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50 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Toxic, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone
Let’s do a quick experiment, shall we, Pandas? Think about the best teachers you’ve ever had. See how easily their faces pop up in your imagination? You’re probably even smiling. Okay, now think of the very worst teachers you’ve ever encountered. It feels awful, doesn’t it? The sad truth is that nearly everyone has to deal with at least one toxic educator who was out to make their life miserable. Teachers and professors hold a huge amount of influence in their students’ lives. And that power can be used for good, as well as for ill.
Bored Panda compiled this list of pics of people sharing examples of the most toxic teachers they have ever met. The type of behavior featured in this article is appalling. And it really makes you value quality educators even more.
Keep in mind that if you’ve had awful experiences at school, these pics might bring back some bad memories. Otherwise, feel free to tell us about the best and worst teachers you had at school. You’ll find our previous post about bad teachers over here, too. We know from experience just how much teachers can inspire us… or cause us to doubt ourselves.
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Student’s Mom Had Cancer, And When She Missed School, Teacher Told Her That School Is More Important Than Home
Bored Panda was interested to learn about building a sense of trust and openness between parents and children, as well as what to do if there are issues with specific teachers at school. We reached out to parenting blogger Samantha Scroggin, from Walking Outside in Slippers, who shared her thoughts on this with us.
"I always try to maintain an open dialogue with my kids, but it doesn’t always work as well as I’d hoped. I think we can’t expect our kids to open up to us on our timeline and our terms. They have to share when and if they want to, and us parents showing a genuine interest in what’s going on in our kids’ lives sets the groundwork for when they’re ready to open up," the blogger said.
Yikes
I am SO sorry.. but that’s kind of funny… hope they apologised and were embarrassed lol
Bored Teachers Regrading Students 7 Years Later
Patience and understanding are key for building trust, bit by bit. "Sometimes this can mean listening to them drone on about Pokemon and their friend drama at school," Samantha told Bored Panda.
"I feel like it’s just as important for parents to have an open dialogue with our kids’ teachers at school to see how they’re doing. We can’t always rely on our kids for the full picture, but it’s important to take our kids’ perspective on school situations into perspective," she suggested.
Teacher Taking A Child’s Hearing Aid As Punishment “Cause She Wasn’t Listening Anyway”
Teachers Need To Understand Students Don’t Always Sleep In Class Just Because Of Laziness
She Was Six. Why Would She Be Lying About That?
Meanwhile, parenting blogger Samantha said that there's no one-size-fits-all approach when dealing with teacher-related issues. However, she revealed to Bored Panda what approach she took not too long ago.
"I actually recently had an issue with my daughter’s first-grade teacher. She is an older teacher who is not very responsive via the school’s email system. Because communicating with her was so difficult, I told the principal at the end of the school year about my struggles with the teacher. I then requested a teacher for next year who I know to be very responsive," the founder of Walking Outside in Slippers said.
"But I don’t think there is any right way to deal with school or teacher issues. I would defer to the parents to decide what is best for their child and situation," she added.
Toxicity At Its Best
“It’s easier to punish the victim than to actually solve the bullying problem” ok but that doesn’t excuse anything at all
Apparently, You Can't Be A Cheerleader And Be Smart
The Teacher Knew What She Was Doing
It sometimes feels like certain authority figures are out to get you. It’s not paranoia, though. Some people are so dissatisfied with their lives, so miserable and full of angst that they lash out at those around them.
Unfortunately, there isn’t an exam to thoroughly check if the person hoping to be a teacher is a completely decent human being. There are some bad apples among the droves of hard-working, empathetic educators.
When someone with a dislike for kids and education becomes a teacher, you can’t expect anything good. Some individuals have very low emotional intelligence, and they see their role in the classroom as purely technical: you put in the minimum required work, you get paid.
However, teaching is about far more than just classes, homework, and grading papers. For some, teaching is a calling. And they spare no expense in making their students’ lives better. They help guide them. They support them when they’re down. They thoroughly understand the massive responsibility they have weighing on their shoulders. And they do it anyway, even when they’re exhausted, under-appreciated, and given substandard pay. It’s these educators who we salute.
What A "Great" Teacher
Yup, same happened to me. Only I had the extra misery of having a teacher for a dad too. Neither parents believed I needed glasses because, and I quote, "no one else in the family needed them so why should I?" Had to get two part time jobs to afford some. Didn't get my first pair of glasses and lenses until I was 16. Much of my schooling was literally a blur.
Why Would You Do That?
He Was The Creepy Wood Shop Teacher
this makes me so mad because are us girls supposed to leave our butts and thighs at home?? put on our school?? this also applies to girls with large chests getting dresscoded for wearing tank tops or shirts. Women having breasts/butts ≠ flaunting those breasts/butts
The way that we approach education in modern times is vastly different from how things were done for, well, pretty all of history. Generally speaking, students are a lot less independent these days. They’re shyer and less proactive, as well.
Childhood independence expert Lenore Skenazy, from Let Grown and the Free-Range Kids movement, went into this with Bored Panda during an earlier interview.
“In the United States, for instance, school only became compulsory a little over 100 years ago. Previously—for hundreds of thousands of years of human history—kids learned simply by watching, copying, helping, and playing,” she explained how learning used to take place.
“In other words, they’d hang around the adults, see how they made things like baskets and arrowheads, they’d ask questions, noodle around, and try to copy what their elders were doing. They’d also help out as soon as they could—fetching things, tracking animals, whatever—and in between they’d be playing with a group of mixed-age kids. All these activities were fueled by curiosity,” she told us.
Teacher's Logic In Grading Math
Why Do Teachers Do This?
My 6 Year Old Son's Teacher Marks All Of His Answers With A "1" Wrong Because Of His Unique Way Of Writing It
Even when he shows his work. He loves math and he was super bummed.
Because that's the normal way how 1 is supposed to look like. The I is from roman numerals. The teacher is an idiot
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That teacher would have a hard time in France. We all write 1 like this kid
Same here in Germany. And to not confuse it with a 7 there is often added a little horizontal line in the middle of the 7's "leg".
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Even the ‘1’ in a keyboard looks like that… that’s honestly so petty
In dutch we would call that teacher a "azijnzeikerd", it doesn't translate really well (vinigar-pisser) but this is just petty.... it's obviously a one. To grade this as wrong is just wrong, that's not how you motivate the young ones....
Wait, they’re fine with the loopy 3 and a 4 that could be a u, but a 1 that resembles only a 1 is an issue? Bollocks.
7 has an extra bar across. this is obviously a 1. what else would it be even with the supporting picture 🤦
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4th-9th grade Math teacher here. I teach in the US and have always taught my kiddos to put a line through their 7s, a line through their z's, a slash inside of their zeros, and the variable x with a wavey line crossed by a straight line, as well as teach them the other ways to write multiplication. I've always told my students that if any other teacher complains, corrects them or marks points off, I tell them that is the correct way to write them bc of the reasons listed here and for the teacher who doesnt like it to come to me so I can explain it to them emphasizing that I also have a degree in mathematics, not just middle school math. Shuts them up real quick lol
Nice. I am in Canada but have always written all of these, just as you suggest, so as to avoid any potential misinterpretation.
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Yes. But my English teacher taught us that we write 7 differently (with a horizontal line through the long line: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Hand_Written_7.svg ). In English the 7 is without that line, so when we write "English" numbers, we would have to write the 1 differently too.
Load More Replies... wow, that's so stupid! Even more so, as it is clearly written like that on the top. Or on ANY Computer Keyboard
My school system didn't have a very good math program. Instead of accepting that I was failing at math, my grandmother insisted that my number 4 be written with a closed top and that's why I'm failing because of the illegible number 4. Actually if I had done what she suggested, I'd probably get even more points removed from my score because no one wrote it that way. My math teacher was a home Economics teacher. Not sure how they moved her to teach algebra, but that did.
It isn't unique. It's correct. 'I' is a letter (and the first person singular in English language) and 1 is the only correct and appropriate way of writing a number in a numerical context. If you were writing it in a verbal context it would be 'one' so the teacher is exceptionally ignorant and is not qualified to teach maths to toddlers. What the teacher wrote isn't correct in either context.
