35 Almost Unbelievable Reasons Teachers Lost Their Jobs, As Shared By People In This Online Group
It seems like every school has at least a few of those stories about that one teacher who happened to get fired from their job for a straight-up wild reason. From comical and seemingly innocent ones, to incidents that are pretty much objectively shocking and almost hard to believe—school halls have seen it all.
Considering that, no wonder this Reddit thread that started with the user u/MrDev16 asking the community "why did that teacher get fired from your school?" quickly went viral and gathered thousands of responses. With that being said, Bored Panda is inviting you to read through the list compiled of the craziest and most interesting teacher-getting-fired stories we found in this viral thread. As always, feel free to share your own stories down in the comment section.
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Our beloved teacher, Mr Maune, had worked there for 29 years without incident and was one of the best teachers there. His classroom was always a laugh riot. He was the best roaster and encourages us to roast him properly. He never failed to get us motivated and a lot of us owe our career inspiration from him. He was fired because he had jokingly smacked a student on the back of his head for making a stupid comment. It was like something out of a sitcom and all of us expected it and loved it. Yet one student, who was new at the school, was culture shocked by this. He thought it was strange but hilarious. He told his mom off handedly and his mom became the Karen. Nevermind that the student was the teacher's godson, no physical contact was allowed says the Karen. He was suspended with pay for 3 months pending investigation then was let go because the Karen twisted the story and it blew up around the school. A year later, teacher won both the lawsuit against the school and libel case against the Karen with her son being one of the key witnesses. We still keep in contact and roast him for getting rich over smacking kids around.
When I was in school, our teachers once smacked one of the boys for bothering his classmates This boy went to principal and complained about it. Principal went to our class and asked him: So how did teached hit you? Like this? (smacked boy lightly) Or like this? (smacked him a little harder).
Sounds like something that would have gone down in my school.
Load More Replies...but they are first to whine when kids have to learn remotely. If you can't help your kid with learning then leave teachers alone!
Load More Replies...I hate calling women Karen. Being a woman does not make one any more annoying than the actual thing they do, ok?
Nothing else better todo, when someone rationally makes this decision to move forward, have to look at the whole picture and outcome of scenario, now was it all worth it?
One of my teachers cussed all the time and started every story with "when I was a little girl ". He was a male teacher. Everybody thought he was hilarious.
My math teacher was a volunteer first responder (in NY), she left school to help out during 9/11 and was fired for not showing back up for two weeks.
I feel like there is probably more to this story like they didn't let the school know they wouldn't be in.
Wasn't it somewhat manic after 9/11? Weren't communications down and weren't first responders under immense pressure? I don't know, I feel like if they didn't let the school know they wouldn't be in this is a situation in which it would be excusable.
Load More Replies...Yeah, this seems like we are missing part of the story. Honestly , anyone who didn't show up to work , or call with a reason as to why they aren't there would normally be fired . I'm sure she was busy helping to save lives , and bless her for that ... but you can't abandon a job to do another without working something out with your employer .
That's the stuff of which "call the local and cable news networks and every newspaper in town (of which most of them are national), very long petition signing and we're delivering it to the local and state school boards because everyone's joining together in a great big protest including picketting the school in support of said teacher" is made.
oh god i have a dark joke. School: your fired. TEacher: you cant fire me im dead
I agree. That union should have been all over it. This is yet another lost story of 9/11.
Load More Replies...HUH??? Oh no way! What assholes do the faculty have to be to pull that crap?
Why are so many assuming she didn't notify the school? I once had a co worker in the national guard. The company tried to make him use his vacation time for his Mandatory 2 week yearly training exercises. Absolutely illegal. Some administrators think they can do whatever they want.
And they can do whatever they want until someone fights back
Load More Replies...It doesn't say that she didn't call. A lot of fire departments sent people to NYC post-9/11, to work on the pile, and it was well known it was a multiple-week assignment.
Load More Replies...My AP English teacher got high on painkillers, broke into someone’s house, and ate their soup.
ATE THEIR SOUP! WHAT?! THATS ALMOST AS BAD AS STEALING THEIR POTATOES
OMG THE ANNABETH CHASE!!! I am your BIGGEST fan. Fellow daughter of Athena as well!
Load More Replies..."Ate their soup"? Is that some weird euphemism that I'm now too old for, or was it literal soup?
I'm assuming it's canned soup. or something. I really hope that's not a euphemism.
Load More Replies...One of my high school teaches was caught on To Catch a Predator.
Imagine being one of his former students and learning about it when we got back to school.... I still remember how shocked I was when I found out.... Major creep
Load More Replies...This is going to sound insane but 2 of my teachers in secondary school ended up being fired and arrested, one for outright being caught to be molesting and harassing male students in his after school club (which he said girls weren't allowed to join. That should have seemed sus enough tbh.. :/ ) the other for possession of ... well, you get the gist. :/
Mine too!!! My high school science teacher, Mr. Babst. I had him my freshman year and he always gave me the creeps, then my senior year he was busted.
So much for the background checks. If they had enough evidence to feature it on tv, the background check should have found it too. Somebody screwed up.
I'm imagining the school principal watching TV, minding his own business, then suddenly saying "oh, eff me ..."
They found out he was gay. He was a chaperone for the 8th grade east coast trip, and parents of boys got all up in arms that he had access to their hotel rooms. No student has ever accused him of anything inappropriate.
Yes! People just assume because people like the same gender, they like everyone! Do straight people just crush on everyone they meet? NOOOOO! (sorry, it's been a long year and I don't mean offense to anyone. )
Load More Replies...It is; but, presuming this in the US, until recently it was perfectly legal in 20+ to fire someone for being Gay (or in a gay relationship) 30+ for being transgender. A SCOTUS case made that sort of job discrimination illegal, but it’s only been within the last year or so.
