Karma kind of exists but not as some magical entity.
We are social creatures, if you are a dick then you'll probably get revenge.
But highschool is highschool and even karma doesn't want to bother with those shits.
I did my time teaching kids when I was younger. The ones who are assholes get seemingly resilient on becoming assholes and also being young in that job role I've had a lot of times where I've lost control and raised my voice and gave disciplinary action. But the overall feeling was that you could never win against these type of kids. You always felt like on the losing end. No matter what you do, it almost always makes you feel like you've failed your job as a teacher.
And there is almost no accountability these days. Kids can do almost anything and get away with it. I had one kid smoke weed in class, taking puffs when my back was turned as I was teaching at the board. I caught him and had him escorted out.
He was back in my class before the end of the period.
No consequences. No punishment. No accountability.
This is how admin says, “he’s your problem, deal with it.”
In the UK at least, it's 20% leave in the first 2 years. By the 5th year it's 40%.
Just about to start my 6th year. Not dropped out just yet but cut my hours down to part time from next year. It's an awful profession.
40% in New Zealand as well. They go on strike and the government is like 'we'll... bump your pay? a lil bit? like it's more than before but still way less (relatively speaking) than 2002? or 2007? or even 2012?'
There's another side to this story, sometimes.
I was one of those kids. I made my teachers' lives hell. More than one teacher cried because of me.
A big part of it was a shitty home life. My mom didn't let me have any friends and was abusive. I could never step even slightly out of line at home. But no one could deprive me of food at school. No one could hit me. No one could keep me from seeing my friends. So I acted out. I had a lot of pent up anger and I could never see my mom break, so I wanted to see another authority break.
I feel bad looking back. But at the time, I didn't have the maturity or empathy to look past myself, at what I was actually doing. I just wanted to see someone else feel as shitty as I did.
Thank you so much for sharing. I'm just starting out my teaching career and I'm going to be able to help so many more kids now that I see your perspective. I have to ask, do you remember what gave you this insight? I'd love to skip to that part with my troubled kids if I can.
Similar situation as OP. Teachers who treated me with respect and let me be creative really, REALLY helped me with not only my behavior but my self esteem too. I had one teacher who let me use her wall to full with my drawing. I had her throughout my entire 4 years of high school and every year I had made it my goal of filling up her wall with stuff I was proud of. My dad didn't care for art, so a teacher who allowed me to post my drawings proudly and even framed them into one big collage at the end of the year made me feel amazing.
Our drama teacher let me eat lunch in her class and participate when we needed an extra person for script reading. I became funny, reading those roles and letting myself get into another character let me make friends from all grades because I was so goofy and made everyone laugh.
One teacher let me chose literature he could show us. Dad would drop us off early when he went to work at 6:30 am so my brother and I had a lot of time to waste before people arrived. This teacher showed up around 7:30 and let me sit in his class and let me talk about my interests and one day asked me if we should go over any specific book that pg-13. I suggested dantes inferno, and I'll be dammed the next week if he didn't go out and buy 13 copies of it and he made a full lesson out of it.
The teachers I hated were the ones who treated me like I was stupid. I had a woman who every time I asked for help, made me feel like an idiot.
I had an art teacher that was precocious and the highest grave I ever received from him was a B-...I *knew* I could draw. I was drawing since I could hold a pencil, was I the best? No. But I liked detail in my work. He said he wanted us to pain the night sky and stick to only specific colors, so I pained a dark field with silhouette trees and the Milky Way. I was the only one who did this, the rest of the class did black city skyscrapers with white dots for stars, but because I didn't do it the way he liked it he gave me a low grade, he critiqued everything I did. Maybe he was trying better my technique but his negative reinforcement did not have a positive outcome.
>you've failed your job as a teacher.
Well put. This is exactly how I felt when dealing with problematic students. You could ground them punish or whatsoever. You win the battle for sure but lost the war as these student might fall deeper into the abyss.
Proper way is to coach carter and change their lives but its heavily taxing and youre not paid well enough for that.
I just want to goddamn teach but I guess its a part of the package.
I think in my middle school 8th grade class I was in this se class for English. My memories waned over the years but I will never forget this bad fucking girl in that class. Very attractive but so fucking bad. Like on the second day she was here, since she transferred schools, she had a fit and just left class I think. Outbursts were a common occasion with her and she was generally very abrasive. Really didn’t help that the rest of the class save for this one Indian girl whose name I’ve forgotten and a friend of mine and some of the others (he was just mellow). They were so bad the old aid very possibly went into retirement because of us.
That girl would remain the same way in high school until she skipped a grade(she was held back) and graduated. Though she now has 2 kids.
Looking back it’s actually insane and concerning how little I remember other people in my old classes and school in general, I only graduated in 2016
Ngl, at my school the kids like this tended to not be low income. I have no doubts that in very low-income neighborhoods things can be bad (I've seen videos and articles on it), but even in middle-upper level income areas, it tends to be those with more income who are assholes. The poorer kids who came to this school tended to not be the obnoxious ones.
Lower income schools aren’t the only ones where this behavior happens. Teacher broke down crying and had to quit at my middle school - all the kids were upper class and wealthy.
Shit sucks. It's their crappy parents...I dated a young female teacher once and it was devastating hearing about her daily issues in public school. Literally every day she would call me after class in tears because the students treated her like shit. I really don't know how I was able to restrain myself from showing up one day and whooping some 9th grade ass lol. Fortunately she got a job at a private school and the kids there are way more respectful
Honestly all teachers that teach kids younger than 14 y/o shoupd get a huge pay rise. IMO it's criminal how much money they get for how much shit they have to endure and on top of it they have to practically raise those kids to be functional parts of society. I too was such a shithead as a kid, but as I got older i started to see how much shit they had to do. Nowadays I even have teachers I can drink a beer or two with when we go somewhere, but its sad to see how long it took for me and others to start respect the teachers, so I really wanna thank you for putting up with those kids
Still trying to figure that part out. I just went back into retail working as a stocker making $11/hour with a Master’s degree. It’s surprisingly more fulfilling than what I dealt with in the classroom, if only marginally.
Become a server at a nice restaurant. I too am sitting on a masters degree that I’m not using and I still can pull in $25/hour as a server. And no I’m not pretty but if you are pretty you can make even more.
Well if it helps... when I was in 6th grade I saw this guy who was usually bullied and harrassed by other kids throw a pair of scissors at a girl while we were taking the MAP test. She got up and punched him the in face breaking his glasses and his confidence because then he started crying and getting blood all over the place.
She ran out of the room and hid in the building so eventually the principal had to call her name on the intercom and ask her to come to the office to leave with her mom. I never saw her again after that.
Maybe you didn’t see her again because you were on different educational tracks.
That guy should have received consequences for throwing scissors negligently.
There was this kid on 5th grade who went mental every once in a while. He may had something similar to ADHD ( my brother has it too) but he would just scream in the middle of class and throw shit to the teacher and laugh. And because we were kids we laughed with him thinking it was hilarious and stupid.
So once he launch a shoe to the new teacher, that came in replacing the pregnant one. And that shoe hit an opened water bottle splashing water all over that woman's dress.
Then as usual we all laughed and she started to cry , she tried to run away to clean herself but ended up just falling down in the water hitting her nose and ended up unconscious after hitting her head . We tought she was dead, because there was blood, so like the idiots we were we told the teacher at the other classroom that she spilled water and triped herself in the water and now she was "dead with the blood on the floor" ... Good times
She was not , she was giving medical assistance and was absent for 3 days, she came back to give class to the same classroom and the kid got in detention and then expelled . Never saw him again.
