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Throughout our school years, we meet all kinds of teachers: strict ones, funny ones, boring ones. Most blur together with time, but a few stand out so much they stay in our memory long after graduation.
Not because they were inspiring or life-changing, necessarily. Sometimes it’s because of the eye-raising stuff they pulled that still makes you wonder who approved their job application.
One Redditor recently asked people to share the most unhinged thing a teacher ever did in class, and the replies were exactly as chaotic as you’d expect. Scroll down to read the stories, and if you’ve got one of your own, feel free to drop it in the comments.
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#1
Unhinged in the best way. I once had a teacher give me $200 in cash once. He had overheard me crying to my friend about how my mother stole all the Christmas money i had saved up to buy my sisters gifts. We were very poor, and i wasn’t allowed to work, so once again my sisters weren’t getting ‘real’ gifts from me. I think i was a freshman in high school, maybe sophomore year.
Anyway, this teacher also knew my mother was struggling with addictions. He went home and told his wife, who also knew me, and they agreed to give me the money. He surprised me a week before Christmas break and I just remember sobbing.
Anyway, same teacher walked me down the aisle decades later. He was always one of the kindest men I had ever met and gave selflessly to his students. This man would have a fan club if we could lol.
Panda McPandaface 20 hours ago
Really good teachers are few and far between, they should be treasured.
Doug Stratford 18 hours ago
I worked with teachers and I found them to be first-class amazing people. It was an honour to work with such a fine group of human beings.
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#2
One day a bunch of jocks jumped my friend, who was a small gay kid, and were beating him badly. The teachers couldn't even get into the mix to break it up.
Then suddenly our very tiny, female sociology teacher slipped in under the radar and started tearing jocks off my friend like a superhero and throwing them down the hall like rag dolls.
She taught me to never be afraid of bullies
Bewitched One 1 day ago (edited)
I’m glad that woman came to his rescue. The others were likely men and didn’t care or worried about lawsuits for touching a student if I had to guess. But sometimes, standing up for others has to be the right thing no matter what “wrong” thing has to be done to stop someone and their behavior. Especially in cases such as this
Huddo's sister 14 hours ago
I got confused for a second when it said 'tearing jocks off' because I forgot the first sentence described the guys as jocks- in Australia jocks are men's undies.
Scott Rackley 14 hours ago
We had a student transfer in my junior year. Kind of a small kid some of the other kids thought they could bully. Turns our transfer kid had been taking judo since he was 5. Kids were hitting the ground left and right and he was putting some sting into the throws.
Kim Kermes 7 hours ago
Beware the wrath of petite women. We may take prisoners, but I'm not sure they prefer it that way.
#3
Mr. Bloom earned the nickname Mr. Boom when he threw a desk so hard (toward, but not at, a certain student) that one of the legs punctured the wall and it just stayed there.
The student was a POS and said some real vile stuff (about Mr. Boom's recently deceased kid), so the whole class backed Mr. Boom and we all said the student did it.
Hyzenthlay87:
Really says a lot that an entire classroom of kids all agreed to lie about that!
OP:
Mr. Boom was a damn treasure and made learning fun. Which was super hard to do because he was a middle school history teacher in an underfunded district.
Daisydaisy 1 day ago
What kind of kid says mean stuff to a parent of a child who's died? That is horrifying
Heffalump 1 day ago
Any kid that is young enough and angry enough. We learn what is and is not 'in bounds' to say in an argument over time, and at different rates: an angry kid will just say whatever they know will hurt most. This is why decent people don't write off kids as 'bad', they are learning to be adults, and if we tell them that they, rather than their behaviour, is bad, they believe us and become bad adults.
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M Whee 20 hours ago
I had a student jokingly say I didn't like him because he was a certain race. I responded that he didn't like me because I was a teacher and I saw this look come over his face when he realized I was right. He wasn't an easy kid after that but he started seeing me as human. (The race thing was silly, I have family the same race, it wasn't a thing, and I actually didn't dislike him, I just didn't put up with his tricks.)
AC 18 hours ago
You'd be surprised Daisy, kids at my daughter's school were bullying a younger girl because her mum had cancer. Kids are all kinds of messed up nowadays
Charlotte 9 hours ago
It's not a "nowadays" thing, there have always been kids who are bullies
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#4
Unhinged in a fun way, but my Religion teacher put on the DreamWork’s movie “Prince of Egypt” for us in class one day. When it got to the part where the song “You’re Playing with the Big Boys Now” was about to play he paused the movie, told us it was his favourite song, and that he was going to sing along and that none of us could stop him. He proceeded to prance around the room like a Cabaret dancer, yelling the song at the top of his lungs, staring down whoever was the nearest student to him. Loved that guy.
Setso1397:
Love teachers who just enjoy their lessons like that. We had just finished a unit on Jack London, and it was end of year core testing, so the teacher let the class watch "call of the wild" movie. Towards the end, there was sniffling and the teacher was crying in the back of the room- "are you crying, miss B?"
She says "It's a dog movie! You're SUPPOSED to cry during dog movies!" She was fun.
Michael Largey 18 hours ago (edited)
I taught a first hour freshman algebra class back in the 80s. We would usually start class by two students coming up front and leading the class in singing the "Toonces the Driving Cat" song from SNL. I ran into one of them recently, but since we were at a funeral luncheon we restrained ourselves.
BookFanatic 15 hours ago
My very prim and proper British Lit professor was getting a tad annoyed with our class because we wouldn't settle down. He yelled STOP...and then followed it up with ...In the name of love...before you BREAK MY HEART! He was not a good singer. Lol
Upstaged75 8 hours ago
We watched Dumbo (in Spanish) in my AP Spanish class when I was a senior in high school. Everyone, including the teacher, was sobbing about the part with Dumbo's mother. Not what I expected from class that day.
