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35 Almost Unbelievable Reasons Teachers Lost Their Jobs, As Shared By People In This Online Group
It seems like every school has at least a few of those stories about that one teacher who happened to get fired from their job for a straight-up wild reason. From comical and seemingly innocent ones, to incidents that are pretty much objectively shocking and almost hard to believe—school halls have seen it all.
Considering that, no wonder this Reddit thread that started with the user u/MrDev16 asking the community "why did that teacher get fired from your school?" quickly went viral and gathered thousands of responses. With that being said, Bored Panda is inviting you to read through the list compiled of the craziest and most interesting teacher-getting-fired stories we found in this viral thread. As always, feel free to share your own stories down in the comment section.
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#1
Our beloved teacher, Mr Maune, had worked there for 29 years without incident and was one of the best teachers there. His classroom was always a laugh riot. He was the best roaster and encourages us to roast him properly. He never failed to get us motivated and a lot of us owe our career inspiration from him.
He was fired because he had jokingly smacked a student on the back of his head for making a stupid comment. It was like something out of a sitcom and all of us expected it and loved it. Yet one student, who was new at the school, was culture shocked by this. He thought it was strange but hilarious. He told his mom off handedly and his mom became the Karen. Nevermind that the student was the teacher's godson, no physical contact was allowed says the Karen. He was suspended with pay for 3 months pending investigation then was let go because the Karen twisted the story and it blew up around the school. A year later, teacher won both the lawsuit against the school and libel case against the Karen with her son being one of the key witnesses.
We still keep in contact and roast him for getting rich over smacking kids around.
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#2
My math teacher was a volunteer first responder (in NY), she left school to help out during 9/11 and was fired for not showing back up for two weeks.
#3
My AP English teacher got high on painkillers, broke into someone’s house, and ate their soup.
#4
One of my high school teaches was caught on To Catch a Predator.
#5
They found out he was gay. He was a chaperone for the 8th grade east coast trip, and parents of boys got all up in arms that he had access to their hotel rooms. No student has ever accused him of anything inappropriate.
#6
Oh boy where to start. Elementary school nurse was fired for taking the kids’ medications. HS band teacher slept with a 15 yr old. Swim coach left a hotel that he was at with his mistress drunk and killed someone with his car. My high school had like 400 students.
#8
Our new band teacher was a young guy, fresh out of college. His first year teaching and he embezzled about a thousand dollars from the band’s funds. He got arrested and his possible future career ruined for a thousand bucks.
Edit: Probably my favorite part of the story was that he went by the name Mr. E. So once he was gone, the ruthless band kids referred to him as Mr. Embezzlement.
#9
A co-worker teacher got fired two weeks in the new semester, when instead of uploading a video related to his subject, he instead accidentally continued a previously paused hardcore lesbian scene on the big interactive screen.
The computer he was using was slow and crappytoo so he couldn't quickly exit the video. It went on for a good 30 seconds before someone pulled the plug on the screen around the same time he lobbed the laptop about 30 feet across the class.
#10
Kindergarden teacher would dig furrows into kids arms with her long, sharp nails by basically holding their arms real tightly. She did this if she caught them misbehaving during recess. It happened to me when I was running when I shouldn't have, I think ( this was nearly 40 years ago). I showed the principle my arm as he was walking out one day and she was fired on the spot. I think I was 4 at the time and didn't realize exactly what I did at the time.
#11
One of the elementary school teachers at the district I went to got arrested for making his class worship him like he was a cult leader. He was totally bonkers.
#12
Dating a 16 year old female student - he was also a PE teacher
EDIT: I should clarify that he did do jail time and is on the sex offenders register
#13
Had a teacher in hs, he taught English and was the jv fb coach he was a good man and well liked. His wife worked directly below him teaching geography and pregnant, her family was known in the area for owning an apple orchard. They had their dream. The school officers daughter started saying she slept with him he denied but was promptly fired. He had a mental breakdown his wife divorced him last I know he was working at a tgi fridays. His wife remarried and had another kid. The girl who lied came forward after and said she lied but it was to late he remained fired life ruined, she and her father transfered and moved out of town. That girl ruined his life and got no real consequences. Tragic.