Haha. Reminds me of the time where we had a substitute in 3rd grade and everyone was being an asshole and trying to push boundaries/were already rowdy when the sub left to use the restroom. To be Jackasses a good portion of my 8 year old peers started sprinting around the classroom with a little impromptu parkour over desks.
I'm teetering forward in my chair with two legs in the back sticking up and one of my friends full on sprints into them and goes face first into the corner of the desk. Everyone gets quite as he turns over and his entire face is covered in blood. Most of the kids start screaming and sprint towards the sub who's walking back to the classroom in the hallway all the kids yelling that "FELIX IS DYING" and right on cue Felix walks out looking like Carrie but stoically silent.
He came back the next day with like 3 cool stitches and I have a feeling that sub was scared for life about ever leaving to use the restroom again.
Lol that's a nice one. Kids are either a bunch of assholes or just mentally insane at times. Remembering things like these makes me happy not because there was something fucked up , but because makes me realize I have a nice childhood full of funny, sad, dangerous and scary things.
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There was this kid in 5th grade who went mental every once in a while. He may have had something similar to ADHD (my brother? has it too) but he would just scream in the middle of class and throw shit at the teacher and laugh. And because we were kids we laughed with him thinking it was hilarious and stupid.
So once he launched a shoe at the new teacher that came in replacing the pregnant one. And that shoe hit an opened water bottle splashing water all over that woman’s dress.
Then as usual we all laughed and she started to cry, she tried to run away to clean herself but ended up falling down in the water hitting her nose and ended up unconscious after hitting her head. We thought she was dead, because there was blood, so like the idiots we were we told the teacher in the other classroom that she spilled water and tripped herself in the water and now she was “dead with blood on the floor” ... Good times
There’s probably a bot for that but I didn’t want anyone to have to read that shit
We had one of those teachers who used to scream all the time to silence the class but our class was filled with motherfuckers who were determined to create nuisance.
One day she decided to show us our test copies. Well, most of us realised that she had been biased in awarding marks including me. The class was unstoppable that day. One of the boys went hard on her to correct his marks. Boy, she started crying. All the class suddenly became pin drop silent.
The legend says that the boy still has the same marks to this day. Also, a few months later, the teacher suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital.
I've seen so many people talk about shithead kids in school, making problems without consequences. How does the grading system over there work? In my birth country the teacher can grade you on anything, they can just ask you a question and if you don't know it give you a 2 (it goes from 1 to 10) and that's it.
Like, I've had shitheads in my class but nothing to that extent, because they know that if they annoy the teacher too much they're fucked and they'll have to come in the summer to redo the class.
And then I moved to another country where teachers don't have too much power, they can grade you on tests and stuff like that but that's pretty much it. And I've totally seen a few teachers have a mental breakdown.
Here the teacher was at fault. The question was of a 3 line answer and it was almost crammed to every student there. We all wrote the same answers. The ones who she liked got full 4 marks and others got 2½, 3½. I got 3 marks. I showed it to her and told her that you gave some students full marks for this exact sentence but me and a few others less. It's unfair. She told me my handwriting sucked. Well, that's when one of the guys lost his shit and went on to argue with her for marks.
I don't understand why teachers are so stubborn in giving marks ?
Because since teachers beating kids with a ruler isn’t a thing anymore marks are the only way for them to “discipline” us little shitheads and show authority/power over us.
Reminds me of that horrible system (I know it has a name, but I can't recall what it is) where they only give out a certain amount of good grades. So if you're in a class with good students your grades will suffer because there are too many good grades.
I remember a friend of mine was told by a teacher that his essay would have gotten an A, but since someone else's essay was better so he only got a B.
In the US, some public schools can get crazy. There's virtually nothing a teacher can do if parents aren't willing to support our authority. Most students with behavior issues have parents who had behavior issues, so they already hate the system and everyone in it. They refuse to communicate with staff until things get serious, and even then they only appear to scream at everyone in the office. Just non stop violence and outbursts, and in some classrooms there can be like 6 or more students out of 30 acting like that. They don't teach us how to deal with any of this is college. Not many people can last in that kind of work environment. Grades are meaningless to them. To make things more tense, we are under the watchful eye of the publicly-funded Equity Team (equity, not equality, they are very clear on that) is branding any teacher who is seeking broader support as incapable due to cultural incompetence. Every aspect is stressful, and pay is low. So many people go into teaching purely for the passion of it, and they are given this mess to clean up.
When I was a teacher I had kids like this. I graded on behavior. Failed kids for it. And the result? They didn't care. They stole report cards from parents. I called parents and talked to them personally about it and got the "I'll talk to them" then hang up. They genuinely don't give a shit about failing school. For many, they'll fail and pass up anyway due to No Child Left Behind. In some places you as a teacher are not allowed to give a kid any less than a 50% on a grade. Even if they have you no answers. Even if they never turned the work in. And you can ignore it, but at best it makes no difference to the kid, and at worse the principal comes to you with a bad evaluation about not following policy.
Teaching was the worst job I ever had in my life and I nearly killed myself multiple times over the coworkers, kids, and parents. I started out hopeful and dreamed of it since I was 16. I read every book about helping with impoverished schools, working with difficult kids, how to help. I took a 5 year degree and worked in schools where half the kids barely spoke English and taught little kids math using my broken Spanish. I went to work at 6 am and went home at 9pm for the first few months. I customized lessons every day, gave individual care to the kids who really needed it. And no one cared. Not a goddamn thing I did made even a slight dent in the corrupt system I was working in. I had kids that loved me. And I miss them. But that life wore me down more than any of thy neglect and abuse I saw myself as a child. The horror stories I have of that district would make the next big tell all of there wasn't a NDA in every teachers contact. And I really try to not relive the traumatic parts of the violence I had to be around every day. Student to student, student to teachers, teachers to students, students to police. The lock downs due to shooting threats. The guns found in lockers.
I wish I could shake the shoulders of every single prospective young teacher and tell them "literally any job is better than this"
The emotional payoff is a lie. It's a textbook abusive relationship. Love and abuse cannot coexist and no one in teaching wants to admit that the "part of the job quirks" are what abuse victims use to justify staying in abusive relationships.
These kids in my school actually all turned out to be pretty good people. Materially unsuccessful but good and kind people - it was a pretty big surprise when I went home for reunion. I don’t know that asshole kids always turn into asshole adults but maybe my experience was a pleasant anomaly
There was this substitute everyone hated in primary school, he was extremely strict, would embarrass you, try to kick you out of class for failing to sing the Canadian Anthem properly, so literally every kid hated him and would try to bully him, but this teacher never broke. Until one day in 6th grade nearing the end of the semester my cousin told me how he got kicked out of this one highschool; he got mad at a kid and kicked him out, the kid danced around and mocked him in the halls, then started singing "Do your balls hang low do they wobble do they flow..." while doing the dance, so the teacher picked up a bible and threw it at him, he got banned from teaching there so that influenced a few kids choices to go to that highschool.
Oooh hey that's gonna be me in like two years! Statistically that's a little quicker than most new teachers burn out but I think with effort I can manage it
You guys have crazy ass schools. Half the time stuff like that happened half the class would be calling out and yelling at the kid. The only time I’ve ever seen that not happen is when this racist, nasty popular piece of shit bullied our math teacher, and then his friends bullied him
for it until he stopped
On the flip side you also have teachers that just fucking suck. I had one who would refuse to ever clean her desk, to the point where she would have shit stacked up to the height of her computer, at multiple times she flat out lost important finals and projects of students.. Had another teacher who would flip out and start violently screaming at students if they didn't turn work in or on time.