Sam Trudeau 19 hours ago
Prince of Egypt is an awesome movie. The latest equivalent is called "David", no guessing who it's about
Chewie Baron 16 hours ago
Tennant? Bowie? Duchovny? David, my best friend from Year 3, Urmston Primary School?
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My nine grade economics teacher opened a window and smoked a cigerette sitting on the sill. He told us he was giving us a lesson on addictions impact on people's abilities to do their jobs. .
Auntriarch 18 hours ago
Our physics teacher used to demonstrate Brownian motion at every conceivable opportunity, as it gave him an excuse to light up
My O My 15 hours ago
Had a crazy physics teacher shoot into a cake. With a real, ancient, loaded gun. In germany.
Scott Rackley 14 hours ago
Interested in knowing what "cake shooting gun" is called in German. I'm sure you guys have a word for it or can string one together.
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#6
We had a teacher who needed to leave class to use the restroom one day and the teacher across the hall who could normally watch us both for a few minutes was on a field trip...
He took out his glass eye and put it on his desk and warned us "I'm watching you" while he left to do his business.
That's how some of us learned he had a glass eye.
rufferton:
My grandpa had a glass eye and he used to do this!
IJustWantToNapPlz:
I had a math teacher in 6th grade that would clean her glass eye during tests.
Panda Kicki 14 hours ago
I had no idea my grandmother had a glass eye until I slept over, prob 6 yo, woke up, walked to granny and her eye looked at me in a glass of water on the bed table. Nightmare fuel, esp as she slept like a vampire with arms crossed and looked dead...
Betty Spaghetti 7 hours ago
I hope to never lose an eye but if I did I would *look* forward to doing this!
Jan Rosier 19 hours ago
Had a teacher who was swift of hand and made us beleive he had a glass eye when he had to leave the room...
#7
My Bio teacher in High School had another science teacher come in the classroom while he was teaching, have an argument with him and shoot him in front of all of the students. Everything was staged including fake blood, but it looked real enough to all of us.
Then he jumped up, and told us all to take our pulse. It was supposedly a way for us to experience the effect of stress or trauma.
Never found out what, if anything, happened to him or the other teacher.
itspurpleglitter:
Lmao. Surprise, kids! Here’s some ptsd!! 🤗
Vanishingf0x:
That’s insane. We did have two science teachers that would always interrupt the others lesson with some demo (both were chemists). So like one would walk in with a liquid on fire set it on the front table and leave just as the flame went out and the liquid changed color or would walk in with a piece of paper smack it as they left and it’d send sparks everywhere or they’d walk in with money on fire and throw it near the other who would stamp it out and show it wasn’t damaged at all, etc. Then after whatever happened the initial teacher would explain what was happening. It was always at a different time and often multiple times a week. I’m sure all those were planned things though and no one ever used a gun but there was often fire or a loud bang.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 day ago
I had my suspicions, so I checked OP's other comments - and yep, OP says this happened way back in 1977 or '78. Probably would not fly nowadays XD
Lee Gilliland 16 hours ago
That happened to me, too, but it was in college taking police science and it was to show us how unreliable eyewitness testimony is.
Stardust she/her 1 day ago
That blackboard in the stock image is the most nonsensical thing I’ve ever seen. Why do they have organic chemistry, physics and mathematics on the same chalkboard? And nothing is related in any way to each other
Laszlo Larthlanc 20 hours ago
I hope you'll still be able to sleep tonight.
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#8
It was unhinged but in a good way. My chem teacher lit his desk on fire using alcohol and a taser to introduce us to one of our next chapters. Also built a cannon in the hallway. He went through around 100 ceiling tiles a semester.
afcagroo:
Mine decided to demonstrate thermite. He apparently made too much, and didn't think about the Styrofoam molecule models strung overhead. He also didn't use a thick enough crucible. While he was busy putting out the Styrofoam fires, the thermite melted through the countertop. We all got to go outside for a while so the firemen could do their job.
caughtyoulookinn:
For mole day he asked us to use our home ec skills to sew and stuff a plush mole and the best one got to get blown up in the classroom.
EmbersAreOut 21 hours ago
What is up with Chem teachers being amazing? The best professor i have ever had was my Chem 1 and Chem 2 professor. He taught us chemistry concepts using stranger things clips, gave us a point of extra credit for every apple we ate in class, and gave us 10 extra credit points for reading Dune. Best professor ever.
Nicely 16 hours ago
Ah I can answer this one! It's because during a chemistry degree you are exposed to a lot of fumes (for example, we used acetone to dry glassware) and you lose all sense of fear. Except for a select few of us who retain the fear, and we go on to be physical chemists.
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Fabulous chocolate cookie 15 hours ago
I had a teacher like this who always lit a table on fire. But one time it spread and the firedepartement had to be called. After that he never did those anymore.
justanotherweirdo 15 hours ago
In that photo the teacher looks like he be a firebender or something, lol
Saeyoul Akiyune 10 hours ago (edited)
My chemistry teachers (actually *none* of my teachers at any school I went to) were this cool with their subjects...Even Forensics class was boring, despite me taking it because I was / am interested in crime and such.... :(
Sam Trudeau 19 hours ago
My chem teacher said they don't work with reactive metals because long story short, he made a glass explosive
#9
Made grill cheese on the radiator because “that’s how we did it in the ghetto growing up”.
ShadowBih42:
Math teacher regularly brought greens and other fragrant items for lunch, but she would put it on the radiator to slow warm for the entire morning. There was no escaping the… aromas. Nor will we ever forget her trimming her toenails at her desk, then using a clipping to pick her teeth.
#10
My 6th grade science teacher brought bullfrogs and a blender into the classroom. She told our class she was going to make us a special bullfrog treat and took them into her “laboratory” [blender noises]
She comes out with the blender full of green mush and goes to each kids desk and scoops some out for us to eat… everyone was sobbing and screaming.
