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It’s no surprise that gossip or stories of incidents that really happened travel very fast, especially in high school. If somebody saw some students making out, half of the school is going to know the next day, if somebody got in a fight or made a fool of themselves - the same situation.
However, there is nothing more interesting than seeing your teacher where they aren't supposed to be or, let’s say, spotting them on a date. Oof, those stories travel way faster than any dramas that students were involved in. But you know what’s even more interesting? Finding out that some teacher got fired and the reason that they got fired makes you even question if you are talking about the same person.
So speaking about that, one Reddit user created a thread asking folks online to share some stories about their teachers that led to them getting fired. Scroll through these incidents and upvote your favorite - just be ready because some of them are literally insane.
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#1
She walked into her house to find her only son had hung himself. The school district did not allow her any grieving time and then fired her because “she wasn’t at the same level she used to be and her students were falling behind”. Needless to say the community ripped the school board a new a*****e and she was hired back and received the rest of the school year off.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
That's one of the worst things I ever heard. :( I know someone whose son did the same thing and they're still a wreck one year later BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY F*****G ARE. Good lord.
Jeevesssssss 2 years ago
Good for the community for pulling together for her. Being fired and losing your income on top of YOUR ONLY CHILD... I've had a few close friends end it or die of nutritional collapse and sometimes reached out to their parents (mostly because I almost certainly had a better idea of their kid's headspace and thought they could stand to hear, "this wasn't about you/anything you did or didn't do, your kid was just so ill and felt so trapped and hopeless") and I stayed in touch with some for years. The strength and resilience they showed was incredible, but it took pretty much all they had - a case of one foot in front of the other, for as long as it takes. I think losing a child has to be the worst single loss a person can go through.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
I'm glad she got some justice but I think she should have sued for unfair dismissal
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
When my husband died I called my boss and told her I wouldn't come to work the next day. She said please do, we cannot very well do without you. So I did and I am glad of it. Sitting at home feeling all alone would have been terrible, and my colleges were so sweet that it helped. I don't think it would be best for anyone, but it was for me.
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Norah Reilly 2 years ago
What color was this woman? What color were the school district leaders/board members?
minnieslave0 2 years ago
I read this comment and underneath was the me comment section with "what do you think?" In it. Couldn't have put it better myself.
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Norman Yenney 1 year ago
Sickening. I hope she also made a wrongful termination case against them.😤
Isaac Harvey 2 years ago
Whoever believed/believes her career was more important than her family and friends should be fired.
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#2
My middle school choir teacher was a closeted gay man. He had a long-term boyfriend but none of us knew about it, until one day a parent saw them at a HOUSE PARTY making out. They spread rumors throughout the school and multiple parents immediately removed their children from his class. The parents complained to the school and got him fired. The good news is, he eventually quit teaching and opened up a bakery with his partner, which did very well and got featured on Cupcake Wars.
Hakunamawhatnow 2 years ago
I hope those parents got AIDS and corona and herpes and stepped on lego.
cerinamroth 2 years ago
Absolutely cretinous behaviour by the parents and school. And Pride is essential. On a positive note, I am happy to report that in the school where my mum taught religious education and philosophy for decades, a man transitioned and all the kids supported him 100%, as did the teachers. A few parents didn't know what to make of the situation but their kids quickly brought them up to speed! He remains one of my mum's best friends to this day.
Courtney Christelle 2 years ago
In middle school my math teacher was gay. Want to know how many of us cared? NONE.
Mel Colley 2 years ago
He was a good teacher before they found out he was gay...How did his quality of work suffer once they found out?
Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
This is so ridiculous. The LGBTQA+ community really has better things in their mind than "turning a child gay." As if it could.
Lavender 1 year ago
That’s what they r doing. They r saying that children are discriminating and being transphobic if they don’t fully support/become part of the community.
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In the early 90s, A female student at my high school was receiving obscene phone calls. When police interviewed her, she told them "he sounds kind of like my history teacher." The police put a tracer on her phone, and the caller did turn out to be her history teacher.
H.L.Lewis 2 years ago
By the early 90's there were finally stalking laws. If this had happened in the late 80's, you had to jump through hoops to get anything done about a stalker. And if the stalker knew what they were doing, then they would call a certain number of times, but always be one short of the protocol for that length of time. Like my stalker. To this day I can't stand to hear a phone ringing, no matter what time of day or no matter the ring tone.
#4
Teacher called up a female student to work a problem on the blackboard. The student didn't want to participate. After some verbal back and forth, the student went to the blackboard and muttered something under her breath.
The teacher grabbed the student's hair with both hands and proceeded to slam her head into the blackboard. "You **(slam)** will listen **(slam)** to me **(slam)**!"
About three seconds later, the teacher realized what she was doing and released the student's hair. The student looked at her, said "You are sooooo fired" and left the room.
We had a new math teacher the next day.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
Had any of my teachers did this to me or my siblings, my dad would gladly have gone back to prison for the same reason he spent a number of years there.
The CareTaker 2 years ago
This is why I tell people I can not "be" around kids, Not that I don't love them, but I have anger issues and Find "Basic common questions/why/ kid logic" as "no common sense"
Hamad§ 2 years ago
Why is this updated? If you can't even control your anger them maybe you should try and get some therapy.
