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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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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
There are literally kids who won't understand it any other way. It sucks for the smart kids, but the pace of a class will always be somewhere in the middle between the most stupid pupil and the most smart.
Merritt flood 5 years ago (edited)
You can let each kid do it differently what you said is a lame excuse for a lazy teacher.
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Bluebird11 5 years ago
We were told the same thing & that we were lazy if we want4ed to do things the "easy" way. it was a Catholic school that was very big on shaming us constantly.
My O My 5 years ago
I'm very sorry for you, and all the others here, being constantly shamed by teachers
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Sadie Shapiro 5 years ago
I wasn't allowed to use erasers or markers in Grade 2. I also wasn't allowed to read or use the basic addition method. It was... it was a bad year.
Martin Burley 5 years ago
I did something similar in a french class, verbs ending in -IR, you take off the IR add a different ending is, it, isson, issez, issent, but why remove IR as all the endings have I anyway, just remove the R and have s, t, sson, ssez, ssent. The teacher looked at me, frowned and moved on with the lession :-)
Kathy Mikesell 5 years ago
Good for you sweetie. When my children were young (1970's), the first of many bumper stickers I put on my car was: "QUESTION AUTHORITY"
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I think the teacher needs to go back to school to learn and not teach.
Abey Bekalu 5 years ago
I think hat type of stupidity came from ignorance rather than illiteracy
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
Even her answer was wrong. Vegetarians don't eat just plants. Some eat eggs, dairy products...etc. Vegans eat only plants.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
plus a vegetarian makes a conscious decision not to eat meat
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Gwen Pollock 5 years ago
I once had a teacher who said that a paleontologist was a person who dug up ancient civilisations. Myself and four friends marked archeologists, and were marked wrong. We argued that he was wrong, and he got pissed off, but he gave us the points. My classmates were pissed at us as well because they had all marked paleontologist!
Jasmina Pavlovic 5 years ago
Mine not even believed in things like sable-tooth tiger. Don't exist did he say ... 🙈
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alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
Like the time in junior high when I used the word "doppelgänger" in a short story I wrote. I've always been an avid reader. My teacher, with AT LEAST bachelor's degree in English or something, commented that I should not MAKE UP WORDS.
deanna woods 5 years ago
The last time I checked, only a human being could be considered a vegetarian. This teacher should have read her own question again.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
My husband got a poor grade on an creative writing paper in college because he wrote a story about two guys talking about what seemed to be a mob hit involving "getting rid of the bodies" only to find out it was a nervous father hiring a man to get rid of his kids goldfish that had died under his care. His reason...He didn't like stories with twist endings like that.
Odd Spray 5 years ago
Imagine reading a story and having it do exactly what you expect it to. that's a boring-a*s story.
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JuJu 5 years ago
Had the same problem in philosophy when I did my A level. Teacher gave me a text, made me compare Locke to Rousseau and asked for my opinion (giving examples from the text as justification) and gave me zero points for that part. I unknowingly disagreed strongly with her opinion. And my parents got mad at me for that. :D
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
OMG this exact thing happened to me but it was an open opinion case. So I wrote on the hell's angels (I always tried to do something different) and I wrote about all the good as opposed to all the bad they are known for. Such as they're yearly toy drive for needy kids etc. The professor said my opinion was wrong. I was like wtf???
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
How dare you look for good in others!! Or have an opinion.
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Patrick O'Harris 5 years ago
My philosophy teacher was like that. After 5 weeks I quit class because no matter what my opinion was, I was "wrong". Stupid fuckass. Glad I never met that guy again.
byeoljari Lyra 5 years ago
You should have written, "Yours, too." Then get back to your teacher to get an A.
Raine Soo 5 years ago
Professors often need their egos stroked. In college, I took a class on existentialism. I noticed that the professor would often negate the opinions of students during class discussion. So, when it came to writing my papers, I mirrored what he lectured. I aced the course because I knew how to play his game. I realize that it does suck for people with original thought.
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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Thenatural 5 years ago
I think you all know what the assumption was...which in itself is sexist......but the teacher is definitely a prick
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blugeagua 5 years ago
The teacher is literally of the mindset of "boys should be allowed to do whatever they want, and if they do something it will always be the girls fault". What a sexist piece of c**p! And of course instead of punishing the boy, now I'm sure that boy grew up to think he's entitled to anything.
Flare 5 years ago
Anyone who does that deserves to be fired, blacklisted and never be allowed to be working near children
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 5 years ago
Just like my mother, I would have tore that teacher a new one and advocated for their removal. Sexist pig.
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Candace Sunlight 5 years ago
That's terrible. I assure you, people definitely love you even if you're fat.
Arlene Davis 5 years ago
ESPECIALLY if you're fat. I'm huge and I'm told I'm great for snuggling.
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Raine Soo 5 years ago
Back in the day, people acted as if they were doing you a favour if they insulted you. You know like: "How could you be so stupid?", "You have a memory like a sieve", "What the hell are you good for?". Trust me. I got all those and more from my mother. She called it tough love. To say that we were combative was an understatement.
deanna woods 5 years ago
No teacher should be saying things like that to a student no matter what grade are in.
Susie Stock 5 years ago
Wow. When I was about 11, my dentist's assistant (who happened to be his wife) told me that if I kept biting my nails I'd never get a nice engagement ring from anyone. I've gotten a couple.
JD Dion 5 years ago
If you were my child, that teacher would have had trouble talking and breathing after I had a private talk with her and she broke her own nose and jaw!
BlueCustardAngel 5 years ago
You should have told her that you could lose weight but she'd always be ugly. That's my favorite comeback when someone fat shames me
Rose the Cook 5 years ago
She needed to remember that teachers come in all shapes and sizes too.
Mica Fiverline 5 years ago
Terrible teacher there... No worries, I'm fat and I recently got married, so that theory is defo wrong^^
alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
I had a male gym teacher on junior high who commented on my 15-20 lb weight gain from the year before (um... puberty, dude)... I was thin as a stick and gawky before (~100lbs) and grew boobs and curves (~120lbs) F*****g prick
Cocoa Beanz 5 years ago
Ugh!! What an a**hole!! Who wants to hear insults about their body? Especially as a teenager when our self image may already be topsy turvy.
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Samantha Lomb 5 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
Lucas 5 years ago (edited)
I wonder if there are a few sad people who actively choose teaching just so that they can pick on a couple of children and bully them. I have definitely seen a number of teachers who are doing what can only be described as bullying.
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
Oh! We had a kid in our class that had health issues and missed a lot of school when he was in grade school (for heart surgeries - not colds) and one of our teachers refused to help him catch up assignments because she said that his parents didn't take his education seriously so why should she. HE WAS HAVING HEART SURGERY AT 9 YEARS OLD.
Rose Brien Harrington 5 years ago
When my son was 16 he was assaulted at a soccer match and knocked unconscious. When he went back to school I warned the principal that he was getting episodes of sleepiness and was yawning a bit and asked if the teachers would just bear with it (doc had said it was normal). The maths teacher got very nasty about it and when he told her what had happened she said that wasn't her problem. So I called her on the phone and I MADE it her problem. Strangely enough she never mentioned it to him again.
Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
With revenge in the back of my mind, I became a teacher specializing in adult education. A woman from Saudi Arabia was studying English with me in Houston and complaining how badly her 10 yo daughter was being treated in school because of her glaucoma. I said, ''Maha, you,re going to have to talk to the teacher'', She replied that she couldn't possibly because her English wasn't good enough. So I said, ''Well, maybe the teacher was right''. =She then tore through every insult in the English language until she was breathless. ''Hm, hm, don't speak enough English, do you?'' was my reply. Her talk with the teacher turned out to be most productive.
Terry Foster 5 years ago
inexcusable - all of this - teachers who do these things to children do not deserve to teach them!
DjinN 5 years ago
What the teacher did was nothing more than bullying. Making fun of someone with a disability. Thats a disgusting thing to do
Bruce Robb 5 years ago
No, what the teacher did was demonstrate that she has plenty of moxie, enough to make up for her lack of English. Oh! Unless you're talking about the first teacher!
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Rissie 5 years ago
Awful human being. She deserves way worse than dog poop. She deserves a job with no human interaction whatsoever.
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Other humans deserve her having a job with no human interaction.
Load More Replies... bruh does it matter 5 years ago
teachers who treat kids with disabilities like their stupid and incompetent are bullies. im officially pissed.
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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Chloé Gulliver 5 years ago
When I was in High School, we were reading "Of Mice and Men" as a class and as a fast reader, I was dying of boredom. So i read ahead. Finished the book before the class got even half way. The teacher noticed and started calling on me every lesson to read aloud because she knew I didn't know where we were. This went on for a week where a classmate would show me to the right page until I lost my chill and told her outright I'd finished it weeks ago. She chastised me for reading outside if class, then refused to believe I hadn't. I was told "If you can't tell the truth you can go sit outside and think until you're ready to admit your lies." So I stood up. Packed up my stuff. Swung my bag on a shoulder and told the whole class the ending (won't spoil it here since most schools make you read it). She tried to give me a detention but got overruled by the headmistress. At finals, she refused to mark my coursework and gave me a flat C "for trying". B***h.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
Aw man I feel that hard core. I always finished the books, in class, while everyone else was reading. I only had one teacher who got upset by it but I took the end quiz for the entire book just a few days after getting the book and aced it with her standing over my shoulder. To be fair she let me finish the other couple books that way as long as I took part in the group discussion per chapter.
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Seabeast 5 years ago
The mother is a bit of a nutter. Not defending the teacher, but really - vandalizing the teacher's car? What kind of example does that set?
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
You mom didn't have anything to do with the biscuit did she?
Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
ESH. Oh, wait, this is not Reddit. Everybody sucks here. What really got me was that "so"
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
How did a teacher who never saw you before expect you to have homework?!
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
as someone born an' raised in Texas: a lot of us got bad memories and don't pay attention much lmao. The smallest things can irritate us if we're in a bad mood
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Esca Sav 5 years ago
This reminded me of my University Professor. My University has a program that allows you to take classes they don't offer at another school, but this caused me to miss my first day because the room did not appear on my schedule. I showed up the next day and apperantly they were going over the homework. I copied it down and later went to the Professor to tell him why I missed the assignment and first day. He completely understood and told me to just hand in what I copied so I could get an easy 100... I should have realized something was wrong with the class when I got my paper back stamped with a 75 in red ink. This man was teaching thermo only because our original Professor for the class drowned over summer vacation... This guy didn't know anything about thermodynamics...
bruh does it matter 5 years ago
this is absolutely ridiculous. that teacher is so fricking stupid.
Sue Prewitt 5 years ago
Did she not even know the kids in her class? Did she think you had always been there?
Rose Brien Harrington 5 years ago
Dear God, how did she ever manage to convince an interview board?
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Carol Emory 5 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.
Joshua Selbitschka 5 years ago
"Now, you may notice your grades are lower than expected. That's because Sheldon did so well, he broke the curve! Turning your A's and B's into B's and C's" *cue death glares*
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MIRANDA DE LA ROSA 5 years ago
Bullied for being smart you should have been in a better school than that because you were smart and those other kids were just jealous
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
THis happened to me, too! For three years. I seriously thought I was the only one. Wow.
EA 5 years ago (edited)
Same! I used to have to sit on my own in class and told off by teachers for reading too fast. They would accuse me of cheating when I finished a book or had said I finished something they thought too early (you couldn’t cheat at reading a book, in a classroom. it was the nineties and I was ages 5/6) They wouldn’t let me read more advanced books so i’d often get bored. ended up moving schools cos the teachers were so horrible. All they had to do was find extra work for me in certain lessons or let me read books for the older year groups - I am in no way clever, just a fast reader and I was good at English. They stamped out any ambition and I struggled with school for years as a result
Amber Cook 5 years ago
Why?! What the hell?! I was 3 years ahead of each reading class in elementary and I just ended up in the advanced readers class every year.
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
this c**p happened to me too because I read well and the other students couldn't and then I was alone in the back of the class , just sitting there and later in the day no one would talk to me because I "made them feel bad" and I was "over smart"
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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Isaac Harvey 5 years ago
I liked drawing as a kid. I am now in an advanced graphic design class in high school.
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Walter Smith 5 years ago
If I'm drawing on the job, I won't have a boss. I'll be an independent contractor.
Fred Burrows 5 years ago
I was forever getting busted for drawing . But my third grade teacher lightened up when I repeated everything she had said for the previous thirty minutes .
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Architect? Graphic Designer? Mechanical Engineer? Interior Designer? Fashion Designer? What a dolt.
Katie Peter 5 years ago
Something like this happened in my 5th grade math class. The kid was done with the practice problems and while waiting for everyone else to finish he started doodling on the side of his paper. And the doodles weren't just like smiley faces and peace signs, no, these were GOOD! So anyways when the teacher came around to check our problems she saw the drawings and yelled at him! My friend and I saw the whole thing unfold and said " you can make a lot of money as an artist, more money then you!" We made it a point to draw on our paper
Katie Peter 5 years ago
I might also want to add that this teacher had a HUGE anger issue, she through a kid's pen across the room because he didn't bring a pencil when in her rules for her class she said that if you bring a pen it has to be erasable. His pen was erasable
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Hans 5 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.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
No, that's not petty. It's absurd to get kicked out of something you are qualified for, because you don't have a pencil.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
When I was in kindergarten, we had a snack,then a nap. The boy next to me didn't get a snack, so I shared mine and he ate it. He had an allergic reaction. I got yelled at and whacked on the butt... for sharing. But nobody told him he had a peanut allergy and not to eat them.
Niffler_13 5 years ago
In 6th grade I was removed from an advanced math class because the parent that volunteered to teach it, didn’t like that I made jokes.
Kathy Mikesell 5 years ago
And don't forget it! Keep helping others......karma will reward you by allowing you to feel good about yourself always.
Jaybird3939 5 years ago
Oh, believe me, I can hold on to a grudge for a lifetime! Probably not healthy, but I've never learned how to let some of them go~
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Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
I've had this with Maths of all things! Correct answer but that's not how we solve it in this country. (I grew up abroad.)
Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
That's extremely frustrating - how closed minded so many of these teachers are.
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Emily Ashcraft 5 years ago
wtf how is it a correct answer and NOT the one you are looking for. how do you get a correct answer and lose the points. thats so messed up.
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
This. this has happened so many times, like I would give my version of the answer and she would ask someone else, ignoring me and taking a simple answer over a better answer.
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Coraline Brown 5 years ago
That was probably 1970's teaching..my dyslexic brothers teacher used to stand behind him and hit him on the head with a ruler when he spelt a word wrong
Load More Replies... i like jelly 5 years ago
Teachers are supposed to encourage your progress, not scar you for life because you're smart.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
This happened to me, too. My mother used to take us to the library and let us get whatever books we wanted. I finished the entire book list in the first two months of the 4th grade and got berated in front of the entire class for working ahead and not following the rest of the class.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
And... again, been here, lived this, and y'know, all it did was make me bored and angry.
Alex Newell 5 years ago
Did you have to do long division too to show your work until the rest of the class got to that lesson?
Load More Replies... deanna woods 5 years ago
Teachers that punish students for being smart shouldn't be teaching at all.
Kiss Army 5 years ago
At the beginning of my second grade year before I got the "gifted" label, the teacher called my mom and told her that I couldn't read and that she wanted to have me tested for special ed. My mom told her she was nuts and that I could read before I started kindergarten. The teacher insisted so my mom played along. I got tested and the test revealed that I read at a high school level. She had been making us read out loud and I was a shy kid and was embarrassed by having everyone look at me as I read aloud which would cause me to mess up and she just assumed that meant I couldn't read at all. After the testing she couldn't apologize to my mom enough...
Cassie 5 years ago
In college, I was way ahead of my business computing class (I was the only student in the class who had grown up with computers - this was back in the 1990s), so, when we were doing work in the computer lab, I would be doing the lessons I was on and the instructor would come over, lick her fingers, and turn my pages back to where she had the rest of the class. Do not touch the book I paid hundreds of dollars for with your slobber fingers, you disgusting woman!!
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Jonathan Reiter 5 years ago
Good. The only time being a B***H was good...
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Cassie 5 years ago
I once had a history teacher who insisted he was a Navy Seal and broke a chalkboard with a trashcan when he went nuts one day. He also stole my grandfather's medals from a presentation I gave and claimed I had lost my own presentation after he required it be left in his classroom until the end of the day. Still pissed at that man. Navy Seal my a**e.
deanna woods 5 years ago
If you have to brag this much about things in your life then they probably didn't really happen to you.
Untitled_Goose_Man 5 years ago
Many veterans I know don't speak out about their service like that
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Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Karma's a b***h. AND it's my firm belief that there's a special seat in hell for people who pretend to have served in the military. How dare you dishonor our service personnel like that?
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Carol Emory 5 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.
Katinka Min 5 years ago
I had art teachers draw over my stuff to make a point but they were just sketches and they ASKED me before I allowed them to do that.
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Odd Spray 5 years ago
I remember in kindergarten my teacher yelled at this 4 yr old kid and show his work up to the rest of the class to see what he was doing wrong instead of just telling him. He colored on literally just the numbers instead of the whole shape. When giving us instructions she said "Color on the numbers". This was our first time doing a color by number.
Kent Fishburn 5 years ago
School= Government Indoctrination Center. And a lot of people are fine with that, sadly.
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Carol Emory 5 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.
David Lippman 5 years ago
I had an English teacher who insisted the Titanic sank because she was overloaded and berated me in class on that point. I brought in a stack of books to prove her wrong. She refused to apologize, although she admitted that she looked up the point the previous night. I made it my business to make her life hell. She went to an Indian ashram the following year.
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Cecilia Cheung 5 years ago
Same here. Teachers thought my parents wrote it for me. Hello, they're immigrants! I STILL need to teach them English 🙄
Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
My daughter , her 8th grade teacher accused of plagiarism. She used the word whippoorwill in her composition. She was not supposed to know this word ? ? ? She even called me a lier when I told her I watched her write the paper
Simon Cataudo 5 years ago
Got 100% in an end-of-term French exam. Teacher claimed I must have copied from the kid next to me. The kid who got 42%. I was just excellent at French but actually worried about being too good at anything after that. Got 97% in my GCSE which thankfully aroused no suspicion.
Julie Hanford 5 years ago
one of my friend's introductions for their science fair project got "written by parent" from one of the 3 judges. She was mad, but took it as the ultimate compliment
Faye Young 5 years ago
I had the same thing happen. I wrote an essay and was told by the teacher that I had copied the story out of a book because it was too clever for a primary school student.
Kaylee Furlow 2 years ago
I was accused of plagiarism a total of three times. Twice in highschool, by two different English teachers, for my writing being to advanced for my grade (1 was a paper on MY summer vacation). The third wasn't so much a flat out accusation, just a "did you really write this?" sort of conversation with my first college level English professor.
David Lippman 5 years ago
I was lucky in high school...my Creative Writing teacher was Frank McCourt. If anybody questioned my writing talent, he could set them straight, and did.
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Or you could argue you shouldn't be punished for not burning something down...
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Or argue that you shouldn't be punished because your parents are apparently more qualified to teach the class about sun-cookers than your teacher is. Why are students being punished for the incompetency of their teachers?
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
My mom spent a lot of time talking to teachers in elementary school because I did things my way and got results instead of just following directions. I hope your parents stood up for you
Eunice Probert 5 years ago
I hate to tell you, but schools are for training people to be obedient and conform. They're not for educating.
Mark Kelly 5 years ago
Yeah you think the exercise would be about trying to learn the best way to do something not just follow instructions like everyone else
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Oh, no no no. Schools do NOT encourage independent thinking. Maybe in university.
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Yep - that's what I was thinking. Tends to be the opposite... unfortunately.
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Isaac Harvey 5 years ago
I remember a particular Spanish class two years ago, and on one day, the rest of the class was learning how to say "[someone] is going to [do something]." They were using one format, but I knew another way of conveying the same thing. When my maestro(teacher) came to my desk to look at my work, he looked briefly disappointed, then amazed.
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
And teachers like this are why I don't "believe int he perfect teacher"...
Isaac Harvey 5 years ago
Failure can be one of the best teachers, provided students are allowed to correct their mistakes and learn from them.
Load More Replies... Niffler_13 5 years ago
Not according to a lot of the new grading systems. 100 means you’re distinguished and you went above and beyond what is expected of you. An 85 means you’re proficient and did what was expected of you without extra effort.
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Carrot dude 5 years ago
Same with my 9th grade English! I got a 95 for being not specific enough, then too specific.
Bluebird11 5 years ago
I had a college instructor who announced on the first day of class "I don't give As". Several students walked out & changed classes. Wish I had.
Joshua Seaman 5 years ago
This is why we need teachers who encourage excellence, NOT perfection.
ace redmond 5 years ago
this is the same as my MS teacher who the highest grade she would give was a 96 and rarely a 97
Lilac Poet 5 years ago
Wow. Perhaps you should have started each line IN the margin? Maybe she'd like that?
