Who was the worst teacher you ever had and why?
Posted by Anxious_Neat4719@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 175 comments
On the back of a recent post about bullies, where there were plenty of mentions about teachers, I'd like to hear about people's worst teacher? Was it Primary or Secondary? Which subject? What happened to them (if you know) Did they totally ruin for you the subject they taught, or did you put two fingers up and excell in that area? Thanks for reading.
Krakshotz@reddit
Languages teacher in Year 8 and 9. She was completely not arsed to teach.
Most classes were spent either in front of a computer playing Linguascope or her having conversations with the disruptive students (who initiated the conversations to get out of doing work).
She possibly was also an alcoholic, she frequently talked about (in the aforementioned conversations) that she liked wine. It was alleged that she got drunk during a school trip to Spain and was subsequently suspended before eventually being pushed towards retiring.
welovetulips@reddit
Science teacher. Girls school. Revision technique session. Imagine yourselves naked in a bath of custard
BaconLara@reddit
I…what? What was the context for this omg
welovetulips@reddit
He just said it
CongealedBeanKingdom@reddit
'He'? At a girls school? I mean, I know there are no women on reddit but come on now......
welovetulips@reddit
A teacher
BaconLara@reddit
Crazy
InternationalCrab832@reddit
wait why did he do this
welovetulips@reddit
No he said it was a relaxing technique
InternationalCrab832@reddit
wait so he put you naked in custard at school? That was allowed?
welovetulips@reddit
No he just made us imagine it
Schnitzelschlag@reddit
Either way bollocks to that.
Beginning-Leek8545@reddit
No bollocks in an all girl school
Additional-Nobody352@reddit
WTF. Mind you good job it wasnt a male teacher as he would never work again.
welovetulips@reddit
He was. It was a long time ago
harrietmjones@reddit
There’s too many to mention tbh! In all honesty, I was bullied really badly in school but those moments haven’t left any scars, in comparison to how a lot of my teachers treated me. Those are the times that have still scarred me to this day.
Radiants_Table@reddit
Frank Raphael - he once caned me for having a chalk penis drawn on my back. When I bumped into him years later in a BP garage I asked him two questions - how and why?
Silver-Article9183@reddit
Primary 1 teacher. Close to retirement when I had her and she was just filled to the brim with spite.
To this day I honestly don't understand why you would teach in a primary if, like her, you clearly hated children.
She'd shout and scream at you for the slightest thing, loudly and repeatedly called me a liar in front of the whole class for saying my hair was blonde when I was a toddler (I was responding to the question of what colour hair you had) and punished me by making me sit outside the class for 10 minutes.
Worst of all, if you needed the toilet and had made the criminal mistake of not going during break time then she would happily see you wet yourself in your chair. Multiple times this happened to pupils in the class.
This was in the 80s. She died when I was in secondary and she's the only teacher I've ever had that when I heard she'd died I and a few others that had her cheered.
A complete grade A c*nt of a person.
Dazz316@reddit
Honestly I just feel bad.
The kids just bullied her. I joined in of course, mob mentality and all that and yeah pretty shameful. But just about everybody did it. I don't think any of us understood what we were doing. People would jam pencils in the projector so it broke, when she turned around people (plural) through rubbers at her head, people would just get up and leave. She commanded absolutely 0 respect and couldn't control the class. We saw her cry a few times.
I hope she's doing better.
CasualGlam87@reddit
At my school it was the French teacher. Was constantly bullied by the pupils and had no control. Most lessons ended with her crying and the deputy head having to sort the class out. Then one day a group of particularly nasty girls jumped her outside the school and beat her up so badly she ended up in hospital. She didn't come back after that.
Alone_Instruction_13@reddit
I had one like that, a subby who did latin, and I’d never heard, nevermind seen a teacher cry before but she hid behind some big ol’ text book and sobbed. Some of the kids I went to school with were proper little shits. Many still are.
Longlostneverland@reddit
They are usually the same people who preach on social media about being model citizens and advocates against bullying yet are some of the worst people known to man kind 🤣🤣
Alone_Instruction_13@reddit
The ‘be kind’ crowd.
Lambchops87@reddit
Sounds like the RE teacher at my old school. I hear a story (which may have been apocryphal) that some kids a couple of years above us went into class early after a break and unscrewed the classroom door from the hinges. When it fell off when she entered the room she (understandably) went apeshit and then ran off in tears to find the Head. While she was gone they screwed the door back on and acted all innocent when the Head arrived. She had such a reputation for being highly strung, that the Head actually believed the kids, and chewed her out for imagining things.
Hope it isn't actually true, she wasn't a good teacher and had a nasty streak, but I doubt she deserved that.
spottylad@reddit
My music teacher, on reflection, was just a sweet man who wanted to teach. Took real joy in the kids who were in the band. He was not cut out for it though and got endless shit. Went to the cupboard to get some instruments and some kids locked him in. None of us were brave enough to to let him out so he was stuck in there for the whole lesson
Cool_beans4921@reddit
Same thing happened with a History teacher at my school. My brother told me some kids in his class were playing up and she couldn’t stop them so ran into the cupboard crying. They locked her in. Her husband was another History teacher and she would often get him if a class started getting out of control after the cupboard incident. He even took our detention she’d given us. Just because you love to subject doesn’t mean you should teach it.
CongealedBeanKingdom@reddit
Just because kids are collective in a group doesn't mean they should be horrible little bastards.
Cool_beans4921@reddit
Totally agree, but you have to be able to manage behaviour to teach.
Longlostneverland@reddit
This happened in my class. All the popular kids ganging up on an elderly teacher. They would trip her up when she walked in, scream in the class, turn off her projector and even just Blast their music during class. Sometimes she would even bring in cake and other treats just to bribe them to be quiet and let her teach. I remember one day she just burst in to tears and the class had to be cancelled. Never saw her again after that. I don’t know how people live with themselves knowing they could have ended someone’s career. At high school age people 100% know what they are doing. Not to be a bully is ingrained in to you since birth.
pickindim_kmet@reddit
Something similar in my school as well. French teacher went on maternity leave so we had a teacher come in for a few months. He was easily retirement age, probably just doing it to keep busy. Real old school, tweed jacket with elbow patches, long white hair and had absolutely no authority in the class. A small handful of kids made his day hellish and it only got worse and worse. As a dumb 13yo who was a dick to people, even I realised how bad it was.
At the end one particular kid was trying to perfect his cartwheel in front of the blackboard while the teacher was trying to teach and called the teacher a 'nasty pasty'. Teacher thought he said something worse and the kid got expelled. When he came back, he spilt a can of Tizer on the teacher's head accidentally and he stormed out never to teach the class again.
BaconLara@reddit
Oh yeah people did stuff like this to my French teacher.
She used to hide in the cupboard to cry, and obviously students latched onto that information. By the time my year group rolled around, she had switched classrooms with the other foreign language teacher, which unfortunately did not have a cupboard to cry in….so we used to just witness her breaking down in front of us. It was horrible to see and I always felt bad, but kids are vicious and her visible crying became subject of ridicule. She quit not long after my year group
ATSOAS87@reddit
That's fucking brutal.
CasualGlam87@reddit
Maths teacher in secondary school who had a short temper and hated kids. If anyone did the slightest thing wrong or she was just having a bad day she'd keep the whole class behind and just shout and scream at us for 20 minutes saying how stupid and worthless we all were. No idea why she was a teacher as she seemed to hate the job.
TSC-99@reddit
History teacher who was so boring. Have no interest in history because of it.
Supergoose5000@reddit
Primary school head teacher.
I found a CD and threw it like frisbee. Didn't hit or land near anyone, and the cockwomble had me in front of the police with it in a DNA bag throwing around "attempted murder"
Man do cds make great frisbees though.
Foddley@reddit
lmao our bus driver drove us all to the police station because the lads on the upper deck wouldn't calm down. He'd parked this double-decker full of kids in a car spot and went inside. He came back with two bobbies who -when seeing a bloody double-decker in their little car park- asked the driver come closer for a stern chat, presumably about kidnapping 30-odd kids. The bobbies came on board and asked us all to give the guy a break and we were sent on our way.
The kicker was i could see my house from the police station, but because the driver's under strict instructions to only let kids off at bus stops, he had to drive all the way back and resume the route where he'd left it.
EyUpItsDan@reddit
When I was like, 6 (give or take) and in primary school the class was grinded to a halt as one of my classmates had his school bag taken.
A short search had led to the bag being found in my tray (like a povvo locker back then).
Now, it's obvious what has happened. The classmate has the same name as me, someone found his bag which only had the name "Daniel" on and put it in the first tray that had our name on it.
School teacher, aptly named Miss Frost made me stand up in front of the whole class and explain why I would steal it but wouldn't let me actuslly get a word in as if I was on Good Morning Britain. One of the girls in our class shouted out "I bet he wanted it for himself". That's how stealing works you stupid troglodyte but I was innocent in this impromptu trial.
Decades later I return, picking my little cousins up from school, half looking to finally clear my name and point out how stupid this teacher was but she only went and died. Still fumes.
Foddley@reddit
Moments like this truly messed me up as a kid. When you straight-up did nothing wrong and you get crucified in front of everyone.
Stunning_Vegetable17@reddit
I was in a class of two in sixth form. We had a teacher who'd always fall asleep. It was very awkward. She told us she fell asleep while driving once.
Suspicious_tuna@reddit
We had a sleeper too. We'd sit watching his pen get slower and slower until he'd finally nod off for a bit, then jolt awake for a bit, then repeat. Only teacher who ever fell for us putting the clock forward half an hour too.