Maybe the kid should spell out the word "one" underneath the number, for teachers who are too dumb to ask a student to demonstrate how they write the number.
I do not even understand this. How should he write the "1". Is there another way?
I mean it does kinda look like a seven, but I'm sure the teacher can figure it out. He showed his work as well. Teacher should probably teach the kid (without criticizing him of course) to write it with the horizontal line on the bottom of she's seriously that confused, but don't give his work a bad grade!
Most of the fonts I use have the number one looking like that and I also write my ones that way. This teacher's behaviour is just really petty.
No if you write a one like that you put a line at the bottom also.. I can see how it looks like a 7.
I had a teacher in my last year at high school who refused to read any of my assignments because I didn't put a dot on my letter i
I substitute taught school k thru 12 and seen a lot of wrong but this one I have to say ... It looks like 7 . Mom that's your queue to teach him to draw a line across the bottom to distinguish between the one and seven. I don't blame the teacher here.
And "subtraction" is a mix of upper and lower case letters, that's allowed but "1" isn't 🙄
I would talk to the teacher at a PTA meeting or something. The teacher might think the kid is writing a 7, it could be a honest mistake imo
I know in Germany the one looks like the seven in English and the seven is the one with the middle crossed. If this child is to continue in this school system, they will need to assimilate to some degree and it's not worth losing points over. Good lesson for child. Keep in mind that unless you are at School with your child, you haven't heard both sides.
I used to get in trouble for how i wrote my 4s (i wrote them how they're shown on this font with the top pointed, not "open like a goal post" like it was "supposed" to be."
1 or 7? The teacher should have just asked for the student to read back the questionable numbers to determine the student's understanding and later reinforced her preference of writing the number 1 later in a classroom discussion about why that way of writing it confuses her. Our handwriting changes so dramatically throughout our school lives.
That’s very common in Europe. I write sevens with a cross bar so she would have loved failing me.
Looks like a 1 to me. I would have insisted she re-grade that, especially since he showed his work.
To give credit, she may not know that is what he means. Without that context to know if the teacher knows this it’s hard to judge. The first one she marked wrong, I am sure he thought it was just an example. She should go to him quietly and say answer this one too, then question if it’s a 7 or one.
I shared this with my brother: he got the same BS for how he wrote his 7's. Y'all are teachers not tyrants.
This has happened to me alot, and I still continue to write my 1s the same way
When I was in preschool the teachers told us not to write them like that in case people got 1s mixed up with 7s
If he loved math so much he would stop playing on his cellphone and write math with a pencil and paper on a notepad!Lets be honest the child needs a math tudor! Not the numbers on his cellphone to get a good grade in math! 1!Do you know how many notepads are waiting to be bought at Walmart right now? And number 2 pencils?
The child should of been held back , but wasn't cause of no child left behind
I could see it on the 4-3 where it might have been mistaken for a seven, and the kid might have added instead is subtracted, but once teacher realized lower on the page that that was a one they should have gone back and changed it. My son writes his ones like that, even though I recommended he do it differently he kept doing it. I homeschool him so it was fine.
I write my ones not only with the lefthanded tail at the top, but a horizontal line underneath. Somehow, even though a 1 is straight and a 2 is curved, I've had teachers in the past think my 1 is actually a 2. I've literally had to write out 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 just so the teacher could see for themselves that my 1 is very different from my 2. I've also been accused of "making" my numbers "prettier for attention." What, you think I like being yelled at because my teacher can't tell the difference between a 1 and a 2? I write the way I do because everyone has individual handwriting, nothing more, nothing less.
I had the same problem with my kindergarten teacher (who was overall a really bad, dumb, and mean teacher) over the number 4. I wrote it with a pointy, closed top, like it is in this comment. She made a huge deal over it in front of the class (of kindergarten kids learning letters and numbers) and suggested it wasn't a real number. To this day I write a 4 with two upward lines.
I've had this issue with a kindergarden teacher over the number 4. I wrote it with the top connected in a triangle, probably how it looks in this comment. She made a big deal about it in front of the class, suggesting what I wrote was not a real number; to this day I write a 4 with two upwards lines.
The 1 and 7 on this worksheet look nothing alike, and even if it looked like a 7, the teacher could have just looked at the work.
I was in IT. I cross my sevens and zeros. Standard to distinguish them from 1s written as this boy does and the letter O. Filled out the mileage for a car I was selling and the woman at the DMV wouldn’t accept it because she said they couldn’t accept any paperwork with mistakes crossed out. She refused to accept that crossed 7s and 0s are not mistakes, but legitimately formed numbers - used by many people all over the world, in fact. I had to pay for a duplicate title and fill it out again *without* any crossed numbers. B***h.
Teachers like that create anxiety and fear of failure and low self esteem. This goes on well into adulthood and you probably will never fully get over it. Speak from experience.
When I was in first or second grade we weren't learning about negative numbers, but I knew about them. My teacher asked the class "what is 1 - 3?" I thought I could be a smarty pants and say -2. The teacher got angry with me, told me I was wrong, the answer is 0 and that negative numbers don't exist. When I moved schools and actually started learning negative numbers I got so mad.
Lame! I might work with this kiddo, just to make sure he doesn't mix up his ones and sevens, but his work clearly demontrates understanding. No way would I take off points.
I got into computers very early, so I write ones with a serif, sevens with a dash, zeds with a dash etc. Never had a problem in schools.
My second grade teacher did that to me because i wrote my 9's "wrong". I wrote them rounded like the font this 9 is in. They wanted a 9 shaped like an upside down d. The teacher decided to traumatize me into writing 9s their way by gathering the class around my desk and letting them taunt and jeer at me for doing it wrong until i wrote 9s the way they wanted. Such a helpless and claustrophobic feeling i still have nightmares about it. One of my light nightmares, but still pops up once in a while.
My son had his pencil snatched from his had because he didn’t hold it “properly “, (he held it between his index and middle fingers.) when he told me I went to the school and told the teacher if she did it again she would be looking at abuse changes. No problems after that, he still writes like that.( he was in kindergarten)
That’s why, if you write a one like this, you need to put the line under the number, or you make the line on top very small.
See, my math teacher for 8th grade was great. She encouraged us to show our work, but for problems when you can’t really show your work, she didn’t take away points. But she would give you extra points if you showed your work.
Wtf????! In my country we have f*cking stupid (but still) rules regarding HOW you should write every symbol (a number or a letter) in a school's notebook. And actually kiddo did it accordingly to our rules. If MY teacher would see me writing "1" as this teacher did it, they would probably correct it 😅
Just because you are a teacher doesn't mean you are all-knowing. In 6th grade I had a teacher fail me on an essay about making a campfire because she did not know what "tinder" and "kindling" were.
That teacher never went to Europe. They all make their 1's like that. Even in print. Look: 1
Yes but they showed the math and their comprehension below their 1 that looks like a 7.
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I can see the possible confusion with a 7 but, if it is consistent, what is the issue? I'd actually show him the 1 with a _ at the bottom, so it won't be confused with a 7
I'm defending the teacher here. Those "1's" look way, way, way more like "7's." And, no, they don't look anything like the"1" that OP circled at the top. Not sure I would have taken off points for it, unless he had been doing it all year and had been told to make his "1's" look like "1's" and he just ignored it. You're not doing the child any favors by letting him think he's writing "1" when he's clearly not writing "1." I think it would be cruel to him to just let him go on making the number wrong.
The one looks like a 7. This could mess things up a lot in real life.
“You were motivated to learn what the bigger kids in your group knew, too, because they were so cool. Your entire day consisted of observing and practicing the stuff you needed to know— skills and games. If you weren’t curious, you weren’t going to enjoy life, or succeed at it,” Lenore told Bored Panda that kids were driven by a desire to become competent and be respected within their social circles and communities.
