r/ProRevenge - Teacher Sabotaged my Grades and made me think my Writing was Terrible

In high school (10+ years ago), I was quiet and attentive in class. Teachers liked me. I wasn't popular, but I had good friends. I say all this to explain that high school was relatively calm for me. I played sports, was on the student newspaper, and got decent grades. However, that all changed my second semester junior year.
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[@victorvaldez8869]

For the first story, OP knew a very important lesson that they don't always teach in school: CREATE A PAPER TRAIL TO DEFEND YOURSELF. Story Two: OP gave her EVERY chance to comply with the law, & she basically said: "Nah, I'll just expect you to cater to me instead." even AFTER the truck showed up.

[@papasmurf9146]

RE: CREATE A PAPER TRAIL TO DEFEND YOURSELF. Yes!! I have a friend who just had a custom home built. Everyone in the development is having massive problems with the inferior work of this supposed high end builder. She is the only one who kept a paper trail (and a very good one at that). It is going to save her 10s of thousands of dollars as a direct result. She probably is the only one who will get the deficits fixed because she has the paper trail. When something goes sideways at work (not often, but when it does, it goes very sideways), there is a tenancy by one group to get someone fired over it. The group decided I should be the sacrificial lamb. The paper trail -- showing approval up and down the entire management hierarchy is the only reason that I wasn't thrown under the bus.

[@OK-yy6qz]

It's pretty sad that schools take such a big portion of your time/life when you're young but avoid to teach so many useful things like this, creative a CV or doing taxes properly

[@gael5463]

Ayo can someone tell me how to make an effective paper trail

[@papasmurf9146]

@@gael5463 How to create a proper paper trail is partially a function of how far you think you'll have to take something. The OP in this case kept the assignments and grades that were marked; kept the teachers notes when OP asked for help; and so forth. If the review process is ultimately going to be something reasonably informal, this is a good paper trail. My friend with the high-end custom home, took pictures of the water pooling in the backyard after a rain (code said it should drain or runoff), pictures of other house defects as they were discovered (with time-stamp on the photos), communicated with the builder in writing via registered letter (keeping a hard copy of the letter sent and the post-office notification that the letter had been signed for), etc. She's effectively preparing evidence for presentation to the contracting board and probably other governing agencies. For the work paper-trail, e-mails are a great way to go. Follow up meetings with typed notes that are sent to the participants. If you can, get read-receipts or better an acknowledgement that your notes match their understanding. Print the notes to a PDF file and burn that to CD or DVD if you can (and store off-site just in case you lose access to your desk). If you're worried about someone questioning the timeline / dates of the evidence you've collected, make a copy and mail it to yourself registered mail -- and do not open the envelope/package when it arrives; put it in a safe place. The post-office time-stamp is further proof of the time-frame of your notes/evidence. If you've gone to that extreme, and someone is challenging your timeline /dates, I would turn it over to a lawyer and not casually open it in a meeting at work. But this is the hyper-paranoid side. If you think something will end in legal action, talk to a lawyer now so that you can lay the proper ground work (I say this mainly because IANAL).

[@uis246]

​@@OK-yy6qzto be fair creating CV as separate skill shows only how bad economic system is.

[@kaikerr6948]

I like how the bad teacher was named Mrs. umbrage and I like how the good teacher was named Mrs. Honey

[@volcanooo456]

He thinks the bad teacher is as bad as Mrs.umbridge in Harry Potter books/movies

[@AJTaiyou]

I'mma agree with Doge, OP probably wanted to keep it anonymous, but still get the point across over how these 2 teachers made them feel/said teachers impacts

[@michaelsingleton5173]

@@volcanooo456 and miss honey from matilda

[@paulharsh78]

Shows the O.P’s strong writing skills.

[@Just_GamingYC]

*Ms.Umbridge

[@allen8959]

I had a teacher just like this. But the main difference? My parents didn't believe me. No one gave me any help or anything. That bitch nearly destroyed my love of writing and literature, all because I wrote fantasy, a genre she didn't like.

[@jevilsugoma1743]

Man it hurts

[@iliketurtles100]

that sucks im so sorry

[@xtheskeleton3365]

A teacher tried to grade me unfairly, my Mother got them fired

[@Joetino]

@@xtheskeleton3365 Why do teachers do that?

[@techno2371]

@@JoetinoThey wanted to be a business manager or smthing, but got stuck as a teacher and decided to dedicate the rest of their lives making their students as miserable as theirs. Either that or they are just pure evil and enjoy making kids cry

[@randomperson710]

I would've tried to get Ms. Umbridge fired as soon as possible and although embarrassed I would've told them how she made me cry to make matters worse for her.

[@thundercricket4634]

I'd have been way meaner. As soon as they told me they were moving me out of Honors classes I'd have threatened to go down to the local newspaper and give sordid details of the whole snafu. Name names, make sure everyone who's someone with that school found out about the teachers nasty behavior that they were attempting to sweep under the rug.

[@enforcerridley158]

This is a story from over 2 decades ago: I had a teacher in 6th grade, who was a total mean and bigoted Karen (let's call her BK) who held me after class (I believe it was a careers class) one day and said: BK: "You know you have an A in my class." Me who often got straight As back then: "I know. I try really hard." BK: "Well, because there are Jews in your family, I'm lowering your grade to a C and I'm calling your parents and telling them you have an F in my class." I tried to protest to no avail. BK called my folks at home and I got in trouble. BK generally spoke with a mean tone with everyone but she hated anyone who she found out had Jews in their families, were actually Jewish, black, or Latino. And what BK did to me, she did to all students of the groups she was bigoted against, though she was actually worse on Black kids because she thought of them as criminals. There was a black kid in the class who was also a straight A student and usually a teachers pet whose grade was lowered to an F because of BK. Some of us did complain to administration but we weren't believed. But one day, nearly two-thirds of the way through the semester, BK pissed off a Latino student (one whose dream was to be a garbage truck driver) who was in a terrible mood by giving him a very hard time and someone close to him has recently passed away (if I remember correctly), and he basically snapped and yelled at her "go F**k yourself you Fat B***h!" (she was in fact obese). For some reason, this made BK start wailing (I'm not entirely sure why though I'm guessing she's sensitive to being called "Fat"). The whole room broke out in laughter that someone finally said to her what we all thought and expressed it in a way we all wanted to, including me, just making fun of her reaction, pointing and laughing, even the kids who were usually teachers pets in other class. Clearly, no one liked her. We also started throwing paper balls at her, then other objects including our textbooks. In order to escape the objects thrown at her, BK crawled under her desk, hiding her from our view and completely protecting her from the thrown objects. BK was still wailing while under there and we were still pointing and laughing at her. One of the black kids, one who BK actually treated the worst out of everyone even the other black kids (BK actually called the police on him once, claiming that he was hiding a weapon in his Afro though it turned out to be a comb for afros), ran up to the open end of the desk she crawled under and started repeatedly kicking her while grinning and laughing, only prompting the rest of the class to point and laugh even harder. This went on for the rest of the class and we all believed she fully deserved this. The next time we had her class two days later, she came into the room as if nothing had happened though there was something different. She treated the rest of us equally from then on. The student's grades she artificially lowered because of her bigotry were reset to what they would have been if she weren't a bigot, meaning I got my A back. None of us got in troubled for what we did that day except the black kid who was kicking her. I don't remember seeing him ever again but I do believe he was suspended and removed from that class or even expelled.

[@k-popprincess416]

I had a teacher in Middle School, we'll call him Mr. H. He was the worst teacher I've ever had. Other students and teachers knew that he was a horrible teacher and I have no idea why I was the only person he singled out. It ended after I was moved to another class. I don't remember what happened to him, but I hope Karma comes to him.