It was guacamole.
Riley Quinn 13 hours ago
This is cruel and extremely unnecessary. If she wasn't fired, I hope they at least put her on probation for this twisted stunt.
nicholas nolan 13 hours ago
Guacamole with a blunder? You're gonna bruise the avacado that way!
#11
Way back, like late sixties we had a English teacher in high school who liked the sauce ...... Like a little too much. She would have kids water her flowers in the windows. There would have been nothing wrong with that if they weren't plastic.
mrnoire:
I was fond of my third grade teachers hugs because she smelled like my father's backyard parties. Years later I realized the smell was perfume and booze.
Sue User 1 day ago
We had a health teacher that would give back rubs if you were too tensed up. Not long just 5 secs , to let you know you were hurting your body. Sadly probably not allowed these days.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 22 hours ago
There was an 8th grade teacher in my middle school who was a known perv- I never had him, but everyone said he was always looking at the girls and finding excuses to brush against them, or small little touches, always keeping it deniable, I guess, because he was still there. Well, one time his wife was a sub in my computer class when I was in 6th or 7th grade, and I was frustrated because they were making us type with our hands covered (I look down at my fingers when I type, especially back then). I remember her coming up to me and beginning to rub my back, like, both hands on my shoulders. I made it pretty clear I was uncomfortable, my shoulders were up to my ears, but she didn't stop for a good few seconds. My friend and I stared at each other like "what the hell????" It was so uncomfortable.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 13 hours ago
Having active alcoholics teaching back in the 60/70s was a problem. There was one in particular who would go ballistic if we were too loud and would make students stand in the metal waste bin if they misbehaved. It finally got to the point where we rebelled and walked out of his class. By the following week, he was no longer teaching.
#12
Decided to show us how earthquake proof the lights were by hanging down from them. They were not indeed rated for such a test.
paraworldblue:
That's like the infamous story of the guy who wanted to demonstrate the strength of the glass in a skyscraper window by running and jumping into it. He was right that the glass wouldn't break, but the shit holding it in did break, sending him plummeting to his death along with the unbroken window pane.
Am I Funny? Maybe or maybe not 22 hours ago
Lawyers. Always forget the loopholes
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otiose 11 hours ago
As I have been told multiple times - only if he didn't already have kids. Darwin winners cannot pass on their genes!
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 13 hours ago
A+ for the unbreakable glass. F- for the poor-quality glazing. And, I'm sorry to say, F for the guy who used his body instead of a desk or chair or metal rod to test the window.
Nicole Weymann 3 hours ago
IIRC he had done that test repeatedly over the years, and likely worn out the frame that way.
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My teacher locked me inside the classroom.
For context i fell asleep midclass and woke up when it was break time.
One of the best teachers ive had. He also liked to throw stuff at near me :D
-braquo-:
My brother had this brand new teacher. And my brother kind of made his first semester hell. So during second semester my brother fell asleep in class. The teacher quietly had everyone exit the classroom, and turned the clock ahead an hour. Then he acted like he'd just came into the class to find my brother asleep and made a lot of noise to wake him up. My brother panicked, grabbed all his stuff and ran out of the classroom. The rest of the class was in the hallway just laughing when he came running out of the class.
JB 18 hours ago
You know what I do to students who sleep in my class? Let them sleep. If you were up till 3am looking after your little brother because your mom was on the night shift or because your parents were screaming at each other again, I'm not going to t*****e you. Hell, I once even escorted one of my lesser-favourite students to a room with a couch and found a blanket!
Zophra 14 hours ago
Many will tell you they were up playing video games, online, etc.... It's a careful call where compassion is needed vs. common sense in contacting parenets.
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My history professor told us that when teaching night classes there was a student who fell asleep every class. so one class he wrote on the board class is over everyone leave quietly then lectured as he walked out the door. Thought is was pretty funny prank until security called him in the middle of the night, because this student was locked in the building. This was before panic bars were common on commercial properties and the doors were chained shut. I assume this happened in the 80s as he was telling us this in the mid 90's.
Upstaged75 8 hours ago
I had a teacher throw my books out of the 2nd floor window when he caught me doing my math homework in his class. To be honest it was pretty funny.
Purple Gurl 13 hours ago
Had a teacher in college who liked to throw chalk in the mouth of students who fell asleep with their mouths open, head back. He got one guy with three 'baskets' before the kid woke up
#14
9th grade World History. Annoying entitled rich kid with Napoleon complex (he was a small guy) acted up, just nonstop verbal harassment. She picked his entire desk up, with him in it, and threw it out the door. Yes he was small and she looked fit, but that was a flex nobody saw coming and no one messed with her again.
Michael Largey 17 hours ago
I did exactly that to an particularly obnoxious and disruptive 8th grade student. His eyes opened so wild I wondered if he'd fit through the door.
#15
I feel like I’ve had a very sheltered school life 😂 the worse I can think of -
I went to a girls school. In biology, our beloved science teacher (Mr Christodoulou, very young and handsome, we all fancied him) was showing us a video on giving birth and he kept rewinding it right after that STRETCH when the head pops out, rewind, play, him maniacally laughing, rewind, play, while we all screamed and crossed our legs, rewind, play about 10 times!
Come to think of it, I don’t think we had any teen pregnancies that year so it worked! 🤣.
otiose 11 hours ago
Worked to discourage teen pregnancy, but that maniacal laughter was VERY UGLY. Almost like he hates women?
Deannamite 9 hours ago
More like science is his discipline and he doesn't have the same reaction to bodily functions as the average person.
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I once had a drunk substitute in 8th grade who gave me a pass to the bathroom, then locked me out. I was a good kid and friends with the principal, so I just went to his office and told him what was going on. He walked back with me, asked me to try to knock again, and when the drunk sub yelled at me, he showed his face in the door window, and unlocked thr door woth his key. He smelled alcohol on her breath and found a pint of vodka in her purse (it was in plain sight). She was fired on the spot.