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Patrick Smith 2 years ago
I had a Spanish teacher slam me against a board, full body, about 30 years ago or so. Still remember it clear as day. Don't know what ever happened to him.
ohjojo (you/your's) 2 years ago
What do you think the child said under her breath that set the teacher off? What would set you off?
Michael Braisher 2 years ago (edited)
Professional misconduct, clear and simple. However, just from this, the kid seems to be all mouth in the long game and the teacher simply flipped. REALLY flipped. Life's too full of d******d kids. I'm ALMOST with the teacher on this one.
sturmwesen 2 years ago
There is no reason other than selfdefense to hurt a student. That teacher is not fit to teach kids.
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Norman Yenney 1 year ago
Even as a middle schooler, I would have fought off that SOB bc, you know, hormones.
#5
A football coach doubled as a high school substitute teacher. He was covering my history class. A cheerleader left her bag in the back of the class. I took it to the teacher to let him know and went back to my seat. From my corner seat I saw him go though the back and pull out a pair of panties. He pocked them. I stood up and said out loud “did you just pocket her panties?” He got red in the face and yelled at me “what did you say? Why the f would I do something like that?” He then stupidly stood up. They were hanging just slightly out of the corner of his pocket. Everyone saw them. Two girls ran out of the classroom and got the principal that just happened to be in the hallway. They confronted him as he tried to leave the classroom. We never saw him again. As a teacher or a coach.
nm 2 years ago
One-in-seven paedophile suspects have jobs that could involve CHILDREN in posts such as teaching, health and the law. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3354747/Nearly-700-suspected-paedophiles-including-dozens-teachers-carers-arrested-child-porn-nine-months.html
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
I'm glad you stood up to him. And I'm glad he was never seen again. It scary to know that some of these kind of people get into the educational system.
Janine Hunt-Jackson 2 years ago
In the US this is still alive & well in scouting, certain day care, & the Church. Especially the Catholic church.
#6
Some foolish people thought it would be funny to accuse a teacher of groping them. It never happened, but by the time the truth came out the teacher had already lost his job and his reputation. He never worked again. Jokes have real consequences.
HangryHangryHippo 2 years ago
What the f---? How can someone believe this can be funny? They ruined the poor guy's life and these kind of fake stories affect real survivors of SA out there. Hope your pillow is always warm on both sides!
CouchChihuahua (He/Him) 2 years ago
Brother this is so evil that my chihuahua shudders at the thought of it 💀
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Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
So they think ruining someone's life is funny? What disgusting excuses for human beings...
Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago
This is why good movements get unnecessary names... few sickos can ruin things
DarkViolet 2 years ago
I read on USA Today a number of years ago that on Take Your Daughters To Work Day, a 13-year-old girl thought it would be funny (?!) to go through the medical files at her mother's clinic, pull random names, call them up, and tell them that they had AIDS. One of those patients was a 16-year-old married and pregnant girl. Her mother had to stop her from committing suicide. I never did find out what happened after that.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
A seven-year-old girl once accused a teacher of molesting her. This resulted in the teacher being suspended. However, one of the girl's friends came forward and admitted that the girl had bribed her and five other friends if they would say the same thing.
Jorie 2 years ago
This happened to the brother of a friend. He was a teacher, and female students accused him of inappropriate behavior a few years ago. He lost his job, his marriage, and almost his mind. He has been suicidal at times. The girls have since rescinded their account, but this man and his life are essentially destroyed.
iseefractals 2 years ago
Similar thing happened at my middle school. Guy had been a teacher for 30 some years, is in his mid 60's, one of the best in the school. Coached several teams aside from teaching science. Everyone loved him. Start of 8th grade year, new girl transfers in. Blond, dumb, stuck up and determined to be "popular" Middle of the year rolls around, New girl has failed miserably for the second quarter in a row, begs to have extra credit, fav teacher obliges. She comes up with a story of being groped. Absolutely none of the other students believed it. School board couldn't "risk" siding with him, send him on his way within 24 hours. Few weeks go by, new girl lets slip to a "friend" that she doesn't need to waste time in class when she can just get the "bad" teachers fired. Apparently, had played the same game at her last school. Everyone went to the faculty with this info, school board did not care. Fav teacher was resigned to working the deli counter of a krogers. New girl left the next year.
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
We had a girl who did something similar. She went to the office and claimed one teacher was sending her private messages and they had been having a relationship. School had him leave immediately. It came out in the next day or so that the girl had been lying, she didn't even have any messages to show as proof, and the school had tried firing him without any evidence. He came back (we were a tiny town in the middle of nowhere so his prospects of another job were very very slim without moving far away) and that girl was the social pariah for the rest of her school days there (I think she had a lot of mental problems, not excusing her, just that she was not right in the head in the first place).
Jessi Lovely 2 years ago
This happened at my school too with a kind, old, eccentric chemistry teacher who wiped a dangerous chemical off the front uniform of one of his students that spilled it on themselves to save them from a burn. They reported him for indecent touching and he was suspended. Thankfully he got hired back. Was such a sad, confusing debacle though 😔
#7
Used corporal punishment. We were first graders and she made those of us who didn’t have their homework kneel on salt/seeds/buckwheat. One of the kids in my class was literally the most obedient kid and she was top of the class and always had her homework—that day she must’ve forgotten it at home. She made her kneel and the girl cried so quietly and without a sound and peed in her uniform. She transferred and never came back after that day.
