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45 People Share The Worst Things Their Teacher Has Done To Them
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We all know what kind of difference a good teacher can make in someone's life. A skilled educator has an opportunity to inspire students to pursue their goals and talents, can recognize their strengths and give them the most important knowledge they can offer. While we all should celebrate all of the amazing teachers out there, many schools still lack compassionate, thoughtful and talented teachers. A Twitter user who recently started a thread asking people to share their crappy teacher stories proves that some people are simply unsuited to do this important job. In the eye-opening and shocking thread, people shared stories of harrowing teachers who abused their power over students, humiliated and bullied them.
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Talking of respect, I had a new ROTC teacher come in screaming at us talking about if you respect me I'll respect you while showing us zero respect. I made it my main mission in life to make him hate his and I succeeded. I got many other students on board and he barely lasted the year.. I'm willing to bet I took years off that man's life.
I'm so sorry you had to wade through all that crap. Good job making your dream happen in spite of him!
You deserved an A. That type of behavior was pretty shitty on her part.
She shouldn't have been working in a school to begin with. My parents would have raised hell if that had been me. Teachers and other school staff need to take students with illnesses seriously.
Whoah. A good friend's mother was dying of cancer, and the principal said he would not allow her to be with her mother, she had to be in school. Luckily, her aunt told the principal where to stick it.
One teacher told my youngest (of 3) sister, "Why can't you be creative like your sisters?" That hurt. I'm glad she got past that, but it took a while. She now does interesting crafts (great colour sense!). Plus, she works in PR, marketing, travel writing, tourism, would make a very good manager-- I can't praise her enough!
Your parents and the counselor need to figure out what reality is. That story she told them was fiction.
So how does one gain the right to feel sad? Is there a quota system (10 worst situations on the entire planet) or is it based on a checklist (must have 9 out of 10 specific events happen over the course of 25 hours) or do you argue for your right before a jury of one insensitive art teacher?
That teacher should have been smacked across her head really hard for being stupid.
This is just horrible. I hope the earbuds didn't cost too much to replace.
Wow. That is just SO rude and uncalled for. People can make decisions for themselves.
That person clearly did hear the teacher, to have done them. The student should have gone to the principal while she went to the nurse's office to make sure her head was okay.
I've told this one before...a (male) teacher stopped in the middle of class to tell me "Your legs are too fat. You need to go on a diet." This wasn't Phys Ed or some class when commenting on my weight might be even slightly appropriate - this was like Math or Social Studies. F*** him.
That is just so LAME. Doctors exist for a reason, not so you can pretend that they don't know what they're talking about.
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Guys used to bully me a lot at school, calling me names, singing mean songs, pushing me over. So one day I took my complaint straight to the principal. One of the guys tagged along because the teachers wanted it to be "sorted out". Ended up the guy was simply told to chill and when he left and I stayed, the principal looked at me and he said "you shouldn't worry about this, guys this age are mean to girls they like so he simply likes you!" Yep. Of course. Silly me. What else to expect from a society that romanticizes mental abuse?
Some guys are just assholes. The principal is one of them.
Oh god, I got that too. "The boys pick on you because they like you!" What a crock of BS.
My 6th grade teacher told the class a story about how her family got a cat, and wanted to de-claw it themselves (de-clawing a cat is cat abuse to begin with, not to mention doing it yourself). She felt she needed a cat to practice on, so they FOUND A DEAD CAT IN THE STREET and de-clawed the poor dead cat. The boy who sat in front of me was so upset – he said that could have been has cat, because his cat had disappeared and they never knew what happened to it.
Omfg that's sick! That poor boy is right he was probably picturing his own kitty in its place
You're right -- I don't remember the boy's name, but I'll never forget his anguished words -- I can still hear them in my mind. The worst part about it is the way this teacher told the story, with a smile on her face, as if it were some jolly tale.
A disgusting and stupid individual - how on earth did they become a teacher?
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De-clawing is NOT cat abuse.
Well where you live might be allowed in the law. Where I lived it would be abuse, the same with cutting dog's tail or ears. Those are crimes by the law there
These teacher are MENTAL
I really don't want to say to much, it still hurts. My third grade teacher was so cruel and demeaning, she took a happy, popular child reading at the seventh grade level, and through constant physical and emotional abuse turned him into an isolated, nervous frightened kid who was tossed into special ed. Even now, the damage lingers on. I have good life, but her specter haunts me sometimes.
