Teaching is truly not for the faint of heart. But then again, neither is being a student.
Some people's personalities just don't line up with what being a teacher demands. And sometimes, students also take advantages in teachers' weak points.
These are those sometimes.
u/juul_ian asked:
Students who got a teacher fired, what's your story?
Here were some of those stories.
How To Truly Lose It
Not me but-
In the seventh grade this kid in my class wouldn't stop terrorizing our science teacher. They got into yelling matches often, he'd call her horrible names and insult her appearance, then he'd get suspended and come back, and the cycle would continue. Well one day she just snapped when he flicked a rubber band at her, funny because this time it had been an accident.
She got up, grabbed an nearest empty chair (which happened to be at the desk next to mine) and chucked it at him. It was one of those hefty chairs as well, the one you use to crack your back. Hit him, gave him a black eye, entire class started screaming. Honestly he deserved it, but the teacher got fired. Overall pretty scary experience, just seeing the absolute rage and resentment seething out of my teacher was enough to leave an impact on me.
Caught In The Act
Went to a private Lutheran middle school, most of it was pretty normal and nothing out of the ordinary. Our science teacher was a 45+ year old woman who seemed very strange from the get go. Mind you everyone sort of thought the same, the rest of our day/classes were just like any other school and teachers, but she was off. She had us take home a field trip form for an outing to the country to explore some estuary/wetland area or something of that sort, when that Friday came around we were getting ready to go and she said "we're not going to go there anymore, we're going to go to my new house and clean it out before I move in."
Right away everyone was like lol wat. People were saying immediately "uh I'm not going to do that", I stepped outside and called my mom and a few kids went to the office to ask to call their parents. This started a gigantic snowball of problems, she ended up not having a teaching license and a ton of other things like lying about her job history, etc.
That's What We Call Assault, Kids
We were in middle school and we'd dealt with this creepy, weird, teacher all year. He was just a very strange man and no one was comfortable around him. He had a nasty temper too, would go off at the drop of a hat.
End of the year we had a field day with water balloons and squirt guns and the whole nine yards. Because we're twelve and that's what we wanted. The class clown was running around dumping buckets of water on people's head, which no one minded because...duh, it's field day and like a hundred degrees out.
He dumped a bucket of water on the creepy teacher's head. Creepy teacher grabbed him by the throat and threw him into the ground. Hard. Adult versus twelve year old kid.
I was the only one who saw it. I helped the kid up and we were both like "That is not okay." We went to the principal the next morning and the creepy teacher was gone by the end of the day.
We Don't Live In An Anime
He would stare blatantly at a 100-point font word on the girls shirt and ask "Ooohhh, what does your shirt say???" and also sit the skirt-girls in the front of the class, and he must've "dropped" thousands of pencils a day. I can't remember a time he wasn't sleezy, so me and a bunch of people reported him.
Down And Out
I went to a private boarding school in elementary and had a teacher that was quite bizarre. She was really touchy with students (nothing overly inappropriate from what I remember, just put her hands on students, etc.) and had a very bad temper. She also assigned a ludicrous work load/homework; to the point where as a elementary student I had about 1-2 hours of homework every night. During the school year I frequently got debilitating migraines from stress, which as a 7-11 year old was pretty absurd.
She would physically discipline kids in class, be verbally abusive, etc. Maybe halfway through the year there had been a ton of complaints from students/parents that made it to the principal regarding her disciplinary actions, putting her hands on students, things like that. She then proceeded to personally call the students parents and tried to coerce the students over the phone that 'we were fine with the touching.' Keep in mind my mom was on the phone and it came off as really predatory and bizarre.
All of this resulted in several students transferring to another class with only a month or two in the school year. The school ended up letting her finish out the year, (probably to avoid the mess of trying to find a sub) but she was definitely on notice; she tried to 'recover' her persona but the damage was done. She got fired after the end of the school year.
Steady Decline
Not me, but my brother's computer class teacher in high school was an old man with a slipping memory. Turns out it was more than that, I think it was Alzheimers, going senile, something like that. In his wrong mind, he accused my brother of putting a virus on his computer, some delusional accusation from out of nowhere. He tried to get him in trouble, but he proved it was false, and they let him go more so because of his deteriorating health than to punish him.
Not Your Friend, Your Teacher
My freshman year in HS we had a substitute teacher for one day. He wanted to be "cool guy teacher" so he started to ask us a bunch of questions that had NOTHING to do with the class. Out of the blue he asked us "Who in here believes in God?" A few of us raised our hands. He looked at us with disgust and actually said "Wow, your parents are raising morons!"