[@stick7223]

i loved bad teachers cause I was a bad kid. nothing too bad just disrespectful when disrespected and sleeping. I had alot of fun with those teachers cause it was like a petty battle which we both knew wouldn't end.

[@yetitobediscovered]

This happened to me in 5th grade. I asked why I didn't get an A in math because I worked hard and I always got A's in math. I also got an A on every quiz and test. My teacher responded "well are you as smart as William?" a fellow classmate of mine. Even at that age i understood how fucked up that was..

[@wschnabel1987]

That English Teacher reminds me of a Sience Teacher I had in middle school. He refused to give me any grade higher than a C- because "Special Ed students don't belong in mainstream classes". Though he used more derogatory language than that to describe me. It finally came to a head one day when I told him it was unsafe to launch a rocket he had because the tail fins were warped and bent. He promptly sent me to the principals office for being 'Disrespectful'. While I was in the office waiting for detention the owner of a gas station across the road from the school stormed in holding the teachers still smoldering rocket. He filed a complaint about the teacher to not only the school but the local fire department, and I got to provide a witness statment for it as well, and I got a new class too. My dad was also IT for that school and never looked more smug after that.

[@williamnoragami8043]

I love this story

[@muchotexto4248]

Imagine getting a teaching degree just to deliver a big "Because of course you don't know, retard"

[@Maximara]

In the US that was (and still is) so illegal on so many levels. The DOE could have come down on that school like a ton of bricks especially back in the late 1970s where schools were *required by law* (ADA) to mainstream the Special Ed kids (at least in Ohio). My district has been so abusive in the past they were under orders 'not to do anything to get sued'.

[@wschnabel1987]

@@Maximara Fortunately that teacher was forced to quit for this and other related bs such as instigating fights between special education students and their bullies. One of the kids who wasn't a bully recorded them telling him he would only get an a by attacking this one special ed kid. The school was actually looking to press charges against them but they quit before it got to that stage.

[@Maximara]

@@wschnabel1987 I surprised if the parent of a special ed kid who found out didn't try to sue the school silly for letting that happen in the first place (Washington Township Schools is an modern example)

[@Tammy2Tone]

I KNEW this type iSht happened! Teachers aren't supposed to "Not Like" students. Especially for No reason (or reasons of Jealousy)! Ms Umbridge has a problem, &used her position of authority to pick on this student. I've HAD teachers not like me. Ppl always tell you that that's not what's going on, &that teachers don't DO that. Hmph, whatever! I'm glad this student did what she needed to do. It's a TRIP that Ms Umbridge straight up resorted to LYING! But w/her being CAUGHT, why did they still demote the student to Basic English??! That was F-ed UP!

[@sunclove3554]

They had no other teacher for Honors English, so they had no choice but to move em to the only other English class they offered

[@Tammy2Tone]

@@sunclove3554 - Oh, that didn't even occur to me, that they had NO other teachers offering that course. Makes sense... but still Sucks for the student.✌🏾️😏

[@stick7223]

@@Tammy2Tone well that's kind of right. they moved her down to see if she was supposed to be in that class or if the teacher was telling the truth saying she's too dumb to be in that class. basically put an experiment on something that would have happened anyways.

[@lostone9700]

This is what I have always hated about English class. It's the one class i always got a B in and I always wondered if it were my ideas and not the structure of my writing that I was being graded on. Meanwhile i get an A++ in my honors French (my second language) class and receive a foreign language award. Crazy.

[@Someoneone450]

Isn't french harder than English and based on how you write you're pretty good at English already and I'm kind of worse at English than you, again based on the text you just wrote but i literally get As and even A+ in English. Well it's also probably because of the teachers since my English teacher is really nice and kind of tolerates some mistakes but ovbiously not that much since you can't just put the mistakes as if they are right but I'm guessing your teacher wants you to learn more than what the book you are using in school has or she's just evil and doesn't give As easily or just doesn't want to

[@ccggenius]

Well, all I've got to go on is this one paragraph of yours, but given the number of grammatical errors present... still miles better than some of the shit I remembered having to peer review back in high school. I'm talking full, "Blue Collar Comedy Tour, 'the bee-are, ee-at-ed, the hone-knee'", "did you think the solid red squiggle that Microsoft Word put under the entirety of your creative writing assignment was a decorative accent" level writing. Honestly, I'm probably lucky they set the bar so low; I'm about as creative as Star Wars 7-9.

[@TrueXiarno]

Yes! I don't know why too. I loved all my teachers. They were all amazing. I was bad in French (Which is weird because it's my native language but jesus French is so dumb to write) yet always had semi perfect in English and just... yeah really liked all my classes & teachers.... except my English teacher. It was the only class that I sometime go to detention because she make me to some dumb crap for no reason and I couldn't stand it. I think I went to detention at least 10 time in a year with her but not even once with other teachers. One month or two we had a replacement teacher because she couldn't get to school for some reason and I loved that teacher. I loved back my English class until she came back. Thankfully my score didn't plunged because of her, but still I hated her.

[@theminisimmer]

@@Someoneone450 your writing skills seem decent to me. The only thing I can fault you on is the lack of punctuation, you should believe in yourself a bit more.

[@Someoneone450]

@@theminisimmer fair and thanks and to be honest I was never good at them like placing them in sentence but i try 🤷

[@megaman37456]

Back in High School I HATED my Social Studies/English teacher, she'd single me out because I preferred to borrow school laptops for my work, which I discussed with the principal, and explained how it made it easier for me to move from class to class without needing 6 different binders. I'd listen to music from my own personal usb stick with headphones, one day she tells me to put the computer away and take off the headphones. I looked around 95% of my classmates were also wearing headphones, so I said "Why should I? Everybody else seems to." She responded with "You aren't working." I said "Actually I am." and offered to show her my work, she declined and doubled down, by this point I was done with her BS, I said "Fine, if that's how you want it." I closed the laptop, put everything in my bag, got up, and left the classroom. For added effect, slammed the door behind me. What I didn't expect was the class cheering afterwards and some of my classmates later told me "Wow, that was ballsy". Needless to say when I was questioned about what went down I explained how she singled me out, and while she didn't get in direct trouble, whenever she saw me, it was pure silence.

[@Batman-hb9dh]

The fact that she was named ms umbridge just like a teacher from Harry Potter.

[@lubu682]

and they have exactly the same personality, too

[@UnitedFan2]

If that was my kid who was unfairly treated, I would have pulled her out of that school and moved her to a new one and I would take that case all the way up to the board.Sorry but the OP did everything to get an A and they should have done. The fact that they moved them to basic English despite all of that evidence shows that the school is biased.

[@0doublezero0]

Well not all schools have multiple teachers for the same subject. So Umbridge might have been the only honors english teacher for junior grade. It was probably the only option at that time to have him in basic english.

[@cybermainstream]

​@@0doublezero0Why didn't they move the OP into the AP English class his valedictorian friend was in? Seems like they'd have done just fine in that class.

[@Krveeden]

For the first story, the teacher was probably under the impression that OP was a 'Jock' being in a sport. That 'Jocks always get a pass' so therefore, to her logic, a Jock cannot be smart and in Honors classes, because they take all their time working their body. But working mind and muscle both is possible. And some people are just buttholes that get their rocks off by 'punishing the unworthy' wether the person deserves it or not.

[@TheMetalkon]

This video reminds me of the teacher I had in one of my high school classes back in 2005. The class grades were based on your project assignments (forgot what it was called but we were dealing with woodworking/powertools/electricity/ect) and I scored 100% on every single assignment making the best projects and even had all of the possible extra credit. I was intentionally given a lower score on purpose (was either 95 or 96) for a bullshit reason by my teacher about as some kind of life lesson that nothing can be perfect in life or something not related to my actual scores.

