Students, what is something your teacher did that upset the whole class? 

A male teacher told us he'd bring his laundry for us to wash so we could train for things "women are actually good at". It was an all girl school with a 90% female staff. He got fired VERY quickly.

In third grade an english teacher told a grieving classmate, who just lost her father, that "such is life, people die, deal with it" in a very dismissive and annoyed tone. Everyone was pretty disgusted by such behaviour.

Got mad at all of us when only 1 student did the homework over the holidays, and then gave detention to a student when he replied with "so did you grade our tests while in Cuba?" The way he said it proved that it wasn't a question but a jab, and the class loved that

My very first college English course was taught by one of those "You must address me as 'Doctor Last Name' only" types. She was also an absolute stickler for being on time, if she had closed the door for the start of class and you arrived late, you'd better not open it or face her wrath. Well, it just so happened that every single student in the class was a woman, and she thought this was fantastic, yay feminism, all of that. Then a week into the semester, a man walks into the classroom about 5 minutes after the door closed, and she went OFF. Screaming at this man about how dare he interrupt her class, how rude he was, this was just like a man, just laying into him. He waited for her to finish and said "I'm sorry ma'am, I just got back from my tour in Iraq yesterday and just finished registering for classes 5 minutes ago." She walked out of the class. 3/4 of the class ended up dropping it, myself included.

Was out sick for a week. Teacher expected me to have studied during that time and wanted me to take a test. I refused, saying that if I was too sick to be at school I was too sick to study and walked out of class. I didn't know at the time but about 90% of the class also walked out in solidarity.

My grade seven French teacher seemed to hate us. It was mutual. 1. She once kept our entire class as a detention because a few kids were being rowdy during a student teacher’s lesson that was supposed to be fun. Worst part is that she kept us in during what would have been Science class. We missed another class because of this. The science teacher was worried and called that teacher frantically since she thought we’d gone missing. 2. She would put classes against each other by saying that our class was horrid compared to the other class. (I had friends in the other class and apparently she told them that they were horrid compared to mine). 3. Forced a kid to repeat the same word for five minutes since he apparently pronounced it wrong (it was literally the correct pronunciation but with an accent). 4. Gave out tests that had material covered less that three days before. Always during the week so no weekend to study. 5. Once marked half the class’s tests wrong. Each question had equal weight so it was easy to find out. My test was one of them. When confronted, she did change the grades. My grade was even more off than it should have been. 6. Marks on oral presentations were based on “peer feedback” which for a bunch of middle schoolers meant the unpopular kids got worse feedback. Also the feedback was literally what a kid thought another’s grade should be, not criticism. 7. For certain assignments, the rubric and marking system was reversed from the standard. Because your parents have to sign all marked assignments, it caused so many needless freak outs. 8. Made us memorize song lyrics in less than a week for listening tests. It started off fine with children’s music made for learning French, but it quickly turned into us having to memorize French pop song lyrics from listening alone. It’s hard to do that with English, let alone a foreign language.

One of the boys in my class was one of the types with the “I don’t care” attitude and caused trouble. We had a sub teacher and he was terrible to her, arguing with her about something he was in the wrong for (I can’t remember what it was) The next day when our regular teacher came back she chose to punish ALL OF US by making us do a packet. Needless to say the whole class hated him even more after that and hated the teacher. If you are a teacher please never do a group punishment, it just makes the class hate you, we already don’t want to be there and you’re making it worse.

That mock assignment BS should count as abuse.

We had a teacher laugh at a kid when he said he felt sick and say he "shouldn't of eaten so much McDonalds". Kid was not eating McDonalds and this appeared to be a dig at his weight. When the kid started vomiting the teacher said it were good as he'd be able to "lose some weight". In another class with a different teacher my friend asked if they could go toilet and the teacher said no because he had asked "can he go" rather than "may he." My friend pointed out that this was hypocritical as the teacher had earlier allowed someone to go who had asked can they. The teacher then proceeded to walk up to my friends desk and pour an entire bottle of water down him.

Ah, the one about the german language class... I can definitely say that that is not the teaching method used here in Germany. That teacher just uses unnecessary pressure, which is the kind you don't want on teens/young adults.

okay, I HAVE to tell my story here bc some of these stories made me furious so, first off you have to know that I have a physical disability and I was doing my last grade for the A-Levels (here in Germany it's 13th grade, and it is quite a big deal to get your A-Levels, or "Abitur" how it's called in Germany) So, my math teacher hated me bc I always got horrible grades and only barely passed each test. He was very strict, and I wasn't the brightest in math and still aren't (therefore I'm very good at languages). Anyway, he picked me to solve a math problem on the board and I said "I don't know how to do it" and he then went on a rant about "how students nowadays don't want to do shit" and "that this generation is so spoiled" but what set me off was when he said "did you ever check in with the doctors to see if your disability makes you genuinely stupid?" my mouth dropped, and my whole class (mostly boys, who always had a witty comeback, were just stunned). Needless to say, I have never answered a single question from him ever sice, even if he picked me, I just doodled in my notes until he finally noticed he won't get an answer from me. But at some point, oh boii, he picked me to answer and I just flat out said "no, I do not want to answer" and he went like "okay young lady, go to the principal now and tell her you refuse to participate in class and that you're disrupting everything" and I answered (and I'm still very proud of that) "okay, I can do that, but then I will also tell her you (I didn't use the German formal "you", I just said "you") said I'm stupid bc according to you my physical disability also affects my brain. You want me to tell her that?" and he just went absolutely silent, the whole class was silent, and my seatmate gave me such a huge grin, and the teacher never spoke or looked at me ever again and I was so glad I was finally left alone. for the last three months. I still passed my exams, and now I'm studying at university, guess I'm not that stupid after all haha