Foddley@reddit
I had a math teacher in secondary school who wouldn't move from his chair. He'd throw a wad of papers to the nearest kid and order them to hand them out. Everything was explained with his mouse and his feet were always up on his desk.
Anyone with genuine questions would be berated and mocked in front of everyone else.
amaluna@reddit
Mr Paul
He was a young guy maybe in his mid twenties, recently moved to the UK from somewhere in central africa
He was teaching our GCSE Maths class even it became apparent that he didn’t know the material that well
He would often get problems wrong. I think the fact that it was a top set class made it worse because a lot of the kids were very confident with the material and then here’s this poor guy struggling.
It got so bad that he started checking his own work with two of the girls before presenting it back to the whole class. Imagine a teacher checking with two 15 year old girls whether he’d understood quadratic equations properly
Eventually some of the more studious member of the class went next door to the head of maths and told her what was happening.
Best_Cup_883@reddit
Had a few jokers like this at secondary school and Uni. One lectured at Uni taught us completely the wrong module, I think she also sent out the exam answers to another class. She was fired. When I went to Uni every single lecturer was awful. I quit after a year. Waste of time and money for me.
Best_Cup_883@reddit
I had a DT teacher, when I was at secondary school going back 15 - 20 years ago. He was a textbook bully. Short man syndrome, he was quite stocky but had a complex. Had to shout all the time, enter a room and shout. Even when he was entering a class room he wasn't teaching in he would speak so loudly and be generally unpleasant.
He was a little bitch, he wouldn't pick on anyone who ignored his bs. I am 6ft 3 so would just laugh off his bs, and he would be tone it down a few stages. He picked on quiet kids and those with mental illness (before it was recognised). He would go down the pub at lunch break with the other teachers. He part ran his side hustle out of the DT rooms which was also disgraceful.
I could be on here all day as met so many unpleasant teachers so I will whittle it down to a theme. My least fav was the young male teachers who liked to give and receive attention from the slapper female students. It was disgusting and disruptive. All up in the girls business, oh why don't you ditch your boyfriend and find another etc. These blokes would treat the rest of us like shit! Unless you were a slapper or a lad that they were courting. Just grim.
The worst teachers for me were the male and female ones who loved attention of the opposite sex teenagers. Nothing ever happened but it was a grim dynamic. I have a bit of hang up about it actually, makes me feel very uncomfortable just writing this.
I am a bit of a stick in the mud lad, principled I call it. I had many fallings out with teachers, it was more of a argument tho then me being badly behaved for them. I told a few of them to their face they were useless. I also sought to get a few fired and succeeded!
earlycustard123@reddit
Maths teacher from 45 years ago. Second day in high school, I got lost. I didn’t particularly know my class mates yet, I was sat in the wrong class for 10 minutes before my name didn’t get called on the class register. I eventually found the correct class, then was caned and put on detention for being 15 minutes late. I never got on with him after that.
New-Assumption-3106@reddit
"Taff" Jones, Biology, Bishop Vesey Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, 1970s
An Absolute CUNT
Complicit other teacher named Imeson
Cunt Jones physically assaulted me in front of Imeson for a very minor incident. Imeson did nothing. Jones proceeded to make my life hell for a year until I had the option to drop Biology, which I did like a hot potato.
50 years later & I'm not over it
knotmidgelet@reddit
Year 3 - History teacher. Didn't want us talking - boy sitting next to me asked how to spell 'double' so I told him. Was brought up to the front of the class and had a cross drawn on the end of my nose in red pen. 30 years later and it's still a vivid memory.
ablettg@reddit
Depending on what is meant by worst.
My maths teacher Mr. Alty was like the drum teacher in Whiplash. He saw that I was fairly good at maths so bullied me into getting an A. I ended up basically scared of maths after I left school.
Our Tech teacher was utterly useless. He had no control over the class, so we'd just play pranks on him and each other. After I left school I wanted to apologise to him for being such a tit in his class (and making him out his back out once) but sadly, I heard he died falling off his roof.
SeepDtate@reddit
Mr Johnson about 30 years ago. Never taught the class anything. Just told stories and chatted all the time. Even as 10 year olds we knew it was weird and wrong. One story about setting a firework off in his coat pocket is the only one I remember. Pretty sure the whole class needed to go into some kind of special measures once the teacher was moved on and out. Totally wasted an academic year.
NoSolution8208@reddit
Mr Tyson, my Maths teacher for GCSEs in the mid 90s. His method of teaching was to just copy the example in the textbook whilst explaining it really poorly. When i asked for a proper explination he'd just refer me to the same example from the textbook without any expansion on the original one he gave. My mate Amit had to teach me my entire GCSE and i managed to get a D grade i think. Might heve to check my record of achievement
Jealous-Oil-5692@reddit
My maths teacher ended up being a pea dough
ItsDominare@reddit
you can write paedo lol, this isn't tiktok
Jealous-Oil-5692@reddit
Oh good lol thanks for telling me
Smooth-Purchase1175@reddit
Form teacher for when I was about 8 or 9. One of the most ill-tempered and impatient sons of bitches to ever grace the profession - he was like Coach Buzzcut from Beavis and Butthead, but without the charisma, since none of us were simple-minded gimboids (save for me, but that was due to my then-undiagnosed autism). He only lasted a year, and frankly, I was glad to see the back of him (despite the occasional moment where we seemed to get on).
goalieflick@reddit
Primary school teacher. Thought girls should be “girly” and not be “tomboys”. She hated me. I loved football and woodwork never needlework. She made my life a misery! She told my head of year at the girls’ grammar school “you’ll have trouble with that one, she plays too much football!” The head of year looked at me, smiled and said ”we love sporty girls - you’ll fit in well, I hope you’ll be playing hockey”. That wonderful lady burst the bully’s bubble!! She was an amazing English teacher too and yes I did play hockey, went to PE college and whilst no longer able to play hockey still umpire!!!
As a post script - I became a primary PE specialist and mindful of all I endured, made sure no child was ever singled out for being different rather praised for what they did well. Now retired.
pikantnasuka@reddit
Mrs Chauhan, Ashley Down Infant School, around 1983
She was a fucking nasty bitch, that's why
Every teacher I ever had after her was better
WaxCatt@reddit
I had a Business Studies teacher in Year 12 and I can understand why she was hired as I can imagine she would have looked very good on paper. I just remember not feeling comfortable about things she would say in the classroom, such as she said that we should be in every day (which is perfectly reasonable) unless we are in hospital (which I felt was pushing it) and asked one of my classmates why they were absent in front of the class and asked another classmate to give her their phone to call their "parent" (just a couple of examples), which made me feel quite uncomfortable witnessing these things happen several times.
She also didn't like me (which was unusual since I have been well-liked by my other teachers) which I think was due to the fact that we weren't particularly compatible, she came across as someone who didn't understand SEN and I didn't have a foreign culture to redeem myself (which the rest of my classmates did and was actively encouraged by her, but we all knew that her favourites were from similar cultures to her own) and I found the entire experience with her incredibly alienating. My Head of Year also asked her to apologise to me for something, which she never did, and I found out six months later after my parents brought it up in conversation.
I left the school and switched courses after half-term (not because of her) and I do occasionally wonder what happened to her as no-one liked her (staff, students and parents), but I can imagine she's still there.
SpudFire@reddit
I had a cooking teacher in Y7 and Y8 who was horrible. She was one of those teachers that the naughty kids see as an easy target for winding up and tormenting. I'd normally have sympathy for teachers in that situation but she'd take out her anger on the 'good' kids if they didn't do something perfectly. It just meant nobody had any sympathy for her or back her up by telling the naughty kids to shut up or anything like that, so each lesson just got worse and worse.
I know that's pretty tame compared to a lot of peoples bad teacher experiences but thinking about this question has made me realise I was lucky and most of my teachers were pretty great. Even the ones that had a reputation for being strict or mean were in fact alright if you put the effort in and showed willingness to learn.
Difficult-Bat-4169@reddit
Maths Teacher.
I was in year 8 at the time and it was 2005.
The teaching itself wasn't too bad, however 1 day I got called to stay behind because I was messing around or whatever. He made me turn around 3 times and touch my toes every turn.
It didn't dawn on me until years later that he was literally making me turn around and bend over.
My school was fuckeries anyway, we had a teacher sleeping and impregnating a student, we had a teacher jailed for murder, another teacher jailed for death by drunk driving, the list is endless. We even had a supply teacher in one day absolutely off his head on cocaine and whiskey who tried to fight my friend because he'd forgot his pen.
What a place.
Calm-Raise6973@reddit
My French teacher. He tried too hard to be our friend and he showed favouritism towards a small number of my classmates. It's a pity he did this; his knowledge of French and love of French culture were excellent when he was in the mood but he let himself get sidetracked too often by minor behavioural issues.
outlaw_echo@reddit
My geography teacher when I was 13, I correct her in front of the class whe she named an area she was discussing wrongly and was then given detention and told to write "I must not be an asset to the school" 200 times , when I questioned that I was Caned 6 times on the back of my legs on stage the next afternoon..
Thanks for that ! ..
Particular_Camel_631@reddit
Physics teacher. Didn’t teach the curriculum. We had to learn the entire o level syllabus in 1 year when he left after exposing himself to some girls at the train station.
LittleSadRufus@reddit
My maths teacher only taught half the A Level curriculum. I don't know how this was possible, but he spent two years teaching a single year of material. He was he head of maths too, but a more junior teacher came to the rescue secretly passing us all the revision notes and previous exam questions we'd need for very intense self-study during our revision time.
It was done secretly as she couldn't be seen to undermine him, and it didn't seem he ever suffered any consequences.