Yeah, it was a private school. Parents heard about it and threatened to sue.
TruthoftheHeart 2 years ago
Oh they'd have to protect that teacher for sure if she did that to my kid, that had to be so traumatizing.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
For me, the problem with corporal punishment was that my parents had taught me that I should defend myself if someone assaults me. So I did! I got kicked out of school so hard, I had to finish my education in England because I couldn't get into another school anywhere in my home county.
My O My 2 years ago
O god. I laughed very hard at your story! Albeit, when you stop and think about it is really is a tragedy. How did your parents take you getting kicked out of school?
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the harbinger of doom (she/he) 2 years ago
anyone who does that to kids is gonna be bitchslapped with a cactus
Mario Strada 2 years ago
I went to a Nuns school for first grade. The stories, from spraying misbehaving kids with DDT, to wanton violence. One day my grandpa came to pick me up and the nun called me, except she got my name wrong, so I ignored her and kept drawing a big Easter egg. She got more and more frantic "Paul, your grandpa is here!", "PAUL ANSWER ME!" and finally she was behind me and hit me hard on the back of my head. The pencil poked me in the eye and I screamed "MY NAME IS NOT PAUL". Like the psychopath she was, she didn't say anything else and just told me to get ready.
R Dennis 2 years ago
Corporal punishment was still common when I was in school. Our 5th grade teacher was known to break yardsticks on students - my older brothers were legendary in the numbers. When I good to 5th grade and he did attendance, he asked if R and D were my brothers. When I said yes, he moaned loudly "Not another one! I thought I was done with you!" I ended up being the only student who wasn't disciplined the entire year... on the last day, I went and stood in the corner to not be the only one.
LadySparre 2 years ago
My music teacher in 6th grade broke the back of 7th grade student. He slammed the boy into an old fashioned cast iron radiator. Boy's crime: He was 3 minutes late to class. Needless to say he was fired, but I was shocked to learn that he soon after was hired as priest at a parish just 30 km away.
LGBTQpanda 1 year ago
The fact that they were transferred and not fired is very telling. A private school should be held to the same standards as public schools.
Chris Sprucefield 2 years ago
That school and teacher would not survive the legal and public aftermath of that, aside from from the criminal charges being filed as a result.. Schools think they can apply zero tolerance for things? Well, guess what, so can I, and especially for any nonsensical BS they tend to try to pull.
BoredPossum 2 years ago
Here's a suggestion, make it illegal to beat kids, like the rest of the civilised world.
#8
He murdered three people. So yeah, teaching just wasn’t going to work out…
Strings 2 years ago
Here in WI, they do. Knew a guy who couldn't get a student teaching position because he had an arrest (not tried, not convicted, just arrested)
DarkViolet 2 years ago
A girl was found murdered at a Sacramento high school. The evidence pointed to a janitor who worked there. Had someone completed the proper background checks, they would have discovered that he had done time for murder.
#9
She referred to the January 6th "event" as an "insurrection" when asked by a student and a certain hyper Republican board member's kid was in the class. She was fired 2 days later for "inappropriately political remarks" in class. Yes, this was Florida.
Pyla 2 years ago
I hate maga and the vile propagandistic garbage it's put into people's minds.
scotterscotter85 2 years ago
The ones I have met have been very kind and they will go out of their way to help. So don't believe everything you read and hear.
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Sea Squirrel 2 years ago
This story seems a lot like this one: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9151791/amp/Florida-substitute-Teacher-FIRED-telling-students-Capitol-rioters-paid-Antifa.html
Joe Reaves 2 years ago
Except that's the exact opposite of what she was saying.
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Rostit. . 2 years ago
Ron DeSantis is a monster and a loser. History will not be kind to him and that is a good thing. the entire republican party is imploding at hilarious rates. good job trump. he did what so many before him tried to do.
Lavender 1 year ago
I thought it was a democratic party who is causing these insanely high inflation rates with unemployment at all time high.
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Sandy Kavanaugh 2 years ago
But, it WAS an insurrection. People died, others were hurt, our Capitol was trashed.
#10
Separated students seating arrangements based on their grades. All the black kids ended up being lumped together in the lowest seating grade and was assigned additional work. Black parents got mad and stormed the classroom one day. Teacher got escorted out, never to be seen again.
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
It's nasty that it happened but the fact the parents stood up for their kids is great.
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Zedrapazia 2 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it also wasn't such a ***coincidence*** that all the black kids had bad grades ...
Red Reilly 2 years ago
nowhere near the same, I had a drama teacher who it was known wanted to be an actor but it hadn't worked out. In my drama class he separated the smart kids who all had the skills to be famous actors and left the rest of us, he would whisk the future stars into one side of the room and leave us just sitting there. Then scream at us because we weren't doing anything.. umm yeah. you aren't teaching or telling us to do ANYTHING!
S Mi 2 years ago
Hmmm...wonder *why* all the black students had the worst grades? I know many face bigger challenges than their peers, but if it truly was all the black kids, there is probably a reason....like maybe a racist teacher, who is then willing to stigmatize them by putting them at the back of the class.
