r/MaliciousCompliance - Smug Karen Teacher PUNISHES ME For Disobeying Dumb Orders! Regrets It.

[@1anastudent]

Last story: if the girl was that afraid of her parents being called, I'd see that as a red flag for child abuse

[@nancyomalley6286]

Apparently, the school didn't pick up on that, probably due to their apathy. This poor girl had NO ONE in her corner!

[@MattBotor]

@@nancyomalley6286 They did pick up on it, but like you said, apathy. They couldn't care less about it. Actions of the principal are proof enough that they're only there for the check at the end of the month, nothing else.

[@silviac221]

Enforcing a dress code on school girls is also child abuse. And horribly sexist, of course. It's not true that men can't control their impulses, but policies like this one teach them that they don't have to ontrol them and that women are to blame if they don't.

[@cd3224]

I thought that and am shocked at the Principals behaviour

[@starrywizdom]

I know, right? I hope OP is ok NOW, despite her apparently abusive childhood.

[@merlinathrawes746]

Catholic school story: Extremely well done OP. Kids do need to question what they are being taught, and teachers need to question what they are teaching. Personal bias has no place in the classroom. Music teacher story: For a supposedly intelligent person, he was as stupid as all get out.

[@girl1213]

As a teacher you can admit infertility and make it part of the lesson, so less people can be so judgmental, but sadly we don't live in a world where that's how you're supposed to do it.

[@merlinathrawes746]

@@girl1213 Very true, but that's not what happened in this class.

[@nadinesharp9766]

@@merlinathrawes746 Asshattery doesn't belong in the classroom either, but this OP sure brought a load of it there.

[@tommyflatley1813]

@@nadinesharp9766no. No they didnt. Op was just trying to force a teacher to do her job CORRECTLY. Thats not assery. Thats wanting to learn correct material not personal opinions.

[@Aaron-ne4kr]

​@@nadinesharp9766Being a judgemental religious bigot is asshattery.

[@simplyaregularguy131]

Story 3: pretty ironic that a catholic school teacher succumbed to the cardinal sin of wrath by her reaction to a curious kid.

[@blastortoise]

Not really ironic when you look at america today.

[@simplyaregularguy131]

@@blastortoise yeah. of course religion in the US has started to become its worst enemy especially as it began to slowly become corrupted by the "freedom!" mindset and american exceptionalism. But that's just my opinion

[@girl1213]

@@blastortoise Brazil actually has the most catholic schools, followed by Mexico.

[@thebibosez7949]

Barren Cat(holic) Ladies can be quite vicious.

[@simplyaregularguy131]

@@girl1213 I think they meant "america" as in the united states.

[@silverflight01]

Story 3: Ironic, Jesus taught people not to hate, and teaching include avoiding the Seven Sins, yet we have a Catholic teacher that is voicing her hatred of gay people (and OP afterwards) and flying off the handle at a curious child because they asked a question that really hit deep.

[@JayLeeBeanz]

"Jesus loves everyone and died for our sins." Well, except for the gays and their "sin" of existing. Catholics. Wanna really riddle their minds? Ask them, if God is so perfect and does no mistake, why do gay people exist? C=

[@DarkenVampirDragon-x3u]

Yeah there’s a word for people like Mrs. M. Fascist.

[@LilChuunosuke]

Sadly, this is a very common occurrence in Catholic school. When I was in 5th grade, one of my Catholic school teachers randomly went on a rant during class about how the overwhelming majority of homeless people are actually extremely wealthy, that panhandling makes them tens of thousands of dollars per year, and that they all have real homes that they go to every night. Her proof of this? She once offered a homeless man in Boston a cold, half-eaten pizza that had been bouncing around in her trunk the past 2 hours and he said "no thanks."

[@dionettaeon]

I beg to differ; Luke 14:26, and its parallel in Matthew 10, is explicit in him telling his disciples to hate their families and their own lives lest they not be worthy of him. Definitely _not_ words to live by.

[@JayLeeBeanz]

​@@LilChuunosukeWhat a lunatic. I guess I wish I was "homeless" 😂 She's right to an extend, however. There are beggers pretending to be homeless while being dropped off and picked up. But there's where it ends. That's not rich people LARPing, that's organized criminal groups and borderline human trafficing.

[@karmagal78]

A friend of mine inadvertently got a teacher fired due to my friend’s allergies being triggered in the classroom. When we were still in high school, she had a teacher that I was fortunate not to have, but she unfortunately had. I have allergies, too, but not as bad as hers. The teacher would close the door and light incense. No windows in her classroom. My friend ended up in the nurse’s office. This happened several times. Nobody believed her, at first. But, the fifth time, the nurse caught a whiff of a scent that came from my friend’s clothes. The nurse and the principal went to the classroom and opened the door without knocking. They were hit with the smell of patrouille. They told the class to go to the multipurpose room/cafeteria and wait and took the teacher to the office. She got fired. A few other students were exhibiting symptoms of allergies, but not as bad as my friend. Her mom had to come and get her to take her to the doctor’s office. My friend caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror before leaving and she said that her eyes were red and very puffy.

[@neliaferreira9983]

Why was the teacher doing that?

[@wow-roblox8370]

@@neliaferreira9983probably the teacher didn’t like the smell of a bunch of children packed into a room

[@rubyblue444]

Patchouli is a very strong scent to begin with. Why the teacher somehow thought having it in a small, closed room is beyond me. And to not take the reactions seriously... yeah, she deserved to get fired.

[@vickymc9695]

Had a teacher who'd drench herself in lavender water. You could smell it through the whole classroom. It would trigger my asthma and give me the biggest headache; so she'd sit at my desk and yell at me for wheezing and being slow at work sheets. 🙁 Some teachers are just gits with allergies

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@rubyblue444 "Holy sh¡t, that _is_ patchouli." -Mr. Perfect Cell

[@RunnyBabbitMom]

Since girls couldn't wear leggings under their dresses does that mean boys couldn't wear tight pants? That principal's head would explode in our area. The school board tried to ban leggings so every single person wore leggings for a week. For a week I didn't have any leggings since my boys were wearing them and I wasn't about to disturb their silent protest. (Edit: Yes that does mean I built like a highschool footballer)

[@Kayenne54]

That's all so funny! Love that your boys got to raid the leggings and wear them. I'd be right behind anything like that too. Thing about teachers is, unless they've taken a good gap year or two in the real world, they go from kindergarten to whatever level they end up teaching, ALWAYS in a school environment, and seem to have arrested development...In other words, they've never left the school mindset. Not sure if parents out there in the real world realize that.

