MAD FOR TEACHER

Reddit asked, “What is something your teacher did that you’re still cheesed about?” Some of the responses:
– “My English teacher admitted to marking down all my work by a grade because ‘I think you could do better.’ Caused me to stop even trying.”
– “Took my cute animal erasers in first grade. I’ll never forget that.”
– “Never gave my art a higher grade than a B+. Even though she would show my art to everyone (to demonstrate) how to correctly apply a technique or what she wanted from everyone else. Not good enough for an A, but ‘this is perfect and it’s what I want everyone to do.'”
– “I had left my calculator on my desk in physics class and the teacher took it. I had engraved my initials on it so it was unmistakable. He always asked me during class if I had my calculator and I told him I still couldn’t find it. At the end of school year, another student was snooping through his desk and found my calculator.”
– “The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades were doing a week of square dance, then at the end of the week on Friday, we were going to have a recital and do a performance. I was leaving for vacation that would be starting that Friday, so I couldn’t be in the recital. Instead of letting me participate, my teacher made me sit in a darkened classroom alone doing vocabulary words, listening to the muffled sounds of Cotton Eyed Joe, stomping, and laughing coming from the hallway. For 4 days straight.”
– “Middleschool gym teacher. For the presidential fitness test, i decided i was going to do as many situps as i could without stopping. Made it to 200 before he said ‘you know i can only mark up to 50, right?'”
– “Gave me a 0 on a test because my pencil broke. She wouldn’t let me sharpen it, or use another pencil. ‘You should have been prepared’ was her reasoning.”
* “I’m half deaf. I was in social studies class, my teacher asked me a question, didn’t hear her I said ‘What?,’ she yelled at the top of her lungs “Will you effing listen!”
– “High school psychology teacher ‘evaluated’ me in front of the whole class as ‘mentally troubled’ and told everyone that I’m ‘an undiagnosed ADD-case with 99% certainty.’ And because she was a psych teacher, everyone took her word for it. As an adult, got myself tested and they definitely ruled out ADD.”
– “Math teacher asked the class a question, I confidently put my hand up and gave what I thought was the correct answer. Teacher looks at me and says, ‘Not everything has to be a joke, Mark.’ That truly crushed my spirit and I never put my hand up to answer another question all year.”
– “I won a toy as a prize in some sort of class raffle, the teacher confiscated it off me forever for playing with it at lunch time in the playground. I was in grade 3.”
* These all sound like life in a British boarding school.
* One way or another, something was learned that day.
* C’mon, parents! Where’s the outrage? We need cameras in every classroom!
* Thanks, Reddit, for helping us celebrate Back to School time.
* PHONE TOPIC: Are you still angry at a teacher for doing something unfair to you?