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Post by RiverIsis on Sept 25, 2015 6:09:56 GMT
Oh I left out the one about the PE teacher who always laughed at me when I messed up in PE. Like when I couldn't do the vault. I wasn't coordinated that way, no need to laugh. Here's a doozy - Our school did senior night for boys and girls soccer together until this happened. The girls where first and then the boys, each walking across the field with their family etc. Between the two games. The boys wrote about 3 to 5 lines max. Favorite memory, Favorite moment in Soccer and Future plans sort of thing. We knew to keep it short because there were 12 senior boys on the squad. 1st girl they call is the Valedictorian daughter of a Teacher and her blurb went on and on and on. Seriously it was at least 10 minutes and the whole thing was supposed to be 20 minutes tops, remember we still have the rest of the Senior girls and 12 boys to get through. Honestly, I'm pretty certain her mother wrote it and that is all anyone talks about was how self centered and long her blurb was. Thankfully there were so many Valedictorians in that class, something like 8 or 10 (don't get me started on that) that they made them do a group, highly edited speech at graduation or we would probably still be sat there but hey! at least the Kindergarten teacher and the toilet cleaner got thanked on Soccer Senior night right?!
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Post by gsquaredmom on Sept 25, 2015 8:50:59 GMT
My son's kindergarten teacher told me he was cognitively impaired. I told her no, he was not. And I thought he might actually be very bright with ADD since he started writing story books when he was three.
He was diagnosed a couple years later as gifted with ADHD inattentive type.
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Post by megsnz on Sept 25, 2015 9:25:03 GMT
20 years ago, my sister-in-law was told by her teacher in high school that she "must have crawled out of an abortion bucket"!!
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Post by AnotherPea on Sept 25, 2015 10:32:43 GMT
20 years ago, my sister-in-law was told by her teacher in high school that she "must have crawled out of an abortion bucket"!! Sadly, I think you win.
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Post by jenrah on Sept 25, 2015 11:30:52 GMT
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Post by janeliz on Sept 25, 2015 12:34:10 GMT
This happened a year ago---My daughter's 7th grade English teacher told her class that some of them had received an F on a recently assigned book report because the reports were "garbage and that's exactly where they were thrown". I'm someone who believes that tough teachers can impart some important life lessons, but I absolutely thought that was an inappropriate thing to say to a bunch of new 7th graders. When confronted by a parent, the teacher said she was just "joking". About the garbage comment, at any rate. The Fs were real.
The nice part of this story is that the rest of the year went pretty smoothly, and my daughter and her friends love this teacher now. They like to go to her classroom after school and hang out and chat. When my daughter's friend had some trouble at home recently, this teacher was really there for her. I didn't love how she handled that book report situation, but I truly appreciate that she is clearly someone who young girls are comfortable with and see as a confidante and friend. I think that's so important for middle school girls, especially.
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Post by melanell on Sept 25, 2015 12:46:39 GMT
DS's kindergarten teacher was always talking about Jesus and religion, which I didn't think was appropriate in a public school, but I didn't say anything. That's been about it. (DS is a junior this year.) I agree with you. It wasn't really appropriate, but I wouldn't have said anything either. And yet, on the flip side, when I was in kindergarten, my teacher taught us about all of the Jewish holidays and we celebrated them (to a degree) in class. And I loved that. And to this day my mom says that her first knowledge of anything to do with the Jewish religion she learned from that teacher by way of what I told her and the papers we brought home with us. I think that for me, the difference is that my teacher never indicated that her religion was right or better than any others. She never passed on her beliefs. She merely passed on the facts. Passover is coming. This is what Passover is to the Jewish people. These are the traditions associated with it. Years later I would take a world cultures class that dealt with many religions around the world, and that was, of course, part of the curriculum, but I always admire how my kindergarten teacher taught us something above & beyond the typical kindergarten curriculum. (And I imagine that my Jewish classmates appreciated having their holidays better represented that year in class.)