Luxury_Dressingown@reddit
One teacher at my secondary school taught her science A-level class entirely the wrong curriculum. She was also head of sixth form and gave flat-out wrong advice on UCAS stuff.
LittleSadRufus@reddit
Hopefully your daughter was able to identify which curriculum she had studied, and complete that exam as well!
Luxury_Dressingown@reddit
It was my own year group, but luckily I didn't take that class, and read the UCAS guidelines for myself!
I'm from Kent (still has the grammar school system), so they got away with it because the entire place was full of academically-inclined girls. When the issue was picked up with about 8 weeks to go, it was basically the ideal cohort of people who would and could cram, so the results came out ok.
Missing bits of the curriculum seemed surprisingly common. My class discovered in the GCSE history exam when a major question popped up that Robin Hood was on the curriculum. I passed that thanks to having seen the Disney film and making some semi-informed extrapolations.
pickindim_kmet@reddit
I also had a physics teacher that didn't teach and was a creep.
Sin_nombre__@reddit
If you'd said standard grade ir higher, I'd have guessed I'd had the sane teacher.
yesbutnobutokay@reddit
In the 1960s. we had an O level physics teacher who appropriately shared a name with a serial killer.
Punishments in his class included standing barefoot in glass battery accumulators given electric shocks, red hot peppers put on tongues and general physical abuse, etc.
One classmate jumped out of a second story window when he was under threat of a beating and broke his arm.
Shortly after, another somewhat larger pupil actually punched him back in retaliation. There was an enquiry, the teacher was sacked, and the pupil was unpunished. We were a bit surprised as the school seemed to have tolerated his teaching methods up to that point, but we were pretty pleased at the outcome, as you might imagine.
Luxury_Dressingown@reddit
Had a teacher in year 1 who made Mrs Trunchbull look like a plausible character. Just clearly hated children and radiated malice. She used to tape 5 & 6 year olds who irritated her with random minor things she perceived as infractions to chairs, sometimes taping their mouths shut. She made those little kids miss all breaks during the day. This was early 90s so she wasn't allowed to hit us but she would do so just short of the pain threshold so it was more about the shock, and we knew she was holding herself back. I once got shouted at for helping a colourblind kid she'd just told off for colouring in the wrong colours choose the right crayons. All classwork was just filling in worksheets with no actual teaching - if you struggled with a worksheet you got given an easier one, until she found your level where you would stay until you left her class. I was in the last class she taught before retirement (hope it was short!). Every year until my class left, the year 6 teacher would censor leaving pupils' presentations of school memories at their last assembly because they all mentioned shit she'd done to them, which I know because my mum joined the same school as a teacher a couple of years later.
No-Photograph3463@reddit
Maths teach I had at A-level said at best I'd get a D, even though I was doing well with the other teacher, and doing Further Maths and again not doing too badly there.
Got A and Bs for her modules then had a different teacher for the second year, and came away with an A*, so fuck you maths teacher, just shows how shit she was.
madame_ray_@reddit
A 6th form teacher waited until a week before my art final to tell me that glass painting was more of a craft than an art. As a woman she should have known that crafts are usually art forms used predominantly by women and are given less regard, but she decided to be an arsehole that day.
BuffaloPancakes11@reddit
I had loads of weird ones, a Scottish art teacher who was always drunk
A sports science teacher at college who made me take my shirt off infront of the class once because my assignment was late, which looking back was very weird and surely well against the rules (this was about 15 years ago) not sure he’d have asked a female student to do the same thing
Another teacher at college sent me to the office to get “sky hooks” and then made the class laugh at me when I returned, despite the fact I obviously didn’t think he wanted hooks that hold up the sky… it’s hardly the same as making someone ask for “elbow grease” etc.
Ok-Nectarine350@reddit
Science teacher (again), Miss Fallon. Backstory - I loved school and always did very well and I was near the top of my year. When I was 13 my grandma was diagnosed with dementia, my mum didn't want to look after her and decided it was my job to feed her, sleep with her, clean her etc. She would keep me home from school to do this. When school asked where I was my mum told them I was " always saying I was ill and making myself sick". No one at school asked if anything was wrong when I did go in, even though I looked like death.
I went into science one day and during the lesson cut my finger and it was bleeding. I asked Miss Fallon for a plaster. Instead of giving me one she stopped the whole class, said "ladies, we have a medical emergency", took out the first aid kit, bandaged my hand, made me put my arm in a sling and then sent me lie across chairs at the back of the class, while encouraging everyone to laugh at me. Every so often she would stop and send one of my classmates over to check I was "still alive", so everyone could laugh at me, again. Towards the end of the lesson, she made me walk about at the front of the class so "everyone could take a good look at me because due to my severe injury they probably weren't going to see me again that year."
At the end of the year I got 94%, the highest mark in my class in my science exam and it killed her to have to give me an "A." After that I knew I could never ask anyone at school for help with what was happening at home. 45 years later I still remember the shame and just the absolute meanness of what she did. She was an absolute cnut. I always hoped she would wrap her red M.G. sports car around a tree.
Healthy-Tap7717@reddit
Chichester High School?
Weird-Gandalf@reddit
A Cnut of the highest order! Glad you did so well though, that was the best revenge
WPorter77@reddit
Had a Geography teacher who in the morning, would drive down the road through the gates at speed like a madman almost like he wanted to kill all the children.
All lesson he would moan and tell kids their future was bleak and had to most boring monotone voice, like the guy from father ted. Told me at my parents evening in front of my mum not to bother resitting an exam because id end up somewhere dead end forever anyway... "Ted, were you asking for a dramatic, exciting voice?!" "No, he said boring, he wanted a boring voice."
He treated us differently at A level because we'd chosen his beloved geography but was still horrible to all the other kids.
He also used to talk about retiring early because he had this priceless painting, used to go on about it all the time... he went on antiques roadshow and it was worth nothing.
Leicsbob@reddit
Mrs Cox. I was in middle year of infant school ( year 1) in 1977. I was struggling with my maths work as nothing had been explained to me and I asked my friend Stuart McPherson for help. He told me I had to match the ladybirds on the left and right by drawing lines. I drew the lines- all 3 of them and proudly took my book to the teacher to be marked. She looked at it and asked if I had been helped and I told her the truth. She called me a cheat and then announced to the class I had cheated and proceeded to put me over my knee and spanked me in front of the class. I was 5 years old! That wasn't the first time she did it and it explains why I turned out the way I am.
firmlee_grasspit@reddit
I had 3 IT teachers during A Levels, I we were the last year before it switched to computing. 2 of those IT teachers were just pure bullies to me and nobody else, despite the fact that I was a high achiever, but a high achiever with major anxiety about failure and they capitalised on that.
One of them would constantly pick on me for not being professional. I think I wrote an email to her about something that I'll admit was slightly accusatory in my panicked state and I got such a harsh email back. And within lessons I asked questions and she kept telling me I shouldn't be asking questions like that in workplaces. I don't remember what I asked, and although I didnt get along with my small group of classmates at the time I did ask if any of them think she's singling me out and they all agreed. I think one of the biggest blows I had was that she said I won't make it through uni. The other teacher wasn't as vicious but when I was stressed crying she'd just shout "WHY WRE YOU CRYING" so aggressively.
Went to my head of A levels multiple times and eventually she stomped towards the vicious one in a closed room and then a few weeks later she said she was leaving school. Someone asked why and she just said nothing. I was so relieved.
I had an Art teacher who let her classroom be my panic room, she was pretty accomodating about it. My last few weeks of coursework for both Art and IT were so exhausting I had major burnout and I basically didn't finish art, and was predicted a b, but miraculously somehow got an A*. Im convinced it was her that upped it just so I could get into uni, because my IT grade dropped so hard when things got worse.
I passed uni with a first. I still get the occasional dream about my a level years
V0lkhari@reddit
Worst was definitely the head of the maths department in high school. I had to miss one of the class tests as I had a college interview, so I had to go do it at lunchtime one day.
It was just me and my teacher in the room, but then the head of department came in and was like "ah is this you doing your test?"
She then looked through what I'd written, said it was unacceptable, then ripped it up in front of me. She said I needed to try harder and that she wouldn't count that as an attempt.
Absolutely insane behaviour. This was like 10 years ago and I don't think I'll ever forget it lol. I pretty much gave up with maths at that point and just scived when I was meant to be there.
Accomplished-Kale-77@reddit
Had an English teacher who was absolutely useless. Couldn’t control the class to save her life, pretty much every lesson descended into everyone just throwing stuff at each other across the classroom within 5 minutes with her either being so oblivious she didn’t notice or just being unable to command any authority whatsoever. Hardly taught us a single thing and forgot to mark everyone’s work 80% of the time. Literally baffling how she ever passed teacher training in the first place, most subjects I wouldn’t have been arsed but English was one of the only subjects I actually liked 😂
She was also a councillor in our town, if she was half as bad at that as she was a teacher it definitely explains a lot about the state of things 😂
sbaldrick33@reddit
My first secondary school games teacher, Mr P, for all the reasons you'd expect of a PE teacher: a strategically shaved neanderthal who enjoyed bullying the less athletic kids. Most of the other PE teachers bucked the stereotype rather laudably, though, I'm happy to say.