Jason K 2 years ago
There are a lot of reasons that black kids tend to underperform in school and white peoples try to add racism to the list instead of addressing the real problems that should be addressed. The fact that over 50% of black kids are being raised by single parent (almost always mother) is a big one.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
No one has to add racism to the list. It's been on the list for centuries. Yet you label it as not a "real" problem. And for all you know, Zedrapazia may have been referring to the same factors you did. She didn't mention racism - you did.
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Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Back in the 60s when I was in middle school "tracking" (i.e., dividing kids up according to grades/intelligence) was all the rage even though at the time many studies had already shown it to be counterproductive. Integrated education works best when it's done in a way that teaches kids to help each other.
Pancake_Pansexual_Panda 2 years ago
I am in a magnet program for advanced humanities and out of 100 kids there are about 10 black kids, which is 1/10. That is a lot and pretty impressive and they have one of the highest scores. Most of the magnet program consists of Indians, Chinese and white people tho.
INGi 2 years ago
My first grade classroom was set up that way. High reading group, Middle reading group, and Low reading group. Can you imagine??? First grade, and kids were already in the categories they would be in for their entire school careers. Even at 6 years old, I knew this was messed up.
#11
At my school the new French teacher started [getting busy with] the old computer teacher, who was married to the geometry teacher. At the end of it just the geometry teacher had her job and all the other two teachers money because she divorced the computer teacher and managed to sue the French teacher as part of an alienation of affection suit. Then she hooked up with the metal shop teacher.
#12
High School science teacher. Not so much fired as "forced to resign" for getting caught with a hidden camera in the supply closet in his class where he would let girls change for doing displacement experiments. A girl apparently noticed a red light or something, saw it was a camera, got tf out of there and went straight to school leadership. They came and apparently found the teacher frantically trying to delete footage. Resigning was better for the school's reputation, of course.
panther 2 years ago
But then it would be public record, and damage the schools reputation. Can't have that. Ship him off to another school, then it's their problem. Gee that sound familiar, where have I heard that happen before?
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PickleDragon she/her 2 years ago
Wait what class assignments require you to undress/change? He should have been fired/jailed.
Little Mandy Moo 2 years ago
What does 'let girls change for doing displacement experiments' mean?
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
No way they would be 'allowed to resign' where I live. It would be mandatory suspension, then fired and reported to authorities. Would have their teaching licence revoked too. If it was in the last 5 years, school would also have charges against it for failing to report to police.
LGBTQpanda 1 year ago
For some reason, teachers are allowed to resign over violating a minor's privacy and basically child p*rn. That means they can get a job somewhere else. The WILL do it again if there are no consequences. That's scary.
Janine Hunt-Jackson 2 years ago
Wish that the school's hierarchy had the courage to not only fire him, but also bring charges,
#13
Robbed a bank wearing the same clothes he wore to school that day
PickleDragon she/her 2 years ago
When the teacher salary is so bad you gotta rob a bank . . . 🫠
John Dilligaf 2 years ago
makes sense, as a teacher he probably couldn't afford to buy a a separate outfit for his second job.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
I bet the stupid bastard had a lanyard with his ID still around his neck.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
Not a school, but I once had a coworker rob a 7-11 and he forgot to take off his company ID badge with his picture and name in big bold letters.
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An underclassman I didn't really know dressed as a woman and robbed the bank 1/2 a mile from the school. As soon as the security camera picture was published in the paper multiple people knew exactly who it was. This person would always dress that way on cross dress day so all his friends knew it was him.
#14
He cut off my grandpa in an explosive road rage incident, pulled him out of his truck and beat him to the ground so bad that my grandpa was in the hospital for weeks. Thankfully my grandpa was okay, but his job (and his marriage, and social life) didn’t survive.
Edit: missed a whole word there
Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
I was gonna say mental but that also hurts
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Alicia Kessinger Bader 2 years ago
Was it the grandfather who lost his marriage & social life or the a*****e who beat the grandfather. Specifics, please.
Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
A teacher beat your grandpa? How is that teacher even alive, let alone fired?
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
Reading the last line, it sounds as if your grandpa lost his job and more, suppose the other guy was meant
#15
Teacher at my school wasn’t quite right. Students and staff had been mentioning things regularly to the deputies…just noting they were a bit odd, said a few funny things, didn’t seem to quite be with the schedule.
One day she was supervising an exam and she s**t herself. In the classroom. Then continued supervising. Eventually a kid left for a bathroom and desperately flagged down a teacher to ask for some help.
She left that day and didn’t return. She was weird but I hope she’s okay.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Could have been anything from brain cancer/tumour to early onset dementia. I hope the teacher is OK
Glitterati 2 years ago
A colleague suddenly started acted really oddly. She stopped washing but was oblivious to the fact she smelt unbearably bad. She used to be really grumpy and not very nice but suddenly became quite pleasant (this was odd given she was a prickly character). She started forgetting where she’d been or where she needed to be. It was sudden onset dementia. Literally within a few months from her regular self to completely unable to function. It was so sad. She had one child and nobody else in her life to help her and it was really tough for her workplace to get her support but clearly she couldn’t work.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
We had a teacher in primary school who had a break down, when she came back she was prone from swinging to Baptist happy clappy guitar to rage induced psychotic in seconds. I'm guessing modern diagnosis would be bipolar. I felt sorry for her daughter who was in our year, she had to sit and watch her mother falling apart in front of her friends.