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Post by melanell on Sept 25, 2015 12:53:01 GMT
The moral of the story is : there is probably more to many of these stories than you are hearing. My son's kindergarten teacher was in her last year when he had her, and she told the parents to please believe only 50% of what our kids told us and she would believe only 50% of what they told her. Which was so, so true! I can only imagine what young kids tell their teachers!! DS #2 came home recently and told us that he cut a girl in class. Turns out he had some cutting practice sheets with squirrels on them. (DS has a speech delay, hence the confusion between the words.) Phew! Glad we talked longer about that one to figure it out!
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Post by melanell on Sept 25, 2015 13:01:28 GMT
My oldest is in 6th and I for the first time last week I had to call the principal about a teacher. The sub said to her class, "I don't mean to be a d**k but you guys are pissing me off." Yes, there are some students who are turds in her class but that crossed the line for me. Now, see, that wouldn't bother me at all. 6th graders are beyond the "Please sit down boys & girls" or "Put on your listening ears" kind of stuff. And I when I think back to my middle school years, a few well timed minor curses or yelled "Shut up"s were things that caught our attention and made us think about what jerks we were being. Often times they came from teachers who were really patient with our crap 99% of the time, so when they did something like that we knew that we had crossed over the line.
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Post by apeacalledliz on Sept 25, 2015 13:16:58 GMT
I'm going to out myself, this is a bad one. I was subbing in our high school for one of the favorite science/advanced math teachers. Her 2nd period freshman class comes in and all take seats at the tables(the high kind that you can see under when you stand at the front of the class). I had a bunch of projector sheets to get through before they could start their homework, I have half the lights turned off and begin presenting the lesson, the kids are being pretty talkative and trying to see how much they can get away with, but I get them to quiet down for the most part. Then I start hearing a faint screaming noise, I turn to look but no one else appears to hear it, then again I hear it louder and everyone starts to snicker... I look around but still am not sure where it's coming from so I say "whoever is making that noise needs to stop", right then the sound goes again and I see that it is this one boy who has his phone out under the table, thinking he is being sneaky, I call him on it "boyname you need to put your phone away and stop disrupting class" I get back with that teenager smirk "what phone?", this goes back and forth a few times. At this point I am getting pretty mad but don't want to yell so I blurt out(and I am NOT proud) "boyname! either you have your phone in your lap and you are refusing to put it away or you're playing with yourself!" The class erupted into laughter and I immediately regretted saying it. I did apologize to all the class and specifically to the boy after class, he was apologetic too for disrupting class and we had a great relationship after that. But STILL!
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Post by melanell on Sept 25, 2015 13:46:23 GMT
I'm going to out myself, this is a bad one. I was subbing in our high school..........................At this point I am getting pretty mad but don't want to yell so I blurt out(and I am NOT proud) "boyname! either you have your phone in your lap and you are refusing to put it away or you're playing with yourself!" The class erupted into laughter and I immediately regretted saying it. I did apologize to all the class and specifically to the boy after class, he was apologetic too for disrupting class and we had a great relationship after that. But STILL! LOL. Aw, I don't think it was so bad, especially since you apologized afterwards.
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Sept 25, 2015 14:44:10 GMT
20 years ago, my sister-in-law was told by her teacher in high school that she "must have crawled out of an abortion bucket"!! Sadly, I think you win. Agreed. It may be time to close the thread now...
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Post by aleks on Sept 26, 2015 3:32:11 GMT
My 8th grade history teacher had gems like..."tomorrow is naked trampoline day, all the girls are coming to school naked on horses and jumping on tramoolines." We.laughed then but uhhh wow.
