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

That teacher and your parents really let you down. How awful. (And I'm so sorry and horrified it took a year. Were there no competent adults anywhere?)

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

I made teeny tiny figurines and the art teacher said I was trying to escape from reality. Then she fawned over some of the boys' incredibly violent drawings and said how beautiful they were.

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

Lol...same happened to me, i used too much "imagination and fantasy" because i was way ahead of the kids books an primary school...i just got bored with those books and started with Tolkien, Jules Verne, etc ;) Little did they know back then, i was diagnosed later with Asperger and a very high IQ. They used their incompetence as an excuse for my "abnormal interest". Uh uh.

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

Wait, so just because you like fantasy and sci-fi, you have no grasp on reality? What kind of screwed up, backwards logic is this!?

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

All too common. Sf and straight fantasy was the 'red-headed stepchild' of 'real fiction' until the late '80s, or early '90s (and even then they chose the *worst* examples to 'legitimize'.)

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

nothing wrong with having something you like, pretend, and play around with. BUT I do wonder what about this made your parents believe the counselor, and what made the counselor support the teachers recommendation. After all, that person SHOULD be trained, right? If truly nothing showed that you couldn't distinguish the two...simply answering the question about if it is real or not should have sufficed!

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

God, I can't stand it when adults see a child's love of fantasy as "being unable to separate fantasy from reality".

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

It's no wonder she thought the kid was messed up. Star Wars? Really? What sort of parent lets their kid watch such garbage?

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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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