#14
Man do I got a story for this one. I apologize for the length but its worth a read.
So I got a job as a PE teacher/coach at a K-12 school. It was the beginning of my second year and rumors were going around about a teacher having a relationship with a student. I just thought it was a rumor and moved on. A few days later we have a cross country meet and i have to get to the school at 5:30 am to leave for the meet. I noticed another car in the parking lot, which was gated closed, and no one around. This has never happened so I called one of the other coaches and he was not sure and found it strange. I dont think much of it and go about my day. We get back from the meet around noon and the car is still there.
Turns out it is one of the high school teachers car that was left from the day before. I thought it was car troubles and decided to not think much of it. I arrive back to school on Monday and boy howdy did sh*t hit fan. The car was left at over the weekend not because of car troubles but much. Much. MUCH worse reasons.
The car was left over the entire 48 hour weekend because the teacher who owned the car had a mental breakdown in class, couldn't control it and had his sister, who also worked at the school, take him home. He had a breakdown because his gf broke up with him. His gf... was HIS STUDENT. So once the story was confirmed the police came and searched his classroom. His classroom had empty liquor bottles in the desk and his room was a mess.
The teacher was fired and that was the last I heard of him. However, the story doesn't end there folks. Because the sister of the convicted teacher was behind everything. Helped them arrange dates, meet ups, and covered for him to keep the story hidden. She was fired a week later.
I left the education world after that semester and never looked back.
Jazzy Mc. Jaz 3 years ago
Hmmm.. School is so much more then learning, at my school the kids sell/do drugs.
#16
My sociology teacher in high school was fired for throwing an chalkboard eraser at a sleeping students head. He was a great teacher, and always did this in good humor. Obviously not a great idea in retrospect, but we all knew that we could get away with sleeping in his class if we didn't mind getting an eraser upside the head if he noticed. I heard he was fired a few years after I graduated high school, and that kinda bummed me out.
Probably deserving of a reprimand of some sort, but not getting fired.
Anonymous User 3 years ago
My oldest son had a teacher who threw dry-erase markers at students for all kinds of reasons. I didn't believe my son until his younger brother had the same experience with the same teacher!
#17
He was playing his guitar for students at my elementary school. He had been warned before, but the kids enjoyed it so he continued to play it for them anyways.
One day, the assistant principal was lurking in the hallway and wandered to his classroom. She saw him playing his guitar and fired him on the spot. A whole lot of students were crying that day because he was an amazing guy.
Edit: More information, this took place in a small, rural town in Georgia back in the early 2000s. He wasn’t the music teacher, he just used to bring his guitar and play songs randomly on some days and the kids enjoyed it. He’d been warned multiple times by his higher ups (why? IDK. He was a great teacher). He thought that before the break, he could play something for us one last time during the last week of school. It just happened to be the worst possible timing, while the assistant principal was walking through the halls. He didn’t come back to teach at our school when classes started again. If I recall, he got a job teaching at a different school.
#18
My AP chem teacher had an affair with the principal. Principal got fired too. I felt bad for her. They didn’t do anything on school property, and it didn’t impact her performance in the classroom. Also, the school wasn’t able to find a qualified teacher to replace her halfway through the year, so we were all fuc*ed come test time at the end of the year. Not one of us passed that AP test.
Stacey Montebello 3 years ago
That's ridiculous, unless your doing something illegal outside of school your personal life shouldn't effect your job like that. Sure reprimand them both and move on.
#19
He didn't come to parent teacher interview night. The next day, he was late for class and crashed his pickup into a brick sign outside the school. Cops showed up obviously and allegedly he blew twice the legal limit. He called the principal 'a c*nt' as he was taken away.
#20
She was always drunk, and drinking during class. She would leave us to cry in the bathroom.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
That's very sad as she obviously had problems .... Despite that, she shouldn't have been teaching kids !!