[@steve88luv]

My woodshop teacher did that bullcrap, no matter how hard you tried he was always like ive never given a 100% becuase nothing is perfect.

[@AJTaiyou]

I might have an idea on Umbridge's problem with OP; short answer, OP was a jock in her eyes, and she let the power she had consume her. Long answer; firstly on the OP's side of things, aside from being on the swim team, them being an avid reader, even reading the study material beforehand, kind of means that any assignments given to them about those books would likely be written out and done fairly quickly, which from an outside perspective, especially when coupled with an incorrect jock view of the OP could be construed as the OP getting someone else to do their work for them, or at the very least, make it seem like the OP isn't taking the class seriously, especially when paired with the whole nodding off aspect, which we are still unsure if it happened in Umbridge's class. That is 1 half of the likely problem. Now as for Umbridge's half, we can look into 3 facts that OP has given about her, 1 Umbridge is in her 20s, meaning she must have gotten her teaching qualifications fairly recently, 2 she teaches Classical English Literature, meaning she must have gotten credible qualifications in order to teach that, and 3 she teaches at one of the best paying school districts in the state, meaning that her teaching and classic lit qualifications are both super top notch, meaning all up, Umbridge likely got into college, and or high school alot earlier than standard (I'm thinking college at 15 at the earliest), and likely had to put up with jocks getting, in her eyes, free rides into the same schools she probably went to, or was even taken advantage of, studywise, herself by said jocks. Now, none of this condones her actions, but those assessments of both Umbridge and OP, PURELY FROM THE VIDEO, is a likely assumption on why Umbridge had it out for the OP. Either that or she was an elitist trollop

[@eldonpike4781]

You know the teacher fu€ked up if the cover name is Ms. Umbridge.

[@theopastrana7902]

Lol and she pretends to be nice too

[@vulcanado]

My 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. B. Here last name did start with that not referring to her actions lol. She was a former army drill instructor now teaching. This was 1989 90 so quite a long time ago too. Throughout the year my grades were slipping and I was getting 0s on assignments for failing to turn in eventhough I did complete them and turn them in. My mom sometimes helped me on assignments so she would remember them being completed too. Mom was stay at home while dad worked so she was there to help more and take my sister and I to school, helping with functions, carpooling for fieldtrips etc. Small Catholic school so no busses. Anyway mom talked to some of the other moms of my fellow students. Turns out there was two other of my friends this was happening to. My mom ended up taking pictures and evidence of my completed works that were "missing". We took this matter to the principal. She tried ro defend her teacher at first. But at some point the missing assignments were found in teachers desk. She ended up getting fired over it. I don't know if it had something to do with my weight being a heavier kid or what but karma did get her in the end.

[@devilshusband6850]

I've also had this happened to me. Teacher's just target whoever they wanted just out of spite.

[@donbrea]

In college, a professor took the work of several students and used them to apply for state funding as his own projects.

[@muchotexto4248]

"why your name davis here"

[@Maximara]

That is *so* illegal that is isn't funny.

[@thethug335]

This actually also happens on my country too. If you study personally and get tuition from the school teacher, you will get marks unless not . My biology is a mess and completely neglects those students who have a talent on bio but still she gives marks to her own bio tuition students who study on her school. Shame to see that our education system is so dull and bad. These teachers are made to be teachers of terror and I don't give a f if I exposed her

[@elderliddle2733]

That first story happened almost the same with my sister. I’ll tell you why she did it. She’s mid twenties, unmarried, working at a dead end high school job. What part of that doesn’t scream failure? She obviously doesn’t have the capability to work for other higher paying institutions. Her literature degree doesn’t really give her much to work with and she learned that too little too late. She’s not working in a museum like she dreamed or heard about, instead she’s back at high school.

[@bober-mz2ys]

even I was crying from the "Umbridge" story, that sort of teacher should never of bean a teacher

[@yetiplays1045]

My english teacher used to single me out simply because of who I was dating. She hated me and my ex but I repaired that relationship with the teacher and now am on good terms. She’s now a fan of my own writing and style.

[@muchotexto4248]

Sounds like a nice fella 😌 spiting you because of where your heart took you

[@SteeleObsidion13]

I had this same situation! I had a western civilization class my senior year in Highschool. My teacher did NOT like me. Or my future best friend in the same class. She went through and forced us to take notes the way she took notes even with multiple students complaining that the way she was having us take notes was really difficult for them, to bad. Fast forward, end of the semester. I'm failing, but barely. I needed 60% to pass, I was like 57%. Final exam. I studied my a** off. I got a C. She still failed me. This was the last semester of my senior year if I didn't pass this class I wasn't going to graduate.

[@SteeleObsidion13]

My counselor ended up proposing a solution after letting both me and my parents know, that said teacher had a high rate of senior failures. However the solution was for me to take summer school yet I can still walk with my class at graduation. So I did end up taking the summer school class and getting my diploma the next year however in my summer school class I had a teacher that actually made the class fun and exciting. I did have to pay for summer school, but it was totally worth it I ended up passing that class with an A. My previous teacher I still to this day hope looked at my grade knowing damn well that she failed me and I had to take summer school in order to graduate high school

[@raerose2278]

Yay! My favorite part of the day is when a new video of yours comes out! Love, love your content AND your perfect storytelling voice! 🥰

[@gustavbtw6046]

Same 😂

[@Justin-hc3pu]

Sometimes people are suck ups to youtubers

[@Sea-weed_brain]

@@Justin-hc3pu NO they are not normally they just are telling the truth

[@SilverAlaunt]

I had an English teacher that was just downright sexist toward the female students. One kid in my class just didn’t do his homework (no excuse, like extracurricular activities, other than he didn’t do it) and she sweetly said “next time please do your homework”. On the other hand I was unable to complete an assignment because I was in the hospital the night before due to a sprained ankle and her response was a nasty “you need to do your homework”. Everyone friggin hated her. Students in higher grades would ask which teachers you had for certain grades and anytime someone mentioned having this teacher… oh the pity you had to endure.

[@CliffCutts]

I had a teacher do this to me in college, when I called him out on it he immediately said, "ok, well... what grade do you want?" and literally gave me whatever grade I said. I couldn't fathom what the hell was going on in his head to act like this. I later found out that he killed himself that summer... Everything started to fall into place in retrospect, I just didn't understand at the time.

[@blueeyedraven396]

In the 5th grade, I struggled with reading and comprehension. It was because I had (and still have) ADHD. Yet I excelled in spelling. This was unfathomable to my 5th grade teacher and he accused my of cheating every time in front of the whole class. I was even told to sit and face the corner of the class by myself while taking the tests. Eventually I told my mother what was going on and she was livid. She took it to the principal and the principal had me take a test in front of both my teacher and mother and of course I got a perfect score. He still insisted I was cheating and said there was no way I could get such a good grade in spelling, yet fail so miserably in reading. All spelling tests for the rest of the year was done with the principal in the classroom. I am 54 now and I still bare the emotional scars that left me.

