Students, what's the worst teacher break down you've seen?

[@thatonewitch]

For the story of Mr. Jiggles: As terrifying of a situation it was, I find it hilarious he dragged the student to biology class when he said he was taking him to hell - not the dragging itself, *just the insinuation that biology class was the equivalent of hell.*

[@UnfortunatelyHomosapien]

He was right but I would say one is worse than the other if you know, you know

[@theconfusedvampire]

​@@UnfortunatelyHomosapien I love biology class! Does that make me Satan then? 😈😂

[@skullsnbones_]

​@@theconfusedvampirea devout christian bible-thumper would definitely think such. so... kind of?

[@UnfortunatelyHomosapien]

@@theconfusedvampire 🌈 you can be anything you want to be in Zootopia ✨ -Officer Judy Hopps ZPD

[@IamtheSpy2005]

It’s like when The Addams Family Movie made out New Jersey as the worst place imaginable. Since I live here, I will that they weren’t wrong…

[@96ethanh]

No freaking way! The story about the psychology class and the ducks.. I HAD THAT TEACHER!! I wonder who it was that submitted this story. I literally have the graduate duck sitting next to my computer right now. I sure hope she's doing well.. definitely the best teacher I had in high school

[@RoronoaZoro-ku5op]

WHAT, REALLY? WHAT WAS HER NAME?

[@96ethanh]

​@@RoronoaZoro-ku5opMrs. V

[@foxqueen6214]

What did the video show? What was the explanation for the ducks? I'm so curious!

[@lonelymemeswitgmemainacc]

@@96ethanhwhy were the ducks so important?

[@96ethanh]

I think it went something like, she didn't have kids of her own, so her students were kind of like kids to her. And the ducks each represented one of us.. each with their own personality, interests, etc. (The ducks were all dressed up in some way).

[@andrewhawkins6754]

5th grade, teacher comes in with a small flower pot. Said "this is how you make me feel" and dropped it on the floor before walking out. He was fired.

[@mikerich3261]

Was it the flower pot incident or something else that got him fired?

[@andrewhawkins6754]

@@mikerich3261 not sure. That was the final straw at the very least.

[@kairikasai]

I glued my fingers together and my 1st grade teacher slammed her fist through the overhead. It shattered and cut up her hand. The principal called her stupid

[@transsnack]

Funniest mental image ever.

[@tanyagarcia3721]

Man was that sad. The teacher using the class to help himself through a really tough time was awesome even though he didn't say the reason why until after the class ended was something. I commend the teacher for being so mature enough that he knew he needed that for himself and told the class why when it ended. Then to bust in tears then. Hope the teacher's in a better place emotionally now

[@NellaJade]

The duck one is going to make me cry. Literally I never do this but I'm tearing up. And just how the student still carries that duck everywhere...oh my gosh I can't put this into words. Bless that teacher's soul forever, her and her little "ducklings" have restored my faith in humanity.

[@96ethanh]

No joke, I was in her class and she was really special. It's a true story.. I still have my graduate duck too!

[@retr0robbin]

This story reminded me of a kindly teacher/TA when I was in 5th and 6th grade. She loved Winnie the Pooh, her ting car was full of decals and plushies, her lanyard, pencil case and orthopaedic sneakers (she was older) had Pooh on them. She was very kind to me, I had undiagnosed ADHD and developing a severe depression. If I remember correctly she had to leave part way through 6th grade due to her cancer coming back.

[@Swirl_of_StarFire]

Lol, the teacher photoshopping out the student from the class picture is quite petty. I'm assuming it's one of those class photos that are just for the teacher to remember their classes by, so taking him out wouldn't cause any harm, but it really shows that the teacher didn't like the kid

[@jewlsamps5678]

The teacher with the ducks🥺

[@sebby324]

My chemistry class went through 6 teachers because my class bullied the teachers so much I remember one of them just getting up and storming out the classroom directly to the HR office where she quit on the spot and never returned to teaching

[@MoritsukiRei]

I like to believe the retired duck teacher is going on cruises, still leaving her ducks for everyone

[@aspen7199]

My grade 10 english teacher was probably one of the best english teachers I have ever had. He made the class interesting and engaging and I had never had more fun with the contents of an english class before him. I sat with my friend and even though we goofed off in the class most of the time, we kept our shenanigans confined to our two desks. There was ALWAYS someone worse than we were. One time, our teacher left for a couple minutes so i went to get water and when i got back he was screaming at the class and said "some of you are failing this class for the second time". Oh, and the class was also terrible to every substitute teacher we ever had. All of them complained and we always got yelled at whenever the teacher came back. That was his first, and last time teaching a 10th grade english class. He was genuinly a great english teacher, miss that guy.

