People Are Sharing The Grudges They Still Hold Against Teachers Who Wronged Them (20 Posts)

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Having a good teacher is so important to a child’s success; I hate to think of any teachers who really shouldn’t be in the profession (especially right now with the epic teacher shortage), but sometimes… Hoo boy, sometimes they are out there.

u/Gerard_Way_01 recently wondered:

“Have you ever held a grudge against a teacher you still think of today? How did they wrong you?”

Hopefully, your kid never gets any of the 20 teachers we rounded up below.

1. Father’s Day

We were about 6 years old and the teacher told us to make Father’s Day cards. I went up to the teacher to tell her my dad was dead. She snapped at me “do it anyway.” So I was made to sit in class making fathers day cards to my dead father.

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2. Didn’t plagiarize

A teacher in university accused me of plagiarism and said she spent the whole night trying to find out what I plagiarized but because she couldn’t prove it she wasn’t gonna report it to the school. I wrote it myself.

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3. Detention

My English teacher gave me a 99 on a paper. I flipped through, curious where my error was. She had marked “egomaniacal” for word choice with the note “not a word”. I asked about it, she insisted it was not a word, I insisted it was, and then I got detention for being insubordinate. “How do you know ‘insubordinate’ but not ‘egomaniacal’?” I asked. Then I got more detention.

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4. This poor kid

I was in 4th grade and was enduring a lot of abuse at home. I wasn’t the most hygienic so my hair was frizzy, and I didn’t wear underwear because if my parts weren’t hanging out, I just didn’t see a need. It was tight and uncomfortable. My teacher and her assistant were behind me one day during a test and started talking bad about me and giggling, making sure they were the perfect distance away for me to very audibly hear them. Saying I never brushed my hair or showered, and I was dirty. As someone already being psychologically abused by my parents at the time, it definitely took a major toll on me. As an adult, I cannot imagine how anyone could act like that with a child. I cannot imagine the depths of sadness and insecurity for an adult in her 40’s could belittle a child who had little control over what was going on with her life. It’s disgusting.

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5. To be honest, this kid sounds obnoxious too

We had to watch a video on wildlife or something and then write a short paper afterward about what we watched. I was in advanced reading classes when I was younger and read my thesaurus and encyclopedias for funsies, so I had a slightly better grasp of English than my classmates. I’m not trying to brag, but this is relevant information. This asshat teacher knocked twenty points off my paper because I “did not use grade-appropriate language.” I got a lower mark because I was using words she felt were beyond my grade level. 

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6. Migraines

I get terrible migraines with auras, and I have since elementary school. Anyway, one day in 7th grade science class I start to get a migraine and ask to go the nurse’s office so I can get my medication. The teacher declines since the nurse wasn’t at school at the time (I lived in a rural-ish area so the 4 schools all split one nurse.) and there’s a rule that students can’t take medication without being supervised by the nurse. So this sucks, but technically it wasn’t her rule. Then I have to take a test. The test is long, and by the end, I’m nauseous, my head feels like it’s been coated in fire ants and my vision looks like the psychedelia scene in Phineas and Ferb. I ask to go the office, so I can call home. She declines, and says that I’m just “trying to disrupt test time” and sends me back to my desk. I sit there with my head down for a while, before I finally get really nauseous and throw-up next my desk. This is apparently enough to send me to the office. I ask if someone can accompany to the office since there’s a double flight of stairs and I was dizzy. As you may have guessed, the answer was “No”. I stumble down the stairs, somehow avoiding breaking my skull, and go to the office to use the phone. As I sit down in the office to wait for my parents, the front desk attendant asks if I’ve seen the nurse. I tell her that the nurse isn’t in the building. The desk lady says “Well, she only left a few minutes ago. Really sucks that you couldn’t catch her”. It turns the nurse was in the building when I had asked previously. That would have been enough for a grudge already, however when I came in the next morning, I found out I bombed the test.I look through the answers and don’t see anything wrong, so I go to the teacher to find out what I missed. Apparently my work was “sloppy” and “hard to read”. I point out that I could barely see, which only served to get her to mark it up to a C- instead of an F. That class, despite my best efforts, gave me the first B I ever had. All because of that test. I had terrible anxiety at the time so I never even brought it up to my parents. The teacher was an older lady, so she’s probably dead now, but I still mentally go through all the extremely choice words I could have said to her.

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7. Jeeeeez

I was in a digital illustration class and we had a project to illustrate a monster. I decided to draw the parasites from the movie cloverfield. We posted all of our pictures up in class and he went 1 by 1 giving detailed critiques. When he got to mine he just looked at it and said “that’s a creature not a monster” and moved on to the next one. I got a C on that assignment.

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8. She got fired, at least

6th grade, end of November in SE Minnesota. Home ec teacher gave me detention for something I did (or more likely just got accused of, that happened a lot) and didn’t let me leave for home until after 7:30. It’s snowing, cold af outside and this c-nt refuses to let me call my mom so I had to walk home. 3 1/2 miles in the snow and the cold.

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9. You’re wrong, dude

My English teacher. During speech class he told us to pick a topic and give an informative speech on it. I was planning on going to school for culinary, so my topic was various cooking techniques. One of the techniques I touched on, was teriyaki (per google – Teriyaki is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine.

