“Glad You Lost Your Job For That”: 35 People Share The Biggest Grudges They Held Against Their Teachers

I had a university professor in calc class say that women aren't suited to do math. A woman got the highest grade in his class. Yeah, suck it Crittenden.

Wait, so instead of firing a sexist and disgusting teacher, they kept him and made her take a class elsewhere so she could get fair treatment? tf?

I hope he was fired. I had a high school science teacher like this. Male teachers could get away with being openly misogynistic back in the 70s.

Rot in hell Cantrell!

How the heck do these odors idiots get to stay in teaching with these moronic attitudes? Like, at all?? Does repeatedly trying to fail half your class not become a rather glaring problem??

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I have recently learned that, where I live, it is illegal to p*ss on someone's grave. The workaround, I'm told, is to bring the material in a disposable bottle and 'water the flowers' on that spot. - - for future reference- - -

I still do not think dyslexia is handled very well by schools.

My experience with a lot of maths teachers. I'm super dyslexic with numbers, but most of them just made it very clear that they thought I was stupid.

I wonder what book??

I can't stop laughing act this!

Should have given her a dictionary and said "I found it in the dictionary"

Had a similar experience as a kid with a biology teacher who claimed lung fish were fish shaped like a lung, not fish with primitive lungs that can breathe air like I was talking about in my presentation on interesting fish. It got pretty heated. He even refused to look at the library book I got all of the information out of.

Ironic it was that word. Only an egomaniac would be so confidently incorrect and not check a dictionary..

This happened to me too. My history teacher in high school took off points for thinking I made up the word 'malfeasance' in an essay I wrote.

Was there not a dictionary in the English classroom? I would've flipped that bi*ch open and showed her that word with the definition

My question is why the parents weren't ringing the school or turning up in a panic when their kid isn't home yet?

Wow, that could have ended badly . We live close to my daughters school but if this were to happen she would be walking the same route in the same conditions and a similar temp.

I'm glad he lost his job too, this could have ended tragically and the parents would have been worried sick. He should have been charged for abuse due to negligence and child endangerment too.

I genuinely don't understand the point of detention. Keeping a kid after school for HOURS when they have no means of getting home themselves is just begging for a lawsuit.

What age is sixth grade again?

You shouldn't be able to accuse someone of plagiarism without proof.

I don't usually condone the frivolous use of the race card, but the "It's because I'm black innit?" would have been perfect here

Should've told your parents and they should've raised hell.

I wrote a poem once that the teacher said was too good to be my work, never wrote another one.

I hope you carried on with your creative writing!

I had a classmate like that, ages 9-11. He was generally grubby, smelly, skinny and quiet and barely said a word to anyone. He wasn't physically bullied, but he was either excluded and ignored, or laughed at and called names. It didn't help that his parents had given him what we thought was a stupid name (think Bennie Beanie). Some of us girls tried to be more inclusive, but he wasn't the most interactive and barely spoke. The teacher spoke to us all one day about being kinder but things didn't really improve. He ended up going to a different high school so I didn't see him again for years, but I met him on a visit to my home town when I was about 30. He looked years older, and was still rather scruffy and odd, but he chatted about school and he said how happy he'd been, because he could spend time with his friends, and he felt safe there, and was warm and fed during the day. I felt guilty about the way we'd treated him for years, his childhood and family life must have awful.

That teacher failed, because as a rule, we are supposed to report suspected neglect.

When I was in a girls' Catholic high school, the girl who sat in front of me was always dirty, and her uniforms were not laundered. We were seated alphabetically, so she was always in the same seat. Shortly after freshman year started, she was called in to the front office, and returned with a shopping bag. I could see that the sisters had given her some shampoo, soap, laundry detergent, etc. I know her family was poor and she was on scholarship. Instead of shaming this girl, the sisters gave her what she needed. (We couldn't talk in class, so I was the only one who saw what was in the bag, and class let out right after that. I never told anyone.)

I had the same experience in the Catholic school I was forced to attend. What I know now to be very clear signs of a child being abused just got me mocked by my teachers.

Only slightly related. In Catholic grade school, nothing was mentioned about puberty and the results thereof. Our 7th grade teacher took matters onto herself, when she briefly mentioned that as we were growing older, certain changes would be happening to us, and emphasized the need for regular bathing habits, "especially the boys", stating that we may not be aware of the fact that we stank! I'd was taken by surprise, but acted on her advice, taking the time to shower every morning since then.

I had a similar isue with ALL my teachers in the 5 and 6th grade, i have Aspergers, só you either engage me or i don't care, só since the classes where prepared for " normal " kids, for the most part i was " day dreaming " and yet i managed to get decent grades ( mid range average of 3, the grades where from 1 to 5, being 5 que equivalent to an A ) and they where pissed at me because if i wasn't a lazy twat i could have great grades. The problem is that i wasn't lazy, i was just bored out of my mind.

You should have been in talented and gifted classes.

My mother was an English teacher, and my father was a walking thesaurus in the military. They were very particular about how we spoke and the words that we used. I had a teacher that contradicted the way that my parents had instructed me to speak, and also said that I had a report that used vocabulary that we had not gone over. But luckily I had parents that advocated for me, even in the 70s 10 years after the Civil Rights bill had been signed for their brown skin girl. My parents are now both deceased, but a funny thing I found out about my parents not long before my father passed away, was that when my parents met, my father was functionally illiterate. And my mother, who had graduated at 15 was not going to be going to college because my grandparents couldn't afford to send a daughter to college. I knew my parents had been married a few years before they had my oldest brother, but part of the reasons for that was that my parents had made a deal. My father was in the army when he and my mother married. After they married he sent her to college, and she helped educate him. So that he was able to further his education after he learned to read. Because of that when the Air Force became integrated my father was able to test into the Air Force, which is the branch that he retired from. I would never have guessed that the man that raised me comment at one time as an adult could barely write and read more than his name. My mother was an English teacher but my father was the master of the English language. I asked my mother why they had never told us (it was one of my father's relatives that spilled the beans ) she explained it was none of our business and we will never to bring it up to my father or try to embarrass him because of it. So we never spoke on it, they're both gone now. But I wish I had disobeyed my mother, and spoke with my father about it. I've always been proud of him, and the fact that he became the man that I know after he was already an adult, makes me even proud of him.

At my school they love it. There are competitions between halves of each class to see which half can teach the teacher the most. Things get pretty crazy.