Riley Quinn 13 hours ago
The photo of a toilet reminded me of kids throwing cherry bombs and M80s into the toilets at the HS I attended back in the early 70s. Destructive little idiots apparently didn't know that our parents were paying dearly for the schools via their taxes.
primeline31 12 hours ago (edited)
Was that Plainedge HS? If so, I know who it was (not me, though. I went to a HS in Western Suffolk Cty).
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We had a French teacher who slept with one of the students in her classroom, I also had a teacher send me to the shop across the road and give me the money to buy him a newspaper and myself a pack of cigarettes so I could calm down and stop disrupting the lesson.
Pm_me_clown_pics3:
I had a teacher give me 2 bucks and told me to get him a coffee from the store across the street from our school. He said "if you're going to keep skipping my class at least be useful"
TheMFKNXerdo 15 hours ago
I do this, but less. I take out 20 pesos and tell the disruptive student to go get me a bottle of water, and take as long as they want.
Michael Largey 18 hours ago
My high school French teacher didn't sleep with a student. She slept with the school's star priest. They both left and got married. Some time later, he came back as a lay person and resumed teaching at the school.
#18
Semi-retired music teacher had a background in gymnastics and decided to demonstrate her ability to do a somersault in the library floor in her 60s. She got stuck and the custodians had to come help her off the floor. .
highwaycrossingfrog 15 hours ago
Perhaps not, but I think people in their 60s are probably more likely to attempt a somersault if they do
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My art teacher was the department head and the district made him order textbooks… he disagreed with being told how to spend his budget. First day of class, he borrowed a drill from the tech ed department with a huge bit and drilled the center out of one of the brand new books and said that’s what he thought of the school board telling him how to teach art, and encouraged us to use the textbooks for our first unit- paper mache! (Glossy textbook paper is not ideal for paper mache…).
Riley Quinn 11 hours ago
Although I fully understand this teacher's position on textbooks, the problem is that the local taxpayers paid for them via their property taxes. I would've preferred he kept them in a box in the back of the cupboard until they were donated years later.
#20
My college 2D Animation teacher told me 2D Animation was a dead art form and all cartoons would be 3D in the future, then made us do nothing but concept art for the 3D Animation class..... Then proceeded to start a relationship with one of the students which resulted in his dismissal and her quitting the course to go be with him, after which they both hung around in the nearby Tesco smiling and saying hello like nothing was wrong.
NGL What he said about 2D Animation pissed me off way more.
Plutomite:
If you haven’t already, check out the movie Klaus on Netflix. Mostly 2D animation (there’s like three scenes with permanent objects they chose to 3D animate), with BEAUTIFUL visuals. I think the story got scraped at Disney because Disney said the same thing “we’re going to cut our 2D department and scrap all the projects.”
Well luckily the guy who created Klaus saw the vision, created his own studio, and finished the movie thank god. It is SO SPECIAL and adorable and my husband and I HATE that it lost to Toy Story 4. Complete nonsense, ain’t nobody moved by Toy Story 4 the way I was moved by Klaus. 😡
Sue User 1 day ago
Klaus is a good movie. I wish I understood the concept behind the 2D 3,D debate.
Fellfromthemoon 23 hours ago
To put it simply: in 2D, the animators have to draw every single phase of the movement; in 3D, they define the start and end points of the movement, and the trajectory, and the computer calculates the in-between phases. 3D is really puppetry.
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Sally Moen 14 hours ago
I watched Klaus. I had no idea it was unique. Now I want to go watch it again
#21
Not a teacher, but rather my bus driver in middle school. A Christian school. He was an amateur drag racer on the weekends. He would race beer trucks, big work trucks, other buses. We’d scream out the windows to goad the other truck drivers to race. They’d rev their engines and go from the red lights. It was so much fun.
Bi.Felicia 16 hours ago
I remember having the best bus driver when I was in middle school, approximately 12 years old. For the last day of school, she would let us go crazy on the bus. We were tearing papers out of our notebooks and had paper ball fights, she even handed some of us squirt guns and silly string. The only rules were not to get too rough, so nobody got hurt and to make sure nothing ended up hitting the bus driver or interfering with her driving. The couple of kids that didn't want to participate sat in front seats and we had so much fun, eating candy and drinking soda, while battling it out with each other. One of the only times I didn't mind being almost the last bus stop, on the way home. Good times! 🥳
Bec 14 hours ago
We got to have a water fight on the last day of school. The school had banned them but our driver let us hide our bottles and supplies (this was before squirt guns were a big thing). After school he'd stop at the first house that was decently away from the school and let us go wild.
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Riley Quinn 12 hours ago
I mentioned earlier about the alcoholic teachers, but didn't mention our bus driver. How we survived those icy, snowy, twisting back roads with him at the wheel is a mystery.
Kim Kermes 7 hours ago
Our pep band seemed to always get a driver for tournament games we called Mario (Andretti). Once he was told the wrong time to pick us up, but got us there just in time. Amazed we survived.
#22
One of his ridiculous “policies” in his class that he loved to remind everyone of, was that if you ever answered him with the words, “I don’t know”, he would knock your desk over with you in it (desk with attached chair).
He made good on that promise one day when a girl said the forbidden words late in the school year. He tipped her and her desk over. She was wearing a skirt. Her dad was a cop. He mysteriously left to “teach overseas” after that school year.
Jack-of-Hearts-7:
The teacher equivalent of a dog being sent to live on a farm upstate.
Fellfromthemoon 23 hours ago
The very worst type of teachers punish a student for saying 'I don't know.' Do you want your engineer, MD or cashier make up an answer, instead of looking it up?
Michael Largey 17 hours ago
I encouraged my students to say "I don't know" if they didn't. I told them it admitting that was to first step necessary toward knowing.