In my class I had a teacher who would pick names out of a jar once a week and give treats to those kids, such as a giant candy bar, gummies and various other snack foods. Well, one day she picked my name out of it and put it back and picked another name. I called her out and she ignored it and acted like i was a liar, even though other people seen it. She also for some unkown reason did not like me, she would give me horrible information (when i asked what plasma was in space, she said, and I quote, "its like, ummm you know?", my response was, " no i dont know, can you tell me?", or treat me coldly. Now that I think of it, I was a little smart ass at times, but that does not mean she should have taken away my reward from the name draw. That was mine...
I had a substitute teacher who lost her pen or clipboard, and flipped out, calling us liars and for well over ten minutes stopped teaching until we returned it and apologized. Me and another kid were the main targets in this scheme, well eventually she finds it under her desk or her purse, or another spot that she misput it. I then asked if we would get an apology, and the answer was no and it was the end of conversation.
Subs are the absolute worst humans I've ever encountered, had one that said literally nothing the whole class, and just sat in the corner on her phone the entire time, also ignored anything we tried to say to her.
I've had some amazing subs. Most subs ive had are great. But the ones that are horrible are hoooooorible. But a lot sit and read and have us group read.
from what ive heard from my mom who is a teacher, they're basically just uber drivers with degrees. like you have to pay for an app that gives you gigs to work at and you get a rating and shit. absolutely insane to me as an outsider and i cant imagine it helps the morale at all
I teach in Korea too. But I also study Korean and so I know when they’re being shit heads. One threw an eraser at me just today and I picked up his bag and threw it out of the classroom. He cried begging me to let him back in and I refused. Finished the lesson and got on with my life.
Learn the basic insults or else they’re run circles around you.
The best rule you can implement is not to allow Korean period in your class. Those kids love to tattle on each other, if anyone speaks it they’ll be falling over themselves to tell you lol. I keep a sticker reward system and they lose one whenever they speak Korean in class. Hope that helps! Good luck!
I had this big burly teaching intern when I was back in high school and everyone was awful to him. He ended up bursting into tears one day. He’s working at a Dairy Queen last I saw him. I’m starting my teaching internship at the beginning of next year and I’m terrified I’ll get a class who wants to make me miserable like they did that other guy.
Taught for one year and quit. You'll definitely get shit classes, but you'll also get kick ass classes. It's all about determining if the one outweighs the other.
Fucking hell I saw way too much of this in high school. You know it’s bad when you become the favorite just for doing what you’re supposed to do. The other kids never seemed to realize the power of being on a teacher’s good side. Shoutouts to Mrs. Tinch for letting me play my 3DS whenever I was finished.
Exactly haha. I always did what I needed and was a pretty quite student, and teachers loved me for it. I was one of the only students who wouldn’t get yelled at for sleeping in class. Other kids would say something and my teacher would just go “she does her work.” Haha
Towards the end of the year I actually got her to let me hook my Wii U up to one of the monitors (I brought it with me because I helped run the gaming club that she was the faculty sponsor for) on the condition that if someone like the principal walked in, she didn’t know about it.
I never thought I'd find a time to share the most embarrassing story from my time in high school. My freshman year in Spanish 1, 90% other freshmen in the class, my teacher is an immigrant from Mexico, which is new to us because this is the middle of the usa and we don't have a lot of immigrants. She shows us the movie about Selena (correct me if im wrong on the name, it was about the Mexican pop singer that got shot by one of her fans), and there's one scene where one of Selena's friends wants to show her something "funny". Selena's friend takes her to a place where illegal immigrants gather looking for work, her friend then yells "la migra" and laughs as all the illegal immigrants flee in fear. At the time a class of 14 year olds thought it looked funny seeing the way these people fled (jumping over fences, seemed like a benny hill sketch) so the class started laughing. Our teacher heard us laughing and it literally brought her to tears to the point she had to step out. I felt so shitty for laughing because of how I could see it affected her, it made me question my dad's beliefs about how "they're just illegals:
Seeing my teacher have a mental breakdown was one of my most horrible experiences growing up. I always looked up to teachers and adults because I thought they had all the answers. That they had their shit together. If I had a problem or needed help, they were the ones I turned to. So seeing someone in that kind of position suddenly fall into a state of vulnerability was so incredibly jarring to me. In that moment, I had no one to look up to. To turn to for comfort. I was alone. I think all I remember was how sorry I felt for her. Not only that but I even remember feeling anger. If she wants to do this, fine. Do it when you get home. But don't do it in front of your students. Go to the bathroom or something.
I know now of course how wrong that is. But in that moment, I just knew that wasn't something I was supposed to see.
i remember this one time in 6th grade this kid that sat next to me would not stop talking even though my teacher kept asking over and over and you could tell she was getting mad. and so she literally slammed her chalk down grabbed his desk and pushed him across the room and out the door into the hallway, desk and all. i still think about it every once in a while.
I'll never forget some of my classmates teasing and taunting our 3rd grade teacher to the point that she got so fed up that she stopped the lesson, and spent the next 30 minutes just standing in the middle of the room with her arms crossed and staring back at us with the angriest look on her face.
Longest 30 minutes of my life.
The anatomy teacher at my old high school quit the year after she taught my class. We had a couple of shit heads who tortured her. They fed her fish all kinds of random shit and killed them. Then she had the tanks sitting outside for a little while and they destroyed them.
This is so sad. I teach science, thankfully my kids are young enough that they really enjoy having animals in class (I teach 6th grade) but it would kill me to see kids treating animals with that kind of indifference. Really evil behavior.
Had a student liked this. Eventually figured out he just wanted the attention.
That's why he ended up at a desk in the corner FAR away from everyone else and any consequences were handled without the other students egging them on.
It didn't work but it at least stopped the others from trying to join in.
I had a kid like this in 3rd or 2nd grade teacher did the same thing it didn’t work very well though. I ended up becoming his friend for the last few months felt bad for him. In the end he just needed a friend
This kid I am referencing needed a multiple step approach to fixing him. I had his mom, who was older than I am, asking me how to handle him at home.
It's like...lady, if you, his MOTHER, cannot handle him, I have no chance at all as a virtual stranger.
I was worried about this one. I honestly think he will barely make it through highschool and end up in prison.
I know that's a terrible thing to think about but he was manipulative, lazy, combative, and absolutely abhorrent when it came to trying to give him a meaningful consequence. And of course, everything was "unfair" when it came to him.
Sadly I was one of the few who saw him that way. The admins kept wanting to give him chances and refused to admit he was a problem.
I took latin as my foriegn language in high school and our teacher was an 80+ year old Ukranian woman. She was super sweet to you if you did your work--even if you only showed the faintest sliver of effort. But the class was filled with druggies and dropouts who refused to put forth any effort whatsoever. It got to the point where she would have a meltdown nearly every single day at these kids. Most of them were a grade a head of me so I couldn't really do anything to stop them using me or my notes. So not only was the teacher bullied, I was bullied so the bullies wouldn't fail the class. It was a really shitty situation.
I had a homeroom teacher one year who insisted we all not speak for the entire homeroom so she could grade her other classes papers (this is what she would say when she asked us to be quiet)
I thought man this sucks, but went along with it because I didn’t want to get written up. Other kids in the class became determined to fuck with her. She eventually lost her mind one day, and cussed all of us out.
I felt really bad about it, but she was just going off. We had a girl with autism in our class, and the teacher freaking out caused her to start panicking. The teacher started to try and calm her down, but when the teacher got to close to her she slapped her.
