what happens behind closed doors). That said, the job did become more and more difficult in the past - let's say - 10 years. The kids did in general get a bit more aggressive (we've had damages in our two high-schools in town of 60'000 bucks alone last year) and some parents did get more difficult and over-protective. Still, I wouldn't wanna do anything else. Being part of the teenagers lifes for a few years and guiding them into the right direction and into the grown-up world is a rewarding thing to do. Salary is fine (though not as high as many suspect), but being a teacher is not just a job. It's a calling I'd say. Your heart has to be in it 100%. If it's not, better make way for others... (I do understand that some days are toughter than others of course...but in general).
Melody 10 months ago
My sister was in special ed and was locked in a cage on multiple occasions. It's a padded cage that's supposed to be used when a kid is just completely out of control and they HAVE to do that to keep the kid from hurting themselves. Yeah, that's not how they were using it.
Lee Banks 10 months ago
I had a male teacher corner me alone after class in an off main campus trailer to yell at me for not calling him "Sir". Asked how the hell my father had raised me without respect. The entire class was from a nearby domestic violence shelter. He knew. Didn't see him after that.
BarfyCat 10 months ago
The teachers are between a rock and a hard place with the whole bathroom pass thing. My husband says "yes" to every bathroom request, and most of the time they never come back to class, or they come back reeking of weed.
BoredLittleLeafSheep 10 months ago
That is still not an excuse. If a child asks to use the bathroom, YOU LET THEM GO TO THE BATHROOM.
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Ronnie Beaton 10 months ago
According to the teacher I had in Primary 2 (equivalent to 1st Grade) I was both "stupid and lazy". I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was around 9. This same teacher once got me so upset about a tiny trivial thing, that I puked on my desk. I was just six years old.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I have never encountered such a toxic group of teachers and administrative workers as at my daughter's elementary school. They should not be around children. Every time I go in there I see an adult towering over a cowering child and screaming at them. I walked in on the PE teacher screaming at my daughter as she was coming out of the bathroom for "giggling" and the look on her face when she saw my irate a*s storming towards her was priceless. I am usually quiet and don't like confrontation but it's like a "red red red fire anger" button is pushed when you see a teacher bullying small children
Earonn - 10 months ago
Well done! And I hope that worm will never again dare to harass children. (Just in case it's needed: I have a garden and two shovels, just saying.... ;) )
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
I had my share of bad teachers from elementary school through grad school, but not sank to the level of most of these.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
I found junior school boring because I was way ahead of the other kids. As an example, I was reading teenage and adult level science fiction (John Wyndhams, JG Ballard, HG Wells) before I was ten when the other kids were reading large print books with pictures on every facing page. So there I am reading a book (Chocky) and this idiot teacher is "no you aren't, you can't". Come on lady, ask me what it's about. A few times of stuff like that, and me asking what she considered inappropriate questions (like me wanting to know more about the topic) and she decided that I would spend my days at the back of the room facing the wall and not allowed to participate in the lesson at all. After a while of doing that, I would be present for role call and would then wander off. The teacher didn't care. The 💩 really hit the fan when mom had to pick me up early and nobody knew where I was.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
The police found me about a quarter of a mile down the road, sitting in the local library reading. Which the librarian had told the school a few times before but nobody cared and I kept turning up so they just pointed me to interesting books and discreetly kept an eye on me. That random librarians had more sense than an entire school was quite something when my mother brought social services into it. I don't know what happened to that teacher, I was moved into a different class with a teacher who would recommend books. And, like mom, was smart enough to gloss over the nutty stuff in Ballard's books that I didn't understand until I reread them as an adult and...whoa...little Rick really missed that!
Load More Replies... MalayDragon 10 months ago
My youngest daughter had a grade 2 teacher full on confiscate a hair clip she was using to keep her hair out of her eyes because it was "not school uniform", Now before people ask yes there is a uniform and yes there is a small section about hair accessories, but even the Principle thinks and has openly discussed and advised that hair accessories (Hair ties, Clips etc) are fine in whatever colour as they're usually to small to worry about. What's worse about this is that this one teacher would only target the girls in her class, every other girl in the school was fine to wear anything in their hair no matter the colour, My only thought for her reason behind this power trip behaviour was that she herself had very thin hair to the point she appeared to be going bald. I'm sorry lady it's not my little girls fault that you're loosing your hair.
Ban-One 10 months ago
It saddens me to read things like that. I'm a high-school teacher since 25 years now (non-US) and luckily I've never encountered colleagues like these. Or at least not that I know of (you never know exactly what happens behind closed doors). That said, the job did become more and more difficult in the past - let's say - 10 years. The kids did in general get a bit more aggressive (we've had damages in our two high-schools in town of 60'000 bucks alone last year) and some parents did get more difficult and over-protective. Still, I wouldn't wanna do anything else. Being part of the teenagers lifes for a few years and guiding them into the right direction and into the grown-up world is a rewarding thing to do. Salary is fine (though not as high as many suspect), but being a teacher is not just a job. It's a calling I'd say. Your heart has to be in it 100%. If it's not, better make way for others... (I do understand that some days are toughter than others of course...but in general).
Melody 10 months ago
My sister was in special ed and was locked in a cage on multiple occasions. It's a padded cage that's supposed to be used when a kid is just completely out of control and they HAVE to do that to keep the kid from hurting themselves. Yeah, that's not how they were using it.
Lee Banks 10 months ago
I had a male teacher corner me alone after class in an off main campus trailer to yell at me for not calling him "Sir". Asked how the hell my father had raised me without respect. The entire class was from a nearby domestic violence shelter. He knew. Didn't see him after that.
BarfyCat 10 months ago
The teachers are between a rock and a hard place with the whole bathroom pass thing. My husband says "yes" to every bathroom request, and most of the time they never come back to class, or they come back reeking of weed.
BoredLittleLeafSheep 10 months ago
That is still not an excuse. If a child asks to use the bathroom, YOU LET THEM GO TO THE BATHROOM.
Load More Replies... Ronnie Beaton 10 months ago
According to the teacher I had in Primary 2 (equivalent to 1st Grade) I was both "stupid and lazy". I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was around 9. This same teacher once got me so upset about a tiny trivial thing, that I puked on my desk. I was just six years old.
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