In high school I was the best, most well behaved student in the class. I honestly hated it because all of the other students near worshipped me. I had self-esteem issues and couldn't handle it. The difficulty of being so popular and yet so lonely because I was too good in their eyes to be a friend was awful. Anyways, I had never missed a homework assignment, while everyone else didn't turn things in very frequently (It was a special independent high school, I was there because the public ones were too big for my anxiety, but a lot were there to get help with behavior and performance) One day in english I forgot about a homework assignment. It genuinely somehow completely slipped my mind, and I was so shocked. The English teacher got up to call my parents, and the classroom *exploded.* They almost never turned in their homework, on purpose because they didn't feel like it, and their parents were never called. Their outrage over my parents being called for my first missed assignment, because of an honest mistake, was such an outrage to them. Their reaction was more of a surprise to me than my lapse in memory. The teacher backed down very quickly. It was very surreal.

Had a literature teacher in uni who handed out a reading syllabus, told us we'd be tested on those books; then didn't lecture on the reading material! Over the next several classes, more & more students just never showed up. Eventually, there were just 2 of us waiting on him. And waiting. And waiting. Thinking I gave up waiting for him after 20+ minutes. I went to the ladies room. My companion joined me after about five to seven minutes. He'd finally slunk in to an EMPTY classroom, & sat there at his desk. What I didn't know was that my advisor was the *head* of the English Department! He listened when I complained about the guy, when I was there to pick next semester's classes. He apparently had a little chat with the teacher. The very next test, there were questions on the lecture material! That shocked everybody, including me!

In high-school I was part of the 'trouble class' and was put into geometry instead of algebra because I could understand it better. Because I was good at it my teacher let me wear headphones so I didn't get overwhelmed by the others talking. Being great at geometry I would help the others when they asked because our teacher was sick from her pregnancy and recruited my help. Well, when she left on leave for her baby we got a sub who would scream at the other students before realizing I had headphones. She came over, ripped them off my head and screamed st me, causing me to panic and start sobbing. This only lasted 30 seconds but immediately everyone was out of their chairs and screaming at the sub, one kid got my headphones back and let me put them back on. I have never felt more seen before or since that day where people who bullied others or would punch anything that moves stood up for me. I miss them

Had a history teacher who seemed to like using fear to get students to obey him. If you spoke to him with just the slightest bit of animosity, you would be screamed at and sent outside. Sometimes he would do the same because a student was smiling or laughing while he was talking about a dark topic, even if the student was laughing or smiling because of something else. And when he asks questions to the class, if nobody answers for about 10 seconds (usually because nobody knows the answer) he threatens to give us lunchtime detention. Also, he would often "jokingly" insult students, but punish students if they insulted him.

Had a PE teacher who i asked for help He told me to write down exactly what he says I write down exactly what he says 5 minutes later he tells me off for writing that I tell him that he told me to do it And he called me a liar and told me to get out the class

We had a very lazy "teacher" at my University. He would literally copy slide shows from RU-vid for his lectures and when we asked him for help he would refer us to the slide show. He had one of those fake degrees you can buy from the States and when one of the students ratted him out to the dean, he was fired. Turns out you need to know the difference between hardware and software to teach at a university.

All the way back in middle school I had some missing assignments that I needed to re-submit because I had missed them/been struggling with the weight of the end-of-year schoolwork and just some personal issues. English teacher promised me and a few other kids that we could re-submit the work by a specific date. That day comes and we all try to turn in our work but she switches up last minute and decides right then and there that she was changing her late-work policy and that it was “a good lesson to not skip work”. For context I was missing a lot of this work not just bc of other classes but because my grandmother had almost lost her life while having a major aneurism in the hospital and was still in ICU recovery. She knew about this and still did it anyways. The worst part? This prevented me from graduating. Our school had a policy that alongside A, B, C, D, F grading scales, we also got S, E, U depending on our behavior??? Or work consistency??? It was a very strange policy and I’m still not quite sure why they did it or enstated this to begin with. If you had more than 2 U’s (unsatisfactory) then you couldn’t walk across the stage at graduation. I already had a U in one of my classes and her pulling this stunt gave me my second one. I missed out on grad night and my middle school graduation because of this. The only satisfying part of this story is that my dad really went to bat for me during this time and emailed the teacher claiming she had “no empathy and a severe lack of integrity.” He said he hoped she found peace one day 💀 I love my dad so much he ate her tf up.