#21
One was such an unlikeable teacher they were asked to retire
One sent someone elses di*k pics to a students mom
One robbed a bank
#22
Arrested by the FBI for credit card fraud. It was a few months after the arrest when the reason why he disappeared came out in the open.
#23
Coach/History teacher of course. First off some of the early warning signs we all should have noticed first.
He showed up the first day of school and told us he was a youth minister and that we would always see him in long sleeves and pants because he had tattoos and he regrets them. That he didn't want to accidentally encourage any of us to get some too. Two weeks later he is in shorts and polo shirts showing off multiple looney toons tattoos.
He taught 6th grade US History out of a textbook. Word for word. We did multiple chapters a day and were expected to do every assignment listed for each chapter. This averaged about 3 hours of work a day. In 6th grade. He was the only class that year to regularly assign homework and he received multiple parent complaints about the workload.
He would often leave the class alone to read chapters. He would then go out to the hall or parking lot to make out with his girlfriend who would arrive randomly.
He was the middle school track coach and thus spent a lot of time in and around the middle school locker rooms. Too much time....
He took photos of the kids running for the yearbook. These pictures eventually made it onto his work computer desktop. Then his phone background. Only the girls though.
But the final straw that got us out of his care. He showed up to a middle school basketball game drunk and tried to yell at the ref.
He was fired that day and not allowed back on campus.
#24
Had a history teacher get fired for going off syllabus and spending time on the pre-Judaic flood stories.
One of maybe two reasons I'm obsessed with Mesopotamian/ Anatolian/ Egyptian history now.
#25
She had fallen off the wagon and was drinking a lot to the point where it was affecting her memory. We kept doing the same lecture on density in sixth grade science for a month, until one my classmates decided to ask another teacher about it. From there she went to rehab.
If anyone wants more context. She was our homeroom and science teacher. She was very nice, and married to our assistant principal, so she had a little bit more leeway. While she was able to remain sober for a while, she eventually passed away do the effects of her addiction a few years after this. She never seemed like a bad teacher, but she was always stressed to the absolute maximum, always felt like she was working from behind, and generally struggling to keep up. You know, the traditional tail end of the "functioning" addict lifestyle.
#26
There was a tornado in our area. The college I was in was leasing a multi-floor office building. Alarms were sounding outside, and people were retreating into the stairwells for safety.
Teacher blew it off and said people were just making it up to be funny.
Learned when I got home that the tornado was right outside the window I was sitting next to.
Reported him to the faculty. So did others. He was gone the following week.
#27
He “accidentally” made a really racist joke thinking the class would think it was funny (they didn’t ofc) so he was fired that day.
#28
He straight up didn't show up to work one Monday, didn't call in to arrange a sub or anything. He ghosted the school for a whole week and then tried to come in the following Monday like nothing happened.
We also had a 5th grade teacher overdose on meth but I honestly don't know if she got fired or resigned. It didn't happen at school.
#29
She embezzled thousands of dollars from various club funds. There were also rumors of her sleeping with students, but the administration never bothered to look into that.
HooowlAtTheMoon 3 years ago
I don't understand students that agree to sleep with their teachers. I feel like that would make it weird when you go back to class?
#30
He pushed some kid who hit him against a wall
Ms.GB 3 years ago
There was this one kid who was always acting up and talking back to our woodshop teacher, one day the teacher just lost it and lunged across the table grabbed the kid by the shirt and knocked him off his stool...both student and teacher alike looked shocked. There was a collective gasp in the classroom and you could tell by the look on teachers face he knew he screwed up majorly, but man did that little s**t of a kid look like he was going to piss himself!
#31
Teachers at my high school got fired on a pretty regular basis (principal was a narcissist) but here's one of the rare ones we actually heard about.
The school went into lockdown because someone was seen hopping over the fence onto campus at the start of the school day. Freshman geography teacher locked his door, didn't control his class, wouldn't let one of the students back in, and jumped at every sound he heard.
