There are a lot of wonderful teachers out there who are working really hard under difficult conditions to try and help kids get a leg up on education in a country that seems to value education less every day. This post is not about them.
Amongst all the good teachers are a number of people who are tenured into the position, doing it as a side gig, completely disillusioned, or who have only gotten into the business of teaching because they enjoy having tyrannical power over people smaller and weaker than them. Everyone who has been to school has met a teacher like that at some point, and Twitter user @FUNTIMEZ wanted to hear their stories:
Let’s hear some shitty teacher stories, go off pic.twitter.com/LSMNryfLCB
— LOVES KYOUKO (@FUNTlMEZ) January 9, 2020
They also shared their own story, writing, “I have this teacher for a Presentation Skills class who, if she caught me fidgeting or ticking, would make me stay after class so she could lecture me on being ‘distracting and disrespectful’. And when kids presented she would make them start over if they said ‘like”’or ‘uhm’, or didn’t make eye contact. One kid was up there for 30 minutes just repeating his project over and over and he almost cried.”
if they said “like” or “uhm”, or didn’t make eye contact. One kid was up there for 30 minutes just repeating his project over and over and he almost cried. Hell I had to restart mine once and it was even worse than my first time through.
— LOVES KYOUKO (@FUNTlMEZ) January 9, 2020
“Hell I had to restart mine once and it was even worse than my first time through,” they added. Poorly administered discipline is a common theme in the below tales, as are vengeful parents. That’s the real lesson for everybody: keep track of what’s going on in your kid’s classrooms! There might be a real reason why they stopped enjoying reading.
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I loved this teacher so this was/ is complicated but… my mom died when I was in 8th grade. I went to school the next day. My teacher told me my mom died because we had prayed the wrong way. mom was not even buried yet. She had died the morning before& I was told it was my fault https://t.co/T7uL0Ts0YX
— Amanda Deibert️ (@amandadeibert) January 15, 2020
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My teacher in Pakistan asked me to go outside and find a stick for her and I ran outside and brought a big stick and then this bitch used it to hit me with it. https://t.co/dffheF9Exf
— Senpapi (@Sohcandoit) January 13, 2020
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in 5th grade i had a science teacher who wouldn’t let ANYONE talk. EVER. literally if she heard a single peep out of any student in the room she would walk over to them very slowly and in the most humiliating way possible she would place a sticker on their desk
— kyouko loves max (@ClownPowder) January 9, 2020
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When I was in the 4th grade my teacher pulled me aside and said, and I quote “you’re the only reason anyone is ever upset or sad in this class. If you weren’t here everyone would be happy, you’re the cause of everyone’s problems”. I cried the whole day lmaoooo https://t.co/jnKD6i1B8D
— ★ nick ★ (@hubertvonvestra) January 13, 2020
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my teacher made me sit in time out during a 1 day carnival with inflatables and free food and made me watch my entire class have fun because i forgot to turn in a paper. when we went back in. two hours later she found my paper. i cried during the whole time out https://t.co/Vza5Hcqbvf
— essie (@kittiautum) January 14, 2020
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2 at my “christian” uni disowned their son when they found out he was gay, bc they cared more about their reputations than their son
they took the keys to his truck and changed the locks on the house, leaving him homeless and without transportation out of our rural college town https://t.co/Py5v2nZS7q
— ℌ (@kriosphone) January 15, 2020
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My 8th grade English teacher called me a failure and said my writing was atrocious and now I’m an English teacher and she was fired https://t.co/yRkUNfBUcx
— Cassio (@schwaampy) January 13, 2020
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My teacher gave me a 78 (my first and only line of 7 grade) because I “wasn’t smiling in class.” She stomped on my grade. because. I wasn’t smiling. during a fucking photosynthesis discussion. https://t.co/jQ0tzsMdyp
— Alex Palacio (@mortalityblows) January 15, 2020
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My kindy teacher tried to convince everyone in the class that ppl who use their left hand will go to hell. When she found out I was left-handed she wrote to my parents a complaint telling them to teach me to be right handed. All my classmates listened to my teach so I got bullied https://t.co/RuPd2zkbK9
— Kira ☆ | CEO of loving @darnitgarnet1 (@mahoukiwa) January 14, 2020
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imagine gatekeeping sadness
— smt nocturne shill (@Nlorp) January 9, 2020