Asked My Professor For A Few Days Extension
"difficult times" ok, sure, it is a hard time for all of us. But most of them wouldn't have a loved one die
Teacher Making You Feel Bad For Using The Bathroom
Terrible Teacher
Unfortunately, these days, children are less curious and have trouble with motivation. That’s not to say that things are all bad. However, there’s a tendency for students to be passive (because that’s how schools work; they demand compliance) and to lack a focused inner drive.
“One reason kids might seem less curious today is because most of their education, inside and outside of school, doesn’t require self-motivation, it requires compliance. The drive is extrinsic, not intrinsic. Kids fill out worksheets because they have to, not because these seem interesting, or have any immediate connection to the ‘real’ world,” Lenore said.
A Teacher In Texas Is Giving A's To Students That Buy His Book And Leave A 5 Star Review On Amazon
I've known plenty of unprincipled authors who tried to up their book's rating by posting fake reviews through sockpuppet accounts, but this is a whole new level of yikes.
To Be A Teacher With The Desire To Disadvantage Students Strategically
High School Biology Teacher Posts Non-Consensual Butt Shots Of Her Underage Students On Instagram For Her Thirsty Followers
“Learning soccer means doing the drills the coach assigns, as opposed to tagging along with the older kids and working hard to get good enough so that they’d start letting you play. The key to curiosity, then, is giving kids enough free, unstructured time for them to find something they love to do for its own sake—not for a grade, or coach,” the childhood independence author shared how students are more passive during extracurricular activities as well.
When You Need A 90% Or Above To Pass The Class But Your Teacher Is A Jerk
That's Messed Up
My Chemistry Teacher
According to the expert, giving our kids some unstructured ‘outdoor’ time can help foster their self-motivation and self-reliance.
“Put some junk out there—old suitcases, blankets, buckets—whatever you’ve got. Of course, at first, the kids might be bored. Scratch that: They will be bored. They’ll want to come back in and grab the iPad. Resist the temptation to let them in or entertain them,” she said.
The Teacher Needs To Go Back To Primary School
My Loom Before And After The Art Teacher "Helped" Me
If You're Poor Just Get More Money
What a jerk. Unless the student was legitimately late with the quiz, that's just dumb.
“Give them a stretch of time—and especially if you can send some other kids out there with them—and out of ‘There’s nothing to do’ something will catch their interest. And a curious kid is born,” Lenore said.
“To give dulled-out kids the equivalent of a trip to a new country, send them to do something they haven’t done on their own before. Have them run an errand, visit a neighbor, get something from the woods or the store—something that puts them in a new environment where they have to figure out some stuff on their own.”
A Teacher Of Mine Decided To Talk Rubbish About A Student Who Passed Away In A Car Accident Recently
Jesus, Sounds Like She Herself Was Having Some Sort Of Breakdown! Who Does That To A Child?
When Your Student Has Cancer And Can’t Come To Class, Maybe Don’t Reply To Their Email Like This
I really hope that teacher didn't have all the details cause that would be a lot worse... But also, we're in a pandemic too, so someone getting sick should be expected
My Nephew In The 4th Grade Had A Substitute Teacher Today And She Enforced These Rules. Are You Serious?
My Sister Came Home From School With These Spelling Quiz Results. Teacher Said She Spelled "Centuries" Wrong Because The Letters "Ur" Looks Like A Letter "W"
That's Very Sad
End of the year. The last drawing lesson before the exam. The teacher told me that my work was disgusting and she would burn it so that no one would see it. I cried all evening in the toilet. And you know what they gave me? 5. Jury and other teachers.
This Tutor
Aren't they supposed to test teacher wanna-bes at some point of their training?
Teacher Said We Need To Get 90% Or More On The Quiz, Only Made 9 Questions
My Previous Math 1060 Professor Has Nearly A 50% Drop Rate, 30% Fail Rate, And A Mere 20% Pass Rate. Didn't Take Me Long To Find Out Why (Actual Snapshot From Hw)
My Teacher Lost My Final That Took A Week To Do And Gave Me A Zero, Claiming I Never Turned It In
Same exact thing happened to me with my drawing final. It was probably one of my favorite pieces I'd done and my teacher just lost it! And she didn't even apologize, she accused me of putting it in the wrong turn in tray or something... needless to say I did not take her class after that
Teachers Unbelievably Trashy Response To A Students Passing Away
So, the little girl was really dumb but a great domestic worker? What a tribute to that poor child.
It's The Last Day Of Our Summer Vacations Today. The School Reopens From Tomorrow. She's Telling Me To Be In School 10 Minutes Before The Time Given
My Professor Is A Terrible Human Being
Shocking. I have to write formal emails to teachers and in return, I get an email with misspelt words and barely any formality
I Missed Two Classes During The Second Week Of School For My Grandmother's Funeral (Which I Told The Professor About Beforehand). I Was Very Excited To Take This Class
My Little Cousin Tried To Tell His Teacher Why Loki Wasn’t A Villain
Cousin: "I think he is not a villain because he was threatened every time he had to do something bad. If you were in that situation, would you take your life for that?"
Teacher: "This is off topic. Just write about Loki and how he's a villain. Use an exact example of..."
There is no wrong answer for this! the question literally asks 'What do YOU think?'.
Crazy Professor
Our Professor Wouldn't Upload The Syllabus Nor The Slides To Huskyct. We Had To Buy A $16 Book (Written By Her) To Know The Exam Dates And Course Content
And She's The Professor
This looks more like a technology error than a teacher error. Could be both.
In A Classroom. Boys Bathroom Also Has Multiple Signs
I already posted this on the list, but I was the 51st person so it might not show up. We had teachers say that bathrooms were not necessary, and we had a girl just get up and p**s in the trash can. I mean full blown Got up in front of the teacher, pissed. And when she got a suspension she waved out at us as she was driving away her car smiling. She literally was the start of our quote unquote 'revolution' about the bathrooms. eventually the teachers revoked it, when I threatened to take it to the next parent teacher meeting, and threaten to take it in front of the school board. I had a five-page article written up about the importance of using the restroom. Then they revoked it
You Know Your Professor Is Actively Looking To Hurt Your Grade When
Student Gets A Zero On An Assignment For Turning It In Unstapled
When Your Professor Is A Savage
You never know what's going on with a student. When I taught, a kid was kind of blowing off an assignment. I called parents since it was most of a semester grade, and gave him an incomplete so he had more time to finish. We all worked together to keep him on track. Come to find out later mom had liver cancer, and ended up dying about a year later. I really liked the kid and we were working together on this. Parents were grateful. I only found out AFTER about illness. Showed me that there are often circumstances we don't know about.
My Teacher Doesn’t Give 100%
This definitely isn’t the worse one, and may even be justified - I got the only 10 in the whole school for music one year - even though this class was known to be the easiest 10 ever - because the teacher wanted to acknowledge that I put so much extra effort in - I was the only one insane enough to spend literally every lunchtime doing extracurricular music. Including a string quartet with 3 teachers (yes, it made me super popular, not that I ever was in the first place…). And to be fair, he was probably sick of everyone treating his class like a joke (although it kind of was…) and using the hour to do homework for other classes. He went back to giving practically everyone 10s the year after, but it was nice to be acknowledged like that just once.
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A friend of mine had a daughter (12 yrs old). Her teacher put a series of exercise bikes at the back of the classroom. She would take the "fattest" kids and make them peddle as she taught. She said it was "For their own good." These poor kids were mocked so horribly. She no longer is teaching.
14 downvotes on that hidden comment . I am convinced that those that did so do not know a pun when they read one, or that they did not know the difference between "peddle" and "pedal".
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i had to stop reading this list after not even half of it. it made me sooo mad. i had some bad teachers, but those... i don't have words...
I grew up in the 80's. Seems like every teacher was like this back then (plus hitting, throwing things and name calling)
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I have a story: When I was in fourth grade, I had a problem with bullies. These people would be rude, they would physically hurt me, threaten to beat me up, tell me to shut the f*** up or they'd beat me, were sexist to me, and shamed me for being poor. I was miserable and came home every day in tears. My teacher knew what they were doing to me, and did nothing. My parents had to get involved with the school, and she was fired. 2 years later, I learned through my best friend that she had been arrested for trying to take a policeman's baton at a BLM protest, and was found with several heavy firearms and grenades in the trunk of her car.