Melody Wallace 2 years ago
I had a coworker start changing drastically and her personality shifted to almost childlike. This was in addition to some driving incidents and incontinence. It was brain cancer. Luckily she survived and is now a completely normal adult again. We are a lot less in control of ourselves than we would like to believe.
#16
Embezzling from the students. For quite a few years, she would collect money for this "senior trip" that never seemed to materialize.
She was arrested a few years after I graduated. I wonder if she's out of prison yet?
Seadog 2 years ago
sounds like the coach who handled senior dues 168 students x $26 minus the ones that didn't pay. Then when it came prom time the live band somehow never materialized and he would magically get a DJ to come take care of music on a moments notice. Yeah right. A DJ on a minutes notice, on a weekend, in summer. If you don't know how that isn't possible, ask a DJ. That DJ was booked months in advance
Janine Hunt-Jackson 2 years ago
Let's hope not! Though it's not, perhaps, as bad as some of the other incidents on here.
hwatinternation 2 years ago
Principal for my old primary school go arrested for embezzling money from the school, including savings accounts for kids that I think the school or some program would run to teach kids how to save. I actually saw some people saying he shouldn't be punished because he was a nice guy. Like, bro, he literally stole from you and your kids. Among many other things, he bought an iPhone for his daughter with school funds.
#17
Got caught getting high in her car between class periods
#18
She got caught making [hard illegal substances] when her in-home [hard illegal substance] lab blew up lol
mulk 2 years ago
*This [prohibition of parts of texts] is [inviting derision or mockery].
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Rostit. . 2 years ago
yes, they cant post hard drug names because they want the website to show up the middle east and south east asia where hard drugs are a bigger deal.
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third molar 2 years ago
Well if you read out the word "fire" it burns out your mouth -BP logic
My O My 2 years ago
Hell, I tried it and, yes! I needed a fire exstinguisher blow in the face to get it to stop burning
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#19
Used a sick day rather than a vacation day to fly to Japan to fight in mma. Got caught and was fired for improper use of time off.
Meep-Meep 2 years ago
OP says his career way unsuccessful and he found a different one soon sfter
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well that person was probably quite "sick" (injuried) afterwards, so it was just planning ahead.
Mel Colley 2 years ago
Sounds a bit excessive, I think they were looking for a reason to get rid of him.
#20
This happened a few years after I had his class. He was a cool dude and taught 8th grade history. But when he was teaching class one day, he hooked his laptop up to the projector to get the PowerPoint presentation going for that days class, and apparently he accidentally left very [LGBTQIA+ friendly adult media] up on his laptop and projected it onto the screen in front of all the students. He was fired soon after
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
“Very hardcore gay porn” according to the original thread
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Jane Hower 2 years ago
Must have been a few years ago as that would be PRAISED these days. ugh
Janine Hunt-Jackson 2 years ago
Oh, dear. Poor guy & poor judgement on his part to have it on a computer he used in class!
#21
Middle school teacher brought in her personal camera so students could record video projects. I guess she had a bunch of tapes in a box somewhere and just grabbed a random one for us to record over. She should have checked the tape first.
When me and my friends did something dumb in front of the camera (can't remember what we did), we rewound the tape to record over that part. When we stopped the tape to see if we had gone far enough back, we realized we probably went too far.
When we pressed play, the video that started playing was [an adult movie]. We later found out it was our teacher's sister and new husband on their wedding night. Our teacher was transferred to a different school and we all had to have meetings with the school admin to talk about what we'd seen.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Wait... this teacher had a sex tape of her own sister and the sister's husband? Alabama wedding nights are messed up, son.
Janine Hunt-Jackson 2 years ago
She really shouldn't have been transferred to another school; If her judgment was that bad. IDK. Smacks of priests being transferred to different parishes after sexually abusing kids.
#22
My kids’ principal got fired because she and her husband (also a principal in the next district over) were selling guns and [illegal substances].
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
Because BP is an international website and some countries have tighter censorship rules. If BP wants to keep doing business there, they have to.
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Dash Junior 2 years ago (edited)
“Illegal substances?’ Thanks for protecting my overly sensitive mind from the truth. Drugs would have shattered my fragile adult mind.
#23
He freaked out because the 13 year old boys wouldn't stop running their mouths. He threw a textbook across the room and told the class he could [take someone's life] with his bare hands
Cat Palmer 2 years ago
I had a similar one - science teacher had a sudden breakdown in a class of mouthy 15 year olds and started smashing equipment and shouting how much he hated us and that we'd all fail our exams and he'd be glad about it. He didn't get fired, just had to take some time off to get help and we were all instructed to pretend it never happened.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
My Spanish teacher once threw my math textbook out the window of his 2nd story classroom. It was because he caught me doing math homework during his class. :) He was a super weird guy!
Mel Colley 2 years ago
That's nothing! Gotta admit, kids today don't really know what bullying is
Morgan Wyatt 1 year ago
My kids had a math teacher who was constantly throwing things at kids including calculators and the podium. The school kept him because he was a coach!
Alpacas_Are_Life 2 years ago
I had a teacher throw a blackboard eraser at me once. Hit me directly in the chest. He apologized like crazy and said he intended for it to go right in between me and the girl I was talking to. I know he was telling the truth and didn't intent to hit either one of us, but it certainly shocked me into being quiet. The rest of the class got quite a laugh out of it though.
