Crazy teacher story | TheaterFire

I had an English teacher who loved Fitzgerald. She asked the class, "Why do you think he wrote this book?" Being a good student, I had read the introduction and knew the answer. So I raised my hand. "He probably needed money for some booze," I said.

She threw her copy of the book at my head and ordered me out of the classroom. Then she went to her desk at the back of the classroom and went hysterically.

I went to the counselor's office and told her what happened.

That was the day we saw what happens when they come to pick someone up for a stay at the mental hospital.

SDRose71@reddit

9th grade math teacher drank alcohol out of a paper bag covered bottle he kept in the cabinet at the back of the classroom. Everyone knew about it and he didn’t hide it. 10th grade honors English teacher used to drop his pencil by tennis team girls’ desks on days when we wore our uniforms so he could look up our skirts. We called him out on it and he just laughed with a gleam in his eye.

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KerryBoehm@reddit

My electronics teach at Vocational school overheard my one buddy got laid for the first time. EVERY day when he'd see him he'd dangle his index finger towards him asking if it fell off yet. Probably inappropriate then most definitely now but he was all the kids favorite teacher.

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armorabito@reddit

Not my story, but this happened in 2022 in a district near me. Male teacher decided to walking around school and teach with rediculously large prosthetic breasts and a wig.I believe he was a shop teacher too, lol. Can't make this shit up, and incase you think I was, here are all the images from many different sites.

7th grade geometry teacher was an older guy 50s/60s. He once invited me to his cabin for the weekend. I told my older sister and she was like, "oh yeah. He has done that before. Don't go."

Kid kept talking.

Teacher said "Get out of my class and go to the principal's office."

Kid said "make me".

Teacher calmly walked over with the kid grinning the whole time.

Teacher grabbed him by the throat, pulled him out of the chair, carried him (with one hand) to the classroom door, Threw him into the hallway, closed and locked the door, and continued the lesson like nothing had happened.

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plnnyOfallOFit@reddit

We all had the psychos w crooked wigs & lipstick on teeth etc

I wanna talk about some dude who we all loved.

I lived in the south & muddy all over the "playground" which was, I kid you not, connected to a smoke stack tire factory. Ah jeez. Me lungs.

Anyway. The older kids invited me to go "mud sliding" instead of class. We'd run & slide thru the mud head first, feet first, hands first, spinning, you name it.

Best time of my "wrong side of the tracks" tween memories. ditching class to run in the slime🤣

One of the teachers LOVED that we did this & we'd knock on his classroom door to have him answer & just laugh his box off at our muddy smiles. HE'd let us wash up in his office.

Just that beaming look on his face.

green on wednesday meant you were horny

Excuse me? Can someone elaborate? I don't remember this...

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Fantastic-Pop-9122@reddit

Maybe it was just my school, lol, same for green m&ms.

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SleeplessMikAndi@reddit

Substitute music teacher was getting frustrated at one of my classmates. He finally erupted loudly in his thick polish accent, "what's the matter with you? Why can't you play it? Go home and suck on your mama's tit!"

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

First grade. I had my hand up to ask to use the restroom. This school had individual restrooms for kindergarten and first grade classrooms ensuite so the little kids didn't need to wander the halls. I sat there and sat there. The teacher saw me with my hand up but wouldn't acknowledge me. I ended up getting my pants. This teacher then proceeded to pull we out of my seat and spank me for wetting my pants.

If I ever get the opportunity I'm gonna piss on her grave.

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Left_Guess@reddit

That’s horrible. I’m sorry that happened to you!

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Ok_Responsibility419@reddit

The high school science teacher was apparently banging the teen girls.

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Silent-Art4378@reddit

Same. AP Bio teacher and Girls cross country coach was banging his star runner. Ended up marrying her to avoid jail. Nobody really batted an eye.

I also had a hs soccer coach who would have us running wind sprints till we puked if we lost a game. He also had us stand with our backs to a brick wall and he would penalty kick the ball at us. That effing hurt, especially when he hit your face.

Fun times in my HS in the early eighties.

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Careless-Two2215@reddit

For our school it was the tennis coaches. One left his wife for his teen lover. She later became the principal too.

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ThatsSirBubbleGuts@reddit

Junior year of high school my English teacher was a hippie burnout. We always thought she was stoned. One day we all sit down and she goes “ok class we are goi g to take a field trip.” Pulls out a picture of her car and divides us among the 4 parking lots. She forgot where she parked and couldn’t find her car so she sent us out to find her car. We just ended up getting high in my car and let the others look.