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Post by scrapaddie on Sept 26, 2015 4:04:14 GMT
I am a teacher and I have said an inappropriate thing that I will NEVER forget. I'm sure the students in that class will never forget either. I was subbing in a 5th grade class and the task was to label a map of our state. I was to read out the label that they put on their map and the student was to mark it on their map- sort of an informal assessment to see if they knew where all the places were. We get to the Straits of Juan de Fuca. A student raises her hand and asks how to spell Fuca. I proceed to say: (you see where this is going, right?) F*U*C*K. Silence, then laughter. I tried to play it off like I'd said A, but they most certainly weren't buying it. This happened in 1994 and I'm still mortified about it. Way back in the old days, we did a science lab where students would type their own blood. They had to prick their finger to make it bleed. My room was a long room, it used to be a library. I was at the front of the room when a student told me from the back of the room that he could not get his finger to bleed. The words that came out of my mouth! Across the length of the room I told him "well, you must not have a big enough prick". Like yours, silence… Then laughter! There was no defending that one, all I could do was laugh along with them
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Post by scrapaddie on Sept 26, 2015 4:20:36 GMT
A friend of mine taught just down the hall from me. He would occasionally say things that I never would've thought to say or could've gotten away with. He had a problem with students that were texting when they should've been paying attention in class. The following comment was directed to a young man whose hands were under the table. "Jim, Put your hands up on the table. with your hands down there, there are only two things that I can think of that you might be doing and I sure hope you are texting! " ( for those who are unaware, it is not uncommon for high school boys to be playing with themselves in class. Just another thing that teachers have to worry about. )
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Post by padresfan619 on Sept 26, 2015 5:16:09 GMT
I had a math teacher in 11th grade who was brand new, fresh out of college. She was super sweet, passionate about math, and very eager to teach. Unfortunately she got dealt a bunch of kids with bad attitudes and remedial level math skills. One day she had a complete meltdown because someone in our class stole a costco sized bag of candy she would give out in class. F-bombs, tears, throwing things...the whole thing was so uncomfortable to watch. I have no idea if the thief ever returned the candy, but I will never forget her sobbing at the front of the class because she wouldn't be able to afford to replace a $12 bag of candy.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 26, 2015 5:19:20 GMT
I had a math teacher in 11th grade who was brand new, fresh out of college. She was super sweet, passionate about math, and very eager to teach. Unfortunately she got dealt a bunch of kids with bad attitudes and remedial level math skills. One day she had a complete meltdown because someone in our class stole a costco sized bag of candy she would give out in class. F-bombs, tears, throwing things...the whole thing was so uncomfortable to watch. I have no idea if the thief ever returned the candy, but I will never forget her sobbing at the front of the class because she wouldn't be able to afford to replace a $12 bag of candy. Poor thing it was obviously the last straw. I had a neighbor who had a nervous breakdown and went on disability from the stress and became a permanent volunteer at the animal shelter. She had been a middle school math teacher for years, an the disrespectful kids just got to her.
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Post by pas2 on Sept 26, 2015 10:23:21 GMT
My kids have come home with many stories about things the teachers have said but the worst was when a substitute teacher lost it with the 4th grade class and THREW her shoe at a student! Needless to say said substitute was no longer welcome in the school district!
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Post by Merge on Sept 26, 2015 12:45:11 GMT
I had a math teacher in 11th grade who was brand new, fresh out of college. She was super sweet, passionate about math, and very eager to teach. Unfortunately she got dealt a bunch of kids with bad attitudes and remedial level math skills. One day she had a complete meltdown because someone in our class stole a costco sized bag of candy she would give out in class. F-bombs, tears, throwing things...the whole thing was so uncomfortable to watch. I have no idea if the thief ever returned the candy, but I will never forget her sobbing at the front of the class because she wouldn't be able to afford to replace a $12 bag of candy. I was out yesterday and had a sub. And returned to find that my giant bag of Starburst, which had just been opened, and which I use sometimes for rewards, was empty. He left a note that said, "Kids found your stash. LOL." WTF?
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Post by Merge on Sept 26, 2015 12:46:01 GMT
20 years ago, my sister-in-law was told by her teacher in high school that she "must have crawled out of an abortion bucket"!! I'm so sorry. That's terrible.
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Post by marg on Sept 26, 2015 12:53:38 GMT
When I was in first grade the teacher told the entire class at Christmas that Santa wasn't real. Lots of upset kids that day!!
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Post by marg on Sept 26, 2015 12:56:08 GMT
And if I never hear the term special snowflake again it will be too soon. It is just so nasty and really sets up an "us vs them" mentality.