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Francis 5 years ago
if i write 7 without the horizontal line it looks like a 1. it (the horizontal line) is the way we learn to write the 7 in my country...
Kaisu 5 years ago
Me too, I always write the 7 with a horizontal line because that's how I learned it
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Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
put lines across my 7s for over 40 years. Had to stop in my current job because the woman in verification insisted they looked like 9s. They did not look like 9s.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I was so good at math as a child, I'd take tests and be able to figure out the answer without having to write it out. I'd get marked wrong constantly. I's ask why..they'd say because I didn't show how I reached my answer. I said, "but is the answer incorrect?" Especially when they never asked to see my work. They finally started putting "show your work" as part of the requirements for the exam on the paper. It wasn't until I was in High School that one teacher says "Always show your work because, if you do get the answer wrong, we might be able to see where you went wrong in your math..and you can still get partial credit for it instead of none at all." Now that statement made sense.
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
That's how I always write a seven. That's... how you write a seven. I've never seen anyone do anything else. It's just in (type) fonts that it's often omitted.
Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
In the UK we tend to write the 7 without the horizontal bar though some friends of mine went through a phase of doing it the 'foreign way' (their words) just because it was different. No-one was marked down for it as far as I'm aware.
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Lilac Poet 5 years ago
Teachers can be like this. I do it in my workbooks but whenever I have an exam, I don't do a line because some teachers hate it and it is ALWAYS the injust ones.
Nic Cooper 5 years ago
There is an old film from during WWII where nazis pretended to be English soldiers in a small village, but one of the things that gave them away was when they wrote their 7's with a slash through them. It was something the Germans did but not the British
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Catherine Hankinson 5 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.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
I had similar situations, but various teachers. One kept giving me books to read in her class, using her knowledge to offer me a broader perspective. Also she repeated the question for me to answer, when nobody in the class could answer --- knowing I wouldn't have listened, knowing I'd know the answer. Other teachers... not so supportive =).
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I did that all the time. A teacher took away my "outside book" once. Just once. They discovered that I really needed to be left ot read my "outside books" or given extra work or something... And then I aced the pop quiz for the *next* week and th eteacher gave back my book and just said, "Sit in the back so no one sees you reading."
Carol Emory 5 years ago
This is actually one that I understand and I will give you the teacher perspective on it. Teachers put a lot of work into those lectures, and it is very disrespectful to sit and ignore their lectures, even if you know the material. It's distracting to them and distracting to the rest of the class that may not know the material as good as you do. They aren't telling you that you can't read..they're telling you to wait outside of class to do it. Sounds like your parents needed to have a discussion with your principal to advance you up a few grades, or arrange for library time during some lectures.
Joshua Selbitschka 5 years ago
I will admit, I was one of those kids that had a bad habit of reading during class and it bit me in the rear more times than I can count. But there was a time where we were doing just reading of an in-class book and I got in trouble for reading ahead. I'm a fast reader and the book was small(by my standards. Had gotten to the point where I could read a door-stopper in one day such was my speed and still be able to comprehend what was going on). It actually was physically difficult for me to slow down my reading. But nope, had to stick with the class, had to be reading the entire time. And grade advancing wouldn't have worked in this case unfortunately, reading was one of two areas where I was ahead. Everywhere else was just normal.
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Kallyn Desmarais 5 years ago
I got detention in 2nd grade because I was quietly reading ahead in all my textbooks and it "wasn't fair to slower kids." How would they know? I wasn't reading aloud. So fine, next trip to school library, checked out a book and read that in class. Detention again for "showing off." Detention AGAIN for writing the number 11 on every answer in a math test, because I was "slow but not asking for help with math when I needed it." My mom quizzed me verbally on every one of those problems, got em right without even counting on my fingers. She did the right thing and pulled me out of school for that year. Moved, and next year had a teacher who gave us all fun quiet things to do or read if we got our work done and were bored.
Caroline Seguin 5 years ago
I remember in 8th grade loving math. We had to do our homework and present it to the teacher who would mark it (we stood in line to her desk). I took extra effort to have everything right and do it very neatly in my book. I always had everything right and she always was so angry at me? I still remember this even if it's been 45 years. If you don't like being a teacher, don't be a teacher?
Lin Martin 5 years ago
Me too. I finished my maths early so took out a book to read, as per my previous school. Got a detention for it.😡
Emily Ashcraft 5 years ago
I went through work so fast that my teachers recommended I bring books because I went faster than anyone else. I was moved to the advanced program but nothing was even mildly difficult for me until middle school. High school was when I took the most advanced classes possible to use up more of my time.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I would have marched into the principals office and stated breach of contract.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
What in the actual f**k??? How can that deal not be for you??? oh that pisses me off and it's not even me. I'll buy you mcdonald's if you still have your sign off sheet ;)
Alex Newell 5 years ago
Just for the kids who don't normally do their homework. SMH
Load More Replies... Lilly Rose Poppy 5 years ago
This makes my blood boil. How do you know if they didn’t do that to EVERYONE
David Lippman 5 years ago
She taught you a valuable lesson: "Two types of people in the world: wolves and sheep."
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Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Yes, it was another student that they apparently took ridiculous exception too. I had that happen once when asked a question (in a break) by another student and got told 'I'M the teacher'. Yes, but they were scared of you and thought your explanations were c**p...
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TheHerplover 5 years ago
Ha! My mom had me technically homeschooled just to beat this problem. I went to school part time and got the highest grades out of everyone
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Kaisu 5 years ago
What's with all these teachers who can't handle exceptionally smart children? Are they jealous because they developed slower as children or what?
Jeanne Guérin 5 years ago
I think they feel like they don't have enough control over the child and it makes them frustrated. This kind of teacher bullying happened to every one of my friends who were very gifted in school, by at least one teacher. Thought it was an isolated phenomenon, but it seems to happen in many countries. That is so f****d up ...
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I had this happen too, but in 3rd grade. Luckily, my 5th grade teacher encouraged advancement. He had a flashcard contest with multiplications. He had the first person move to stand next to the person behind them. He'd show a card...who ever got the answer first would move on to the next desk. I was the 4th person in the first row (32 kids in the class.) I got to the middle of the room before I was defeated.
Untitled_Goose_Man 5 years ago
I did that too! Except it was like 3rd grade, with a smaller class. I went round and round till the teacher kicked me out..
Load More Replies... deanna woods 5 years ago
If you are a teacher and you can't handle having a smart student then maybe you should give up teaching.
Susanna Dvorak 5 years ago
My teacher had handed out worksheets of stuff I already knew and so when I got the worksheet and just started working on it while he explained everything he eventually noticed while I was more than half way through and made me throw away the paper while everyone stared at me and one kid whisper yelled at me OvErAcHiEvEr and then the teacher just smiled and nodded. He then gave me a new worksheet after everyone else started finishing their worksheets. He's done a lot of other s**t too.
Marnie 5 years ago
1st graders should only have homework if they are one of the slower ones who can't finish the work in class. I would tell my kid they didn't have to do the homework if they got any. In fact, no kids should have homework. 7-8 hours a day in class is enough.