[@koolandblue]

My Spanish teacher came to school drunk one day my freshman year of high school. She worked mornings at another school and afternoons at my school. After lunch she stumbled into the classroom from the hallway and nearly fell out of her chair when trying to sit down. She was running into walls and drunkenly yelling “como estás?” Another teacher must have seen her walking strangely in the hallway and asked if she was okay. She loudly responded that she wasn’t joking around and she had to teach the kids. This woman was just plastered beyond belief. She probably got drunk at lunch and was lucky she didn’t get into an car accident on her way over from the other school. The other teacher knew something was wrong and quickly returned with the principal and two security guards. They told her to come with them right now. She protested and the security guys grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out. Another one of the school’s Spanish teachers had to watch over the class for the rest of the day. We all just spent the rest of day gossiping about what we just saw. We never saw our former teacher again, unsurprisingly. Never found out exactly what happened but we think she was forced into early retirement. A few weeks later we got a new teacher and she managed to stay sober during class.

[@NijutheWolf]

The speed of early. Also, I had a teacher who was the opposite. He was so flipping chill. He'd let us sit on the desk, near the window, on the windowsill, so long as we did the work and were quiet.

[@that_pan_chick8650]

My math teacher in senior year has a tradition. Every year, the seniors get to take one of the THOUSANDS of little pet shop toys. They were all over, and the second part of the tradition is that you buy some and give back to the hoard when you graduate college. I went back 6 years later with a pack of the toys and my teacher shot up from his seat and had a tiny celebration because he knew what a pack of toys meant, what he didn’t expect when I walked in at 24 was my 4 year old daughter I had right before college.

[@IsYitzach]

Olive Oyl is a main character from Thimble Theater. Thimble Theater is first name for the comic strip that would become Popeye.

[@ariannarenee389]

My sophomore year of highschool was my world history teachers last year before retirement, and we were the worst behaved she had. Between the two semesters where my schedule changed, second semester somehow got worse with other students saying mean things about her behind her back. I was a quiet kid for the most part, but I was a good student. Plus, it was honestly hard not to pass her class unless you didn't try at all given how easy it was. My teacher wasn't the best by any means, but she wasn't a bad person. She was a sweet older lady, who I caught crying a few times as I was almost always first to her class. I learned from another teacher she was really sensitive, even if she didn't show it much, and one day, she thanked me. All I did was actually do the work (she'd give us 10-20 minutes at the end of each class), and when we went over it the next day, I'd answer questions since almost no one else wanted to. After she thanked me one day, she apologized about the following class period about to get awkward. And well... it definitely did. First she went on a rant about how she caught nearly half of the class cheating, and that it was an automatic zero to every paper she found plagiarized. That students who knew they were caught needed to go and redo every paper, starting from the one we were going over today. She then looked at me, and told me I wasn't allowed to answer any questions. As she proceeded with going over our paper from the day before, anyone who didn't cheat who answered a question was then asked to not answer anymore questions for the cheaters in the class. It was definitely an awkward class period, but if I'm being honest, it was nice seeing my teacher find her voice before she retired. It wasn't the last time I saw her cry, and after a student pried one day, she admitted to never being married with a sad look, and I found out she didn't have any close family members alive anymore. And when I think about how her last year of teaching was so awful, it makes me sad. Please remember the people around you are human. They have feelings, and even if you don't like them, that doesn't mean they deserve to be made fun of or belittled. As I believe that was the biggest reason she was more stern about the plagiarism issue in my class that year, even for it already being a serious issue in of itself

[@burndowntheworld]

My teacher spent halloween with here friends and had some videos posted of her (stuff you wouldn't want a class of 15-16yo to see) and of course, someone found it and shared it with the whole school. She never had a public breakdown about it, however we all knew she cried when she “went to print some sheets”

[@Mediados]

The problem is that some professions influence the way you have to carry yourself in private. Any position where you are a figure of authority, when others look up to you, is such a profession. Teachers, actors, politicians, etc.. So on one hand, I understand. But on the other, this was to be expected when you go out and don't tell your friends not to post videos of you.

[@DisabledgamerJ1]

Story 11 took an odd turn. At first I thought the teacher was upset about 9/11 but then she wanted coke? Withdrawals?

[@asherpee]

i wonder if she was a recovering addict and 9/11 triggered it

[@chevonmahabir5403]

Our teacher, just sat quietly at his chair after we were being rowdy. we were teenage Aholes. But the silence was worse than being yelled at espacially from this teacher. He just sat said nothing and at the end of the period got up and left without saying anything. We felt soo bad......We apologised next class and never pulled that in his class again.

[@Mediados]

Teachers getting angry is one thing. But when they give up on someone, that is even worse because you realize that this is different. You havn't angered them, they're just actually hurt.

[@gooberV2]

that duck one is the first time ive cried in several months

[@bodaciousbroski8150]

Had a teacher in middle school who always put down his students for being children. Stuff like "Why are you all so childish?" Bc we're 13 Mr.O. Anyway, his breakdown came in the form of... Not being obvious. He was kind of scary actually because he never yelled, never emoted, nothing. He (60-70 something) accused me (13) of assaulting him sexually. I was drawing anime in my personal art notebook and ignoring yet another one of his stupid rants. Upon getting accused (he used the r word) i immediately dislocated and don't remember the rest of the day bc i myself am a victim and had gotten out of some heavy shit not 2 years before being accused in front of an entire classroom. Word spread that he lost his shit on me and it further cemented hate from around the school. On the bright side he did give me straight As the rest of the year. Didn't get fired or even punished.