I have my own story for this: In my art class, the teacher was relatively strict, but i was the good kid so it didnt really matter that much to me. One day, i guess too many people were getting up, so she made the rule that you had to ask permission in order to get anything, even a kleenex. The next class, this one kid did something, i forgot what it was, but basically it ended up that he would talk back and get sent to the office. Obviously, no the teacher was fuming and was not in a good mood. If people were talking to loud or were being annoying, they would have to stay after school for like 30 min. By the end of the class, she just gave the entire class 15min after school. I got lucky and was let off the hook. Next class, some school administrator guy came to talk to us. Not a great move to ban getting up, but it was relaxed a lot koee within the next class period

Not informing when the exam is until an hour before is something the students could inform the education department over The school might get in massive trouble

Professor in Uni was very critical of people entering the classroom after him. His office was just above the classroom and he would always be in it before class. He usually humiliated anyone entering the classroom after him, especially if he had closed the door. That was the vibe he gave us on the first few lectures. One time, before the lecture started some of us were sitting in our seats just waiting for him to come in and others had put their stuff in seats and were hanging just outside the classroom. He saw the latter, sprinted down the stairs and closed the door. When they tried to come in he blew up saying he could not accept this, the class is dismissed and he will consider the content of that day's lecture as if it had been taught.

Non-music students complaining about one hour classes having three hour workload will always give me a chuckle

When I was in teacher's college, we were encouraged to use collective punishment. 🤢

So I have a masters degree, and I used to teach undergraduates (in the US), usually first or second year university students. I would always just ask my students to call me by my first name, no need for any Miss/Mrs/Dr/Professor because all that felt too formal for me, my degree wasn't a doctorate, and professor would've been a promotion since I was a part time instructor. I had amazing students. One of them on every assignment listed my name as Ms. Dr. Professor [My First Name], and I'm pretty sure they did it just for the laugh. It made me laugh too, and I wasn't flustered by it at all. This was a really strong student too, and just a decent human generally, so I know they had good intentions. Gave us both a good chuckle. Tl;dr - your title and credentials aren't going to mean diddly if you don't treat your students with respect. I'm not saying I was a perfect educator, but I at least gave my students the respect they deserved.

story 3 has anti german vibes. As in germany you are not allowed to punish a whole group for the faults of 1 person

I had a teacher in senior year of high school who refused to let anyone transfer out of her class. She was an art teacher, and the class was a drawing class. This lady pissed the entire class off so badly that basically everyone left. She attempted to block everyone from leaving, but failed. She especially tried to force me to stay, but after she insulted my anxiety to my face and TOLD me to leave, my counselor rejected her appeal to keep the students and let me transfer. Got a great criminal law teacher, everyone loves her, and I'm pretty sure that class never got filled again

Had a substitute fail the majority of a class full of seniors for one mispelled word on a shorthand test. Let's just say the school councilors office was full of pissed students. It was corrected and I will never forget how to spell the word sincerely.

Story 21 - oh lord, we had something similar happen after a bomb threat at my high school. Literally every other class stayed in the gym for last period (it was stressful, the teachers wanted to give the kids a break), but my Algebra class _had_ to happen because "reasons". She . . . was not well-liked after that.

In my elementary class there was this one kid who said all of the basic "bully" stuff like, "That's so gay," or, "You're so gay," all of that. My English/History teacher decided to- instead of telling the kid to stop or punishing him- ban all LGBTQIA+ related words (e.x. gay, homosexual, queer, anything basically).

3:19 I have epilepsy what the. fuck is going on in there mind

A former teacher of mine told one of my classmates (who was missing for quite a while) to go to the front of the classroom and started interrogating her on the stuff we learned over the last few weeks. While she was able to answer most of his questions, she wasnt able to explain everything in great detail. The teacher lost his mind, started belittling and later insulting her, she started to cry. That made him completely lose his s**t, he started yelling at her. She just left the classroom totally inconsolable and some classmates followed her to see if she was allright. Wanna know why she was missing so long? She lost her dad and younger sister in a car accident Teacher was fired

My district had a ton of bad substitutes for some reason. Anger management issues, refusing to listen to what students have to say, not even talking for some of them. All of them left bad notes too. Before the actual teacher came to chew us out, we gave a laundry list of our own grievances, sometimes with evidence in case the sub lied on the note. The teachers basically had to side with the sub every time, but most just didn't do anything about it.

02:00 as a german i tell you, thats nothing i would expect here. I wouldn't call it a german thing. The data protection (teacher isnt allowed to indicate if someone passed to the class for example) alone. Zhis teacher would be in trouble pretty fas5

Cancel a class pizza party. We were _soooo_ close.

a semi-permanent sub for a 7th grade class. he’d been there since october, was supposed to leave in november. extended to december. extended to MARCH. in about december, he kept threatening to keep us from our next classes or schoolwide assemblies because we talked. even when he wasn’t talking. he is still here. oh yeah, RIGHT NOW, our class is at a ski trip paid for by the school. (im sick at home so i didnt go) he also threatened to ban our class from going, even when everyone had already paid..

that one teacher that wants appointments before answering questions does not know enough to be a teacher. they don't know shxt!

Just a story to share, currently 7th grade, but last year, 6th grade, we had a different physics teacher. She was actually new and just graduated from university, which explained her lack of experience and not being able to discipline us. The first half year she teached us well until in the next half year, she made us write an entire paragraph on our notebooks. People in my class started complaining and hating. Eventually, she stopped teaching our class and in 7th grade we had a new teacher. But since 7th grade, physics because a very confusing subject, so that didn't help it even a bit. Atleast the new teacher is good, I have a solid 3 on physics and chemistry. I thought I'd be a scientist, dream ruined though. Now I hope to be a programmist.