Do NOT make people wait for a bathroom. This can, over time, cause issues with control, leakage, etc. So, if a kid has to go? A kid has to go!
"when you gotta go, you gotta go."-Jeff Goldblum a wise person
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I showed up to Spanish class sick as a dog. Señor looked at me and said," Why are you here?" We had a test! "No mija, WE have a test. You have a doctor to get to. Don't come back without a note saying you went....you are very sick!" Turns out I had double pneumonia and almost died. I would have if he had let me take the test and go home alone. This made me truly appreciate what a wonderful teacher he really was. And realize that a cruel teacher could have killed me!
University---I had a professor re-write her exam from a previous semester. She wanted to make it shorter, so she went from five possible answers to four for each multiple choice question. On several questions, she removed the correct option.
What did she do when she reviewed the exams and noticed that?
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When I was like 5/6 years old I was told that I couldn't come to school anymore because they said I had autism (which I haven't I was just a very shy and quiet child) and they didn't have room for a special needs kid. Still, the girl with down syndrome could stay. Nothing wrong with that and good for her, but I kinda felt like something was really wrong with me. My teacher was just a b*tch that didn't liked me. I was a bit scared of her.
By the looks of this article I'd say all the kids who were bullies in school grew up to be teachers!! Most of this behavior should result in firing and some even legal charges...especially the one who took a child's hearing aids away as punishment!
Before I was a mortuary student, I actually studied art back in my college years. I did a piece on an impressionist artist, as requested. However, my "professor" refused to grade it as my final work because she hadn't heard of the artist I chose to base my work etc on. :')
Took a stats class listed online as asynchronous. I have a seizure disorder and specific paperwork from the school saying such and that I am allowed accomodations. Professor required tests and assignments be done on particular days and times. Would not make exceptions for my conditions, even to allow me to do tests early, just in case. She also deleted the online lessons after the day so if a class was missed, you had no way to learn the info. She had some serious ego problems. I fully support name & shame in these cases. Danielle Alberti, College of the Sequoias.
I am a vet with PTSD and several anxiety disorders. I got permission from school admin to miss classes if needed. I didn't miss many. But my art teacher, young lady, wasn't having any of that she only allowed 3 missed classes or gave a failing grade. I talked to her, but once again she just didn't care. I failed her classes, had two, back to back. I dropped out of the college after that. This was at the college of the sequoias also
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I broke my leg in 2 places the second week of school. I spent two weeks in the hospital and one week at home. I 'walk' into class with a full leg cast and crutches. The first thing out of her mouth - I hope you enjoyed your vacation. Um, what? She was one of the bitchy no nonsense teachers so I know she wasn't being funny. I replied - Yup, I enjoyed being hit by a car so much, I'm going to do it again for march break
I had a biology teacher that told my parents it would be easier to train a dog than to teach me....
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Some of the posts here makes me think these sicko-phants should never have gotten their teaching diploma/degree to begin with! I don't think they understood the job description to begin with smh...
In my 11th year of high school I had a math teacher that did everything she could to fail me. Day one I walk into her class I have been given a list of things I REQIURE to take her class. I got everything on the list except for the Texas instrument calculator. Day two she does not see a calculator on my desk. She looks and says why are you not prepared for my class? I look at her and say I do not use calculators. She says some other snippy comments. I reply this is the first class I have taken in my life that requires me to cheat. From that point on she marked every single thing she could possibly think of on my work. X for multiplication points marked off thet petty. I do math in my head see so she declared after I called her out that I was getting answers from the back of the textbook since I showed little to no work. I denied, so she put 10 long equations on the board trybto embarass me. I got all 10 right in less than 20 minutes with no calculator. Took her over 40 with. Lol
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My first grade teacher HATED me! She did a lot of things but the one that really takes the cake is at my fifth~ parent teacher conference of the year my mother told her that she would take care of the problem at home and any more notes home would get me a spanking. That b***h wrote a note everyday after that. EVERY DAY. I once caught seven licks with a belt for dropping my pencil. F' you Mrs Gianascully cardinal elementary 1987. I hope you rot in hell.
Sounds like the teacher wasn't the only problem....
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The thing that really pisses me off while reading these is that as a parent, when you encounter once of these awful people, you often have absolutely no recourse. Because "teachers have to deal with so much and get paid so little". It's like cart blanche to be as horrible as they want. Don't get me wrong, I've known many wonderful teachers who go out of their way to do what is best for their students. But you can't have this umbrella over all teachers that makes them untouchable.
How hard can it be to be kind. I'm proud for my German teacher like a father not just to me but everyone in the classroom (we're still confused on why people would leave)
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At third grade, the teacher threw all my stuff thru the window because I took too much time to write the homework. She was fired next day.
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Load More Replies... In 1959 when I was in the first grade, a classmate pulled a little girl’s hair or something and the teacher berated the boy for what seemed like a half hour to apologize to the girl. Now, on the face if it, getting the boy to apologize was a good thing to try to do but as it continued for what seemed like forever and I looked around at the rest of the class who was horrified by what was going on because we were all in the same situation for it to happen to us because , just like me, none of my classmates knew what the word “apologize” meant. The teacher never told the kid to say he’s sorry. She only used the word apologize.
That's harsh. Like, wow. I mean, good on the teacher for standing up for the girl but.... Know your audience, you know?
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We were writing poetry in elementary school and when I read my poem, the teacher said I needed to redo it all because Mage isnt a real word despite the rest of the class backing me up. She yelled at me and sent me to the library to bring proof back from a dictionary. It wasnt in any of the dictionarys so I spent the entire class time looking for it. Then they forgot to fetch me back.
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Load More Replies... When I was in 11th grade I had a hard time with my chemistry teacher. I had a really hard time learning chemistry. It didn't help that she was a terrible teacher. I was failing the class. Just before winter break we had our 1st semester final. She went around the whole class handing out the exam. She came to me last. She stood in front of me and started handing the test when she pulled out back. Then in a real loud whisper that the who class could clearly hear she said, "there's no point giving this to you, you'll fail it anyways." I responded with an "okay" and walked out of the classroom. I went and hung out in the main office. The front desk woman was a classmate's mom and totally awesome. She asked me why I wasn't in class so I told her. She then reported the situation to the school administrator. When we got back from winter break we discovered that teacher was fired because of what she did to me. To this day I'm still kinda pleased about how the whole situation played out.
My chemistry teacher agreed to raise my grade through extra credit so I worked my butt off until the end of the year, got my report card to find he never added it in and had darted out as soon as the bell rang so I'd never have the opportunity to ask about it. He was a first year non-teacher engineering major who sucked at teaching IMO because you couldn't find a more interested and motivated student than I used to be. I was nerd.
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Most of my teachers should have never been a teacher. My parents should have never been parents. Ironically my mother was a teacher.
In 5th grade, my teacher held me back as I was leaving class on Friday and told me not to wear my favorite shorts again because they did not meet dress code. I didn't want to tell my mom because she was being a full-time caregiver to my grandfather who was dying from cancer and I knew I didn't have any other shorts to wear. She didn't have time to wash my clothes that weekend (and denim shorts don't need to be washed that often) so she laid them out again for me the to wear on Monday. My teacher called me out from class, got the male vice principle to hold a tape measure to my thigh, and wouldn't let me back into the classroom, I had to sit in the hall until my mom brought me new clothes. Both the teacher and vice principle knew our family situation and still insisted my mom leave a bedridden man at home to bring me different clothes. Kicker is my best friend wore the exact same pair of shorts every week the rest of the year and never got in trouble. That teacher bullied me so much...
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My freshman Algebra teacher would pretend to erase the chalkboard, then write on top of the layers & layers of scribble. Keep it going for months until the board was more yellow & white than green. The class GPA was 1.129. I failed and took had to take it again the next year with a different teacher. Got an A+.