Thomas Ewing 5 years ago
I always did my homework at school so it wouldn't mess up my free time. My parents said we don't care about homework as long as your grades are good. My grades were good.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
This is actually discouraged now as it promotes an attitude that it's ok for companies and bosses to require workers to do work from home off the clock or to do way over the standard 40 hours a week on salary. Companies that think it's okay to invade employees personal/family time for 'the good of the company" are not companies you should work for. Everyone should be paid a fair wage...from the guy who scrubs toilets to the CEO. No one should be expected to work for free.
Lilly Rose Poppy 5 years ago
Where I used to go to school you had to do extra work if you finished before the class was done
Ruler Of The Meme Overlords 4 years ago
I would just not erase them. Or do it do u can still see them :D
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
I guess I was lucky. I have very fond memories of my first grade teacher and for the most part, all of my teachers. There were a few bad ones but for the most part, they were great. I think great teachers are born not made. I guess some teachers like the power it gives them over their students. I feel sorry for everyone who had bad teachers.
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GARRETT O'BANION 5 years ago
How does a high IQ make you a serial killer........i don't understand
Jerry Oary 5 years ago
Got the same thing in 4th grade. I was always setting in class doing nothing because I had already read ahead of the class. The teacher got mad at me one day and sent me to the school psychologist (Her HUSBAND). He gave ma a couple of B.S. tests and then diagnosed me as sever anti social w/ violent tendencies. Still haunts me occasionally and I am now 56 yrs old.
My O My 5 years ago
I'm sorry to hear this. How can one do this to a kid?
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Going to also guess boy and probably not white. These demographic prejudices lead to poorer outcomes for students as they are more likely to be labeled problems
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
Not if they are going by serial killer profiling - usually white
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Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
How totally ridiculous! You didn't turn into a serial killer so you win!
Andrea Urquhart 5 years ago
Oof. I had the same. My IQ measures at 197, and so many teachers treated me like I was a psychopath. I have no idea why.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
When my husband took Intro English in college, I knew he'd ace it. He was angry when he was coming home with 80's or less on his papers. He started talking to the rest of the class and it turned out all the guys were getting bad grades and all the girls were passing with flying colors. A group of them approached the Dean of the department. Turned out the professor (female) was going through a bitter divorce and taking her anger over her ex out on the men of the class. She was let go.
Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
A female professor of ours did the exact opposite. Her ex cheated on her like 30 years ago and ended up with a daughter that decided she wanted to teach at the old witch's department. She hated female students so much that we used to get 20-30% worse than the guys.
Load More Replies... Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
When I was in school, particularly in Middle School, but this happened in Grade School and High School a lot too. I used to get detention for my 'Parents' doing my homework. One teacher (middle school), pulled my paper for Plagiarism. My mom who was working 2 jobs and never even looked at my school work tore into the administration and told them to prove the plagiarism. None of them could, but my mom was told that I was no way capable of writing those papers, and essays (and short stories). It was so bad in middle school that when I went to high school my Vice Principal pulled me into the office to have a 'talk' with me. Only bonus, that VP was my 5th grade teachers husband, so he had more of an open mind, and had asked his wife about me.
Bluebird11 5 years ago
That is such b******t & the mark of a s****y teacher or manager (I've also heard many similar stories about employee performance reviews).
Lilly Rose Poppy 5 years ago
Just because you give it a 100 does not mean it’s perfect. In elementary school there was a system where if you got a 3 it was 100 but a 4 was beyond expectations. 100 is not perfect
Gracie Mae 5 years ago
not a school issue, but as an adult, at work...had to right a reports almost every day. supervisor tried to make me re-write and not use the word "unbeknownst" because is was antiquated. maybe to him, but I use that word frequently! I refused; not really anything he could do about it in the scope of things. same supervisor, another report--i used the term "common peroneal" and he told me there was no such thing...this, after having that term drilled into our heads in the classroom setting for said job! again, i refused to change it & even tried to educate him. ended up having to go to HIS supervisor for it to stand. how do some people advance up the ladder?!
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Translation: Teacher is a low achiever who now has authority and wants to penalize high achievers.
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María Hermida 5 years ago
Why did she give you subtractions that couldn't be solved with the knowledge you are supposed to have? It's so stupid!
Shadow 5 years ago
So was I! I had what I called at the time a "fancy y" got told off by the teacher for using cursive writing, ignored the teacher cause I like my fancy y. Then the teacher got my parents involved and I was told I had to stop using it, regretfully I did stop... but I stood my ground on writing on both sides of the page, I had several teachers tell me to stop, I never did and even went out of my way to get the printer to print on both sides of the paper (that part really pissed them off!). lol
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Bridgit Gilmore 5 years ago
I failed algebra in Jr High because I always got 'answer = x' rather than 'x=answer'. I finally managed to pass it in high school and graduated. Flash forward 12 years. I returned to school at 30 yrs old and, OMG, had to take college algebra. I had a panic attack during the first test and ran out of the class. The professor came out and asked what was wrong and I told him that all my answers were wrong and how stupid I was. He went and got my paper...every answer was right, he said. Turns out that x=7 is exactly the same as 7=x. Who knew? Apparently, not my Jr High teacher! Gave me a hatred for maths that follows me to this day!
Julie Hanford 5 years ago
I did that too... my teacher told me i did not have to, but they were impressed
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Oh, yeah. They're stooping to below petty when they go after the ragged edges.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
It was probably punishment for making teacher read an extra 19 pages.
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Jerri Andreasen 5 years ago
Do you even know how much work teachers have to do at home? My wife is an 8th grade teacher, and has 165 students in all of her classes. If each 2 page paper took only 3 minutes to read, correct, mark up, and grade (and I guarantee it takes longer than that), that means grading those papers would take my wife 8.25 hours. How much hubris do you have to have to expect her to spend 30 minutes on just your paper? And to get all bent out of shape about getting a lower grade? You're lucky it got graded at all, rather than given back to you to redo.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I agree with you Jerri. One thing to grasp from this is that if your boss is asking you to take several months worth of research and sum it up into a two page report, he/she is not going to be happy if you hand them a 21 page report. You may be more thorough, but you are also wasting your bosses time. That summary may be something they will be presenting to potential clients to close a deal. If you overload the clients with information, you may make it so complicated that they will back out and take their business elsewhere. Some of the homework assignments are about understanding the topic..some are merely about your ability to follow directions.
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Charlotte Sandoval 5 years ago
I was skeptical too, but then I remembered the book/writing fiend I was as a kid... yeah, it's definitely possible if you don't stop at all to sleep, eat, or use the bathroom. I definitely did that a few times, if not with such big books.
Load More Replies... Gehtdich Nixan 5 years ago
21 pages instead of 2? I once got a grade taken off because I wrote 12 sentences in a homework. not 10 as required.
Michelle Boden 5 years ago
Two pages required and 21 turned in? Not at all impressive like you think. It takes skill to edit a longwinded tome into two pages, which is much more effective and engaging writing.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
If they'd marked you off for not sticking to the assignment length, that would have been one thing. But ragged edges? That's bull.
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Carol Emory 5 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.
togcrewsc 5 years ago
the same thing happend to me, in health when we were talking about sexual harassment
Load More Replies... Kathy Mikesell 5 years ago
I often wonder how many people just gave up on learning due to ignorant teachers. Please don't. If you give up...they win. DON'T LET THEM WIN. If you can read , you can learn!