That epileptic seizure one enrages me. As an epileptic myself (don't worry, i take meds now), I can safely say that those next few hours after a seizure are the scariest and most stressful hours of your life. Being told right after "coming to" "you are expelled for being a danger and distraction to students. Furthermore, you are a disruption. Get out." That must have been so, so anger-inducing. I'm glad that your parents fought for you and that the teachers helped you is so good for you. I know that if I had a seizure in my school and I was kicked out after, my whole family would have gone nuts and probably sued or smth. I hope that OP is doing ok now.

7:32 did bro really say maths?

I still remember one day in middle school I was feeling pretty crappy all day. We had a substitute teacher for one class who was a real hardass old lady. I was starting to feel really bad during the class, asked if I could go see the school nurse. She told me no, proceeded to lecture me about how I could have gone earlier and about being responsible and blah blah blah. I went after class and was sent home with a fever of 39.5C or so.

I had a teacher who couldn't link the spelling of my name with the pronunciation of my name. She could call me by my name when I raised my hand but when she was calling us to get our papers, she would pause then call me by my last name. Eventually, every time she would pause the whole class would tell my name.

"the popular vote does not always win" Pretty sure that's an oligarchy

With Story 8, I’m going to guess that the professor didn’t have the time for the exam because the exam wasn’t finished. They gave the time an hour before the test was to start because THAT’S when they finished the exam.

Basically this actually happened today. Our normal English teacher is in the hospital have a baby so we have a sub called Mr. Dan (That's not his real name). Mr. Dan has subbed for us a few times before but it was only for one day. Now he is subbing for 2-3 weeks. Basically when we get too loud he will pick the loudest person and give them a referral. Today we were "too loud" now I put it in quotes because we were NOT LOUD AT ALL!!! Anyways this really sweet girl named Lucy (that's not her real name) was explaining something to another girl while not being loud at all. Then Mr. Dan decides she is too loud and gives her a referral! Mind you there we kids SCREAMING in the back but he decided to ignore them! She started crying because she was always a really good student. I almost started to be super loud so I get the referral instead but I got them Indian parents who would absolutely kill me so I didn't do it. Now the whole class hates him because he was SUPER unfair. Edit: so I asked Lucy today turns out she did not get a referral. I don’t know what exactly happened but I’m pretty sure the teacher felt bad and just wanted to scare us by giving someone a referral. Still almost the whole almost the whole class hates him. Edit #2: We no longer have Mr. Dan as our sub. He also wasn’t grading our work properly so I believe he got fired for not grading our work correctly. Thought I’m not sure because the other teachers won’t tell us what happened.

I started college in the fall of 2020, during quarantine. Which means all classes were online. I had this one government professor who upset the whole class. Mid semester someone made a group chat with everyone in the class to see if the professor was only targeting them or if others wrre struggling. Everyone in the class stated that they found it almost impossible to get help from the professor unless they reported her behavior to the supervisor. What frustrated me even more were the quizzes and tests. You had to use a passcode to get in, but sometimes she would give us a code that was just off, or had the assignment locked if you didnt log in at a certain time. If you could get onevery test would have a question that started like this, "Which is the most true?". Every statement was true, so you had to guess which one she thought was more true. She also deducted points if you had a political opinion that was different than hers. The school let her go the next semester because we could prove what she did through her emails and screen shots. They had to have someone come in and fix the grades since she deducting points for different political beliefs.

I had this teacher who genuinely hated me and I could never figure out why. My 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Doyle. Her husband was the superintendent and she was pregnant. She screamed at me infront of the entire class because I got an insane nose bleed that started going onto my desk. And just other things like that where’d id be having normal instances for a 10 year old, and she would scream like I was dumb if I so much as got an answer wrong. Finally, she ended up hiding my MAP test which is a state given test that determines what grade level you’re at. She tried to lie and tell my mom that I lost it or must’ve snuck out of school. I knew this was insane because she had collected them from us at the end and I even remembered sobbing during the math portion and having her give me dirty looks. Turns out, she had hidden my test and a bunch of work in the bottom of her desk. The school got involved but I don’t really know how. She still works there and told my mom that it was postpartum depression. While they were going through her desk, I was able to get every kids toy back from the entire school year that she had taken away. She loved to take those little food shaped erasers from kids even if they weren’t playing with them, which really made me mad because my family could barely afford those. I was able to go out to recess and return everyone’s toys to them. It was awesome.

this comment section is so infuriating im genuinely tweaking rn

Teacher wouldn't stop farting and blaming it on random kids

Our high-school chemistry class was 1/3 into the school year when our teacher had to leave. Another teacher was brought in. We were ok with that until the new teacher wanted us to start back at the beginning. We all boycotted and refused to participate in class. We went through a week of that when the new teacher told us he would give us a test to see where we placed. We got to restart at the same point the old teacher left off. There were no problems after that, and he turned out to be better at getting concepts across to us better than the teacher that left.