Crackers-defo-600@reddit
Two teachers, school from 1969-83. Mrs Chicken from primary school slapped me across the face when I forgot my swim kit. Nice. Sister Edith a nun English teacher at my all girls catholic grammar school. Any opportunity she would criticise, berate, tell off, belittle me. I was quite resilient as a teenager but I despised her. Ironic being a catholic nun and lying in a meeting arranged by my mum with the headteacher saying I was making it all up and overreacting. Ps diagnosed with ADHD at 60 2 months ago. Says it all 🤣
geocrysla@reddit
my year seven maths teacher, i’ll never forget her. she had this odd way of talking, like she said ‘shree’ instead of three or she’d say necklace like ‘neck-ah-lace’.
aside from that, she was just an absolute bitch. we’d be sat in silence and she’d make up things to shout at us about, like who’s writing so loud and who keeps coughing. trying to explain this woman feels like i’m explaining a cartoon character. there was once split ink on the floor and she stressed that nobody was to walk through it because they’d get inky footprints all over the floor. she walks around the classroom, WALKS THROUGH THE INK, realises there’s footprints and goes crazy shouting at people asking for us to show her the bottom of their shoes so she can send whoever it was out the classroom.
she also just couldn’t teach. my year eight maths teacher had to re-teach us a bunch of stuff that she was meant to teach but didn’t/didn’t do properly. my friends and i still talk about her often.
Slap_and_Dickle@reddit
History in secondary, he was known to drop things in front of girls desks and spend awhile under the desk collecting them. I knew a few girls who made complaints but these stories were about before I started there.
There's 2 stores of what happened and I don't know which (if any) is true. First was he got meningitis and never fully recovered. Second, he was caught wanking in the supply closet. Either way he suddenly disappeared and we were discouraged from talking about it.
Suspicious_Field_429@reddit
Sounds a lot like my modern studies teacher in the early 80's , rumour had it he had a mirror on a stick and would look up the girl's skirts whilst they were at his desk
Sad_Moment6644@reddit
DT teacher - it seemed she hated children. I was a really good kid at school, never got a detention, never got into trouble, homework always done on time.
We had this witch for GCSE and she was just awful. Nothing was good enough, and instead of dealing with the bad kids she’d direct all her anger at those of us she knew wouldn’t answer back.
My final piece was rubbish because I was done with her. We had to make a candle holder so I bent some plastic into 5 triangles and masking taped them together. Handed it in and she said “this is ridiculous! Why haven’t you tried harder?!” Told her because you haven’t taught me for the last two years you’ve just criticised me! She put it up in the window to “teach me a lesson”
She banned my best friend from the written exam - like wouldn’t let her into the hall! (1998 - could you imagine the outrage now?). I sat and filled in each question with “I don’t know this because Mrs DT teacher didn’t teach me this.”
It was the only GCSE I didn’t pass with high grades.
Jokes on her. I now work as a school tech and one of my depts is DT 🤣
RestaurantAntique497@reddit
I had a particularly bad experience with one teacher in primary school and one in high school.
Used to get picked on a bit but was close enough to the popular kids that it wasn't constant and still got to wind up others too.
I once got into a fight in primary school after being picked on and football boots being hit across my face. However, because I beat the other boy up quite badly I was told "you are nothing but a thug".
The kicker with this is that the Dad of the boy I beat up was in jail for gang related stuff, nd when we were in our 20s was in court with attempted murder.
In secondary school I had got asked by ome of my languages teachers "do you have something wrong with you?" I had a lisp and think she thought I was taking the piss. I just couldn't say Tuesday in German without it happening. Was totally embarrassing for me
Celery_Worried@reddit
Junior school, Miss M, she was just awful. Too many examples to share here but just a couple - we were playing a word association game and people were coming up with bicycle related words - handlebars, pedals, wheels, and I said 'spokes'. She yelled at me and said that word had no connection.
On non uniform day just before Christmas I went to school in a dress and she criticised me in front of everyone because it was short sleeved and not suitable for winter. What she didn't know is that I had MADE that dress, under my mum's supervision, and was super excited to show it off.
Just always the kind to yell and humiliate first and then maybe ask questions later (but probably not).
thevoiceofalan@reddit
High school Head teacher ran off with one of the male pupils leaving his wife and kids behind. It hit the newspaper headlines in my country for a day in the 90s and then most people forgot about it.
Pyriel@reddit
Junior school teacher "Mrs Horrid"
My older brother was in her class a couple of years before, and he was a bit of a bully and caused some (minor) issues. Nothing serious.
When she found out I was his brother, she singled me out and called me "another one of those" and picked on me constantly.
She bullied me, humiliated me and made the class laugh at me at any opportunity.
Final straw was the class Xmas party, which I wasn't allowed to go to she insisted I re-write out a story instead as my handwriting wasn't good enough for her. I was the only one not allowed to go.
I walked out, walked home and refused to go back.
Luckily my parents listened. Following a meeting with the head teacher, legal threats, accusations I was mentally unbalanced and a short assessment in an education mental health unit, i was moved to another school. Where I excelled.
She messed me up for years. Battered my confidence and gave me serious anxiety that lasted years.
(I'm doing fine now, many years later. I Have an MSC and I'm working as a senior cyber consultant, happily married with a wonderful daughter)
Plus-Dare-2746@reddit
I had an awful teacher in Cape Town, South Africa, when I was in what we called Standard Five (now grade seven), when I was 12 years old. This teacher had a B.Sc. but she was teaching in a primary school. She was primarily a Maths and Science teacher. And she was SUCH a bitch, always being mean and making girls cry. It was an all girls' school.
I had a few personal issues, because my mother had died of cancer three years before, when I had just turned 9, and I was clearly still mourning her death. This teacher made 12-year-old me so nervous that I developed insomnia through anxiety. My stepmother had to go to many meetings with her. I recall my stepmother telling me that this teacher had told her that she'd thought I was on drugs because I was struggling to concentrate on my schoolwork. This was not the case at all: I was constantly escaping into a fantasy world and doing creative writing the minute I got home. I called it 'my story' and it was a long saga about a family's adventures that I worked on every weekend and during the week as well if I could. I neglected my school homework because of it.
Long story short, I went to high school the following year, and I started doing very well at school. The change of atmosphere was what did it for me. I felt like I had been made new, reinvented, as it were. I did brilliantly at school and went on to university, where I did a doctorate and became a university lecturer for many years. During my undergraduate and early postgraduate years, this old junior school science teacher herself went back to university and it was the same university where I was studying. I would sometimes see her walking to and from campus, and she looked far happier than she used to be, but somehow I just could not bring myself to talk to her. So I just never said hello to her ever, because I think I was afraid she'd say something bitchy to me.
Afraid-Priority-9700@reddit
Mrs McKechnie, deputy head at my primary school, who called me a liar and thought I made up 3 years of bullying (for what? For kicks?). She even phoned my mum and told her "your daughter's a liar." It really hurt, and rubbed salt into the wound.
At secondary, the worst was probably Invisible Mr Brown. I wasn't the best at maths, and probably needed a good, encouraging teacher. Instead I got Mr Brown, who would go on sick for weeks at a time, leaving us with teachers from other departments who didnt know maths. Then he'd periodically re-appear, and scream at us all for being shite at maths.
Or maybe it was Mrs Flowerdew, the drunk. Not an unpleasant woman or even a bad teacher in her sober moments, but she was very obviously disappearing for 10 minutes at a time to drink in her stationery cupboard.
Character_Athlete877@reddit
My Year 4 teacher. Mr Gordon. He looked like a taller and larger version of the actor, Mark Heap. He had white spittle in the corners of his mouth. I once took my workbook to his desk and he looked at it, drew a big X on it and threw it across the room, before screaming at me. He always talk about his sister with a resentful tone in his voice. He said she was more successful than him. There was also one time when we going on a trip up to London, and he said we could fall through the gap between the train and the platform if we weren't very careful.
ClydeB3@reddit
The deputy head. She was supposed to be the head of safeguarding, and was utterly useless.
As daft as it sounds I think the way she handled the bullying messed with me almost as much as the actual bullying did. EG, Being repeatedly forced to apologise to the bullies and having to constantly justify why I deserved to be bullied.
Even when things got worse she refused to intervene and told me to pray more and ask God to sort it out instead of doing her job. Sadly there was no divine intervention to smite the class dickhead.
There was also the IT teacher who seemed to be learning along with us. She couldn't even work out how to unmute a YouTube video. She expected me to practically teach the class for her and wanted me to let one of the bullies get the credit for my work when he hadn't bothered to do it. I was marked down several grades when I said no.
She said I wouldn't get higher than a C. I got an A and now work in IT. The class average was an E.
Afraid-Priority-9700@reddit
I also had a terrible deputy head who mishandled my bullying case! This was at primary school, and every day Lauren would make constant jibes about me- comments about my appearance, my weight (yes, even at 10 years old) my freckles. She and her pals would grab my lunchbox or my bag and throw it around, that sort of thing. It was being handled directly by the headmaster.
One day, when the head was away for some reason, this deputy decided that she'd sort it out, once and for all! She pulled Lauren and I out of class. I think she felt sorry for Lauren, because she wasn't as academic as I was. On paper, I was the one doing really well, so I must be the one at some kind of fault here. She spoke to Lauren very briefly then let her go. She kept me in her office all. day. She grilled me about every incident, date, time, what was said. Then she'd just say "I dont think Lauren really said that." And what could I do?
I'll never forget her sneering at me, "you're very good with words aren't you?" "I dont know what you mean." "You know exactly what I mean. You're a liar."
Then she phoned my mum, and told her "your daughter's a liar."
It was awful. Worst day of my 10 year old life thus far.
teerbigear@reddit
So the worst teacher was actually you! I joke.
geth1962@reddit
Head of year 2 in the comp. He was also my English literature teacher. He was permanently drunk. He caned me for not being in morning assembly. I had been sent to give him a message. He stared at me during one lesson and asked me if I wanted a fight! He was well over 6 feet tall, and I was one of the smallest kids in my year. I was 12
nicstic85@reddit
Mrs Blest at Keep Hatch school in Wokingham around 1994/5(UK). It was around the time of the James Bulger murder and I remember very vividly her telling me off for talking, making me stand up in front of the class while she drew parallels on how behaving badly in class could lead to me becoming like one of those boys who murdered him.