Load More Replies...?????? if it was a female teacher there would have been no problem sounds like homophobia to me
My female PE teacher at my Catholic school was the most pervy gross person I have ever met. She used to stand by the showers to 'make sure we cleaned ourselves properly' she paid particular attention to us red heads, really concerned that we lathered up. Hmmm maybe she was very concerned about hygiene 🤔 I doubt it though...
Load More Replies...That's a law suit waiting to happen. Hope he sued the pants off the school
And again no one noticed that him being gay is confused with pedophilia
We have the fundies and their campaign to vilify everyone who isn't their version of straight to thank for that one. They also like to throw b********y into the mix given a chance.
Load More Replies...People!! Go to the dictionary. Look up the definition of gay. Then look up the definition of pedophile. TWO VERY DIFFERENT things. But then, oh gee, it would never occur to them that a heterosexual would do something to their kids. Nope. They wouldn't?
True, but the "too heavy religious" keep tying the two together to justify the hate their preachers taught them.
Load More Replies...Oh boy where to start. Elementary school nurse was fired for taking the kids’ medications. HS band teacher slept with a 15 yr old. Swim coach left a hotel that he was at with his mistress drunk and killed someone with his car. My high school had like 400 students.
My man, your school district is (and I say this as kindly as possible) cursed.
The odds of all of this happening is minuscule, but somehow it lined up anyway...
Da-yam!! That is a lot of illegal activity in one school. Hope it’s closed down now.
Explained Elasticity by pulling the Bra strap of a girl.
I wouldn't call that sexist, just extremely disrespectful and horrible on all sorts of levels
Load More Replies...same! especially if it was a teacher of all goddamn people.
Load More Replies...My teacher didn't get fired, but probably should have - except I never reported her. It was gym class and we had swimming once a week. I had a note from my doc stating I shouldn't get in the pool because of health issues. My teacher didn't care, she still made me change into the swimming suit every single time, and insisted I at least sit at the edge of the pool and get my feet wet. I think she was trying to determine for herself if I really had health issues and whether they were bad enough or not. Teachers were allowed to give us written assignments instead but she refused to give them to me (though she did with other kids she favored). Then one day, she probably just about had it with all of us and as I was sitting at the edge of the pool, she walked past and just pushed me in! Didn't say anything, just did it and kept going. No one laughed (as I thought they would) and instead got really quiet and stared at her. She just snapped her fingers and told everyone to get back to it.
My daughter's math teacher demonstrated 'inversion' by picking her up by the ankles and holding her upside down with her legs apart (thankfully she was wearing jeans). I went nuts and I am not a Karen. This teacher also screened the class by telling them dirty jokes and the ones who responded were then invited to an overnight camping "field trip." Shortly afterward he was arrested while photographing minor boys in his home. This guy had been in trouble before but quit his former teaching job before they could fire him, so it wasn't on his record . Now I hope he is a registered sex offender.
That is embarrassing for the girl and inappropriate for ANYONE to do to her, much less an adult with authority over her. Did the teacher not think to use a rubber band instead?
that's not a stupid reason to get fired......I mean it was stupid on the teacher's part, I guess
Yes, but the category is not about stupid reasons to get fired; it's about unbelievable reasons to get fired--so it fits.
Load More Replies...Would it have been the same if he had snapped a boy's jockstrap in gym?
I mean...god I hope so. He also should have been reported for sexual harassment.
Load More Replies...Our new band teacher was a young guy, fresh out of college. His first year teaching and he embezzled about a thousand dollars from the band’s funds. He got arrested and his possible future career ruined for a thousand bucks. Edit: Probably my favorite part of the story was that he went by the name Mr. E. So once he was gone, the ruthless band kids referred to him as Mr. Embezzlement.
People who embezzle money, no matter how long, the amount of money, you will get caught some how
A co-worker teacher got fired two weeks in the new semester, when instead of uploading a video related to his subject, he instead accidentally continued a previously paused hardcore lesbian scene on the big interactive screen. The computer he was using was slow and crappytoo so he couldn't quickly exit the video. It went on for a good 30 seconds before someone pulled the plug on the screen around the same time he lobbed the laptop about 30 feet across the class.
I felt his agony and his sweat going down his eyes and burning like hell
Load More Replies...Can't help but stumble over "interactive screen" and "porn". The combination conjures up some /insert more or less suitable adjective here/ associations.
oof.... Probably for the best. This is the same teacher who probably had porn bookmarks on his browser that would have been seen in a screen sharing session during the pandemic. lol
Kindergarden teacher would dig furrows into kids arms with her long, sharp nails by basically holding their arms real tightly. She did this if she caught them misbehaving during recess. It happened to me when I was running when I shouldn't have, I think ( this was nearly 40 years ago). I showed the principle my arm as he was walking out one day and she was fired on the spot. I think I was 4 at the time and didn't realize exactly what I did at the time.
Ouch. Ive seen an administrative assistant get fired because she was asked to escort my extremely upset butt to the office and instead of being civil she decides to grab my upper arm and literally drag me up there. My arm was purple when my mom got to the school. I was 8 at the time. Still remember it like it was yesterday lol
She sounds like she has an arrogance problem, I'm so sorry :(
Load More Replies...We had corporal punishment at my school...I was caned several times and made to do cross country running in my underwear...never really thought anything of it at the time...most of the male teachers were utter bastards who just loved to bully kids. It's only when you become an adult you realise that it's not ok...don't think it did me lasting damage though .