All of us (even those who didn't raise their hands) went to the office, and told our parents. They called the school and a couple threatened to call the news. He was fired and NEVER taught in our county/city again. Last I heard he was working at an oil change place. (Not a bad job, but not a teacher either) He bragged to us about his teaching degree, so college was for nothing. It was even his VERY first solo-teaching class ever, and his last.
Mr. HEART-ley
Not me but...
It was year 7 (UK) so I was around the age of 12 and we were just a few months into secondary school. Two boys in my history class were messing around, trying to get at each other when one of the boys went up to the other. He pushed the other boy and the other boy pushed back.
A few seconds later fists were being thrown and the teacher sees it. He wasn't the best at teaching, however he was very calm and friendly man. The teacher speed walks over to the two boys, steps in between them and pushes them away from each other, kind of like how a boxing referee would.
It wasn't a very forceful push, but the boy who started it over-exaggerated and fell backwards, clutching his chest shouting 'Why did you push me?!?!'. The teacher helps him up off the floor and I can't remember what happened after that point.
The next lesson we had a supply teacher, and the lesson after that, and so on. We surely thought he had been fired. None of us saw him around school or anything.
Fast forward five years and I'm heading towards reception during lesson, and he comes out of the staff office and smiles. I didn't ask him about the incident. He said that he left for a while and had come back, and he still remembered teaching me :)
Mr Hartley, you're a big legend.
Disputed Grade
I had an economics professor in College who was by no means a bad professor. He prepared power points like most college professors but he always elaborated on the information and provided examples and kept us engaged with questions. Despite this, he was clearly disorganized. He gave three tests for the semester and one final. I had received an A on all three exams. When it came time for the final I was prepared but I knew I didn't do well on it. When the final course grades were posted I noticed he gave me a B.
I asked him what my grade on the final was and he told me I had received a B. I questioned how I could get As on all of the exams, a B on the final, and receive a final grade of B. He then replied that I had received two As and a B on the class exams. I disputed this with them but I had not kept a copy of the exam since it was end of semester. I disputed with the head of the Economics department and it was declined and the matter was considered closed. For whatever reason, he was fired. Maybe not because of my doing but I think I contributed to a long list of complaints.
Who Does This To Babies?!
My first grade teacher took a disliking to me. She pretty much verbally abused me in front of the class from the git go... I was her whipping boy so to speak. Would pull me up in front of the class and explain to them how stupid I was. It went on for some time, I mean hell, I'm a little dope who just started school how am I to know.
Well, it got to be too much as I went home crying after one particularly difficult day. Once I came clean to my mother about what had been going on she went all momma bear at the school. Got that mean ole lady fired posthaste. And the world is a better place for it.
It's another ordinary day in America.
So of course that means we've already had a mass shooting or two before brunch.
And aside from the mass shootings, the number of single gunshot wounds or deaths is too high to count.
So let's discuss the aftermath.
Let's hear from the people who have faced the barrel of a loaded gun, or were just a casualty going about their day.
What happens after the bullet lands?
***CAUTION - SENSITIVE MATERIAL AHEAD - TRIGGER WARNING***
Redditor notaninterestingacc wanted to hear from the people who have lived the nightmare. They asked:
"Gunshot survivors of Reddit - What does it feel like to get shot?"
Guns are not a joke. Please educate yourself before you purchase.
Then the pin hit...
"I took a 7.62 to the stomach in Afghanistan. Felt like somebody had smacked with like, I dunno, a flyswatter or something. A short sharp smack. Didn’t feel much until I tried to come out of cover and I just... couldn’t. Couldn’t make my body listen to me. Then the pain hit. I’d put it at like, I dunno, an 11/10. Bullet blew off half my liver."
eyeCinfinitee
Thank you EMS...
"Chest, .357 magnum, through sternum, lung, ricochet off of rib, through scapula. Still have half under my shouldblade. Felt like I was stabbed in the chest with a hot fire poker mounted to the bottom of someone's foot when they drop kicked me. Was not expected to survive (severe blood loss), of course. Very good EMS team kept the liquids where they were supposed to and great doctors and nurses kept me going."
mndyerf**kinbusiness
Knocked Back
"I didn't really feel either of mine until about 10 minutes later. Took a grazing shot off my left arm and one in the right hip that went out my back thankfully missing my kidney. The arm felt like a bee sting the hip knocked me back a step the adrenalin at the time masked the pain."
richwith9
The Masked Men
"I was shot during a home robbery. I’m probably one of The luckiest people alive. The bullet no joke scratched my cheek and then went through the top of my ear and also a bullet grazed my wrist and opened it up. I didn’t feel anything but just liquid running down my face and my wrist was burning."