[@skyprice1279]

My favourite teacher was so stressed from the year he had a panic attack. This panic attack was so bad he thought he was having a heart attack. He left class with no warning and disappeared. I was his TA so I set the class up with their lesson grabbed a teacher from across the hallway and just tried getting him settled. He went home and didn’t come back for three months. I taught a few classes of his to keep the classes afloat until a sub got there because i knew this teachers room and organization. For three months i helped every sub n tried keeping classes going. I was a senior in highschool the teacher ended up being okay. I still talk to him to make sure he dosent freak out again.

[@Sammy-Barn]

This happened today. I will keep it short and sweet so I do not have a mental breakdown. TLDR: My teacher started yelling because some people were being really mean to my classmate, I ended up being the one to comfort my classmate. I have this teacher, Ms. M, who I do not really like that much, but she is a good teacher I gotta admit. Today we were *important here, WERE* having a free day until my classmate, Abby, began to cry because her fake friends were being super mean to her, Ms. M started yelling at the people and stopped the free day in its tracks, making me cry and melt down so there was 2 crying students in the class. I soon calmed down enough to hug Abby and told her her friends were fake ones, and the teacher agreed with me. I invited Abby to sit with me and told her I was there for her if she needed to talk.

[@SecretSquirrelProduc]

My step father made fun of my laugh as a kid. Now i just dont.

[@charlesmckenziecomedy2915]

Story 9 at 15 was the first time I experienced that pain my best friend took his own life. Almost 8 years later and it still fucks with me

[@Fade_NB]

My second grade teacher had a breakdown after a kid who wasn’t the most stable started “joking” about developmentally disabled people using the r slur, she was on her knee crying because one of her sons was developmentally disabled and that kid wasn’t seen at the school after that

[@zenz0ha472]

I actually miss 99% of my high school teachers, they were the nicest people. Pretty much all of them had inside jokes with every set of students that passed through their classrooms. I think the best part was that, even though I was not good at getting my work done, I was always drawing, even on the whiteboards. And occasionally, my teachers would leave the drawings I made up on their whiteboards for every class to see for the rest of the day, and would tell me how much they enjoyed seeing my art decorating their classes. They even got me into a Graphic Arts class to help me get my credits and a career class to help me find work after I finished school. I already had a job when I turned 16, but I had to move states when I graduated, so that class helped me quite a bit. To me, they were a lot like second parents, and they tried so hard to help me get my schoolwork done. 6 years later, and I still miss them a lot. Had this one teacher who everyone loved, and one of my friends got caught talking during a lecture. The teacher’s response? He threw a marker cap at her. She busted out laughing and promised never to do it again, and the teacher had a good chuckle too.

[@selacseel]

Points off for not knowing about the most remarkable extra-ordinary fella - Popeye the Sailor! 😅

[@ErzsabetJones]

A laugh is also an expression of happiness in a way, and criticizing someone for their laugh takes away some of that happiness, not just in that moment, but every time they laugh from then on.

[@contortionyx]

My 7th grade math teacher was awesome. She taught in a really fun and clear way. I had struggled in math since 4th grade (due to bad teachers), my 7th grade teacher actually taught me how to take notes in class so that I could look back when I needed a refresher. Literally no other teacher had bothered to do this before. This next bit happened when I was in 9th grade, so I no longer had her as a teacher anymore. I noticed a different teacher was teaching 7th grade math and got kinda bummed about that - I had hoped to be able to go to her if I ever needed help in math again. I asked my mom (who was really involved with the school) what happened. She didn't know but decided to ask around and Oh. My. God. Turns out the teacher was going through a divorce that she was not handling well, to put it lightly. She would frequently rant at the students about her (ex)husband, the divorce process, or whatever was bothering her for the entire class period but by far the worst thing she did was *show porn to the class*. MULTIPLE TIMES! The kids just did not know what to do and she was so well liked by the students that everyone was just kinda like "maybe it's a one off thing??" I guess? So, yeah. Needless to say, she got fired for that and it was a hush-hush thing at the school for a bit.

[@kyototomokui6676]

Olive Oyl is a reference to Popeye, specifically referencing his love interest.

[@blazefire8119]

MR JIGGLES IS MY GREAT GRANDPAS NAME AND HE USED TO SELL PEPPERS IN THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS BEFORE IT WAS WHAT IT IS TODAY!! HOW DARE OP SAY IT AINT A REAL NAME

[@burndowntheworld]

Grade 9 science class. We were doing a lab about water displacement. We would fill a beaker with water to a certain line, then drop a small object in to see how much it raised, and it determined the weight or mass of an object, I’m not really sure. One of the objects was a piece of copper, and while I was writing the results down, my friend dumped it out down the drain along with the piece of copper. When the teacher found out, he lost his fucking mind, and of course, me being the less popular kid, I was blamed for the whole thing.