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Load More Replies... I work in higher education (in Germany) and from my experience, it highly varies from university to university and faculty to faculty. I studied social work and most teachers were really nice and understanding while my first degree (politics) was at an online university which was full of stubborn "your fault"-types (yeah, because it's totally my fault that they don't answer E-Mails or phone calls to discuss a topic and decide to call your topic on a seminar work off a few days before the due date; thanks for nothing). Now I work at a private university and they are really pro student. Why? Because usually not the student pays the fees but a company, so those companies are the actual customer and might turn to another private university, if they're not flexible enough. (And no, it's not about "buying" a degree, but about offering tutoring and test dates soon.)
I was verbally abused by a teacher who was in charge of my class, told me to do something when I had something else I was doing, and never said anything about being in charge. I was the only one out of multiple people he yelled at and got into my face. Everyone present in the hallway was watching for him to hit me and get me out of the way and people in the classroom were ready to fight. This guy also yelled at me for pulling chairs down from tables and told the boys it was their job. Everyone afterwards said I looked very uncomfortable. F**k this guy.
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My mother (b1927) was the youngest of 4 in an immigrant family. At the end of the kindergarten year, the class did a promotion walk to their 1st-grade class. She was told to remain seated as she watched the rest of her class march out. This is how you were left back in NYC in those days. She never got over it for her entire life.
I never had bad teachers. My issue was always with TAs. One frequently failed my assignments because I did the assignment (in a computer programming class) in a way to let the user enter numbers to do math, rather than just doing the math with the numbers she supplied. I also had one that gave me a failing grade because the program would not run on hia computer. I would have understood that one, but it ran fine on my computer (and I showed his) and the code was identical. I then offered to let him use my laptop to run the program (a 5 minute task at most) to grade it. Instead, I got a 40 for having code. I lost 60 points because he couldn't run it on his computer. That TA was super harsh with grading. I was going to office hours every week to beg for points and still had to retake that class.
Very long story short, in hs I had a friend steal and paint over my art project, then send me death threats because I complained to our friends about what happened and they decided to stop talking with her (was not the first time she's stolen others stuff). I was legit scared that she was going to do something, so I told the school authorities and they straight up said to my face "well maybe you shouldn't have told your friends? That wasn't very nice of you." ??? But the only reason I told them was because administration refused to do anything about it in the first place and I needed to get it off my chest. This happened 4 years ago and I'm still bitter about it 😭
I had a teacher that lost several assignments that brought my grade down, continued to spell my name wrong even when it was written several times right in front of him(I was doing online school), and spelled nearly every word wrong when emailing me, he also had a tone like an a*s, and did all that while not even having to do much work because this online school was well built before Covid and mostly did computer graded quizes
I had a high school drama teacher who quite literally told us she hated kids, and would sing you marks for using an empty notebook (proven empty) as a prop. Had a fourth grade teacher who kept me and some others in at recess because we hadn't finished our math. I didn't get it and started to cry and she told me to suck it up. And I had a high school math teacher who would write on the board and then leave the room for the rest of class. Only two people passed, the rest of us failed but she bumped our report cards up to a 50% which is a pass here.
When I was in second grade we had to perform timed tests for math. I hated the tests, not because I couldn't do them, but because the added time put a lot of pressure on me. We had one minute to do as many problems as we could. I progressively got worse and worse, and eventually my teacher took me aside to work on it. I was nervous, so I guess I started "playing" with my hair with out noticing (I pushed it out of the way because it fell in my face a few times, and then continued to push it because it felt like it was going to fall into my line of sight again.) After the timer went off, she yelled at my for playing with my hair, and basically not caring enough to pass the test. I remember just standing there, crying because I did care, but I could think when I was nervous, and keeping my hair back allowed me to see the test. We also had a substitute teacher call a boy stupid because the person next to him cheated off of him. We were 8. How is that ok?
In second grade, at seven years old, I finished my math assignment before everyone else, and turned it over with my pencil on top like we had been told. Instead of putting my head down, which was not required, we just weren't supposed to talk, I pulled out a book to read. The Hobbit. For my second read through. I read it and the entire LOTR trilogy over the summer, borrowing all four books from my mother who was very proud of me being able to read, understand, and discuss them with her when I was done. My teacher saw me reading during "math time", and took my mothers book saying I should be doing my math work. I protested that I was done with the work, she said I was lying and sent me to the office for disrupting her class. Principal was great, we talked about the books for an hour until lunch, and I went back to class after she spoke to my teacher during lunch. But, when my mom came to get the book she refused to give back to me, the teacher told her she had thrown it away.
To add, my mom had that copy of the book since highschool, and was livid both at the teacher's treatment of me and the book being tossed. I wasn't a disrespectful kid, I was just advanced way past second grade and my school simply didn't have anything set up to handle a 7 year old who could have passed HS classes, and we couldn't afford private school. The same teacher and principal advanced me 2 grades to 5th grade gifted classes at the end of that year, and I was one of the main reasons they expanded them to 3rd grade and up the following year.
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When i was in 8th grade i had a teacher whom i think the only reason she was hired was bc i was in french school and they where short on french teachers so they hired basically anyone who spoke it. Side note i have adhd so i have a very difficult time focusing on more than one thing at a time. So at one point during a lesson she had told us to put away our pages as we where moving on to something else. I obviously was still focused on the pages i still had and did not hear her. So she comes up to me asks if i like being ignored i say not rly then she says that "il keep that in mind for next time. Fast forward an hour, i started to feel blood in my underwear so naturally i go ask to use the washroom. The a*****e completely ignores my existence as im right infront of her. I ended up just walking out and she got away with only a talk. A slap on the wrist if you will
And this is why I homeschool. I have some friends who are wonderful, caring teachers, but one bad teacher can screw a kid up forever. It's a shame it works that way, but I've seen it too much.
I was in Grade 2. The class teacher was very strict. She used to scold me and humiliate me infront of the class on daily basis. I don't remember all the incidents clearly. But she used to make a face and tell the whole class that I make a faces when I am scolded. Once there was a group song competition and I took part. My teacher went on saying that our class will not win any prize as I was there in the competition. Also when finally I moved to next grade . She used to literally come to that class and tell everyone that how I make when scolded . In 5th grade she warned one of her relatives who used to study in my class to not to talk to me . She destroyed me completely. She died last year. I wanted to ask her what wrong did I do . I am still searching for this answer
Had a biology teacher tell me I was worthless and wouldn't achieve anything in my life. Why ? Because I didn't know the answer to a question he asked me. Years later: biology teacher tells classmate their dreamjob is stupid. (They wanted to do law I believe) Now I notice that almost all my biology teachers were trash jerks. Coincidence ? Idk
I attended a Montessori school from preschool to fifth grade- I'm 13 btw. Everything was in one room but separated by just some tall dividers. In one section of the class, we had art history, cultural studies, science, and art of you signed up for it. All the tables were just plastic tables ligned up next to each other (because art) and each class typically had their set of tables. So anyway I'm sitting at the "Cultural Studies table", with the other five kids in the group, and out teacher who is an older woman. One kid sitting next to her is fidgeting (I believe he may have ADHD or something similar, but we're not close friends so idk.) but he was still listening really well and knew everything. While other teachers gave him a rubber band to play with, this teacher took the tiny shred of paper who was messing with, threw it away, grabbed his hand, and made him hold her hand the whole class while he tried to pull away and was very uncomfortable.
Fast forward a couple weeks. Talking to my school friend who was in a different group, and he said that the same teacher told a different student to be quiet during her class. He was c o u g h i n g, because the guy has flipping A S T H M A. As far as I know this teacher, AND her sister, still teach at the school, and honestly I doubt that'll ever change.
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bruh that catholic school one gets me. my grade 7 catholic teacher hated i never turned in my homework, re: abusive home life and cant do much at home. one morning she asked "wheres you're homework? nevermind, i forgot you just eat it". and boy did i definitely never do anything in that class again
I had a teacher that hated my guts. The school knew this. Put me repeatedly in her class even after being told not to. I have ADHD. It's bad. I have so many stories of how this teacher treated me. I had a problem remembering I had homework. Like most kids with ADHD it slips our mind when we get home. Especially with multiple classes to remember. She once told her entire 7th and 6th grade classes how many 0s I had from missing assignments. She knew I was bullied and did it anyway. The school did nothing. I was in 5th grade. On the other hand I was fantastic at test taking. Drover her nuts. She tried to purposefully sabotage me on my state tests by emotionally and verbally abusing me during them. Didn't work but did have me balling my eyes out during one of the tests. She then had to gall to ask if I took my meds that day
I had an orchestra teacher once. She would legit stop our performances in the middle when someone made a small mistake. I forgot my violin ONCE in the whole year and she chewed me out because it was the “fourth time this week”.
