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Funny, Creepy, And Nasty, Here Are 22 Insane Things That These Teachers Did In Schools
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I clearly remember the most insane thing I saw a teacher do during my school days. Well, it was more of what she said when we were disrupting her lecture: instead of punishing us, she suddenly got up and threatened to "curse" us! Her exact words were, "I am stronger than the sun, I can even cure cancer, don't make me curse you!"
It still gives me the heebie-jeebies when I think about how she said it. Everyone has had such teachers once, so folks gushed about their "insane teacher memories" that they still remember. Some are funny, while some are simply creepy. Just scroll down and see for yourself!
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#1
My history teacher was a Viet Nam vet. One day a student threw a firecracker into the room from the hallway.
You can guess the teacher's reaction.
Once he got up off the floor and realized what had happened, he chased the dude (a varsity lineman around 17-18), tackled him in the hallway, and stuffed his entire body into a locker.
He was an epic teacher. One of my favorites.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
Good enough and that kid is lucky that's all that happened to him. I hope the poor teacher was able to recover quickly.
Major Harris 10 months ago
was this teacher's name sam kinison? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9DO26O6dIg&t=1s
TeenieMeanie 10 months ago
Love that movie. Had a tradion of watching it with my husband before the start of every school year when we were in college. That and Billy Madison.
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TiNaBoNiNa 10 months ago
That is how it used to be spelled. The modern spelling combines the two words into one. "The name of Vietnam was once spelled as two words (Viet Nam, coming from the Vietnamese for "southern Viet people"), but is now generally spelled as a single word." -Britannica
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#2
English teacher slept with the principal and was assistant principal the next year. they were both married and got caught. both lost their jobs and marriages.
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago
Had a boss who did that with the MD. They were in the company car park. We had CCTV.
TiNaBoNiNa 10 months ago
Medical Doctor? Maitre'd? Mistress Dominatrix? Managing Director? Mediocre Dancer? Mesozoic Dinosaur? Master Druggist? Moist Donut? Magical Dragon? Mindless Drone?
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Michael Largey 10 months ago
Aswering the old question "Who do you have to f**k to get promoted around here?"
#3
Held student upside down by the ankles from a 2nd floor window. He was told not to do it again.
Christian Brothers school in Ireland, 1980's.
The Starsong Princess 10 months ago
On the scale of what the Christian Brothers did to students, this was a one. Rape and torture was common.
Eastendbird 10 months ago
You're correct Starsong Princess. My Irish partner's stories of what the Christian Brothers did when he was growing up are horrific.
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Fester Sixonesixonethree 10 months ago
I'm not surprised. The christian brothers were terrorists.
Guess Undheit 10 months ago
Piece of sith "teachers" beat me in elementary school for being left handed. In Canada.
Kitty 🥀 10 months ago
I’m sorry, did you want a picture of the child dangling 20 feet above the ground instead of 4 inches above it?
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Svenne O'Lotta 10 months ago
You're truly a despicable person, hope you get the help you need
Load More Replies...I honestly think that being a teacher is probably one of the most powerful professions ever because of how they can influence young minds. During their developing age, students are quick to pick up on things that their teachers tell them or what they see the teachers do.
To understand the teacher-student relationship better, Bored Panda reached out to teacher and principal Jyoti D., who has been in the teaching profession for the past 21 years. Looking at the list, she mentioned how alarming some of the things were, and the adverse impact such things might have on students.
"When faced with a bad teacher, students might develop a negative attitude towards education, potentially hindering their future academic and personal development. Students may choose to "check out" mentally or physically from the class if they feel the teacher is not providing valuable learning experience," she added.
#4
My family owns horses. We had a one give birth when I was in high school, and not long after the baby horse got gelded [neutered, male]. Instead of just tossing the discarded [organs] in the trash, we filled an empty pasta jar with alcohol and the vet stuck them in. The intention was to give them to our science teacher for his collection, along with the placenta for his late-grade students to dissect.