D. Pitbull 5 years ago
Yep. I relate. Similar sh** happened to me all throughout elementary school... then high school. Pathetic. Elementary school: a larger-than-me kid actually **punched me in the face**... and uh... duuuh... I started crying - got in trouble for "making a scene". Highschool... I was what... 99 lbs almost 5'0"... some 6'0" guy (not a lightweight, not big... but huge compared to me at the time) picks a fight with me, takes a swing, is winding up for a kick (Oh look, an Asian. Let's test to see if she knows kung fu. Har har har). So... I fought back and managed to actually get a good one or two in... aaaand... *I* get yelled at. No, neither of these attackers ever even got spoken to.
David Lippman 5 years ago
Bullies know exactly how to manipulate their targets: they provoke them into a first response, and then beat the hell out of the target. When the teacher wades into the stomping, teacher asks, "Who threw the first punch?" At which point the bully and his pals point at their bleeding victim, and the victim, having broken the magic rule, draws the suspension. It's a win-win for the bully. The only way to deal with a bully is to stomp on his windpipe until he can no longer breathe.
Kiss Army 5 years ago (edited)
My son got hit by the school bully and shoved him away to make him stop. The kid admitted that this is what happened. My son still got a three-day suspension because of "no-tolerance" rules. Apparently, he should not have shoved him and should have let the kid keep hitting him until a teacher intervened. He then did not get to go on a school field trip later in the semester because he had had a disciplinary action and he did not get to participate in an end-of-semester party because he had had disciplinary action. First, how many times do they discipline a kid for the same "crime"? Second, he has a right to defend himself and was not guilty of anything so was not punished at home. Third, during the field trip and party he was not allowed to attend, he was supposed to sit quietly in the library... I said "F" that and took him out of school during those times. During the would-be field trip, we went to a museum and during the would-be party we went to Chuck E. Cheese.
TY FERGUSON 5 years ago
i am so sorry and i feel you because one time i told the class santa isnt alive anymore but there was a good man named st.nicolas and that is wher the santa story came from,and got to miss the rest of shcool and an hour after of dusting the teachers personal library for "liying to the class"!
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Leo Domitrix 5 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.
Philly Bob Squires 5 years ago
Happened to me as well when I transferred out of Tropical Elementary in Miami to Sheppard in Philadelphia. In first grade we not only learned cursive but was already studying some Spanish. This was in 1964. My teacher thought it was really cool though.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Exactly the same happened to me. In first grade the teacher said, "Write your name if you know how." I did so and was told, "You can't do that because you haven't been taught it yet. Even at 5 years I understood the underlying contradiction of that sentence. (In the US we use "write" for cursive and "print" for non-cursive)
Emily Ashcraft 5 years ago
our school cut cursive from the curriculum a year before we were supposed to learn it. I had to have one of my friends from another school teach me how to do it.
Susanna Dvorak 5 years ago
I just don't understand these people. its soooo not okay and just makes me mad.
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
LOL This happened to me in almost the same way. Kindergarten I brought in pencils and was writing my name in cursive... got my pencils taken away and my parents called because "we don't use pencils in Kindergarten and she hasn't learned Cursive yet" My mom was livid (this was early 80's where kindergarten was learning letters, colors and shapes instead of "real" knowledge. I had been reading since before I was 2 and my older brother taught me to write in cursive.
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Big Blue Cat 5 years ago
My Finnish teacher claimed I didn't turn in my writings (some short story) at the previous class, because she couldn't find it in her papers. I calmly told her that I did and told her what it was about. I could see from her face that she remembered reading it and then she started panicing, what to do when she has lost my paper. I tried to calm her down and jokingly said that she could give me a 7 like all the previous papers. (I really thought it was funny that I got the same number from her to all my writings through the whole year.) That's when she lost it. She started bawling she can't even grade papers and ran to the teachers lounge to cry. Maybe she had a point, did she really give it any thought if all 10 papers got the same grade and I can't remember getting feedback how to improve. After that incident I remember getting better grades from her. Our grades went from 4-10, 10 being the best number and you could get halfs like 7.5 so teachers really could fine tune the grades.
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
at the freaking front of the folder. how can you not notice that? IN THE FRONT, RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE,
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Chelseayaknow 5 years ago
I remember getting a 0 because the teacher assumed "I didn't turn a paper in because my name wasn't on any papers turned in" when it was clearly mine and I forgot but it was "too little too late" according to him. What an a*s. Why be a teacher if you are going to act like any of these horror stories?
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Raine Soo 5 years ago
You assume that these cases occurred after the internet boom. Many of these are old-school. Pardon the pun.
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Well I had an english language (as a foreign language tho) teacher insist that grapefruit = grape. Translation dictionaries must all contain same error then? Of course now trivially checked with mobile, 30y ago bit harder not even internet to bring printout from next day.
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Joshua Selbitschka 5 years ago
Had a teacher who bragged about never giving an A and that he makes his classes intentionally difficult for that reason. In reality, he never used any technology(not even a freaking projector), never was available for help, and I'm fairly certain he lost a few of my papers. Can't speak for other students though.
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Collin Edward 5 years ago
May she have those little pebbles that hurt but never come out in her shoes forever.
Lilly Rose Poppy 5 years ago
My fifth grade teacher would tell us she could see and hear dead people. And one she chased a boy around the class just to hug him.
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Lilly Rose Poppy 5 years ago
At my school we have two math classes, advanced and regular, so this does not happen
juice 5 years ago
but not everyone in each class is at the exact same level. there have been kids in my math classes that finished early even though it was the most advanced class
Load More Replies... Kiss Army 5 years ago
My Psych teacher was Melissa Ethridge's dad. He was crazy, but awesome!! Definitely one of my favorite teachers ever!! One of the funniest days, we showed up to class and he asked "Who watched my daughter on Arsino Hall last night?" We all raised our hands and he yelled, "Extra credit for everyone!!" His class is one of my favorite high school memories!
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Untitled_Goose_Man 5 years ago
I hate planning writing like that.. Why should I write it twice?
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Xandra, The Little Hufflepuff 5 years ago
I have done, that and gotten in trouble, I hate using outlines, I like just writing and seeing my ideas flow from my brain to the paper
chaos kitten 5 years ago
we had to do similar in a drawing class we would get marked down if we didnt show the "stages" of how we draw but like 80% just drew it at once so we all used to draw the stages afterward
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Arwin Cipher 5 years ago
Dear this teache, Bro it's optional why the f*** you f****** out about it
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GARRETT O'BANION 5 years ago
Why do i feel like some schools have dictators for teachers/principals?
FurryManiac 5 years ago
I feel LUCKY every time I get a chance for extra credit. While the teacher was stupid, I really don’t get what you were going for when you refused it.
William Varner 5 years ago
I had a teacher who would intentionally put up extra credit questions that only certain kids knew the answers to. I got 3 of 4 extra credit questions right one time, and he failed me on the whole test saying that I probably cheated. Yeah, f**k you, Richardson. This one's for you.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
Love Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None is one of my Favorites.