For comparison, the sub in senior literature next door didn't have a key to lock the door, but grabbed the handle, got on the floor, and planted both his feet on the frame so that the door couldn't be opened. I think the dude was a linebacker for football, too.
#32
He got arrested driving through Nevada over the summer with 5 lbs of weed in his car that he'd bought in a California. He had no intention on telling the district and we only found out because a news reporter from the town he was arrested in contacted our superintendent for a quote on the matter. He was let go immediately.
#33
A teacher gave alcohol to some students in a field trip out of the country, they students were 16-17 and they asked if the could order beer, later they took photos and it was all over facebook.
This was years after I graduated but rumors spread quickly.
#34
He was a wonderful friendly and handsome teacher. This girl had a crush. Some bi*ch told the teacher about this girl’s crush. The teacher felt awkward and avoided her eyes from then on. Girl got hurt. Complained to the principal that he was being creepy with her. All the heads( which included my father) were called for a meeting with him. He got sick of defending himself. Shouted:’fu*k you’ll’ and left the school. They fired him before he could hand out his resignation.
Edit: to clarify some things- it was one of the best schools and all the richie rich kids studied there (i studied because my father was a faculty, otherwise we don’t have so much money) and hence teachers were dealt with very harshly. On one occasion, a teacher was fired only because it seemed on the cameras that he hit a boy hard. The parents complained and he was fired the next day, without listening to him at all. My father knew that he just patted him, but the kid was spoiled and he lied, also the teacher was a junior one.
I mentioned my father so that you’ll know how i know what happened in the meeting. He just knew that a girl has complained and now they are called. Also the teacher we are talking about was EVERY student’s favourite. So other teachers were jealous and they all assumed he is very lenient and encourages us to not follow other teachers and stuff, so it might have made it hard for him to say he stayed professional always.
L.A. Trefry 3 years ago
Anyone else getting The Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me" vibes? You're probably all way too young.
#35
I heard a rumor that my favorite teacher from 9th grade got fired when I was in 10th grade because he left his class unattended
Kiss Army 3 years ago
Around that age, we had a (married) teacher get in trouble for leaving us unattended on an overnight field trip to go hook up with the bus driver.
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TheReader19 3 years ago
Don't understand this reason; it's not like he left a bunch of four year olds with matches
Jazzy Mc. Jaz 3 years ago (edited)
Can't you deal your about 15/16.. old enough to babysit little kids
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
unattended for how long? unattended as in stepped out for 5 min to get a drink of water or unattended as in didn't show up at all that class period?
Catlady6000 3 years ago
Seriously? I remember classes being left unattended for half hour-hour, with just a fellow student to "take names"
Monic Krugell 3 years ago
So is he not allowed to go number 2 (for instance) because TEENAGERS can't sit in a class and wait on a teacher for a while? No wonder kids get such an 'adulting' shock when they leave school.
Horatio Valentine 3 years ago
If I had a dime for every time a teacher left the class unattended when I was in school, I would be rich. What is it about people today that they think the class is going to completely fall apart unless they are constantly supervised? This explains so much about the crappy millennials I have to work with now. Unless you are standing right behind them, they can't get anything done.
Eliza Schuyler 3 years ago
A teacher at my school pretty much forgot she had a lesson (we are 12/13 year olds) and I doubt anything happened to her
yellowphantom 3 years ago
After reading all these posts, it is clear I am WAY older than all these people. 75% of the things teachers get fired for now were routine teacher behavior when I was in school. Teachers hitting students, throwing things at them, otherwise bullying them, dating them, getting drunk with them, racist and sexist jokes, not even remotely teaching the actual subject matter, acting bizarrely, you name it, it was ignored. Quite a few of my high school teachers were young men trying to avoid the draft with no other qualifications to teach. I had great parents but they did not often get involved in any school matters, nor did anyone else's. No one even noticed that I had met all the graduation requirements by end of 11th grade, so I just got my degree when I came back next fall and wasted a year before college.
I want cake 3 years ago (edited)
At my school a teacher got fired because she locked the students in the classroom and left. What made it all worse was that this classroom was the one with the fire exit for the whole floor, so she endangered hundreds of people.