Had a school admin who one day decided to implement a "ladies first" approach to who got to go into the lunch room for some reason. I got to the group of boys all waiting to go in, they were obviously already annoyed, and she started _insisting_ that I absolutely _had_ to go in first. All the other boys informed her that I was a boy. She still refused. For context, I was a trans boy and very vocal about it, I was vice president of the school's GSA as well as the trans youth emissary for the local GLSEN chapter, and my school was an extremely liberal art school in the _heart_ of my city's gay district. She kept insisting I had to go in because "ladies first". The other boys formed a circle around me and told her we would all be going to the principal and getting the school journalists involved. Suddenly, we were all allowed in! And she never pulled the stunt again.

A lecturer changed the format of one of our big tests on the day of the year from a written mcq to a slideshow test, then proceeds to call those who can't see from behind blind after I had to be moved forward due to their original arrangement. Some time later he also changed the exam questions for a different year from 30 questions answer 20 to 20 questions answer all on the day of the exam after giving area of concentration to all students. This was an essay exam and almost half of the students failed his course. Lasted less than a semester as head of department

my gym teacher repeatedly held the class back in the gym like we weren't in the period right before lunch and in my school the lunch lines got long after a few minutes

to that last one. No. Even if you would prefer to be called that, you still answer to any honorific from a student, regardless of the situation. If it matters that god damn much to you, you pull the stick out of your ass, gently remind people once or twice a day, and generally do not make a big deal out of it. Respect is a two way street, treat your students with it, and they'll treat you with it.

Bad doctors: I will ignore you unless you call me dr. x Good doctors: Hi, i am Dr. x but you can call me steve

I had a math professor who allowed us to use a note card filled with whatever information we thought would be helpful during our final exam, with the caveat that we turn in the note card with the exam. This was not terribly unusual at the school, as it was understood that the process of creating such a note card was an excellent way to get us to study better for exams. Well, she proceeded to use our note cards to mark every correct answer on our exams wrong if any information on said note card could have helped us get the answer. 80% of the class failed the exam which caused nearly half the class to fail the course. Apparently she was already on probation from stunts pulled the prior semester (she was not tenured). That amount of failing students coupled with the sheer number of us that filed complaints with the dean resulted in her "not being invited back for the following semester."

Our French teacher used to sit on her desk and Sharon Stone the class. The girls were upset. The boys were up-set.

1:33 oh I would hate that class especially being dyslexic😅

My 5th & 6th grade teacher (Finnish school system btw) made the whole class turn basically against him on 2 occasions, and I was basically at the centre of it all both times. 1st time: We had PE, I had an broken ankle for over half a year at that point (the very next summer I had a cast on) and during the end stretch, I finally told our teacher I couldn't run anymore because of my ankle and he just yelled at me "Stop lying! You're running till the class is over!". The rest of my classmates looked shocked and then angry at him, one student told me to come over and forced me to not continue because I was basically hopping on one foot at that point. 2nd time: Jean Sibelius 100y-something-concert and my classmates were talking the whole time, ignoring our teacher and me who were asking them to be quiet. We as a whole class got yelled at and told we all would apologize to each classroom and faculty for ruining the concert. Rest of the class was shocked I was forced to do it too. Teacher: "Your actions have consequences, and this collective punishment is that, you ruined the experience for her as well, but since she's your classmate, she does the punishment too"… My pair for the apology didn't let me say anything and when I protested, the rest of the class told me that they were at fault, not me, so I didn't deserve to apologize for their actions. The only two times they actually acted against our teacher who yelled at me every single day for 2 years.

In college, our math instructor gave a classmate a grade penalty for being late. He was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic due to an accident...he had photo evidence of the traffic and of the car that was upside-down. He even sent the photos while in traffic so she would know whats up. She didnt care and said he should have left home sooner. Never met a single student who liked her, she ended up quitting.

My fav teacher by far had a dr. Title. Never asked us to call her by that title though. It took us some 3 years to even find out that she was a dr. She made very imteresting french lessons and had us always calm & paying attention without ever getting angry. Solved issues by rhyming whole poems about whoever did something wrong. These were not mean in any way. But obviously nobody wanted to hear a teachers friendly jokes about oneself in front of the whole class. Hoping that i said that right. English is not my 1st language. French isnt either. She didnt even get mad at a stupid 1.april joke (we all hid in classroom or close to it). She just started teaching as if nothing was wrong. Asked vocabulary questions to everyone she found. As those got more and more difficult she had us at our tables in no time.

Ok so it didn’t upset the whole class but it upset me a lot. In elementary school we had a teacher who taught us how to type on computers without looking (I was horrible at it.) well one day she said we could draw and put up a tutorial. She would pause every so often. I wasn’t very good at drawing (I mostly draw flowers and mountains.) and she came over to see my drawing because she was looking at everyone’s drawings. Mind you this was in like 3rd or 4th grade. When she got to my desk and saw my drawing she told me to start over! We were like 7 minutes into the video! You wanna know why she said that? *The drawing wasn’t in the middle of the paper.* She was the worst.

in 6th grade we had a spanish teacher (first year of learning the language), that would scream at us when we made mistakes and, when she was angry with us, would make us do all the work ourselves while browsing on her laptop. At one point she threw the pencil case of a student who annoyed her out of a window, three floors up. our entire year plus two teachers complained and we got her switching schools. last i heard, she'd lost her teaching licence.