[@YTDariuS-my6dg]

Man I know how OP1 feels. I don't know if this is the case elsewhere, but in our early years of middle school (grades 1-4, ages cca 7-10) we only ever had one teacher for every class except English and I think religion. The teacher had it out for me, we theorize because my family weren't so well known in the community, which was fairly small. Anyway, she constantly dropped my grades by at least a single increment, most of the time by two; a clear A was a "barely C, and that's me being generous". Actual idiots who happened to have important-ish names were faring better than me. She also did nothing about, and I suspect even encouraged, the bullying and beating I went through, and would then regularly send ME to the psychiatrist we had in our school. It was even worse because not only did she talk me up as the worst kind of demon child imaginable, but the shrink had a policy for one of the parents having to be present, and the teacher knew, and used this to make me feel even worse by telling me that I'm wasting my mom's time. This had an awful impact on me because mom was not only a house wife but ALSO went to work AND constantly helped relatives on farms; she had basically no time of her own. By the end of my second year, I was labeled tone deaf, an idiot, any and all label capable of putting the most hurt on me. They were considering putting me in special ed classes, where they basically dumped the kids that had no hope for their academic careers. At the time it had a terrible reputation as only two kids were there. My mom, bless her heart, fought for a normal transfer into class A (I was in class B, which would later on become infamous in the entire school for containing the most malevolent, malicious and all around awful kids). The difference was night and day; the head teacher of class A was one of the most patient, kind and caring women I've ever known. I called her mom once, I think. She really was like a second mom to me. Though I was still bullied for a while for daring to have gone to class B (the rivalry between classes A and B transcended generations) through sheer dedication of the teacher I was accepted fairly quickly. I rarely saw her after finishing grade 4, but on the few occasions I'd meet her in a store (like, once every three months) would make my day, regardless of how awkward I am. My grades back then skyrocketed immediately; it was clear I wasn't dumb, tone deaf or anything. In fact, it turned out I was so good at English, I already was better than almost anyone as far up as 8th grade. Well, people knew even back in grades one and two, but it didn't really stand out as much. In grades three and four, however, was my time to shine. Except, I didn't. I was, all in all, slightly above average at best. After grade four, that would drop to just average in Middle and High School, and now that I'm in college, problems that I believe have their roots in the way I was treated throughout my first two years in Middle School are making me barely progress, and question if I'll even be able to finish first year, which I have to or else I have to go to work construction in Germany per an "agreement" with my parents. All this because a toxic woman just randomly decided to torture a poor defenseless kid. That could've been *anyone* . Probably one of the worst days of my life was when I was visiting Middle School again for some reason or other and she caught me in the halls (evil witch still taught, for all I know she still DOES) and asked me all sweet and innocent "My, look how much you've grown! How have you been, dear?" I wanted to punch her face in, but refrained, and cried when I came back home. I would've been less stressed had someone pointed a gun at me. This kind of shit is awful, and I'm pissed OP also went through that, even if it was a bit later in life. Nobody deserves that kind of treatment in an institution of learning.

[@surviverplaysuplayer1142]

The Op with the truck driver... both are no jerks And i would even aplaude them for what they did I work in construction too and know how tough it is to get space to unload materials in a city and is someone just parks in the zone for the materials and absolutely refuses to leave like that then what can we do exept park like how the driver in the story did and unload like that We have no choice like that we cant just say "oh we can wait untill your finished" since our time scedule has to be kept in time and we reserved these spots for us to use for materials so people cant just say that they have the right to just park there even if its marked off

[@megaman37456]

Umbridge: OP never asked for help. VP: *Pulls out all 3 of Umbirdges edits on OPs papers* Pack up your things, get out of my building. Umbridge: I was just trying t- VP: YOU'RE FIRED! OP: Put some dirt in her eye

[@finalfantasylord1]

this is why all teachers should be tested periodically to make sure they aren't pulling stuff like this how many other kids did she wreck the confidence of simply because she didn't like them

[@angjiapheng]

I had a bad English teacher as well. The reason I was hated due to fact that I was number 1 student in previous year and beat her daughter's performance. She would find any chance to give me a bad grade and being mean/rude to me. She also unintentionally cause my other teacher to miscarriage. In overall everyone hate her

[@RedHands]

Something similar happened to me in high school. I was an all A student, and I worked very hard to keep my grades high because I grew up in abject poverty and wanted to be the first person in my family to go to college. I knew I couldn't pay my way through, so scholarships and grants would be the path. When I got into my tenth grade year, I had a biology teacher named Ms. Edge (literal name), and I'm not sure why, but this woman had it out for me. I loved biology and the sciences, so when my grades in her class started plummeting, I was flabbergasted and so were my family. I spent the first half of my sophomore year stuck in her class and my grades there went to failing almost immediately. Now, maybe she didn't like me because I wore only black, had long black hair, and a big black coat, I don't know. Most teachers loved me because I was quiet, did my work, and basically never acted like a little asshole. But there was something about me that she definitely despised. Her responses toward me, and only toward me, from either asking or answering a question in class were always snappy, snooty, or just plain rude for no reason. I never talked back, was never disrespectful, and even went to her and asked if there was something I had done. She just curled her lip and replied, "No. You just need to study more. You're failing because of you." I was furious because I'd been trying so hard and I just KNEW this haughty bitch was failing me on purpose. I never did what the guy in the story wound up doing, but other teachers that knew me who saw my grades were also confused as to why it was that one particular class that I was failing, and the other students in that class caught the smell, too. They'd come up to me after class and ask what the deal was and I'd shrug. Either way, when the semester ended and we were on our winter break, Ms. Edge called my mom, who was a saint, more patient and kind than anyone I knew, and was asking if she would like me moved out of her class, and my mom replied, "Immediately." like a stone cold killer would. The look on her face would have frozen this woman's blood. Wouldn't you know, they put me in another teacher's class and I brought that failing grade back to an A within a couple of months. Strange how that happens with the exact same subject matter. I had to make up that failed semester of 10th grade biology in my senior year, but nothing else held me back from graduating with honors and it was the only blemish on my record.

[@muchotexto4248]

Bitchass tried to play the "Your child is about to lose a deluxe privilege" to your mom like she's this premium lesson and the reason we understand GMOs or something

[@sentraywilliams8927]

He really just put her In monopoly jail 🤣😂

[@poppyfrancis7338]

Dear god if I were in that father's position I would have had to have been physically held back to not give Ms. Umbridge a black eye or two. I know violence never solved anything but to have had evidence from several sources saying she was sabotaging ANYONE, and not just my own kid I would have put her in her damn place. Your job is to make these people comfortable with wjo they are and what they do, if you are incapable of the basic human decency to show your students the respect they deserve for putting their learning and psyche entirely in your hands during that period of the day, even if they weren't a good fit for the class and needed help, you do not deserve the privilege of being a teacher. Which is a shame, because our education systems fail to show and give teachers AND students the respect and resources they deserve to have proper knowledge and experience

[@josephbriggs2257]

But who’s to judge The right from wrong? When our guard is down I think we’ll both agree That violence breeds violence But in the end it has to be this way!

[@agr0nianTV]

I'm happy to see such an awful teacher get what they deserve. I'm tempted to do something like that myself for my college Calculus teacher. Well she's a decent teacher and nice lady we've miss a total of 7 classes this semester which is absurd. I feel like my own and other students grades have suffered plus half the class dropped it. I'm tempted to report it to her boss cause at this rate I feel like I'm not getting my money's worth :/

[@gamester512]

I never had an outright malicious teacher who singled students out (and I was pretty well-liked by my teachers and classmates because despite my size, I was quiet and polite, and I always at least put in effort), but I did still have one bad teacher (my "Math Lab" teacher) purely due to him being downright incompetent. For one thing, he had no capacity to maintain control or authority in class, to the point that when my calculator (which the school downright *REQUIRED* me to have, and that cost $100) got *STOLEN* in his class (and everyone in class knew who stole it, as that person was the only one who refused to allow their bag to be searched), what did that teacher do? He said "Whoever took his calculator, give it back.". That's it. That's all he did. The school's Vice-Principal even said that what the teacher "should" have done was to not allow anyone to leave the room until I got my calculator back. And on top of that, he was also an awful teacher. Try as I might, I could never retain anything that he tried to teach, to the point that I just outright gave up on his class entirely, dropping it halfway through the school year and effectively condemning myself to having to repeat 7th Grade all because that teacher was so inept and incompetent that he not only couldn't help me maintain a passing grade, but he alone caused me to get held back for a year, and he was so bad at teaching that he even regularly put me to sleep....and I *NEVER* fell asleep in class, no matter how tired I might have been. The only silver lining is that the school actually gave him the boot at the end of the school year because of how incompetent he was.