What do you think ?
Felix Feline 3 years ago
Mrs. K at my kids's school was fired after her husband developed brain cancer. The pressure was getting to her and she became short-tempered. Twenty years working and she was kicked to the curb. Soon after, she killed herself. She was a really great person; I still miss her.
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago (edited)
One of my middle school teachers was fired after he was arrested for taking a 13 yr old student across state lines for a hotel sex party.
Christina Schulte 3 years ago
My fifth grade teacher once pulled my hair and smacked my face against a gymnasium wall, and then led some weird bullying campaign against me. What sticks out from that is him teaching us how to draw mountains and pulling me up in front of the class to show them "how shitty Christina's drawing is" and my subsequently going into epic meltdown mode and saying I was going to leave that school and him doing some weird cheer that he kept trying to get the students to join in on. I was 9. He did suddenly disappear not long after that.
Jessica Weng 3 years ago
I'm so sorry that happened- but really what teacher would do such cruel thing??
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
I went to a small rural HS in Ohio. The school had a rule that if less than 6 students registered for a class, the HS didn't have to offer it. My senior year, I had to take physics to be able to get into college and I was one of two people to originally sign up. I talked the twin daughters of the superintendent, the son of the school board president, and the daughter of the shop teacher into taking physics so I could get my needed credit to get into my college. 10 weeks in to physics, we were still working on vectors (a force has a direction and magnitude ). Nothing more complex than addition of them. The connected kids pretended to not understand so he couldn't move on. He he finally announced he had to actually start teaching physics. They refused to do homework or take his help. The twins and the superintendent's son all got Fs on their grade cards and he was fired next day. Next job in Michigan, he won state teacher of the year and 2nd place national teacher of the year.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Same school - the principal, biology teacher, farming teacher, drivers ed teacher, guidance counselor and girl's volleyball coach were all married to students they taught. The coach's wedding was 2 hours after she graduated. No one fired -the community thought it was great the women found men with stable jobs. This was 1990, not 1901.
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Monday 3 years ago
In high school we had a perverted teacher who'd organize his class by putting the girls in skirts up front, girls in pants in the middle and guys at the back. He'd then occasionally drop things so that he'd have to bend down to get it so he could look up the girls' skirts. Weird thing is most of the conventionally pretty girls found it hilarious and started making a game out of it. They'd challenge each other over lunch breaks (my class had him right after) to see who could make him pop an erection the quickest. So now you had this gaggle of attractive 16 year old girls also dropping things, leaning over their desks and calling him over to ask questions quietly because they were "too embarrassed to ask it out loud". He did end up getting fired about a year or so later but none of us clicked how inappropriate any of that was until many years later...
Frank Hassler 3 years ago
Wow. This really reminds me of a teach in my high school. He would arrange all the pretty girls in the front row and down the central isle which he would walk down regularly. Then when one of them asked a question he would lean over them and leer down their shirts. Some of the girls played this game to their advantage, but most of us students were just grossed out.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
All one teacher at my old school: Supplied alcohol to underage students? Check. Seduced students if they were the least likely to tell on him? Check. Distributed p*rno videos to male students for a couple extra bucks? Check. Lost his job at his next place of employment for all that? Yep. I was lucky. He said something to me and I lied b/c I *knew* the "vibe" was all wrong. Words weren't, but his eyes... My one classmate fell into such a depression after he was done with her... He eventually got fired, but then got another teaching job. And then got fired. I think it took about another decade before he finally got arrested. Yeesh.
kim morris 3 years ago
Younger sister's best friend was sleeping with the art teacher. In Middle school. Middle school. They later got married, they've been married for 35 years now. Of course, he's not a teacher anhymore.
just me 3 years ago
Both after I graduated but... One really nice HS teacher threatened to blow up the school. Not any of the students, he liked them, but was tired of all of the school politics. The HS boy's Hockey coach was fired after one of the hockey players had sex with an unconscious girl at a party. With a handful of his team mates watching. And at least one recording it. Obviously the coach's fault. Not the parents that raised such sh*t kids or even the one's whose house it happened at.