The latter part went as planned, but we didn't count on him taking the balls out of the jar, putting them into individual containers with preservative fluids, labelling them 'his' and 'hers', and using said containers as hall passes.
USMC5815 10 months ago
Great balls of biohazard is now my new favorite saying!
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Donna Drizin 10 months ago
I taught at a high school and this one shocked me. Very creative though.
Definitely a Human 10 months ago
If he didn't call those hall passes "ball passes" he's just wasting everyone's time :p
#5
Teacher was drunk and got in to a fight with the principal, his wife cheated with him. He kicked in the office door and attacked the principal. Then got in to a sloppy drunk fight with cops. The whole school was yelling “f**k the police” when they dragged his drunk as out.
Coolest s**t that ever happened at school.
#6
RE teacher saw a student reading, asked him what he was reading, received a rude reply and attacked him. They were fighting on the library floor when the headmaster walked in. Awkward.
Maths teacher, built like a bear, got a wrong answer from a friend of mine, called him to the front of the class, stood on his foot and crushed it. No obvious action was taken.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago (edited)
So a teacher, who's built like a bear, goes around and uses physical violence on the students of which he doesn't like their answers? I hope someone put this douchecanoe in his place.
Ace 10 months ago (edited)
When I was at school there were several teachers who routinely inflicted violence on us. One I recall, Mr Amedro, language teacher, used to hit us on the top of the head with his middle finger knuckle. Thankfully I wasn't normally in his classes, so only had this occasionally when he subbed for someone else.
SkippityBoppityBoo 10 months ago (edited)
In the UK, the schools I attended - RE = Religious Education
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Looby Loo 10 months ago
my geography teacher (F) once slapped one of the lads in my class on the cheek. she had him stood in front of her, towering above and the reason she slapped him was because he didnt put a ruler line down every page of his exercise book. he stood and grinned at her so she slapped him.
During our conversation, Jyoti stressed how sacred a school is because it's the very place that trains and hones the future of our world. She believes that it's important to have teachers that make it a place that students look forward to coming and not one that they dread.
Speaking about some of the instances that Redditors have shared, our expert mentioned how they also include instances of violence from the teachers. She mentioned that it's probably one of the worst things that a teacher can do to a student.
"The presence of a violent teacher creates a toxic environment, undermining the core purpose of education: to foster growth, curiosity, and confidence. The impact of a violent teacher on students can be profound and far-reaching, affecting their emotional, psychological, and academic well-being," Jyoti explained.
#7
When instagram was fairly new 2014, teachers didn't realise they had to put their insta on private, naturally all us students at the time, would try find their instagram accounts. we stumbled across a drama teachers account, he was openly gay and made that very clear by his insta when he had posted a picture of him and 5 other men naked in bed. this circulated around the whole school over night. as you can expect, he was never seen at our school again.
Kitty 🥀 10 months ago
I’m PRETTY SURE they took issue with all the men in the picture being naked, not with the fact that the teacher was homosexual. The fact that I had to point that out to you is concerning.
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Donna Drizin 10 months ago
The students passing it around should have also been held accountable
#8
Cut his thumb off on table saw during a wood working lesson.
Broccoli 10 months ago
I feel bad for the poor dude but if a teacher cuts his thumb off in a wood working lesson maybe he shouldn’t be a teacher
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Janos Schumacher 10 months ago
My shop teacher in 7th grade cut his thumb off in class. Twice. He cut it half way off on the first go, then a couple years later, cut the rest of it off. He was really devil may care on the table saw.
#9
Our history teacher, who always reeked of booze, used to smoke out of the window in class when he gave tasks to do.
elmortero 10 months ago
Well, some of us are old enough to have had teachers smoking IN the classroom, not out the window. Context: late 70'/eary80's
Deborah 10 months ago
Early 70s, college, teacher and students smoking in a room with windows closed because it was winter and the 100 year old building had no heat. I don't know why I didn't just drop the class.