She had a job share with a lady called Mrs Rogers, who would tear up my maths work if it was wrong, I still lack confidence at maths to this day!
No idea what was going on with those women but they were both unhinged in hindsight!!
Awkward_Chain_7839@reddit
Secondary history a level. Mr. Evans. Told me repeatedly I was doing exams/tests wrong. Gave me a ‘c’ on my mock, my best friend an ‘a’. Exam results day, I had an ‘a’ her a ‘c’. Really annoyed me. She, and a lot of other people in the class were more than capable, but doing things the way he insisted (wrongly) they were done cost them grades! Thank goodness for our other teacher (we had 2 at ‘a’ level). He was great!
Nelgumford@reddit
Forty years on, my happiest thought about school is that most of my teachers will be dead now.
sillydog80@reddit
In year 7 (11yrs old) I walked into a Design and Technology class and was abruptly grabbed by the back of the neck and thrown out of the room by a teacher called Mr Merrick who told me I could come back in when I was ready to apologise for what I’d done.
Utterly bemused, I stood out there for a few mins with no clue of what I could possibly have done. Eventually I went back in and offered an apology and guessed an explanation. Turns out I had been whistling to myself (I dunno, maybe I was in a good mood 🤷♂️) and this so offended him that he chose to attack and humiliate me in front of my whole class.
Total prick.
The worst of it was that I basically sat there in silence for 5 years and did nothing because I both loathed the guy and didn’t feel safe around him; so of course learned nothing and didn’t even complete enough coursework to gain a grade.
CongealedBeanKingdom@reddit
Primary 1 teacher. She dragged me out to stand in front of the whole school because I didn't know the words to the Lords prayer. I was 4 and had never set foot in church in my life. Bloody prods.
I hated that woman. Thankfully she'll be dead now.
NoRepresentative387@reddit
And sister Marie Christine she was a damn sadist. If you made her mad she would make you stand up in the corner all day not sitting down the water breaks the bathroom breaks. She terrorize me as an adult. I just happened upon her obituary and I was relieved.
smooney987@reddit
Mines isn't as bad as a lot of others in this thread, but there was a Tech teacher in my school that was a miserable bastard, hated by pretty much everyone.
I had a French lesson one day where our usual teacher was off, and the Tech teacher, Mr McDonagh was the stand in. I'm prone to random nosebleeds, they just come out of nowhere. I was writing in my jotter when spots of blood started dripping on the page. I put my hand up to ask to go to the bathroom, as I usually did when this happened.
"What do you want me to do about it?"
Refused to let me go, just left me sitting there bleeding all over my desk. It wasn't stopping, so I put my hand up and asked again, he gave a massive sigh as soon as he saw my hand go up, still wouldn't let me leave the classroom, and gave me one single paper towel sheet. Didn't really help much as it's like dragging sandpaper across your face.
I was in 2nd year at the time, so probably around 13 years old.
Legit_Vampire@reddit
A teacher at secondary school was a known bully reduced kids to tears, shouted all the time & was a right arseole. Years later at work ( at a hospital) he became one of my patients, & there he was ill & frail & there I was administering injections ..... Karma
TWOITC@reddit
Primary 1 teacher.
I took her my maths book, she shouted at me, it was wrong and I wasn't come back until it was right.
As I could never be 100% sure it was right, I just didn't show my work to teachers voluntarily and when the went round the class checking our work I covered as much as I could so I wouldn't be shouted at.
My whole life I've never asked for help when I need it.
Smooth-Purchase1175@reddit
Me too, buddy. Another reason why I support stronger background checks and/or vetoing for people wanting to work with vulnerable folks such as children.
Unhappy-Tomatillo204@reddit
The majority of my teachers were f——-g awful (secondary late 90s to early 00s. My top ones - Mr Bates (lol) turning a blind eye to a boy behind me lighting my jacket on fire on the back of my seat and shouting “f___t”, Miss Hall (religious studies lol) telling me I needed to “suck it up and get over it” when her fave student chucked a half can of coke with salt and piss mixed in it at me (that was the cool thing to do back then at my school to “losers”), and my ultimate Miss Elliot who took it upon herself to tell everyone in our form that I came out to her privately and was genuinely shocked when I told her that’s the last thing I’d ever want/needed or expected from her. Lastly, at our sixth form Christmas party doing secret Santa, my “present” being a fairy wind (obviously), and having to unwrap it in front of everyone. Everyone laughed, including the majority of the teachers. I absolutely hated school, they failed me and all the other people who weren’t accepted as normal, and I will NEVER forgive them. Fun fact, over the years I’ve had so many friend requests and follows from so many of my passed bullies AND TEACHERS. Fukin LOL.
WinkyNurdo@reddit
Miss Barker in Junior school. She used to blame me for everything. Said I didn’t try hard enough. A theme that my parents picked up and ran with. I was never good enough for them after that. None of them knew why I was lost in my own little world though. There was a reason I never said anything. I was just a kid.
RichardNotJudy@reddit
Back in the early 2000s we were set the task of designing a website for our Computing lesson. I was excited. I'd been doing this in my spare time for years, I'd worked on websites that had seen hundreds of thousands of views. I cracked out Notepad and created a lovely little thing and didn't really pay any attention to what was going on around me. Turned it in, he gave me a stupidly low mark and berated me because 'websites are made in Publisher, not like this'
Killed my love of coding that day. That was 20 years ago and I regret it deeply.
miss-mercatale@reddit
I went to an all girls birding school and we had several bad teachers including one who taught us Latin but failed to show for the last two terms so the whole class failed their O level and I’d been looking at an A grade.
Then our PE teacher hated my best friend and I for some reason. We were both on the rounders team and the team was unbeaten one season with my best friend and I totally dominating the games. She gave all the other team members their school colours but not us. I will never forgive that mean, spitefulness.
Able_Estimate_7183@reddit
Science teacher who was inexplicably well liked. Used to patrol lessons that weren't even his looking for rule breakers. Totally undermining the authority of the actual teacher.
He was secondary but he actually attended my primary school once as he was friends with a teacher there. He screamed at a 7 year old and called him a stupid idiot. Again, it was not his lesson, not even his school, and of course it was for some minor infraction. Always thought he was a cock after that and he never proved me wrong.
Schnitzelschlag@reddit
I guess he eventually dissolved in the acid of his childhood issues.
boofindlay@reddit
Secondary school in the 1990's. Mr Lewis. I wanted to take Welsh as my A-level language option (in a Welsh school). He said "don't waste your time, it's a useless language and should be left to die out. It will be spoken by no one in 30 years anyway". C**t.
CraftyTadpole2488@reddit
One of the teachers in nursery, she was horrible! All the other teachers let us pour our own milk from the jug and gave us really tasty biscuits. She would never let us pour our own milk and always gave raisin biscuits. But the worst thing, she was face painting every child as a clown, she’d ask do you want to be a happy or sad clown, all the kids said happy. I was the last child and she said I’m tired of painting happy clowns you’ll be a sad clown! I’m 41 years old, this happened when I was 4 I still remember it clear as day and I still remember hugging my mum sobbing, breaking my heart over it.
pickindim_kmet@reddit
I had one physics teacher who was in his 50s back then. He was a teacher when my much older sister was at the school, and I can only describe him as being there for far too long. Every lesson was opening a book and copying word for word into our own workbooks.
One lesson he was demonstrating magnets and had a little trick where he'd shoot a magnet off the desk into the ceiling tiles and catch it, but one lesson he missed and it missed my head by an inch. He looked very sheepish after that, thinking he'd get in trouble.
Later on he began taking a move into teacher training. My mother worked in education for the local council and he'd turn up one day a week to train some teachers. She said he was the most rude, disgusting man towards women. He'd ogle the female staff and make dirty comments.
Honourable mentions to the substitute teacher who once lost total control of the class then knocked over a kid in his car at the end of the day, and the total pushover we had for IT who would do everyone's work for them at the end of the year cause half the students didn't care. I was missing two pieces at the end of the year, despite me doing all my work, and he didn't question it. Just sat and did it all for me for an hour and I passed with distinction.
BmuthafuckinMagic@reddit
It was a primary school teacher for me, this was early 90s so different times too.
She had this indescribable obsession with me not sharpening my pencil and humiliated me daily for it. She would call the register and then ask me if I had sharpened my pencil, she wrote a sign saying this and taped it on my desk too.
When the cleaners cleaned the desks, they must have gotten the sign she wrote wet, but no.. I did it in her mind and she raged at me in front of others about it. She made me stand on my desk for 1 hour while all the kids laughed at me. This went on for the whole school year.
Two things saved me. One was that I just moved to the UK from a literal war zone, so one week I saw a man get run over by a tank to the next being in a complete safe haven. The second, more important thing was another teacher who noticed this happening and did everything to help me. She talked to me, she joked with me, she introduced me to my future best friend from another class and did everything in her power to not let it get to me. Miss Dove was an angel on earth and eventually became my home teacher for Year 5 and 6. I always think of her and hope she's doing great. I always wanted to track her down and as an adult tell her how she impacted my life for the good, but I could never track her down.
The offending teacher was always thought of highly until the school wanted to do a school reunion and on Facebook, students detailed how horrible she was to our particular year.... The common theme being it was all brown and black kids she picked on. It even got picked up by our local paper and was a big deal here. She lost her job she had on the school council and I must say I read the news article with such a shit smirk!
bookishnatasha89@reddit
Supply teacher in secondary school. He got done for some nasty historical sexual abuse in a London boys boarding school (might have been the cloisters school?) about four years after our year left school.