SunofSpringtime 3 years ago
Raped, not had sex. Feel so bad for the coach. Hope at least the shitty hockey players got punishment.
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Cosmetica Solist 3 years ago
I played the saxophone as a kid. When I was 12 yo we moved to a new town, with only one saxophone teacher. I didn't like him. Couldn't clearly explain why, he just made me feel really uncomfortable. My mom trusted my instinct and let me pull out of the class, though that meant I could no longer receive lessons. One year later he was fired and arrested for sexually abusing several female students. My mom always tell this story to emphasize the importance of believing and trusting your children.
You are Beautiful (He, Him) 3 years ago
My principle got fired for spanking a kid. With a paddle. This was 2 years ago.
Ms.GB 3 years ago
I mentioned my alcoholic teacher above but I forgot about the time that she decided to lock an annoying student in the supply closet during class and forgot about him...I don't remember how long he was in there, someone said it was overnight because it was last period and I heard he was crying when they pulled him out. This was in high school.
Bill Anderson 3 years ago
Can top everyone(I think) had a teacher who defected to the Soviet union In the 60's from the UK! We thought it was just a rumour but a long time later it was in the news. He had some connection with an employee at a nuclear sub base and they wanted to interview him. After the Berlin wall felt he tried to come back but he had given up his British citizenship so he was stuck!
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
In my sophomore year of college a female teacher & male student got caught having sex in a vacant classroom. The student was over 18 so no criminal charges, but she was fired and the student was kicked out.
Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
I have two stories. My father got inappropriately touched by one of his teachers (a priest of course...) when he was 16yo. He punched the teacher hard and they both ended up in the directors office. My dad got punished and the teacher just got transferred to another school, where he could assault more boys. Another one I mentioned already in the post. My friends uncle came out of the closet and was fired from a catholic school for being gay.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
And this is why I'm glad I went toa Catholic school full of *nuns*....
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Chewie Baron 3 years ago
This was in my first year of high school (UK). The teacher was our Music teacher and everything was fine for the first fortnight, but then she just disappeared. No word from the school about her, nothing. Then about a couple of months later, I was watching the local evening news and there she was! She was going through a messy divorce, and it was u sure who would get custody of the children. So she absconded with her kids and was last seen somewhere in France. Never heard anything more about her ever again. Anther teacher (at another school, I was fostered a lot as a kid so was moved around all the time) got fired as he was having an affair with a girl in my form class. This took place when we were doing our A Levels. What was surprising was this girl was very prim and proper and took everyone by surprise. He left his wife for her.
Ploploplop 3 years ago
Met a girl in rehab that taught special needs middle schoolers that was there for heroin addiction (smoked it, not inject). She admitted to me that she was using during class, in the bathroom or during lunch and recess. Left early since her husband left her for this. Saw on the news about two years later, she got caught with meth, heroin and needles at the school during school hours because she kept going to her car repeatedly throughout the day. Obviously fired, but never served any prison time for this. The local news made her out to be a victim.
Joseph OReilly 3 years ago
When I was in 7th, the school hired a new 6th English teacher. She got arrested on a DUI 18 hours into her school career. Never saw her again.
D-m Keilman 3 years ago
My husband had one of his first teaching jobs at a local high school. He loved it. A few weeks later a new tenant moved in below us. She was odd but ok and had a sweet 4yo daughter. Found out she was hubby's principal's estranged wife and kid. She was also a stripper ( not that there's anything wrong with that just saying). A few months into her living below us we hear her screaming and begging for her life. Hubby runs down the stairs connecting our apartments to make sure she's ok. Principal is there beating the s**t out of her in front of their kid. Sees my hubby (300+ lbs in nothing but boxer briefs) and asks we'd are you doing here? Hubby kicks his ass out of the house. Principal tries to run hubby over with his hummer. A month or so go by, principal never mentions incident to hubby at work. All is good. Until principal freaks out that his wife got a ride home from work by a customer because her car broke down.