One year my school tried a policy where the teachers locked class doors at the bell and anyone late had to go down to the cafeteria and do a ten minute "detention" before recieving a pass to go back to class. Even being a couple minutes late by the time you finished that ordeal class would be half over. It was easier to skip class completely than to show up late and attendance dropped dramatically.
Had a substitute in 3rd, mostly 4th grade too. Her name was Kathy Scott. Ms. Scott was a real b***h. For one thing, my school had this reward teachers would hand out called HOWL tickets. They could not be taken from the student by a teacher. So she got mad at me for not “following the passage we were ready with my finger” and I got a bunch of tickets (THAT OTHER TEACHERS HAD GIVEN ME) taken away. Then another time I had her in class, I was feeling really bad (sore throat, coughing, runny nose, headache) and I asked her very politely if I could go to the nurse. She responded with “oh you’re fine, go back to your seat, I don’t have time for this.” I think at another occasion she made me and a few other students cry all in one day. Then another time, my friend was having an asthma attack and she told him he was fine and he couldn’t go to the nurse. I ended up telling her I had to use the restroom, then ran to the nurses office and someone came up with me to help my friend.
Then she told another kid in a class that he couldn’t have another Oreo cuz he “should be watching his weight” when she was clearly giving seconds to other students!! WTF?! We ended up getting rid of her. I told my original teacher and the assistant principal pulled a few friends and I in the conference room, asked us a few questions, and she said, “Yeah… Ms. Scott will not be returning to this school.” The other students and I came back to recess and told the other kids she got kicked out and they were all cheering! It was awesome!
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What the hell is it with American teachers and such mind boggling incompetence?
You do realize that it's not only American teachers that are like that? My friend is from Iraq who had a pretty mean teacher, who was not only mean to him, but the whole class itself.
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I can only imagine that many of these started off as good teachers, and after years of shitty pay, long hours, endless red tape and more and more administration, difficult students, increasingly large hordes of parents blaming and threatening them for the fact their child is failing every class, with sycophantic management “backing them up”, they stop feeling like they’re being treated like human beings. And as a result stop seeing students as human beings as well.
Many comments about low pay. You don't have to take the job if you feel the pay is too low. They take the job for benefits and summers off . 1st husband got a teaching degree and pay was too low so he got a state job. Great benefits, retirement, vacation pay and moving up the pay raises. He retired at 56.
I was in 2nd grade when I mischievously hide the pencil box of my classmate, the teacher upon hearing this called me in front of the class and told the whole class how Theives look like in their childhood. But i made her pay, my parents got her suspended from the school. Funny thing is all of my classmates took her side and ostracized me.
Being a teacher is one of the hardest jobs there is, it's underpaid and under constant political pressure. Until that is changed, expect more stories of bad teachers. It's an institution issue, low wages and high pressure breed contempt and ensure only the desperate stay.
Desperation doesn't need to breed a*****e behavior. Thats a choice
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Load More Replies... A friend of mine had a daughter (12 yrs old). Her teacher put a series of exercise bikes at the back of the classroom. She would take the "fattest" kids and make them peddle as she taught. She said it was "For their own good." These poor kids were mocked so horribly. She no longer is teaching.
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Load More Replies... i had to stop reading this list after not even half of it. it made me sooo mad. i had some bad teachers, but those... i don't have words...
I grew up in the 80's. Seems like every teacher was like this back then (plus hitting, throwing things and name calling)
Load More Replies... I have a story: When I was in fourth grade, I had a problem with bullies. These people would be rude, they would physically hurt me, threaten to beat me up, tell me to shut the f*** up or they'd beat me, were sexist to me, and shamed me for being poor. I was miserable and came home every day in tears. My teacher knew what they were doing to me, and did nothing. My parents had to get involved with the school, and she was fired. 2 years later, I learned through my best friend that she had been arrested for trying to take a policeman's baton at a BLM protest, and was found with several heavy firearms and grenades in the trunk of her car.
Do NOT make people wait for a bathroom. This can, over time, cause issues with control, leakage, etc. So, if a kid has to go? A kid has to go!
"when you gotta go, you gotta go."-Jeff Goldblum a wise person
Load More Replies... I showed up to Spanish class sick as a dog. Señor looked at me and said," Why are you here?" We had a test! "No mija, WE have a test. You have a doctor to get to. Don't come back without a note saying you went....you are very sick!" Turns out I had double pneumonia and almost died. I would have if he had let me take the test and go home alone. This made me truly appreciate what a wonderful teacher he really was. And realize that a cruel teacher could have killed me!
University---I had a professor re-write her exam from a previous semester. She wanted to make it shorter, so she went from five possible answers to four for each multiple choice question. On several questions, she removed the correct option.
What did she do when she reviewed the exams and noticed that?
Load More Replies... When I was like 5/6 years old I was told that I couldn't come to school anymore because they said I had autism (which I haven't I was just a very shy and quiet child) and they didn't have room for a special needs kid. Still, the girl with down syndrome could stay. Nothing wrong with that and good for her, but I kinda felt like something was really wrong with me. My teacher was just a b*tch that didn't liked me. I was a bit scared of her.
By the looks of this article I'd say all the kids who were bullies in school grew up to be teachers!! Most of this behavior should result in firing and some even legal charges...especially the one who took a child's hearing aids away as punishment!
Before I was a mortuary student, I actually studied art back in my college years. I did a piece on an impressionist artist, as requested. However, my "professor" refused to grade it as my final work because she hadn't heard of the artist I chose to base my work etc on. :')
Took a stats class listed online as asynchronous. I have a seizure disorder and specific paperwork from the school saying such and that I am allowed accomodations. Professor required tests and assignments be done on particular days and times. Would not make exceptions for my conditions, even to allow me to do tests early, just in case. She also deleted the online lessons after the day so if a class was missed, you had no way to learn the info. She had some serious ego problems. I fully support name & shame in these cases. Danielle Alberti, College of the Sequoias.
I am a vet with PTSD and several anxiety disorders. I got permission from school admin to miss classes if needed. I didn't miss many. But my art teacher, young lady, wasn't having any of that she only allowed 3 missed classes or gave a failing grade. I talked to her, but once again she just didn't care. I failed her classes, had two, back to back. I dropped out of the college after that. This was at the college of the sequoias also
Load More Replies... This whole thread drove me to drink. I mean, it was a short drive, but still.
I broke my leg in 2 places the second week of school. I spent two weeks in the hospital and one week at home. I 'walk' into class with a full leg cast and crutches. The first thing out of her mouth - I hope you enjoyed your vacation. Um, what? She was one of the bitchy no nonsense teachers so I know she wasn't being funny. I replied - Yup, I enjoyed being hit by a car so much, I'm going to do it again for march break
I had a biology teacher that told my parents it would be easier to train a dog than to teach me....
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Load More Replies... Some of the posts here makes me think these sicko-phants should never have gotten their teaching diploma/degree to begin with! I don't think they understood the job description to begin with smh...
In my 11th year of high school I had a math teacher that did everything she could to fail me. Day one I walk into her class I have been given a list of things I REQIURE to take her class. I got everything on the list except for the Texas instrument calculator. Day two she does not see a calculator on my desk. She looks and says why are you not prepared for my class? I look at her and say I do not use calculators. She says some other snippy comments. I reply this is the first class I have taken in my life that requires me to cheat. From that point on she marked every single thing she could possibly think of on my work. X for multiplication points marked off thet petty. I do math in my head see so she declared after I called her out that I was getting answers from the back of the textbook since I showed little to no work. I denied, so she put 10 long equations on the board trybto embarass me. I got all 10 right in less than 20 minutes with no calculator. Took her over 40 with. Lol
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Load More Replies... My first grade teacher HATED me! She did a lot of things but the one that really takes the cake is at my fifth~ parent teacher conference of the year my mother told her that she would take care of the problem at home and any more notes home would get me a spanking. That b***h wrote a note everyday after that. EVERY DAY. I once caught seven licks with a belt for dropping my pencil. F' you Mrs Gianascully cardinal elementary 1987. I hope you rot in hell.