[@nrh007vt]

This is so weird because I basically experienced the exact same story. I was a swimmer that would fall asleep in English, I read constantly (even during class), and my AP English teacher did not like me very much. The only difference is that my teacher did her job and graded me fairly. She made it clear she didn't appreciate me, but I still got my usual grades there.

[@5h0ckblock]

The fact her name was Umbridge told me everything I needed to know about her.

[@kokoroh8754]

That second story no he isn't a jerk he is a hero. People like that need taken down a peg before they hurt someone

[@rizon72]

Had a couple in college. An English teacher who really couldn't teach well, and her tests made little sense to where everyone was guessing at answers. The next semester on the first day (took a class without knowing the teacher) she walks in, I look at my friends, waved bye, walked out headed to the late registration and changed classes. My friends struggled while I found a great teacher. She was let go at the end of the semester. Another class was biology. Aside from the fact the admin prided themselves on failing half the freshmen students, this professor was terrible. His writing you couldn't not read. If he wrote Homo Sapiens on the board, it looked like this, H___ S_______. Such wonderful writing for a biology class.

[@208getalife]

No lie, on story 1 I'm thinking it could have been an anti-athletics bias. It happens sometimes with certain honors teachers, especially ones that young. She could have tanked him to try and get him out of the class (my guess) or was just looking at it with some weird vindictive confirmation bias.

[@Swirvy]

mrs. umbrige was a clever name and i thought it was funny because in harry potter she was absolutley evil

[@devonm042690]

I had a teacher in high school who, every single day, used generalized, nation-wide statistics about student performance as justification to call us stupid, lazy, and a few other things.

[@FallenChaos619]

I laughed out loud at the part that the truck got stuck on the curb.

[@amanawolf9166]

That sucks. I've had people crap on my writing. They did everything and even shit on the concept of the story. Glad I didn't listen to those asshats. Still, I did give up on writing.

[@mksmike]

Those last 2 sentences... did you write that on purpose? lol

[@AlbieTom]

A bad teacher can really fuck you up mentally. I loved writing as a kid I had a teacher kill my love of writing and it took over a decade to find it again. Teaching may be a noble profession. And many are great, but some should not be anywhere near children.

[@geprekbento7543]

11.48 op reminds me of kratos, who also considered himself a calm and reasonable person

[@DiegoGonzalez-cz6gu]

Jesus, with that first story, I’m glad I never had a teacher like that and that my school actually cares about who they employ. Worst incident was a teacher getting fired for screaming at a student he didn’t like, and lucky for me, I never saw it.

[@anordinaryfellow6977]

I loved how he called her Ms. Umbridge. Harry Potter reference.

[@lubu682]

man, all umbridges are horrible

[@canislupusfool]

Miss. Honey is also a reference to the Roald Dahl book, Matilda.

[@lubu682]

@@canislupusfool ooooh yeah!

[@zoa1-99.......]

Now THAT was clever! Miss Honey with Matilda vs Miss Umbridge! Matilda wins!

[@akboy4588]

School and sleep tend to not get along. And can relate to the dozing off onto oblivion, that's what kept me from getting a b + lmao. So yeah that's relatable

[@viscountalpha]

When a teacher finds a student better then them, they become petty and bitter.

[@0doublezero0]

Story 1: All his movements had a purpose. He could have not gotten tutored by the teacher Umbridge and said she was out to get him then and there. If he did that, then he wouldn't have gotten proof to show the VP that he really did try. Then in Ms. Honey's class we went all out and got a 104%, only to findout it was a test to see if he was a slacker. It was like a force was guiding him in the right direction the entire time.

[@AshenTechDotCom]

i had a few teachers like that, one was very shocked and offended i took my terms work to the accelerated class teacher and asked her to go over it, and the notes i was given to "improve my work" , that didnt lead to more then a fractional upgrade...turned out she didnt like my father, another teacher at the school and was taking it out on me, but she did this to other students due to their parents calling her on her "teaching style" that was "shut up, leave me alone, im busy with ebay" (when ebay was a very new thing), that one... well... she didnt get fired or forced to quit but.. she lasted another 4 years before she was encouraged to take a job at the college and stop victimizing children... she wanted to teach PE only and hated being forced to teach math and other courses so she made it the students problems... oh those assignments... everybody else agreed they were top grade work...pre-edits for her notes... and that i was far brighter then they had been lead to believe... my hand writing was shit but... most of my teachers from then, remember me fondly now im told.. by them when i run into them... decades later... one saw me, said my name and i was in a hug before i knew who was doing it... she was so happy to see me looking well and had worried after hearing about some crap that went down... that wrecked my life... shes a wonderful gal... genuinely a great person... her husband gave me a 1 arm hug and said he heard about me and, my helping his wife at school, both physically and emotionally... ,my constant humor/jokes/etc, that were rarely "class clown" mostly snarky observations and the fact i was one of 3 kids who tackled a parent who grabbed her collar during a parent teacher day...(dude was deranged, his own son was one of the 3.. the other was a friend of the time who liked her and we knew the father was a huge sexist a-hole.... he left finger prints on her from working on his truck and not being willing to clean up before coming in... he tried to insist women shouldnt teach boys and men... yet... his own son says hes so anti-religion it was painful living with him... after that he went to jail for 11months, giving his wifes family and inlaws time to move them into a gated community with active security, that was a block from the PD, so yeah... he got arrested when he tried to come take his kid but....the court terminated his custody and gave his kid a protection order...and the idiot didnt think the school would know and enforce it with the cop who spent his/her time patrolling the school area... (no on site but always within a couple blocks, they had to... mostly due to parents... rarely students... most of the student stuff that could have led to needing cops was sorted by kids before it went that far..including a couple times a student was going to attack a teacher... even teachers people loathed, that didnt fly... we all got that it would just cause us all problems, and... it was far more enjoyable making the loathsome teachers suffer using official channels... more then one in jr.high and highschool learned that messing with me, my friends, their friends... wasnt really the best idea... in one case, i called 3 parents, told them the basics and asked if they could meet me during the lunch period at the store near the school, i gave them the full rundown their kids not even aware why i called their parents beyond trying to help them out... yeah... hell i got one set of parents to start talking and... in the end ...back togather after years of being at constant odds...they heard what was going on... and... both had the same reaction... i was told 3 years later that, it was my fault they were getting re-married... my calling them on their childishness, and realizing i was correct but also that, their kid needed both of them since neither could be 100% involved to the degree they should.. (worked many hours, and both doing such was part of the issue before.. they worked to make sure they had weekends off and WEEKS off for vacations.. helped alot with their relationship with their kids.. the girl who was my friend was being full on bullied by a teacher who just didnt like her, we found out later why.. her sister who was a sub, ended up filling the admin and a few of us she came to like and trust, it was because our friend looked too much like the girl that her sisters jr.high-highschool-college crush ended up marrying... she never told him she liked him or anything like that and her sister told us, its eaten away at her since, told the admin it was best to just keep girls who look similar to that out of her class to avoid her bias showing... she ended up retiring at the end of the year, not 100% because of us but in part because of being sick of parents calling her on her shit and the admin calling her out and having a babysitter in her class watching her... in part because she could retire and get full retirement and sub an few days a week and endup better off... the school never accepted when she tried to sub a the highschool.... or jr.high im told... funny enough, her sister was talked into taking the job sis vacated by students and other staff...including the admin... we laid it on thick, but it was all true.. she was the polar opposite of sister... overly worried about equal treatment, not equatable treatment but equal... as in, if you put in the effort you got a decent grade even if your not fully up on the subject, if you f-ed off and didnt do much and put in little to no effort, your grade was going to suck....(note: mine almost sucked, till she remembered i was actually her "part time TA" and spent most of my time in class not doing assigments but helping others... i was no "grade A student"...i never had that drive... but also was mostly board as hell in school... i genuinely kept being put in classes where... i could (and more then once did) teach the subject... to a degree that when a teacher ended up having a kid nearly a month early, for 3 days, i covered her class 1/2 the day(they couldnt get a sub and the principle decided since i had already taken charge and kept order...and everybody seemed ok with that... i could keep on... they checked in from time to time but...mostly we cut the reading and talked about the books over the term, the reading we had done over the term, etc... whats funny... when the teacher got back, just in time for finals, she was shocked how much better the class grades got, turned out a bunch of people didnt really fully understand the content and, talking it over as a group, without the teacher there, actually helped a bunch of people, including one of our classes val's... she came to me and told me that... she understood the words but, not the context of one of the blocks we covered and, my explaining it and talking it over with them... totally changed her understanding, she could see the different perspectives and ways people could see it and ones we didnt cover, she went from disliking that class to taking the AP version with her sister, shes now working at a publishing company as a mid level exec from what her mom tells me, small town life... back then... if you didnt know somebody.... somebody you knew did... and was probably related in some way to them...LOL..