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Jeffe-69@reddit

8th grade shop teacher watched me deck a bully (had caused problems with same teacher). He went down and was out cold. Teacher came over, looked at him and then me and with a smirk said "I won't tell if you don't tell." None of the other kids in class minded I guess cause I never got in trouble and that bully was soooo quiet for the rest of the year. 9th grade language arts teacher smoked in classroom with the window open. Ahhhh, the good old days.

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Cruise1313@reddit

My 11th grade History teacher fell asleep during the majority of class. We assumed he had narcolepsy.

He always made us watch History documentaries so the lights could be off. 😂 I sat next to the door and would turn the dimmer lights way down so my classmates could sneak out of class. 😂

I was also next to the door and would turn the knob for them as they crawled along the floor to leave. He would wake up occasionally and tell me to turn the dimmer lights back up which I would and back down again when he fell asleep. 😂

By the end of class there would be 8 of is left! He never said anything! 😂 One of the other classes turned off all the lights and rolled him out in the hall and they all left. Shortly after that he retired.

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WILD

High school Western Civ teacher, poor guy, lost his wife, came to school to teach, and just like, lost his grip on reality in class. Long rambling lecture about his wife and how she was the wind beneath his wings, and he would not let the class leave when the bell rang. Or when the next bell rang. He just was not connected to reality anymore.

Eventually, one student got him to agree to let them leave to go to the bathroom, and they went and let the office know what was going on. Some of the bigger teachers came in and let us out, and stayed with him. He never came back after that.

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prisontat@reddit

Damn that is sad af. I came here to read funny comments and then saw this 🥺

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CK_CoffeeCat@reddit

Sorry about that. :-/

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Environmental_Ride_8@reddit

I was once sent out of the classroom that had a back door to the lot. The door slammed shut and I stood there blinking in the sun. About 10 seconds later the door opened again and a whole desk came flying out at me - barely missing, then a chair.

He promised, as he lectured about the French Revolution, that if we all scored above a certain average, he would bring in some newts and we could use the guillotine on them.

Naturally, he kept “forgetting” the newts at home and would announce “no news is good news for the newts!”

Finally one day he broke the news: he had left the newts in his car overnight and they froze to death.

Now why none of us even asked why we couldn’t decapitate the frozen newts — probably the more humane option? — I don’t know.

Instead, we cut the head off a Smurf.

Of course, he made this promise every year. No newts were ever harmed in this lesson plan.

Honestly, I remember most of my Western Civ. It’s too bad he apparently got handsy years later and was fired.

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CauliflowerSlight784@reddit (OP)

Omg. Yep, we all have a good teacher story!!

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Sockm0nkey@reddit

I had an English teacher who painted vertical black bars on some butcher paper and wallpapered his classroom with it.

In 4th grade, I had a teacher named Mr. Helsel, who thank god wasn’t my homeroom teacher, but I had him for math and science classes. He had a yardstick that he would use to make kids “dance”. If a kid committed any slight infraction, they’d have to go to the front of the class. Mr. Helsel would hold the yardstick in one hand and the kid’s hand in the other and he would beat them with it while you “danced” away from him trying to escape it.

This was public school! It’s so crazy to think back about it now. There was also the hellish bullying that some kids had to deal with and the teachers not only didn’t do anything about it but 90% of the time they laughed and participated. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I have a 14 and 18 year old and when I tell them stories about what school was like for me, it may as well be stories from the 1800’s, it’s so removed from their own experience with school. My 14 year old has told me that she’s never seen anyone bullied, like with real malice and cruelty. Some kids get teased but it’s lighthearted or some kids may not be liked exactly, but these kids just roll their eyes at them and then try to avoid them as much as possible. I can’t even imagine kids being that tolerant back in my day, especially not middle schoolers.

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Glad-Pen5593@reddit

I had to sit on a stool with a dunce cap on in 2nd grade. In front of the class. I can’t remember what I’d done but I do remember thinking it was an odd thing to do to someone.

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Mediocre-Berry-6257@reddit

Many of these stories highlight that teaching is a hard job that exacts a heavy personal toll!

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Zealousideal_Draw_94@reddit

Late to the party so nobody will read it….😟

So in middle school there was teacher, she was the “hot” teacher. She walked down the hallway and all the boys would hypothesize. We called her Ms Goodies. Boys always said all the BS…If I 10 minutes with her…” Little did we know.