[@Some_Guy_6]

@@Kayenne54 A teacher decided things like only 2 genders and 1 gender could not feel like the other and drag was propaganda. So, naturally i had a dress, heels, lipstick, etc.... The next day in class. I even acted VERY girly (it was obviously fake, but good enough to make anyone except that 1 teacher laugh). Suprisingly, heels where easy for me to walk on (but would not reccomend for daily use). I dressed like that for a week. Several times the teacher compalined and eventually i said = If you keep this up, i will make sure a judge and the newspapers will know about your discrimination. And it worked.

[@keithmays8076]

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[@Kayenne54]

@@keithmays8076 Lmao!!

[@RunnyBabbitMom]

@keithmays8076 I will pay for this.

[@RealSeanithan]

Catholic school story: adults who get mad at kids for asking questions get mad because they themselves are improperly catechized, so when a kid asks anything beyond the most surface level question, they genuinely don't know the answer, and that either bothers them or they dismiss it as a "bad" question (I mean, obviously, they would know the answer to any question worth asking, right?).

[@gorilladisco9108]

That's a very weird situation for someone who dare to be called religion teacher.

[@RealSeanithan]

@@gorilladisco9108 Yeah, it's a problem. There are even examples of Catholic teachers (and not just in basic subjects like math or literature, but even in religious studies) in some schools not even being practicing Catholics, or any brand of Christianity, for that matter. There's been a crackdown on it in recent years (by "recent" I mean like the last 5-10 at most), but from the 70s/80s through at least the mid-2010s, you'd see this stuff a lot more than should have been allowed.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

Flat Earth isn't about religion, not directly, and Jeranism, one of it's biggest proponents, is staunchly anti-Christian. Why do I even bring this up? IDK, I just wanna point out that there's no correlation. Until recently, nobody (that's the generalization type, not _literally_ nobody) really knew _why_ we knew the Earth revolved around the sun, or different proofs for a round Earth, because Science had rested on its laurels for too long. Nobody knew how to answer basic questions, but to make a long story short, since these question _do_ have precise, and explicit answers; the smarter among us made KZbin videos explaining these things, and now the average person can explain why "buoyancy" doesn't work without "gravity." What I am saying is that any religion worth its salt should either be able to explain their beliefs, or change them. "But God is infallible!" sure, sure... but _humans_ aren't. Humans make so many mistakes... I dealing with writer's flood trying to narrow myself down to one example, or analogy, or anecdote... God commanded humans to populate the Earth, but he also made/allowed many to be infertile. Either He's stupid, or he had the foresight to realize that there'd be 8 billion people one day. I have no idea what the "Goldilocks Zone" is for population; but it seems to me that infertiles, gays, contraception, natural disasters, everything _must_ be part of God's plan, or you don't actually believe what you claim to. "Okay, but isn't that the same logic that says that... the R word happens for a reason?" Well yes, but actually no. It's people _misusing_ that logic. It happens for a reason, sure; but that _reason_ is because the perpetrator (man, woman, or otherwise) wanted sex, but didn't want to pay money, and didn't have the rizz to earn sex the normal way. I'm no biblical scholar, but I'm _pretty_ sure God would want us to try them in front of a jury of their peers, and punish them accordingly.

[@silverflight01]

Story 4: This guy was really surprised that students at a high school did not have university-level knowledge. That would've been funny if he wasn't an A-Hole about it.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Why did he even apply to teach at a high school? He he too much of a fool to know any better?

[@ArringtonJohnson]

Last story reminds me of a story where a teacher tries to get a student in trouble for her bra strap slipping down her arm and in response she does the magic trick we girls know and yanks the entire thing off through her sleeve in front of the entire class

[@mindovermatterbecomingyour1561]

Or that story where op works at a hardware store and the store implements a new policy of no piercings so op wears a hat to cover his earrings and management tries to punish him claiming that they know he's still wearing his earrings and they can demand he remove his hat to prove he's still wearing his earrings and op responds "what about my nipple piercings are you gonna force me to take off my shirt or what about my genital piercing are you gonna force me to take off my pants" and management quickly backs down as they realize how quickly they could end up in DEEP legal trouble for sexual harassment

[@Ryanthusar]

@@mindovermatterbecomingyour1561 - Not only that, going after a male for wearing earrings in modern times is also gender discrimination. Even when I was in school, school policy allowed males to wear studs in both ears; during a time when even wearing one stud in an ear had you viewed as being gay. We did have one student, who wasnt trans but loved to flaunt the rules by dressing as such. He was also openly gay; this was during a time when it was just starting to be acceptable. Anyway, he would deliberately dress in the girl's school uniform, right down to the leggings the girls were allowed to wear under their knee-length skirts. And the school policy also allowed them to wear hanging earrings, as long as they didnt hang lower than an inch. Well, we had this one strict vice principal who would walk past the home group classrooms at the start of the day checking on uniforms and making sure policy was being adhered to. He would see this boy dressed in the girl's school uniform, immediately pull him out of class and reprimand him. That is, until he sent a letter home to the boy's parents. Parents which supported their boy's sexuality and what he wore. Parent's who were also lawyers and immediately sent a cease and desist letter to the education department, the school, the principal and to that vice principal, stating that they were in violation of gender discrimination laws and unless they could point out just where he was in violation of the school, AND education department, dress codes, then they would take further action. Of course the education department hadnt heard anything about it, because it hadnt been reported by the principal, they immediately investigated by sending someone to the school, on seeing the boy wearing the girl's uniform, who just happened to be with a group of girls at the time and hadnt been immediately noticed, went and talked to him, and the girls, about it. Seeing that there was no violation of any policy, despite it being strange, and even when one of the girls pointed out about him being gay. So that person went and spoke to the principal and vice principal about it, and on hearing that the principal went on a witch hunt every day looking for violators pointed out that action can only be taken if a teacher has an issue, and after seeing the file of complaints and no teacher complaining said there wasnt any issue and also ordered the vice principal to stop their witch hunt. The vice principal of course didnt like that, and that next year was no longer at the school, whether fire, left, or simply didnt get his contract renewed no one really knows.

[@mindovermatterbecomingyour1561]

@@Ryanthusar lol that's CLASSIC good on those parents and I hadn't thought of that but that makes sense

[@empressmarowynn]

@@mindovermatterbecomingyour1561 I used to work at a Joann Fabric's and one day got my lip pierced. There was no policy about piercings or tattoos, mainly because it was typically middle aged women who worked there and at most they would have one small stud or hoop in each earlobe. Well one day a regional manager came in, took one look at my lip ring, and ran to find the store manager. When he demanded I remove it she stood up for me, saying we'd never gotten a single complaint from any customers about it and that there was nothing in the dress code. He stormed off and suddenly a week later we got an "updated" employee handbook where the only thing changed was it stating "no visible tattoos or piercings." Well the other employees were very upset because as stated they ALL had visible piercings. So of course the store manager had to take it up even higher to complain. I left not long after that because I was going back to college so I don't know what came of the policy at the time but currently there is no policy against tattoos or piercings. This was back in 2005. I still find it hilarious that I managed to single handedly change an entire company's dress code policy, at least temporarily. 😂

[@soralinklokidottirprincess10]

That poor girl must have been mortified, something like that has to be embarrassing. Did the teacher get fired?