Riley Quinn 10 hours ago
Outside of our home, my father was a quiet man, well-respected for being honest, but he had a nasty temper when pushed beyond his limits. If this had happened to any of his kids, this creep would never teach again. He'd be eating all his meals from a straw while restrained in a wheelchair.
Kim Kermes 7 hours ago
My mom would have cleaned his clock, even if it hadn't been me. Wouldn't have dared tell my dad, he would have torn him limb from limb.
cecilia kilian 18 hours ago
I would think it was obvious: skirt flips up in the fall to reveal underwear. Falling is embarrassing enough ( not that I agree with that), but being exposed in front of the class is over the top humiliating.
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My 7th grade music teacher was so triggered by the 13 y/o summer attire (short skirts and spaghetti tops) that he threw their bags out the window. When questioned, he said he couldn't concentrate and they were trying to distract him. He went to a mental institution for a bit but came back to teaching later.
Bewitched One 1 day ago
Yea doesn’t sound like that guy needed to be anywhere near young and impressionable middle school girls
Riley Quinn 11 hours ago
Sounds like he had p e d o tendencies and had been attempting to control them on his own. If this is true, being in a mental institution "for a bit" wouldn't have removed those tendencies.
CP 8 hours ago
I know it isn't kosher to pity those people but I do. I can't imagine the mental anguish of having an attraction like that.
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Showed up in a bathrobe completely naked under it. Took it off in front of the class. She was drunk.
Different teacher got arrested for doing coke in the class room and a student walked in on her.
Vice principal married a senior a year after she graduated. They now have children together. He wasn’t allowed to close his door with female students.
My school district was NUTS.
MiaowWhisperer:
That last one happened at my school too. Music teacher though.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 9 hours ago
Going to a HS reunion here is Utah, it's actually quite common to see those persons (teachers and kids) that everyone thought "might be doing the dirty" were and followed up with marriage and children. Unfortunately, it's not unusual for kids to marry right out of HS, with the blessing (and suggestion no doubt) of the predominant religion here. And then stay in the marriage -- despite a***e of all kinds, cheating etc -- because of that same religion. It's no wonder that Utah is the biggest consumer of "Momma's Little Helpers" medications that are approved because they are prescribed.
Lorraine Woollands 10 hours ago
When I was in Secondary School (high school) we had a Biology teacher who had affair with a female what was 6 form student (she was 17). School found out, fired him, and he went off with the girl, moved away. Last we heard about them was that they had got married (he was about 24/5 years old, think he was fresh out of teaching college
Never Snarky 8 hours ago
HS chemistry teacher left at the end of the year so he could marry a 16-year old student.
Riley Quinn 11 hours ago
I don't recall any teachers or principals getting students pregnant, but our priest got a Middle school student pregnant.
Pedantic Panda 22 hours ago
Depends on the school of course but very few would be vice principal before the agreed of 30. But it's worse than that, it is a serious a***e of a power of position. And if they married a year after she left school, he had probably been at least planning it when she was a student.
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Poor dude had PTSD from Vietnam and ended up hiding under his desk and crying. It was awful. Thankfully, his best friend taught in the classroom next door and came over and helped him.
Lee Gilliland 14 hours ago
If he was in Nam I kinda doubt it. We were hated back in the day.
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Sparky Hughes 16 hours ago
We had this insane teacher that served Vietnam. Sometimes in the middle of teaching math, he would pause and start talking about a battle like he was reporting to a superior. It was a stupid college math prep course since the highest math was AP Calculus at my school, which I would have had to retake. I am very good at math and mathematical sciences. I ended up doing a whole semester’s worth of homework and just aced through tests. He started sending me to indoor detention for doing homework for other classes since I finished classwork early. Everyone knew he was nuts and the coach who ran detention just had me grade papers for his health class. My best friend was half Vietnamese and he saw me one time with her. Well, one day I came in and he did his switch to another reality and started throwing things at me and accusing me of being a spy for Vietcong. It was my senior year and I’d already gotten accepted to college so I ended up doing work experience so I could drop the class.
Riley Quinn 9 hours ago
As someone with PTSD, your use of the terms "insane" and "nuts" is beyond offensive. Just wanted you to know who downvoted your loathsome comment.
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#26
Over weight science teacher once sat on a chair and the metal legs buckled in front of the class. Dude was so pissed, or embarrassed, he got up off the floor and threw it out of the third storey window.
2 minutes later a science teacher from downstairs came running up demanding to know who threw the chair. After my teacher told him to relax it wasn't a student, he was then told the gardener was working down below and copped the chair to the head.
Straight trip to the hospital and workers comp pay out for him.
Nikki Bastian 12 hours ago
My middle school teacher broke a chair the same way in the first week of school. She held it together until the period ended, but we could tell she was upset.
#27
Had a 7th grade history teacher keep telling a girl to stop fiddling with her earing. It wasn't noisy or anything. The girl kept playing with it while the teacher was wandering around the classroom giving us our lecture.
She came up behind the girl and yanked it out, but when she did, she ripped it through her earlobe, not out the hole. Girl screamed, grabbed her ear, blood everywhere. Yelled at the teacher to give it back, teacher did not. Girl went to grab it back, teacher slapped her and the fight was on, blood all over both of them.
Girl went to ER for stitches in her ear, was out for a day or 2, no detention or anything. Teacher got arrested, pled to battery of a minor. Didn't do time but caught a fine, lost her teaching license (and that job) and ended up losing some kind of civil lawsuit.
T.M.P Janssen 22 hours ago
When I keep in mind what my parents did/said to absurdly insane teachers... I think my parents would have thrown hands, especially my Dad.
#28
Student got a warning for using a Walkman.
Teacher was like: One more time and it will go out of the window.
It did.