Ours wasn't a lounge, it was just a fenced-off area covered in gravel with a couple benches and a 55-gallon drum as trash / butt can. We of course called it "the Cage".

Only one teacher ever came out to join us for a smoke, she got fired for it. This pissed everyone off, she was a cool teacher.

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jpowell180@reddit

So it was OK for the students to smoke but not the teachers?

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thecyberwolfe@reddit

The teachers could smoke in the Teacher's lounge, but not with students, as that would be promoting bad habits.

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Txidpeony@reddit

Third grade. Mrs. Smith. She would hit your hand with a ruler, or tape your mouth closed, or draw a circle on the board and make you stand with your nose in the middle. I was terrified of her and did everything I could (including never besting her pet at anything) to avoid her notice.

My English teacher in junior high would throw books at people to explain an indirect object vs object. She reeked of perfume and cigarettes, and wore bright orangish red lipstick.

Memories of a different era where if you answered her questions wrong, you met your fate with a bonk on the head with a textbook.

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MortadellaBarbie@reddit

Had a 7th grade shop teacher who pushed a kid into the pile of wood scraps and made him sit there for the rest of the class. He also hated that there were girls in his shop class (we all had to take both shop and home ec) and would do whatever he could to make them cry. When he died a few years ago, well, let’s just say our class Facebook page didn’t mourn.

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husbandbulges@reddit

Same with that shop/home ec required as a combo. Shop teacher also was super annoyed to have girls in class and was a jerk to us whenever he could be.

I dropped a can of wood stain by mistake and he made me clean it up during lunch with rags instead of a mop. I was so gross and smelly by the end of that I called my mom and went home.

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IrwinJFinster@reddit

In first grade there was a kid who was openly disruptive every day. Until the day the teacher slapped his face with a hardback book, breaking his nose. His parents complained but nothing happened to the teacher. (She was a great teacher, btw). That boy never disrupted class ever again.

When I was a junior in high school (‘85) I had a math teacher (was a male PE teacher that also taught math) physically hit me in class. Not a closed fist punch, but not a slap in the face either. Kind of in between, open hand, solid palm to the head in front of 30 other kids. No one did anything. Including me.

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BlueButtons07@reddit

From like K--3rd grade the teachers would give Birthday spankings to said boy/girl. The rest of the class counted to whatever age the kid was turning.

I hated that bitch. She’d pick really inane reasons to do it. I suppose she probably was looking to let the troublemakers know she meant business, but she also paddled normal kids who behaved well. She kept us all on edge the whole year.

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freebird37179@reddit

7th grade Science teacher wore leather jackets and had the big bleached hair present in 1987. Couple of students got to see her Poison tattoo. It wasn't publicly visible.

A principal would run a finger down a girls back to see if she was wearing a bra.

A middle school boys gym teacher would pants boys on the parallel bars or rings during the gymnastics session.

Both would be on a list these days.

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prospectpico_OG@reddit

Good Lord where do I start.

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TheRealMathilda@reddit

I had a teacher in elementary school who assigned seating based on cumulative test scores - in order, from first seat of first row nearest the classroom door to last seat of last row. Every week we’d take a quiz; every week if your year to date score increased or decreased enough, you’d pack up your desk and switch with the other student(s) so that the entire class knew you’d done well or badly on your test. “Smart” kids in first row while kids in special ed classes were mostly all clustered towards the back of the last row with the “dumb” kids. I guess the intent was to motivate kids to try harder but now as an adult I’m fairly horrified.

BigDaddyBull_1989@reddit

Kids - mostly boys, and especially black boys, were punished by paddling - the thick wooden paddles with holes in them.

Many of the teachers smelled of cigarette smoke, the male teachers you could see the pack in their front shirt pocket. They would go to the teacher's lounge often to smoke, and leave kids, usually a girl, to take down names on the chalkboard for any talking at all.

Buses were driven by high school juniors and seniors guys who always wore their letterman jackets. This blows my mind thinking about it today.

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Cruellas@reddit

Many of the bus drivers I had were high school students. Students or really old. Most of them were smokers and smoked everyday while driving the bus.

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IMTrick@reddit

In 3rd and 4th grade I had a teacher who I loved... I'll leave out his name in case he's still teaching, which is doubtful for a lot of reasons, but I don't want to rat him out 50 years after the fact.

We had a math teacher that sat the girls he thought were cute in the front two rows then the guys and then the girls he didn’t think were cute in the very back. It was pretty well known at least by the students that he did it that way, but he had been there for years and no one said anything.