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Jyoti further elaborated that teachers are figures of authority and it's only natural that students look up to them. However, she stressed that when a teacher behaves poorly, students may lose trust not only in that teacher but in authority figures in general, including other educators and even parents.
She narrated that students may question the fairness or purpose of rules if they see authority figures violating them without consequences. In fact, Jyoti noted that they may grow up with a cynical view of institutions and authority, believing that people in power are inherently flawed or untrustworthy.
"Ultimately, the actions of a teacher, good or bad, can have a long-term ripple effect on their students. Addressing and preventing harmful behavior is critical to maintaining trust and encouraging a positive learning environment," she added.
#10
Showed us she could fit her fist in her mouth. Rather mundane compared to some of the others here, but impressive to a budding 7th grader.
#11
Obligatory, not my story but…
My dad was taking a first year physics class for his engineering degree. Apparently he has this stuffy old Englishman for a prof. Tweed suit, bow tie etc. He was explaining how to calculate the amount of force imparted from object X into object Y by measuring how Y reacted to being struck by object X.
The prof demonstrated this concept pulling out a f*****g rifle and using it to shoot a block of wood. In the lecture hall.
pipboo 10 months ago (edited)
Sure it is, as long as there's plan and the university lecturer can demonstrate to the Dean that it's safe when the students aren't present. Physics teacher demontrating Forces get up to all sorts od fun stuff. It captures the studnets attention dnd so is very valuable. See from 22 mins into this lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJG-rXBbmCc&ab_channel=LecturesbyWalterLewin.Theywillmakeyou%E2%99%A5Physics.
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I watched a teacher throw a whole a*s chair at a student.
HTakeover 10 months ago
We had that one. Kid was asking for it though... violent S.O.B who shouldn't have even been at that school. Said as another student in the room at the time.
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Upstaged75 10 months ago
My Spanish teacher once threw my books out the 2nd floor window when he caught me doing math homework in his class. He was a very weird guy.
Zero Costa 10 months ago
yeah this happened to my brothers mate in grade 3. she also threw scissors at my brother. old girl was insane.
Donna Drizin 10 months ago
I once had a student pick up the heavy iron teacher's stool and tried to kill a girl student who had annoyed him for some reason. I had to jump on his back and tore off several of my real nails stopping him. There was blood all over the wall and I shook for a week.
We asked Jyoti to narrate any such insane actions by teachers that she has witnessed during all her experiences. She said that most of the teachers she has worked with are quite brilliant at their job as they know its importance, but of course, she has encountered a bad apple once in a while.
Jyoti narrated, "About 5 to 6 years back, we had this teacher who had migrated from her hometown and her job with us was just her second one before a 2-year-experience in a school. Looking at her qualifications, however, we never would have guessed what she would do."
"On her third day, she was teaching maths to grade 6 students but wasn't able to hold the class's attention. Well, the students started complaining and asking doubts, and maybe, it was too much for her. She suddenly ran out of the class and locked the kids in! We found out about this when the students started yelling loudly from inside and the whole school was shocked."
#13
Got a student pregnant “allegedly” but everyone knew because not too long after his wife divorced him etc.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
Just because the wife filed for a divorce, doesn't mean that he actually got a student pregnant. Only way to know for sure, is a paternity test.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
We had a teacher get a student, the daughter of the school board president, pregnant. Did he get fired? Hell, no. Evidently the school board president didn't want the father of his first grandchild to be out of a job. (And he didn't want the cost of raising the kid to come out of his pocket.) The guy even got promoted to a higher paying job at the school.
Fuzzdinkel83 10 months ago
2 different teachers at my school had relationships with students that they ended up marrying. One kept teaching for year after the other quit or moved schools? But he was back coaching basketball a few years ago. 😬
#14
We’d raise ducks as a class and one year we did peacocks. Only one egg hatched that year. Petey the peacock.