Joshua Selbitschka 5 years ago
Personal favorite of mine is Murder on the Orient Express
Load More Replies... Xandra, The Little Hufflepuff 5 years ago
I got in trouble for "reading too advanced of a book," it was the chronicles of narnia, and I read the entire chronicles in 3 weeks, I was in 3rd grade. My dad told the teacher that was bullcrap, and that she said to choose a fantasy book, and that I did. My parents have always been supportive of me reading very advanced books, I had a college reading level in 6th grade.
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Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
If it's not used as a proper noun (i.e., the name of the deity worshipped by the Abrahamic religions) then god and goddess are appropriate and correct and should not be capitalized.
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Ruler Of The Meme Overlords 4 years ago (edited)
In "The people of Sumer worshipped many gods," no capitalization. In "Christians believe in God," then you capitalize.
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Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
You must be British. Americans do not think weapons are inappropriate for kids. Plus if that was a rule it needed to be clear at the begining
lara 5 years ago
Where HAVE you been? Kids, in America, have been arrested because they ate their sandwich into the shape of a gun, or pointed their finger like a gun, or even showed a picture of their gun that they took to a gun range with their parents.
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Untitled_Goose_Man 5 years ago
That's an epic movie, my favorite of the SW's, but it's a bit dark for 10, isn't it?
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PristineMisty 4 years ago
Sad. Teachers should be more kind, but they also go through a LOT of hassle.
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lara 5 years ago
When I wrote it was always the first draft I wrote with minor corrections i.e. spelling or grammar. When I wrote my dissertation, my first "draft" was my final draft, just corrected spelling, grammar and added foots. Writing the same paper over and over is like giving birth to the same baby over and over.
The FLASH 5 years ago
That's what I did, sometimes to avoid the whole rewriting I would write the whole thing, leave out parts by putting the full essay into a privet doc then adding more parts and revising until the final when I put it all in
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Lavender Brown 5 years ago
Same I hate doing rough drafts. I prefer just to write and come up with ideas as I go and fix it right away. Same with brainstorming.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I had a second grade teacher that actually got in my face screaming at me because we were supposed to be pulling out calendars to update them on what was due later that week. I couldn't hear what he asked us to do because two kids behind me were talking. I was looking around at the other kids to see if I could figure out what he wanted..but apparently I didn't move fast enough.
Kiss Army 5 years ago
When I was in grade school they didn't take food allergies or sensitivities as seriously as they do now and the school I went to would not let you go to recess after lunch if you did not eat everything on your tray. With the number of things I can't eat, I can't even begin to calculate how many times I had to stay in the lunch room while other kids got to play outside for recess.
Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
Did you have food in your desk or something? Or was she just obsessed about neatly stacked books?
Arwin Cipher 5 years ago
When you didn't finish like your main course in your lunch (like your sandwich or whatever) in KINDERGARTEN for me, my teacher made you eat it while everybody else played and you weren't allowed to play with them if that we were inside you just had to sit there and eat lunch and watch everybody play and I usually never finished my sandwich in the 30-minute time period we got so I usually always had to sit out on recess
Arwin Cipher 5 years ago
I cried multiple times and my teacher never even give me a second look
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Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
Define irony! LOL I actually had a Business Law professor (retook the class in college) that taught me a very valuable lesson on why you shouldn't read during class lectures. I would read during class lecture. One day, I was reading about contracts and who can enforce them and/or sue when they are breached. I tuned out the professor and had the chapter read before the end of class. On the next exam, he puts "Explain how contracts are enforceable by using the concert example given in lecture." Wha? I tried to fake it, but when I got the graded exam back, there was a note in red ink that said "This is why you need to pay attention to the lecture." I certainly did after that.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
While waiting for our class photo I dropped my pencil and bent down to pick it up. As I strightened up my homeroom teacher gave me detention. I asked what I'd done and he just glared. Asked again ofter I'd served the detention ..."you know what you did." To this day I have no idea what he thinks I did.
SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
Hehehe allowing you to do what you were being punished for in punishment
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Ruler Of The Meme Overlords 4 years ago
Hey @Animal Lover❤️, I'm assuming your username applies to all animals except this teacher? :D
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ispeak catanese 5 years ago
Nuns aren't saints. Worked with a group from the same convent and a few could barely hide their disdain for their sisters. It was eye-opening
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
Don't listen to her! Your hair is beautiful! Don't let some b***h tell you otherwise
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SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
The fact that she never gave you a limit but punished you for stepping over the invisible limit...bruh
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Hazel Gray 5 years ago
Yeah. WHite people can sometimes be nasty as f**k. Don't listen to them
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Lavender Brown 5 years ago
I am sorry you had to go through this. I go to a Catholic school and the teachers are amazing! But not all schools are like this.
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Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
Wow. Some people should NEVER be teachers. That one lacked basic decency.
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Nightmare Scar Paladin 5 years ago
I had a teacher in 4th grade who didn't let me go to the bathroom because we were in the middle of a lesson, I ended up peeing my pants and had to get a new pair from the nurse that didn't fit right, I used to love that teacher until then
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
My dad beat me, and eventually my school convinced him I needed eyeglasses. So... sometimes a teacher is a good force in one's life.
Mark Stewart 5 years ago
Reminds me of when I first got glasses, whenever the teacher had maths problems on the blackboard that we had to copy down and work on ourselves I'd get different answers to everyone else for at least half of them. Turned out I was copying down some of the questions wrong because I couldn't see them clearly, what I did was perfectly correct just not what the rest of the class was working on.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
Had a friend whose mother was British. She learned to write using a British dictionary. So teacher kept constantly marking her down when she'd spell "color" "honor" and "price"..."colour" "honour" and "prise" Her mother marched down to the teacher and shoved the dictionary in her face saying "Show me the word she misspelled in this dictionary." The teacher finally caved and stopped marking her off, but would make marks on her papers to say "American English here."
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I'm sorry, when is the world has any single human being spelled 'price' as 'prise'?
Load More Replies... Xandra, The Little Hufflepuff 5 years ago
I've had that happen to me too!!!!!! Exact same situation
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Lynda Momalo 5 years ago (edited)
What a clueless wonder -- the teacher probably didn't know what finis meant!
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togcrewsc 5 years ago
Sometimes I use the British or Canadian way of spelling things because it just makes more sense, and then I got points taken off. I told the teacher that my spelling was correct, and showed her the dictionary. I had to read the dictionary as punishment, but I had already done that when I was younger.
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Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
Thank goodness he didn't do an "underwear check" like the school a few stories above!
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OhForSmegSake 5 years ago
I knew a young woman that went to a private school like that, they even had to have regulation underwear from the uniform shop (and staff did underwear checks) or face detention.
Ananeemoos Jak 5 years ago
I feel like that's a poor excuse for a school of perverts
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Flare 5 years ago
Especially if it gives the afflicted more anxiety or even a panic attack!
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Lynda Momalo 5 years ago
People who work with children should know better. They should have said, "That's a fun way to move around, isn't it? But we need to walk on our feet at school."