Sounds like the teacher wasn't the only problem....
Load More Replies... The thing that really pisses me off while reading these is that as a parent, when you encounter once of these awful people, you often have absolutely no recourse. Because "teachers have to deal with so much and get paid so little". It's like cart blanche to be as horrible as they want. Don't get me wrong, I've known many wonderful teachers who go out of their way to do what is best for their students. But you can't have this umbrella over all teachers that makes them untouchable.
How hard can it be to be kind. I'm proud for my German teacher like a father not just to me but everyone in the classroom (we're still confused on why people would leave)
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Load More Replies... At third grade, the teacher threw all my stuff thru the window because I took too much time to write the homework. She was fired next day.
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Load More Replies... In 1959 when I was in the first grade, a classmate pulled a little girl’s hair or something and the teacher berated the boy for what seemed like a half hour to apologize to the girl. Now, on the face if it, getting the boy to apologize was a good thing to try to do but as it continued for what seemed like forever and I looked around at the rest of the class who was horrified by what was going on because we were all in the same situation for it to happen to us because , just like me, none of my classmates knew what the word “apologize” meant. The teacher never told the kid to say he’s sorry. She only used the word apologize.
That's harsh. Like, wow. I mean, good on the teacher for standing up for the girl but.... Know your audience, you know?
Load More Replies... We were writing poetry in elementary school and when I read my poem, the teacher said I needed to redo it all because Mage isnt a real word despite the rest of the class backing me up. She yelled at me and sent me to the library to bring proof back from a dictionary. It wasnt in any of the dictionarys so I spent the entire class time looking for it. Then they forgot to fetch me back.
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Load More Replies... When I was in 11th grade I had a hard time with my chemistry teacher. I had a really hard time learning chemistry. It didn't help that she was a terrible teacher. I was failing the class. Just before winter break we had our 1st semester final. She went around the whole class handing out the exam. She came to me last. She stood in front of me and started handing the test when she pulled out back. Then in a real loud whisper that the who class could clearly hear she said, "there's no point giving this to you, you'll fail it anyways." I responded with an "okay" and walked out of the classroom. I went and hung out in the main office. The front desk woman was a classmate's mom and totally awesome. She asked me why I wasn't in class so I told her. She then reported the situation to the school administrator. When we got back from winter break we discovered that teacher was fired because of what she did to me. To this day I'm still kinda pleased about how the whole situation played out.
My chemistry teacher agreed to raise my grade through extra credit so I worked my butt off until the end of the year, got my report card to find he never added it in and had darted out as soon as the bell rang so I'd never have the opportunity to ask about it. He was a first year non-teacher engineering major who sucked at teaching IMO because you couldn't find a more interested and motivated student than I used to be. I was nerd.
Load More Replies... Most of my teachers should have never been a teacher. My parents should have never been parents. Ironically my mother was a teacher.
In 5th grade, my teacher held me back as I was leaving class on Friday and told me not to wear my favorite shorts again because they did not meet dress code. I didn't want to tell my mom because she was being a full-time caregiver to my grandfather who was dying from cancer and I knew I didn't have any other shorts to wear. She didn't have time to wash my clothes that weekend (and denim shorts don't need to be washed that often) so she laid them out again for me the to wear on Monday. My teacher called me out from class, got the male vice principle to hold a tape measure to my thigh, and wouldn't let me back into the classroom, I had to sit in the hall until my mom brought me new clothes. Both the teacher and vice principle knew our family situation and still insisted my mom leave a bedridden man at home to bring me different clothes. Kicker is my best friend wore the exact same pair of shorts every week the rest of the year and never got in trouble. That teacher bullied me so much...
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Load More Replies... My freshman Algebra teacher would pretend to erase the chalkboard, then write on top of the layers & layers of scribble. Keep it going for months until the board was more yellow & white than green. The class GPA was 1.129. I failed and took had to take it again the next year with a different teacher. Got an A+.
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Load More Replies... I work in higher education (in Germany) and from my experience, it highly varies from university to university and faculty to faculty. I studied social work and most teachers were really nice and understanding while my first degree (politics) was at an online university which was full of stubborn "your fault"-types (yeah, because it's totally my fault that they don't answer E-Mails or phone calls to discuss a topic and decide to call your topic on a seminar work off a few days before the due date; thanks for nothing). Now I work at a private university and they are really pro student. Why? Because usually not the student pays the fees but a company, so those companies are the actual customer and might turn to another private university, if they're not flexible enough. (And no, it's not about "buying" a degree, but about offering tutoring and test dates soon.)
I was verbally abused by a teacher who was in charge of my class, told me to do something when I had something else I was doing, and never said anything about being in charge. I was the only one out of multiple people he yelled at and got into my face. Everyone present in the hallway was watching for him to hit me and get me out of the way and people in the classroom were ready to fight. This guy also yelled at me for pulling chairs down from tables and told the boys it was their job. Everyone afterwards said I looked very uncomfortable. F**k this guy.
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Load More Replies... My mother (b1927) was the youngest of 4 in an immigrant family. At the end of the kindergarten year, the class did a promotion walk to their 1st-grade class. She was told to remain seated as she watched the rest of her class march out. This is how you were left back in NYC in those days. She never got over it for her entire life.
I never had bad teachers. My issue was always with TAs. One frequently failed my assignments because I did the assignment (in a computer programming class) in a way to let the user enter numbers to do math, rather than just doing the math with the numbers she supplied. I also had one that gave me a failing grade because the program would not run on hia computer. I would have understood that one, but it ran fine on my computer (and I showed his) and the code was identical. I then offered to let him use my laptop to run the program (a 5 minute task at most) to grade it. Instead, I got a 40 for having code. I lost 60 points because he couldn't run it on his computer. That TA was super harsh with grading. I was going to office hours every week to beg for points and still had to retake that class.
Very long story short, in hs I had a friend steal and paint over my art project, then send me death threats because I complained to our friends about what happened and they decided to stop talking with her (was not the first time she's stolen others stuff). I was legit scared that she was going to do something, so I told the school authorities and they straight up said to my face "well maybe you shouldn't have told your friends? That wasn't very nice of you." ??? But the only reason I told them was because administration refused to do anything about it in the first place and I needed to get it off my chest. This happened 4 years ago and I'm still bitter about it 😭
I had a teacher that lost several assignments that brought my grade down, continued to spell my name wrong even when it was written several times right in front of him(I was doing online school), and spelled nearly every word wrong when emailing me, he also had a tone like an a*s, and did all that while not even having to do much work because this online school was well built before Covid and mostly did computer graded quizes
I had a high school drama teacher who quite literally told us she hated kids, and would sing you marks for using an empty notebook (proven empty) as a prop. Had a fourth grade teacher who kept me and some others in at recess because we hadn't finished our math. I didn't get it and started to cry and she told me to suck it up. And I had a high school math teacher who would write on the board and then leave the room for the rest of class. Only two people passed, the rest of us failed but she bumped our report cards up to a 50% which is a pass here.
When I was in second grade we had to perform timed tests for math. I hated the tests, not because I couldn't do them, but because the added time put a lot of pressure on me. We had one minute to do as many problems as we could. I progressively got worse and worse, and eventually my teacher took me aside to work on it. I was nervous, so I guess I started "playing" with my hair with out noticing (I pushed it out of the way because it fell in my face a few times, and then continued to push it because it felt like it was going to fall into my line of sight again.) After the timer went off, she yelled at my for playing with my hair, and basically not caring enough to pass the test. I remember just standing there, crying because I did care, but I could think when I was nervous, and keeping my hair back allowed me to see the test. We also had a substitute teacher call a boy stupid because the person next to him cheated off of him. We were 8. How is that ok?