Michael Largey 17 hours ago
Yep. Did it all the time. All sorts of things. The teacher in the classroom below me was a former student of mine, so he knew exactly what was happening.
#29
Had a teacher that was in Hustler magazine back in the day. Someone found a copy and taped the pages to the blackboard then pulled down the projector screen. Class starts and she walks in and lifts the screen and everyone started to either laugh or gasp. She turned and just pulled them down sat them on her desk and started the lesson. Never said a word about it in class that day .
#30
Chemistry teacher got so entranced by the glow of white phosphorous she forgot to cap the vial in time and it exploded, burning half her desk.
Other chemistry teacher wanted to make the difference between lithium and sodium in contact with water extra spectacular and used larger pieces than strictly necessary. The lithium clump melted through the sieve holding it under water, bobbed to the surface, exploded and ended up stuck to the ceiling, happily burning on.
No one got hurt with either explosion. Great fun.
After the experiments clearly showing how readily alkali metals react a classmate stole a piece of sodium and put it in his jeans pocket. Didn't earn him a Darwin award, but it was a good attempt.
Betty Spaghetti 7 hours ago
I heard tell of a student who suffered burns when they tried to steal a piece of elemental sodium from its oil-filled container by wrapping it in a paper towel and putting it in their pants pocket lol
Riley Quinn 9 hours ago
I can't remember what went wrong in HS chemistry back in the 70s, something to do with mixing chemicals in the hood. What I do remember is the class being rushed out of the room along with nearby classes. Overreaction on the teacher's part or proper safety procedure has been lost among the detritus in my memory bank.
#31
One of mine brought a microwave to class and made popcorn during a test, then ate it slowly while maintaining eye contact with everyone.
#32
She went off on a rant about "the good old days" when she didn't have to worry about people getting offended by what she said. Then proceeded to say the N word a dozen times. Came in the next day and the principal was standing in the back of the classroom while she "apologized". I heard she was allowed to retire a few years later after a different time she said about the same.
#33
In the sixth grade, i finished a math test before my teacher did. she graded my paper and said I got a problem wrong, and made me re-do it. I had to redo the work 3 or 4 times, before I finally said to her, “maybe you got it wrong.” she checked her work lo and behold she was wrong. she was mean to me for the rest of the year.
this same teacher got mad that I “didn’t show the work” and I’m lIke, “I looked at it and knew the answer, how do I write that down?”.
Ghosty_Boo-B00:
They hate when you just know the answer… show your work… but I didn’t need to do any work to get the answer, it just clicks in my brain… even though I tutored the other kids I had one math teacher fail me on principal… they switched me to t A different teacher and I got a paid tutoring position since my way was pretty easy to learn from… but that original teacher absolutely hated me especially if I corrected her errors…
John Dilligaf 16 hours ago
from grade school to university, "always show your work" was the rule in every math class and test I ever took.
Saeyoul Akiyune 10 hours ago (edited)
Same here. I guess it was to "prove" there was no cheating involved. I hated it.
Load More Replies... Sparky Hughes 16 hours ago
I had a professor in college that insisted we show our work in a finance class. I’m somewhat dyslexic with numbers and she always gave me credit and would take off one point. Her attitude was that in the real world we would be on computers.
Riley Quinn 11 hours ago
I always assumed we had to show our work to remove any doubt we were cheating.
Rick Murray 14 hours ago
When I was 11 I discovered BBC BASIC, and that the computer could do my maths prep for me. I did show my working, I wrote the programs down. Teacher......was not amused.
Bigmomma 12 hours ago
I had an english teacher that sent me out of class in high school for answering a question right that she thought nobody new. I was a fan of greek myth so watch hercules and stuff back in the day. The question was who was icarus dunno if spelling right i prefered greek to english lol but anyway i was outside class when my head of year approached me asked why i was out he didnt believe me when i told him so he asked teacher and class the class confirmed what i said i dunno what happened after as i got transfered to a better class
Michael Largey 18 hours ago
Filling out the answer key. (Which she should have done before to check for typos or other errors.)
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#34
Oh man, my health teacher came into class one day and she was not a popular teacher, she was a Karen before Karen was a thing (mid 90's), anyway she comes in and is just lost, out of it visibly and just blurts out, "I went home yesterday and caught my husband having s*x with another man...IN OUR BED!!" and she started screaming and crying. We were all like ..........uhhhhh.
Another teacher came in and took her away and another teacher came in and told us to read quietly and she just sat there until the ball rang.
Petra Schaap 15 hours ago
that happened to me once in college. Something similar. She didnt start screaming though, and we (class of all girls) just let her vent, listened to her, told her she was a queen (she was very sad) not sure what happened afterwards, but at the end of the class she said she felt so much better and thanked us.
Michael Largey 17 hours ago
When her husband left her, our next door neighbor said the same thing about him. The difference was that our neighbor turned out to be lying.
Charlotte 9 hours ago
I am sure the teacher realized that right about the time the shock wore off and they broke down
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Gym teacher made a kid take off a knee brace, put down his cane and run laps. It was true that the kid was faking it, even down to the doctor's note, but that was a big risk.
Beowulf33232:
Having been injured before, I feel like there are certain tells in your movement. Actors never get it right in movies.
That being said, I'd never be sure enough to call a student out on it.
invisibilitycap:
My parents have kept in touch with some of their friends from college and one guy went to grad school to become a physical therapist. He’s explained to my dad that some people come to him claiming an injury for worker’s comp but if they really were injured they wouldn’t be able to move this other body part the way they are
Daniel Atkins 19 hours ago
I bet the doctors name might have been a give away. Wondering was if Dr. Mario Dr. Feelgood, Dr. No,. . .
#36
Threw a kid against a wall and broke his collarbone. He was out for a few days, she continued working until retirement. Early 80s, 3rd grade. I didn't think too deeply about it at the time but once I had kids of my own, I was baffled as to how the parents didn't press charges, much less see that she was fired.