My teacher, who was a HUGE man, stepped on Petey. :(.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Just to add something positive to this thread, year 11 biology students at my school always had to raise ducklings and record data on them. At the end of the study, students had the chance to keep their duck. Most of the time there were ones who didn't keep them, so a science teacher, who wasn't the biology teacher most of the time, would step in and take them. The best way to get this teacher to let us slack off in class was to ask about her ducks.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 10 months ago
You made me Google that one, and now I feel like a clown. That was good.
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#15
Kissed a freshly graduated senior at their graduation party. Got divorced, wasn‘t allowed to teach for a couple years but instead managed the school library, then married a young new teacher that had just gotten out of their teaching residency at that school. He should be in his 50‘s now, she‘s 30 at most.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Seriously I don't get how there are places you aren't barred from teaching forever for kissing a student. It doesn't say how long ago this was but still.
Sven Grammersdorf 10 months ago
If it was at her graduation party, she wasn't a student anymore
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There was so much of that when I taught in high school. Most offenders were male math teachers. It was in the 80's and no one said a thing.
Warren Peece 10 months ago
The teachers who got married were obviously both adults. So how are their ages of any importance to anyone except themselves?
Warren Peece 10 months ago
What was the reason this teacher wasn't allowed to teach for a couple years?
Bean Driller 10 months ago
One of my coworkers (a shop teacher) began a relationship with a student who had a horrible home life. He quit his job, they moved in together and viola! He's 11 years older!
Warren Peece 10 months ago
Were they both legal adults at the time? If so, how are their ages of any importance to anyone except themselves?
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- Open communication: Schools should encourage students to voice concerns without fear of retaliation.
- Support systems: Counseling and peer support groups can help students process negative experiences.
- Accountability: Holding teachers accountable and ensuring consequences for inappropriate actions reinforces the importance of ethics and fairness.
- Positive role models: Highlighting other teachers or staff who embody integrity can help counteract the negative influence.
#16
Had an argument with his wife (also teacher)
Tied her to a tree
Splashed her with garden hose
Left her there.
Lene 10 months ago
Because it's not easy to sign your name on the divorce papers when your hands are shaking from the cold...
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Married a cheerleader 2 weeks after the contract ended. My government teacher obviously had a thing for the lead cheerleader. He was the girls basketball coach too.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
My year 12 drama teacher was engaged to an 18 year old (he was 24) he had taught on his student teacher rounds the year before. Disgusting guy, he took a phone call (on speaker) during a rehearsal of my solo with a friend of the same age who joked about watching girls leaving another high school and laughed about it. We saw him at a bar about a year after we graduated and he hit on my friend, who we had wondered about him liking too much the year before, knowing she had a boyfriend too.
#18
Once had a science teacher demonstrate electricity on his students using an old hand crank telephone magneto. The student would hold a carbon rod in each hand that was wired to the magneto. He would start cranking on the device giving the kid an increasingly intense electric current shock. Kinda freaked out the class.
Me 10 months ago
I had a science teacher in junior high who did something similar. Only, at the time, she didn't like me very much and asked me to stand in a bucket of water before holding onto the rod. I stood up and with a straight face told her to get the bucket, knowing full well she wouldn't. After that, she stopped harassing me and we actually got a long pretty well. I became her teaching assistant when I got to high school.
Lastly, Jyoti emphasized that it's important to always hear what the students have to say as educational institutions are nothing without them. She concluded that while teachers are adults, students are not and it's the responsibility of educators to ensure that they don't cause any harm to these budding minds.
That definitely sounds insightful, as we saw from the list how students can remember the actions of their teachers for ages. What about you? Have you come across such insane antics from your teachers? We would love to hear from you, so feel free to share your stories with us!
#19
We had a teacher who had an affair with the principals son. Never found out what was more disturbing for him. His son having an affair with a teacher or his son being gay.
