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.