Aileen Grist 23 hours ago
My parents - I'm 71 now - would just have said that I must have done something to deserve and would have given me a leathering at home afterwards
Salvador Ciappara 13 hours ago
Amen! My entire K - 12 experience was brutal. Starting with the nuns spanking you bare bottom for talking in class - often! To middle and high school teachers making you touch your ankles so they could wallop you with a wooden paddle for your transgressions - and often in front of the whole class!
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 18 hours ago
We had a teacher pick up a boy and throw him against the door. The teacher was sacked straight away.
#37
It was a college Intro to Logic professor. In the first class, he slammed his head repeatedly (and hard!) into a desk when someone answered a question wrong, while screaming “no no no no no!” Second class, another wrong answer, and he ate a handful of chalk in frustration, like he was Cookie Monster slamming some cookies. I dropped the class after that.
nottheactualphoto 9 hours ago
Logic is a bunch of pretty flowers that smell bad.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 9 hours ago
I was an older student by 10-15yrs, and let me tell you, the number of Freshman students who could barely read frustrated me, so I can only imagine what teachers, profs, and instructors dealt with day in and day out. Our kids are becoming dumber every year.
#38
Not a teacher, but a bus driver. He pulled the bus over, picked up a text book and smacked a disruptive kid with it. Dropped the book and went back to driving us.
-braquo-:
This kid in my neighborhood was always a trouble maker. One day on the way home he had done something, I can't remember what. But the bus driver pulled over, marched down the aisle to his seat grabbed him, dragged him up to the front and threw him out of the bus into a snow bank. We never saw that bus driver again.
Ashamed_Magpie:
The bus driver I had in year 6 was nuts. He was an old dude, and would scream at us for talking to loudly. And yes, we probably were but we were kids and him yelling at us made us only want to be louder. A few months after he started, he pulled the bus over and made us all get out. Then fucking left! This was a time where even some adults didn’t have phones so none of us did! Most of the kids said they’d just walk, but there was a bunch of littles that couldn’t be abandoned so the rest of us had to walk back to the school. Got a new driver and never heard about him again but thinking about it now, that must’ve been a child endangerment charge.
Sue User 1 day ago
But now the line has shifted so far, the bus driver is not allowed to complain. The kids know there are no consequences so they act up. They are always hiring.
Charlotte 8 hours ago
It's not necessary about the kids. Bus drivers are not well paid, and driving a bus in all weathers, in traffic etc is stressful. Many simply find another low paid job job. For example, my husband drove a city bus for a decade. After 3 people drove into his bus in 6 weeks (they all "didn't see it" for various reasons) he decided enough was enough and became a janitor
Load More Replies... Sparky Hughes 16 hours ago
I had an aunt who drove buses. She was so cool. I used to go on her rides when I visited during spring break because they were such a trip. She invested in a radio system and brought her big parrot. Every ride was singing with the bird “dancing” and sometimes saying things. It would actually screech Shut Up when the music was off. Everyone loved her.
Robin Roper 9 hours ago
It would be hard to name the price it would take to get me to drive a school bus - hell of earth!
Never Snarky 7 hours ago
I was one for 5 years and I don’t like kids! But for whatever reason they like me. I had the best behaved kids on any bus and they all loved me. I respected them as real people and they returned the honor.
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Bewitched One 1 day ago
I remember my grade 6-8 bus driver Mr Verne. He had one leg. You knew if he stopped the bus and was headed down that aisle someone done f****d up. lol it was often me beating up on a*****e bully boys. He was actually a really cool dude. He never once wrote me up, I think cause he knew they deserved it. I was the new kid in 6th grade and every kid on that bus learned to leave me alone and not pick on, touch, or say rude s**t to me by the end of that year. I eventually got accustomed to sitting in the front seat behind the bus driver so I stayed there after a while and kept myself out of trouble 🤷🏼♀️
Brian Droste 11 hours ago
Just recently here in Indianam Indianapolis area a bus driver pulled over the bus. Got out and walked away with some students still on the bus. They had to get another bus to finish getting the students home.
cecilia kilian 18 hours ago
If you are a Stephen King fan, you may remember the episode in "Salem's Lot" where the mean school bus driver gets his just desserts.
#39
My primary school teacher was driven nuts with this kid that in today’s world would be diagnosed with ADHD. And this time was so bad, that she tied him up with an actual rope and duct taped his mouth and he stayed like this for 30 minutes. This was when we were about 8, we found shocking but pretty funny at the same time. Now, looking back… wow… .
Zero Costa 20 hours ago
my older brother has ADHD, in grade three his teacher threw a chair at him and scissors at his friend. as far as I know she retired normally. this was only in the early 00's
M Whee 19 hours ago
You say the early '00s like it was a long time ago...
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One of my teachers came to class high on pain meds. Not in the fun way, but in the: I just had a serious dental procedure and cannot really speak, but I came to teach anyway.
For context: I am not in the US. In my country, every employee gets 7 paid days of doctor visits a year, that can be taken by hours or as full days. And 20 to 25 days of vacation days a year. She could and should have stayed at home without loosing pay. .
Daniel Atkins 19 hours ago
Probably the pain meds shut out the part of the brain that said it is ok to say home. Probably the only thought was I should be at work now.
#41
Rattled my cage. I was in 8th grade. I was a habitual class clown and smart azz.
My history teacher told me he was going to rattle my cage if I didn't stop. I laughed and asked him what that means.
He walked over to my desk and grabbed the front of it and shook it with me in it. I got called into the office later that day because several students reported it. That was his last day.
#42
1st day of class and the 4th grade teacher is doing roll call. She stopped after calling this one girls name (obvious girl name) and said,
"Are you a girl or a boy?"