#20
Had a teacher that wired a magneto to his desk when you got in trouble he would call you up to the front of the class put your hands on the desk and spin the magneto fun times.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
For those who don't know, a magneto is an electrical generator that produces alternating current (AC) pulses to ignite fuel in engines.
#21
Brought a pistol to school, let the kids shoot rubber bullets in class.
Sudeep Sarkar 10 months ago
Better than a kid bringing a gun to school and not allowing other kids to shoot it.
#22
My art teacher paid me cash, in class, for pirating him the latest "uncopyable" 8 bit video games..
Leoninus Fate 10 months ago
i remeber my art teachers were always wild, i left school and came back like 5 years later {my brother was just finishing at that school} and i went to the art teacher and I'm like "well i know you like my art but I'm not coming back so i need it back" she had been using it to teach other kids, and i needed it back like 10 years after i made it lol, did leave a few pieces that should be still there
SkippityBoppityBoo 10 months ago (edited)
One of my secondary school art teachers used to let us listen to our music on our Walkmans or would play things like Leonard Cohen 💜
Donna Drizin 10 months ago
One of the science teachers owed one of my student's money for d***s. He complained to me and I turned her in.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
The happily married art teacher where I taught went from laid back hippie to evangelist fundamentalist. On his third wife now - at least.
Luke Branwen 10 months ago
My university professor gave me a Rebel Alliance beanie for pirating Steven Universe for him.
What do you think ?
Atom Bohr 10 months ago
Early 2000s. The last class of the day finished and I was on the 2nd floor (UK). Some boys started dropping dictionaries out of the window trying to hit the kids walking underneath. Apparently they hit a little year 7 and the caretaker saw. Next thing we know the caretaker storm into the classroom holding this year 7 by the scruff of his jumper, and as he's shouting at these boys he's gesturing with this tiny kid whose feet are a few inches off the floor. This poor kid had been hit on the head by a falling Oxford dictionary and then dragged up 4 flights of stairs, and was now being shaken and waved around. He looked so dazed. Those of us still there just stared in shocked and horrified silence
UKGrandad 10 months ago
One winter when I was in junior school (9/10yrs-old) it had snowed and a group of us spent the entire morning break treading down the snow to make an ice-slide from one side of the playground to the other. At lunchtime we sprinted to the playground and hit the slide running. What we didn't know was that the sadistic b'stard of a caretaker had salted just a small part of our slide about 50 feet from where it started. The first kid hit the salted patch and went down; the 30-plus kids following had no chance of stopping. It was carnage; a couple of kids got broken arms, one broke his ankle and there were bloody noses, black eyes and bruises galore. No action was taken against the caretaker.
Gavin Johnson 10 months ago
Our woodwork teacher, Mr Atree I kid you not, smoked a pipe, tapped it out in the offcuts bin, whole woodwork department gets set on fire. Genius. Teacher gets two teenage girls into his storeroom, looks at their bras, they report him, he retires but isn’t prosecuted, years later he’s sent down for SA, scumbag. Kid chains up a ‘love’ rival to a lamppost, whips him, the deputy head covers for the bully ‘cause he’s a weightlifting champion and shows the school in a good light. Believe it or not it was a good school! 😂
Orange_Blossom 10 months ago
Our history teacher shes around 30 years old now was "dating" this 16 year old boy only few knew what was going on you could kinda guess what they were doing. Well as soon as he turned 18 they thought they could start telling people now. In one instance a new male teacher around 25 was talking to her I don't know how exactly the conversation got brought up but she literally said "Oh, too old for me." shes so disgusting but she eventually got fired and I don't know what happened to her and the kid.