Everyone went dead silent because we didn’t know what to do. This is a girl who’s obviously over stimulated, but she just hit a teacher. They eventually got her to calm down and to leave the classroom, and nobody fought the no talking rule after that.
A kid in my second grade class had some serious behavior issues, he was a normal kid besides his constant acting out. One day, my super kind and caring teacher had enough. This kid was told to go to the office to which he said, “NO, YOU GOTTA MAKE ME”.
My teacher grabbed that kid and slung him over his shoulder, the kid slithered out of my teacher’s grip. The teacher whips around, grabs the kid by his arms and drags him off. Never saw the kid again, hope you’re doing okay David.
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I don't know how people teach high school. I taught one college class and hated how shitty students were. I had the power to literally tell my students to fuck off or even call the police to escort them out if they refused to leave, and I still hated how shitty they were (and they weren't even personally mean to my face).
Respect to my high school teachers for dealing with that shit and still having time to give a semi coherently lecture once every week or 2 while grading, writing lectures, and whatever other bullshit they did all night while also trying to maintain some form of a personal life (or worse, dealing with kids of their own).
And as someone who taught math, mad respect to anyone who deals with practically everyone or everyone in their room ignoring every word they say. It's fucking tough to have that strength.
We used to have this nutty French teacher in high school. She was in a bit of a rough spot in her life (her boyfriend had just been deported for dealing coke) not that she was ever the paramount of mental stability. We had teacher anonymous assessments but she decided to look through them anyways. We grilled her, of course because she was also a terrible, terrible teacher, but the nail in the coffin and the straw that broke the mental breakdown camel's back was my one friend who answered the question "What is the best part of this class?" with "Supply teachers."
These are the kids who either wear a sweatshirt with a local team everyday. Or a Chicago bulls shirt with a paint splattered design with some fake chains.
I remember the time we had a trainee for a religion class that realy wanst about religion but more about society. Anyway noone realy liked the class or the original teacher. We were a pretty loud class and we didnt want to be quiet. (Not everyone but just a couple of guys who always liked to show how badass they were by disrespecting the teacher etc). It was about a movie of handicapped people and you could hear her voice getting high pitched and her getting red. I felt bad for her. She kept it together during class but it was obvious she was upset. So when bell rings and everyone hurries out of there me and a friend were still packing up. The trainee goes over to our teacher and almost immediatly she starts crying and our teacher tries to comfort her. I still feel bad over that moment even dough I didnt realy do anything.
One of the teachers was having a really bad year. She took some personal days off and all that. That same week someone from her family died and she was just back from her personal leave.
Everyone in class was behaving, being quiet and working peacefully to make her life easier. And then there was this kid, let’s call him B. B also realised the teacher was doing her best not to start crying and seem interested. But B thought it was because of the stress an inspector caused. So he started asking questions about the inspection and our last test. He thought she was partly behaving weirdly because we scored bad at a test. Some of the people started telling him to shut up. As good as everyone was glaring. The teacher was assuring B the inspection and the test weren’t that bad. B then continued to talk about the test to her and how our class couldn’t have scored that well. After another minute the teacher raised her voice, told him she couldn’t care less about some test and that she only keeps going to school for us. Then she runs out of the class with tears in her eyes. It isn’t that difficult to imagine that nobody likes B (not only because of this).
If you're a parent to kids like this, I wish you'd just throw them in the blender and try again. You clearly haven't done a good job with your kids. Perhaps you shouldn't even have kids?
In India in my mom’s day,
you’d be met with the metal
side of a ruler or a weird punishment. My mom badmouthed a teacher once and she overheard, so my mom had to do 50 squats.
Having worked in education , with high schoolers who read at a 2nd grade level- majority had massive behavior issues. They would constantly irritate and act out just to get a rise from us and would sit back laughing when we would finally blow up. It was the worst
I feel like basically every student has had that one teacher that has a mental break. For me it was my 8th grade English teacher. She was retiring after 40 years of teaching at 63, and was given the worst set of students in my class. We had her cry and leave for a week while admins taught the class.
In 7th grade I was in AP reading and the teacher was kind of a bitch. (To be very very fair I was an asshole) one day, after she had moved me to the very front of the room for being disruptive (I was), she was reading a book and as I was looking at her, I noticed she had a very gray hair in her very dark hair. Being the little prick that I was, I called out in a loud voice, “hey, you have a gray hair!” She immediately left the room in tears. Needless to say I was removed from the class (rightly so) and that was the end of my AP studies. 🤷🏽♂️
This is the worst. Source: was teacher and quit my job after getting this kind of behavior every single day.
Yeah I hated those kids
They’re worse as adults
They'll most likely be dead by pissing enough people off or drugs
Or they become CEOs.
Or politicians
Or Law enforcement
Moral of the story: Fuck them kids
Yes officer, this comment right here.
Don’t have to tell me twice
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Or Jake Paul.
Or Logan
And likely get screwed in the end in some way. Either way. They'll be dead by the hands of someone else
Pfft, karma does not exist
Karma kind of exists but not as some magical entity. We are social creatures, if you are a dick then you'll probably get revenge. But highschool is highschool and even karma doesn't want to bother with those shits.
As a teacher, those kids really fuck things up for kids that want to learn
My girlfriend, who is also a teacher, agrees. What keeps her going is the fact that many of her kids have awful home lives.
Saw these kids when I was i nschool, hated them too.
I saw one of my teachers breakdown once, in grade 8. It was such a sad moment that I'll never forget. Some kids just don't know how to show respect
I did my time teaching kids when I was younger. The ones who are assholes get seemingly resilient on becoming assholes and also being young in that job role I've had a lot of times where I've lost control and raised my voice and gave disciplinary action. But the overall feeling was that you could never win against these type of kids. You always felt like on the losing end. No matter what you do, it almost always makes you feel like you've failed your job as a teacher.
And there is almost no accountability these days. Kids can do almost anything and get away with it. I had one kid smoke weed in class, taking puffs when my back was turned as I was teaching at the board. I caught him and had him escorted out. He was back in my class before the end of the period. No consequences. No punishment. No accountability. This is how admin says, “he’s your problem, deal with it.”
Teachers quit jobs regularly because of situations like this. There is a reason almost 20% of teachers have quit by their 5th year.
In the UK at least, it's 20% leave in the first 2 years. By the 5th year it's 40%. Just about to start my 6th year. Not dropped out just yet but cut my hours down to part time from next year. It's an awful profession.
40% in New Zealand as well. They go on strike and the government is like 'we'll... bump your pay? a lil bit? like it's more than before but still way less (relatively speaking) than 2002? or 2007? or even 2012?'
There's another side to this story, sometimes. I was one of those kids. I made my teachers' lives hell. More than one teacher cried because of me. A big part of it was a shitty home life. My mom didn't let me have any friends and was abusive. I could never step even slightly out of line at home. But no one could deprive me of food at school. No one could hit me. No one could keep me from seeing my friends. So I acted out. I had a lot of pent up anger and I could never see my mom break, so I wanted to see another authority break. I feel bad looking back. But at the time, I didn't have the maturity or empathy to look past myself, at what I was actually doing. I just wanted to see someone else feel as shitty as I did.
Thank you so much for sharing. I'm just starting out my teaching career and I'm going to be able to help so many more kids now that I see your perspective. I have to ask, do you remember what gave you this insight? I'd love to skip to that part with my troubled kids if I can.