What's scary is how many little kids are afraid to tell other adults, thinking that they would get punished for being bad. :(
Ouch... Miss Trunchbull. I've heard there was a teacher at my secondary school long before I went who used to hang girls from their blazers on the coat hooks if they misbehaved in his science lessons. I've heard it from several women who went to the school at the time he was there, some part of me hopes it is an urban legend though.
One of the elementary school teachers at the district I went to got arrested for making his class worship him like he was a cult leader. He was totally bonkers.
Oh dear. That's kind of hilarious. But also extremely sad and weird making a bunch of 5 year old's worship you.
If he brought in garlic and told the gods to pray to that, this would be funny 🧄
Load More Replies...If being weird is a firing offence, my school would have been very tumbleweed-y... Our French/History teacher was excellent at his job, but also believed in aliens, unicorns, and his personal power of curing sickness by laying on hands, plus various adjacent beliefs. Nobody thought school would be better off without him.
Once had a teacher who got fired because she showed us a banned movie (some radical political film). Thing is, she was given a warning first and she went and showed it to us the very next day, so needless to say, she never came back.
I guess showing that movie to a bunch of kids was more important to her than keeping her job *shakes head* crazy woman
Load More Replies...Now I have the theme song for my babysitter's a vampire stuck in my head
If you haven't heard of it, look up Ron Jones and the Third Wave experiment.
Dating a 16 year old female student - he was also a PE teacher EDIT: I should clarify that he did do jail time and is on the sex offenders register
I'm glad he did time and is now registered. That should keep him from having a job around minors. Hopefully.
Was he on the list prior the incident or was this his first time getting caught?
My high school PE teacher made all the girls stand in front when we were doing jumping jacks, so he could watch our boobs jiggle.
Had a teacher in hs, he taught English and was the jv fb coach he was a good man and well liked. His wife worked directly below him teaching geography and pregnant, her family was known in the area for owning an apple orchard. They had their dream. The school officers daughter started saying she slept with him he denied but was promptly fired. He had a mental breakdown his wife divorced him last I know he was working at a tgi fridays. His wife remarried and had another kid. The girl who lied came forward after and said she lied but it was to late he remained fired life ruined, she and her father transfered and moved out of town. That girl ruined his life and got no real consequences. Tragic.
Damn she got him fired, divorced, and lost almost everything including his would be child
Same thing happened to the son of a neighbor of mine. Life completely ruined. Even though the little biatch had made it all up, he will never be able to teach again. Nothing happened to her either. Young teenager. Knew exactly what she was doing. She should have been dealt with in some way by the law.
Where does it say that he doesn't have any contact with his child? Just because his ex remarried and had another kid?
Load More Replies...There's not much to gain from that, unless the parents are rich. A similar thing happend to a teacher around here, too. He even did some time in prison because the student (or fellow teacher, I can't remember) claimed rape. He was completely cleared of the crime and the alledged victim convicted, but died of a heart attack in his 40s.
Load More Replies...That girl definitely belongs in jail and she/her family should have to pay restitution to that man!
Borderline personality disorder. I work at a psych hospital and these kind of claims are made ALL the time
I have BPD and wouldn't never do anything like that. Stigma against people with BPD is so bad and this comment just adds fuel to the fire. Anyone can make these sorts of accusations and they do, it's not a BPD thing.
Load More Replies...Man do I got a story for this one. I apologize for the length but its worth a read. So I got a job as a PE teacher/coach at a K-12 school. It was the beginning of my second year and rumors were going around about a teacher having a relationship with a student. I just thought it was a rumor and moved on. A few days later we have a cross country meet and i have to get to the school at 5:30 am to leave for the meet. I noticed another car in the parking lot, which was gated closed, and no one around. This has never happened so I called one of the other coaches and he was not sure and found it strange. I dont think much of it and go about my day. We get back from the meet around noon and the car is still there. Turns out it is one of the high school teachers car that was left from the day before. I thought it was car troubles and decided to not think much of it. I arrive back to school on Monday and boy howdy did sh*t hit fan. The car was left at over the weekend not because of car troubles but much. Much. MUCH worse reasons. The car was left over the entire 48 hour weekend because the teacher who owned the car had a mental breakdown in class, couldn't control it and had his sister, who also worked at the school, take him home. He had a breakdown because his gf broke up with him. His gf... was HIS STUDENT. So once the story was confirmed the police came and searched his classroom. His classroom had empty liquor bottles in the desk and his room was a mess. The teacher was fired and that was the last I heard of him. However, the story doesn't end there folks. Because the sister of the convicted teacher was behind everything. Helped them arrange dates, meet ups, and covered for him to keep the story hidden. She was fired a week later. I left the education world after that semester and never looked back.
Hmmm.. School is so much more then learning, at my school the kids sell/do drugs.
Yeah, kids at my school do SO MUCH DRUGS. Molly, coke, not to mention smoking weed and other stuff. Happy to say I've never done it before.
Load More Replies...I agree w you on this one. No excuse but an explanation
Load More Replies...Only when I attended our 10 year HS reunion did I learn that the rumors about two of our teachers DATING current students had been true. Both attended as married couples
Two teachers, they got caught having sex in a classroom
I walked in on two teachers in my first year of secondary school. But was so embarrassed I didn’t say anything to anyone! The awful thing was there were rumours all over the school about the affair, that obviously confirmed it to me. We come back from summer holiday, six or seven weeks later, the female teacher had gotten MARRIED to someone else and announced they were pregnant! The male teacher abrubtly quit and moved abroad. Turns out they’d been having an affair for about two years, he didn’t know she was living with someone else and none of the other staff knew she even had a boyfriend/fiancé. We never found out who the father was. Poor blokes, the male teacher I mean and this female teachers husband :(
To be fair, it was the advanced class for sex ed. This one was 'sex training.'