Mine is so dumb. We had a substitute in history class in middle school. We were learning about ancient Egypt. She was describing their holy book and said "It was a collection of stories and lessons, like the bible." A student stood up and enthusiastically proclaimed "EXCEPT THE BIBLE IS REAL!" She replied, "Well, they thought their book was real, too." It was like she'd straight up ended someone in the classroom. People were holding each other, crying. People were enraged, like red-faced, fists clenched enraged. We were out wandering the halls because she had to go to the principle (and was fired as far as I know). It was bizarre.

We had a new Math teacher in 7th grade. The stuff was difficult and we all had difficulty following. One day, we review our homework for the day. Teacher says it's all wrong here's how to do it. So everyone tries to follow. 20 minutes later one student realizes it doesn't work and pipes up. The teacher claims he was testing us. We all learned the stuff wrong. Any respect this new teacher had was gone. 6 people still cared enough to try to continue working with the teacher. The exam failed horrifically. He raised it, so my F became a D. He also claimed it was possible, because one girl had a B. Never mind, that he'd raised it and she'd been laid back from last year. After we complained enough, we got a new math teacher midterm, who came in from another school just to teach our class. She was the best math teacher I ever had. I went from good at math to unable to comprehend and retain anything to top of the class. The bad teacher had told her, that I didn't understand, couldn't understand and didn't want to understand. The good teacher told me this and added, that she disagreed completely.

That teacher who gave the test at the lockdown…She may have been one of the bad guys for all we know

That story 16 is just too awful to hear, let alone experience it. Then, I imagine their teacher laughing inside after the real test that their grades drop.

My second elementary school (grades 3-5, since my hometown's elementary school only had K-2) had a track in the playground. So teachers would have students run/walk laps during recess as a class punishment. More often than not, it was one or two kids being rowdy, teacher would threaten laps, and the rest of us would get mad because they wouldn't stop and we'd all get laps. Yes, even us students who never disrupted class and would just mind our own business. An no, we couldn't tell the principal because she approved it

“Mock” coursework? What is the deal with that? Awful.

9th grade AP bio teacher made us run on metric time over spring break and document the insanity.

I had a teacher in high school whose demeanor was just the definition of "defeated" he'd make slideshows for notes, and would refer us to the slides when we had questions. He also loved to use RU-vid history channels to "teach" us, and would give us worksheets he found online to coincide with these "lessons". Other students, typically popular ones would joke about him to his face, never taking him or the class seriously. I wasn't fond of him until my second semester of sophomore year, when I saw just how terribly my peers treated him. Unfortunately, I never said anything for fear of being treated the same.

In ninth grade on the first day of class, our math teacher (who our class would get to know very well since she taught all the upper-level math at my school) was telling us how our class would function, what to expect, and how things would play out. About halfway through class one of my classmates raises his hand. The teacher calls on him, and he asks what time lunch was. The teacher got furious, and started berating him in front of the whole class. We were all pretty intimidated by her after that. This story has a happy ending, though. In 11th grade (which we've had this same teacher for 3 years now since my group was all in upper-level math classes) we made a joke about said incident and the teacher actually apologized to the guy, saying it was probably a genuine question and that he likely didn't mean to ask that as a joke.

i feel that german student. my spanish teacher did that. it was her last year before retirement. i failed. went onto chinese the next year. and passed and took it for 2 more years

im in college, taking an IT course. one of the classes we had to take this term was network computing, which in itself isnt fun, but the instructor we had made it torture. she'd spend forever going though the lecture notes. like, she would spend up to 20 minytes on a slide sometimes, and use the 3 hour class mesnt for completing assignments to do lectures. she would also start online classes an hour before theyre meant to start and was oblivious to the fact that no one was in the meeting for the first hour since most of us had a class right before. and, her english wasnt the greatest, so no one could understand her. eventually, during an online lecture, me and almost all of my classmates were having a discussion in the teams chat (which the instructor somehow didnt notice) and we all agreed that we have to do something, so a bunch of us emailed the chair(s) of the program. the next morning we all got an email from the chair which... kinda annoyed all of us since the blame was put on us, but during our next network computing class, the chair of the program along with one of the EAs was there, and he ended up taking over the class for the rest of the semester. things got much better after

What's funny is my school also does the lanyard thing but they don't care if you switch it out for a different one so long as your ID is still on it, I used to have problems with the lanyard but with how many fights happen in those halls I don't complain anymore

my French teacher did a similar thing to the German one but definitely not the same. He was a bad teacher, so almost always, every test he gave us only had 1 or 2 people pass it. then, the next classes would just be everyone having to retake it until everyone passed without any revision or question classes in between. if you'd already passed the test, you just had to sit there. no talking allowed. I swear one of the tests we did people ended up retaking for over two weeks. it sucked.

2 scenarios, both HS Junior year 1. During a time when our school allowed 2 personal passes (bathroom, bottle filler, etc) a day, my English III teacher tried to tell us that we were allowed 2 bathroom passes per semester. Everyone was audibly livid, and it ended up being rescinded about 3 weeks into the semester. 2. My computer science principles teacher gave purely short answer tests for chapter tests (which included coding without the ability to check functionality). These tests were harder than your average final. One time, she came out in front of the class, said "hey guys, the class average on that last test was a 36. Now I told you all my tests were hard, and you guys clearly didn't study enough. Study more for the next one, because my tests are reallyyy hard." and just continued as normal, as if the average of the class didn't get nearly half of a failing grade. And no, she did not curve that test and no, she did not make any future tests any easier (averages only improved a little because the subjects were a little easier than that one test),

Mock assignment one seems targeted since it was the only class that happened to. She only said it after the results, meaning she saw it was better than average and I think she then decided to make it a mock one, otherwise she'd have said it before or when they handed it in.

