The fall semester is in full swing, and Jimmy Fallon has decided to celebrate it. For the hashtag segment on The Tonight Show, Fallon has asked people to tweet the craziest things about their teachers. And even thought it is a subject he already explored a few years ago, the abundance of hilarious replies prove that it's inexhaustible. From personal remarks about their marriage to social experiments in class, these teachers and professors will certainly remain in their students' memory forever. Just not necessarily in a good way. Scroll down to enjoy the funniest #MyTeacherIsWeird entries and upvote your favorites.
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My English teacher (around 65 or 70) has the best response to people asking how long their essay should be. "Like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the essentials short enough to keep it interesting"
This post should be open for submissions, the pandas seem to have many stories of their own!
Out of the dozens of teachers throughout you school/college life there is always going to be a couple who stick in your mind forever
Load More Replies...My German teacher would start every lesson by stating how many days, hours and minutes were left untill his retirement. And once ripped the intercom from the wall when an anouncement was made while we were doing an exam.
A German teacher at my school (who was German) was universally called Frau Cow by all pupils - feel kind of guilty that I dont remember what her actual real name was
Load More Replies...My English teacher once came into the class quietly, sat behind his table, hid himself behind the textbook and whispered "They can't see me, they can't see me, they can't see me.." :D
On college, my English prof was late for class one day. Suddenly the door burst open and he galloped in while reciting "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere". Around and around the room until he got to the last line which he recited while going out the door. A few minutes later, he calmly walked back in and began class, as if nothing had happened.
During math class, a student asked permission to sharpen her pencil, and teacher said "Yes, yes, go sharpen your pencil, and your wits at the same time."
In high school we had a teacher who always had a yard stick he would use to point and bang on the desk if we were not paying attention. One of my friends was bad for falling asleep in class so he would always hit her desk. She got tired of it and hid the stick lol
Many younger people dont realise that a yardstick was exactly that - a 3ft long ruler. My generation in the UK got incredibly confused when we metricated at age 6 - the yardstick became 100cm which was longer than a yard. I still think in inches, pounds and miles and have to convert all measurements in my head
Load More Replies...when l was child my hair and eyebrows were very different shade, so teacher in primary school was insisting that my mom dyed them same color, because other children could think l was dying hair and they could try it at home. mom moved me in another group :D being teacher is not easier than being parent. sadly, some stories were not very nice teacher examples.
My language arts teacher has a yardstick duct taped to look like a katana and some kid ran into it
I had a teacher who used to stare at the back of the classroom when he got angry, we never really got why until one day when I walked into class I noticed a small sign saying "do not overreact, do not overcompensate, ....and breathe...........". Poor guy actually climbed into his cupboard and shut himself in there once for 15 minutes coz he got so annoyed.
It is actually quite disturbing to think how many mentally unwell adults are educating children
Load More Replies...I had the privilege of having some really amazing teachers over the years, and the hell of some really bad ones. My favorite was my 9th grade History teacher. On the 1st day of class he told us that if we could find a way around the rules he set for tests he'd allow it. First test: no rules. So we
(Stupid phone)... all brought our books and made it an open book test. Next test - we were not allowed to bring our books into the classroom. We stood at the door and swapped textbooks with other students and brought their books into the class. Next rule - not allowed to carry any books into the classroom. We stood at the door and tossed the books over the threshold. This kept going until the list of test rules was some 25 items and we couldn't think of another way to get around them. Also, when it came to the chapter on Vietnam he told us that he had been a tunnel rat during that war and we should close our books because he would tell us how it really went....
Load More Replies...In the seventh grade, my history teacher showed us a video about students doing nuclear bomb drills in WWII and made us practice. He brought in an old camera with a flash and would randomly flash it during the rest of the semester and we had to scramble under our desks into the fetal position. Still my favorite teacher to this day.