Hah! At school we suspected that our English and Chemistry teach had something going on. Both were married and in their 50s. One day, the English teacher went into the chemistry storage which was righ next to our classroom. We didn't think much about it, but fifteen minutes later, our chemistry teacher followed after her. And then, for some reason, our English teacher just didn't show up to teach class.
My sociology teacher in high school was fired for throwing an chalkboard eraser at a sleeping students head. He was a great teacher, and always did this in good humor. Obviously not a great idea in retrospect, but we all knew that we could get away with sleeping in his class if we didn't mind getting an eraser upside the head if he noticed. I heard he was fired a few years after I graduated high school, and that kinda bummed me out. Probably deserving of a reprimand of some sort, but not getting fired.
My oldest son had a teacher who threw dry-erase markers at students for all kinds of reasons. I didn't believe my son until his younger brother had the same experience with the same teacher!
My math teacher did the same thing, the one and only time he did it to me I threw it back at him.
We had a teacher that used to do the same, the eraser was wood with felt on one side. He would see you, up to no good, while he was writing on the board - through the reflection in his glasses. He could launch that thing with fine accuracy, without even turning around.
I routinely had erasers thrown at me for being a smart ass. I think my teachers all figured, "no jury in the world would convict"
We had several teachers that threw chalkboard erasers at us...used to grab a pull us by our sideburns as well.....now that really hurt? Had a teacher push me face down into my school lunch for 'slurping' my spaghetti! Arsehole!
My high school US History teacher would throw things at anyone who interrupted his class including admin. He later became vice principal and is now a mayor
I had a teacher with anger issues. He would throw desks across the classroom.
I had a teacher throw a book at a kid once (it was my book) and she still works at the school. Also, we had a bus driver get fired because he pulled out a pocket knife to help a little girl get gum out of her hair.
The gym/health teacher caught us skipping school one day. The next day he called me out in the hall and kicked me in the shin. I think it was fair.
He was playing his guitar for students at my elementary school. He had been warned before, but the kids enjoyed it so he continued to play it for them anyways. One day, the assistant principal was lurking in the hallway and wandered to his classroom. She saw him playing his guitar and fired him on the spot. A whole lot of students were crying that day because he was an amazing guy. Edit: More information, this took place in a small, rural town in Georgia back in the early 2000s. He wasn’t the music teacher, he just used to bring his guitar and play songs randomly on some days and the kids enjoyed it. He’d been warned multiple times by his higher ups (why? IDK. He was a great teacher). He thought that before the break, he could play something for us one last time during the last week of school. It just happened to be the worst possible timing, while the assistant principal was walking through the halls. He didn’t come back to teach at our school when classes started again. If I recall, he got a job teaching at a different school.
thats f****d up. he was a good person who did nothing wrong. as far as i can tell the assistant principal is in the wrong.
I didn't think Vice Principles or Principles could hire or fire. Board of Directors. Anyway, this is absolutely ridiculous. If anything he should be applauded for holding his kids attention and them liking him so much. And the Last Week of School? Like they do anything of importance that week anyway!?!
Amen to that. Tbh I cringe when someone reaches for their guitar, but he wasn't doing any harm and might have inspired a child's creativity. They should get things in proportion
Load More Replies...I don't get it... Is "playing the guitar" code for something illegal? Like, smoking pot with the students?
My AP chem teacher had an affair with the principal. Principal got fired too. I felt bad for her. They didn’t do anything on school property, and it didn’t impact her performance in the classroom. Also, the school wasn’t able to find a qualified teacher to replace her halfway through the year, so we were all fuc*ed come test time at the end of the year. Not one of us passed that AP test.
That's ridiculous, unless your doing something illegal outside of school your personal life shouldn't effect your job like that. Sure reprimand them both and move on.
normally, I'd agree with you. But the principal is more or less that teacher's boss... No way to know it wasn't coercive, and in the current environment organizations are going to fire both parties, just to avoid any potential confusion later on.
Load More Replies...Teacher and principal were together completely legally, off school property, above the age of consent, neither married, but both got fired anyway
Load More Replies...What's the actions two consenting adults got to with anyone off school property?
I find banning workplace relationships between two adults very ridiculous. Plus, you shouldn't be able to fire someone based on who they are sleeping with, given they're two consenting adults.
Wall Mart tried to do that im Germany and fell flat on its face.
Load More Replies...Yeah, that had nothing to do with their jobs. Unless there was something specifically in their employment agreement that relationships with subordinates had to be disclosed and approved, there had to be something else going on... BS on this one.
While it was done off school property the issue is that it was a person in position of power (the Principal) with a subordinate (the teacher). Had the relationship/affair ended badly the teacher could have filed sexual harassment, stating "Quid Pro Quo". School, just like business, often have policies against dating between faculty and admin.
He didn't come to parent teacher interview night. The next day, he was late for class and crashed his pickup into a brick sign outside the school. Cops showed up obviously and allegedly he blew twice the legal limit. He called the principal 'a c*nt' as he was taken away.
Because he was qualified, maybe? I guess when you run a school district you can make sure you only hire people who will never make a mistake, but most of us don't have a crystal ball and have to assume people aren't going to do anything too crazy.
Load More Replies...She was always drunk, and drinking during class. She would leave us to cry in the bathroom.