He died last year.
Ok-Lychee-2155@reddit
I remember at least three to four teachers who built up a name for themselves as the 'cool' younger and more relaxed teachers but in actual fact they were just like cool kids who ended up being lazy at teaching and bullies.
rejectedbyReddit666@reddit
Mr Monks, the maths teacher. 6ft 8” tall, booming deep voice. Hairy hands. Buck teeth. Thick glasses.
He would sit us boy- girl in alphabetical order, no sitting with your mates.
He’d call you up to work out mathematical problems on the blackboard in front of your smirking classmates. It was top set & I shouldn’t have been there, I was more mid to low ability at maths. Under that kind of scrutiny I shook like a shitting dog . Woe betide anyone who didn’t hand their homework in on time.
I was so scared of getting low marks I’d get my dad to do it, which must have looked obvious given my lack of ability in maths.
Apparently though he was a great laugh down the boozer & his scary persona was a little bit of pantomime.
There was one chemistry teacher who was a right bastard . He was missing a finger just on the knuckle joint & would enjoy grinding that knuckle into gobby kids heads.
Cha_r_ley@reddit
I had an AS French teacher who really took against me as soon as she met me. She was new to the school, and I’d guess fairly new to teaching, as she was young, and occasionally talked about having not long finished uni.
On our very first lesson with her in Year 12, she asked us (in French, obvs) what we’d done during the Summer holidays. There were about 8-10 of us in the class and we all gave our answers individually.
It is significant to note that I was excellent at languages. For French, German and Welsh, I’d achieved an A* in our GCSEs the previous year. I gave my answer. I spoke French - not fluently - but confidently and was able to articulate myself well on the fly.
She scrunched up her nose and said “mmm. That’s a very GCSE level answer”. She had responded positively to everyone else. This kind of thing continued happening for a few weeks. Honestly I think it annoyed her that I was confident and proficient, and I think she felt I needed taking down a peg or two. She just kept needling at me that my answers were below par, while I routinely outperformed several other kids in the class in tests.
Eventually I told my mum I wanted to drop French. It wasn’t the most aggressive bullying but it WAS me being singled out and criticised unfairly in every lesson. My mum (unbeknownst to me) spoke to the head of the department who knew me well, having taught me previously for both French and German. She called me into her office and told me to let her handle it.
After that, the teacher in question wasn’t particularly warm towards me, but the comments stopped.
It was so weird - she just really really didn’t like me, but I’m honestly not sure what I did to anger her. Languages were legitimately the only subjects where I had ever really bothered to apply myself, because I enjoyed them so much, and she made that such an unpleasant environment for me.
jimmywhereareya@reddit
I attended a catholic high school 1975 to 1980 that had a convent within the extensive grounds. Some of the teachers were nuns from the convent. We had sister Veronica the school nurse, aka sister vinegar tits. She was a horror. Then there was the diminutive sister Vincent, a viscous little middle aged Spanish nun, the mad bitch. She had a habit (no pun intended) of physically assaulting pupils, nobody ever believed us. Then there was sister flissytits aka known as sister Felicity, who had the biggest boobs I'd ever seen. Did I mention that I was a young girl who attended an all girls school of 1100 pupils. Anyway, sister flissytits had been to Africa as a missionary, she taught french and history. Our deputy headmistress had a most unfortunate name and she couldn't become a nun apparently because she had a baby while she was trying to become a nun. Miss Lunt, who resembles the nasty head of Hogwarts, she dressed the same way.
MrsKToBe@reddit
Secondary school Maths teacher. I’m very severely dyscalculic but in the middle 90’s it wasn’t really heard of. She used to take great delight in telling me how thick and stupid I was and I would be lucky to get a job scrubbing toilets.
When I was about 14 I was in hospital with pneumonia and when I came back she said I would be put in detention for not coming in to do the work (although my form teacher, a lovely, kind lady who had the doctor’s note that had been sent in had explained to her why I was absent)
I managed to get a C in my Physics exam thanks to the efforts of a fantastically patient teacher who went out of his way to help me, and she actually said in front of the class ‘that will need to be investigated as someone so bad at Maths must have cheated to get a C grade’ Eventually I got my own back at parents evening. My mum was in a wheelchair as she was paralysed following a serious accident. My mum said when she came in the room this teacher smirked as she thought she could get one over on her- but the whole corridor heard my mum shouting at her telling her to stop bullying me. Apparently the piece de resistance was the teacher saying ‘and why did you keep her off school, she needs to be at every class’ my mum said ‘because she was very ill in hospital and when she came home she needed to recover’ The teacher then muttered something about my mum not being medically qualified so how would she know that and my mum snapped ‘I’m a retired State Registered Nurse so I’m more qualified than you to decide that’ (which is true, she was) Apparently this woman went white and said no one had spoken to her like that before. My mum made a formal complaint to the Board of Governors and this teacher was ‘encouraged’ to retire.
Still haven’t passed GCSE Maths but I’ve got a Sports Science degree which involved some Maths and Science. When i graduated all I could hear is this teacher’s voice telling me I must have cheated (I didn’t cheat!)
MotherTaurus22@reddit
Year 5 primary school teacher.
We had time blocked off everyday for silent reading. I’ve always been a fairly fast reader so would go through books quicker than expected. He thought I would pretend to read so would ask me loads of questions about the book, which I would answer correctly.
He wasn’t satisfied though! He would then go on to bringing bigger books into school, and the same thing would happen again.
This was just the start. He would humiliate me in front of the class for my shyness, make remarks about my goofy teeth, and rip up my exercise book if the work wasn’t to his standard.
It’s safe to say it took me a few years to start trusting teachers again.
Western_Presence1928@reddit
My primary school teacher. It was his first day teaching. He made us play games on the yard because the pitch was wet, we weren't told we had games, so we didn't bring any games kit. I scored a try and slid on my knee, ripping a hole in my brand new school trousers. My mother enraged at seeing this went up the school the next morning and asked what he was playing at. He told her to put a patch on the trousers. She knocked him out in front of everyone outside school as they took our register outside on sunny days. He made my school life unbearable. No matter what i did, it was never good enough. Pokes/jabs/bullying , mental torture, all because my mother embarrassed him in front of the school.
sshiverandshake@reddit
In all fairness, your Mum was equally out of line.
Knocking a teacher out in front of primary school kids over a hole in your trousers? Fucking wild...
Western_Presence1928@reddit
I couldn't agree with you more, so obviously i didn't tell her he was giving me grief in school just in case she did it again.
Organic-Locksmith-45@reddit
Your mother sounds horrible to be honest.
MiskonceptioN@reddit
Mr May.
I swear he was out to make my life misrable. He pulled me aside one day and told me he was thinking of starting up a computer club, and wondered if I'd be willing to join. I loved messing around with computers, and back in 2000 getting to use one during school hours was very much a novelty, so of course I said yes. Anyway, six weeks later the computer club was up and running and he told me I wasn't allowed to go because apparently there wasn't enough room. He invited my best friend along though... Prick.
The big one though (and I've posted it before):
When I was about 8 years old our school had a postbox for Christmas cards, and about once a week teachers would come round and give the children their respective cards. One of my classmates, Ryan, who for some reason always disliked me and picked on me occasionally got a card and opened it to see the words "YOU WILL DIE". He laughed it off, but the next day Mr May attempted to launch a full scale forensic investigation and incorrectly concluded that the handwriting was mine, and I had the motive.
I denied it repeatedly because I had absolutely nothing to do with it but he just wouldn't let it go. Mr May called class meetings to see if anybody knew who sent the card - no success. He pulled what few friends I had into a private room to see if he could get them to rat me out - no success. He kept trying to "surprise" a confession out of me by occasionally mentioning the card recipient's name in general conversation and gauging the reaction on my confused infant face - no success.
Eventually about a week later Mr May dropped the bomb. My class would not be allowed to go to the school Christmas party/disco/thing unless the culprit is found. Being that I didn't have many friends and I was fairly socially awkward I decided it wouldn't be a big deal if I missed that party, and that I should take one for the team. Here's the "why the fuck did I say that?" moment: I told him that it was me who sent the card so that my class could have fun, and to this day I regret it.
I was sent to the headteacher's office (which, when you're 8 years old and terrified of unknown consequences, you arrive at in tears) where I was shouted at for about half an hour. I was told how despicable I was, what a disgusting thing it was to do, and he even said that it almost became a police matter because it was a death threat. I vividly remember the headteacher looking really disappointed at one point and him saying to himself "and this is supposed to be the season of good will to all men", and I just felt awful. I was made to apologise to the classmate in question, as well as write a three page letter of apology. Then the worst part: my school called my parents and they were horrified at what I'd supposedly done.
It was an incredibly negative formative experience from my childhood and I think about it regularly. Because of my stupidity and Mr May's actions I was ostracised by my peers for a long time which made my early years quite difficult.
gummibear853@reddit
Maths teacher Mrs Patterson, a cantankerous old battleaxe. Was at school at the turn of the millennium, can imagine her hitting and throwing things at kids when That Sort Of Thing went on.