Amanda Hunter 2 years ago
When I was at school, a variety of items were hurled at naughty pupils.
#24
Had an art teacher who basically ignored the class and sat at her computer the whole class.
One day, a guy goes to the TV/VCR in the corner of a room and put on [an adult movie, you know the kind], muting the TV.
She didn’t notice. Word spread and she ended up fired.
Also, my a*****e of sophomore English teacher got fired for being “too friendly” with some female students.
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
My senior year of HS (90's) my English grammar teacher would hand us worksheets or assign a page in the book. They were super easy and we would finish before the period was over. He would read the paper and then leave the room. Occasionally, he would peek in the window on the door to make sure we weren't killing each other. There were yearbooks in the room. He was in the very first one when the school opened in the 1960's so he was probably about to retire and was just riding out his time.
Melissa Rosler 2 years ago
My high school science teacher married a student. That was a few years before I had his class. Don't know how he got away with that.
#25
He got drunk and went driving naked, flashing truckers
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
As a truck driver, I think it's the best idea you can have to get beaten hard
#26
Teacher threw a donut at an annoying student.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Lol, that's funny! Reminds me of the guy who broke up chalk pieces to throw them at students that weren't listening
Lucas Jackson 2 years ago
What was the student doing? Feel we need to know that before picking a side xd
LadySparre 2 years ago
My domestic sciences teacher could hurl a piece of chalk so it would hit you in the forehead with100% accuracy... I'm Gen X, so no-one even raised an eyebrow.
Joe Standford 1 year ago (edited)
And they fired them for that? You've never been hit in the head with a chalk board eraser and it shows lol
#27
He used to bribe students with good grades in return for food
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Same thing in my class but reverse. The teachers are trying to bribe this kid in my class with chocolate if he improves his grades
Brainmas 2 years ago
As in, if you get good grades I will feed you, or bring me food for "extra credit?"
The Blue Spirit 2 years ago
I got the impression it was "bring me food for extra credit". The reverse doesn't seem like something that would cause you to be fired (even with strict rules it seems like they would just tell the teacher to stop first)
Load More Replies... Richard Michael 2 years ago
I had a teacher who would write us a hall pass if we bought one of the chocolate bars his kids were selling.
Joe Standford 1 year ago
Was this a low income school? If so I don't blame him he probably couldn't afford food.
#28
Use of alcohol on the job.
Bottle in the top left drawer.
Took years, though.
bob cameron 2 years ago
If I had to be a teacher today I would either end up an alcoholic or in jail. Teachers are putting up with a lot of BS and are not getting the support they should from administration and or students parents.
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
My 9th grade history teacher stayed drunk but was a great teacher. Class was always interesting, though it is where I learned how to roll a joint. A skill I can say I've never used. She'd been a model back in the 50s and 60s. I always felt sorry for her.
Fish Fingers 2 years ago
A chap I know went to the pub one afternoon, to bump into a teacher rumoured to be a serious drinker. Teacher looks over and says 'Aren't you supposed to be in class?'. Friend comes back with 'Yes, sir. Yours.'. Teacher says 'Fair enough ' and they both went about their business.
#29
She made students make a tag saying “ I am a useless boy “ and made them wear it for a whole day in the school, also made them walk around the football field for an 1hr in her session.
What wrong the students did??, well they were talking and playing odd or even in her session”.
Next week she was fired.
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
Well, to be fair, if a kid is wasting everyone's time in the class & not wanting to learn, then they deserve punishment. This is pretty harmless, all things considered.
Julie Walker 1 year ago
She sounds like a dominatrix. Definitely may be a future serial killer. Wasn’t there a movie with a “like something makes Jack a dull boy? “
#30
Damn, they didn’t.
Multiple semi known affairs with students among the staff and life just kept on going…
The 80’s were a different time
Nancy Marine 2 years ago
Oh, yeah .. during my junior year of high school (1981) a senior cheerleader became pregnant. All the girls parents could ever get out of her was that it was one of the teachers. She wouldn't tell anyone who it was
Michael Largey 2 years ago
It may be that she didn't want to admit that she didn't know which of several teachers it might be.
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Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Being a student in the 80's and 90's was weird ngl. We had a married guy hitting on teenage girls, one teach was actually better when she was smelling of booze, a couple of hyper religious nutjobs one of whom gave worse grades to girls for misogynistic reasons and afaik even the teacher who choked out his own son wasn't fired, only put on notice or some 💩. Add to that a guidance counselor who basically lied to students to improve her quotas of people continuing from the middle school to the same highschool and I think you're starting to get the picture
Melissa Powell 2 years ago
Yep. Even earlier. Girls took typing. Lots of girls. Male teacher. He walked around. Leaned over desks and shoulders. We all knew it and never told. But we knew what he was doing and let him do it.
Nancy Marine 2 years ago
I graduated high school in 1982. The day after graduation one of the History teachers/coaches married a girl in my class. Which means they were secretly dating while she was still a student. He went in to teach many more years there and recently retired from the same district.
LGBTQpanda 1 year ago
Wow! It sounds like her parents or family members didn't protect her, if she married the guy. Why would a school allow him to teach after marrying a former student?