That's very sad as she obviously had problems .... Despite that, she shouldn't have been teaching kids !!
Or she should be able to get a leave for medical reasons (i.e depression treatment and/or rehab).
Load More Replies...If she had gone to rehab and got her sh#t together, she should have been allowed to return to teaching (if she didn't have other issues obviously). Some of the best people are able to rise above alcoholism
One was such an unlikeable teacher they were asked to retire One sent someone elses di*k pics to a students mom One robbed a bank
Was the last one the one from Series of Unfortunate events? Mr. Bass I want' to say?
There’s a school with a solid vetting program for its teachers. Sheesh!
Arrested by the FBI for credit card fraud. It was a few months after the arrest when the reason why he disappeared came out in the open.
Secret Service is in charge of credit card fraud. They're part of the Department of the Treasury.
Coach/History teacher of course. First off some of the early warning signs we all should have noticed first. He showed up the first day of school and told us he was a youth minister and that we would always see him in long sleeves and pants because he had tattoos and he regrets them. That he didn't want to accidentally encourage any of us to get some too. Two weeks later he is in shorts and polo shirts showing off multiple looney toons tattoos. He taught 6th grade US History out of a textbook. Word for word. We did multiple chapters a day and were expected to do every assignment listed for each chapter. This averaged about 3 hours of work a day. In 6th grade. He was the only class that year to regularly assign homework and he received multiple parent complaints about the workload. He would often leave the class alone to read chapters. He would then go out to the hall or parking lot to make out with his girlfriend who would arrive randomly. He was the middle school track coach and thus spent a lot of time in and around the middle school locker rooms. Too much time.... He took photos of the kids running for the yearbook. These pictures eventually made it onto his work computer desktop. Then his phone background. Only the girls though. But the final straw that got us out of his care. He showed up to a middle school basketball game drunk and tried to yell at the ref. He was fired that day and not allowed back on campus.
So the thing that got him fired was being drunk at a game and not being a pedophile/sexualizing his pre-teen female students. Wow. Just wow.
I have three hours of work per class to in 6th grade, but it is a pre-AP school so that explains it. Still, I never get enough sleep.
Idunno. looney toon tats could either be absolutely awesome, or among the worst tats of all time.
Load More Replies...Story- my fourth grade teacher, who was actually pretty cool, had lots of tattoos. He had one on his calf that had a topless woman on it, a cowgirl I believe. Whenever he would wear shorts, he would put a bandaid over her boobs, lmao. One day he forgot the bandaid and a friend walked up to him and TOLD HIM he forgot his bandaid. He responded "Oh no, does it make you uncomfortable?" The friend was a girl. So am I. We just kind of laughed because it did and it was so funny the 😂. He never forgot the bandaid again.
Had a history teacher get fired for going off syllabus and spending time on the pre-Judaic flood stories. One of maybe two reasons I'm obsessed with Mesopotamian/ Anatolian/ Egyptian history now.
Truthfully the way water flooded the Fertile crescent compared to Egypt is telling in their religion and culture. Fascinating. Too bad the school was a butt.
I’ve never heard of a teacher being fired for deviating from the syllabus.
Probably taught at a religious school. Got in trouble for teaching evolutionary reasons for Iron age occurrences vs creationism.
She had fallen off the wagon and was drinking a lot to the point where it was affecting her memory. We kept doing the same lecture on density in sixth grade science for a month, until one my classmates decided to ask another teacher about it. From there she went to rehab. If anyone wants more context. She was our homeroom and science teacher. She was very nice, and married to our assistant principal, so she had a little bit more leeway. While she was able to remain sober for a while, she eventually passed away do the effects of her addiction a few years after this. She never seemed like a bad teacher, but she was always stressed to the absolute maximum, always felt like she was working from behind, and generally struggling to keep up. You know, the traditional tail end of the "functioning" addict lifestyle.
I hope that the class learned something else from her class. Compassion.
This is sad but not a good teacher. Our eighth grade pre-algebra teacher very obviously drank during the day. We loved it because we could do pretty much whatever we wanted (what 13 yr old is going to say hey mom/dad I'm not learning anything?). Consequently, you guessed it, algebra class 9th grade, no clue.
My Science teacher (Y8) was HOD and we had the same lesson for months. We used to go in, sit down, get out books etc (this was the '70s - no 'phones) and just do something else for the hour!
There was a tornado in our area. The college I was in was leasing a multi-floor office building. Alarms were sounding outside, and people were retreating into the stairwells for safety. Teacher blew it off and said people were just making it up to be funny. Learned when I got home that the tornado was right outside the window I was sitting next to. Reported him to the faculty. So did others. He was gone the following week.
"...the tornado was right outside the window I was sitting next to.".......?! gotta think if the tornado is right outside, you'd know it way before you got home. #thatlinewrecksthecredibility #eyeroll
Just making it up to be funny. Tornado emergency alarms sound off for a reason and it's not funny at all. Used to live in Texas. You obviously know when tornado season is, but anyone who gets complacent about it is absolutely nuts.
Real men don't take cover during deadly natural disasters.
Load More Replies...Teachers really can't ignore tornado sirens. There was a tornado that ripped the roof off an elementary school near where I lived, and it was the teachers who saved the students by physically lying atop the littlest ones to keep them from being blown away. Tornadoes are really, really dangerous!
I'm throwing a big ole bullshit flag on this one. I've been in a tornado - well, three of them actually. Even the smallest one was powerful enough to blow a house into a pile of rubble and snap a telephone pole right in half. If there was one outside of your window, it was either a large and relatively harmless dust devil, or you would have spent some time in the hospital afterwards while the surgeons were removing most of that window from various orfices on your body.