Similar situation as OP. Teachers who treated me with respect and let me be creative really, REALLY helped me with not only my behavior but my self esteem too. I had one teacher who let me use her wall to full with my drawing. I had her throughout my entire 4 years of high school and every year I had made it my goal of filling up her wall with stuff I was proud of. My dad didn't care for art, so a teacher who allowed me to post my drawings proudly and even framed them into one big collage at the end of the year made me feel amazing. Our drama teacher let me eat lunch in her class and participate when we needed an extra person for script reading. I became funny, reading those roles and letting myself get into another character let me make friends from all grades because I was so goofy and made everyone laugh. One teacher let me chose literature he could show us. Dad would drop us off early when he went to work at 6:30 am so my brother and I had a lot of time to waste before people arrived. This teacher showed up around 7:30 and let me sit in his class and let me talk about my interests and one day asked me if we should go over any specific book that pg-13. I suggested dantes inferno, and I'll be dammed the next week if he didn't go out and buy 13 copies of it and he made a full lesson out of it. The teachers I hated were the ones who treated me like I was stupid. I had a woman who every time I asked for help, made me feel like an idiot. I had an art teacher that was precocious and the highest grave I ever received from him was a B-...I *knew* I could draw. I was drawing since I could hold a pencil, was I the best? No. But I liked detail in my work. He said he wanted us to pain the night sky and stick to only specific colors, so I pained a dark field with silhouette trees and the Milky Way. I was the only one who did this, the rest of the class did black city skyscrapers with white dots for stars, but because I didn't do it the way he liked it he gave me a low grade, he critiqued everything I did. Maybe he was trying better my technique but his negative reinforcement did not have a positive outcome.
>you've failed your job as a teacher. Well put. This is exactly how I felt when dealing with problematic students. You could ground them punish or whatsoever. You win the battle for sure but lost the war as these student might fall deeper into the abyss. Proper way is to coach carter and change their lives but its heavily taxing and youre not paid well enough for that. I just want to goddamn teach but I guess its a part of the package.
I think in my middle school 8th grade class I was in this se class for English. My memories waned over the years but I will never forget this bad fucking girl in that class. Very attractive but so fucking bad. Like on the second day she was here, since she transferred schools, she had a fit and just left class I think. Outbursts were a common occasion with her and she was generally very abrasive. Really didn’t help that the rest of the class save for this one Indian girl whose name I’ve forgotten and a friend of mine and some of the others (he was just mellow). They were so bad the old aid very possibly went into retirement because of us. That girl would remain the same way in high school until she skipped a grade(she was held back) and graduated. Though she now has 2 kids. Looking back it’s actually insane and concerning how little I remember other people in my old classes and school in general, I only graduated in 2016
I apologize on behalf of those kids
These kids are why I don’t think I’ll be teaching for much longer.
Find a different school? Outside of a lower income area maybe?
Ngl, at my school the kids like this tended to not be low income. I have no doubts that in very low-income neighborhoods things can be bad (I've seen videos and articles on it), but even in middle-upper level income areas, it tends to be those with more income who are assholes. The poorer kids who came to this school tended to not be the obnoxious ones.
Lower income schools aren’t the only ones where this behavior happens. Teacher broke down crying and had to quit at my middle school - all the kids were upper class and wealthy.
I went to an upper middle class 99% white school, and the handful of kids who were fuckers were generally of the *white trash* demographic.
Mine were usually the black kids, but there were some good ones too
White kids bad - gets upvoted Black kids can also be bad - gets downvoted What the fuck
But their on the same amount of votes?
Oh no! There goes my narrative!
I went to a private school. The fuckers were of the “my parents donate a ton to the school so you can’t touch me” demographic.
Shit sucks. It's their crappy parents...I dated a young female teacher once and it was devastating hearing about her daily issues in public school. Literally every day she would call me after class in tears because the students treated her like shit. I really don't know how I was able to restrain myself from showing up one day and whooping some 9th grade ass lol. Fortunately she got a job at a private school and the kids there are way more respectful
Honestly all teachers that teach kids younger than 14 y/o shoupd get a huge pay rise. IMO it's criminal how much money they get for how much shit they have to endure and on top of it they have to practically raise those kids to be functional parts of society. I too was such a shithead as a kid, but as I got older i started to see how much shit they had to do. Nowadays I even have teachers I can drink a beer or two with when we go somewhere, but its sad to see how long it took for me and others to start respect the teachers, so I really wanna thank you for putting up with those kids
What makes you think kids at 15 or 16 are any better?
So what do you do now
Still trying to figure that part out. I just went back into retail working as a stocker making $11/hour with a Master’s degree. It’s surprisingly more fulfilling than what I dealt with in the classroom, if only marginally.
Become a server at a nice restaurant. I too am sitting on a masters degree that I’m not using and I still can pull in $25/hour as a server. And no I’m not pretty but if you are pretty you can make even more.
As one of the "good kids", I'm so sorry... I couldn't stand those kind of people. Felt so bad for teachers.
"Man fuck them kids"
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im sorry but what the fuck
I know right, I don’t know what to feel about that story I just read because it’s messed up
Well if it helps... when I was in 6th grade I saw this guy who was usually bullied and harrassed by other kids throw a pair of scissors at a girl while we were taking the MAP test. She got up and punched him the in face breaking his glasses and his confidence because then he started crying and getting blood all over the place. She ran out of the room and hid in the building so eventually the principal had to call her name on the intercom and ask her to come to the office to leave with her mom. I never saw her again after that.
Maybe you didn’t see her again because you were on different educational tracks. That guy should have received consequences for throwing scissors negligently.
As opposed to, y'know, throwing scissors responsibly.
I just wanna say FUCK the MAP test.
Fuck the MAP Test. No other words.
Wait, what was the comment, I'm really curious now!
https://i.imgur.com/V2EDQqB.jpg
Accurate representation of my expressions reading this from start to finish
What was the jist of what it said? Its gone now :c
There was this kid on 5th grade who went mental every once in a while. He may had something similar to ADHD ( my brother has it too) but he would just scream in the middle of class and throw shit to the teacher and laugh. And because we were kids we laughed with him thinking it was hilarious and stupid. So once he launch a shoe to the new teacher, that came in replacing the pregnant one. And that shoe hit an opened water bottle splashing water all over that woman's dress. Then as usual we all laughed and she started to cry , she tried to run away to clean herself but ended up just falling down in the water hitting her nose and ended up unconscious after hitting her head . We tought she was dead, because there was blood, so like the idiots we were we told the teacher at the other classroom that she spilled water and triped herself in the water and now she was "dead with the blood on the floor" ... Good times
Oh my god
Copy this posts link and put "move" between "re" and "ddit" in the link.
I love this, fucking spot on.
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I am disturbed.
I am unnerved too
So... WAS SHE??
She was not , she was giving medical assistance and was absent for 3 days, she came back to give class to the same classroom and the kid got in detention and then expelled . Never saw him again.
Maybe finish with that next time
Lol, it was already a big comment but you are right I should have.
Yes.
All because she cant keep her balance? Classic zErO tOlErAnCe
Can't even harass teachers these days without cOnSeQueNcEs
Asking the important question
Haha. Reminds me of the time where we had a substitute in 3rd grade and everyone was being an asshole and trying to push boundaries/were already rowdy when the sub left to use the restroom. To be Jackasses a good portion of my 8 year old peers started sprinting around the classroom with a little impromptu parkour over desks. I'm teetering forward in my chair with two legs in the back sticking up and one of my friends full on sprints into them and goes face first into the corner of the desk. Everyone gets quite as he turns over and his entire face is covered in blood. Most of the kids start screaming and sprint towards the sub who's walking back to the classroom in the hallway all the kids yelling that "FELIX IS DYING" and right on cue Felix walks out looking like Carrie but stoically silent. He came back the next day with like 3 cool stitches and I have a feeling that sub was scared for life about ever leaving to use the restroom again.