I don’t Twitter so let me introduce a few of my own: - I had a chemistry teacher in high school who would hit his desk with a yard stick and yelled ”Shazam” at the top of his lungs whenever he reached the answer in a calculation which made everyon in the class jump out of their seats…- I had a social science teacher who loved to throw pens and chalk at us if we acted up. The same teacher also used loved to correct us when we made mistakes with good and well...To this day, I still remember the phrase, ”Your lunch tastes good but you do well” which I still use with my own students. However, I use his pen throwing behaviour as an example of how teachers shouldnt act even though we secretly want to.
My English teacher allways mixed Swedish and English, unaware that he switched language midd scentence.
This used to happen to me all the time when I taught one class in English, the next in Swedish and the one after that in English. My brain didn’t always catch up. It’s even worse now that I’m learning Japanese.
Load More Replies...As a freshman in high school, I auditioned for the school play. When the drama teacher heard my real name "Wendy", he asked me if I was hot and juicy. Everyone laughed but me. I was 14.
Our chemistry teacher had a little office behind the classroom where he'd hide when it was close to lunch and he didn't want to run over. Linda, who sat in the 4th row between two boys always had a rumbly stomach. Mr. Vanderpool would come thundering out of his office like an angry water buffalo and demand "Who made that noise!:" He'd glower around and everybody suddenly found their text books fascinating because everybody liked Linda. All year we'd take bets on if Linda would own up, would one of the boys throw himself on his sword and say it was him, or would Mr. V. laugh and say he knew all along it was someone's stomach. Or walk down and wait. Good times.
My last name in college was a little rude, depending on your point of view. I had one teacher, a very nice person, very formal, and religious, who could not bring himself to say it. He usually called everyone Mr. or Miss or Mrs. Lastname, except me. I think I was probably the only student whose first name he used. Made me laugh every time I was in his class.
Of you don't mind, what was the last name? I'd you don't want to post it on a public forum that's understandable.
Load More Replies...My high school French teacher was a Russian man named Mr. Pashkovsky who would record our tests on cassette (this was the 80s) and play it for us in class while he read a book in the corner. There would be breaks on the tape between questions where he would record a grandfather clock booming, or his dog eating loudly...
My Technical Drawing teacher (ironic actually) was cross-eyed due to a war injury. We never knew who he was talking to as he wasnt looking directly at the pupil he was speaking to or telling off. Also very bad tempered with a habit of throwing wooden blackboard dusters at us. Sometimes it hit the kid it was intended for
r/ihavereddit don't mention subreddits outside of reddit its cringey
Load More Replies...My English teacher (around 65 or 70) has the best response to people asking how long their essay should be. "Like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the essentials short enough to keep it interesting"
This post should be open for submissions, the pandas seem to have many stories of their own!
Out of the dozens of teachers throughout you school/college life there is always going to be a couple who stick in your mind forever
Load More Replies...My German teacher would start every lesson by stating how many days, hours and minutes were left untill his retirement. And once ripped the intercom from the wall when an anouncement was made while we were doing an exam.
A German teacher at my school (who was German) was universally called Frau Cow by all pupils - feel kind of guilty that I dont remember what her actual real name was
Load More Replies...My English teacher once came into the class quietly, sat behind his table, hid himself behind the textbook and whispered "They can't see me, they can't see me, they can't see me.." :D
On college, my English prof was late for class one day. Suddenly the door burst open and he galloped in while reciting "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere". Around and around the room until he got to the last line which he recited while going out the door. A few minutes later, he calmly walked back in and began class, as if nothing had happened.
During math class, a student asked permission to sharpen her pencil, and teacher said "Yes, yes, go sharpen your pencil, and your wits at the same time."
In high school we had a teacher who always had a yard stick he would use to point and bang on the desk if we were not paying attention. One of my friends was bad for falling asleep in class so he would always hit her desk. She got tired of it and hid the stick lol
Many younger people dont realise that a yardstick was exactly that - a 3ft long ruler. My generation in the UK got incredibly confused when we metricated at age 6 - the yardstick became 100cm which was longer than a yard. I still think in inches, pounds and miles and have to convert all measurements in my head
Load More Replies...when l was child my hair and eyebrows were very different shade, so teacher in primary school was insisting that my mom dyed them same color, because other children could think l was dying hair and they could try it at home. mom moved me in another group :D being teacher is not easier than being parent. sadly, some stories were not very nice teacher examples.
