#Bad Teachers

[kael-writ]

Spoilers but omg the Adventuring Party (NSBU) conversation about poetry KILLED me as a poetry major - POEMS DONT HAVE TO RHYME - HOW WAS SHE A POETRY TEACHER?!

Also I've finished 100s of poems which myself and others enjoyed, yet I've been writing my first novel for over five years it is objectively harder.

So frustrating omfg

[dylan-the-gay]

It's weird how sometimes the teachers are so mean to kids?

I have autism but idk if this is important

A history about my life

I was younger, probably in first or third grade, i have really bad memory sorry.

I sitted in a specific spot everyday, and they choosed where the students would specifically sit when i wasn't in the day, so they put someone else in my favorite place

So the day after it, the teacher was going to bring everyone to a park, and when o got in the class i was confused, i wasn't in the day so why they can't change it? I am already used to it!

So i tried to argue and started crying, and guess what the teacher did? LEAVED ME CRYING IN THE CLASS! YEAH!

Like, i was a child, you could idk, called my mom 💀

[earhartsease]

still thinking about that time an awful and lazy teacher told our class of 10 year olds to write about a dream we'd had, so we personally wrote about a recurring dream we had (from 7-12 years old) with the opening sentence "I dream there was a cataclysm" and she returned it with the word cataclysm crossed out and "corrected" with "catechism" - a word this jewish kid had to look up in the dictionary and still didn't understand, and which made no sense in context - and later on we realised she was just annoyed with us for knowing how to spell and use cataclysm

[moonsstan]

dear science teacher, guess why we call you teacher? Because you are a teacher and I am not. And I dont know how to teach myself or others. So please do your job and dont give us tests out of nowhere. 😍

Sincerely,

Oti.

[thebaddragon]

I still remember in the 10th grade, at the beginning of the school year, being told by Ms. McNamara that I participated too much, so she was going to stop calling on me in class.

Then, during one class where I, in the front row, was raising my hand to answer a question that no one else was raising their hand or interested in participating, she ignored me; even when I was waving my hand like I was gonna learn to fly.

Everyone noticed it; everyone thought it was funny. One child even actively tried to get her to acknowledge me, but speaking out that I clearly had an answer for the question to share.

She still refused to call on me.

I understood that she wanted others to 'get the chance' to participate or answer. But no one in that class even tried to answer before I would then raise my hand. I was capable of recognizing when others wanted to try and was able to delay raising my hand when I didn't know the answer or would have not raised my hand if another child was trying. But they weren't even trying, which was the issue.

But it humiliated me to the point that I started blurting out answers in that class. If she wasn't going to call on me and no one else was trying, I would blurt out my answers.

She tried telling me one time to stop that and raise my hand to ge called.

So, I stopped trying to participate in the class. Did my homework and the assignments, but stopped participating in the class completely.

She had to start calling on people who were not participating since no one else tried.

But I still hold resentment for that teacher.

It's been 20 years.

And I hated English class because of her. I had LOVED the class prior to that experience.

[your-pal-nebula]

I still remember being in my shitty IEP teacher's office when I was in 5th grade and seeing the other kids there being upset or something and trying to ask them what was wrong and my IEP teacher telling me to ignore them because it wasn't my business.

Holy shit, yeah, sorry Mrs. Asshole. I'm so sorry I cared about my friends and wanted to make sure a crying 8yo boy was alright. I can't believe I was so disrespectful as to show sympathy.

The even better part of this was how I also got told I didn't show empathy or sympathy by my homeroom teacher that same year. And putting aside how saying autistic people don't have empathy is just blatantly abelist, yeah, no, I did show it, and I was told to stop.

[pyrosex]

I know this sounds stupid as all hell but back in the day I was really upset that my friends were watching certain cartoons and I wasn’t, I felt left out but instead of fixing the problem and watching the shows I did nothing about it and just moped, now I feel like all that time feeling sorry for myself made me lose out on time I could have used fixing it, I actually have unmedicated ADHD so it makes it super difficult to commit to things even simple stuff like watching TV, I know this sounds stupid but I feel so alone and regretful

I was also in a really shitty place during these events where everybody treated me like shit, so it might’ve contributed

[fuckyourdumbassusername]

Sometimes I want to go to all the teachers I had when my executive dysfunction started to show and ask them why they thought yelling at me and calling me lazy was an acceptable route to help me. They harmed me so much with their actions and words and it followed me all through school and I’m still so mad about it. I never got the help I needed because of them and was demonized all through school and I feel they owe me an apology and an explanation. Even now that I recognize it’s executive dysfunction and not some failing of my character I struggle not to talk negatively about myself because I can’t convince myself to just do the dishes. I gave up my dreams because of those early teachers who could never understand why I didn’t do the homework and I will NEVER forgive them.

[bastardwhoisnamedrat]

so.... i think i like being outside and chatting up people and friendly interactions i just fucking Hate brick and mortar school and deadlines and classes and wandering around campus for hours doing homework and shit. i hate that

[anti-school]

One of my teachers in high school was an asshole. He was a white Catholic man. He clearly had Anger Mismanagement issues. He screamed at an autistic kid for not sitting in his seat.