In second grade, at seven years old, I finished my math assignment before everyone else, and turned it over with my pencil on top like we had been told. Instead of putting my head down, which was not required, we just weren't supposed to talk, I pulled out a book to read. The Hobbit. For my second read through. I read it and the entire LOTR trilogy over the summer, borrowing all four books from my mother who was very proud of me being able to read, understand, and discuss them with her when I was done. My teacher saw me reading during "math time", and took my mothers book saying I should be doing my math work. I protested that I was done with the work, she said I was lying and sent me to the office for disrupting her class. Principal was great, we talked about the books for an hour until lunch, and I went back to class after she spoke to my teacher during lunch. But, when my mom came to get the book she refused to give back to me, the teacher told her she had thrown it away.
To add, my mom had that copy of the book since highschool, and was livid both at the teacher's treatment of me and the book being tossed. I wasn't a disrespectful kid, I was just advanced way past second grade and my school simply didn't have anything set up to handle a 7 year old who could have passed HS classes, and we couldn't afford private school. The same teacher and principal advanced me 2 grades to 5th grade gifted classes at the end of that year, and I was one of the main reasons they expanded them to 3rd grade and up the following year.
Load More Replies... When i was in 8th grade i had a teacher whom i think the only reason she was hired was bc i was in french school and they where short on french teachers so they hired basically anyone who spoke it. Side note i have adhd so i have a very difficult time focusing on more than one thing at a time. So at one point during a lesson she had told us to put away our pages as we where moving on to something else. I obviously was still focused on the pages i still had and did not hear her. So she comes up to me asks if i like being ignored i say not rly then she says that "il keep that in mind for next time. Fast forward an hour, i started to feel blood in my underwear so naturally i go ask to use the washroom. The a*****e completely ignores my existence as im right infront of her. I ended up just walking out and she got away with only a talk. A slap on the wrist if you will
And this is why I homeschool. I have some friends who are wonderful, caring teachers, but one bad teacher can screw a kid up forever. It's a shame it works that way, but I've seen it too much.
I was in Grade 2. The class teacher was very strict. She used to scold me and humiliate me infront of the class on daily basis. I don't remember all the incidents clearly. But she used to make a face and tell the whole class that I make a faces when I am scolded. Once there was a group song competition and I took part. My teacher went on saying that our class will not win any prize as I was there in the competition. Also when finally I moved to next grade . She used to literally come to that class and tell everyone that how I make when scolded . In 5th grade she warned one of her relatives who used to study in my class to not to talk to me . She destroyed me completely. She died last year. I wanted to ask her what wrong did I do . I am still searching for this answer
Had a biology teacher tell me I was worthless and wouldn't achieve anything in my life. Why ? Because I didn't know the answer to a question he asked me. Years later: biology teacher tells classmate their dreamjob is stupid. (They wanted to do law I believe) Now I notice that almost all my biology teachers were trash jerks. Coincidence ? Idk
I attended a Montessori school from preschool to fifth grade- I'm 13 btw. Everything was in one room but separated by just some tall dividers. In one section of the class, we had art history, cultural studies, science, and art of you signed up for it. All the tables were just plastic tables ligned up next to each other (because art) and each class typically had their set of tables. So anyway I'm sitting at the "Cultural Studies table", with the other five kids in the group, and out teacher who is an older woman. One kid sitting next to her is fidgeting (I believe he may have ADHD or something similar, but we're not close friends so idk.) but he was still listening really well and knew everything. While other teachers gave him a rubber band to play with, this teacher took the tiny shred of paper who was messing with, threw it away, grabbed his hand, and made him hold her hand the whole class while he tried to pull away and was very uncomfortable.
Fast forward a couple weeks. Talking to my school friend who was in a different group, and he said that the same teacher told a different student to be quiet during her class. He was c o u g h i n g, because the guy has flipping A S T H M A. As far as I know this teacher, AND her sister, still teach at the school, and honestly I doubt that'll ever change.
Load More Replies... bruh that catholic school one gets me. my grade 7 catholic teacher hated i never turned in my homework, re: abusive home life and cant do much at home. one morning she asked "wheres you're homework? nevermind, i forgot you just eat it". and boy did i definitely never do anything in that class again
I had a teacher that hated my guts. The school knew this. Put me repeatedly in her class even after being told not to. I have ADHD. It's bad. I have so many stories of how this teacher treated me. I had a problem remembering I had homework. Like most kids with ADHD it slips our mind when we get home. Especially with multiple classes to remember. She once told her entire 7th and 6th grade classes how many 0s I had from missing assignments. She knew I was bullied and did it anyway. The school did nothing. I was in 5th grade. On the other hand I was fantastic at test taking. Drover her nuts. She tried to purposefully sabotage me on my state tests by emotionally and verbally abusing me during them. Didn't work but did have me balling my eyes out during one of the tests. She then had to gall to ask if I took my meds that day
I had an orchestra teacher once. She would legit stop our performances in the middle when someone made a small mistake. I forgot my violin ONCE in the whole year and she chewed me out because it was the “fourth time this week”.
One year my school tried a policy where the teachers locked class doors at the bell and anyone late had to go down to the cafeteria and do a ten minute "detention" before recieving a pass to go back to class. Even being a couple minutes late by the time you finished that ordeal class would be half over. It was easier to skip class completely than to show up late and attendance dropped dramatically.
Had a substitute in 3rd, mostly 4th grade too. Her name was Kathy Scott. Ms. Scott was a real b***h. For one thing, my school had this reward teachers would hand out called HOWL tickets. They could not be taken from the student by a teacher. So she got mad at me for not “following the passage we were ready with my finger” and I got a bunch of tickets (THAT OTHER TEACHERS HAD GIVEN ME) taken away. Then another time I had her in class, I was feeling really bad (sore throat, coughing, runny nose, headache) and I asked her very politely if I could go to the nurse. She responded with “oh you’re fine, go back to your seat, I don’t have time for this.” I think at another occasion she made me and a few other students cry all in one day. Then another time, my friend was having an asthma attack and she told him he was fine and he couldn’t go to the nurse. I ended up telling her I had to use the restroom, then ran to the nurses office and someone came up with me to help my friend.
Then she told another kid in a class that he couldn’t have another Oreo cuz he “should be watching his weight” when she was clearly giving seconds to other students!! WTF?! We ended up getting rid of her. I told my original teacher and the assistant principal pulled a few friends and I in the conference room, asked us a few questions, and she said, “Yeah… Ms. Scott will not be returning to this school.” The other students and I came back to recess and told the other kids she got kicked out and they were all cheering! It was awesome!
Load More Replies... What the hell is it with American teachers and such mind boggling incompetence?
You do realize that it's not only American teachers that are like that? My friend is from Iraq who had a pretty mean teacher, who was not only mean to him, but the whole class itself.
Load More Replies... I can only imagine that many of these started off as good teachers, and after years of shitty pay, long hours, endless red tape and more and more administration, difficult students, increasingly large hordes of parents blaming and threatening them for the fact their child is failing every class, with sycophantic management “backing them up”, they stop feeling like they’re being treated like human beings. And as a result stop seeing students as human beings as well.
Many comments about low pay. You don't have to take the job if you feel the pay is too low. They take the job for benefits and summers off . 1st husband got a teaching degree and pay was too low so he got a state job. Great benefits, retirement, vacation pay and moving up the pay raises. He retired at 56.
I was in 2nd grade when I mischievously hide the pencil box of my classmate, the teacher upon hearing this called me in front of the class and told the whole class how Theives look like in their childhood. But i made her pay, my parents got her suspended from the school. Funny thing is all of my classmates took her side and ostracized me.
Being a teacher is one of the hardest jobs there is, it's underpaid and under constant political pressure. Until that is changed, expect more stories of bad teachers. It's an institution issue, low wages and high pressure breed contempt and ensure only the desperate stay.
Desperation doesn't need to breed a*****e behavior. Thats a choice
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