15 School Stories That Prove Not Everyone Should Be Around Kids
Schools are supposed to be safe places — the kind of places where adults guide, support, and protect kids. But every so often, stories surface that make you wonder how certain people ever ended up in front of a classroom. These experiences from students show just how careless, cold, or outright shocking some teachers can be.
I had a home room teacher who, one day, out of frustration, ranted about how easy school was.
He said, “We literally give you a book or the text, tell you to read it, then ask you to answer questions. The answers to which are found in the book we gave you. It doesn’t get any easier than that. Read the darn books, answer the darn questions, that’s all school is.” teacher mocked a student who kept checking her phone during class. He took it away and announced, “No emergencies happen during 4th period.” When he returned it, the girl had 17 missed calls from her grandmother’s caregiver — she was the emergency contact, not her mom.
- First grade. We were doing a math lesson. The lesson was something about drawing a circle around groups of 5 or 10 things in a picture. I figured out pretty quickly that counting the things one by one took too much time, so I counted by 10s (which were already circled), then counted the leftovers and put up my hand. I was done way before anyone else.
The teacher looked at me and said something like, “There is no way you could have counted them all.” A few minutes later, she complimented another kid who had counted quickly and said that he was probably counting “by fives” and demonstrated how to do that.
I was so angry and thought it was stupid to count by fives when it’s easier to count by 10s, so why not just do that. The thing is, this woman was usually a pretty good teacher. I don’t know if she just didn’t like me or was having a rough day or what. But I learned that day that teachers don’t know everything, and sometimes they’re just mean.