[@oakleytori]

I was not ready for the Popeye and Olive Oyl reference!

[@eggnogalcoholic]

This story is not a “negative” type of breakdown, what I mean is that I didn’t hurt my teacher even though I made her cry in the middle of class: Previously at the beginning of the year, our 11th grade AP English teacher said this AP class is tough on everyone and she might cry at some point, she was saying this in jest. A few months into the school year, my friends over lunch had made our AP English teacher a little apple out of red cheese wax and with a snap of pencil lead for a stem, it was a silly but well meaning gag gift. They presented it to her between classes (so no other students saw this interaction). She thought it was a cherry tomato, a real one, and tried to eat it, but my friends stopped her in time. Later that day, after my friends had told me what happened, we actually had her class. Our teacher was going over how to format citations for essays and listing made up examples. In the middle of her explaining this, during a pause in her sentence, I got up from my desk in the mid row and walked to the back of the classroom to the mechanical pencil sharpener. As I was walking, I took the brief silence as an opportunity to loudly say “or, another book citation example, [teacher’s last name, teacher’s first name], ‘Wax, Lead, and other Edibles.’” I projected this to her and the whole class while my back was turned. As I finished sharpening my pencil, I noticed there was still an awkward silence in the room after my casual interjection. I turned back, and saw across the room that my teacher was CRYING from her stool beside the whiteboard, hot tears and red faced, her cries a mixture of utter embarrassment and manic laughter. What was so funny about that moment was that NO ONE else in the classroom had any guess why something so random would suddenly make the teacher cry. She still loves to retell that story to people. Years later, I am still best friends with that teacher. Back then I was a teacher’s pet/honor student, but I was also a shit disturber. Over the years of knowing her in middle and high school, my teacher knew I fully respected/adored her and I had gained her respect and trust back, but I also took every opportunity to mess with her that I could. I had already started calling her by her first name midway through high school, but only when it was just her and my friends. Now that I’m an adult, many years later, she is a core member of my close circle of three best friends. She’s the reason I met my now husband, and she was even the matron of honor at my wedding. I adore that woman. So yes, I did make my teacher have a breakdown in class, but she loves the memory of it, and I still occasionally get her apple themed stuff to remind her of the gag.

[@sarahm8695]

For reference, Olive Oil is from Popeye and is Popeye's love interest, which is pretty insulting since she looks goofy (which makes sense since this was a cartoon from like the 60s iirc)

[@NekoKuro-il8rz]

They could mean she looks like Olive from the live action Popeye movie from 1980.

[@lindybarnes641]

What kind of school doesn’t have air conditioning in an area where it gets over 95 degrees!?

[@TheWickkit]

My 9th grade history teacher would be talking and just stop and space out staring out the window for a minute, then pick up where he left off eventually. We all thought he was stoned or something, especially after he showed us the first few episodes of the show Roots and decided we were so engaged with it that we were going to watch the entire series. For like 2 - 3 months we had the easiest class ever, I don't even think we got tested much on it. Found out later that the teacher's son had died. No one reported his space outs or made a big deal of the extended TV show lesson (and Roots is a pretty historically accurate depiction of the terrible history of slavery in the US, so we were technically studying history still). He did resume his curriculum with his witty personality even returning after he'd had some time to mourn his son.

[@aidinniplays]

My 8ths grade year my Spanish teacher just started crying in her 1st and second period classes her students were very bad then later in the day she got better with my class bc my class was way more behaved just to be clear I’m going into 9th and this was a few months ago

[@MNNski]

Olive Oyl is the female protagonist in Popeye The Sailor Man. An old American cartoon.

[@Markyroson]

13:02 fairly sure she knew at least one person who died in 9/11.

[@Lampe2020]

19:03 When I was a child I had extreme rage problems and in my rage fits I'd throw random objects around. And I absolutely know the feeling of not having some optimally-heavy object to thrust at a wall to relieve some of that anger!

[@BraydenParker-s5t]

The Olive oil thing is probably a Popeye reference

[@socalgal714]

Ms Jillian Jacobson un-alived herself in room 902 at EDHS in 2015. Students found her in the morning swinging from the ceiling.

[@jadusstone]

my class the rowdy class and no one really wanted to teach a group of unmedicated or overly medicated kids or just completely unhinged kids. you know the kids who go "i dunno" when you ask why they stuck a piece of metal wire into a socket. (Yea this happened three times through middle school). Anyway we got a sub one day it was monday so everyone was more less wanting school to be over, i was more or less tunned out and doodling just wanting the day to be over. The sub walked in i dont remember her name so lets say her name is miss r. Miss R informes us our regular teacher is out sick and she would be taking over for the week and then chaos reigned. Its like someone pressed a button and most of the students just went insainely nuts. They were throwing chairs at each other, trying to hang from the cieling, trying to knock the lockers in the class over. I was hiding under my desk in my own world of how do i draw pikachu again. when mr r screamed so loud everyone stopped, even me we just looked at her. She started screaming, crying and shouting, throwing everything on the desk off. Then charged out of the class yelling, im serious, im never working in this school again, as she left the building. It took about five minutes before the principal came in to scream at us. he made the class clean up the chaotic mess and procceeded the teacher the class for the next week by then even he was tired of us. Before anyone asks how i knew some kids were not medicated or overly medicated its because the guys talked about how much meds they were on or how there parents just refuse to believe they needed meds like it was just casual talk. The girls did this too btw even me who wasn't not on anything but thought i needed autisim meds. we class never did did get less chaotic if anything we got worse