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

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CauliflowerSlight784@reddit (OP)

That is awful!

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tiredoldbitch@reddit

My 8th grade math teacher had a psychotic break. She tried to pray the demons out of us (failed) and ran around the school because said demons were chasing her.

She disappeared for a couple of days. We never told the other teachers or principal. We quietly enjoyed our free period. They did not know she was a no show.

Then after a few days, her crazier mother showed up to "teach her daughter's class." The principal finally walked by about a week in and asked who she was. He made her leave. We then got a sub.

The teacher comes back a month later and they let her finish the year. Crazier than a bed bug.

That summer, a man walking past her house on the sidewalk was shot by her because "he had demons."

She went to prison for a few years.

In my 20s, I was reading a Reader's Digest story about the failure of the mental health system...and there she was!

In grade school, Bradley would get dragged by his hair by the teacher to the cloak closets and promptly put in the closet...closed door.

Also, if you misbehaved, you were forced to stand in the trash bin in the front of class.

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Savings-Delay-1075@reddit

Our Study Hall teacher didn't really have any duties other than to just watch us kids in study hall every day was Mrs. Magda. She was German. She told us she was an Olympic hopeful from the 40's from west Germany. Her sports were track an field, mainly the discus and the shot put.

She would tell how she defected here by slipping away at night from one village to another and then from one boat and ship to another until finally making it here.

Funniest thing about her... she would arm wrestle every guy who wanted to give her a go and 9 times out of 10 she'd beat you. She was probably in her 60's back then and built like a fire hydrant..lol. She was a character, that's for sure.

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Thestanfreeman1970@reddit

Our shop teacher had a collection of paddles displayed on a wall. This guy was a sadistic fuck. If you stepped out of line he’d take you to the back room, make you bend over in front of a full length mirror and swat your ass. He’d be in jail these days but back then nobody gave it a second thought. Ah the 80’s.

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FeistyMuttMom@reddit

Our principal in elementary school had a paddle with holes drilled in it hanging on the wall in his office. I mentioned it to my mom and her response was basically if you don’t act up it’s not a problem.

I had a high school science teacher who would pick on vulnerable kids in class and humiliate them regularly.

One (brilliant) kid who had some ADD issues or something, he would literally make get on his knees and beg like a dog or he would threaten to lower everyone’s grade on the exam by one letter grade. He did this multiple times, would make the kid bark like a dog some times.

He named a girl in the class “Airhead” and wouldn’t call her anything else for the entire year. She even had to write her name ad “Airhead” on exams and quizzes. He had other humiliating nicknames for other students that he forced them to adopt for class.

It was a chemistry class and we were required to pay him 1 dime for every piece of equipment we used in the experiments. If you didn’t bring enough dimes, you got a zero for not completing the experiments.

Literally one experiment was standing in a circle and holding hands while the two people closest to the end held bare ends of a wire that was plugged into an electrical outlet so we could all feel AC current flowing through our bodies (it hurt). It was explained that if anyone let go we would be electrocuted (I don’t know if that’s true, but that is what he said).

This was 11th grade honors chemistry. Literally the most sadistic, terrible person I’ve ever encountered (and he didn’t have it in for me, I did well in class, but even then I knew he was an evil fucking bastard).

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Classic_Trend@reddit

Hmm this sounds like my honors chemistry teacher. Would he give you an A for one grade if you dropped a carton of cigs in the bed of his truck?

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crake@reddit

I don’t know about that. But this guy was tiny, like 5’2. He always wore a white coat, like a pretend scientist. He had a black beard tinged with grey that ended in a razor-sharp point, and a few greasy strands of hair over a bald head. His eyes were black as coal, and he was always smiling and laughing a high-pitched laugh through evil white teeth in his black beard.

This is the type of human absurdity that AI could never even hope to come up with.

Agreed. But I’m curious, was this a 25 year-old guy or an 80 year-old guy who had decades of gross behind him?

My American Government teacher in 10th grade, didn't want to remember our names so we were given numbers based on our desk location. I still remember I was 4-6: aisle 4, 6th desk from the front. If you did something that bothered him during class he'd write your number on the board, and you then had to stay after class for four minutes, then you had one minute to get to your next class. I was late so often to the next class I had to do extra assignments as punishment .

And they wonder why teens dislike adults so much.