D-m Keilman 3 years ago
For some reason he was waiting for her at our home. She saw him and told the guy to keep driving. Principal chased them and at some point began shooting at their car (a state cop witnessed it). After a chase he wrecked his hummer on a local highway driving the wrong way( nobody hurt thank god). Arrested but still not fired. The firing came 6 or so months later when 1) he was found to have been selling off his school's computers and 2) he was arrested selling cocaine to under cover cops. After he got out of jail he worked at a tire retailer until they found that he had been stealing from them. Hubby is still a teacher. A really good one btw. Stripper mom is now a full on sex worker. The daughter was in and out of foster care now an adult. Dang that was long.
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elia 84631 3 years ago
My middle school Religion teacher forced us to memorize all the old and new testament books, some prays and she said the same things in a bad way
Zophra 3 years ago
As a US teacher - you don't get fired on the spot - you have a school board review first. You have union representation. Etc. etc. Also for some of these I bet there were already warnings and other disciplinary notes in their file. Were these private schools?
Theater Kid 3 years ago (edited)
My 1st grade teacher was dating my principal even though he was married and had 3 kids. Neither of them got fired, but they were moved to separate schools. Not as interesting as some of these though. （⊙ｏ⊙）
DelvianBlue 3 years ago
Had a music teacher get fired because he was gay and his boyfriend proposed to him. The school was okay with him being gay as long as he stayed single. The sad thing is they ended up divorced three years later.
Jordan Smith 3 years ago
A teacher at an elementary school in my district is currently being investigated for dragging a 6 year old girl with down syndrome on one of those cart things you would use in gym class.
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
Quite a few of these cross the line from ‘almost unbelievable’ to just ‘unbelievable’.
Nia Loves Art 3 years ago
My science teacher in middle school was fired the third time porn popped up while he was teaching class.
hydrostatic joints 3 years ago
A teacher from my middle was arrested last year for child exploitation and distributing inappropriate child images. Another teacher was just a horrible person all around. She would get into multiple arguments per class every day and would send you to the principles office for things as small as not writing notes in the format she wanted us to. She got one girl's father banned from the school. And to top it all off she taught us literally nothing during the whole time she was there and she would yell at people for asking questions. Even the other teachers hated her. She got fired after a couple of months thankfully.
Betty Napolitan 2 years ago
I was fired for joking with students after school, while waiting for a parent-teacher conference. I made a comment about the boy who drew in sharpie, 100 penises on brand new oak furniture, it wasn't anything all that bad, but the girls had planned on baiting a teacher and posting online to embarrass. I didn't realize this and NY is a one consent state. It was after school, the girl was eighteen had received a 95 in my class the year before, I thought she liked me and we had a good relationship. I was stupid. I lost a million dollars in wages, pension, and savings through the tax-deferred savings plan, had I been able to teach until my retirement, 4 years later. Pension is based on last three years, and the new negotiated salary would have bumped my pay up considerably. I am now living in financial distress. I put in 16 years, but needed the last 4 years to get a good pension. It was devastating to my life. I have never recovered.
Jason Kitchner 3 years ago
The wife of one of my best friends was fired for sleeping with two of her male students - she was the PE teacher and soccer coach. They divorced and she was put on the sex offenders list - probation, no jail time. My friend got custody of their child and the mom can’t take her to b-day parties because other kids are present. She was early 30s when it happened and the boys were 16 & 17. She was also hot.
ScarlettofHydraIsland 3 years ago
My sixth grade teacher had been debating retiring for years, but the school forced her to do it after they heard how badly she’d treated me and two of my friends (for no reason I might add). She treated me probably the worst because I hadn’t wanted to be her “pet” at the beginning of the year and shied away. So, she aided my bullies, agreed with whatever they said and helped them permanently ruin my self image, punished me whenever I fought back, and told me I’d go nowhere in life and was a failure. All because I didn’t want to be her pet.
bill marsano 3 years ago
Poorly edited post, About half of these aren't anything like 'almost unbelievable' and were included merely because someone sent stuff in. Editor should make friends with wastebasket.
bill marsano 3 years ago
Poorly edited post. About half of these don't come close to qualifying as 'almost unbelievable.' Don't include dull, worthless stuff just because someone has sent it in: it seriously dilutes quality.