[@mrandisg]

I'm a tutor at a technical college. Our tutoring philosophy is "watch one, do one, teach one." First, the student watches you as you give an example. Next, you work thru another problem together. Lastly, the student does one without your help to demonstrate they understand the material. Essentially, the student "teaches" in the last step. It is an excellent way to help learning stick.

[@CozyWavePotential]

I was in high school during the leggings as pants phase... our school did that EXACT SAME DAMN THING! The final decision was leggings count as underwear, so you couldn't wear them AT ALL if they were showing. Just like bra straps. So many of us taking off leggings or bras mid-class because they're "underwear" and showing, it was nuts!

[@Silverhorse777]

Wait... you had to take off your BRA mid-class? Sorry, I am having a hard time processing this... so, bra straps showing through the clothes was seen as inappropriate, but naked breasts with nipples poking through (technically) wasn't? Or what you were supposed to wear in their heads, nun's clothes or what?

[@jonmendelson1104]

My brother was a high school math teacher and in his class he had the students teach a lot of the time. The way he ran his class was that students' homework was to go through a/some section on Khan Academy, then he'd build his lesson plan based on different students' mastery of the topics (according to Khan Academy). He'd pair up students where one of them had around an 80% understanding of a topic and the other one was struggling and have the one who mostly understood it teach it to the one who was struggling. Teaching the topic you have to be able to pivot your explanation to make the other person understand, so the student who was teaching generally had complete mastery of the topic once they'd taught the other student, and it gave one-on-one opportunities for the struggling student to figure out the topic. He's now running an education technology startup based on the same idea of personalized peer to peer learning.

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

If I was the Headmaster, I'd be seriously questioning whether or not Mrs. M should be permitted to continue Teaching at all, not just those 2 particular Subjects...

[@DaijDjan]

It was a Catholic school and it sounds like she taught exactly how / what she was supposed to (minus her outburst due to her personal issue of course).

[@Ishlacorrin]

I'm guessing you missed the introduction, it was a religious school. That should explain enough, but in case it doesn't, religious types are mentally unstable. You need to deal with them in the perspective that: they honestly believe a story written by a man, hundreds of years after it supposedly happened, without questioning any of the stupidity within even though there is zero proof to support any of it.

[@elmasterdezoologia6641]

@@DaijDjan You're right. OP even SPECIFIES at the end of the post that she found out that the teacher UNDERSTOOD the things she taught, she just didn't BELIEVE in them.

[@kevinkunkel9444]

She didn't understand why the church is against homosexuality.

[@shield0fjustice778]

I was a band Director for 14 years, and the complete disregard for the safety of the students is mind blowing. The liabilities he put the school at risk for is insane. Not to mention his poor teaching and classroom management.

[@gregorythomas333]

Story 3: OP asked questions that were appropriate, relevant and germane to the lessons Mrs. M was teaching & commenting about during class time. Mrs. M is NOT a teacher. Story 4: The teacher previously taught university...but is now teaching high school kids...didn't anyone question WHY he was not still teaching at university? My guess...he was fired.

[@gorilladisco9108]

#4 Higher pay?

[@gregorythomas333]

@@gorilladisco9108/videos Higher pay at a high school...probably not

[@jasonibbs]

I had some nightmare teachers early on as a student that basically ruined my outlook on education from that point on. One sent me to the principal for a paddling because i wasnt completing my class assignment prior to recess quickly enough. I was getting the best grades in the class, but we couldnt go to recess till everyone was done. Same teacher oversaw recess, and when i would get bullied, made me sit next to her instead of punishing the bullies. Gee, wonder why i wasnt eager for recess. I was later hospitalized due to the bullying and moved schools later because of it.

[@paul16451]

It's scary to think back in the early 2000s that fully grown adults were asking the exact same questions Mrs. M's student was asking...with many getting similar answers and reactions to their questions.

[@laris2328]

Last story. I'd have told that teacher in the hall, very loudly, that I'm now in dress code compliance bc I had to take off my leggings in the principal's office. But it was ok bc the door was closed so no one saw anything. And it's was all bc of your keen eye of the way young girls are dressed, that prompted you to physically throw me into the male principal's closed office to take off my leggings. Thank you Ms. So And So.😮

[@tmntfangirl4700]

Story 2 - 😂😂😂😂😂 That was Brilliant! Bravo to the Kid who not only did a better job explaining a math problem better than the teacher but also put that cocky jerk in his place! 👏👏👏👏

[@jagirl966]

I had a math professor skip over a lesson because he didn't understand it, but I did. The head of the math department was coming in to teach it herself, when she saw me at the board showing the class the lesson. "Who taught you this?", the head professor asked. I turned to her and said, "This is college math? I made this up as an addition game in kindergarten." The lesson was taking 2 numbers and adding them, then adding the 2nd and 3rd to get the 4th, 3rd and fourth to get the 5th, and so on. The class laughed as they left because a Special Ed student understood, but the professor didn't. As I was being congratulated by the head math professor, we heard him say this. "I can't believe an f-ing r-word showed me up." We froze for a moment before I was told to go. The next day, the professor was fired.

[@JamesDavy2009]

If those two numbers were both 1, you just defined the Fibonacci Sequence. Here's another thing about it: if you divide the larger number by the previous number in the sequence, the quotients will tend towards φ as the sequence tends towards ∞.

[@improv6132]

Story 5: that principal is just lucky there were no other witnesses or else he’d have been fired and end up on a registry

[@tmntfangirl4700]

Story 3 - LOL I love how OP destroyed that Prude of a teacher! Well freak’n done OP!😂😂😂😂

[@dionettaeon]

Story 3: Major props to OP for not taking any from that bigot. Someone so shamelessly spiteful of other people has no business teaching children.

[@ruffboiALT]

Story 4: oh I had an English teacher in middle school who'd been there for DECADES despite being a bully and playing favorites, and she only got fired because a friend of mine and I got sick of being berated every day and told our parents, who decided to get a bunch of OTHER parents involved, and they pretty much forced the school to fire her. Granted, this was a private school so that was a lot of money on the line for them which is probably why it worked, but... yeah people don't care if the STUDENTS complain most of the time. It sucks.

[@johnopalko5223]

The best teachers love it when a student asks a question they can't answer because they can turn it into a teachable moment: "That's a really good question and I don't know the answer. How can we find out?"

