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When you remember school, does a nasty teacher come to mind?
Recently a group of teachers gathered on the social network Reddit to share stories of their toughest moves they took against naughty students. Being a teacher is undoubtedly very hard work, but if someone in any other profession pulled similar stunts, they would almost certainly be fired.
We’ve selected a few of the best stories for you
It doesn’t matter at all how well behaved you are, but you will surely remember at least one moment when a teacher in your class was unnecessarily cruel to someone.
1. Goodbye, and don’t come back!
“I gave him an extra point so he’d pass, because otherwise he’d show up again next year in the back row.”
2. Who’s the kid here?
“I had a bitch of a student who made fun of a disabled child, stole, and generally made everyone’s time at school miserable for her classmates. Her parents didn’t help, she was already getting on the principal’s nerves, and it was an elementary school, so there wasn’t much to do …”
“So I gave her a broken Christmas cone for the Christmas card we made every year. And then a deformed Valentine’s cookie. And a squashed carton of milk. All year. She always got the crumpled, broken, in short the worst option. Petty, unprofessional, but at the time it felt very good.”
3. The faker
“A girl notorious for pretending/exaggerating her injuries fell off the jungle gym. She came to me and told me her arm hurt. I told her to rest and put a wet towel on it (our substitute for ice packs when we think nothing actually happened and she just wants attention). It turned out she had a broken wrist and I felt like a total cow.”
4. Miss Tough
“I deleted that kid from the yearbook.”
5. Evidence is evidence
“I filmed the student and showed it to his mother because she wouldn’t believe that the problem was her child.”
6. Failed April Fools’ prank
“One student gave me an ice cream sandwich filled with mayonnaise on April Fools’ Day. Naturally I returned the favor by giving her a cupcake… also filled with mayonnaise. She was allergic to mayonnaise. She’s fine. 10/10 would do it again.”
7. Overachieving mom
“Once I caught a student handing me an essay that her mother had written… And her mother had obviously copied the essay. As an opportunity to complete an assignment worth 50% of the grade, I assigned the student (and her mother) to write a ten-page essay with 15 academic sources (the original task was a three-page essay with three sources). I knew the mother would slavishly do it, and she did. I can’t stand parents like her.”
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