[@Johndough-v7r]

I have a story!: (not really a break down but still cried) : we were reading a book that was real and took place a long time ago but in the book this family was trying to get out of a country I forgot why but they obviously needed supplies and there was only one store but they wouldn’t let them buy anything because they were black then the teacher told us a story where little kids couldn’t get on a bus because they were black and they were called n words and she started crying

[@CrimsonFoxxo]

All I gotta say, Mr Collins and coach Alexander were terrifying when they got angry

[@kairikasai]

A bus driver hit a kid (the kid ended up being fine) but she was a nervous wreck. Kids kept slapping the back of the bus and she broke down crying and quit

[@DumbAsh00]

My highschool bus driver, who was actually a chill guy, lost it a few times cuz the students on that bus were rhe WORST. They did their absolute best to push all his buttons. And when he stopped the bus and got up to try and stop them they would get worse and more directed at him. Then he would yell, and they would push more and more until he was red and just gave up and drove the rest of the route seething. He had a heart attack before our class graduated. He was only like 52 and didnt seem too unhealthy. It was definitely from stress from having such awful rats as passengers

[@King_Ddraig]

I wasn't in school on the day, but my class made our music teacher break down crying and lock herself in the cupboard to get away from them for the remaining 45 minutes of that lesson, I don't know what specifically was done cos nobody would give me a straight answer, but they were all mad at ME because I wasn't getting detention along with the rest of them (because obviously, I wasn't there, and wasn't part of it) it sucks, because she was one of my favourite teachers and was very friendly, I hope she was ok after that, if i remember correctly she left the school not long after that event...

[@sinpourmoi2765]

The music industry director at my school cried during our Basics of the Music Industry course when talking about how important it is to celebrate and support women, not only in the music industry, but because he had daughters and couldn’t imagine anyone treating them less than they deserved and never wanted that to happen to any of his female students either. I cried.

[@nailgut101]

My Algebra/AFDA teacher (I had both classes with him) was telling my class about his brother who had passed away in his arms. He was in the army so it is hard to make this man break down, but this story hit him like a truck. He started crying toward the end of his story. The class I was in wasn’t the greatest class and he didn’t like it so he moved the next year. I sat at my desk as he told his story of his brother and I felt true empathy for this man. Im sorry if this comment is poorly written, I’m just not the best at telling my side of stories or stories overall.

[@dinxie_]

My story is: In fifth grade I had what I still consider one of my best teachers and everyone in the class loved her. One day after every one in the grade five cohort was yelled at for chanting (which was described as gang behavior) some kid (who I'm pretty sure was autistic or neurodivergent in some way) continued disrupting class and was being a complete asshole eventually getting to the point where our teacher got the principal and that kid was dragged out of class and our teacher was crying at this point and everyone felt so bad for her eventually we all comforted her and the day continued as usual. She did leave that school at the end of the year and everyone decided to make a tribute video to her. One of my best teachers and she did not deserve to put up with that bullcrap.

[@atc35012]

When I was in 9th grade algebra class I raised my hand and asked the teacher for help with my assignment. We had gone from basic math to trigonometry or maybe it was calculus in one week. I have taken both trig and calc since and I still am not sure what kind of math he was teaching at the time. The class was supposed to be algebra 1. He started screaming. Then he threw a metal trashcan across the room in my direction still screaming about how he is a good teacher and we need to at the very least pretend to understand our lessons. I went to the guidance counselor and asked to be moved to a different class for my personal safety.

[@Cypress-ld7rg]

Olive oyl references a character from "Popeye The Sailor" loony toons cartoons

[@WendyDarling1974]

Oh, man. I took two years of Latin in middle school, for the first year we had this teacher who was strict (ex military) but funny at the same time. For the second year we had another teacher who was… special. To call him uncool is an understatement. Think worst nerd stereotype, plaid clothes, 1950s hair, shaped like an egg, and being realllly into theater. When the high school put on its musicals, he got so enthusiastic he would buy the promotional shirt for the show wear it over his regular button up shirt. On one occasion, he got so enthusiastic about the show that he stood on his teacher chair and started singing “Oklahoma!” Anyway, that was just background. As for the actual class, there were some students who just could not resist sassing him, making fun of him, etc. They even had a nickname for him based on his name that was really not kind. This one kid who I think was named Adam, was such a troublemaker in class, plus insulting the teacher, that the teacher called him “the apex”of trouble. Now, of course, after that, everyone just started calling this kid Apex. So one day in class Apex and the other cruel kids just went too far in acting up, and the Latin teacher just started to cry, like totally broke down, and left. I felt so bad because I’m a really empathetic student and also a goody two shoes. The next day someone else came in, I think the assistant principal, and talked to us about what we had done, and how we need to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and follow the golden rule. The teacher came back, and the teasing was less.