The student was obviously blindsided and literally sat there with her mouth opening and closing but no words were coming out. The rest of the class collectively gasped. The teacher then tried to defend herself by saying, "Well, its kinda of hard to tell because youre a little flat chested." And motioned to her chest. It was super f****d up and I still remember that to this day almost 25 years later. That teacher was super messed up throughout the year and caused a ton of drama.
Bewitched One 1 day ago
Yea cause as a 4th grader, she was probably like NINE. Most nine year olds are expected to be flat chested
#43
A substitute teacher in 4th grade asked us who all believed in Santa, had us raise our hands, and then told us he wasn’t real. That’s how I found out.
Michael Largey 17 hours ago
"Right, they just have someone come in and substitute for him. And we all know how lame substitutes can be."
#44
He kept liquor in a listerine bottle in his cabinet. The liquor was brown but the listerine bottle was the green flavor.
Lee Gilliland 14 hours ago
For all of us who remember Listerine in 5he round brown glass bottle...
#45
She would sell Pencils for $0.25 a piece if you didnt bring one. One time a kid called her cheap and she throw a whole bunch at him. Looking back it was funny at the time, now I realize she probably wasnt paid that much and was doing her best to help us.
Michael Largey 17 hours ago
Perhaps one purpose of the stiff price was to encourage the students to remember to bring their own pencil.
#46
Mine locked a student in the storageroom and forgot about him then class ended. Dude was stuck for 5 hours.
Lorraine Woollands 10 hours ago
Late 70's, we had a science teacher had was a really bad teacher, had a bad temper. His name was Mr Tap, so you can imagine some of the names he got called. Well there was a storeroom in his classroom, and he would punish male students with a rubber soled plimsoll. He used to take the student into the storeroom to deal out the punishment and close the door so that we couldn't see how hard he used to hit the students. We did hear the crys, teacher had a nervous breakdown, wasn't even at the school a year before he left. If he hadn't had the breakdown, he would have been fired sooner rather than later, because parents had started to complain about the bruises on the kids that punished
#47
In kindergarten we had one of those bathroom stalls inside the classroom. I was using the toilet and singing to myself (I was 5) and the teacher got upset, flung open the door, picked me up and spanked me in front of the other students and slammed the door shut. One of my earliest memories!
Lee Gilliland 14 hours ago
Spanking by a teacher was frowned on but not unknown until the 1970s.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 22 hours ago
The basics??? Everyone has to start somewhere. Reading, basic math concepts, etc.
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4th grade teacher (1995) used to divide the class into a "good" group and a "bad" group. the good group got to give him back rubs.
Brian Droste 11 hours ago
Whst did the bad group had to give him? Don't want to think about it.
Michael Largey 17 hours ago (edited)
I would have done whatever offense was needed to be put in the bad group.
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Rick Murray 13 hours ago
Well, let's see. There was a rivalry between the chemistry teacher and the maths teacher, in adjoining rooms. He would open the door between and let rip this ghastly foulness, then slam the door shut. A day or two later she would slide a metal tray under the door with a concoction that would empty his room in a heartbeat. After a few rounds, he was like "stop this, I'm a guy so I know how to make your car stop working". She just nonchalantly replied "chemistry teachers know chemistry" and then described exactly how if he ever touched her car, she'd blow up his.
Rick Murray 13 hours ago
Had a substitute teacher doing English lit. It was a special needs school, so half the kids couldn't read. It took less than half an hour on her first day before she screamed in anguish at somebody not being able to read Shakespeare. In a crowning moment of awesome, the dyslexic kid deadpan replies "I don't think this word is said like 'eeeee!' miss." She just got up and left. 😂
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 15 hours ago
One of my favorites was a student teacher. First day of class, our psychology teacher introduced us to a very nervous-looking young man and said he was student teaching and we should probably behave ourselves. The he turned to the poor ST and said "You're teaching this semester," sat down and pulled out a book. I mean, terrifying, but it was amazing to watch the ST get over his nerves and blossom over the term.
Lee Gilliland 14 hours ago
I think my favorite was when we were supposed to be climbing that rope in gym and this one kid, a jock, decided he didn't want to do it. Mr. Kirsky had been in pro football before he got an injury and was not a small man. This student said no pretty loudly and Mr. Kirsky turned and started at him like a freight train from the other side of the gym. That kid was well up that rope when Mr. Kirsky got 5o the spot.
Rick Murray 13 hours ago
Well, let's see. There was a rivalry between the chemistry teacher and the maths teacher, in adjoining rooms. He would open the door between and let rip this ghastly foulness, then slam the door shut. A day or two later she would slide a metal tray under the door with a concoction that would empty his room in a heartbeat. After a few rounds, he was like "stop this, I'm a guy so I know how to make your car stop working". She just nonchalantly replied "chemistry teachers know chemistry" and then described exactly how if he ever touched her car, she'd blow up his.
Rick Murray 13 hours ago
Had a substitute teacher doing English lit. It was a special needs school, so half the kids couldn't read. It took less than half an hour on her first day before she screamed in anguish at somebody not being able to read Shakespeare. In a crowning moment of awesome, the dyslexic kid deadpan replies "I don't think this word is said like 'eeeee!' miss." She just got up and left. 😂
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 15 hours ago
One of my favorites was a student teacher. First day of class, our psychology teacher introduced us to a very nervous-looking young man and said he was student teaching and we should probably behave ourselves. The he turned to the poor ST and said "You're teaching this semester," sat down and pulled out a book. I mean, terrifying, but it was amazing to watch the ST get over his nerves and blossom over the term.
Lee Gilliland 14 hours ago
I think my favorite was when we were supposed to be climbing that rope in gym and this one kid, a jock, decided he didn't want to do it. Mr. Kirsky had been in pro football before he got an injury and was not a small man. This student said no pretty loudly and Mr. Kirsky turned and started at him like a freight train from the other side of the gym. That kid was well up that rope when Mr. Kirsky got 5o the spot.
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