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

One of the 6th grade teachers was former Air Force...and his classroom was like being in military school. If you kept your mouth shut and did your work, he left you alone and could actually be really nice. If you were a troublemaker, your life would be hell.

Along with terrible eyesight, I also had bad coordination. We were using protractors, and I just couldn't get the hang of it. I was kept inside during recess that day...so he could sit with me 1-on-1 and show me how to use a protractor. He had to keep guiding my hand and I just sat there drawing different angles until I got it right. I was so SLOW, but he never lost his patience with me. He was a big reason why math became my best (and favorite) subject.

That man could be crazy sometimes and could scare you within an inch of your life, but looking back, he was actually a good dude.

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macaronsandmurder@reddit

My husband went to a catholic high school. One of the priests called a kid a guinea and threw him down the stairs 😳

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Dramatic-Pickle-8613@reddit

In fourth grade a teacher loudly proclaimed that a student had lice after the nurse did a head check for all the kids in the class. She then proceeded to call out that child in front of the whole class.

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AdministrativeKick42@reddit

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harrypsk@reddit

1985 or 86, 8th grade history teach showed us Weird Science in class, un-cut. Nudity and language intact.

Freshman or sophomore year, in our science class a student told the teacher about a dream he had where the teacher came into class and shot everyone. Several weeks later, the teacher came into class, opened his briefcase and pulled out a fake gun that shot orange bullets at everyone. If that happened in more recent times that guy would be gone by the end of the day, back then it was a funny ass call back prank.

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We had a teacher with serious PTSD from nam. He was calm most of the time but every so often he’d just crack and violently attack furniture in the classroom.

We had "Deputy Porn Star" who has a perfect porno mustache and pants that were so tight we could tell he wasn't circumcised.

After him we had "Tree," who was the tallest law enforcement officer in the US and actually a really nice/cool guy.

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In 4th grade, I had a band teacher who would throw his baton at us. He would also scream and berate 9 and 10 year olds. But we won awards, so I guess it all works out? I had this band teacher until 7th grade. Our 7th grade band teacher would throw chairs at us. Band teachers are so high strung.

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Eleven_point_five@reddit

11th grade English teacher told us about the time she was committed to a mental health facility.

She'd, a very thin Black woman, would tell us about her group sessions that were mainly with a bunch of weird white guys. Her favorite story to share was about one of the guys always saying in group that he heard "once you go Black you can never go back." Her response to him was that he wouldn't be able to go back if he tried anything with her because she's kill him.

Same teacher one day in class... "Who's eating coconut cookies in my class and not sharing with the class???!!?!??!??" One of the cheerleaders who sat in the back of the class said "Ms. Jones (can't remember teacher's actual name), that's not coconut cookies that's Jason (not his name but yeah ones of the heads) smoking a joint." To which Ms. Jones replied "I never smelled any pot like that Missy, quit your story telling." Meanwhile Jason blows another cloud of pot smoke into his coat.

The 9th grade English teacher, who was like 4' 5" single and about 400#, was found to be a writer of Harlequin Romance novels using a pen name. And her stories were super hardcore for harlequins.

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Middle-Chemical9220@reddit

I love her response to the perv!

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worstnameIeverheard@reddit

Second grade. I must have been absent mindedly playing with a loose tooth, which made the teacher mad. She gave me a note and asked me to take it to the office.

I walked it to the office and handed it to a nun. The nun proceeded to tell me to open my mouth, ripped out my tooth, and sent me back to class.

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MillenniumTitmouse@reddit

Had an English teacher that would throw chalk at us if we didn’t answer fast enough. And then move onto throwing the erasers. Chalk dust in the eye is no bueno!

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altAftrAltAftrAftr@reddit

Middle School English teacher in an well-to-do suburb, arrested for buying crack in the neighboring inner-city.

Before then, his approach for students found dozed off was to drop a large, thick dictionary from height onto their desk or floor next to them. He sexually harassed many girls, telling them to pick up pens he'd drop. Looking for papers to hand out or for more things to throw on the floor, his desk drawer clattered, as if glass bottles rolled around inside.

I had nuns who would strike our knuckles if we did something they didn’t like, usually with the wooden side. If they were really pissed off they would use the metal edge. This was from grade 1 thru 8. God, I hated Catholic school.

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Far-Implement-818@reddit

My 4th grade teacher did this to me too. Luckily for him I had better impulse control than he did, as a child with undiagnosed ADHD. But to this day as a 45 year old man if I came face to face with him I would turn his world upside down right then and there. Damn angry drunk male teachers were worse than the predator teachers, because they would at least be nice to you before violating your personal space.