[@c.b.h1151]

My son's teacher, when he would put his hand up and ask her to please explain again as he still didn't quite understand, would just sneer and say "No, you just weren't listening", as if merely hearing a question should impart absolute understand. I hated that woman. Needless to say, she didn't get an end-of-year teacher gift. Which MIGHTILY got to her, because when she saw all the teacher gifts he got for his beloved teachers and NOTHING for her, she kept trying to drop hints all day where hers was.

[@johnopalko5223]

@@c.b.h1151 I really dislike teachers like that. Students aren't all formed in the same mold. Some learn faster than others, some have different learning styles, and some may, through no fault of their own, be missing a crucial piece of information that will allow them to grasp today's lesson. If a student or, to put it more positively, a learner, is having difficulty, it's incumbent upon the teacher to determine why and make any necessary changes to their method of instruction in order to accommodate that learner. It is their job, after all.

[@aleleeinnaleleeinn9110]

I was fortunate. I had good teachers and great teachers, and only a few ok teachers. None of the bad dismal ones described here. They had a sense of humor. They needed that sense of humor. They respected us and we respected them. We had one teacher with a distinct southern accent. I spent my senior year imitating him. He was not even vaguely offended when he finally heard my imitation. he said: :OP you sound more like me than I do."

[@Ryanthusar]

Story 5 - Even if the principal called OP's parents the big question then is. Did the school send home a notification about the new dress code? From what OP says in the story it doesnt sound like they did, because if they did OP's parents would have followed that new dress code to the letter. So even if a call was made to OP's parents, OP's parents would have immediately gone "We werent aware of the new dress code. Did you send notification home?" Any decent school is NOT going to send a notice home with students WITHOUT getting a signoff slip back from said parents.

[@greymalkin9228]

Catholic school story: I didn't attend any sort of religious school growing up and it was the '70s so there wasn't a big discussion of same-sex marriage going on. However, the default mindset everywhere was definitely You Must Marry Before Having Children. I remember learning about the actual biology of procreation in Sex Ed and coming home baffled to ask my parents (atheist/agnostic) how a religious ceremony could possibly be necessary in order to get pregnant. My father laughed and said "Exactly! Good question!" while my mother explained it was a social rule rather than a biological one. She also explained that that didn't mean it was a bad rule and there were many purely practical reasons to being in a stable, committed, legal relationship before bringing children into the world, and it was one of those could-but-not-necessarily-should situations. It was eye-opening and has informed my views on marriage in general and SSM in particular ever since. Side note: My parents were awesome, especially my mom, and I miss her every day.

[@erinurbanus1858]

My dad went to Catholic School when he was young. The nuns dud NOT like his questions and would rap his knuckles with a ruler. He didn't stay in that school much longer after that, and is definitely not Catholic anymore.

[@girl1213]

And they wonder why Catholicsm is dying out among the younger generations

[@JayLeeBeanz]

Why are such schools even allowed to exist.

[@transsnack]

​@@JayLeeBeanzmoney and lobbying. The Catholic Church, as much as it's in a slump, still has hundreds of years of wealth padded it's fall, as well as very wealthy donors who make sure their stores of money are full to bursting. It's legal under "religious freedom" doctrines, but imo they pretty clearly violate the religious freedom of the students in there. Since, you know, kids didn't generally get a lot of choice in where they go to school. But hey, kids are basically property in the US, so you can't violate their rights. Only the rights of their parents matter.

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@JayLeeBeanz Because some dingbat not getting any decided to set up a private school.

[@low-keydrama1260]

My family and I are catholic and my family always were open and honest with my questions. There’s no shaming, or judgement, just openness and compassion.

[@MSSmith1022]

Story three reminded me of when I was in elementary school I went to two different Catholic schools because of moving. I would always get booted from religious/Bible class because of asking questions that the priest couldn't truthfully or just plain didn't want to answer. It got to the point that a desk was set outside the classroom for me to sit at and read my Bible... a big mistake on the school's part as that was where I was getting my questions from.

[@DarkEinherjar]

Story 4: dude thought he was untouchable, effed around and found out. Then again, the only reason why he was fired was because the school wanted to avoid a potential lawsuit...

[@geeky12ful]

I hated Algebra I, just could not grasp it and had a Coach as the teacher who did not care if you understood. This was in 8th grade. In high school I took Algebra II my junior year & had a wonderful teacher. I made straight A’s - thank you Mr. Barber!!

[@BlazeNStar]

Story 4, the best thing to say when a teacher thinks the class is incompetent is "well you're the one teaching us, aren't you?" Like that's a reality check right to the gut. One or two students, like less than 1/4 of the class, maybe you could say it isn't the teacher, but the whole class? That's all on the teacher.

[@richardmaloneriki1811]

My high school's dress code made it so that girls had no choice but to leave part of their legs exposed during the winter. One of the girls showed up in the boys pants instead, and the school was going to throw a fit until they met her very traditional Indian parents. They granted her an exemption.

[@gorilladisco9108]

What it has to do with being an Indian?

[@SonsOfLorgar]

​@@gorilladisco9108 traditional indian clothing for women is a sari which is a wrapped head to toe dress in multiple layers...

[@gorilladisco9108]

@@SonsOfLorgar I still don't get it. What it has to do with wearing pants?

[@xxshiftywolfxxgaming1142]

I failed algebra 2 in HS after my teacher told me that I couldn’t do these problems in my head (I never wrote out the problems or “solved” them on the paper) because she couldn’t do it in her head. I told her that I definitely could. She then proceeded to write an equation on the board infront on the whole class and told me to solve it. I took a few seconds to look the whole equation over then gave her the answer. She got embarrassed and sent me to the hall so I just walked to the band room and started my musical theory class early with practice my instrument.

[@darinritchie166]

When I was in university, I took a 4th year economics course with a new professor. The course was documented that no calculus experience was needed (I got enough of that stuff in my other courses). On first day there was 24 in the class. Three weeks in the prof starts dropping theory, examples, and work that requires knowledge and ability in partial differentials. Most of the class were deer in headlights. By the midterm there was 6 people left in the class, including me. When asked about the calculus, they just said it's my class and I'll teach it how I want.

[@ohnosmoarlulcatz]

Story 4: There is a lady employed at the high school district where I work who is known to be verbally abusive, forces students to take part of her social media content, and takes a day off a week for "mental health" reasons. One girl got it so bad two years ago, she refused to come to school for the last two months of the school year. The parents, students, and even some other teachers complained and all that happened to this teacher is she got removed from teaching AP classes and is now teaching supplementary English where an aide is present in some of her classes. That's it. She's still doing the same crap otherwise.