[@muchotexto4248]

Sorry, but when I see it I must

[@muchotexto4248]

This is, unfortunatelly...

[@muchotexto4248]

Mucho Texto

[@bikramjitghosh7496]

My first bullies in school were teachers. There are a lot of Teachers like that. We really need sensitive people in the job! Not everybody can be teachers! It's one of the most important jobs and not everybody is eligible. Most of them are there for the money and career opportunity, they don't care for the students they teach. Thanks to some really Great Teachers, I achieved quite a bit in academics, but most of the teachers/professors I faced were not right for the job.

[@kofmmbs]

I had teachers that were so rotten in the past, some called the students idiots, some preferred to spend time in the cafeteria then helping students, some simply didn’t not know how to teach

[@bluemenace04]

Whats bad is there's plenty of teachers like miss umbridge. That was just 1 of the many caught in the act and only because the student was smart enough to get outside intervention, lots of students are either too scared to ask for outside intervention or don't even know they're able to do that. Its bs that any teacher has the power to fail a kid just because that don't like that kid, let alone don't share the same beliefs as that very teacher.

[@jameswilliams7593]

i had an english teacher in 6th grade like umbridge. i asked her once why am i being graded on short stories(they were on cards) that wasn't there. she told me because i was {insert sister's name}'s brother. it made me wonder if my other teachers was doing that. i hated school. then i move and go to a different school. one where my older step-brothers went to. i get to my 7th grade english teacher and she said, "if you think you're gonna be graded just because you're {insert brother's name} name, think again." every teacher graded me based on my work there.

[@monroerobbins7551]

8:20 it’s really cool that the OP still put in 110% for the basic English, just to prove Umbridge wrong. Suck it Umbridge, and kudos to Miss Honey for being such a kind-hearted teacher, and it’s nice that so many teachers had OP’s back. I’ve met my fair few of English teachers who didn’t grade on merit, but grades on if the student’s opinions/interpretations of the piece matched their own. I wouldn’t be surprised if Umbridge perceived OP as someone who didn’t “appreciate” classical literature, or didn’t think that just because OP was put in honor’s translated to OP being a good student. Teachers who act high and mighty about things that are subjective wreck havoc on their students, because the students are graded on a scale that isn’t objective, or based in skill, and that is unforgivable

[@crazyt1483]

This is the reason why anonymous grading is so much better as it results in a fair grade.

[@mikecarrico2876]

Back2Basic: i would read the chapters during class taking meticulous notes so by end of class usually had homework done with practice quiz in my notes!, some teachers bothered them because when i got called to read aloud i never knew where class was in chapter but i handed my notes to her on quiz day so always guaranteed an A!, like electric bill has to BE paid so homework EXISTS easier when you get in front of IT!! Prayers for strength to endure and guidance towards truth for God to bless!

[@gregorymonroe8323]

I guess both fictional and real life Ms. Umbridge is evil.

[@SkypowerwithKarl]

45 years ago I had an English teacher that absolutely hated me and never missed a chance to berate me. She has her little favorite student of course. I was so glad I’d be leaving her class at the end of the the year, but the doom was on me, for little did I know that she would be teaching the next grade next year! For months again I endured her torture. Then one day she pulled yard duty for recess. See wasn’t paying attention to the situation while she was yelling at someone and walked right into the path of a heavy old style cast swing seat that had been propelled by her favorite student. It smashed her nose and broke her glasses into sharp shards across her face. Her face was a bloody mess with the look of absolute horror and confusion. Though it may sound crass, but you have to understand what I had been enduring, I fell to my knees laughing hysterically with tears pouring out of my eyes which I had never done before in my young life. I didn’t care if anyone saw me or if she did but I doubt she could see. The torment of the remaining years was much more tolerable because all I had to do is think of her Karma moment. She was probably be wondering why I was smiling a lot at her and she couldn’t illicit the look of sadness that she seemed to crave from me.

[@prof.thiagoalmeida1226]

I'm a teacher and I may say it: some teachers are just mean. Not everyone who ends up teaching as a professor is actually good at teatching or know how to teach. Not all my students are good on writing, but I would never make any of them feel like they are idiots for not being excellent. My work is to help them improve, not to make them feel bad or useless. That teacher felt really powerful destroying OP's self-steem. She needs therapy and be way from schools for the rest of her life.

[@static3488]

i noticed the name of the teacher ms.umbridge and love the reference of miss umbridge from harry potter and the order of phoenix teacher did the wrong thing suffered consequences that she should have seen coming

[@BassGosple]

The instant OP made that Matilda reference, I knew how it would end

[@leecoffill8425]

I had a drama teacher once who hated me, and I never really knew why. I'm gonna call her Mrs. Flannery - not because of any resemblance or similarities in character, but because i once was so tired in her class that for whatever reason I called her Mrs. Flannery, and I thought the harry potter coincidence was funny. (For the record, this story all took place before this happened.) I honestly believe that her reason for hating me came down to my gender - I was the only boy in her class somehow, and she was an outspoken feminist, and she wasn't the only feminist teacher to just loath me out of hand. I would like to point out that I wasn't a trouble maker, nor was I some kind of creep. I kept to myself mostly, and I was always respectful. Anyways, one of our assignments was to watch and review a musical of our choice. I chose "The sound of music" because I had always had a soft spot for that particular movie. I worked hard on my review, and I did have a flair for writing - I generally got high scored in English and creative writing - and I was pretty happy with the result. And Mrs. Flannery must have also thought I had done a pretty damn good job, as well - because she gave me a flat 0 and accused me, with no evidence, of plagiarizing the back of the movie box. Which is insane, because all you had to do was look at the damn box to see that it wasn't true! I tried to reason with her and plead my case, but she ignored me and refused to change my grade. So, I went to the vice principle, with my review in one hand, and the cassette case in the other. Her accusation was written in red pen at the top of my paper, claiming that I plagiarized the box. I also explained that I had tried to plead my case with her, but she rebuked me entirely. She was called into the office, in front of several of her peers in English and such, and everyone was asked to review my... review. Even in the face of irrefutable evidence, she continued to insist that I had plagiarized my work, but the other teachers had had me in their classes and knew what my writing was generally like, and it was agreed that I received my grade unfairly. I wish I could cap this off saying that she was fired or something like that, but she was still teaching drama as well as English long after I left. But, she was forced to change my grade, so it was a small victory at least. Still ended up failing her class overall, and I am convinced that it had nothing to do with my actual work and effort. She's been accused of being prejudiced against male students a few times since but I don't think anything has ever come from it.