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Adventurous-Yak-8196@reddit

My high school had a special education teacher that was having an affair with one of her students. She was in her early 30s while he was around 16. Everybody knew but of course it was all deny, deny, deny. He ended up quitting school, so she divorced her husband and moved the guy in with her. They lived together for several years until he found a girl his own age.

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davidcoons@reddit

8th grade teacher HATED messy desks and our one "messy desk" kid would repeatedly get his desk "tossed" by this guy, which involved usually just dumping the contents into his lap and onto the floor. One day, Mr Unhinged in a furry, does the first part, then hurls the desk across the room at other kids who were laughing at the scene.

Choir teacher said out loud that if anyone wanted to touch X's knee (x was my girlfriend), they'd have to get in line behind him.

Psych teacher who threw a can of soup at someone in a grocery store parking lot, and kept an identical can in his classroom so he could tell the story, complete with visual aids.

English/theater teacher who made me rub her shoulders. Ugh.

SS teacher who gave me the keys to his brand new Subaru turbo, and told me to take a friend of mine home... So she could get a couple of her prescription migraine pills to bring back to him. During class time. I may have broken a few traffic laws with that car.

Another English teacher who didn't arrive at class until halfway through, then kicked us all out, saying it was a beautiful spring day and that we should be out enjoying it.

And now I work in education, and if any of my staff did any of these things, I would fire them.

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PlantMystic@reddit

When I was in Jr High, my science teacher would smack the metal trashcan in the classroom with a yardstick to wake up kids lol. He used to throw those foam blackboard erasers too. He was a cool teacher though and totally hilarious. He liked Quiet Riot too lol.

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Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit

in Canada:

gr 10 science teacher was an alcoholic in recovery (good for him). he also seemed to be a not-so-repressed pyromaniac. kept it fairly well under control, but some of the chemistry classes were ... interesting. he had a bit of an alkali-metal fetish (check out sodium / lithium / potassium) and legend was long about the time he showed us how touch powder is made.

gumdrop83@reddit

High school chemistry teacher senior year walked around shocking people’s chairs with a cattle prod.

My senior year I had an affair with my 40 year old teacher who was newly divorced.

She was 40 and I was 17.

She would go to jail for that now. Of course I never told anyone but it was pretty freaking obvious to anyone who saw us together.

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Fugue_State76@reddit

Wow 😳

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Signal_Glittering@reddit

Sorry to hear that

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MaximumJones@reddit

As a 17 year old boy I thought it was the greatest thing in the world.

My sixth grade science teacher (is it always the science teacher) had a plunger on his desk. If you fell asleep in class, he'd throw the plunger down as hard as he could on the black wooden science table. We called it "getting plunged."

He also kept a steel rod in the room and would beat the shit out of the intercom if it interrupted him. Every year there was a huge dent in the middle of the intercom, and inevitably he'd knock it off the wall and have to replace it.

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Resident-Complex4682@reddit

MY 6th grade science teacher would stop kids talking out of turn by asking, “Hey- you want a pop in the mouth?!?” If they said yes- they got a can of soda pop!

The CRAZY part is, he would ask an occasional girl if she wanted a kiss when she answered a question correctly. If she said yes, she got a Hershey’s chocolate kiss.

Despite these antics that may be considered crazy today, he was a fantastic teacher who was beloved by his students.

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Dano558@reddit

When I took driver’s ed we had to take a bus in the middle of the day to the driver’s ed facility. It was a 15-20 minutes ride and part of it was on the highway. The bus driver was a lady who smoked cigarettes and played hard rock music on a boom box she kept at the front of the bus.

Ooo. I have a few stories.

My Chemistry teacher was drunk everyday. Literally drunk. Red cheeks, alcohol on breath, slurred speech.

My shop teacher would tell the girls they had nice asses.

One teacher, history, I think (I didn't have him) was a registered and vocal member of NAMBLA (look it up if you don't know).

And this was at one of the three NYC selective public schools.

Almost all my other teachers were pretty amazing, though.

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Punkrawk78@reddit

Hey now, what’s wrong with dressing up like Marlon Brando?

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My1point5cents@reddit

Yes teachers and coaches flirting with the pretty girls was always a thing back then. One handsome fit PE teacher (about 35-40) always had some senior girl glued to the side of his Porsche chit-chatting in the parking lot after school. I don’t think they ever did anything, but I think he liked the attention.