The method is grilling foodstuffs while coating them with a soy sauce-based sweet sauce (“tare” in Japanese). The sugar contained in the sauce gives gloss (‘teri’ in Japanese) to the surface of the foodstuff, from which the name of the cooking method is derived.). Which I verified thru multiple sites. This man had the audacity to tell me that teriyaki is a sauce, not a cooking technique. Okay, what about bbq? He had no response, just simply told me I’m wrong. I put it in my speech anyways cause fuck you mr. Sutton

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10. The worst kind of history teacher

11th grade American History teacher. Absolutely horrible teacher, and she was part of the reason I dropped out of school years and years ago. There was absolutely no discussion in her class, at all. About anything. Day 1 was read section 1 of whatever chapter. Write out the questions at the end of the section. Answer each question with at least 3 sentences, even if the question was just asking for a date. Day 2 & 3, repeat of day 1, with the next section. Day 4. Read entire chapter. Answer end of chapter questions. At least 3 sentences per answer. Day 5. 20 answer test on the chapter. Each question was a freaking essay question. Had to have an introduction paragraph, at least 3 paragraphs supporting your answer, and a closing paragraph. She absolutely killed my love of history for years to come.

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11. The injustice

During a class test, this classmate included a lengthy quote as part of one answer. Some of us included bits of it, but no-one else but him could recall the whole spiel…

Teacher didn’t just award him no points, but docked him points for cheating, cos no-one could possibly remember that whole quote, he must have had it written down somewhere on him. There were protestations all round. Poor lad threw his arms up – what’s the point in putting in the effort to learn and retain info.

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12. First grade

I still get a little angry when I think about how my first grade treated me vs. the rest of the students. I was public enemy #1 in her class no matter what I did. Randomly being punished by not joining the kids for recess for yawning. Getting called stupid for getting an answer wrong, while other students who answered wrong got a simple “nope incorrect.” Having a test taken away from me and given a 0 on it because my pencil broke. The list could go on.

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13. Jocky teachers suck

My high school Latin teacher was a jock when he was in HS and college, and most of the people in my class were also jocks. I was not a jock, just a short, dumpy guy. He was always ragging on me, putting me down and generally being a low key dick to me. The worst was when I had signed up for AP Latin for my senior year, and over the summer he blatantly transferred me out to a lower class taught by someone else, I’m sure purely because he didn’t like me. I talked to him and when he couldn’t come up with an actual reason why I shouldn’t be in the class, he grudgingly let me back in. What a dick.

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14. Just a bully

During the 8th grade. I had this english teacher who was around the age of 30 and was one of “those” teachers characterized as cool by my classmates and other members of the faculty alike. He told me to “shut up” for correcting him on something he misinformed my class about infront of everybody. Laughed at one of my then friends intrests and also embarrassed them infront of the class. Made fun of how I walked one time out of nowhere and said it was fine because we were “friends” and that all of this behaviour was appropriate because he was our teacher. A literal 33 year old man bullying a then 13 girl, despicable.

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15. So MEAN

She mocked me in front of the whole class. I corrected her on I.Q.’s meaning as she kept saying it stood for Intelligence Quota. When I said, “but my mom told me….” She cut me off and said in a snarky tone, “bUt mY MOm ToLD Me.” It was the first time I got so mad I wanted to punch a teacher.

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16. If you forgot, 2nd graders are TINY

Oh, my second grade teacher can just go die in a fire. She was a nasty bully. She bullied me directly in and out of class (and, even when I wasn’t in her class and she couldn’t do things like try to humiliate me in class or make fun of any mistakes I might make or things I might not know, she continued as long as I was at the school with shit like refusing to address me properly) and she supported the other kids in bullying me by denying it even happened and then punishing me for “telling lies” or whatever lies the bullies invented.

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17. Girls v Boys

So, how do you spell ” eye / I “? , well it turns out, that if you are a girl, then you got the answer correct, and if you are a boy, then you got the answer wrong, regardless of what you wrote.

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18. Plagiarizing

I had an English teacher in 9th grade. Our task was to come up with a scary story. The whole school had to do it. It was a contest and whoever was voted the best scary story was going to have it published and they were going to get an award.

The only requirements of the scary story was that it be scary and tell a story.

So I didn’t do the project until the morning of. But in that morning, I had an epiphany and wrote probably the coolest poem I had ever written.

Well Everyone had this long winded 6 page paper and they were reading it. It was my turn and I went up and read my 1 sheet poem and everyone loved it. Teachers I had never even talked to were stopping me and complimenting me on the story. Everyone said my poem was the most creative and sure to win.

Well flash forward a week and I was pulled into the teachers office. She told me that she knew that I cheated and plagerizef this poem but she couldn’t prove it so I was disqualified. I tried getting my home room teacher to back me up that he watched me do it and actually helped a little bit. But he wouldn’t back me up, saying I was on my own.

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19. Jeeeez

Had a super shitty drama teacher in 8th grade. He was a recovering alcoholic/born again Christian and he would lecture us about it every day. He also targeted me to bully, and would ask me things in front of the whole class like, when was the last time I washed my hair, etc. I was 13. My hair was greasy regardless. He also gave other students extra points for imitating me in a negative way. Then on the last day of class, he pompously said that he thought the class was ‘a little hard on me’, as if he hadn’t been encouraging them every step of the way.

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20. Liar

Claimed I didn’t turn in a single assignment all year – home work or school work. Fuck that fucking liar.

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