Ok I got a story from grade 6. There was this one kid in my class whose parents couldn’t afford internet for their house. Our school distributed laptops to all the kids and teachers could assign work on google classroom for them to complete at home. He couldn’t do that because he didn’t have internet. This teacher was known for being mean to students though she thought she was a really nice person. Anyways he couldn’t do his HW one night because of the reasons, and told the teacher why he couldn’t, and she thought he was lying. Then she began to basically shame him in front of the whole class and try to make an example out of him. We all felt really bad for the kid and some of us started to help him out with it in study halls and lunch.

Some of these stories, man.

My friends told me about their History teacher when we were in year 7. The teacher would always be like 20 minutes late, then would scold the class about the fact that they were starting so late for like another 20 minutes and they would only have around 10 minutes of the class left. The one time somebody said that she was the one late, she then went on talking about how it’s extremely rude to back chat, and that student got detention. Thank god she left that year.

In like the 2nd or 3rd grade after playtime outside, all the kids had to line up outside the doors, and only when the whole line was nice, calm and quiet the teachers would let us back inside. I was with my friend at the back of the line, and in front of us were these five boys, who were still very energetic; playfighting with eachother, joking about, etc. Our classroom assistant said that she'd only let in the first half of the line, but keep the boys out until they calmed down. Apparently me and my friend were also a part of 'the boys' (we were both girls and standing there calm and quiet) and kept us outside as well maybe like a 5 extra minutes. Once the boys calmed down she let us back inside, where the rest of the class had already formed a line to go into assembly (we had morning assemblys maybe like twice a week). The teacher asked why we were late, and the assistant told her that we were all acting up, so she'd kept us outside, and we would miss the assembly. I though she meant just the five boys who'd been playing, but nope, apparently she meant me and my friend too. I got in the line to go to assembly, and she told me to get back into class. I really didn't want to, because I hadn't done anything wrong, but still went inside. We had to sit through the whole 15 minute assembly in complete silence, waiting for everybody else to come back. When the whole class was back, the teacher asked us why we had to stay behind. The boys told her that they had been playing when they were supposed to behave, and the assistant told the teacher that she'd tried calming them down, but they wouldn't listen. The teacher then asked if I and my friend had been acting up too, to which the assistant said that no we weren't, and we could have actually gone to the assembly. I still don't understand why we couldn't go or why she told me to get back to class when she knew we'd done nothing. Wrong place, wrong time I guess. Another time in like the 5th grade, the whole class was punished and given bad marks because two boys were't paying attention in PE. Many students protested, but we all got bad marks. I was genuinely so scared and embarrassed, even though, once again, I'd done nothing wrong. That was my first ever bad mark in school, and it still kind of pisses me off.

German spelling is really easy though once you get a hang of how certain things are pronounced. The hardest part is figuring out if an A O or U has an umlaut or not, and As vs Äs are pretty easy too. It's German grammar that's insanely difficult.

Two or three kids were talking, so he kept the whole class back and I missed my bus. Managed to get a lift home with a friend's Mum who lived near me, forgetting I was supposed to get off the bus early to go to my Grandparent's house (my brother would have reminded me). I sat outside my house for an hour wondering where everyone was, while they were panicking and driving to school to see where I was. Feckin idiot teacher with his collective punishment...

Just last semester I had a professor who just abandoned his class in the middle of the semester with no context. This was an asynchronous online course, so none of the students actually met the professor in person for this class. It started with him being two weeks late to post the syllabus. Then he had us do like four assignments including the midterm essay and finally ghosted the entire class. We’d email him and he wouldn’t respond. Eventually it got to the end of the semester and one of the students set up a class-wide discussion board on the course website to discuss the issue. I had some classmates message me through the site to see if I knew anything, which of course I didn’t. I don’t know what came of it, nor why the professor ditched, but I got an A in the class so I’m not going to argue the situation. Also, I had multiple in-person classes that demanded a lot of my time and effort, so not having an active and intense social studies class that didn’t count towards my major was a bit of a relief.

Ok so we had teacher let’s call her “Ms M”. She so used to be fun but in the middle of the year she changed ALOT! She yelled at kids for 1 thing. Like dropping a pencil or anything. AND she would say stuff like “stop eating so much ***** you look like well u know” which we OBVIOUSLY hated. My class HATED HER!

