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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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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i don,t Believe you've got stab in your belly. the blade in your stomach and the blood on the floor Don't convince me either

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Encourage him to take up base-jumping and swimming with great white sharks. None of the seven deadly sins will be committed.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For some reason, certain people think making kids with problems MORE uncomfortable will help them "get over it".

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Alex Newell
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe it's an extension of "pshh, that's nothing, I've been through much worse"

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Debrina Blackmoon
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG O_O this twisted b***h should never be anywhere NEAR kids, and i hope she got reported/fired/arrested!!!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had teacher who would always yell at us until we cried and told us that we would all never make it into college because we were terrible people who deserved to fail and were weak. Four years later and I still occasionally wake up screaming, crying, and sweating because I’ve had dreams that I was back in her class.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry you went through that. I hope you are getting counselling xx

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good that you went home, my experience was a grade three teacher, she was a nightmare, she was actually cruel to all students, I was very shy which made all worse, she always had her pointer stick and cracked it on our desk, I was shaking in my little shoes, she picked on some students more than others, and I was one of them, words can't explain my absolute fear, when she asked me something, I froze, she failed me that year, it took ever so long before I was able to answer a teacher in class, what a witch she was, an old maid actually !!!

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do these people become teachers?? They can singlehandedly ruin a person's school-going years, if not for longer.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the actual f**k! What kind of decent person says that to anyone let alone a kid? I think that teacher was just a pedo. So wrong... so so very wrong.

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Elaine Dodge
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And your parents went right to the police and laid a charge of abuse, right?

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Jasmina Pavlovic
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The new female english teacher in second grade elementary school was a real b***h. She told me once in class, 'cause I don't knew something: "that I lived behind the moon and every other classmate would know the answer". Everyone laughed and I'm anxious since then and never spoke more as neccessary in class. And I hated schools afterwards. 😖

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

cant she get arrested for touching you and there would be a bunch of boys to have evidence

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Billy Haake
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If there is a Hell, my first grade teacher, Miss Gulledge, is at the center of it. She would lock a student in the coat closet in the dark, make snide comments about grammar (to a first grader! We still had baby teeth!). Many more horror stories about this sadistic woman. However, the next year, I had Miss Porter, one of the nicest and sweetest teachers I ever had. If there is a Heaven, Miss Porter is at the center of it.

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Greta Toločkaitė
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

omg, i had one of my preschool teachers actually done that to me, just because after using a bathroom i tucked in my shirt not precisely the way she thought was right, i was 4 or 5, it was super embarrassing and traumatizing

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Annasue Marczynski
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I'd been your mom, that teacher would be in the hospital and no jury would ever convict me of assault.

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AspieGirl88
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg, that’s disgusting!! A teacher threatening to abuse an 8 year old student (by sexually exposing her in front of other students)?! That’s definitely paedophile behaviour & she should NOT be allowed anywhere near children!! 😤

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In third grade I had a teacher who apparently thought that making us cry/embarrassed would help us learn... Did anyone else have a teacher like that?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My second grade teacher made it her life mission to humiliate me in class. I knew the alphabet from 3 yrs old, and was a gifted student, although they didn't have a term for that in the early 50's. I was also dyslexic, which I didn't discover until FB came out. I breezed through reading and was already way above my class by end of first year. But math was a foreign idea for me. Whenever I got an answer wrong on any of the tests, likely because I had reversed a few numbers when writing it on my paper from the board where the test was put up, she would call me to the front of the class. Then I was made to lay across her desk and she would pull up my skirt and give me swats with her ruler. Talk about humiliating! I had panic attacks every time I looked at numbers after that. I couldn't tell time from a clock until I was about 17. I failed almost every math class I ever took, and had to repeat in summer school.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is so unbelievable that I believe you! But it is simply unbelievable!

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so sorry you had to wade through all that c**p. Good job making your dream happen in spite of him!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You deserved an A. That type of behavior was pretty s****y on her part.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"This just happens with beautiful young women like you." EXCUSE ME??!!! You and the other girls can protest by not showing up to choir.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your parents and the counselor need to figure out what reality is. That story she told them was fiction.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

al capone was only convice because of taxe evasion, not for the Killing. money has more power

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i work in a call center and so many time people ask me how i am… people would certainly hung up in fear if i really told them how i feel.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That teacher should have been smacked across her head really hard for being stupid.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people have no taste. I have a bum knee, but I'll risk a week of recovery for a good Mexican band (damn you, Banda de la Muerte! Oh the agony, but oh the ecstacy!).

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, yes, I watched the whole thing. It was originally an all-girls school, and it eventually became a co-ed high school. It is now defunct. The whole thing was so sad. The head priest, the brotherhood, and their lackeys sexually abused the poor female students.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. That is just SO rude and uncalled for. People can make decisions for themselves.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course she was in law school. Somebody has to empty the wastepaper baskets and clean the toilets.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not to self: next time passed out and throw up on the teacher desk

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