[@hnafe6239]

I got a similar story. English is not my first language and I was studying English "Language & literature" in College. Second year we are studying sth called Advanced Grammar, really complex shit "but not too hard for me lol. Finals come up and my professor calls to inform me that I passed with an A. Of course I was very happy about it but nothing was official yet as it was not up on the College website or on the boards, but my professor never lies to me "she was the sweetest woman ever". So, the exam results are put up and I get a B-? Wtf? Naturally I went to her and asked about it and it turns out that another professor actually singled out my exam paper and yearly assignments and changed my grade. I asked, he didn't deny it and said word for word "NOBODY gets an A in Advanced Grammar, not even myself, and I am sick and tired of lazy students like you getting handouts like this"............... Wtf?. Naturally I went to the Dean and complained about what happened with my Professor................ 4 months later my professor gets fired for going against the college and I am put under a sort of probation and that ass hat gets assjgned to my next Advanced Grammar course. I got a bit of a victory eventually as I got an A in his course as well as all my other courses that semester and he gave me a halfassed apology in front of the faculty staff.

[@B4R0N.]

Funnily enough I had something very similar happened to me back in high school. But it ended in an uglier way. Thank God I also had evidence.

[@oldmanr7170]

Something like this happened to me, but I know why and it's stupid. When I was in law school I was doing very well, I got high grades in everything and had no difficulties, until my eighth semester, where in a certain subject, I was still doing well in the exams but all my papers received low grades for no apparent reason, as the test scores were more than enough to pass without problems I should leave it alone but then I realized a pattern, certain students in common were suffering the same thing as me even in other rooms, we got together and talked and realized that the only thing we had in common was that we were all religious. We weren't all of the same religion but we had the same religious origin in common, I won't say what religion is because it's not important, just know that the only reason people even knew about my religion was because i once wore a shirt with a religious symbol on it, anyway we still doubt if it was the reason so we decided to ask the course director for help. He asked for our works and realized that we were not mistaken, the quality of our works really should give us a higher grade, he promised that he would solve it and talk to the teacher. In the next class the professor walked into the room red-faced and cursing us, he talked a lot of nonsense about how horrible we were and that we were murderers and that people like us should never get involved with the legal world, after that he left of the room and we never saw him again, we only know that other rooms went through a similar scene, the rest of the semester the course director gave the classes in this professor's place and we were able to finish with high grades, but the director refused to elaborate more about what had happened to the professor, we only knew that he had resigned. All this for a shirt my grandma gave me...

[@octo448]

Story 1: My guess as to motive? Some "academics" have it out for athletes. They still think of 80s style teen dramas where "the jocks" are all idiots and "the smart ones" get picked on by them. I've seen this before, where a teacher has it out for any athlete who dares to do more than coast by in normal classes on a C-. We don't have enough info to know for sure, but I'd really love to ask OP if there were any other athletes in that class. Buckle Up, this is long. I was in a very similar situation but much younger. We had recently moved and my father was in the military, so we lived in base housing (not on base but reserved for enlisted, officers, and their families) and most if not all of the students and teachers in my school were related to the military in some way. Moving around was very common (military hazard, stations change frequently) and I knew I wasn't the strongest student ever at the time due to several moves during school years. However, even taking into account my middling skills (this was 2nd grade, you can only be so far behind), it was clear to myself and my mother after a couple months that my teacher was being entirely unreasonably towards me and grading me unfairly. When confronted, my teacher claimed that I "clearly had some kind of learning issue" and advocated for me to be taken out of class for much of the day to go into another classroom for "slow kids" (her words, not mine. The 90s were wild.) The school and my mother both insisted on testing for these supposed issues, so I spent the better part of three weeks falling further behind while I was taken out of class multiple times a day for this testing. They tested for everything at my teacher's request - from dyslexia to ADHD to what we would call ASD today. They even tested if I was deaf. (Which my mother found particularly offensive- she was legally deaf for most of her life and had me tested immediately when I was young to see if I had the same defect. I did not. She felt like the teacher thought deafness was 'catching' or something.) After those three weeks of not getting to be with the other students, being run through a ringer of tests, and falling further behind in the class, they found nothing. I performed above average in all the tests and they determined I wasn't even eligible for the remedial program based on the tests. My teacher was livid, but without the support of the school, she couldn't force me into the special classroom. (Which would not remove me from her class btw, it would only make it so that I had to stand up alone at random indicated times and go elsewhere, likely singling me out to the other kids.) The teacher continued to try and grade me poorly, but my mother (who was exhausted working two jobs and being the wife of a navy man on deployment and thus, temporarily a 'single parent') took a heightened interest in my school work and questioned EVERY grade I got. She also got in touch with a couple other military mothers from my class and would compare our assignments to see what 'went wrong'. They were always very similar, but I got "unsatisfactory" while they'd get "excellent". Several times she took these to the principal and got my grade changed and the teacher reprimanded, but nothing else happened. My dad came home and after getting slightly better for a while, things too a turn for the worse. Suddenly my teacher wouldn't so much as look at me directly, she gave me repeated failing grades and even gave me detention twice for things I didn't even do. Soon, we found out why. Background: My father worked in intelligence for the Navy. I couldn't give more specifics than that if I wanted to, however, because almost all of his work generally and ALL of his work at that time was highly classified. Turns out that my dad worked closely with my teacher's husband and the two men did NOT see eye to eye. My dad was in a supervisor role over her husband. A couple weeks after he came home from deployment, my father noticed some classified documents that were not to leave the base were missing. As part of his job, my dad discovered that her husband had taken classified materials home several times and was obligated, for safety of other people in the military as well as just due to policy, to report and testify against my teacher's husband. Her husband was eventually charged with a Federal crime and dishonorably discharged. The timeline was perfect, but it was only after my father saw one of my (pporly) graded papers that he realized that my teacher had the same last name as the man he'd had to file charges against that the wheels started turning. It was a fairly common name, but not so common that he didn't suspect. Turns out the man, in addition to taking the materials, had been leaking classified information to his wife including the name of the supervisor who he didn't get along with, and who eventually reported him. She'd been retaliating against me, a child who didn't even understand was what going on, because HER husband didn't like my father, and it got worse when he committed several federal crimes and my dad was the one who discovered it. (Note: Neither of them were officers at the time.) The best part is that by retaliating against me, she'd essentially proven that he was blabbing about classified things to a civilian and destroyed any chance her husband had of claiming that it was an accident and that no information had actually been leaked in the process. She'd also given him a reason to get the MPs involved at the school itself, since it was not impossible that she was also leaking information at her place of work. Being a school of mostly military mothers, wives, and children, that was a SERIOUS professional problem. She was removed suddenly and we had a long term sub for most of the second semester. My grades improved immediately and I never saw her again. The funny thing is that I never knew any of this until two or three years later when the information was finally declassified. My father was unable to inform my mother OR me about ANY of it without risking exposing classified materials himself, so he had to sit in silence while I cried and my mother raged about how unfair it all was. He'd comfort me by telling me she couldn't determine my worth, and he was right, but I won't lie and say I didn't cheer when I found out what had happened. I don't know what ever happened to her, but I know her husband would now be out of a job and possibly even spending some time in prison (federal crimes are no joke...) and she likely wouldn't be getting any great recommendations for a new job either.