My language arts teacher has a yardstick duct taped to look like a katana and some kid ran into it
I had a teacher who used to stare at the back of the classroom when he got angry, we never really got why until one day when I walked into class I noticed a small sign saying "do not overreact, do not overcompensate, ....and breathe...........". Poor guy actually climbed into his cupboard and shut himself in there once for 15 minutes coz he got so annoyed.
It is actually quite disturbing to think how many mentally unwell adults are educating children
Load More Replies...I had the privilege of having some really amazing teachers over the years, and the hell of some really bad ones. My favorite was my 9th grade History teacher. On the 1st day of class he told us that if we could find a way around the rules he set for tests he'd allow it. First test: no rules. So we
(Stupid phone)... all brought our books and made it an open book test. Next test - we were not allowed to bring our books into the classroom. We stood at the door and swapped textbooks with other students and brought their books into the class. Next rule - not allowed to carry any books into the classroom. We stood at the door and tossed the books over the threshold. This kept going until the list of test rules was some 25 items and we couldn't think of another way to get around them. Also, when it came to the chapter on Vietnam he told us that he had been a tunnel rat during that war and we should close our books because he would tell us how it really went....
Load More Replies...In the seventh grade, my history teacher showed us a video about students doing nuclear bomb drills in WWII and made us practice. He brought in an old camera with a flash and would randomly flash it during the rest of the semester and we had to scramble under our desks into the fetal position. Still my favorite teacher to this day.
I don’t Twitter so let me introduce a few of my own: - I had a chemistry teacher in high school who would hit his desk with a yard stick and yelled ”Shazam” at the top of his lungs whenever he reached the answer in a calculation which made everyon in the class jump out of their seats…- I had a social science teacher who loved to throw pens and chalk at us if we acted up. The same teacher also used loved to correct us when we made mistakes with good and well...To this day, I still remember the phrase, ”Your lunch tastes good but you do well” which I still use with my own students. However, I use his pen throwing behaviour as an example of how teachers shouldnt act even though we secretly want to.
My English teacher allways mixed Swedish and English, unaware that he switched language midd scentence.
This used to happen to me all the time when I taught one class in English, the next in Swedish and the one after that in English. My brain didn’t always catch up. It’s even worse now that I’m learning Japanese.
Load More Replies...As a freshman in high school, I auditioned for the school play. When the drama teacher heard my real name "Wendy", he asked me if I was hot and juicy. Everyone laughed but me. I was 14.
Our chemistry teacher had a little office behind the classroom where he'd hide when it was close to lunch and he didn't want to run over. Linda, who sat in the 4th row between two boys always had a rumbly stomach. Mr. Vanderpool would come thundering out of his office like an angry water buffalo and demand "Who made that noise!:" He'd glower around and everybody suddenly found their text books fascinating because everybody liked Linda. All year we'd take bets on if Linda would own up, would one of the boys throw himself on his sword and say it was him, or would Mr. V. laugh and say he knew all along it was someone's stomach. Or walk down and wait. Good times.
My last name in college was a little rude, depending on your point of view. I had one teacher, a very nice person, very formal, and religious, who could not bring himself to say it. He usually called everyone Mr. or Miss or Mrs. Lastname, except me. I think I was probably the only student whose first name he used. Made me laugh every time I was in his class.
Of you don't mind, what was the last name? I'd you don't want to post it on a public forum that's understandable.
Load More Replies...My high school French teacher was a Russian man named Mr. Pashkovsky who would record our tests on cassette (this was the 80s) and play it for us in class while he read a book in the corner. There would be breaks on the tape between questions where he would record a grandfather clock booming, or his dog eating loudly...
My Technical Drawing teacher (ironic actually) was cross-eyed due to a war injury. We never knew who he was talking to as he wasnt looking directly at the pupil he was speaking to or telling off. Also very bad tempered with a habit of throwing wooden blackboard dusters at us. Sometimes it hit the kid it was intended for
r/ihavereddit don't mention subreddits outside of reddit its cringey
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