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People Share Stories About Jerk Teachers That “Radicalized” Them In Their Youth (30 Tweets)
Going to school is supposed to be one of the best chapters of your life as you learn about the world and get taught all the skills that you need for adulthood. And teachers are supposed to be your mentors and sometimes even your friends. Unfortunately, this romantic idea of what school should be like doesn’t always match up with reality.
Justin Boldaji shared a story on Twitter about how his science teacher gave him a lower mark on his test because he doodled monsters in the margins of the paper. He then asked other internet users to share their own stories about how and when they became “radicalized” in school. Upvote the stories that resonated with you, dear Pandas, and drop us a comment if anything similar has happened to you in school. Be sure to scroll down for Bored Panda's interview with Justin.
Justin’s story moved a lot of people who thought that they had a lot in common with him. His post got more than 225k likes and was retweeted 16.8k times and lots of Twitter users went on to explain what jerk teachers they had to deal with in their school days.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I think the teacher needs to go back to school to learn and not teach.
According to Justin, what happened to him in the 4th grade still bothers him to this day. "It’s a memory that resurfaces occasionally and I get angry about it all over again." He added that he didn't expect his thread to go viral and expected 10 to 15 likes at best.
Justin said that his teacher's actions didn't demotivate him or stop him from drawing: "If anything it made me realize even more clearly that I wanted to do something artistic for a living, because if someone hates monsters, they’re dead inside. Regarding my art these days, I have a kids book I’m self publishing in a month or two called 'The T. Rex With Fluff Who Wanted to be Tough.' It’s about a dinosaur who wants to be cool but thinks he can’t because of how he looks. It’s a book that I think will be able to help a lot of kids."
He also had some advice for people who are in school now and are having a rough time with their teachers. "School doesn’t last forever and you’re gonna deal with these jamokes in the professional world so never falter to the haters. Do your own thing always!" Justin said.
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Candace Sunlight 4 years ago
That's terrible. I assure you, people definitely love you even if you're fat.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
How hard is it to accommodate something like that? It costs the teacher nothing. I've had students with bad eyes and would make big font assignments for them. It costs nothing
Even though we have high expectations from teachers, we sometimes forget that they’re human beings—they have flaws and, unfortunately, sometimes they punish their students for being creative or when they ‘step out of line.’ While other teachers can be straight-up bullies.
ThoughtCo. writes how an anonymous survey from 2006 showed that 45 percent of teachers admitted that they bullied a student at least once. Teachers can bully students because they lack the proper training in how children should be disciplined. Others might bully students because they are bullied in class themselves or were the victims of bullies when they were kids.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
How did a teacher who never saw you before expect you to have homework?!
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
This c**p happened a lot to me because I would ace tests and throw off the curve on grading. I hated those curves. They were designed for bad teachers that hoped their poor teaching skills wouldn't result in half the class failing.
Alan McEvoy explains in a piece in Tolerance Magazine how students feel powerless and shamed when teachers target them. “Teacher bullying can also have a contagion effect, indicating to students that the bullying of a particular individual is acceptable and making the individual vulnerable to more abuse,” he adds.
You’d think that other teachers would step in and put a stop to their colleague’s actions, but this is wishful thinking. Sometimes, they’ll think that there’s nothing that they can do. While the teachers who bully their students defend themselves by saying how they’re ‘disciplining’ and ‘motivating’ their students or even try to write it off as a joke.
If you suspect that your child’s being bullied, it’s incredibly important that you support them, document all the times they were picked on by their teachers, talk to other parents to see if the problem’s bigger than you suspected.
Afterward, try meeting with the teacher and if that doesn’t work, go up the chain of command: have a chat with the principal, then the superintendent, then the school board.
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Hans 4 years ago
I remember a friend in elementary school how could not bring materials for art class. Would be sitting there hour for hour, doing nothing, earning an E, ignored by the teachers. I was too young to fully understand, but I grasp he wanted but couldn't and no one with the power to change something would care.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
My husband did an abstract art piece (painting) that had simple figures of people dancing outside the walls of a city while the city was burning. He proudly took it to class only to have the TA (professor was out) look at it and say, "No..that's not abstract..this is." And proceeded to take a paint brush and spattered black paint all over my husbands work. My husband was furious. So was I. IDGAF if you think it was wrong or not...you don't destroy someone else's work like that.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago (edited)
Had that happen too. Teacher insisted I must've plagiarized it. Tried to give me a failing grade. My mother went postal so the principal graded it himself looking up my references and reading it word by word. He gave it back to the English teacher and said "She earned an A." The teacher was furious..swears I got away with cheating. No one liked her in the school..not even the other teachers. Not surprising that she left after several of the parents threatened to sue if she wasn't fired backed by several of the good teachers threatening to resign.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Or you could argue you shouldn't be punished for not burning something down...
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And teachers like this are why I don't "believe int he perfect teacher"...
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Catherine Hankinson 4 years ago
I was the same. We were doing our GCSEs and reading in class. The teacher asked me a question and my response was "what page are you on" I'd read the text book about three times and was reading another book. Didn't go down well.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
I would have marched into the principals office and stated breach of contract.
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GARRETT O'BANION 4 years ago
How does a high IQ make you a serial killer........i don't understand
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Oh, yeah. They're stooping to below petty when they go after the ragged edges.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
I took business classes in high school including Business Law. There was this one guy in class that liked me and showed it by pawing me during class. Every time I moved, he'd show up at the last minute and squeeze a chair in next to me so he could do it again. I finally yelled "Keep your hands off me!" The guy turned beet red and moved away. The teacher said "Is there a problem?" I replied "Not anymore." The guy sat on the opposite side of the room from me after that. Sorry your teacher was a douche apparently.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
We once transferred mid-year in school. I'd learned cursive at the prior school. I had to not use it because the new school didn't do that till the next grade level.
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Mark Fuller 4 years ago
Having to write up a school trip to an historical castle, I asked my teacher how to spell "oubliette" (a secret dungeon accessed via a trapdoor in the ceiling). I knew the word existed because a) the castle has one and b) any kid born in 1981 should know the word from the movie Labyrinth!! Suffice to say, she said it wasn't a word and I was talking nonsense. Worse still, she was also a French teacher. Clearly didn't know the verb, oublier, "to forget", which is where it's derived from.
Ananeemoos Jak 4 years ago
Remember that walk-out that the kids did a few years back about gun violence? My art teacher threatened to bring a gun to that.
Makayla Rhodes 4 years ago
At my school, if there is a single gun in sight on the property, the police are called. It is a strict safety policy because there was a shooting about 13 years before I started
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 4 years ago
Having to write up a school trip to an historical castle, I asked my teacher how to spell "oubliette" (a secret dungeon accessed via a trapdoor in the ceiling). I knew the word existed because a) the castle has one and b) any kid born in 1981 should know the word from the movie Labyrinth!! Suffice to say, she said it wasn't a word and I was talking nonsense. Worse still, she was also a French teacher. Clearly didn't know the verb, oublier, "to forget", which is where it's derived from.
Ananeemoos Jak 4 years ago
Remember that walk-out that the kids did a few years back about gun violence? My art teacher threatened to bring a gun to that.
Makayla Rhodes 4 years ago
At my school, if there is a single gun in sight on the property, the police are called. It is a strict safety policy because there was a shooting about 13 years before I started
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