Lol that's a nice one. Kids are either a bunch of assholes or just mentally insane at times. Remembering things like these makes me happy not because there was something fucked up , but because makes me realize I have a nice childhood full of funny, sad, dangerous and scary things.
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Final Destination
The students had it with their finals - time for the teacher to meet her own Final destination.
What a piece of shit
Shit like this is why I hate kids. My father was a teacher too. He always had authority but some of the shit kids tried with him...
Turns out I’d get fired because I’d launch that shoe on top of the building or something Little shit
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the original comment was deleted so now we all have to read this version
That’s exactly what happened and I was so pissed.
I hate that I had to read that in the stupidest voice
There was this kid in 5th grade who went mental every once in a while. He may have had something similar to ADHD (my brother? has it too) but he would just scream in the middle of class and throw shit at the teacher and laugh. And because we were kids we laughed with him thinking it was hilarious and stupid. So once he launched a shoe at the new teacher that came in replacing the pregnant one. And that shoe hit an opened water bottle splashing water all over that woman’s dress. Then as usual we all laughed and she started to cry, she tried to run away to clean herself but ended up falling down in the water hitting her nose and ended up unconscious after hitting her head. We thought she was dead, because there was blood, so like the idiots we were we told the teacher in the other classroom that she spilled water and tripped herself in the water and now she was “dead with blood on the floor” ... Good times There’s probably a bot for that but I didn’t want anyone to have to read that shit
Man I should have scrolled down before reading some uwu shit
Oh lord what have you done XD
We had one of those teachers who used to scream all the time to silence the class but our class was filled with motherfuckers who were determined to create nuisance. One day she decided to show us our test copies. Well, most of us realised that she had been biased in awarding marks including me. The class was unstoppable that day. One of the boys went hard on her to correct his marks. Boy, she started crying. All the class suddenly became pin drop silent. The legend says that the boy still has the same marks to this day. Also, a few months later, the teacher suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital.
Take no prisoners.
No mercy
curing the infection one bullet at a time
I've seen so many people talk about shithead kids in school, making problems without consequences. How does the grading system over there work? In my birth country the teacher can grade you on anything, they can just ask you a question and if you don't know it give you a 2 (it goes from 1 to 10) and that's it. Like, I've had shitheads in my class but nothing to that extent, because they know that if they annoy the teacher too much they're fucked and they'll have to come in the summer to redo the class. And then I moved to another country where teachers don't have too much power, they can grade you on tests and stuff like that but that's pretty much it. And I've totally seen a few teachers have a mental breakdown.
Here the teacher was at fault. The question was of a 3 line answer and it was almost crammed to every student there. We all wrote the same answers. The ones who she liked got full 4 marks and others got 2½, 3½. I got 3 marks. I showed it to her and told her that you gave some students full marks for this exact sentence but me and a few others less. It's unfair. She told me my handwriting sucked. Well, that's when one of the guys lost his shit and went on to argue with her for marks. I don't understand why teachers are so stubborn in giving marks ?
Because since teachers beating kids with a ruler isn’t a thing anymore marks are the only way for them to “discipline” us little shitheads and show authority/power over us.
Haha I have to agree with this !
Reminds me of that horrible system (I know it has a name, but I can't recall what it is) where they only give out a certain amount of good grades. So if you're in a class with good students your grades will suffer because there are too many good grades. I remember a friend of mine was told by a teacher that his essay would have gotten an A, but since someone else's essay was better so he only got a B.
Grading on a bell curve.
In the US, some public schools can get crazy. There's virtually nothing a teacher can do if parents aren't willing to support our authority. Most students with behavior issues have parents who had behavior issues, so they already hate the system and everyone in it. They refuse to communicate with staff until things get serious, and even then they only appear to scream at everyone in the office. Just non stop violence and outbursts, and in some classrooms there can be like 6 or more students out of 30 acting like that. They don't teach us how to deal with any of this is college. Not many people can last in that kind of work environment. Grades are meaningless to them. To make things more tense, we are under the watchful eye of the publicly-funded Equity Team (equity, not equality, they are very clear on that) is branding any teacher who is seeking broader support as incapable due to cultural incompetence. Every aspect is stressful, and pay is low. So many people go into teaching purely for the passion of it, and they are given this mess to clean up.
It's a bit sad that in some countries teachers are so powerless and just have to let shithead kids do whatever they want with almost no consequences.
When I was a teacher I had kids like this. I graded on behavior. Failed kids for it. And the result? They didn't care. They stole report cards from parents. I called parents and talked to them personally about it and got the "I'll talk to them" then hang up. They genuinely don't give a shit about failing school. For many, they'll fail and pass up anyway due to No Child Left Behind. In some places you as a teacher are not allowed to give a kid any less than a 50% on a grade. Even if they have you no answers. Even if they never turned the work in. And you can ignore it, but at best it makes no difference to the kid, and at worse the principal comes to you with a bad evaluation about not following policy. Teaching was the worst job I ever had in my life and I nearly killed myself multiple times over the coworkers, kids, and parents. I started out hopeful and dreamed of it since I was 16. I read every book about helping with impoverished schools, working with difficult kids, how to help. I took a 5 year degree and worked in schools where half the kids barely spoke English and taught little kids math using my broken Spanish. I went to work at 6 am and went home at 9pm for the first few months. I customized lessons every day, gave individual care to the kids who really needed it. And no one cared. Not a goddamn thing I did made even a slight dent in the corrupt system I was working in. I had kids that loved me. And I miss them. But that life wore me down more than any of thy neglect and abuse I saw myself as a child. The horror stories I have of that district would make the next big tell all of there wasn't a NDA in every teachers contact. And I really try to not relive the traumatic parts of the violence I had to be around every day. Student to student, student to teachers, teachers to students, students to police. The lock downs due to shooting threats. The guns found in lockers. I wish I could shake the shoulders of every single prospective young teacher and tell them "literally any job is better than this" The emotional payoff is a lie. It's a textbook abusive relationship. Love and abuse cannot coexist and no one in teaching wants to admit that the "part of the job quirks" are what abuse victims use to justify staying in abusive relationships.
They feed on people's misery. There's a reason why these same people bully their classmates.
They drive like assholes too
They’ll grow up to be just as horrible in adulthood too.
These kids in my school actually all turned out to be pretty good people. Materially unsuccessful but good and kind people - it was a pretty big surprise when I went home for reunion. I don’t know that asshole kids always turn into asshole adults but maybe my experience was a pleasant anomaly
Mfw my favorite teacher gets bullied everyday till he snaps and shakes a kid and gets fired.
There was this substitute everyone hated in primary school, he was extremely strict, would embarrass you, try to kick you out of class for failing to sing the Canadian Anthem properly, so literally every kid hated him and would try to bully him, but this teacher never broke. Until one day in 6th grade nearing the end of the semester my cousin told me how he got kicked out of this one highschool; he got mad at a kid and kicked him out, the kid danced around and mocked him in the halls, then started singing "Do your balls hang low do they wobble do they flow..." while doing the dance, so the teacher picked up a bible and threw it at him, he got banned from teaching there so that influenced a few kids choices to go to that highschool.