[@acanadian4785]

My principal put me in charge of my English class after the class before us made our teacher quiet. Her brother just died of cancer and she recently got news that she had it. Several boys were “poking fun” (harassing) her about it. She retired right then And there. 2 years later we met for drinks when we could legally drink. About 1 month after she passed. She was the only English teacher I ever liked

[@tally_ish]

20:28 is their teacher Lucifer from Hazbin Hotel?

[@oonachestnut509]

Maybe that teacher had someone who worked or was just in one of the towers.

[@NekoKuro-il8rz]

OMG the dress code thing! In my freshman year of high school the senior prank from the class above was for almost all the boys in the senior class to come to school dressed in tank tops, skirts, heels and wigs and they "broke into" (a teacher in on the prank) let them into the auditorium and they held a beauty pageant in the middle of school during lunch (the entire school had an hour lunch at the same time) with music blasting from the auditorium. It was hilarious because after they had the beauty pageant they football victory style carried the "Beauty queen" around the cafeteria while the rest of the school just got to enjoy the shenanigans. My sophomore year they seniors had a food fight in the cafeteria and got the hour long lunch taken away and we were given scheduled lunches depending on grade after that. All the seniors had to stay after and clean up the mess from the food fight and apologize to the lunch ladies

[@LegoTFGuy]

High school computer class, some idiots were acting up and the teacher yelled then left the room. Shortly after there was a loud bang, and one of the students ran out of the room to check on him because they thought he passed out- turns out he had just slammed his hands on the wall out of frustration. Fortunately all ended up being fine.

[@DumbAsh00]

The teacher having a breakdown and the kid turning on the tv and flipping through the channels is messed up but that premise made me gaffaw

[@JagnaJagoda]

In first year of HS, my basic physics teacher was a high functioning alcoholic. Near the end of the year grup of class clowns/bullies started throwing innuendos suggesting she wasn't as sneaky as she thought she was. She thrown a huge angry tantrum, she was promptly taken to the principal and then removed from the premises, after breathalyzer test. I don't think she was arrested but she definitely was stripped of her teaching title. In Poland everyone who supervises minors has to adhere to very strict rules.

[@punksley]

when i was in middle school i had a doctor who tardis backpack i got for school. a teacher of mine i had never had or met made fun of me for it. i fucked with him for the rest of the year (being an asshole kid, i’m not proud of it and i did apologize to him for my actions) until he finally snapped in front of the whole class. after that he told me that he actually really likes doctor who and he didn’t mean to make fun of me and was going thru a lot personally. we ended on cool terms with each other as i shared i was also going thru a lot personally. after that he helped me spell things bc of my dyslexia and i had a 99% in his class bc he was a good teacher. teenagers can really suck. i’m just glad that we talked abt it and were able to figure it out

[@punksley]

a good story is in college one of my professors was laid off and when she told us we all went up and did a group hug (i went to a small art school). it was v bittersweet

[@KrispyKalamari]

My sophmore French teacher left for a few months (i think she was bipolar cuz she had lots of the traits) and when she came back this kid in my class started bullying her. Saying stuff like "id rather kill myself then be in this class" and "i learned more in a week with the sub than i have from you all year". She broke down crying and was gone by friday

[@alannamcneill5679]

If Mr. Jiggles is going to send me to hell I would've been like 'I think the Math teacher is in the other room'.

[@Constance77127]

This took place in the winter of 1971/72. We never stayed at the school for lunch; we'd always go home at 12 noon and be back for afternoon classes by 1:30 PM. So we were at home room. A spiral of smoke started descending from the ceiling, making couple of the girls sick. One of the boys told our teacher to look up. Our teacher was a brand new university graduate and she tended to be a little nervous and flighty to begin with. Anyways, Miss M literally leaped out of her shoes and took off running for the school office. No pulling of the fire alarm, no getting the students out of the room. One of the boys had a good head on his shoulders, got the students out of the room into the hallway, turned the light off and closed the door. Mr. B had the homeroom next door; he was always grumpy. He heard students out in the hallway, went out and demanded why the students were in the hall, not in our room. "There's a fire in the room." "Yeah, sure. Get back in your room." "No, there is a fire in our room." He looked in. "Oh, there IS a fire in your room." Mr. B got our class and his class to move down the hallway, beyond the fire door which separated the school in half. Then he pulled the alarm. By this time, Miss M had informed the of principal of the fire. He got on the intercom and directed teachers to move their students quickly and quietly into the gymnasium, which was at the very opposite end of the school from the "fire.". We could not go outside - we were in the midst of a blizzard, with temps at -40. This was the best that could be done in terms of a fire drill. The fire department rolled up, along with an ambulance. Turned out, it wasn't a true fire; it was wiring which shorted out in the insulation , in the ceiling. Smokey, but not nearly the catastrophe it could have been The firefighters got out their big fans to air out the north end of the school, blow the smoke out the back doors by that room. We remained in the gym for the rest of the afternoon. Not sure when Miss M retrieved her shoes.

