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Adults Who Pretended to Be Teenagers and Got Surprisingly Far

Most people joke about going back to school when adult life gets too heavy. Bills, work, family problems, and all the small responsibilities that pile up can make the old routine of lockers and homework look almost simple from a distance. But a few people took that idea much further than daydreaming. They put on…

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Teachers Disclose The Absolute Worst Thing A Student Has Ever Done To Them

Being a teacher is one of the most noble professions there is, but it’s not a walk in the park.

Teachers are underpaid and underappreciated.

Besides teaching, the amount of drama they have to deal with is unimaginable.

So Redditor TheRealZFinch wanted to hear from all the educators who have had to endure while teaching other people’s children.

They asked:

“Teachers of Reddit, what’s the worst thing a student did to you?”

Evil Parents

“I had a parent push me, spit on me and slap me when she came to my classroom unannounced, because I had given her daughter a detention for spitting in my face.”

“Parent denied it, school did nothing. Don’t teach anymore! I’m in Australia FYI.” ~ Apprehensive-Ad4244

“My girlfriend also wants to quit teaching because of shitty kid’s parents.”  ~ NeokratosRed

“I feel for you, you do years worth of difficult training because you want to work with and help children, change the world for the better, and you wind up being crap on every day instead by parents.”

“Luckily, teaching skills are very transferrable, I’m now in the disability services industry.”  ~Apprehensive-Ad4244

Bad Kids…

“A friend of mine is a teacher is a rough neighborhood.”

“One day immediately after school she got a call from the principal telling her to stay in her classroom with the door locked instead of leaving like she normally did.”

“The police arrested one of her students, who had bragged to another student about kidnapping the teacher.”

“He was arrested waiting by her car with a knife and zip ties.”  ~ SoullessDad

Private School Drama…

“I was slammed against a wall by a 17 year old kid who then wiped his hands all over my face and kissed me.”

“One other student saw and she laughed. I left the position immediately. It was a private drama school.”  ~ Ieatclowns

Birmingham UK…

“I’ve been mostly lucky, but I’ve had 2 bad ones, both while training.”

“Both these were in Birmingham UK.”

“A student aged 7 brought a Stanley knife into school and was taking it out of his pocket and messing with it while looking straight at me.”

“It was pretty scary knowing he knew exactly what he was doing.”

“A very aggressive child attacked me, digging his nails into my arm and drawing blood. He then twisted my arm backwards.”

“That was a fun report.”

“I’ve also had a chair thrown at me. Fun times.”  ~ Winchesters_TARDIS

“Hey, also Birmingham, UK here!”

“But I am still a student, in Sixth Form right now.”

“The following stories are all from secondary, though.”

“One of my friends almost started a physical confrontation with a teacher, to the point that they were physically yelling at each other and squaring up.”

“Another time a group of boys yelled sexual expletives at a female member of staff (the boys that few people liked, the number of their friends decreased YoY).”

“Teachers started searching students bags because so many people were bringing in weapons. “

“In a school near mine, a teacher got stabbed, chairs were being thrown around, a teachers arm got broken, it was bad – but that wasn’t my school.”

KABOOM!

“Mine still had its fair share of incidents not pertaining to teachers, but we were not that bad thankfully.”  ~ mxlevolent

“I’ll never forget the day I had a student light off a firework in my classroom.”

“It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever had a student do in my classroom, but it’s definitely the most unexpected thing that I’ve had happen.”

“I’ve been called things by students, and I even got pushed by a student once.”

“But looking back on all of those situations I feel as if they could have been avoided had I built up better relationships with those students or handled the situations that lead up to them differently.”

“With the firework in class, it was completely out of the blue and not at all something I feel like I could have prevented.”

“It just happened randomly one day, and I will never understand why the student decided to set it off during class.”  ~ DerekIsAGooner

Feeling the Bounce!!

“I had a student run into me and bounce off of me.”

“She then accused me of shoving her and hurting her back.”

“I was relieved of my position and I resigned.”

‘”Fortunately the footage shows that I was hit by her, but I still lost my job.”

“After an inquiry with the Texas Education Agency they found i did nothing wrong and I got to keep my license.”

“Fortunately I was offered a position with a government contractor making more money with a lot less stress.”

“I never want to step foot in a classroom as a teacher ever again.”  ~ Damnpenguins4269

Let Go!!

“I had a student grab my arm, then later claim I grabbed him back.”

“His parents wanted to press charges, have me arrested, but the SRO refused, as he’d already taken a dozen witness statements corroborating my version.”

“I got very lucky. Another teacher had to sit for months at central office while CPS investigated baseless claims.”  ~ lazy_days_of_summer

“Out loud to the whole class, I had a student wish cancer on my unborn son.”

“Had another student say he would shoot my wife.”

“This one wasn’t so bad, but could’ve been—one female student started a rumor that she was my favorite and that I thought she was cute.”

“I had to proactively reach out to leadership to put that one down before it got bad.”

“In general, tons of swearing and disrespect.”

“Most of it is due to childhood trauma and home life, but yeah, teaching is great but being a teacher can suck.”  ~ mywifemademegetthis

Feel the Warm

“I taught toddlers, and they consistently wanted to sit in my lap.”

“I had a few girls climb up in my lap, smile sweetly, and pee all over me. It’s amazing how a 5-gallon bladder fits in a pint sized body.”  ~ schnozzberryflop

Terrifying…

“I taught elementary kids in Korea and they were honestly angels.”

“But when I subbed for a friend’s high school class for a week I had a student and his friends try to lock me in the classroom alone with them while they acted really overbearing and sexual.”

“It was terrifying, but thankfully didn’t last long at all as the VP came to have lunch with me 2 minutes in.”  ~ punctuationist

Crazy

“A colleague was stalked by a kid.”