[@gorilladisco9108]

Teacher union ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@SonsOfLorgar]

​@@gorilladisco9108 nope. If the school principal did their job properly and held a hearing and then sued her or pressed charges for harassing and abusing the students before firing, the union would be on the students side. Real unions doesn't protect members that shames the whole profession with dishonourable conduct.

[@gorilladisco9108]

@@SonsOfLorgar But he wouldn't. Why? Teacher union ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@AssumedPseudonym]

Vaguely reminded of one I had happen in my seventh grade math class. The teacher had this question on one of her tests: “What is the angle between the hand on a clock at 12:30?” (Note, this was in the ’80s, analogue clocks were still the norm in most places.) It was multiple choice, and the answer choices included 180° and 165°. I actually sat for a moment to math out what the angles were between each number (30°), half of that (15°) to account for the hour hand moving over the course of half-an-hour, and what that would come out to for the overall angle - 165°, which was one of the answers. I figured it was a trick question and answered with that. Naturally, it was marked wrong. I approached her after class, and she said something about it not even being close to right. …Until I actually walked through the math and the way analogue clocks work. She looked at me, looked at the test, and muttered, “Great, now I have to go back and mark anyone who gave that answer as being correct.” Good teacher, don’t get me wrong, but she didn’t enjoy being shown up by a student, even in private after class.

[@gorilladisco9108]

She copied the question from some book but didn't look at the answer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@RepellentJeff]

Story 4: Question; did that music teacher happen to be bald and sound like JK Simmons?

[@nancyomalley6286]

LOL! That's what I was thinking! His character popped right into my head, especially the scene when he verbally abused the drummer.

[@Josh_the_jester]

Story 1: I have a gay couple who lives 2 doors down the road, and they're some of the nicest people, and whenever I hear or see posts on how their evil and abominable, I secretly go "the phuq are you talking about"

[@stevensiferd7104]

You'd think that all those kids dropping a high school music class would be a red flag for the administration. Wouldn't they all have to schedule another class in the same period? It's not like college where students can start and stop their day at times of their choosing. All that rescheduling seems like a big headache for the scheduling department and for the teachers who would have to make room for all the additional students.

[@Henry.25]

Former math teacher here, I've never gone so far as to switch places with a student, but there's something special about seeing your teachings help some people help others. A teacher, in my opinion, shouldn't be bitter about seeing his students doing well. I spent 5 years teaching, from the age 17 until I was 22, while I was studying law. And whether I was teaching a 5-year-old to read or helping a senior understand a quadratic equation, the satisfaction of passing down knowledge was the same. These teachers should be ashamed of themselves.

[@dryadllyn1462]

Here's one for everyone. This occurred many years ago in the early 2000's. My toxic narcissistic mother, in her efforts to be seen as a wonderful woman wanting the best for her babies, sent us to a very expensive private Christian school. On this particular day, during Bible class, the teacher had briefly stepped out the door. One of my classmates, Dumb Guy, decided this was a great time for some fun at my expense. He grabbed my bag, rifled through it, and took my wallet. He taunted me with it, finders keepers, jump for it, etc. (I was barely past five foot, he was over six foot.) The teacher returned and, to the shock of many, scolded ME for "being disruptive." Me: "Disruptive? He stole my wallet!" Annoying Teacher: "Can you prove it's yours?" Me: "My ID is in it." DG, blatantly taking my ID out and tossing it across the room: "I don't see it, my wallet now." Me: "Jerk!" AT: "Now, OP, what would our lord Jesus do?" Hearing this, I snapped a bit. I grabbed DG by his shirt and yanked him off-balanced over his desk. I grabbed my wallet, checked my cash was still there, then dragged DG to the door, knocking his desk over as I did. I hauled him out the classroom door to a nearby outer door, shoved him out, then closed and locked the door. (For security reasons, the only outer door unlocked was the front door at the office, on other side of the school. He had to walk around to get back inside.) AT, shocked.: "OP, what was that?!" Me, calmly gathering my things, knowing what was coming: "John 2:15. I did as Jesus did." AT, face red: "Go to the office!" I left the room to her asking one of my friends about the Bible verse I mentioned. For those less familiar with Christian literature, Jesus literally threw thieves and pickpockets out of the temple, flipped their tables, and chased them with a whip. At the office, I sat down with the assistant principal and told her what happened. While she desperately tried to muffle her laughter, DG walked in and tried to claim I had attacked him out of nowhere, which exactly none of the office staff believed. In the end, he got a week of detention, and I got a great laugh. AT was not happy.

[@browsguy]

first story ... A relative of mine from time to time tells me the story of sitting in a fog in a math class for a good portion of a semester, when the teacher is called out of the class. The teacher says to the brightest kid class to teach while he is out. 10 minutes or so later the fog in this relatives head was lifted as the "student teacher" clarified what the teacher never seemed to be able to clarify.

[@luizbezerra4373]

Story 2: This reminds me of one of my professors in college, back in 2011. She was super smart, had PHDs and whatnot, but was very confused at explaining things and understanding sutdents' questions. I had tons of knowledge due to already working in the industry for some years, so I understood both sides perfectly. However, I was too shy to say something. However, this changed after a few weeks. I used to take my college courses at night, so when it was like 10:30 PM and I was very tired and eager to get home, seeing this professor struggling to explain something I already knew in a simple and quick way made me overcome my shyness and start raising my hand to explain things. I wasn't rude, smug, or condecending about it, and the professor was pretty chill about it, so it ended up good (and she liked me as a student in the end).

[@kuwe4652]

Story 1: My brother had a somewhat simmilar experience but with a way nicer/cooler teacher in high school. The teacher basically said "I will not allow cheating in any way. Though if you are somehow able to cheat and not get caught in the act, I will not deduct points if I am made aware of this after the fact. If you actially manage to cheat without being caught, that's an acomplishment too" A friend of my brother asked the teacher after an exam - I think it was the final exam - if he was for real and after getting the confirmation saif friend lifted his shirt with 2 whole sheets he cheated with. The teacher true to his word ignored this when grading the exam.

[@TheQuantumWave]

"I hope you enjoy today's class". I'll enjoy it more than the kids still stuck in there will.

[@vickymc9695]

2) it's always a good plan to get a kid to explain the material back to you, or to another student. It lockes it in their own head and different ways of explaining often work better for someone that's struggling. This honestly the best ways to make kids understand and have it stuck in their heads before exams

[@SLOTHSRIDEUNICORNS]

Mrs. M broke my heart. Procreation being the only reason for marriage disgusts me. And THAT'S why gay marriage is wrong?! Really?! Wow. I am bisexual, asexual, and childfree. Hang me.

[@dougodyssey50]

I'm not a supporter of gay marriage but it's completely ridiculous to base the whole concept of marriage on the birthing of kids. What does it say about infertile couples? Should their marriage be considered nullified, on top of the pain of infertility? People can't think. They just can't think at all.