Kinda unrelated but a secretary or teacher (I don’t know who) lost 8 years worth of my report cards. I needed them because I wanted to get an ADHD diagnosis and they needed my old report cards for it. I can’t get my diagnosis now because I don’t have my report cards. I’m luckily still able to get medication for it, but it’s annoying that I’m essentially locked out of getting a diagnosis. Screw you, random teacher or secretary who lost my report cards. You have to be a special level of incompetent to loose that many documents (and from multiple different schools mind you)

when the pe teacher just let the fifth grader sub teacher let the first graders mess up our class flags because according to them, "they did not get to do flags, so none of us deserved flags, especially sixth grade". Guess what? I was at sixth grade at the time, i dunno why but fifth graders had a grudge on us that lasted until 10th grade. The teacher then processeds to throw away it... she did this to all the flags to ninth grade, she threw away the flag of *13 CLASSES AND THEY LET HER GO AWAY WITH IT* We got furious, not mad, not irritated, FURIOUS. We decided to do the thing with the most sense here since we payed $50 dollars which may sound not much, but that to us was precious money that converts to R$200 to my currency. We spent a lot on that. We sent more than 35+ letters to the principal saying the same in a day and that repeated, we sent more than 280 letters in a week, also included ninth graders letters, yes we teamed up with them. Our plan was sucesseful, they gave back our money and we laughed at them, we pressured them a lot since 7th graders (at that time, was a lot of students, 5 classes filled with 25 students each, so yeah, 100 kids) decided to review bomb and yeah, it worked well, since in one day they gave the money back.

Wow. It's crazy how much happened to you!

Ugh. I went to a CC and had an English teacher that thought he was all that because he was the school's most renowned writer. He never gave feedback, never clarified what mistakes were made and would take tons of points if you accidentally wrote in the wrong format. Like, a paper could be perfect and he'd take 20-30% of the grade if it was the wrong format. No explanation or note or something explaining how to do better. Just, here's your grade.

Oh in my high school days, there's this new math teacher for the year who just rarely get in the class. And when this teacher do, she'll teach the equation as if they copy and paste it from the book to board, without further explaining us what's the best way to remember this solution. Final exam for that subject rolling, and we scratch our heads and try to understand the formulas and the worst part is, the teacher only give us what material to use and what pages to learn. This is the time where internet is still not famous around from where I live. Day of exam, and we answered most of the exam with confidence, "most" because that teacher, put questions in the test that is NOT part of the learning material handed out to us. We all feel the despair just by looking at each other, all of us has same thought, "THIS. Is NOT PART of what we learn." Next day, results comes in, and to no ones surprise, ALL OF US FAIL the math exam. One of my classmate was so frustrated that she TORE the test paper right in front of the teacher. To add salt, she go on and say that it's our fault for not learning ahead of time... You're the one who say to study ONLY this part! We all collectively agreed that this teacher is an asshole. The worst part? The school sided with the teacher, and to add more injury, we most fkin believe them because that school encourages study more than what handed. Still, we all clearly didn't miss her when they move to different school. We CELEBRATED.

In 9th grade our homeroom teacher went out for preemtive surgery (she was all fine), and we got a "permanent substitute" for the rest of the year. She walked in to a class full of "oh so grown" teenagers and immediatly compared them to her previous 2. graders. (talking about a "traffic light system" (green= you can talk, yellow = only quiet conversation related to task, red = silent) that worked so well with them). That was not a good year for her.

A male teacher tried to make a female play an assault victim in a mock trial, and when she wouldn’t do it because of trauma, he lost his patience and yelled at her, and she had to expose her secret and runs off crying at the very least that teacher should be suspended for two weeks without pay if not fucking fired. That is so unacceptable. I mean, yeah there are some other teachers in this thread that treated their students like shit and I’m glad they got what was coming to them, but that level of unprofessionalism is unmatched and should not be tolerated anywhere.

My friend Catie Bowman had a nightmare where she had a seizure in Montgomery County Community College and the professor didn't know and just let her suffer a seizure and eventually her parents heard on the news about her having a seizure at college and they got Furious and started sueing the college for the negligence and abuse and injury to student. She understands the epileptic student's story and fears that she could experience the same pain that story 6 OP went through but at 2 Colleges that she plans on going to.

One of my university professor teased a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem but said the last half would be presented in the next term the following term.

For some years in my primary school we had a math teacher who would tell us on which pages to work on and try to keep us quiet. No actual teaching was ever done by him and the kids just didn't take him serious or his way to try and keep us quiet. He would put up his phone which would pick up how loud it was, kids used it to be allowed to go to the bathroom ,once it was green they just left. No one ofc learned anything there ,I'm quite sure most of the kids grades were ass in math ,me included (which did change in middle school, I was one of the best students then) The worst was though that in primary school we would be forced sometimes to stay inside during lunch break ,because our grades were so bad. Ofc still no proper teaching was done and our break got stolen from us. Eventually the teacher had classes during break which he would try to bribe people to come to with buying them candy ,which when I told a teacher about it was ofc just a misunderstanding. What is there to misunderstand when that was genuinely the only thing they talked about during that "class".

Made us all do undone work instead of Kahoot! And other fun stuff on Friday during Friday fun😢

God I’m glad to not be in school anymore

All of the stories involving teachers that goo by doctor made me remember my sewnior year english teacher, who was the only teacher I ever had that had the title, she was good though, unlike the ones in the video. Dr.D, I hope you're doing well.

He was a chill dude but was in a bad mood one day and personally verbally attacked every student in the class using their own private information against them. Some kid named Jaret who was being abused at home got it worse than the rest of us. And that’s what caused him to be fired. Because that kid was off limits. The rest of us could take it. But he couldn’t.

Story 16 I can relate. My fifth grade math teacher assigned a packed due at the end of the year. Me and my mom didn’t understand a single thing of it and go to bed at 11:00