SkyyCaramba 10 months ago
the woodshop teacher at my middle school was a total creep, he was weird to girls
SkippityBoppityBoo 10 months ago
One of the Art teachers at my secondary school threw a chalkboard duster at a student, he either left or was fired, probably fired, a week later........ A positive teacher story though is Miss Armstrong! She drove a red convertible sports car, would let us listen to music via our Walkmans and would encourage us. I had a piece exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London because she put it forward for a national competition. I only remember her red sports car btw because she used to park it in the art block courtyard 🙂
Guess Undheit 10 months ago
I didn't see it, but it made the local news in high school: gym teacher was harassing and going after a kid for being slow and a little heavy. The kid out of frustration, shoved him away, hardly injurious. The "teacher", of Korean descent and did tae kwon do, put the kid on the floor (how badly he hit the kid or if he used moves, I don't know). That "teacher" was fired immediately, that afternoon. I hope he never taught again.
Major Harris 10 months ago
rowan atkinson as a headmaster/teacher would fit right in with these posts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMoB6ms2mE&t=6s
Atom Bohr 10 months ago
Early 2000s. The last class of the day finished and I was on the 2nd floor (UK). Some boys started dropping dictionaries out of the window trying to hit the kids walking underneath. Apparently they hit a little year 7 and the caretaker saw. Next thing we know the caretaker storm into the classroom holding this year 7 by the scruff of his jumper, and as he's shouting at these boys he's gesturing with this tiny kid whose feet are a few inches off the floor. This poor kid had been hit on the head by a falling Oxford dictionary and then dragged up 4 flights of stairs, and was now being shaken and waved around. He looked so dazed. Those of us still there just stared in shocked and horrified silence
UKGrandad 10 months ago
One winter when I was in junior school (9/10yrs-old) it had snowed and a group of us spent the entire morning break treading down the snow to make an ice-slide from one side of the playground to the other. At lunchtime we sprinted to the playground and hit the slide running. What we didn't know was that the sadistic b'stard of a caretaker had salted just a small part of our slide about 50 feet from where it started. The first kid hit the salted patch and went down; the 30-plus kids following had no chance of stopping. It was carnage; a couple of kids got broken arms, one broke his ankle and there were bloody noses, black eyes and bruises galore. No action was taken against the caretaker.
Gavin Johnson 10 months ago
Our woodwork teacher, Mr Atree I kid you not, smoked a pipe, tapped it out in the offcuts bin, whole woodwork department gets set on fire. Genius. Teacher gets two teenage girls into his storeroom, looks at their bras, they report him, he retires but isn’t prosecuted, years later he’s sent down for SA, scumbag. Kid chains up a ‘love’ rival to a lamppost, whips him, the deputy head covers for the bully ‘cause he’s a weightlifting champion and shows the school in a good light. Believe it or not it was a good school! 😂
Orange_Blossom 10 months ago
Our history teacher shes around 30 years old now was "dating" this 16 year old boy only few knew what was going on you could kinda guess what they were doing. Well as soon as he turned 18 they thought they could start telling people now. In one instance a new male teacher around 25 was talking to her I don't know how exactly the conversation got brought up but she literally said "Oh, too old for me." shes so disgusting but she eventually got fired and I don't know what happened to her and the kid.
SkyyCaramba 10 months ago
the woodshop teacher at my middle school was a total creep, he was weird to girls
SkippityBoppityBoo 10 months ago
One of the Art teachers at my secondary school threw a chalkboard duster at a student, he either left or was fired, probably fired, a week later........ A positive teacher story though is Miss Armstrong! She drove a red convertible sports car, would let us listen to music via our Walkmans and would encourage us. I had a piece exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London because she put it forward for a national competition. I only remember her red sports car btw because she used to park it in the art block courtyard 🙂
Guess Undheit 10 months ago
I didn't see it, but it made the local news in high school: gym teacher was harassing and going after a kid for being slow and a little heavy. The kid out of frustration, shoved him away, hardly injurious. The "teacher", of Korean descent and did tae kwon do, put the kid on the floor (how badly he hit the kid or if he used moves, I don't know). That "teacher" was fired immediately, that afternoon. I hope he never taught again.
Major Harris 10 months ago
rowan atkinson as a headmaster/teacher would fit right in with these posts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMoB6ms2mE&t=6s
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