[@JayLeeBeanz]

@@dougodyssey50 I am confused by the "not a supporter" stance - in general, not specifically because of you. You say you don't support it... Okay. Are you _against_ lgbtq folks having basic human rights? No? Then you support gay marriage by default. Yay!

[@girl1213]

Children are supposed to a benefit, not the goal of the marriage. Procreation and marriage are two separate things. It's why I grew to hate the Sitting in a Tree rhyme. The Baby in the Baby Carriage is not a necessity.

[@LegendStormcrow]

I would NEVER question the validity of such a union, even though it is against my faith. It is neither my right nor the point of my faith to judge others. Maybe God prevented her from procreating for a reason?

[@dougodyssey50]

@@JayLeeBeanz just be happy I said what I said. It's funny how I don't get YT responses to all the hundreds of positive comments I make, but the very instant I step on the sacred gods, I get a negative response. Up yours.

[@kat6084]

oh the catholic school story brought back memories! I was that kid in my religion class that asked those questions. I had my own chair in the principals office. he usually told me 'good question' then gave me a hall pass to go hang out in the debate room. My sister was 3 years behind me. Sr. Sue saw her last name & sat her right in the front row. Poor Sr. Sue. my sister stood up for herself too.

[@emzraven666]

I went to a Catholic school myself. I've never been religious, but it was the school my mum went to and was better than the school my older brothers had gone to. Our sex ed was also taught by my RE teacher. All the questions the kids had were answered openly and honestly. We didn't have an exam on it, though! The basic biology part of it, which was mostly the puberty side, was taught in biology, which did have exams. This was in the uk.

[@lucideirune1635]

I have a learning disability where I have low skills in reading and listening comprehension. I was in a religious class and I ended up excommunicated for asking too many questions and stupid questions. Several students were mad they ex’d me and left the religion. Ableism can be an issue in some classes religious or not. Also, when I took the ed class, I said I just wasn’t interested in intimacy, giving birth, and I just wanted to adopt. I ended up getting mocked by the teacher and other students.

[@Nikkimommyof4]

Story 2 was a missed opportunity from that teacher. I honestly don't understand the mindset of some adults that seem to believe that once they've reached a certain age they are through learning. This of course (as we all know) is a misconception. Teachers should take this as an opportunity to learn a better way to approach this material so more students can understand and pass the class. As for Story 3 - why are some teachers so uncomfortable with answering questions about the material if they give students permission to ask questions? I just don't understand that. You opened that door and this student walked in. It's not their fault you weren't prepared.

[@teslagod7221]

I have simple answer to all those, "NARCISSISM"...

[@adleranderson6797]

Story 1: I had a music teacher in high school that would let us redo or fix answers on the final exam if we wanted.

[@MsTemptation]

So you had a teacher that allowed you to cheat. Jeez that sounds disgusting and like lazy teaching. This makes me happy with my choice to send my daughters to catholic school.

[@gorilladisco9108]

@@MsTemptation He must be from California.

[@adleranderson6797]

@@MsTemptation Well, it sounds bad when you put it that way. I personally didn't mind too much. I liked music, but wanted to get through the exam.

[@adleranderson6797]

@@gorilladisco9108 Actually I'm from Canada.

[@gorilladisco9108]

@@adleranderson6797 Wow. Worse than I thought.

[@NormanMorris-n4r]

story 1, while completing a module in a diploma course, we were being tested upon some of the assignments that we had completed, the instructor gave similar instructions. while waiting for him to hand out the testing sheets, we all got together and decided to answer what each could, then in the last 30 minutes we would each get 1 question to ask across the class. 40 in the class with a total of 50 questions. we moved around the class group, and everyone completed the test at 100%. the best course unit ever.

[@gorilladisco9108]

Now that, is called teamwork. 🤣

[@AgentLadyHawkeye]

Story 1: the absolutely ridiculous part of that is that the solo test thing really doesn't prepare you for what actual work life is like. You do have to know and understand things but it's totally normal to look things up or ask your coworkers for advice and confirmation about things. Most people end up working in some field that's collaborative. Story 3: I love the "succeed out of spite" stories. Well done on OP for absolutely showing that she learned everything *despite* a terrible teacher. Story 4: holy smokes, the fact that he thought he could flaunt school policy to take a bunch of minor students off campus without telling the admin or parents really shows that he does not grasp the difference between college students (who are legally adults and can therefore make those decisions themselves) and high school students. Even while getting chewed out for it he still thought he did nothing wrong! The man was a menace, and good on OP and the others for forcing the admin to actually take notice and the English teacher for making them take action.

[@miss_mish]

Love the kid calling out the bigotry. My son did something fairly similar. Several years ago, my son who is staunchly defensive of anyone who is attacked personally. He had a teacher go on a rant about Trump calling him a whole bunch of names. My son asked 'Why is it not ok for Trump to be a bigot but when you are it is ok?' Needless to say, I (also a teacher got called in for an interview). I simply asked what the teacher had said which was extremely hate filled. I simply said, why is a teacher teaching hate instead of looking at policies and actions they disagree with and debating them? No we don't live in the US.

[@SmilingKratosTheGodOfWar]

Calling a Nazi a nazi is not bigotry.

[@miss_mish]

@SmilingKratosTheGodOfWar calling someone uneducated and ignorant is just logical also. Your hate and lack of critical thinking is on display. I guess you support the people following in the North Korean dictators' steps he took to take over his country in their efforts to run your country. You really need to brush up on your history lessons rather than spew your ignorant hatred. It seems such a typical thing in the US these days.

[@SmilingKratosTheGodOfWar]

@@miss_mish Wow, you are calling me names you must be a bigot as well. Do you see how YOUR logic works?

[@SuperSpecies]

​@@SmilingKratosTheGodOfWar you wouldn't know a nazi if one hit you with a swastika

[@sgt.gunslinger1532]

In classes I liked, I always loved helping my friends or other struggling students with their homework or classwork. It helped me learn the material better and I actually made some friends by just being nice and helping. Mr. Teacher sounds exactly like my middle school math teacher.

[@AngelaVEdwards]

Of course a Catholic school is going to teach that gay marriage is wrong. You can’t expect them to be different. My own Christian religion teaches that too. Saying that, I realize that this is a free country and every person has the right to choose their lives for themselves without the rest of us telling them what to do. The teacher should have answered that the Bible and Catholic doctrine teaches that homosexuality is wrong but in the real world, we are not the conscience for other people and how they choose to live is their right. I personally think people should learn just as much about freedom as they do doctrine.

[@GretchenGoebel]

I swear I miss when DarkFluff would tell us what the name of the story was.

[@DragonsRPretty]

Yeeess!!! Fluff, pls go back to doing that!!!