"Scariest night of my life and RIP Christian. Miss you so much buddy. Here is proof. We... https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/katy/crime-courts/article/Man-charged-in-attempted-burglary-apartment-6236325.php Authorities said Burke and Brandon Fries, 21, fought the suspects for their guns, which were fired during the struggle."
"The two masked men fled, and investigators initially did not have any information about which direction they went or whether they escaped from the scene by car. Both Burke and Fries had been shot and were transported to Hermann Memorial Hospital in Katy. Burke was pronounced dead upon arrival at the emergency room, less than four miles away.”
Brandonfries28
Like a Rock
"I got shot in the ankle when I was 10. Honestly I thought a rock hit me. Just a slight stinging feeling. Didn't really hurt, I even kept running with my bike. Later at the hospital was a different story. The doctor tried to remove the bullet without putting me under."
"He said the pain medicine would make me forget everything. He gave up after a few minutes of hell. And, whatever he gave me didn't work as described, but it did oddly make everyone look purple from what I remember. So maybe it half worked? lol."
adamchilders
People really? How in the world do y'all get firearms?
Fleshed Off...
"Right thigh, 9mm, grazing shot across the front of the leg about 4 inches above the knee. It plowed a channel of skin and some flesh off the front. It felt searing hot like someone had laid a hot piece of metal on my leg for a second. Then, the pain went away for a while until the adrenaline wore off. It honestly hurt worse 6 hours later than it did when it happened."
morgen_benner
A slight pinch...
"I was randomly shot while walking down the street with my girlfriend in 2013. I didn't fall to the ground or anything like that. Walked into a store and told them to call the cops. It didn't hurt too bad at first. A slight pinch. The heat builds up and the pain comes in. Some throbbing as the blood pumps out. I was extremely lucky as the bullet lodged between my lower right ribs in the back just above my kidney."
"The aftermath was a really achey back. What I remember most was how everyone around me except for my girlfriend just walked around us like nothing happened. I was suffering and potentially dying and everyone just ignored it. 'Not my problem' I suppose. I lost a lot of faith in people that day."
SoggyPastaPants
Not the Head
"I accidentally discharged my 9 and I was hit in the head. While it was going on I honestly did not feel any pain but everything slowed way down. Healing and recooperating was the hardest. My mouth and jaw was wired shut for several months. Had to have complete facial reconstruction surgery."
"Had to take a piece of bone from my skull and graph it to my nose just so I could have a nose. I also had to have a feeding tube for almost a whole year. I've recovered fully and I'm very lucky. I remember mostly everything. Something's from the incident I don't remember, but for the most part, I have my memories in tact."
No-Kick1632
It Burns...
"My gf was shot, not me, but she said it felt hot and like impact but not particularly painful until much later. She was in shock and went to the hospital, after hours she said it started to hurt."
DntShadowBanMeDaddy
"This was my response too. It feels incredibly hot. It's like getting hit with a bee that's on fire. It burns like hell. But then, and only later, does is f**king hurt. The part two is that you might think you understand pressure, but get shot. It doesn't just hurt, it mashes into you."
trebuchetfight
Ricochet
"A good friend of mine got hit with a ricochet from a 9mm that hit his calf, there was drive by about a block down. He was outside of the bar smoking a cig when it happened, ran inside and felt his leg burning but decided to keep drinking. He had about 3 more drinks before someone mentioned he was bleeding… went to the ER absolutely hammered and was fine after surgery."
PM_Me_UrRightNipple
Please stay sober when handling a weapon. Please be careful in general.
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It's never attractive to gloat.
Nor does superiority ever come off as a particularly attractive attribute.
But, consciously or not, some people speak or behave in a way that immediately suggests that they think they deserve to be treated differently, i.e better than others.
Or that they believe they simply are better than other people.
A recent Redditor was curious what sort of behavior struck other people as elitist or arrogant behavior by asking:
"What screams "I am entitled"?"
Where's the fire?
"Impatience in situations where it should be just universally understood that you need patience".- c7hu1hu.
Positions of power.
"I will have you fired!"- Vergo27.
"Generally just leaving something for someone else to deal with."- Splatty_boi_420.
Sorry, but I was here first.
"People who cut in line."- Chad_Farthousse.
"People who ignore lines and cut in the front, like their time is more important than every other person patiently queueing."- ofsquire.
No one loves a tattletale.