One time a load of us were in a computer room, unsupervised, during lunchtime revising for our upcoming GCSEs. She walked in and asked what we were doing. No response. She then says “you know you’re not supposed to be in here” - followed by her literally screaming GET OUT!!! with the ferocity you’d expect from a woman who’d just come home to find her husband in bed with someone else
PabloMarmite@reddit
My year 5 teacher mocked me for crying which resulted in internalising all emotions for about twenty years until therapy.
ratscabs@reddit
Reminds me of my maths teacher aged about 10. He made us all mark each others end of term exams in class as he was too lazy; when I asked a query about an answer in the paper I was marking he shouted “well what’s wrong with that? It’s fine!” at me, whereupon I started crying (just silent tears). “Oh, pull yourself together, lad” he shouted, and slapped me across the face. So that helped.
HannaaaLucie@reddit
When I was in high school years ago, I came out as a lesbian (well.. forced out is more accurate). I was bullied by nearly the entire school. Most teachers laughed along or allowed the bullying to happen infront of them.
But one teacher.. Mr. Sunderland.. he was an absolute bell end. He was my French teacher but was also one of the deputy head teachers.
He would constantly make comments about me being a lesbian. He incited others to bully me. He once tried to make me change for PE in the hallway because the other girls were uncomfortable.
Then one week, I went on a school trip to France for 5 days. I'm guessing because he was away from school he could be worse. He took the piss out of my mental health (which was suffering incredibly from the bullying) infront of everyone. He made self harm jokes, asked when I was going to kms. He came into my room unannounced to check I wasn't 'having dirty lesbian sex' with my friend. I had enough.. I snapped, called him a lot of names, called him homophobic, and I purposely ran away from him in Paris. He got in some major shit for losing a kid abroad.
rbarker82@reddit
We once had a long-term supply teacher who took a dislike to me for some reason (I got on well with all my other teachers). During one lesson she told me off for talking (fair enough) but her punishment was pretty grim.
She made me stand on a chair, put my arms by my sides then made me lift them up, so I was making a T-shape. Then I had to continually rotate my arms in small circles for the remainder of the lesson. Doesn’t sound like much but try doing it for a few minutes. Horrible woman
Majestic-Pen-8800@reddit
That’s actual torture. People like that have no place in the classroom.
Urban-Amazon@reddit
Secondary, geography. Actually bullied me, but had dirt on the head of dept, so nothing was done.
Deliberately mispronounced my name but would give detention to anyone that did that to him.
Marked me down and accused me of copying from my friend with absolutely no evidence and continued with this even when I moved myself to the other side of the room. Had to regrade me after parental argument that the markdowns were petty and/or just downright wrong. I was a straight A student and very quiet.
Got to GCSE choice time and all of a sudden wanted me to do the subject. Got told to sod off by my mum. Eventually learnt he'd asked my aunt out when they were younger and he was still salty that she turned him down....
podrickthegoat@reddit
Secondary: English teacher reported us to the head of department for “bullying” him. We didn’t bully him, we just didn’t like him and were grossed out by a habit of his. We, of course, got into trouble for this and he had two teachers hunt us down at lunch time one day in the cafeteria and corner us for a convo in front of everyone. He also held me back after class to have a go at me for missing homework (normal) but in doing this he proceeded to slam his laptop and a large stack of folders on the table and shout “you’re the most ungrateful person I’ve ever met” whilst leaning over the table
College: Careers advisor. She was pressing me for making a decision for uni choices and choosing a course to study. I said I was feeling depressed and felt like I had no direction, felt burnt out, so I wanted to take a gap year to figure out what I wanted to do. Her response was to call me lazy and accuse me of not being proactive enough and she forced me to apply and pick a course. I did get into uni and I did go but I was too burnt out to show up the way I should have and put the effort in that I needed to. My depression got worse when I moved out for uni and lived on my own. I ended up severely low in some vitamins, I wasn’t eating properly and ended up on anti-depressants. I needed a complete mind reset before going to uni but she didn’t listen to me and my self esteem was too low to back myself and listen to what I needed. I look back at my uni life now and regret so much but it all comes down to choices I made because I was depressed
C0nnectionTerminat3d@reddit
It’s a tie between my year 7 science teacher and my college GCSE maths tutor.
Year 7 one was just overly strict. No talking whatsoever. If you didn’t know an answer it’s clear you weren’t listening. She banned the word “like” in her classroom. She looked (and acted) like the presenter of The Weakest Link. Even the kids that were the typical “class clowns” that acted up were scared of her.
My college tutor was a very foreign lady who very clearly only learned english recently. She didn’t know how to correctly use words in a sentence which i’d argue is a pretty important skill if you’re teaching a GCSE subject. To sum up how badly at teaching she was, no one in her class passed their maths GCSE.
Flibertygibbert@reddit
I was eight, in Junior School. Our class teacher was a bitter, sarcastic bully who could become incredibly unhinged - screaming and throwing items was not unheard of.
I'd never been scared of a teacher before, but I spent the entire year on pins because none of us knew what was going to happen next. I was terrified to go to school and he seemed to delight in knowing that and looked to criticise anything I did.
In the end my parents were fed up with the nightmares, the crying, his nasty comments in my homework book and endless punishments of writing lines. My normally disinterested father went into the school and spoke to the Head Master. I only found out after he made a sarcastic remark about "going behind his back." He was more subtle with his intimidation after that.
Longlostneverland@reddit
Secondary dance teacher. If you wasn’t skinny and popular she hated you. She would literally tell students that they were fat or would make comments to the whole class about their bodies jiggling when dancing.
She would let the popular kids leave early and keep the rest of us behind for extra exercise to lose weight. She used to also let them sit out and not join in the class but make the rest of us do laps. Just the way she spoke to us her voice would sound so evil and full of hatred but then would change her voice to some sweet little grandma voice when speaking to the popular kids.
Anyway one day she left and we never saw her again, rumours were that she had a huge argument with another teacher and got fired
Inevitable_Rock_3236@reddit
Was this in north London by any chance?
Longlostneverland@reddit
Nope it wasn’t. But maybe she moved there after my school booted her out 🤣
OrdinaryQuestions@reddit
College, health and social.
Whenever he'd teach about things like... treating people with dignity and respect etc. He'd give examples using girls in the class.
"For example, if I walked in this room and Sarah was naked in the floor. I would need to do xyz to ensure xyz"
Complaints ended up being made and he just got transfered to a different college (or at least that's what we were told).
ramapyjamadingdong@reddit
My first year of school, teacher would rip my exercise book up in front of class chastising me for having scruffy handwriting. She would then hold up another kid's book and say this is what good handwriting looks like. I pointed out that kid hadn't used any capital letters at the start of sentences and ended up being sent to see the head teacher.
I-Am-The-Warlus@reddit
Mrs.Worn
She was my primary school teacher who would segugate me from the rest of the class because she couldn't be bothered to put up with me and then lied to my mum about my behaviour at parents evening.
whatsername235@reddit
Secondary English teacher in 5th year. Picture Quentin Blake drawing a skinny woman with clown hair and buck teeth. In hindsight, she could have been anything from 30s to 50s but what she really had was a chip on her shoulder about anyone enjoying life or funnily enough, being good at English. I would love to know what made her that thoroughly awful.
Spent her entire time trying to make people miserable. And damn you if you had an opinion on Seamus Heaney's meanings that wasn't exactly hers.
Classes were boring to the point we used to get the giggles a lot. She placed me and my friend in the centre of the room and 'forced' us to sit with the mature student who had kids in high school.
The three of us got on really well, and she did not like it. Gave us horrible reports and belittled the poor woman who was just trying to get her education later in life.
Classic arsehole who had nothing better to do with her life. It was the highlight of high school when all three of us got As and she was seething.
Funnily enough, our 3/4 English teacher was also a proper bully, especially to the quiet kids. I made a clay head in art that was him with a Hitler moustache. My mum never knew what I was going for and thinks it's worthy of the Tate. She's deluded but still.
Only decent English teacher I ever had was a French lady. Same year my French teacher was English.
PoinkPoinkPoink@reddit
Mrs A - year 2 - I quite liked her because she was funny but she left unexpectedly and it only occurred to me in adult life that she was clearly struggling with alcohol/substance addiction. Suppose that made her quite a bad teacher. I don’t know what happened to her after she left but I hope she got better.
Mrs M (primary school substitute) - she was so incredibly mean and seemed to delight in upsetting kids. I was a sensitive kid and she seemed to love targeting me and a few others who cried easily or could be intimidated. She’d shout, point in your face, get super close to you, try to embarrass you by saying you looked scruffy or whatever, would say your drawings weren’t very good and just generally knock your confidence. I was a very meek, mild kid who didn’t dare misbehave, so it was absolutely not my behaviour that caused it. She just used to create this horrid vibe in the classroom.
I’d sometimes pretend to have a headache so I could sit outside of class in peace when she took our class, but she’d usually come out and tell me to grow up or pull myself together.
Eventually after I came home and was physically sick with worry at having been in her class all day, my mum laid down the law at school and refused to let her teach me again. She’d just bring me right back home any day that teacher was taking our class.
LiorahLights@reddit
Mr Umbers. Maths. In the 90s.
If you walked into his classroom with any football team merch that wasn't his team he would confiscate it. Scarves were used to clean the blackboard.
If you came bottom of the class in the test he would read out all your wrong answers and publicly shame you.
He regularly sent kids out to the shop in the middle of a lesson to but him chocolate. He liked Mars bars. He picked on the less able kids for this as they weren't going to pass anyway.
If you spoke out of turn he'd throw pens at you.
Wibblejellytime@reddit
We had a music teacher in secondary school; Dr {Redacted} We spent 2 terms studying a single Madonna song (Just Like a Prayer) and then one day he vanished. Turns out he wasn't even a qualified teacher, had no doctorate and had previously been dismissed from another fraudulent teaching position for 'dubious conduct' with a student.