So, so sorry that happened to you Felix. I was bullied at school and it absolutely has a lasting impact. What happened to you though must have been horrific. She should have been locked up.
I'm really sorry Felix. I'm so sorry you were protected from her. She was intimidated by you, and she is a sick, awful, cruel, wicked person. I'm glad you have a good life. Hug from here.
I'm so sorry that happened to you.
Had a 4th grade teacher that did the same to me...I got stress related illness at 8- 9 years old!! But as I got older I found out I wasn't stupid like she said. I went to college and became a nurse. I never went back...but there were times I wanted to go back and confront her. I wish you the best Felix.
You need to go back and at least give her a good ol' throat punch. (I jest, but it feels food thinking about doing that to past horrible teachers.)
That happy kid is still in there somewhere and one day you will be able to bring him back out.
Honestly, I find this kind of baseless optimism demeaning. There's trauma that you can't recover from, trauma that will forever change you. It's not that you can't become well again, but you can never be what you were before. For better and worse. Let's not pretend otherwise.
My 6th grade science teacher gave me an F on a test related to the geologic mechanisms behind plate tectonics. There was much anger at home. Though fortunately for me, my "incorrect" answers were based on the latest research and computer modeling techniques, as opposed to the "answers" in the obsolete textbook. My father was a microbiologist, and subscribed to the journal Science. Evidently not all of it was over my head. He kindly explained that she was the incorrect one, with fully cited sources.
Boom mike drop, go dad! ^-^
Sadly, this is rarely the teacher’s fault. In underfunded schools with staffing shortages, it is a fairly commonplace arrangement where teachers who have academic credentials in one area end up getting assigned to also teach classes in another where they have neither background nor expertise, in order to cover the underfilled positions. They are then forced to “teach to the test” and if the materials are outdated — which they always are — then this is the inevitable result.
People called for jury duty are screened to ensure they are not homophobic, racist, religious fanatics etc so the accused gets a fair trial. Why aren't would be teachers screened likewise so children are treated fairly in school?
Apparently police, doctor or teacher are like three of the biggest chosen professions for sociopaths....exercising power over others lives I guess is the attraction
You forgot politician.
Better monitoring and feeback from students would help. If a certain teacher gets accused of a particular behaviour regularly then something should be done about it - though it seems that so many in charge prefer to ignore problems.
The problem is the system, in every institution. The bullied is ignored and made to shut up. It is much easier for the bully to be allowed to go about his/her own business than make it stop. I don't know why. Unless you have someone at the top who will not abide this kind of behaviour, it will continue. I've seen it everywhere: Teachers bullying other teachers, teachers bullying students, students who bully teachers, staff who bully staff, bosses who bully employees, employees who harass teachers, siblings who bully their siblings.
Because jury selection is a much more costly process than your average job interview.
Because they take whoever will accept a heavy workload and a shitty salary.
I once sharpened my pencil, put it on my desk. Boy next to me (that I didn't know) stabbed it in my hand for no reason. Teacher rolled her eyes when I asked to go to office for a bandaid (blood was getting on my book). Office eye rolled too. I still have a grey dot in my hand, and unsurprisingly I've seen this guy pop up in the local court news quite a bit. A shame no one cared enough to help him then we were 11, no body seemed bothered by it but surely these are the signs a kid needs help?
That happened to me too, but nothing really happened to either of us and the nurse just told me to wash my hands so I also have a piece of graphite in my hand
Read "Anthoy MacDougall" by Catherine Gildiner--real-life story of a girl who defends herself from a bully and its consequences. The good part is, she survives.
I was severely bullied in school as a kid in elementary. My peers, teachers, and principal disliked me (I am literally a school fanatic, I study almost 365/ a year), even though I was a good, kind student. Apparently, I was too smart for them to tolerate. If the teacher asked us to create a report, the kids in my class would hand in 1 page stories, and I would hand in a 10+ page essay, I was spot on, A+ in my work. I turned to homeschooling in Grade 7 and it opened the doors to so much possibility for me! I started my own business, and continued my home education (even to this day, I'm still a dedicated student). And even though my homeschooled teachers still believed that I was too good to be true in some things, I have proved them wrong this week by submitting my semester of course work to them, so descriptive, that they've asked me to come teach the class! I have been providing resources for the school's curriculum for years, and as of now, I work for NASA! I'm in high school BTW.