[@Ranger-Cealers]

I remember in high-school my biology teacher was out for me, literally out for blood. I found out year later that the reason for the hostility was cause a friend of mine had been making fun of his son at a local hobby shop during a time I didn't show up that day cause I was working on a school project at that time. I was acing his class up until this incident, and instead of asking me about it, he just assumed my guilt with the incident and started giving me lowered grades. This only lasted for a few weeks due to my routine visits with the school counselor for court ordered anger management(got into a severe fight with a bully that ended with us in the hospital). I was able to show my VP what was going on and teacher got severely reprimanded, my bad grades were regraded and I passed with a A+ I still sometimes visit my high-school a few times a year to catch up with teachers and fellow classmates that now work for the school, near half of the technical departments are filled with classmates of mine, I found out he lost his position 4 years after I graduated due to some pretty serious criminal behavior on his pc

[@DemonicGoddess]

The second story is a good laugh, god that mom deserves to lose her kid she willingly put that kid in danger not to mention pretty much attempted to destroy something and run. BUT ontop of all that her lisence was SUSPENDED before this all happened. Meaning she already did stupid things before this.

[@galacticempiregaming1747]

HER :i got a 104% in class me:wait isnt that illegal i thought its only 100%

[@kalvinemitt519]

I think we all had that one teacher we absolutely despised

[@venomgaming7014]

Me hearing ms umbridge was evil despite putting on a sweet facade: *HELLUVA BOSS IS THAT YOU?*

[@katyayek]

my second grade teacher was like this all the time and got pissed and me for going on a trip to my grandmas

[@YAMInoARTS]

I feel for the 2nd story. I had a math teacher in 7th grade who screwed me over and I had to take two easy math classes in 8th grade. And in one of those classes, I had AA+ grade! 😂 needless to say, it looked very good on my report card!

[@a_person2461]

I feel this I have had 2 teachers that first didn’t know how to do their job and second just didn’t like that I was smart so they tried to fail me only they are idiots so I still got good grades also they same thing happened with my sister a few years before I got to there class

[@Puro-to7mp]

The worker isn’t the jerk, he asked nicely TWICE and she deserved karma

[@BM-wf8jj]

Story #1: Miss Umbridge sounds like someone that got bullied in high school and abused her new position of power to get her "revenge" on people that did nothing to her. If anything, I bet that that she hates jocks and couldn't stand the fact that one was not only gifted in sports and athletic/physically fit, unlike her most likely, but was excelling in academics as well. Schools are supposed to build up the youth so that they can be prepared for adulthood and successful in life, not to tear them down over some petty grievances from the past that some unhinged teacher never got over smh. Story #2: OP is definitely not the jerk lol

[@mr.penguin0204]

Hold up MS. UMBRIDGE??? If that’s her real name, this man knows J.K. Rowling

[@sunstreaker913]

Wow. I'd expose the lies that teacher said to me and have the teacher fired for being a terrible teacher!

[@flammenwerfer7898]

I mean my honors English teacher obviously doesn't like me (I don't do anything so she has a reason to) but I don't think she'd ever go that far like how to people get that crazy

[@Def_7470]

I love how her name is Mrs. Umbridge and also is mean almost like the Harry Potter character Umbridge lol

[@TheJesterJames]

I had the same shit as the first story, but it was an art class. The teacher hated me, but I know the reason. It was because I was into the macabre. So my art wasn't like hers, but I followed her directions, just in my own way. I did nothing wrong, only made things based around Gothic culture instead of what she wanted. But I wasn't the only one, she didn't like anyone that didn't do art how she wanted. But isn't art about being unique and creative?

[@Someoneone450]

Fir the second story i would probably laugh like a hundred times already and i would have a bigger grin on my face if i said that like "why don't you just move around it it's not that hard" 😁

[@gunnergrunt69]

My sixth grade music teacher killed any desire I had to play an instrument. Sixth grade was a rough time for me, the recession was in full swing, my alcoholic stepfather was a pain in the ass and I was always in a new school every year. So my mom encouraged me to take band and I signed up. Enter Mr A-Hole. He made us pick a paper out of a hat and that would be the instrument we would get stuck playing. I wanted the trumpet or drum. I got stuck with a clarinet and a girl got stuck playing the trumpet. We both were willing to switch but noooooo!! "No switching allowed. You get what you get and you will learn to play it or I will fail you!" He was such a jerk the entire year. If you had a question then he would belittle you in front of everyone. If we did not play according to his standard he would makes us play it over and over until he liked it or got fed up. This was our first year playing an instrument and he was expecting orchestra quality levels. It was like he hated his job and took it out on us. I don't wish ill on a lot of people but I did him. Alot!

[@MrAGNTJ]

i had a teacher like this, though i never had the chance to prove her wrong or anything it was in my animation college, i had to take a introduction to photography class, and the teacher of the class i was taking in the morning was the head of the photography department, she legit would not ever let me pass, i was a bit of a lazy student but i always did my work, one way or another i always made sure to do it, but she still always would fail me, i ended up repeating that class (wich was costing my parents tons of monay) over 25 times!!! i legit thought i was bad at it, that my pictures were shit and i wasnt good at it, but then something happened, one day she gave the info for the final project, this time i wanted to make sure i could show interest, i thought "maybe i fail cause i dont pay attention in class and im always falling asleep so ill do everything to put full attention in class", it was painful but i did it, at least the best i could, anyway so she gave out the info for the final project and i heard everything, i mean i knew it already since we always do the exact same thing, only thing i had to always check on was the date, and this time i didnt hear correctly so i asked the teacher to repeat the date for me, she gave me this disappointed smirk and then asked the hole class to repeat EVERYTHING to me, i just wanted to date but she looked at me like i was legit an idiot and then getting the hole class to chant to me the info like i was stupid? she was basically humiliating me in front of everyone!, whats worst everyone went alone, people began chanting at me the info some also smirking and looking at me like i legit was an idiot after that i wrote down the date but i might as well have just left it empty cause i stopped going to that class, i was silent and embarrassed, i legit felt like i was useless and an idiot, unable to do this simple task, so i stopped going to the class for the rest of the semester, i bet she felt like she had won or something... after wards i decided to take one more class but in the night time class, and that class it was 10 times smaller but the teacher was very helpful and kind actually, he helped me understand details of the pic that could improve and all and in the final project he said i did pretty nice, apparently a ton more that could improve but i did good, i then realized the teacher legit hates me, but by that point i was tired of the class and her so i moved on and continued with my classes, but to think that someone actually would sabotage me like that for so many classes, it was such bs!, so much money wasted because this B disliked me... well i dont know anything that may have happened to her, it seems people just went along with it and nobody ever did anything so yea, nothing else to say

[@RealAmericanSicko]

ms umbrage did to the op what someone else probably did to her (in a way). her writing was probably critiqued or overshadowed by a brilliant student, and she, being immature and fragile, started on a war path for other brilliant students

[@ichbinwasser2748]

the way he says stupid is the best part

[@skywalkerjohn8965]

My teacher is as bad as Mrs umbrage. My whole class is talking, my friend who sit next to me asked me if he can borrow my calculator. I said sure and I immediately got report to the principal that I disturb her class. But unlike the op here I don't need to do anything. Suspicion began to raise when I got too many mistakes in her class but always have good impression to other teachers. She was transferred to new school

[@theminisimmer]

Miss Umbridge sounds like she's jealous

[@Maximara]

Closest equivalent I had to this kind of teacher was in middle school arts class. The C was the only thing (they didn't use averages) that kept me out of honors even though GPA wise I had a 3.8. The school now is high school only with middle school moved elsewhere.

[@NortherrorZaGod]

If the miss umbridge was my teacher she’d be having “missing” posters :D

[@toxiceyebrows]

Bro I've just started watching you and I'm already addicted somehow I think I might to sue for to much nicotine in ur vids

[@patrioticjustice9040]

I had a professor in college who would give me failing grades just because I spoke out against his political rantings in class (he was a supporter of Communism and would lecture the class about how evil everything else was outside of Communism, rather than teach us the academics we paid for)