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Moodleboy@reddit

Although I absolutely think it's gross, flirting is one thing. This guy would literally say to girls, in class, with other students around, "you got a nice ass on you!"

Uhhh…

Kids in class cheered along with each “spank” for each year. “1! 2! 3!” She always set it up to all us kids how much students loooooved her birthday spanks and even former students would came back to her for their birthday spanks long after they were her student, she said. Errr…

You were allowed to “opt out” on your birthday but it was always considered a buzz kill if you did. Even if you opted out, it was encouraged that you participate by cheering along the spanks for your classmates on their birthday when they laid on her lap.

Let’s just say I opted out every year lol. She was the music teacher for 3 years. I even knew at age 6-9 that this was freakin weird and creepy and I wanted no part of it. But then I also felt peer-pressured to smile and join in on the “birthday fun” for classmates who seemed to find the experience wildly entertaining.

Ummm… did this woman receive a full background check when hired? And how were other teachers, school admin, and parents totally fine with this weirdo inappropriate crap??

Ahhhh the 80s, when it was: anything goes! 😵‍💫 (WTF)

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happyangel11@reddit

More than a few pervs at my small h.s.

The old spinster Home Ec teacher was bitter from a failed romantic interest. She did like to confide with the girls though and offer free advice. Plus just be a part of some good gossip.
She had a hook nose and a polio limp, and random chin hairs, but we all knew she cared, and life had dealt her a tough hand .
She was oddly enough the cheerleading coach, and did pretty well ,since she had met Mr . Lawrence Herkimer himself, back in Pa. - the grandfather of cheerleading after all- To this day I can still execute a Herkie.
She saved the life of a boy, whose parents were Christian Scientists, and out of town when his Appendix burst. She signed for the surgery.
I hope she got a gratitude hug after it was all good- he was one of the popular bball players.

Now for the nitty gritty: R/M

The history teacher lent inappropriate books out, with rated X themes. His best friend at school was the janitor Leroy, who did something very bad to his daughter, also my friend on the cheer team. She blackmailed him for cash for a few years .

The female guidance counselor had a fling with a senior boy- my friend and I saw her riding around with him after school dances. She looked very embarrassed so we lived pulling them over. She must have been mid forties, thin, but bad skin and homely.

The married VP was seeing a senior girl, and after games, they would shag at random places.

Our biology teacher said inappropriate things to a friend of mine, harassment for sure

Anyhoo, this was way before all the popular teacher scandals.

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squeaktooth@reddit

Had John Hughes lived, his Dark Era would begin with this movie. I forgot all about teachers at parties…ew.

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Medium_Suggestion433@reddit

My science teacher in 7/8th grade would give girls better grades if you talked to him… but allowed things like I got stabbed by one of the boys in the class with with thing that was the size of a pencil that had a wood handle and inch plus metal poking metal spike out the top… it was used when we did dissecting of frogs. A boy stabbed me with it in the butt.. do you think anything happened? NO!

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LadyNorbert@reddit

I never had him myself, but I heard many legends of Mr. Miller, who threw a desk at someone and threatened to put another student out of a second story window. By the time I reached the grade where I might have had to learn from him, he had either retired or "retired" - never was sure which.

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Disastrous_Lemon_682@reddit

I was in an all girl Catholic high school. One of the priests who was a teacher and 38, started dating one of the students from my class when we were sophomores. When we graduated in 92, he left the priesthood and married her 2 years later.

The married theater teacher was always friendly with certain girls. They’d go out to lunch on weekends, took a few to his house or his mom’s house. He left the year we graduated and went to another school, where he was caught a few years ago. All the girls who still had crushes on him at 46, were defending him. I told them he stopped being interested in them when they turned 18.

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paperclipmyheart@reddit

We had a head mistress who we called The Dragon. Part of the girls sports uniform was, I kid you not bloomers, which meant you had underwear on and had to wear these bloomer coveralls over your underwear, they were the same colour as our uniform, and probably came into being before spandex and bike pants were common.

None of my friends ever wore them, I don't even think my mother purchased them, but I could be wrong it's a long time ago.

But The Dragon would often line us girls up and actually pull up our tunics to see if we were wearing them, and if we weren't, we'd be given detention.

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DapperRockerGeek@reddit

My first grade teacher threatened to wash the students mouths out with soap if they said bad words. And she brought a bar of soap to their mouths.

My second grade teacher denied me permission to use the bathroom. I went home with wet trousers several times.