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
Ummm I was born with no Achilles tendon's and that's EXACTLY how I walked when I was little, It wasn't unil I was about 3 that someone figured out what was wrong and Shriner's stepped in and fixed my legs. I didn't walk "normal" until 4 years old. So that teacher is a f*****g idiot.
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Arwin Cipher 5 years ago
Ok hi if you're down here I have my own story to tell. So my first grade teacher was a total b****. She would give us just sheets of cursive writing and math to do in the morning and would get mad when we couldn't write well in cursive. she marked me absent when I was f****** there because she didn't take role she just looked and to see if people were at their desks and sometimes and I was in the bathroom or sometimes I was bent over trying to figure out these fractions she was trying to have us do and she couldn't see me. She got super mad at me when I would read something that we weren't currently reading in class, but I was super high above the reading level. Like our class was still reading s*** like "Go Spot, Go!" Me and 2 of my friends actually ended up getting put in a separate reading group with my science teacher because we were so high above the reading level. I would breathe through that book as well but my science teacher made me go back and read the chapter again and that'
Arwin Cipher 5 years ago
Is a whole other thing. Anyways Miss Donahue that was her name was a total pain in the ass. I was getting bullied by almost my whole class and most of the other classes too and she never even looked at it. The only good thing she ever did was when my school threatened to suspend me because I kept coming in late because my dad had a surgery and his jaw because he had a tumor she stopped marking me late and she never did anything else beneficial for me ever I got easy as in first grade because the stuff we were doing was so damn easy.
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Mark Fuller 5 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 5 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 5 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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Sam Yobado 5 years ago (edited)
My final year of high school the only calculus teacher had taught both my mother and my brother. They had terrible experiences with her and reported her conduct. She got reprimanded, not fired. Unfortunately, for my university program, I needed calculus, but they only averaged my 6 best marks, so just a pass was fine. At the time I was seeing a doctor once a week that made me 10 minutes late for her class on those days. After a few weeks she told the class I was pregnant and having morning sickness. I am male btw. She had many insults for me, but her favorite became asking when my baby was due. To make the situation worse I forgot the date our independent study was to be handed in. I had almost nothing done. Expecting nothing I went to ask for an extension, and was told not only was there no extensions, it was a course requirement and I would fail if I didn’t hand it in. So, I got what little I had and wrote my name and handed it in. I expected 0 but I got a negative grade, -13%.
John Napier 5 years ago
In high school I had dyslexia. The guidance counselor went through my grades and tole me I was "Functionally Illiterate" and that I should find a job that didn't require reading or writing.
Lizz Lor 5 years ago
When I was in kindergarten, c. 1993, my very old teacher refused to accept that I was left handed. She would take any work I had done with my left hand, throw it away and make me start over. I couldn't figure out how to hold scissors in my right hand so I very gently ripped along the edges of the shape we were supposed to cut out...thought it would be ok since I didn't use my left hand. I was also a very shy kid, and she would berate me in front of the class constantly for being stupid. Parent teacher conferences come around and she tells my parents I'm incapable of learning and need to be in Special Ed...I didn't know my shapes, letters, number, etc. My parents were baffled. I finally told them that day how she wouldn't let me use my left hand.Next day my dad comes to school with me and takes me to class...asks me to write some stuff on the board, so I did, with my left hand. Takes the chalk from me and hands it to the teacher, 'She's not stupid, she's left handed'
María Hermida 5 years ago
He should have added: your case is just the opposite, you are not left-handed, you are stupid.
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kurisutofu 5 years ago
Once, I was asked to leave class because "I talked". I said it was not me and the teacher said "I know but I still want you to leave" ...
OCDRobot 5 years ago (edited)
My mother in law had to deal with just the worst teacher when it came to my brother in law. It was a photography class and the teacher had insisted at the end of the semester that my bro didn't turn in a single assignment and that he was stupid and deserved to fail. Well, little did he know that for the entire semester, he had not only been turning them into that teacher, but also a copy into his counselor as well keeping one at home since he'd been having problems with the teacher from the start. So when this end of the year BS came up, my mother in law went ballistic. She and the counselor cornered the teacher, made him explain everything, then made him go through his mess of a classroom and find every single assignment that my bro had turned in. As well as assignments from other students he claimed weren't turned in. I believe he lost his job the next year. A*****e deserved it. Pretty sure he hated kids to begin with.
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
One of those who picked the profession because they wanted to bully children.
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 5 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 5 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 5 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... Sam Yobado 5 years ago (edited)
My final year of high school the only calculus teacher had taught both my mother and my brother. They had terrible experiences with her and reported her conduct. She got reprimanded, not fired. Unfortunately, for my university program, I needed calculus, but they only averaged my 6 best marks, so just a pass was fine. At the time I was seeing a doctor once a week that made me 10 minutes late for her class on those days. After a few weeks she told the class I was pregnant and having morning sickness. I am male btw. She had many insults for me, but her favorite became asking when my baby was due. To make the situation worse I forgot the date our independent study was to be handed in. I had almost nothing done. Expecting nothing I went to ask for an extension, and was told not only was there no extensions, it was a course requirement and I would fail if I didn’t hand it in. So, I got what little I had and wrote my name and handed it in. I expected 0 but I got a negative grade, -13%.
John Napier 5 years ago
In high school I had dyslexia. The guidance counselor went through my grades and tole me I was "Functionally Illiterate" and that I should find a job that didn't require reading or writing.
Lizz Lor 5 years ago
When I was in kindergarten, c. 1993, my very old teacher refused to accept that I was left handed. She would take any work I had done with my left hand, throw it away and make me start over. I couldn't figure out how to hold scissors in my right hand so I very gently ripped along the edges of the shape we were supposed to cut out...thought it would be ok since I didn't use my left hand. I was also a very shy kid, and she would berate me in front of the class constantly for being stupid. Parent teacher conferences come around and she tells my parents I'm incapable of learning and need to be in Special Ed...I didn't know my shapes, letters, number, etc. My parents were baffled. I finally told them that day how she wouldn't let me use my left hand.Next day my dad comes to school with me and takes me to class...asks me to write some stuff on the board, so I did, with my left hand. Takes the chalk from me and hands it to the teacher, 'She's not stupid, she's left handed'
María Hermida 5 years ago
He should have added: your case is just the opposite, you are not left-handed, you are stupid.
Load More Replies... kurisutofu 5 years ago
Once, I was asked to leave class because "I talked". I said it was not me and the teacher said "I know but I still want you to leave" ...
OCDRobot 5 years ago (edited)
My mother in law had to deal with just the worst teacher when it came to my brother in law. It was a photography class and the teacher had insisted at the end of the semester that my bro didn't turn in a single assignment and that he was stupid and deserved to fail. Well, little did he know that for the entire semester, he had not only been turning them into that teacher, but also a copy into his counselor as well keeping one at home since he'd been having problems with the teacher from the start. So when this end of the year BS came up, my mother in law went ballistic. She and the counselor cornered the teacher, made him explain everything, then made him go through his mess of a classroom and find every single assignment that my bro had turned in. As well as assignments from other students he claimed weren't turned in. I believe he lost his job the next year. A*****e deserved it. Pretty sure he hated kids to begin with.
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
One of those who picked the profession because they wanted to bully children.
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