I'm sorry. /gen

Really dumb that they expect children to sit still in chairs for hours and then have their chairs be The Way They Are, but that doesn't matter to the people that aren't sitting in them. Sucks that people like that get to keep their jobs.

I hope he didn't cause to many lasting issues and that you're doing okay.

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

My horrible professor who taught us nothing and also ignored a girl in my class's accommodations simply because she couldn't be bothered to put in the extra effort is asking us to write a reflection paper on what we learned and I really want to use the paper as a way to tell her off but I can't so instead I'm using Tumblr as a way to vent my frustrations.

[benedryl-hat-man]

In high school, I had this ableist teacher that always complained about me not paying attention because she knew I had ADHD. She didn’t accept a lot of my work because she didn’t like my handwriting. I had to take medication right before her class and that often made me a few seconds late. She counted it against me every time, even if I was in my seat before she started teaching (it was after lunch and I let the diabetic kids check their blood sugar before I got my medicine and she did not like that). She wouldn’t let me turn in work that was due while I was out for physical therapy (not legal btw). She gave me the first D I had gotten since the 3rd grade, and had the principal call me into his office over that.

After I had finally gotten through her class, she ended up being out in charge of watching myself and a few other students during a free period. Another math teacher had this activity they wanted to test out and she gave it to me because I was smart???? Like, you sent me to the principal because I did so bad in your class? Why was I suddenly this star pupil?

fondly remembering that time I was working as a cashier when I was 19-20 and my former bus driver and his wife came through. He says to me "Hey, you look familiar" and I reply "Yes, I was one of the bus kids you drove, specifically the one you screamed at and threatened to ban from the bus and make walk home because I was crying out in pain while the other kids were ripping huge chunks of hair out of my head but you did nothing about them." and his wife slowly looked at him like this

[aspenaspenaspenaspenaspen]

I am y/n

I just called my LA teacher cruel to her face

[jaymari-lyn]

Just had a teacher today play a video on STEM carrers and I SHIT YOU NOT she blatantly skipped over the part where they mentioned that women and people of color have been excluded from these fields. She did not skip over any other parts in the video, but the second they mentioned that women and people of color haven't had the same advantages or opportunities as cis het white men then she began skipping. This is so fucking sad and disgusting, like it was so obvious what she was doing.

[reallyquitestrange]

I had many problems with students and teachers alike in high school, one teacher in particular was extra terrible and every one of her 6 period, 30+ student classes hated her (that's 180ish people that hated this woman) So I started a movement in my period for us to all attempt to transfer out into different biology classes and because I specifically had already transferred out of 2 other classes that year, the office was trying to say 'you can't avoid people you don't like working with'. Well, I had an amazing physics/earth science teacher my freshman year who I liked to visit during lunch, I complained to her about this biology teacher and what does this DR. who left college teaching to come to a failing public school tell me? "She's not even licensed to teach, she only has her biology degree, but she is 'working' on getting her teaching degree."

My mom is a tough woman and sometimes we don't get along but she has ALWAYS gone Toe to Toe with school administration for me and my sister. So I told my mom this info since she had already been called into a meeting to 'talk about her daughters issues with authority'

according to my mom this was the conversation:

Admin: Thank you for comin-

Mom: Switch my daughters class.

admin: We can't do that she's already switched several classes this year and she needs to learn-

Mom: How can she learn from someone without a teaching license?

Admin:...Where did you hear that?

Mom: My daughter told me and I don't know where she got the info but based on your reaction, you are going to transfer my daughters class.

Admin: We will make a one time exception, she really shouldn't be spreading around rumors about teachers-

Mom: It doesn't seem like its a rumor, I have an actual job to get back to. have a good day.

And then she left the office, called me during my lunch and relayed what happened and I was sent a note to change bio teachers that day. I did end up telling basically EVERYONE about the licensing and that teacher was removed later in the year after she had a breakdown in class from a kids mother screaming at her over the phone for not allowing him to answer said call from his mom. His uncle had just passed and his mom was calling him to tell him she was coming to get him. He was an A student who never played on his phone so he was only on it if it was important.

[ironinkpen]

the rat grinders getting whomped because they don't know how actual combat works is exactly what I've been waiting for all season. fabian taking down ivy in one turn bc they have no hp, them grouping up bc they don't know they're not supposed to and getting immediately shit on by adaine, riz's attack of opportunity doing more damage to kipperlilly than her actual attack did to him, gorgug taking down oisin by the end of round 1 bc they didn't protect their wizard, kristen and k2 both bringing all their friends up while keeping themselves strategically hidden bc they know better, riz diving into the lava like it's nothing bc he's a badass, adaine slapping jace's counterspell out of the air, fig tanking that hit from porter and casting that clutch fireball. just. beautiful. iconic. poetic. exactly what the rat grinders deserve after xp grinding for three years instead of actually adventuring. you fucking suck at this game kipperlilly!! you might be high level but you're shit at pvp!!!!!