“I’ll call my dad and tell him what you did!”- ROAM300.
Ever heard of quid pro quo?
"When they do something to you and think it’s fine but when you do it in return and they freak out."- Silvero129.
Name your price.
"I work as a ticket seller for a ski resort."
"My favorite entitled person is the guy who, upon finding out that the kid's ski lesson was sold out, offered to pay extra if I would kick someone else's kid out so his kid could have a spot."- Floranagirl.
Perhaps one of the most obvious ways to unwittingly show off your entitlement?
By being oblivious to how entitled you are.
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There's something about the woods that creeps me out. Listen here, people: I'm a city guy. The idea of getting lost out there freaks me out. No thank you. I wasn't made for that. The rest of you who like to go camping and stuff? You do you. I'll stick with my running water.
But maybe I've seen too many horror movies. After all, if I saw some creepy stuff in the woods I'd definitely run in the other direction. And so would you, right? Right?
People shared their best stories with us after Redditor shantics asked the online community,
"What have you seen in the woods that you can’t explain?"
"I stepped on what I thought was a small rock but it turned out to be weird and gelatinous. I've also seen tombstones in the woods."
his_eminence56
You just suprised it. Rocks are soft and squishy, they just tense up when you touch them! /s
"I was hiking through the remnants..."
"I was hiking through the remnants of a remote, long-abandoned town and the surrounding area. To get to as far into the woods as I was, you had to cross fallen trees over a creek three times. I had just crossed the third "bridge" and was about five miles in and something blue caught my eye just ahead of me."
"There was a man, in his sixties at least, wearing blue satin pajamas, sitting in a tree. The closer I got to him the louder he laughed; it wasn't a maniacal laugh, but it set off all the alarms in my head nevertheless. He also wasn't wearing any shoes and looked well-groomed/cleaned."
"I gave him a friendly nod as I passed and he just kept laughing. Then it stopped. I turned and he was gone. There was no branch cracking, plants rustling, nothing... He was just gone."
"Still rubs me the wrong way. The area I was in was a pretty rough hike, very secluded. Not very many people venture as deep as I was that day. No idea what was going on there."
mrwitch
“Over the Third Bridge” would be a great title for a spooky book or movie.
"Neat as a pin..."
"Fully decorated Xmas tree. Middle of summer. Neat as a pin it was, as if it had just been finished. Who ever did it came back at some point and cleaned it up, because it wasn't there next I did that trail a week or so later."
OldWomanintheWoods
This one’s not that uncommon actually. Lots of folks will decorate a tree in remembrance of someone out in the woods. Sucks when they don’t clean them up though.
"It's an interesting..."
"In Japan. A hotel was abandoned before it was ever finished being built. It only became a cement skeleton, about 5 stories high. It was left that way to eventually mold back into the forest around it."
It’s an interesting small building to explore. There are halls that are unlevel to the point of hitting your head on the ceiling (think: Willy Wonka)."
"There are stairwells that lead to nothing and one that leads to an unintentional hole in a cement wall. And on the top floor (but “inside” - as in, under the “roof”), is an old car - all smashed up - with seemingly no reason or method to have been up there."
[deleted]
This reminds me of those old abandoned amusement parks that pretty much exist to destroy me mentally.
"I once walked..."
"I once walked through the undergrowth (i.e. off the trail) with my then-girlfriend when we came across this spot where a few empty plastic bags were lying on the ground (strange because the woods are otherwise super clean), a pair of gloves and, most confusingly, the official ID card (= passport) of a young woman."
Minister_of_Joy
I would freak out and call the cops. That sounds like a murder scene.
"Many plastic bags..."
"Many plastic bags with nothing really in them but random odd things tied to trees. Sure, it could have been a homeless person but us kids att (like 12+) of us lived in those small woods behind the church every single day. We never saw anyone like that, ever. Passing through I guess, but why so many bags...still wonder."
WiseOwlBear
Do we want to know what was in them? Probably not.
"When I was a teenager..."
"When I was a teenager, I worked at a fireworks stand that was run by my friend's family. It was in a rural area: they owned a few acres of land, had the fireworks tent at the front of the property and the house towards the back, but no lights in between. My friend's mother would prepare dinner for all the workers and we'd take turns going back to the house for dinner."
"One night, I was going to the house for dinner by myself. I felt something on my arm. I thought a bug might have landed on me, but it was really dark so I couldn't see anything. I stopped walking for a second. Then I started hearing this low, raspy breathing right next to me."
"There weren't any people around me and it didn't sound anything like a bug. It was like a slow, asthmatic wheeze."