My third grade teacher simply yelled at me to shut up.

My fourth grade teacher used to write the homework assignment in the composition notebooks of the underperforming students, and throw the notebook across the room.
A kid pushed me toward a girl and I accidentally touched her chest. The girl told the same teacher, and she yelled at me in front of the class and threatened to cut off my hand if I ever did that again.

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Ok-Juggernaut-353@reddit

We had an English teacher rumored to have a topless poster of Linda Rondstadt on roller skates behind a clipboard in his closet. He’d walk in every day and hang his coat in his (locked) closet, and one time….one time that clip board swung and you could clearly see the legs of a woman in roller skates underneath. The class’ choral ::gasp!:: was straight out of a…well, an 80’s teen comedy.

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gchance1@reddit

You horny little bastards.

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squeaktooth@reddit

In 5th grade Andrew did something shitty to Jenny T during recess. When we got back in class Ms C made them stand up at the chalkboard. And she ordered Jenny T to slap Andrew. She did a little tiny one and Ms C yelled “Harder” and little Jenny T smacked Andrew so hard he fell against the chalkboard and had a red hand print on his cheek. It wasn’t fun to watch.

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Admiral_Ash@reddit

Mr. Christi 2nd grade would physically hit you on the top of your head if you acted up in class. Gave me a black eye once and rather than be upset with the teacher my parents were all "what did you do to deserve that?"

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Silly-Present1664@reddit

2nd grade, nun as a teacher, if you got in trouble she’d have you come to the front of the class and ask what kind of shake do you like- chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry? After you answer, she’d grab you by the shoulders and violently shake you while the class laughed. Kind of harmless, but I’m sure some of the regulars were humiliated.

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Elegant-Particular49@reddit

This is giving shades of The Penguin from the Blues Brothers movie

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brendini511@reddit

My 5th grade reading teacher picked a kid up and held him to the wall by the neck.

naazzttyy@reddit

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That’s very cool.

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

Freshman year biology teacher who was nearing retirement and out of patience for teenagers. We sat at two person tables. My table partner was a class clown, and we were seated at the front of the room.

I had lesbian teacher bet me who could bed the hot girl in class first.

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Science class La Jolla country day, 1984, bro must have been going through it at home, but he’d lick his kids in the classroom closet all day and they couldn’t make noise. Mr. W**. Does anyone else who went there remember this?

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bored_pirate14@reddit

Had a science teacher in 8th grade that would make you get on the floor next to your desk and do push-ups if he called on you and you gave the wrong answer.

Also once saw our assistant principal literally lift a kid off the ground by his shirt and slam him into the lockers because he talked back about something.

This was at a catholic boy's prep school in the 80s.

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Federal-Membership-1@reddit

Second grade 1976. Had a teacher who took two different kids in the coat room for attitude adjustments. We could hear them getting tuned up back there. I mean, that's a potential prison sentence today.

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Plutoniumburrito@reddit

My eighth grade science teacher confiscated cocaine from these girls who had it out in class (dumbasses) We saw him put the drugs in his desk. He went to the office and told them it was weed and they he threw it in the trash can in the hallway. So the principal had the janitor out there digging for it (it wasn’t there). One of the girls who got in trouble had her friend go into the classroom during the teacher’s free period and steal back the drugs. One of the girls involved ratted everyone out and I think four people total got suspended

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Read_The_Fing_Manual@reddit

My AP Physics and Calc teacher (this is 1984) was, older (my grandparents age), German, spoke with a very heavy German accent, was obsessed with rocketry and ballistics (we did some crazy, would never be allowed today outdoor labs), had an artificial arm (the old school kinds with the hook/clamp for a hand), and we were pretty sure he was not on the right side during WWII. He could also do math on slide rule about 4x faster than we could our HP calcs. Needless to say we loved him dearly and class was quite literally a blast.

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My grade-school teacher called us idiots, stupid, slow, unteachable and a nuisance.

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Coldfinger42@reddit

I had a high school history teacher who kept a feather in his desk and would quietly take it out and tiptoe over to students who fell asleep and tickle them awake. I also had a biology teacher who'd occasionally open up his tissue and display it to the class after blowing his nose. He was otherwise a decent teacher.

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bored2death2@reddit

Chalk erasures were tossed in one of my math classes. This would happen if you weren't paying attention or if you simply said "I don't know" and didn't even try to answer the question. This is also the guy that had a Pythagorean monochord in his classroom that he'd strum occasionally.

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