I am pretty sure you are lying about this. I would have noticed a TORNADO RIGHT OUT SIDE THE WINDOW I was SITTING NEXT TO.
It’s path led it to a window where he should’ve been, but because he was home, he didn’t notice.
Load More Replies...Tornadoes are funny things. You don't always SEE a funnel on one. There would be hella high winds though.
I had one 100 feet away from my house and it sounded like a freight train and it felt as if the walls and roof of the building would be sucked up at any time.
He “accidentally” made a really racist joke thinking the class would think it was funny (they didn’t ofc) so he was fired that day.
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Load More Replies...He straight up didn't show up to work one Monday, didn't call in to arrange a sub or anything. He ghosted the school for a whole week and then tried to come in the following Monday like nothing happened. We also had a 5th grade teacher overdose on meth but I honestly don't know if she got fired or resigned. It didn't happen at school.
She embezzled thousands of dollars from various club funds. There were also rumors of her sleeping with students, but the administration never bothered to look into that.
I don't understand students that agree to sleep with their teachers. I feel like that would make it weird when you go back to class?
While I agree, do you remember the hormone surge in high school? Many kids that age aren't exactly rational about sex.
Load More Replies...Blah blah blah.... Rumors are nothing. There were rumors that my parent's owned a toy store too, but that was clearly not true. I believe nothing of rumors spread by teenagers.
He pushed some kid who hit him against a wall
There was this one kid who was always acting up and talking back to our woodshop teacher, one day the teacher just lost it and lunged across the table grabbed the kid by the shirt and knocked him off his stool...both student and teacher alike looked shocked. There was a collective gasp in the classroom and you could tell by the look on teachers face he knew he screwed up majorly, but man did that little s**t of a kid look like he was going to piss himself!
Don't mess around in shop, you walk out with 9 fingers.
Load More Replies...I’d be fired the first day. If a student assaults me I’m not just going to sit and take it
Kid deserved it. If someone physically aggravates you, you should have every right to hit them back.
Yes. As my mother once told me: “I’ll kill you if you start a fight, but I’ll have your back if they hit first and you just end it.” (The death threat is a joke, obviously)
Load More Replies...Kid can't hit you either. It seems like a reasonable self defense response
Load More Replies...'wait, what? Did the kid hit the teacher? Then the teacher pushed the kid against the wall to avoid further confrontation? And then was fired. Typical school mentality. Bully beats up someone, someone has enough and protects themselves, bully wimps out and cries, the one trying to protect themselves is the one who gets punished!! Leaving the instigator to freely commit more foul deeds.
I don't see what's wrong with that, kids can't be hitting other people.
You have the inherent right to protect yourself. A child shouldnt be hitting the teacher.
Teachers at my high school got fired on a pretty regular basis (principal was a narcissist) but here's one of the rare ones we actually heard about. The school went into lockdown because someone was seen hopping over the fence onto campus at the start of the school day. Freshman geography teacher locked his door, didn't control his class, wouldn't let one of the students back in, and jumped at every sound he heard. For comparison, the sub in senior literature next door didn't have a key to lock the door, but grabbed the handle, got on the floor, and planted both his feet on the frame so that the door couldn't be opened. I think the dude was a linebacker for football, too.
I can't defend the rest of it- but when I was trained for lockdown drills we were specifically told that once the door is locked, you can't open it back up. Even if there's a student or teacher on the other side begging. You can't open the door bc the shooter could be using them as bait, and doing so would put everyone in the room at risk. I don't work in schools anymore, but I still have nightmares about kids being on the other side of a door I can't open. It's a horrible thought.
That is unspeakably terrible! Good Lord! Shitty pay, no love from principals, parents OR children and also PTSD from someone hopping a fence - I don't need to ask why nobody wants to be a teacher. Jeez! (Now I'll have nightmares, too.)
Load More Replies...The sadest part of this that no one really reacts to how weird the whole thing is. Some are even commenting about proper training and drills.
I worked in an elementary school for 20 years. We had active shooter/intruder drills at least twice a year so everyone knows what to do just in case.
Load More Replies...Actually, what to do in that situation is absolutely NOT to stand in front of the door. You barricade and be as far from it as possible.
If the door opens outwards (which it must or bracing his feet against the doorframe wouldn't help) barricading it won't do much good.
Load More Replies...That level of lock down they are not suppose to open the door even for a student. Reasoning is if an intruder has a student hostage and has them plead at the door the be let in. Now they intruder has an entire classroom hostage (or worse) and a place to hole up. The point of a lock down is to minimize potential victims and keep the intruder in the open to make them easier to apprehend. Kudos to the sub for making the best of the situation. Fail by the administration though, Sub's should always be able to secure the room. If the room has a lock block (rubber slide that keeps the door slightly open) then a key isn't necessary they door should be locked anyhow.
Jesus, I am a student teacher in the UK and it scares me to think about the fact that you have to train your staff and pupils on what to do if an active shooter gets onto the school grounds.
All are trained from K through grade 12 at least two drills a year.
Load More Replies...1st teacher - it might be difficult to stay composed if you suspect an active shooter is near.
to be perfectly blunt, until you've been in an active shooter situation, all the drills in the world won't make a difference. you're still going to panic. you're still going to freak out and make mistakes. the important thing is to no freeze up and do nothing.
Load More Replies...He got arrested driving through Nevada over the summer with 5 lbs of weed in his car that he'd bought in a California. He had no intention on telling the district and we only found out because a news reporter from the town he was arrested in contacted our superintendent for a quote on the matter. He was let go immediately.