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Jaybird3939 2 years ago
In 1982 (my Sr. year)my Social Studies teacher was grooming me for an affair. Had me as his "class assistant" was always singling me out. I was too out of it for personal reasons and never really picked up on it. A few years later, I read in the paper he was arrested for having sex with students. That's what it took to finally make me realize what was going on.
#31
Big scary PE teacher knocked the living f**k out of a guy in my year during a lesson, student started arguing with him & called him a “Scottish bastard” so the teacher f*****g sparked him… he then proceeded to get the hairiest of sacks.
El Cucuy 2 years ago (edited)
Sacking is slang for firing. Got sacked - got fired. Adding hairy to it just emphasizes that the teacher was harshly fired.
Load More Replies... Fish Fingers 2 years ago
And that's why us English have been scared of the Scots for a thousand years!
#32
The drivers Ed teacher got a DUI. So he no longer could teach that class. He then became a PE teacher.
#33
She slapped a student across the face for mouthing off at her.
Michael Braisher 2 years ago
These kids know they're not out in the real world and not adults, but act like they are. When the odd vagbag gets it coming, the teacher has to resign. You used to be allowed not so long back.
#34
Dropping the "N" word to a few of the home boys. There's actually a video on YouTube of him explaining his reasoning for using it and how the way he said isn't bad. https://youtube.com/watch?v=9uvJzr0zZvk&feature=shared
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Why wouldn't they be allowed? It's a different word.
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Teacher was a communist and got into a physical fight with a student who had strong ADHD to who she named «f*****g ADHD kid». Parents got involved and it was straight out the door. No meeting
Justin Everett (Tehashi) 2 years ago
Not sure what being a communist has to do with the fact that i imagine the probably firing reason was the getting into a fight with a kid.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
One of my highschool history teachers was a Communist - and I mean he straight-up wore a belt with a Communist symbol on the buckle to class, which he'd happily show you if you asked. This was in Australia so we all thought it was funny rather than scandalous. He was also a good teacher who loved the subject. The only slightly scandalous thing he ever did was when he noticed a kid failing to respond to a question while slumped over the desk. Another kid explained that this was because the kid was asleep. Teacher said "IS THAT RIGHT?", and woke the kid up by slamming a ruler on his desk. I still feel a bit guilty for laughing.
Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago
Reminds me of the video of a teacher waking up a sleeping stupid by clapping and the student woke up and started clapping too. Lol
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#36
Selling illegal fireworks.
#37
Parents found out we where pooling money to pay a tutor to pass our exams. Went to the principal, made a big deal about it (as they should) and he was "let go" and we got a wonderfull teacher using his sparetime to help us catch up
Marianna Sf 2 years ago
Sooo.... a wonderful teacher is the one who works for free. Awesome. That's why nobody wants to be a teacher anymore.
just me 2 years ago
I'm guessing they were paying the tutor to pass the exams for them, rather than do his job and help them pass their exams.
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#38
A Spanish teacher got fired because he was teaching with an expired teaching license.
SincerelyMeesh 2 years ago
This reminds me of a bio teacher at my school. she said she had a phd in biology. turns out she had a dental hygenist certificate & faked her teaching license. She taught advanced biology but when the board found out they tested all her students at the level they should have been at, no one passed. the AP class was behind the standard class by 6 months.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Our bishop dropped on our high school a "principal" with no professional licenses or any degrees in education. And it turned out much worse than you could ever imagine. Then he got promoted.
Cat Palmer 2 years ago
Deputy headteacher applied to become headteacher when the incumbent retired, instead got fired as it turned out all his qualifications were fake. How it wasn't spotted earlier is a disturbing question!
Michael Braisher 2 years ago
Oh F**K OFF! **Lol! ** AT least make it because the Spanish teacher was a red hot naughty nympho, as per this Guardian story: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/08/joe-gibson-affair-with-teacher-seventeen-book-extract-nfbntw
#39
Because of me I think. Once in primary school i was messing around with a classmate, she threw a sponge at me, making me chase her around the classroom. Teacher tries to stop me and grabs me by the neck making me fall on my back. It didn’t hurt but I got surprised. I don’t remember how but some way the principal and my parents got involved and we never saw the teacher again after that. He was sort of a substitute teacher and from what I can remember he was pretty well liked even by me.
bElLa sTairZz 2 years ago
he might not have been fired, if a substitute teacher does a bad job the school can just stop calling them, and ti doesnt rly count as being fired. they definently deserved to be for what they did though
Michael Braisher 2 years ago
It may just have been a case of reaching out. Those little kids are FAST!
bob cameron 2 years ago
I agree. Let the little dears run wild in the classroom. After all they are just free spirits , and the rest of the kids aren't there to get an education.
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Accidentally pulled a hijab off a girl (got caught on something)
Strings 2 years ago
I can see a couple ways, that are innocent. But something tells me this was an "accident"
Load More Replies... nm 2 years ago
In France such accidents don't happen. Hijabs or any other type of religion declarations are not allowed in schools or any other public buildings.
SincerelyMeesh 2 years ago
"We don't have this problem because we took away everyone's rights"
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What do you think ?
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
Some students came to class and found the chemistry teacher in a fetal position under his desk. He had some type of breakdown and was removed by ambulance. He came back after taking year off and seemed ok. I hope so, he was a pretty good guy.