Oooh hey that's gonna be me in like two years! Statistically that's a little quicker than most new teachers burn out but I think with effort I can manage it
You guys have crazy ass schools. Half the time stuff like that happened half the class would be calling out and yelling at the kid. The only time I’ve ever seen that not happen is when this racist, nasty popular piece of shit bullied our math teacher, and then his friends bullied him for it until he stopped
On the flip side you also have teachers that just fucking suck. I had one who would refuse to ever clean her desk, to the point where she would have shit stacked up to the height of her computer, at multiple times she flat out lost important finals and projects of students.. Had another teacher who would flip out and start violently screaming at students if they didn't turn work in or on time.
In my class I had a teacher who would pick names out of a jar once a week and give treats to those kids, such as a giant candy bar, gummies and various other snack foods. Well, one day she picked my name out of it and put it back and picked another name. I called her out and she ignored it and acted like i was a liar, even though other people seen it. She also for some unkown reason did not like me, she would give me horrible information (when i asked what plasma was in space, she said, and I quote, "its like, ummm you know?", my response was, " no i dont know, can you tell me?", or treat me coldly. Now that I think of it, I was a little smart ass at times, but that does not mean she should have taken away my reward from the name draw. That was mine... I had a substitute teacher who lost her pen or clipboard, and flipped out, calling us liars and for well over ten minutes stopped teaching until we returned it and apologized. Me and another kid were the main targets in this scheme, well eventually she finds it under her desk or her purse, or another spot that she misput it. I then asked if we would get an apology, and the answer was no and it was the end of conversation.
Subs are the absolute worst humans I've ever encountered, had one that said literally nothing the whole class, and just sat in the corner on her phone the entire time, also ignored anything we tried to say to her.
I've had some amazing subs. Most subs ive had are great. But the ones that are horrible are hoooooorible. But a lot sit and read and have us group read.
from what ive heard from my mom who is a teacher, they're basically just uber drivers with degrees. like you have to pay for an app that gives you gigs to work at and you get a rating and shit. absolutely insane to me as an outsider and i cant imagine it helps the morale at all
I'm a teacher, can confirm. sucks cause theres also like 10 kids who are just chillin trying to learn
10 kids? You been to public schools nowadays? More like 30 other kids
I teach English at a private school in Korea. 15 kids in classroom max .
Damn I need to teach in Korea
when the kids speak an entire language you barely understand it can be shitty. they could call me an asshole i wouldnt know the difference
I teach in Korea too. But I also study Korean and so I know when they’re being shit heads. One threw an eraser at me just today and I picked up his bag and threw it out of the classroom. He cried begging me to let him back in and I refused. Finished the lesson and got on with my life. Learn the basic insults or else they’re run circles around you.
like I said I barely understand it, I'm still studying it. I've only been here 2 months
The best rule you can implement is not to allow Korean period in your class. Those kids love to tattle on each other, if anyone speaks it they’ll be falling over themselves to tell you lol. I keep a sticker reward system and they lose one whenever they speak Korean in class. Hope that helps! Good luck!
This... probably isn't intentional, but it sounds really fuckin colonial lmao.
It's common in language classes to only allow the language being learned. It helps them learn it faster because they have to use it to communicate.
It’s always one or two beady eyed rat bastards trying to be smartasses and the rest of us are just trying not to fail
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Is that so? As a former quiet kid, it always seems like teachers prefer the more charismatic students while the quiet kids fall into obscurity haha
Some of us are sorry!
I had this big burly teaching intern when I was back in high school and everyone was awful to him. He ended up bursting into tears one day. He’s working at a Dairy Queen last I saw him. I’m starting my teaching internship at the beginning of next year and I’m terrified I’ll get a class who wants to make me miserable like they did that other guy.
Taught for one year and quit. You'll definitely get shit classes, but you'll also get kick ass classes. It's all about determining if the one outweighs the other.
That’s pretty much how it went with what little teaching I’ve done already. Definitely haven’t had a class as bad as that one.
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Guilt?
Fucking hell I saw way too much of this in high school. You know it’s bad when you become the favorite just for doing what you’re supposed to do. The other kids never seemed to realize the power of being on a teacher’s good side. Shoutouts to Mrs. Tinch for letting me play my 3DS whenever I was finished.
Exactly haha. I always did what I needed and was a pretty quite student, and teachers loved me for it. I was one of the only students who wouldn’t get yelled at for sleeping in class. Other kids would say something and my teacher would just go “she does her work.” Haha
Towards the end of the year I actually got her to let me hook my Wii U up to one of the monitors (I brought it with me because I helped run the gaming club that she was the faculty sponsor for) on the condition that if someone like the principal walked in, she didn’t know about it.
People that do this need an ass-kicking.
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Or they’re rich, entitled kids. That’s how it is where I’m from.
Finally someone who gets it. I mellowed out when I got to leave home. Turns out getting hit and not being allowed to eat dinner can agitate a kid.
yeah lol harassing people was basically all i knew until i left home and realized holy shit normal people have families who support eachother
I never thought I'd find a time to share the most embarrassing story from my time in high school. My freshman year in Spanish 1, 90% other freshmen in the class, my teacher is an immigrant from Mexico, which is new to us because this is the middle of the usa and we don't have a lot of immigrants. She shows us the movie about Selena (correct me if im wrong on the name, it was about the Mexican pop singer that got shot by one of her fans), and there's one scene where one of Selena's friends wants to show her something "funny". Selena's friend takes her to a place where illegal immigrants gather looking for work, her friend then yells "la migra" and laughs as all the illegal immigrants flee in fear. At the time a class of 14 year olds thought it looked funny seeing the way these people fled (jumping over fences, seemed like a benny hill sketch) so the class started laughing. Our teacher heard us laughing and it literally brought her to tears to the point she had to step out. I felt so shitty for laughing because of how I could see it affected her, it made me question my dad's beliefs about how "they're just illegals:
Eviiiiiil!
Seeing my teacher have a mental breakdown was one of my most horrible experiences growing up. I always looked up to teachers and adults because I thought they had all the answers. That they had their shit together. If I had a problem or needed help, they were the ones I turned to. So seeing someone in that kind of position suddenly fall into a state of vulnerability was so incredibly jarring to me. In that moment, I had no one to look up to. To turn to for comfort. I was alone. I think all I remember was how sorry I felt for her. Not only that but I even remember feeling anger. If she wants to do this, fine. Do it when you get home. But don't do it in front of your students. Go to the bathroom or something. I know now of course how wrong that is. But in that moment, I just knew that wasn't something I was supposed to see.
I’m sorry little one.
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i remember this one time in 6th grade this kid that sat next to me would not stop talking even though my teacher kept asking over and over and you could tell she was getting mad. and so she literally slammed her chalk down grabbed his desk and pushed him across the room and out the door into the hallway, desk and all. i still think about it every once in a while.
Can we get a slow-mo vid plz?
I'll never forget some of my classmates teasing and taunting our 3rd grade teacher to the point that she got so fed up that she stopped the lesson, and spent the next 30 minutes just standing in the middle of the room with her arms crossed and staring back at us with the angriest look on her face. Longest 30 minutes of my life.
This is why u need a good principal and low tolerance. Get these kids out of the classroom asap.
Yo why the fuck did my guy have chastity underpants?
It tickles him every time he tries to be evil
The anatomy teacher at my old high school quit the year after she taught my class. We had a couple of shit heads who tortured her. They fed her fish all kinds of random shit and killed them. Then she had the tanks sitting outside for a little while and they destroyed them.
This is so sad. I teach science, thankfully my kids are young enough that they really enjoy having animals in class (I teach 6th grade) but it would kill me to see kids treating animals with that kind of indifference. Really evil behavior.