Probably. Have you been to a school in Utah? I'd smoke a lot of weed if I had to teach these little shits too. 3 of them are mine, so I know of what I speak.
Load More Replies...I mean, 5lbs of weed is A LOT of weed. That's definitely some intent to distribute charges right there. I live in a legal state and that's still absolutely a felony amount of weed. Carrying it over state lines? Those are big charges.
5 pounds..... 5 f*****g pounds.... 5 F*****G POUNDS OF WEED! WTF!!! THAT IS SO MUCH F*****G WEED! HOLY S**T!
Holy S**t that is a lot of weed, but I guess if you live in conservative square state you have to stock up!
A teacher gave alcohol to some students in a field trip out of the country, they students were 16-17 and they asked if the could order beer, later they took photos and it was all over facebook. This was years after I graduated but rumors spread quickly.
We would have gotten a teacher fired on each overnight trip!
Load More Replies...In Germany beer is allowed to be drunk at that age. It wouldn't be a big issue here. Hard alcohol like vodka is a no go.
Pfffft. 15 on a skiing trip to Italy we were in the pub every night. Drinking age was 14 at the time and teachers asked our parents if they were fine with us drinking supervised. Best school trip ever. Half of us ended up in pubs where the teachers weren’t. XD.
Was it in a country where drinking age is 16 or 18? They were not breaking the local law, then.
he gave alcohol to some students, or did they ask if they could order beer...not clear
He was a wonderful friendly and handsome teacher. This girl had a crush. Some bi*ch told the teacher about this girl’s crush. The teacher felt awkward and avoided her eyes from then on. Girl got hurt. Complained to the principal that he was being creepy with her. All the heads( which included my father) were called for a meeting with him. He got sick of defending himself. Shouted:’fu*k you’ll’ and left the school. They fired him before he could hand out his resignation. Edit: to clarify some things- it was one of the best schools and all the richie rich kids studied there (i studied because my father was a faculty, otherwise we don’t have so much money) and hence teachers were dealt with very harshly. On one occasion, a teacher was fired only because it seemed on the cameras that he hit a boy hard. The parents complained and he was fired the next day, without listening to him at all. My father knew that he just patted him, but the kid was spoiled and he lied, also the teacher was a junior one. I mentioned my father so that you’ll know how i know what happened in the meeting. He just knew that a girl has complained and now they are called. Also the teacher we are talking about was EVERY student’s favourite. So other teachers were jealous and they all assumed he is very lenient and encourages us to not follow other teachers and stuff, so it might have made it hard for him to say he stayed professional always.
Anyone else getting The Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me" vibes? You're probably all way too young.
Don't stand... don't stand so... don't stand so close to meee :> don't worry, not too young
Load More Replies...No, it is the action of the girl that had the crush. The teacher might have found out another way.
Load More Replies...I heard a rumor that my favorite teacher from 9th grade got fired when I was in 10th grade because he left his class unattended
Around that age, we had a (married) teacher get in trouble for leaving us unattended on an overnight field trip to go hook up with the bus driver.
Load More Replies...Don't understand this reason; it's not like he left a bunch of four year olds with matches
Can't you deal your about 15/16.. old enough to babysit little kids
unattended for how long? unattended as in stepped out for 5 min to get a drink of water or unattended as in didn't show up at all that class period?
Seriously? I remember classes being left unattended for half hour-hour, with just a fellow student to "take names"
So is he not allowed to go number 2 (for instance) because TEENAGERS can't sit in a class and wait on a teacher for a while? No wonder kids get such an 'adulting' shock when they leave school.
If I had a dime for every time a teacher left the class unattended when I was in school, I would be rich. What is it about people today that they think the class is going to completely fall apart unless they are constantly supervised? This explains so much about the crappy millennials I have to work with now. Unless you are standing right behind them, they can't get anything done.
A teacher at my school pretty much forgot she had a lesson (we are 12/13 year olds) and I doubt anything happened to her
Mrs. K at my kids's school was fired after her husband developed brain cancer. The pressure was getting to her and she became short-tempered. Twenty years working and she was kicked to the curb. Soon after, she killed herself. She was a really great person; I still miss her.
One of my middle school teachers was fired after he was arrested for taking a 13 yr old student across state lines for a hotel sex party.
My fifth grade teacher once pulled my hair and smacked my face against a gymnasium wall, and then led some weird bullying campaign against me. What sticks out from that is him teaching us how to draw mountains and pulling me up in front of the class to show them "how shitty Christina's drawing is" and my subsequently going into epic meltdown mode and saying I was going to leave that school and him doing some weird cheer that he kept trying to get the students to join in on. I was 9. He did suddenly disappear not long after that.
I went to a small rural HS in Ohio. The school had a rule that if less than 6 students registered for a class, the HS didn't have to offer it. My senior year, I had to take physics to be able to get into college and I was one of two people to originally sign up. I talked the twin daughters of the superintendent, the son of the school board president, and the daughter of the shop teacher into taking physics so I could get my needed credit to get into my college. 10 weeks in to physics, we were still working on vectors (a force has a direction and magnitude ). Nothing more complex than addition of them. The connected kids pretended to not understand so he couldn't move on. He he finally announced he had to actually start teaching physics. They refused to do homework or take his help. The twins and the superintendent's son all got Fs on their grade cards and he was fired next day. Next job in Michigan, he won state teacher of the year and 2nd place national teacher of the year.