You’re in highschool? So you’re in your teens? And you started a business, were offered by a school you don’t attend to teach a class of kids your age, all while working for NASA? Your bio says you're Canadian, you're sure you're working for NASA? If any of that is actually true good for you, but that seems pretty far fetched.
That's incredible, I apologize for doubting you but I guess you could take that as a compliment because your achievements are that remarkable. Best of luck :)
Thanks for your input. But yes, everything I said was true! I'm in my teens, and, I do attend the school (in online homeschooling programs) that asked me to teach classes, I'm in advanced placement, so it's easy for me to understand and teach the younger grades. I am an entrepreneur, I own my own jewelry and fine art business which, although I have to take a backseat to considering my studies and my job, I still manage. I also work for NASA, I'm an intern, the youngest I might add. I understand that for some it seems far fetched, but I'm a motivated go-getter, and nothing will stop me! But if you were sincere about your good wishes, I would like to say thanks.
It's so weird to me that people are disliked for being clever or for not being smart - these are things that people cannot help. A person can only do their best - which in your case was clearly exceptional. I expect they felt intimidated, not that this excuses them in any way whatsoever. Far from it. Good for you - I love a success story! Go Madison!
Thanks Alex. You're right, I do believe that they felt intimidated. There's so many others out there who are just so smart, and so talented, my only wish is that they receive the same opportunities I did.
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I was in Grade 10, and my Math teacher berated me in the hall way in front of pretty much the whole school. She said "You were born stupid, You will always be stupid, you will never amount to anything, you will probably end up in prison shortly before you graduate" later that same year, my Home-room teacher a Wonderful woman named Miss Dianne Brown gave me an IQ test. My score came out in the top 2%, in which she announced at the end of class time, and Mrs. Allister replied that is preposterous There is no way in Hell this boy is remotely close to the top 2 percentile. He is lazy and stupid, his whole family is stupid.. Mrs. Allister was put on permanent leave the next day..
finally, justice.
Had a teacher in Elementary school who would line up all the white kids in front of the chalkboard and beat us with the yard stick she carried around. She would yell at us saying we deserved it after what our people did to her people. We were terrified to tell anyone but thankfully after a week or so she finally got caught and we never saw her again. Also....had tons of pervy high school teachers (male AND female)
These stories turn my stomach. Now I'd like to hear how GOOD teachers/counselors/coaches have influenced people.
Had to stop reading these. They made me so mad! I had some shitty teachers, but none was as bad as these!
I also had to stop. I actually can't believe that there are people who would treat children (or young adults, or ANYBODY) like this. My kids are just starting school and I will absolutely MURDERISE any teacher who fucks with them!
Go straight to the authorities instead - official channels will hopefully get them locked up or at least stop them teaching. Also protect other children. Going for the jugular might be satisfying but you have to be careful that you don't end up in trouble and, at worst, your children without you. If you were not serious then apologies - I'm not good as spotting that kind of thing. 😕
Schools are war zones
Mom took on the high school principal--and won. The fight? The ring they made me take off in Gym, that got lost. It's still on my finger 50 years later.
I still can't understand why Children Hater Clubsters chooses teaching as their career!!!
So that they have a captive audience to pick on probably. Their performance should be monitored a whole lot better than it is.
Easy to pass the courses?
These teachers should not be teaching. They should be in prison or a mental hospital.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Inside a school, teachers often have too much power.
These are so sad. What kind of teacher does these things?!
The bad ones.
When I was in the 3rd grade, my class was coming in from recess, and my teacher swore she heard me call her a bitch. I was suspended from school, and my mother sent me to boarding school for the remainder of my childhood. I never called my teacher a bitch, but because she thought I said it, my entire life was altered.