"I started getting really freaked out. I reached my hand down to my arm and felt... something larger than I expected. I furiously rubbed my hands all across my body to try and dislodge whatever this thing was, then ran as fast as I could to the house. When I finally got to the safety of the house, I could see a small red mark on my arm, but that was it."
"To this day, it's probably the most freaked out I've ever been."
[deleted]
Chills reading this! Nooo thank you!
"Several very large holes..."
"Really big holes. Several very large holes, fairly close to each other, that seem to serve no purpose. Ten feet wide, deep enough that if you jumped in you’d have to have help getting out. Was someone preparing to bury a bunch of people? Was someone punishing their kid by making them dig holes? Did they hear there was buried treasure out there?"
"We’ve never figured it out."
theyarnilama
How far apart? How neat were the holes? In a plantation or natural wood? Accessible by a small excavator?
"I once saw a huge pile of cat and dog skulls and bones about 100m from my cabin so we sold the cabin as soon as we could. It was creepy."
[deleted]
This definitely sounds like the beginning of a horror film. Did the ghosts follow you? Please report back.
"There's a small patch..."
"There's a small patch of woods where I live. You could walk across it in less than an hour. It's entirely safe and has marked trails. People somehow manage to get lost in there and I can't explain that."
ThadisJones
Did they stumble across the bounds of time and space? That might explain it. But you might be underestimating how many people lack a sense of direction.
None of this makes you want to go out into the woods, huh? Yeah, we thought so. We'll pass the next time we get an offer to go camping somewhere.
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We're all not geniuses.
Everybody has varying degrees of knowledge and brain power.
And that is ok.
Though some of us are really lacking in any sense and every once and awhile people like to sugarcoat that fact when they call us out.
"Bless your heart."
That's a big one in the South. Means... "I like you, but Lord are you missing marbles."
Redditor MrMadJoker wanted to know the most creative ways to describe people who lack a few IQ points.
They asked:
"What's your favorite euphemism for a dumb person?"
"You're missing a few pieces of the puzzle."
Said to me from my Geometry teacher. Now I know what he meant.
And... he was right.
Cents
"I could give them a penny for their thoughts and I'd get change back."
hopefulsite126
The Cells
"He's got 2 brain cells left, and they're fighting for 3rd place."
Striking_Yoghurt_690
"One more neuron and he'd have a synapse."
Bad Wheel
"The wheel is spinning but the hamster's dead."
ofsquire
"My old english teacher used to say 'I can smell the hamster burning.'"
cardew-vascular
"Bruh how u gonna do hamsters like that. Im dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"
Mulberry0
YOU
"You're the reason we have warning labels."
ofsquire
"My bosses comment about my non-too bright coworker 'you can’t get mad at her- she’s the reason shampoo has directions and she probably still f**ked it up…'”
Smoopiebear
"You see? Because of me, they have a warning label."
WantToBeBetterAtSex
Ok... some of this is some good comedy.
Or Puppet...
"I'm an American, but I love when British folks call people Muppets. For a long time Europe has led the way in insult innovation, and I think it's time we caught up."
JonSnow31391
Vanilla?
"Less useful than a chocolate teapot."
Pokeybumfun
"My Physics teacher used to say 'more pointless than a chocolate fireguard' whenever we had pencils that were too blunt for graph drawing hahaha."
ElegantEagle13
"German version of that is 'dumber than a piece of bread.'"
00192737292
I Like Turkey
"Shouldn't be left in charge of a ham sandwich."
accomplished_loaf
"I had a college professor who had met Gaddafi (God have mercy on him), the late dictator of Libya, and his impression was 'it would've been a shame to put that lunatic in charge of 10 chickens.'"
thefuzzybunny1
"Lol... for some reason this reminds me of Gordon Ramsay saying on Kitchen Nightmares that he wouldn’t trust a guy to run his bath, let alone his restaurant 😅."
thxitsthedepression
No Top Floor
"Your elevator doesn't go to the top floor. You're as sharp as a marble. You'd be stuck for an answer at hello (that's from Classy Freddie Blassie you pencil necked geeks)."
ferox965
"People tell me my elevator doesn't go the whole way to the top floor but I don't even HAVE an elevator."
"People tell me that too! We should go buy one~"
one_angry_custodian
Space
"My grandpa says: 'A lot of space between them ears.' Which is my absolute favorite, because a lot of people don't get it at first and just enforces the meaning."
Blobfish_Blues
Not all of us are going to break IQ records. That's ok. But these descriptions are funny.
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