B.Nelson 2 years ago
I mean, I get it for some of these. I don't approve, but I see where this comes from. I had to spend 10 minutes today telling a bunch of AP juniors and seniors to stop throwing sticky-notes-stapler darts at the ceiling. They didn't stop even after I told them the whole class would stay after for a minute per dart. I literally had to take away the school supplies I gave kids because they were throwing them at each other.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Kids are idiots. Regardless of how good/bad the teachers are.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
My former Hindi teacher used to break a lot of rules and was physically & verbally violent to the boys
DB 2 years ago
These make my experience pale by comparison. Junior year at Catholic high school. Physics teacher was Mr. Carpenter. He spent most of the class time talking about anything except physics. His favorite subject was his dog. I was struggling in the class and once when I asked him a question pertaining to the course he gave me a half-assed answer and went right back to talking about his dog. I complained to my mother and she told me the next time to just leave. It was my last period class anyway. So a few days later when he was off subject again I just got up and left. I called my mother and told her. She said to let the main office know I was leaving and that she would soon be calling them. By the time I got home my mom had called the vice-principal and given him and earful. He told her that they had received numerous other complaints and would not be renewing Mr. Carpenter's contract which was set to expire at the end of the school year.
MezzoPiano 2 years ago
One of the coolest teachers I ever had got fired for being "too political" [read: he was openly liberal in the American South in the 90s]. He got a job at a posh private school in the nearest city almost immediately. Our loss was definitely their gain.
probably an apple 2 years ago
this was super recent. there was this teacher who showed his class his chest hair, winked at a few girls, told a girl to keep talking bc he “liked her voice”, his wife is like 25 years old and he’s around 50, he made students say if they’re going pee or poop when they need to go to the bathroom, but added another P: periods.
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
I know I could never be a teacher because I definitely can see myself throwing something at a kid. Not saying it's right, just that I understand.
Strawberry Pizza 2 years ago
A substitute teacher got fired from my old school for embezzlement if I remember correctly. And another allegedly for giving out exam answers.
Ellie Ahmed 2 years ago
My gramma got fired back in the 80s for marrying my grandfather. She had left her physically abusive and unfaithful first husband a few years prior and obtained a divorce. Then she met my grandfather (a widower) and they fell in love. When they were just living together she kind of got away with it being swept under the carpet by the Catholic school she worked for, but when they decided to get married and the school would have had to admit it was official, they fired her for "adultery", since they didn't recognise her prior divorce and considered her still married to her abuser. Just in case you wanted to know how screwed up the way Catholic Education treated women at the time was...
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
Some students came to class and found the chemistry teacher in a fetal position under his desk. He had some type of breakdown and was removed by ambulance. He came back after taking year off and seemed ok. I hope so, he was a pretty good guy.
B.Nelson 2 years ago
I mean, I get it for some of these. I don't approve, but I see where this comes from. I had to spend 10 minutes today telling a bunch of AP juniors and seniors to stop throwing sticky-notes-stapler darts at the ceiling. They didn't stop even after I told them the whole class would stay after for a minute per dart. I literally had to take away the school supplies I gave kids because they were throwing them at each other.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Kids are idiots. Regardless of how good/bad the teachers are.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
My former Hindi teacher used to break a lot of rules and was physically & verbally violent to the boys
DB 2 years ago
These make my experience pale by comparison. Junior year at Catholic high school. Physics teacher was Mr. Carpenter. He spent most of the class time talking about anything except physics. His favorite subject was his dog. I was struggling in the class and once when I asked him a question pertaining to the course he gave me a half-assed answer and went right back to talking about his dog. I complained to my mother and she told me the next time to just leave. It was my last period class anyway. So a few days later when he was off subject again I just got up and left. I called my mother and told her. She said to let the main office know I was leaving and that she would soon be calling them. By the time I got home my mom had called the vice-principal and given him and earful. He told her that they had received numerous other complaints and would not be renewing Mr. Carpenter's contract which was set to expire at the end of the school year.
MezzoPiano 2 years ago
One of the coolest teachers I ever had got fired for being "too political" [read: he was openly liberal in the American South in the 90s]. He got a job at a posh private school in the nearest city almost immediately. Our loss was definitely their gain.
probably an apple 2 years ago
this was super recent. there was this teacher who showed his class his chest hair, winked at a few girls, told a girl to keep talking bc he “liked her voice”, his wife is like 25 years old and he’s around 50, he made students say if they’re going pee or poop when they need to go to the bathroom, but added another P: periods.
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
I know I could never be a teacher because I definitely can see myself throwing something at a kid. Not saying it's right, just that I understand.
Strawberry Pizza 2 years ago
A substitute teacher got fired from my old school for embezzlement if I remember correctly. And another allegedly for giving out exam answers.
Ellie Ahmed 2 years ago
My gramma got fired back in the 80s for marrying my grandfather. She had left her physically abusive and unfaithful first husband a few years prior and obtained a divorce. Then she met my grandfather (a widower) and they fell in love. When they were just living together she kind of got away with it being swept under the carpet by the Catholic school she worked for, but when they decided to get married and the school would have had to admit it was official, they fired her for "adultery", since they didn't recognise her prior divorce and considered her still married to her abuser. Just in case you wanted to know how screwed up the way Catholic Education treated women at the time was...
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