EverybodySayin@reddit
Worst teacher of mine was actually a college tutor. She basically went totally off-script with what she was supposed to be teaching us and had us doing. The whole class had to come in during our summer holiday and work to the actual curriculum because a lot of what she had us doing demonstrated none of the necessary skills to get grades and she was given the sack. Thankfully it's a subject I happened to be really good at and I managed to whizz through it in a single day, some of my mates were in for as many as 3 days.
CwningenFach@reddit
An English teacher. Lots of young people had a crush on him because he was attractive and charming. People did try to flirt with him quite a lot. He was the adult. He should have shut that shit down. He always gave me the ick. It was like he got off on being seen as attractive, desirable, cool.
I didn't realise until I'd left quite how bad he was, though. He divorced his wife and promptly married someone who'd been in my class
louwyatt@reddit
I got hit by a temp teacher while in primary school. That's not the worst teacher I had. I had a real bitch has my high school english teacher
Ok-Advantage3180@reddit
I had a science teacher in years 10 and 11 and in year 10 we only found out that she’d taught us all the wrong stuff the day of our GCSE biology exam. We were all panicking and naturally most of the class failed and ended up re-taking it the following year. The school was made aware of what happened, but said there was nothing they could do about it, despite the fact that a teacher’s incompetence had caused the majority of a class to fail.
Turns out the same thing happened at my boyfriend’s school. Only difference is that his school chose to do something about it and sack the teacher
Equal-Competition930@reddit
It hard to pick there one who made do woodwork for hour and hour with broken arm because I wasnt showing enough pain. Iam dyspraxic and have high pain tolerance. The one who was done for sexual assault, the science teacher who just allowed our class go wild or one who just talked by Newcastle united instead of maths . There were great teachers but this were very worst . Although everyone including my headmaster at comp ignored the bullying. Yes didnt report it but they saw most of it and just ignored it. Even in one case believing bullies over me. Also my school broke data protection rules and allow man to find out my home address so could beat my brother up. It didnt help two kids who were related to least kid of the father (I think 2 full brothers and one brother so dont know if father of this kid) were in year and they took out on me. I never told my brother this by way
vauxie-ism@reddit
Our Phys.ed teacher who doubled as a science teacher. Racist small town loser who never went anywhere.
powpow198@reddit
One a-level teacher banged another students sister so he left in first 2 months of our a level year... leaving us with a supply teacher who had no idea what they were doing.
GeorgeHSpencer@reddit
Year 6 English teacher and head of house. Looked like Goldfinger and had the temperament and tact of a volcano. Came across as an̈ overgrown bully stuck in the 1970s.
electric--eskimo@reddit
Second year of junior school (now primary 4 I think). A frustrated failed photographer who would take his anger on us by hitting us. This was just as it had become illegal by this point but no one did anything. His class was moved into a building on its own, just off the hall, so he could be left to his own devices.
Mc_and_SP@reddit
My primary school headteacher.
Absolutely horrible, cruel, vindictive man who didn’t have an ounce of compassion or understanding, and when he got caught out as having made a huge error in a major behaviour investigation, he didn’t have the stones to make a proper apology to those he’d vilified.
When the PTA had a meeting with the governors to discuss his first few years in the role, they couldn’t find a single improvement he’d made to the school over his predecessor (a far nicer and more capable man in every metric.)
Elegant-Pin9106@reddit
Another science teacher. I was a well behaved (and able) student and was seated next to the class hooligans. Something disruptive happened (can’t remember what) and he listened to these others when they said it was me. I was sent out of class for the first time ever - this was year 11. I still can’t believe it.
Majestic-Pen-8800@reddit
Aunt Sally. She looked like Worzel Gummidge’ girlfriend! She was totally hapless and didn’t really have a clue about computers, also often having to leave the class and get another teacher to restore order.
Jlaw118@reddit
One of my science teachers in high school. She was new when I was in one of my final years and I ended up moving into her class. I just don’t think she had the social skills in general to be a teacher. She couldn’t control her class nor speak to people in a decent manor.
But I used to massively struggle with chemistry. I just couldn’t grasp the chemical equations on a periodic table, and adding and subtracting them or whatnot. I told her when I first met her that I might need some extra help with it as I really struggle. A lot.
She smiled, said it was fine, and one day set us on with some work. I tried to get her attention for most of the lesson and she just blatantly ignored me. Then asked me to stay behind at the end of class, and asked me why I hadn’t done any work.
“I told you at the beginning that I really struggle with chemistry and I tried to catch your attention for some help but you must not have seen me!”
”oooh I’d love to hit you.” was her response.
I told my form tutor and he reported back to her but she just denied it and I had no witnesses.
I’d heard she’d moved to go teach in Chicago not long after we left school.
gilestowler@reddit
Mrs Barlow. Absolutely hated me, and was also not adverse to hitting the kids. Once hit me round the head with a book. I was very happy to get out of her class...then 2 years later she switched to teaching the year I was moving into then.
Honestly, all the teachers at that school were pretty terrible. Me and my sister joke about it nowadays when we reminisce. But Mrs Barlow was a truly evil bitch. My sister never actually had her - she got lucky.
Melonpan78@reddit
Primary 2.
She chose one pet and one punching bag every year. (Not physical punching, I hasten to add)
Guess which one I was in 1983.
Anubis1958@reddit
Latin teacher. Made to hold my arm out stretched whilst conjugating a verb or declining a noun. One mistake resulted in a wrap over the knuckles with a wooden ruler. Nickname throughout the school was sadist.
anotherangryperson@reddit
Junior school teacher who had also taught my mother. She was an elderly spinster who was a devout Christian. She hated me for some reason but that’s not why she was the worst. Fast forward some years and one of the girls, a very bright and popular girl, was sent to prison. The teacher wrote to her and told her how wicked she was and she would go to hell etc. I thought Christianity was about love and forgiveness. The girl was not a bad person and never got in trouble with the law again.
durkheim98@reddit
Year 5 Primary teacher. She was an absolute cow and a bully. I still don't understand how an adult can treat kids that way.
We spend more time working on and performing elaborate school plays than actual learning. Routine use of lines as punishment, I was given lines for spelling 'Edinburgh wrong' and not just a piece of paper, a whole exercise book.
She used to slag off kids parents in front of the whole class. She picked on a kid who was hard of hearing (who turned out to be Maths prodigy a few years later). She would would just straight up verbally abuse kids she didn't like for no reason.
It got so bad that my parents took me out of that school three quarters of the way through the year. Same with a couple of other kids.
No idea where she is now. Hopefully not scarring anymore kids.
docju@reddit
My P7 teacher had a habit of shouting at you for minor infringements, throwing chairs, and one time he punched a flatmate on a school trip. He also once shouted at me for not trying in art class then after I did try (I thought I was trying before!) he held up my effort to the class and called it a disaster.
I was so scared of him I tried to get off school by making myself sick (it didn’t work). Of course that year I was quite healthy and missed just one day. He didn’t believe in homework but that didn’t make up for walking on eggshells all year.
Additional-Nobody352@reddit
English teacher i had in part of year 10 and year 11 at secondary school so GCSE`s. In her first lesson she basically went on about how brilliant she was and that she was studying for a either a Masters or PHD in her spare time i forget which.
She was hopless couldnt control the class or teach anything worth while. It go so bad that the headmaster had to come into our class room to basically tell everyone to behave etc (our class wasn't that badly behaved there were 1 or 2 people but nothing too bad).
Anyway about 6 months before our GCSE exams we had done no coursework and we needed to do 5 seperate pieces.
And shock of shocks our teacher says she can't teach our class and they had to bring in another teacher who only kinda taught part time at our school to teach us for the rest of the year and get all coursework done.
To her credit the new teacher they bought in saved the day and tbh she was a really good teacher and knew her stuff.
To context this the origional teacher we had wasn't someone in their first job she was late 40's from memory and went on that she had taught in the USA and either Asia or Africa i forget which.
From what i could garner also our origional teacher wasn't liked by her peers as my form teacher did not like her and said she had a very high opinion of herself.
Organic-Locksmith-45@reddit
When I was around 15, there was an IT teacher who used to hang out with the pupils away from school. He’d go to the sixth former’s parties and socialise with them at the local club. He used to spend most of the time in lessons just chatting to the girls. It never settled right with me at the time. I never said anything at the time because I was a shy little girl, and as far as I know, nothing happened but I have always found it really unsettling.
Another_Random_Chap@reddit
My A level chemistry teacher basically abandoned me. It was a small class, just 6 pupils, and I was basically ignored for 2 years. He had 2 favourites who got all his time, 3 others who at least got some attention, and I just got nothing. Needless to say, I failed the A level.
Intrepid_Bearz@reddit
Kindergarten teacher - Used to smack me over the hand with a ruler when I picked up a crayon or anything as “being left handed is a sign of the devil” 🙃
Headmaster of that same school (who was also left handed, and also possibly the devil). He used to teach us Latin and would bend down to face level and bellow in your face if you made any mistakes. Then called me a failure as I dropped Latin 🙃
He’d also take great pleasure in punishing people publicly for stupid things. This was mid 80s so caning had just started to be phased out but he still found weird ways to hurt kids.
Forgot your art overall in the Art Room, or left your PE kit at home and he’d call you up to the stage at assembly , in front of the entire school. He had a desk up on the stage and you had to take off one of your shoes, hand it to him and bend over the desk while he hit your bum with his shoe a random amount of times, according to his mood.
I was glad to move schools when I was 10 and get away from that.
Glad-Pomegranate6283@reddit
My year eight maths teacher was nice but when I went to go after school for help with questions as as I struggled with maths (have since improved), he’d tell me he loved me ?? He didn’t do anything else but still v strange
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