In high school we had a perverted teacher who'd organize his class by putting the girls in skirts up front, girls in pants in the middle and guys at the back. He'd then occasionally drop things so that he'd have to bend down to get it so he could look up the girls' skirts. Weird thing is most of the conventionally pretty girls found it hilarious and started making a game out of it. They'd challenge each other over lunch breaks (my class had him right after) to see who could make him pop an erection the quickest. So now you had this gaggle of attractive 16 year old girls also dropping things, leaning over their desks and calling him over to ask questions quietly because they were "too embarrassed to ask it out loud". He did end up getting fired about a year or so later but none of us clicked how inappropriate any of that was until many years later...
All one teacher at my old school: Supplied alcohol to underage students? Check. Seduced students if they were the least likely to tell on him? Check. Distributed p*rno videos to male students for a couple extra bucks? Check. Lost his job at his next place of employment for all that? Yep. I was lucky. He said something to me and I lied b/c I *knew* the "vibe" was all wrong. Words weren't, but his eyes... My one classmate fell into such a depression after he was done with her... He eventually got fired, but then got another teaching job. And then got fired. I think it took about another decade before he finally got arrested. Yeesh.
Younger sister's best friend was sleeping with the art teacher. In Middle school. Middle school. They later got married, they've been married for 35 years now. Of course, he's not a teacher anhymore.
Both after I graduated but... One really nice HS teacher threatened to blow up the school. Not any of the students, he liked them, but was tired of all of the school politics. The HS boy's Hockey coach was fired after one of the hockey players had sex with an unconscious girl at a party. With a handful of his team mates watching. And at least one recording it. Obviously the coach's fault. Not the parents that raised such sh*t kids or even the one's whose house it happened at.
I played the saxophone as a kid. When I was 12 yo we moved to a new town, with only one saxophone teacher. I didn't like him. Couldn't clearly explain why, he just made me feel really uncomfortable. My mom trusted my instinct and let me pull out of the class, though that meant I could no longer receive lessons. One year later he was fired and arrested for sexually abusing several female students. My mom always tell this story to emphasize the importance of believing and trusting your children.
My principle got fired for spanking a kid. With a paddle. This was 2 years ago.
Mrs. K at my kids's school was fired after her husband developed brain cancer. The pressure was getting to her and she became short-tempered. Twenty years working and she was kicked to the curb. Soon after, she killed herself. She was a really great person; I still miss her.
One of my middle school teachers was fired after he was arrested for taking a 13 yr old student across state lines for a hotel sex party.
My fifth grade teacher once pulled my hair and smacked my face against a gymnasium wall, and then led some weird bullying campaign against me. What sticks out from that is him teaching us how to draw mountains and pulling me up in front of the class to show them "how shitty Christina's drawing is" and my subsequently going into epic meltdown mode and saying I was going to leave that school and him doing some weird cheer that he kept trying to get the students to join in on. I was 9. He did suddenly disappear not long after that.
I went to a small rural HS in Ohio. The school had a rule that if less than 6 students registered for a class, the HS didn't have to offer it. My senior year, I had to take physics to be able to get into college and I was one of two people to originally sign up. I talked the twin daughters of the superintendent, the son of the school board president, and the daughter of the shop teacher into taking physics so I could get my needed credit to get into my college. 10 weeks in to physics, we were still working on vectors (a force has a direction and magnitude ). Nothing more complex than addition of them. The connected kids pretended to not understand so he couldn't move on. He he finally announced he had to actually start teaching physics. They refused to do homework or take his help. The twins and the superintendent's son all got Fs on their grade cards and he was fired next day. Next job in Michigan, he won state teacher of the year and 2nd place national teacher of the year.
In high school we had a perverted teacher who'd organize his class by putting the girls in skirts up front, girls in pants in the middle and guys at the back. He'd then occasionally drop things so that he'd have to bend down to get it so he could look up the girls' skirts. Weird thing is most of the conventionally pretty girls found it hilarious and started making a game out of it. They'd challenge each other over lunch breaks (my class had him right after) to see who could make him pop an erection the quickest. So now you had this gaggle of attractive 16 year old girls also dropping things, leaning over their desks and calling him over to ask questions quietly because they were "too embarrassed to ask it out loud". He did end up getting fired about a year or so later but none of us clicked how inappropriate any of that was until many years later...
All one teacher at my old school: Supplied alcohol to underage students? Check. Seduced students if they were the least likely to tell on him? Check. Distributed p*rno videos to male students for a couple extra bucks? Check. Lost his job at his next place of employment for all that? Yep. I was lucky. He said something to me and I lied b/c I *knew* the "vibe" was all wrong. Words weren't, but his eyes... My one classmate fell into such a depression after he was done with her... He eventually got fired, but then got another teaching job. And then got fired. I think it took about another decade before he finally got arrested. Yeesh.
Younger sister's best friend was sleeping with the art teacher. In Middle school. Middle school. They later got married, they've been married for 35 years now. Of course, he's not a teacher anhymore.
Both after I graduated but... One really nice HS teacher threatened to blow up the school. Not any of the students, he liked them, but was tired of all of the school politics. The HS boy's Hockey coach was fired after one of the hockey players had sex with an unconscious girl at a party. With a handful of his team mates watching. And at least one recording it. Obviously the coach's fault. Not the parents that raised such sh*t kids or even the one's whose house it happened at.
I played the saxophone as a kid. When I was 12 yo we moved to a new town, with only one saxophone teacher. I didn't like him. Couldn't clearly explain why, he just made me feel really uncomfortable. My mom trusted my instinct and let me pull out of the class, though that meant I could no longer receive lessons. One year later he was fired and arrested for sexually abusing several female students. My mom always tell this story to emphasize the importance of believing and trusting your children.
My principle got fired for spanking a kid. With a paddle. This was 2 years ago.