[@jonmendelson1104]

Personally I hated that. The title often spoils the conclusion/punchline of the story and I like to not know ahead of time.

[@ambriasaunders1869]

I didn't even notice...

[@voutsider190]

​@@ambriasaunders1869neither did I

[@user-yc4fz7vv6u]

No I hated that and would always skip the intro to avoid spoilers

[@sherrygibbs7547]

Mrs. M was a very arrogant teacher...and clueless. Thinking that OP was being punished by having to sit out in the hall and not be able to listen to her teaching. When, in reality, OP had the pleasure if NIT having to listen to Mrs. Ms bs...and OP got to learn things, without Mrs. Ms bias, and probably lots of other (and possibly very/more) interesting ideas/concepts.

[@latoyathomas6544]

BOY can crap-tastic teachers screw up education! I sat out a year before going to college & hadn't had to have a math class for the final year of HS because I had already completed the requirements. I opted to take a remedial math class my 1st semester of university to get ready for College Algebra. My teacher was so awesome that I wanted her for CA, but she didn't teach it. Unfortunately for me(& that class), I got a middle-aged guy who was a Grad Student for an "instructor." I bs you not, this man would come to class daily, put the sample problem from that chapter on the chalkboard, turn to us & ask if there were any questions. You have to have at least a start point of some sort of understanding to even ASK a question & we didn't, so there were none. He couldn't explain it. He couldn't teach it. It's also college, so when you say that if you don't have questions, you can leave, we booked it out of there. Class was empty after about 5 minutes from starting. You could always tell when it was a Test Day, as those were the sole day that practically the whole class stayed the entire period bc we knew nothing & were trying to complete the exam as best we could. I got a B in that class SOLELY because remedial teacher had taught so well the previous semester. College Algebra was such a nightmare from that guy that I switched my major from Pre-Med. If you don't have a passion for it & CAN'T actually instruct so others can understand, you shouldn't be allowed to teach! The world is hard enough without inflicting misery on those who just want to learn OR actually need to learn for their progress.

[@marooniballooni03759]

I love Malicious Compliance!

[@terrijennings8667]

The second story with the math teacher made me cringe. My stepdad was a university level math teacher but didn't know how to explain crap on a basic level. I don't know how many times he had me and my sister crying over our basic algebra homework, that we didn't understand, because he was explaining it as if we were University students and not sixth graders. We learned really quickly not to say we were having problems with our math homework. 🤣

[@SuperWikiMan]

The offense with which people of faith react to being asked questions by curious kids like myself is one of the biggest reasons I rejected my religious upbringing. If what you believe is true, then why is it rude to ask how you know?

[@sandracloke6268]

Being Catholic my parents sent me to Catholic schools wherever we were stationed wherever the base had one (my dad was in the Air Force, and we moved every year). Never had a discussion about sex, marriage, or birth control in any of my classes. Maybe it was because it was in the 40's and early 50's.

[@jimmiemurvin1871]

Yeah, there was no such thing as sex in the 1940s-1950s. It wasn't acknowledged or permitted.

[@AresWalker8]

With the teaching one, the commenter who said he lets his kids help teach; It can help students understand the material better when they have to explain it. It helps give them a new perspective on material and can figure things out that they might not always notice or take longer to otherwise.

[@tmntfangirl4700]

Final Story - Bold move OP.

[@Toshinegawa]

Story 3: And THAT, is why _God_ didnt _bless_ you with children

[@NeoLotex]

Story 1: Back when I was in school in my final year we had a teacher who was like "Here's the computer, I'm going to get coffee. Close up the classroom when you're done and don't be too loud" whenever we had a test.

[@danielrhouck]

Story 2: A couple times in college I would understand a point in one of my better subjects, and someone else would ask a question that the professor completely failed to understand. They had been dealing with the subject for decades, after all, and it’s sometimes hard to figure out what the underlying misconception is that causes students to ask questions where you think the answer is obvious. Sometimes being a fellow student makes it easier to see both sides of the gap in understanding

[@helenafarkas4534]

last story reminds me of an epic story where a very fem (but not trans) guy was wearing a dress to school and the dress code used explicitly feminine language. he got called on the carpet for his attire, and in truly epic MC showed the administration his junk, said that he wasn't a girl, and that the dress code didn't apply to him because of that. not sure how accurate it is, but according to the story the dress code was rewritten to be gender neutral as a result

[@MrKeyblademaster1992]

Story 3 is a perfect example as to why I don't follow any religions. Religious people can be so narrow-minded and unwilling to accept anything outside their doctrine even when there is scientific proof supporting it

[@JamesDavy2009]

That is delusion as defined by Oxford.

[@stellamccoy5259]

HUMP DAY 🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪. I hope everyone has/had a nice day.

[@MarioMasterProductions]

Story 3: Major projection this teacher has 😒

[@SquirrelGamez]

Story 3... I'm so glad catholicism is on longer taught in schools where I live... And that compromise was absolutely shitty. That teacher should have been fired. Sex Ed should be taught by biology teachers anyway, NOT religion. Story 4 sounds like the students should have "stayed in class" and gone to the administration instead to tell where the teacher went.

[@lilbeanme]

Thank you boys❤

[@keepironman14]

I have actually been up front trying to explain the way that i would handle algebraic equations and not even the teacher understood how exactly i was doing it. I had honestly just been simplifying the way to solve in my head rather than using a calculator the whole time. So instead of a several step process, i was making.the whole thing take way less time, with minimal need for writing. I couldn't tell you the method i used for sure now (over 13 years later) but i was the top in that class.

[@JamesDavy2009]

There are many roads to the solution in mathematics.

[@KKEM641]

I have one similar to story 4. My class (of 88) where the first 6th graders to start middle school. Our social studies teacher was an old hag, who was on her last year of teaching. Instead of transferring her the high school, she was teaching 6th graders when she had previously taught 9th grade. She taught above us, and was frustrated that we didn't understand how she was teaching.

[@Danarchy3]

20:10 public school

[@ZarineBashire]

Unions are a horrible thing for public schools in my opinion. At some point teachers cannot be fired no matter how bad they are. Also public schools and the public education system are so broken right now.

[@RussetPotato]

@@ZarineBashirethat teacher would have been arrested for kidnapping in my state. Multiple teachers and staff have been arrested when they put children at risk.

[@dorothymccurdy7362]

When I was in 6th grade, my then teacher Mr Marcus punished me for asking a dumb question. I never asked any questions in class again all through the rest of my schooling.

[@dinascharnhorst6590]

When I am giving a lecture or teaching a course, I stress there is no such thing as a dumb question. In your case, that teacher was way out of line.

[@Some_Guy_6]

@@dinascharnhorst6590 I teach = There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers.