[@Csurico25]

… getting made fun of your laugh isn’t normal? My family always calls my laugh a “dying dolphin” and I started to try not to laugh because of it (they actually thought it was bad enough to tell me to not laugh like that). My voice did get deeper but that did hurt for a while

[@sparkyshore3543]

12:50 The question that instantly popped in my head was "whom did she lose?"

[@victordauphin2949]

I was a real shit starter in high school, especially with substitute teachers. We had this one substitute who came straight from somewhere in Africa. Huge guy, like 6 foot 8 and built like a fridge. He'd been getting more and more pissed off at my smart ass remarks, and at some point went on a rant about how us Canadian students have no respect and I responded along the lines of respect is earned. He started yelling at me and told me to come to his desk at the front right now. So I did, and he grabbed me by my neck and lifted me up like Darth Vader while yelling at me that he has 3 sons bigger than me at home, and if I don't shut up and do as I'm told, I'm gonna have "problems". One of the other students ran out and got another teacher, who got the principal, and he ended up being fired on the spot.

[@joleenquack]

3:00 yeah. I used to struggle not to laugh out loud a lot since someone I thought was my friend decided to mock me for how I sounded either like a hyena or like I was barking since it was just one short sharp loud sound. Hated my laugh for years.

[@Choujifangirl]

5:39 one of the things I’ve learned is that you never know what a person is going through so you should never say such loaded and potentially harmful things to anyone because you don’t know their story

[@rebeccareisman1435]

Only had one breakdown in front of students when I was teaching, and it was when I was telling my mentees that I was quitting. I just couldn’t keep doing it, I was in the hospital 5 times over the course of the year for stress related things and had no energy for anything outside of work and I just kind of broke down when my mentees were upset that I was leaving because I didn’t want to let them down

[@thisisstevendavidCampbellrobb]

One of my teachers turned up smelling of alcohol told the senior leader to f off

[@TheDoubleTea]

The duck story made my heart melt

[@DJR3M1XX]

I'll contribute to this one. When I was younger my narcissistic father lead to my brother, and I having our fair share of issues. Issues like not having confidence, and being very socially awkward. This lead to me, and eventually my brother becoming extremely truant from school. So even though I was always smart, and based off that good at school.. By the time I reached 10th grade I was left having to retake some of the courses I had earlier in the day during 9th grade. Since the few days I was just late instead of absent was enough for me to be unable to pass those classes due to seat time. Since we had a separate building for 9th grade as we did 10th-12th it meant me getting placed in a class with the "cool" kids for lack of better words. One of these days one of the "cool" kids decided he wanted to take notes on his new laptop. Well.. our teacher wasn't a fan of this. After asking "cool" kid to put the laptop away, he refused. I feel like it's important to mention that the teacher was super pregnant, and wasn't necessarily the most bubbly person even before. So when the "cool" kid refused, a few students audibly gasped, and the rest of us went wide eyed knowing what was about to happen. Before any one could take another breath the very pregnant teacher was at the "cool" kids desk, and slamming the laptop closed on his fingers... Then the student, and teacher began playing tug of war for the laptop... The "cool" kid ended up winning, and had gathered his things to head to the principals office while the teacher began having a mental break down. I believe the "cool" kid was back in class by the next week, but we never saw that teacher again. If I'm not mistaken she got fired, and maybe even received an article in the local news paper over the situation. Not that I'm happy a pregnant woman was fired right before having a baby meaning she won't get the benefits she was planning for... but we were all celebrating when we were told we would never have to see her again. She was a tyrant, and no one liked her. The school probably should have thought more about what class they placed her in before hand. That wasn't the first screaming match/ fight she got in with a student from that class, but I'm glad it was the last. TLDR: Rude, and short tempered pregnant teacher was teaching a class of troubled students. Troubled student brought laptop for notes, teacher didn't like that. Student, and teacher played tug of war for laptop after student refused to put away said laptop after one request. Teacher got fired, whole class celebrated

[@micahmurphy4546]

"I'm personally taking you to hell." *goes to biology class*

[@LadyTarasque]

I was in a general arts program.. and at one point we had to do placements.. some classmates took up teaching and they said it was a nightmare o-o that kids weren't anything like back when they attended. Anywho.. nothing so dramatic as these ones, but i got caught in crossfires when a temp teacher threw an eraser at a classmate (can't remember what started it) and got hit 🙃 then there's that time i had an English class end early because some of my classmates wouldn't stop talking (no meltdown)

[@A5PEN-W0LF]

My auto shop teacher, Mr. Morris, was absolutely terrifying. He was a former captain in the U.S. Navy, had anger issues, and despised half the class. reggae music (and weed) was the only thing that could keep Mr. Morris from losing his shit. Some kid told him that Bob Marley was shit, so Mr. Morris threw a breaker bar through this kid's windshield. Also, he went on a long rant about the prophet Muhammad and barcode scanners. He was fired for being high on bath salts during my senior year