‘”Found out where she lived, where she shopped, what her routine was.”

“Used to get her friends to stand outside her house and harass her outside Tesco.”

“She would make comments in class, such as ‘aren’t green curtains nice?’”

“Knowing the teacher had green curtains, for example.”

“It got so bad she got the police involved and ended up moving house.” ~ Evening_Rose_619

We need our educators.

They don’t deserve abuse.

Be better kids and parents.

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People Divulge Which High School Rumor Turned Out To Be True

The high school rumor mill always seemed to be in full swing.

A few hundred teenagers crammed into one or two buildings was apparently ideal conditions for all sorts of steamy stories and imagined thrills to surface every week or so.

By and large, these stories were false. Or at the very least, wildly embellished.

But every once in awhile, one of them turned out to be true. And that was enough to make us believe all the other tales that flew around the hallways.

Redditor Le_Bayou_Cochon apparently wanted to separate fact from fiction.

He asked:

“What high school conspiracy turned out to be true at your school?”

Of course, sexual rumors were a common go-to. 

“There were rumors about a music teacher and a student, but they were both pretty dramatic people and did very little to dismiss the talk. So half the school wanted to believe it for the salacious thrill and half just waved it off as attention seeking and sh**-talking.”

“Teacher got canned without explanation. Most of us just figured it was budget-related. A math teacher filled in on his music/theater roles.”

“Years later I randomly caught up with the student and she said the rumors were true, she freaked out and tried to end things to shake off the reputation, and eventually the teacher showed up trashed and naked on her family’s front lawn, in the rain, yelling out for her.”

“Like a really fu**ed-up version of John Cusack from Say Anything but with less boombox and more drenched wang.” — Dangercakes13

This rumor spanned more than one school. 

“That our IT teacher slept with his students. He was attractive, young, friendly etc, then suddenly a rumour went around the school that he was sleeping with a 6th former (aged 17/18).”

“He was suspended for a while but then ‘decided to leave’ after he was ‘cleared’ of wrongdoing.”

“He got a new job at my cousins high school across town…he did it again there. Got caught with another 17 year old and was fired shortly after.” — Hot_potatoos

In a couple cases, the ending was rather unexpected. 

“Two of the teachers ‘hooking up’ on a Europe class trip. Gone for a week, came back and the rumours started.”

“Two weeks later a rumour started he got divorced.”

“Last week of school they were spotted at a restaurant together.”

“Looked em up a couple years after graduating. They’re married.” — Gone_cognito

“That one of the cheerleaders was dating one of the teachers (in his 40s). A year after graduation, they got married and had a baby. Still together 11 years later.” — Trailmix

Unfortunately, some other rumors were gruesome. 

“There was a girl freshman year who went missing. She ended up being found dead in the river. There were rumors that she was seen on a bridge with her boyfriend the day she went missing. Nothing was ever found and they assumed it was suicide/ an accident.”

“Fast forward 25 years and the boyfriend murdered his best friend of several decades, set a fire to cover it up, and went on the run. Couple days later he killed a woman at a rest stop in the bathroom to steal her car.”

“They reopened the case about the high school girlfriend. That rumor was correct all along. He will be in prison the rest of his life.” — pomegranatepants99

And some were alarming. 

“Lead in the water.”

“Our high school tap water was dark brown and we weren’t allowed to bring our own waterbottles or get filtered water from the cafeteria without paying $3. We sent hundreds of emails asking the school board to look into it, but they said it was fine.”

“In my senior year, a student did a science fair project on the illegal amount of lead in the tap water, forcing the school to investigate and fix all the taps.” — xJaneyDoe

This example was intriguing—and terrible.

“I attended a newly opened high school that apparently used to be a school for troubled kids. Someone told me there were padded rooms somewhere in the school so I skipped lunch with a friend one day to walk the halls and find them!”

“They did exist, but by next year they were renovated into offices and storage rooms. I thought that was pretty interesting and seriously wondered what went on there before it was turned into a ‘normal’ high school.” — E-macularius

One school was filled with surprises.

Two to be exact.

“That there were tunnels under the school that led to a hidden pool.”

“Confirmed by my father who was a maintenance man for the school district. The tunnels were just utility tunnels, the pool is below the gym floor and was abandoned due to financial reasons.” — pondcypress

In one case, someone tried to hide the past.

“My old math teacher was a WWF wrestler, i recognized him from my childhood days channel surfing and couldn’t find anything about him on google, but i was so sure it was him I just asked.”

“I was right lmao” — TheTastySpoonicorn

This one sounds straight out of a movie.

“My history teacher/tennis coach made moonshine and hosted cock fights in his barn. I ended up becoming friends with his son and it was all true.” — m011yRadar

As does this one. 

“That my high school history teacher was putting whiskey in the 2-liter bottle of Pepsi he carried around everyday.”

“He was caught trying to buy liquor for some senior girls and it resulted in a car chase we all watched. The police had to pull out the spike strips to catch him.” — Tylerurby

And finally, some quick thinking, heroic teachers.

“Due to budget cuts or something all of our metal and woodwork shop machines were to be taken away and replaced with worse versions. The shop teachers and drama teachers that were in the building at the time didn’t like this idea, so they hid all the machines in a false wall somewhere in the building.”

“The people came to pick them up and they told them that people had already come to pick them up and that they were late. They did some looking around and couldn’t find the machines and gave up. A few years and 1 principle later they brought the machines back out from behind the walls.”

“And that’s how the smallest high school of our district with only around 450 students became the best school in the district to learn metal and woodwork.” — imfamuspants

If these are true, there’s no knowing which of the rumors you wrote off in high school may have actually been true too.