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Has anyone ever run in to a teacher years after finishing school? How did go?

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A completey random question, love to hear if this has happened to anyone.

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Expression-Little@reddit

Met my chemistry teacher at the vet during COVID. Weirdly, we (teacher and I) have the same first name and so do our dogs. We're pretty chill, sometimes see each other on dog walks. He taught us how to make TNT so he was always cool.
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Brian-Kellett@reddit

Yeah. So… when a school is close to being inspected by OFSTED, they’ll often spend money they don’t have bringing in a consultant to advise them on how to improve. Sort of a ‘teacher’s teacher’, telling them how to deal with problem students, how to make lessons engaging, that sort of thing. Who should show up at the school I work at but one of my old teachers. Thing is… he was awful. Boring, no enthusiasm, bad discipline. It fact I only remembered him because his name was synonymous in my peer group for being so bad. And this was 40 years ago. So it was amusing to see him as an education specialist when he was such a bad teacher. (Second one, went back to my old primary school when I started a teacher training course and she’d kept my needlework. To show the current kids how *not* to do it. Which was fair.)
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dinkidoo7693@reddit

In my late 20s a teachers son asked me out, i had absolutely no idea he was a teachers son, they have a very common surname and he didn’t go to the same school growing up so I never even thought about it. We were on a date and he had gone to the toilet and i saw the teacher walk into the pub we were in, that was weird anyway then next thing i know he came and sat on the table next to us and weirdly joking about me getting detentions for not doing my homework. I was like “this is so weird sat next to my old teacher” and he said “well get used to it, you are dating my son”
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pickindim_kmet@reddit

Bumped into one of my favourite teachers from secondary school in Tesco a couple of years ago. Was really excited to see him, he was a really cool guy, super chill teacher, we always had a bit of banter. When I went up to him, he looked like death warmed up. Pale, unhealthy-looking, nothing like what he used to be. Most likely it was just a case of time passing and everyone getting older and fatter. I was a bit gutted that he didn't even remember me. I tried to jog his memory with a few familiar names and anecdotes, but nothing. Fully understand teachers going through thousands of students and not being able to remember them all, but that one stung a bit! I always remembered him and how much he helped me.
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KeevoX@reddit

Yes, I met my primary school teacher when I started a new job in the Civil Service. Turns out she’d had enough of teaching and wanted to get out. Still feels odd sometimes to talk with her on a first name basis, but she’s just as lovely as she was when I was a kid.
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FrancesRichmond@reddit

I am a teacher and a youngish man followed me round the supermarket. Every time I stopped he stopped his trolley, if I turned a corner, he followed down whichever aisle I went down. Then I heard him say to a woman 'Go and ask her'. The woman sidled up to me in the clothing department and said 'Excuse me, my husband thinks you taught him at xxx about 12 years ago.' I turned to look at him and recognised him immediately. He had got himself into bother a lot at school ( aged 11-18 yrs) and I was the Assistant Headteacher responsible for Behaviour and Student Welfare. I spent quite a but of time with him one way or another - because of his behaviour and because his mum was terminally ill and he needed lots of support. I got to know his mum well and supported her too. When she died he spent weeks being sent to my office because he was coping so badly. I always had a soft spot for him and could see there was a nice lad inside who had had a tough time- his dad had died infront of him of a heart attack when the boy was just 8. Anyway, I was really pleased to see him but not as pleased as he was to see me. He gave me a huge hug and sort of lifted me off my feet saying 'Miss, I'm so pleased to see you. I've never forgotten how good you were to me and how much you helped me. My mam really liked you as well.' He was married and he and his wife were expecting their first child and he had a decent job and a house about 25 miles up the coast. It was so good to see that things had worked out for him. His mum would have been so proud of him. We stood and chatted for ages and he showed me the baby scan pictures and told me about his life, reminisced about things we both remembered and he said thank you repeatedly. I felt really quite emotional when I left him- he was very challenging as a teenager and hard to defend at times to other staff and parents because he made such bad choices, but there was always that glimmer of a decent kid that I could see and he had the toughest of times.
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Sure-Present-3398@reddit

I actually live a couple doors down from my old primary school head mistress. She has told me a thousand times that I don't have to call her Mrs. Doe anymore but all these years later it still feels vaguely illegal to call her by her first name. 
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Sea-Still5427@reddit

A teacher I know was called for jury duty and the accused was a former pupil. Possibly one of the more embarrassing ways for it to happen.
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CensorTheologiae@reddit

How did *it* go *Completely* FFS Kieran you're 40 years old now and got kids yerself and you still can't write proper English Still, lovely to see you
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ThatGuyWired@reddit

Not OP's best look
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Fresh-Research3450@reddit

It was quite weird because I was dating her son at the time, I didn't realise I had fallen for the son of my English literature teacher until I met her! We're married now, the son not the teacher!
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Forever_a_Kumquat@reddit

One of my senior school teachers sent me a friend request on Facebook last year which I thought was odd, considering I left school in 2000. I didn't accept, I never really liked them.
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Jlaw118@reddit

Bumped into one of my college tutors in Costa just over a year ago and we had a nice catchup whilst queuing to be served. We got talking about life, where I’d ended up career wise, congratulated me on starting a family, and then was asking me if I still heard from any of my classmates and I was asking him about other tutors I got on really well with. I was sad to hear my old head of department had passed away, but everyone else was doing well. Was nice to see him
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That_Northern_bloke@reddit

Yes regularly, as he lived around the corner from my parents. He was a true gentleman, he helped me so much with my maths skills including with probate tuition after school. He had a gorgeous golden retriever he often walked. And then on Wednesday mornings, as a class we read a chapter of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' and then watched the part on the old BBC film adaptation 
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