[@marialuizanascimento9800]

my history teacher broke down bc a boy said "How she loves going to thr bathroom". In my school the teachers go to the students classes as it is less time consuming, and EVERY SINGLE DAY she'd go to the bathroom for 5-10 mins and leave us waiting doing nothing, and this boy told everyone how we were late in the material, and how she needed to be quick. The woman full on broke down for 45 minutes + wouldnt let us leave for break bc of that comment. She was fired next semester but we suffered a lot with beeing so late with the poor new guy

[@envviro]

2:26 They weren’t intentionally making fun of her though, it was just an involuntary bout of laughter. It can be difficult to stifle laughter when it comes suddenly. So I wouldn’t blame them for that. What matters is that they apologized.

[@TheTSense]

Everyone failed because he mixed up smart and cute. 7 page text about an car ad of an smart. Nobody wrote how snall, cute and cuddly the car was, ranting about saving gas.

[@AngharadMac]

That happened to me once with a brownie that a friend of mine made. He said to eat a third. So I did and went to a party. I was chair bound for 5 hours. I was so blazed I have no idea what happened til it wore off. Except for the host (man of the couple) was talking to me for a long time. I couldn't do anything and I was not a lightweight at the time.

[@Liam1037]

Listen to me olive oyl I’ve been out looking for that lil girl every damn day

[@Ziyanani]

23 renminds me of somethign that happened ion my 8th grade or 9th grade year. so we're in choir, some poor sod comes in wearing a once white now pink shirt.. the bullying starts until one of the seniors stood up for him. captain of the football team, hottest guy in class but the sweetest most wonderful human.. would talk to anyone, was friends with everyone. he left class and apparently walked himself home, came back in a BRIGHT PINK shirt, had to have grabbed it from mom or sister, had pearl buttons and everything.. no one said a damn thing

[@juanf5391]

I'm a former teacher. The reason why many of these teachers break down during class is because they feel trapped in the profession. More than half of these teachers have mortgages and student loans; however, three-plus years into the profession they want to quit but can't afford to. I didn't have a mortgage and I didn't have student loans because I used the G.I Bill, so after five years of teaching I was ready to take my master's degree and quit to a less-paying job. Yes, I was making 60k a year teaching, but it wasn't worth the large classes and unrealistic expectations that caused me severe anxiety. I started drinking more and I hated the idea of waking up the next day. I'm happier now.

[@Mediados]

It is sad that teachers, despite being in such a vital position in society, are especially prone to experiencing a personal crisis or become disillusioned with their jobs. The school system isn't only hard on the students it seems.

[@elevan11]

Once my clarinet teacher yelled at me for leaving my clarinet at home (it wasn’t my fault) while i was already crying

[@the_MrFloof]

I did not expect to cry over rubber ducks and a retirement during my shift, but here I am 🥺🦆

[@ImmerGenau2624]

9/11 story, she may have lost someone or more than one person. She probably didn’t live on the East coast, it impacted people around nyc, pa, and dc a bit more directly so that behavior would have made complete sense and did when people had so much grief. But I’ve been told that in other parts of the country that wasn’t the case as much for people in general to still be so impacted for years after

[@SeaWing82]

Ok, I have one. So I always hated this teacher. I had her for one year but didn't end up having her again. She ended up moving grades and was placed in the one I was currently in. She's a science teacher and we're taking a science test. My science class was right next to hers. We finish our test and then hear screaming from her room. She runs in crying and my teacher walks her out into the hall. I find out later she was crying because someone in her class told her the right answer to a question was wrong. So confused on how this made her cry but ok.

[@brianschuerch7059]

my freshman english teacher was a tad paranoid (tin hat level). Every Monday we asked her how her dog Chipper was and she's freak out and ask us what we did to him. Of course it she let it slip what part of town she lived in and had an uncommon sir name so we knew where she lived. as the year went on, we would act like we planned something and she got more rattled. she disappeared after graduation. And no, we never went near her place or even saw the dog in person

[@Kyoobur9000]

In Jiggles’ name we pray.

[@cobalion-aaditya457]

I wonder if Story 11 knew someone who was at the towers when the planes hit

[@nationalinstituteofcheese3012]

Funny thing is, my former therapist told me she also got called olive oil as a girl for how skinny she was (?).

[@Markyroson]

16:15 think Popeye

[@alisonbailey2636]

I feel for these teachers kids being jerks and they are just trying to do their jobs

[@Freckris]

Story 11 is 2 years after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York City. She might have lost friends or family in the attack, and 2 years later, was still having a hard time grieving.

[@kairikasai]

Obese kid leaned on another kid to try to crush him while they were fighting. Our teacher broke down crying and went on leave

[@RabidWildCreature]

My German teacher is an American but ig he had a Germany overflow when he went and his accent is German now 😭

[@samurailevi49]

For the Olive Oyl story, it’s a reference to Popeye The Sailor.