[@morallyambiguousnet]

Second Story - In college, a friend and I actually had to teach a session on Structures, because so many of our fellow students were so badly confused by the instructor. I think we saved about half the class from failing and everyone was convinced that this particular instructor had been chosen to "cull the herd."

[@chtal64147]

Story 2: I was always good in math, but one time i got a teacher who explained it so difficult that even I, who did understand it fully (just with an other methode (think rod division and tail division (wasn't about that vgm but don't remember what exactly it was about) it not understand. Everyone was there with a giant ? on their for heads and the teacher started to get impatient. I decided to just ignore him and go further with my own way. After the teacher went to the toilet, everyone saw me finishing the last question and asked me for an explanation. Eventually I lost the whole break to explain everything to my classmates and they understanded it after the break. It was a short break of 15 minutes. Lol. How some people become teachers, i have no idea.

[@CMVBrielman]

5:28 Story 3 is frustrating. I first want to thank the OP for acknowledging that the Catholic Church actually has a better answer than the one that her teacher gave, and that any apologist would know that answer. It is very noble of her to to include that on her post, especially since it is strongly implied that she doesn’t agree with the position (in other words: she’s not just beating up on the teacher as a handy strawman for the entire faith). What is frustrating is that Catholic teachers are *supposed* to welcome challenging questions. Basically, the position is “our Church has 2000 years of scholarship to fall back on. We’ve got an answer and we’d love to share it with you. You may or may not like the answer, but we do have one.“

[@markmathews2143]

YES that teacher comment was perfect. Education is everything and lack of knowledge is why the world is the way it is right now. EVERYONE should be challenging not only other people's views, but even their own. Take your view, see how it stands up to current evidence and make sure you change your view if the evidence tells you to, NOT disregard the evidence since it doesn't fit with your view. Science and math is the foundation of understanding everything as everything can be explained but one of the sciences and the math governing it.

[@skatardrummer1]

Wow. What highly competent high school students, honestly. Many students wouldn't be getting after their teacher for being irresponsible, or be quiet about their plan to get him in trouble. I feel like a lot of students would jump at the chance to leave campus, and tell people about all the details.

[@BlazeNStar]

Complaints about a teacher get swept under the rug a lot in my experiences. I've got a friend who's highschool teacher basically sexually harasses at least half the girls in all his classes, and the school just completely dismisses it. I've had a teacher cause me to have seizure during class and it took me over 2 years to get her to stop after ages of complaints by me and my dad. Some teachers in grade school are just really terrible and some school boards and headmasters are just too preoccupied with the school's ruse of a reputation or are even just allowing this kind of behavior while being fully aware of it.

[@dl200010]

Story 4: American public school. This attitude towards bad teachers is very common in them, because of the teacher unions being so powerful that they prevent the bad teachers from being fired.

[@gorilladisco9108]

But he did get fired.

[@dl200010]

@@gorilladisco9108 Yes, he did, but he would have been fired sooner if it wasn't for the teacher unions making teachers almost impossible to fire.

[@gorilladisco9108]

@@dl200010 I agree. However, some people in other comments refuse to acknowledge that teacher unions is the force of darkness in public school troubles.

[@dl200010]

@@gorilladisco9108 They truly are. They have destroyed the American education system. Putting the interests of the teachers before the students.

[@mynvision]

Dress codes always negatively affect girls disproportionately, and more so if the girls happen to be curvy. But the last story is just beyond ridiculous. The fact that her exposed legs was within dress code, and wearing extra covering under her skirt was not, blows my mind. My girls were pretty modest, and they tended to wear shorts under their skirts or dresses, which also had to be no shorter than just above knee length. This was mostly in middle school. Oddly enough, if they had worn those same shorts without the skirts, because they were shorter than the rules allowed (they could not be above the fingertips with hands hanging at sides), they would have been forced to change to their (gross) PE shorts, or a call was made home. And, yes, my girls were on the curvier side. I knew they were targeted more often because I often saw skinny girls wearing booty shorts and getting away with them. .

[@dustypaladin9216]

One time I had to spend the entire period explaining to my math teacher the order of operations and how a specific answer they had on a practice test was incorrect. 45 mins of explanation later and the teachers aide finally figured out what was wrong and explained it. I’m not a very good teacher, but at least I know basic math

[@JamesDavy2009]

If they're not teaching PEMA (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, addition), they are garbage at teaching maths class. Division is multiplication by a number's reciprocal and subtraction is addition by a negative number equal in magnitude.

[@leiatyndall8648]

Does that mean anyone who had been given a free pass (i.e. had already caught peeking) before that happened, automatically had their test results thrown out? Or if they were caught after that? It creates interesting potential consequences for the entire class.

[@owland-de-mort9007]

You woud think that complains about a teacher would be taken seriously... I had a teacher at college who was utterly useless as a teacher. He had no idea about stuff he was teaching us about, and we had him for THREE out of six subjects we had on exams. Literally no one in our class had a grade over 70 in his class, which doesn't seem as bad, but given that on all the others we had above 85 it says something. We constantly complained to deans and commanderd (it was a military affiliated college), but they always told us "he's just used to teach university, so learn to understand him". And if that wasn't bad enough, he was condescending about us not understanding the subject and often just ignored our questions to rumble about some dude he worked with or some book he wrote. We hated him with a passion. And the thing is, we weren't the first generation to complain about him. Every year there were complaints, but the administration did absolutely nothing about him. Sorry for a lot of words, hit too close to home :(

[@kryw10]

That algebra story… man, something almost exactly like that happened at my high school. I kept waiting to hear the kids name. 😂

[@otakubancho6655]

Story #4, well played op,well played!😂😂😂👍👍👍

[@joycehunt1307]

My college Intro to Writing class instructor was a mean and miserable man. He embarrassed the students, ridiculed, and laughed at them. Many complained but he continued as the instructor. Our class was full when the term began but there were only 10 of us left by the final. I've never hated a class as much as I did that one.

[@fred_derf]

To the last OP, you should have sued the school and the principal for making you strip in front of him in his office!

[@cnealon817]

My sisters HAD to wear skirts to school no matter how bad the weather got. They were finally allowed to wear pants under their skirts if they got to school early so they could take them off before class.

[@JohnDlugosz]

#1 it might be more true to "Real work" where people do help each other out on occasion, but ultimately you're supposed to do your own work and not rely on others to do it for you nor is it a communal effort.

[@sakilynn]

Stroy 1 reminded me of the Chunin Exams in Naruto: caught cheating five times, and the squad was out; it was test to see how well they could gather intel without being noticed. Naruto passed with an empty test sheet. Story 3: Mrs. M would hate today for so many reasons. Birth rates are down, samesex marriage is legal, every one sleeping with people purely for enjoyment, married or not. She'd HATE it.