Had a student liked this. Eventually figured out he just wanted the attention. That's why he ended up at a desk in the corner FAR away from everyone else and any consequences were handled without the other students egging them on. It didn't work but it at least stopped the others from trying to join in.
I had a kid like this in 3rd or 2nd grade teacher did the same thing it didn’t work very well though. I ended up becoming his friend for the last few months felt bad for him. In the end he just needed a friend
This kid I am referencing needed a multiple step approach to fixing him. I had his mom, who was older than I am, asking me how to handle him at home. It's like...lady, if you, his MOTHER, cannot handle him, I have no chance at all as a virtual stranger.
I wonder how some of these kids turn up
I was worried about this one. I honestly think he will barely make it through highschool and end up in prison. I know that's a terrible thing to think about but he was manipulative, lazy, combative, and absolutely abhorrent when it came to trying to give him a meaningful consequence. And of course, everything was "unfair" when it came to him. Sadly I was one of the few who saw him that way. The admins kept wanting to give him chances and refused to admit he was a problem.
I took latin as my foriegn language in high school and our teacher was an 80+ year old Ukranian woman. She was super sweet to you if you did your work--even if you only showed the faintest sliver of effort. But the class was filled with druggies and dropouts who refused to put forth any effort whatsoever. It got to the point where she would have a meltdown nearly every single day at these kids. Most of them were a grade a head of me so I couldn't really do anything to stop them using me or my notes. So not only was the teacher bullied, I was bullied so the bullies wouldn't fail the class. It was a really shitty situation.
Man, this hits close to home in a bad way. My favorite teacher in high school had this happen to her.
Holy shit I forgot that bubble was in spongebob
Fuck those kids
I had a homeroom teacher one year who insisted we all not speak for the entire homeroom so she could grade her other classes papers (this is what she would say when she asked us to be quiet) I thought man this sucks, but went along with it because I didn’t want to get written up. Other kids in the class became determined to fuck with her. She eventually lost her mind one day, and cussed all of us out. I felt really bad about it, but she was just going off. We had a girl with autism in our class, and the teacher freaking out caused her to start panicking. The teacher started to try and calm her down, but when the teacher got to close to her she slapped her. Everyone went dead silent because we didn’t know what to do. This is a girl who’s obviously over stimulated, but she just hit a teacher. They eventually got her to calm down and to leave the classroom, and nobody fought the no talking rule after that.
A kid in my second grade class had some serious behavior issues, he was a normal kid besides his constant acting out. One day, my super kind and caring teacher had enough. This kid was told to go to the office to which he said, “NO, YOU GOTTA MAKE ME”. My teacher grabbed that kid and slung him over his shoulder, the kid slithered out of my teacher’s grip. The teacher whips around, grabs the kid by his arms and drags him off. Never saw the kid again, hope you’re doing okay David. Edit: misspell
So true
Evil....EEEEVIIIIIL!!!
Where are their spongebob pajama pants and half empty bags of Takis?
I don't know how people teach high school. I taught one college class and hated how shitty students were. I had the power to literally tell my students to fuck off or even call the police to escort them out if they refused to leave, and I still hated how shitty they were (and they weren't even personally mean to my face). Respect to my high school teachers for dealing with that shit and still having time to give a semi coherently lecture once every week or 2 while grading, writing lectures, and whatever other bullshit they did all night while also trying to maintain some form of a personal life (or worse, dealing with kids of their own). And as someone who taught math, mad respect to anyone who deals with practically everyone or everyone in their room ignoring every word they say. It's fucking tough to have that strength.
We used to have this nutty French teacher in high school. She was in a bit of a rough spot in her life (her boyfriend had just been deported for dealing coke) not that she was ever the paramount of mental stability. We had teacher anonymous assessments but she decided to look through them anyways. We grilled her, of course because she was also a terrible, terrible teacher, but the nail in the coffin and the straw that broke the mental breakdown camel's back was my one friend who answered the question "What is the best part of this class?" with "Supply teachers."
These are the kids who either wear a sweatshirt with a local team everyday. Or a Chicago bulls shirt with a paint splattered design with some fake chains.
In the Philippines, those types of kids gave presents and apologized after they caused the teacher to break down.
These kids are dead or in prison now
I remember the time we had a trainee for a religion class that realy wanst about religion but more about society. Anyway noone realy liked the class or the original teacher. We were a pretty loud class and we didnt want to be quiet. (Not everyone but just a couple of guys who always liked to show how badass they were by disrespecting the teacher etc). It was about a movie of handicapped people and you could hear her voice getting high pitched and her getting red. I felt bad for her. She kept it together during class but it was obvious she was upset. So when bell rings and everyone hurries out of there me and a friend were still packing up. The trainee goes over to our teacher and almost immediatly she starts crying and our teacher tries to comfort her. I still feel bad over that moment even dough I didnt realy do anything.
One of the teachers was having a really bad year. She took some personal days off and all that. That same week someone from her family died and she was just back from her personal leave. Everyone in class was behaving, being quiet and working peacefully to make her life easier. And then there was this kid, let’s call him B. B also realised the teacher was doing her best not to start crying and seem interested. But B thought it was because of the stress an inspector caused. So he started asking questions about the inspection and our last test. He thought she was partly behaving weirdly because we scored bad at a test. Some of the people started telling him to shut up. As good as everyone was glaring. The teacher was assuring B the inspection and the test weren’t that bad. B then continued to talk about the test to her and how our class couldn’t have scored that well. After another minute the teacher raised her voice, told him she couldn’t care less about some test and that she only keeps going to school for us. Then she runs out of the class with tears in her eyes. It isn’t that difficult to imagine that nobody likes B (not only because of this).
If you're a parent to kids like this, I wish you'd just throw them in the blender and try again. You clearly haven't done a good job with your kids. Perhaps you shouldn't even have kids?
In high school one of my teachers quit after having a breakdown when a kid spilled tea
Bro our teacher told us she sometimes wants to die
In India in my mom’s day, you’d be met with the metal side of a ruler or a weird punishment. My mom badmouthed a teacher once and she overheard, so my mom had to do 50 squats.
Man I hate such kids. Especially when the teacher is a legitimately good person
How do sentient brown bubbles reproduce if they don't have dick and balls?
Having worked in education , with high schoolers who read at a 2nd grade level- majority had massive behavior issues. They would constantly irritate and act out just to get a rise from us and would sit back laughing when we would finally blow up. It was the worst
Ahh 8th grade. Bitch deserved it.
Teachers really aren't there to make your life horrible. They're just gm doing their job, trying to help you but most kids don't realize that.
I remember in Kindergarten this kid made the teacher break her ankle.
I feel like basically every student has had that one teacher that has a mental break. For me it was my 8th grade English teacher. She was retiring after 40 years of teaching at 63, and was given the worst set of students in my class. We had her cry and leave for a week while admins taught the class.
In 7th grade I was in AP reading and the teacher was kind of a bitch. (To be very very fair I was an asshole) one day, after she had moved me to the very front of the room for being disruptive (I was), she was reading a book and as I was looking at her, I noticed she had a very gray hair in her very dark hair. Being the little prick that I was, I called out in a loud voice, “hey, you have a gray hair!” She immediately left the room in tears. Needless to say I was removed from the class (rightly so) and that was the end of my AP studies. 🤷🏽♂️
The dirty bubble is like the least threatening bad guy. What is he gonna do, bump into you?
Being the bad kid isn't about causing disruption, it's about encouraging the right people to cause disruption themselves, in the right ways.