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I once got detention for supposedly writing an "inappropriate" note in class she found. Not only did I not write it, it had my name spelled wrong at the bottom and the teacher claimed I was lying. I kept telling her that's not my handwriting nor is that how you spell my name. Instead of fact checking, she just gave me detention and the two bullies who wrote it got a kick out of me getting into trouble. Assholes. 🤦♀️
I clenched my fist as I read these.
My PTSD started at a really young age. I'm currently 16. I was in kindergarten. A girl cut my hair and so I did the same thing to her hair. I know not the smartest move. But then she screamed. The principal was called up. Next thing I know I'm being dragged down flights of stairs. Now this school was huge. Many staircases and it was like 4 floors tall with many hallways. So I'm terrified cause I have no idea what's going to happen to me. So I cry. Then her hand tightens on my arm. I'm again crying and asking her to let me go cause she's hurting me. She starts dragging me down the many stair cases. I can't keep up so then I'm terrified that she's just gonna throw me down the stairs. At this point I'm begging some one to come help me. She didn't like that. She tried swinging a punch at me. Then I started trying to hold on to door handles cause I don't want to go with her. Only like one person poked their head out. I started having nightmares at 15. Finally told my parents.
I'm so sorry
Nothing to apologize for, but thanks for the support.
If not for a couple of concerned teachers, I'd have been far worse off. So, cred to the caring ones, b/c that made up for the others.
A lector at my uni told us that some people are just born for translating, and that she can see their auras and will only work with them (also named a few students), she doesn't work with the rest of us. An English teacher at high school did large numbers with us, BE ones (BE was the standard we had to learn, we were scolded for using AE), and she wanted to show us the difference between BE and AE numbers and since she didn't know the AE version, asked us. I raised my hand and said, she said it was incorrect (which happened several other times). I got fed up and asked her how did she know my answer was incorrect when she said she didn't know the answer in the first place. Yup, received a mouthful. She ultimately consulted a dictionary, but would never acknowledge that my answer was ultimately correct. Damn, I hated that woman.
Not me, my sister was "buying" drugs from a teacher...her payment ...sex with him.
I went to a Catholic school went I was in kindergarten and 1st grade. I was able to write/draw/color with both of my hands for a while. One day, the teacher (nuns didn't teach us, regular teachers did) told me that I would have to decide which hand I'd like to use when I write/draw/color and I told her that I wanted to use my left hand. She didn't sugarcoat it when she said that I'm going to Hell for being a lefty. I was 5 years old when she said that. Fast forward 22 years, and I'm still a lefty and proud of it.
Go you! My dad emigrated here to nz from Ireland, he's 66 now, but he told me about when he was a boy in ireland: his teacher would cane him for using his left hand but he just took it and didn't stop. Eventually the teacher gave up. I think the teacher hated him after setting him a punishment task of adding the numbers 1-100, dad paused then said 5000(I think lol I'm nt gna add it up), teacher accused him of cheating or already knowing, dad said no, 100, then 99+1, 98+2 etc, so 49 100s plus 100 XD Anyway he is an accomplished technician, loves trying to explain hexadecimal and binary to me but it whooshes over my head. He says god made a few ppl perfectly and the rest right handed ^-^
I was doing the same thing, but in my case, the teacher contacted my parents and they said she should insist I use my right hand. You should see my handwriting as a result!
Poor people! I wish I could do something or could’ve stood up to those teachers! God bless the people that struggles with them!
When I was a kid, I had pretty bad asthma. I've outgrown it, but my lungs didn't really become as strong as they should have. Anyway, I was in school, when I start struggling to breathe. I think it's an asthma attack, and ask my teacher if I can see the nurse. He calls me a "Jess", and tells me to get over it. Luckily, I was wrong, and was just struggling in the cold, but it could have gone south real fast had I been having a real attack.
My music teacher says that a romantic relationship HAS to be between a boy and a girl. She also told people that they had to be christian. She was fired.
Well being a gay teen I give zero f's what people think if I date a guy or not
These make me so sad. There are good teachers out there I promise
Yeah, I couldn't get through all of these. The idiocy really pisses me off.
Holy God. Half of these people need to be reported to the cops.