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Post by RosieKat on Sept 26, 2015 13:44:28 GMT
The one that comes to mind is the 8th grade English teacher who gave DD grades of "C" and "D" because she didn't agree with DD's position in the papers. They were perfectly fine papers that should have gotten an "A" for the writing level and position defense. . . . ETA: This teacher actually wrote comments on DD's papers saying her ideas (things like solutions to world hunger, and admiring a political leader) were incorrect and proceeded to bash them. That's not grading a paper. She should have been talking about idea development, writing flow, or or that the thesis wasn't backed up. Not commenting how much she hates Obama. That's her opinion and doesn't belong there. I had this happen in college. I got a D on a paper that I thought I'd done well on. (It was supposed to be your opinion on why someone in a book made the choices she did, so we're not talking something that should have a concrete yes or no, but an opinion, right?) I went to talk with the professor about it, and his response was that my opinion was wrong. Not that I didn't support it, or that it was poorly written, or that I didn't defend my position, but that MY OPINION WAS WRONG! (This is now about 26 years later, and it still annoys the crap out of me...can you tell?) He offered me the chance to rewrite it with a different opinion, but I simply couldn't do it because, well, my opinion was my opinion...so I kept the D.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Sept 26, 2015 14:11:37 GMT
Teachers do and say all kinds of silly things. You would too if you spoke all day, everyday.
Obviously there are some completely egregious things that have been said. I don't think the OP's things are really that bad to be honest. To me, those fall into normal dialogue. Not always the best choice, but nothing that harmful UNLESS you make it so.
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Post by artbabe on Sept 26, 2015 14:20:22 GMT
I have spent 22 years talking to children all day. I can think of a half dozen incidents when I said something that I shouldn't have. It is just inevitable when you talk to people so much as part of your job.
I never get called on these things, though. I get called on other things that are totally innocent.
For example, we were making clay animals. In order for the animals to not explode in the kiln they have to be hollow. I had a clay bear with a hole in the bottom of it. I put a pencil in it to show the kids it was hollow all of the way.
A mom called the principal and said I was perverted. Seriously, what kind of orifice did she think a clay bear had?
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Post by shamrockpea on Sept 26, 2015 14:30:45 GMT
Said by the principal of my daughter's ex-school after I complained about bullying - "you will be happy to know that I checked with your daughter's teachers and they both told me that she is not going anything to cause herself to be bullied"." Gee - so happy to hear that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 15:35:42 GMT
I have spent 22 years talking to children all day. I can think of a half dozen incidents when I said something that I shouldn't have. It is just inevitable when you talk to people so much as part of your job. This is so true. All we do is talk. I know I have said things in times of frustration that I shouldn't have.
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Post by Gravity on Sept 26, 2015 16:42:45 GMT
My DD's sixth grade English teacher told her on multiple occasions that it was a good thing she was pretty. This woman had a huge chip on her shoulder and constantly picked on a handful of girls with comments like that. DD just received a full tuition scholarship to one of her top choice colleges. I've always known she's more than just a pretty face.
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Post by moodyblue on Sept 26, 2015 16:46:32 GMT
I have spent 22 years talking to children all day. I can think of a half dozen incidents when I said something that I shouldn't have. It is just inevitable when you talk to people so much as part of your job. This is so true. All we do is talk. I know I have said things in times of frustration that I shouldn't have. This is so true. And I've said things in the past that were meant to be funny and joking and didn't give it a second thought many years ago. The kids understood and we all laughed. Now, however, I stop myself because I wonder which parent might misunderstand if their child repeated it - correctly or incorrectly, and got offended or upset.
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Post by anxiousmom on Sept 26, 2015 16:51:11 GMT
My DD's sixth grade English teacher told her on multiple occasions that it was a good thing she was pretty. This woman had a huge chip on her shoulder and constantly picked on a handful of girls with comments like that. DD just received a full tuition scholarship to one of her top choice colleges. I've always known she's more than just a pretty face. My high school guidance counselor told me that I might as well skip trying to go to college and get married and have babies...that was really all I was going to be good at. Thirty years later I still remember being SO hurt by that.
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