My third-grade teacher targeted me for some reason. At one point, she put my desk in the coat closet. At another point, a girl who sat next to me burnt herself with hot water we used to make cocoa and was sitting quietly with damp towel on her arm. The principal came through, saw the damp towel, and asked me what happened. I answered his question. When he left, the teacher announced to the class that we couldn't have cocoa anymore because of me. She would often spent big chunks of class just chewing me out for no good reason.
Sometimes it makes you wonder if they're actually insane. Perhaps you reminded them of someone that had been unpleasant to them??? It's highly unlikely that it was anything to do with you individually. Disgusting way to treat another person whatever the reason.
Not a teacher but a teacher's aid in college. My husband was asked to make an abstract painting in art school. He made a piece that had a city on fire and solid black figures of people dancing outside the city walls (all in red, orange, yellow and black.) When he took it in for grading...the TA said "No..like this" and proceeded to take a paintbrush filled with grey paint and spattered it all over my husbands art piece. My husband was so furious, he dropped the class and majored in Creative Writing and minored in Japanese.
Biology teacher, senior year, I was experiencing a bad case of hives, itching all over, asked if I could go see the nurse, in front of the whole class he said "Yeah make sure you get that STD taken care of" Worst moment of my life.
You should have said "Like you can talk. You gave it to me."
Good comeback! Love it!
Out music teacher would lock us in a. The closet. B. The “naughty box” (a cardboard box) or c. Both. and would also spray us with squirt bottles and told a whole class of first graders Santa doesn’t exist.
Was his name Grinch? (I'm just trying to find some humor after all those stories about cruel and/or crazy teachers and principals)
My dad had a very abusive teacher in grade 3. He told me she would hit kids over the head when they mumbled and gave them a 0 if she didn't like the student. Him and his friend got fed up with it, and about halfway through the year, my dad, his friend and the entire class decided to march to the principal's office together and tell him what their teacher had been doing. He never saw her again after that day.
I've already commented on one post of the images here, but I kinda feel like ranting more about my terrible digital technology teacher for a bit. Last year I took digital tech, and I had a teacher who had a very... certain teaching style. She wouldn't stand up in front of the class and tell us or teach us what to do on the whiteboard or something. She would put most of her lessons on the class onenote and call it a lesson. Add walking around and hovering over my shoulder while doing my work, and that was basically her class. She told me off many times for not having a good colour font on my assignment (She also told other students to come up to me and tell me to change my font colour, since I told her that I like my assignment the way it is), told me that I didn't know what I was talking about most of the time, Told the class that if you ask for help, you're needy and never get a high mark, and more stuff i can't fit in. Had to deal with this for 2 years.
She also told students that if they don't have internet at home, then the students have to tell their parents they have to pay for it. Um, maybe that's exactly why they don't have internet? maybe they can't afford it????? I still don't get that. Oh yeah, She also failed me with my final assignment because I didn't fill in this reflective diary, which was something i had to fill in every day saying what I did that lesson and what I could do next lesson. I did finish making my website (which is what my assignment was) but she failed me because I didn't fill in a log??
ANY teacher that abuses children should be stripped of their jobs immediately!
All girls school. PE teacher was way past retirement age, really creepy. She would always Stand and watch us, getting changed and undressed. It made everyone uncomfortable. She Also never listened when Anyone had a doctors note and forced kids who were unwell to take part in class. Including one time when I had passed out the day before (low blood pressure) and had hit my head. She’d then talk sh*t about girls she didn’t like to the other PE teachers, in front of you so you and all the other girls could hear. Why become a teacher if you hate kids?
She may date back to an era where the 'proper' job for a woman (besides marriage)was teaching, and only the lower grades. The women received less money, more work, and a great deal of flack 'because they couldn't get a man'. (Not excusing her behavior, simply explaining how she got there.)
My youngest had a teacher that would make fun of her with the entire class. She was bullied relentlessly by the kids , and the teacher felt the need to join in. Turns out the things she was making fun of my daughter for were major red flags for ADHD. My daughter was 8, and the kindest person you could imagine. I recently found that teacher on FB and wrote her a message about how much she hurt my daughter . She never replied , go figure
Year 12 art start of the year required 3 majors to be completed. I did mine (Full background watercolour with acrylic pain animal tributes to my pets in the foreground) and the teacher said she loved them. Then week 6 there were 9 required majors needed to be done, she checked them the day before to suggest final improvements. Told me that 3 of mine (the ones she said she loved) were shit and looked like a Year 8's work, and that I had to completely redo all of them by the following day's beginning. I started working on them, trying not to cry and had a panic attack in class 30 mins later, full weeping and almost passed out. She didn't understand why I wanted to drop the subject the next monday, and fought me on it. Being 7 weeks late, only Modern History was open (which I hate) so I had to join that, while having missed and failed the first assignment, and barely passed the subject as a result.
1. I had a teacher in high school that talked shit about me when I was in inpatient for trying to kill myself. No one was really supposed to know where I was. There were rumors, and my teachers only found out where I was when they had to get my assignments. Found out that in front of the class, she went on about me being dramatic and that I wasn't really sick, etc. She also talked shit about a girl that ran away from home. 2. I was bullied in school. By the time my mom found out, it had been going on for years. I gave her an example of some stuff that would happen during class, so she reached out to that teacher. (Note, my mom was also a teacher.) The teacher responded that I was asking for it/ egging them on. So I deserved it
These are REALLY hard to read :-(
^^^ Catholic School......nuff said
My oldest daughter has cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia. Her middle school special education teacher told me, in front of her, she will never amount to more than delivering meals and mail at the mall with her powerchair. Liz is now 33 years old. She taught herself how to evaluate companies and events to determine which companies to invest in. She now has over a half a million dollars worth of stocks. Every year, she uses part of her dividends to fund scholarships that she awards to students in two alternative schools. She wants to eventually award full ride scholarships to underprivileged students.
My 9th grade my teacher during a lesson asked if we had any questions about the problems we where doing, I was horrible at math so I raised my hand. Her face got so red and she stomped over took my desk with both hands and started screaming and shaking my desk up and down and shouted in my face WHAT DONT YOU GET!?! WEVE DONE THE SAME THING EVERYDAY!!! Everyone stopped and stared at us. I got up and went to the front office and told the principal I was humiliated. They put me in a smaller class with a super nice teacher.
I was bullied as a kid. When I told my teacher, she told me: " I'm not here to solve your problems. If kids are mean to you, maybe you're the problem. " Apparently she never heard about bullying.
Where does one begin... I had an art teacher who told me that if I didn't do projects exactly the way he told me I wouldn't get into this prestigious local arts highschool (I ignored him, and got in). The same teacher wanted to force me to present a piece I didn't like in front of the school. Because it wasn't for a grade, he legally couldn't do that, and I had really bad anxiety, I just threw it in the trash while saying no for the seventh time. He looked at me and said, "wow, real mature" to which I responded "I'm 12. I don't have to be mature." Not the best response, but an absolute power move. I had a math teacher who decided she only liked 5 students and handed them passes that said she would only teach them and the rest of us would fend for ourselves. The administration backed this decision that "I don't have to teach you if I don't want to." Pretty much my entire middle school was a horror show.
I don't remember much really bad for myself, but my mom did tell me a story for when she was in elementary. Apparently there were several kids who had her first name. She, trying to be helpful suggested calling her by her middle name. The teacher called on her using the middle name. My mom had never gone by her middle name. She was used to it yet. Instead of being understanding the teacher said something along the lines of "look at Ellen. She gives a suggestion but won't even respond to it" my mom said it made her cry.
Then people wonder how the and racism started when he/she had such living parents growing up...between school and church, these kids are thoroughly indocrinated...
Year 12 Creative Art students were required to have completed 3 major artworks by the first day of school, I did mine and the Art teacher said she liked them and I could move ahead. Folio check in week 6 where the class had to have done 9 artworks each, and she checked the day before for final adjustments. Said 3 of mine (the three that were done for the beginning) were garbage and looked like something a Year 8 would do (Full watercolor background with acrylic paint animals in the foreground), and that I would need to completely redo all of them by the time they were due the next day, rather than telling me her issues to begin with. I had a panic attack working on them 20 minutes later, was crying and almost passed out in the room, and then she fought me and couldn't understand why I dropped out of the subject the next week. This also forced me to join Modern History, which I hated, 7 weeks late, having missed and failed an entire assignment, leaving me barely passing the subject.