Paradise 3 years ago
My fifth grade teacher said to me"I wish I could adopt you so I could harass you all day" She either talked about or actually also stapled a kid to the wall, which was funny to everyone, including the kid. I can't remember if it happened. looking back, how she could get away with it and not to mention ruin his clothes.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
We straight up had a pedo teacher (i wasn't in his class), went to jail, they interviewed every kid in all his classes for evidence
Felix Feline 3 years ago
Mrs. K at my kids's school was fired after her husband developed brain cancer. The pressure was getting to her and she became short-tempered. Twenty years working and she was kicked to the curb. Soon after, she killed herself. She was a really great person; I still miss her.
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago (edited)
One of my middle school teachers was fired after he was arrested for taking a 13 yr old student across state lines for a hotel sex party.
Christina Schulte 3 years ago
My fifth grade teacher once pulled my hair and smacked my face against a gymnasium wall, and then led some weird bullying campaign against me. What sticks out from that is him teaching us how to draw mountains and pulling me up in front of the class to show them "how shitty Christina's drawing is" and my subsequently going into epic meltdown mode and saying I was going to leave that school and him doing some weird cheer that he kept trying to get the students to join in on. I was 9. He did suddenly disappear not long after that.
Jessica Weng 3 years ago
I'm so sorry that happened- but really what teacher would do such cruel thing??
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
I went to a small rural HS in Ohio. The school had a rule that if less than 6 students registered for a class, the HS didn't have to offer it. My senior year, I had to take physics to be able to get into college and I was one of two people to originally sign up. I talked the twin daughters of the superintendent, the son of the school board president, and the daughter of the shop teacher into taking physics so I could get my needed credit to get into my college. 10 weeks in to physics, we were still working on vectors (a force has a direction and magnitude ). Nothing more complex than addition of them. The connected kids pretended to not understand so he couldn't move on. He he finally announced he had to actually start teaching physics. They refused to do homework or take his help. The twins and the superintendent's son all got Fs on their grade cards and he was fired next day. Next job in Michigan, he won state teacher of the year and 2nd place national teacher of the year.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Same school - the principal, biology teacher, farming teacher, drivers ed teacher, guidance counselor and girl's volleyball coach were all married to students they taught. The coach's wedding was 2 hours after she graduated. No one fired -the community thought it was great the women found men with stable jobs. This was 1990, not 1901.
Load More Replies... Monday 3 years ago
In high school we had a perverted teacher who'd organize his class by putting the girls in skirts up front, girls in pants in the middle and guys at the back. He'd then occasionally drop things so that he'd have to bend down to get it so he could look up the girls' skirts. Weird thing is most of the conventionally pretty girls found it hilarious and started making a game out of it. They'd challenge each other over lunch breaks (my class had him right after) to see who could make him pop an erection the quickest. So now you had this gaggle of attractive 16 year old girls also dropping things, leaning over their desks and calling him over to ask questions quietly because they were "too embarrassed to ask it out loud". He did end up getting fired about a year or so later but none of us clicked how inappropriate any of that was until many years later...
Frank Hassler 3 years ago
Wow. This really reminds me of a teach in my high school. He would arrange all the pretty girls in the front row and down the central isle which he would walk down regularly. Then when one of them asked a question he would lean over them and leer down their shirts. Some of the girls played this game to their advantage, but most of us students were just grossed out.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
All one teacher at my old school: Supplied alcohol to underage students? Check. Seduced students if they were the least likely to tell on him? Check. Distributed p*rno videos to male students for a couple extra bucks? Check. Lost his job at his next place of employment for all that? Yep. I was lucky. He said something to me and I lied b/c I *knew* the "vibe" was all wrong. Words weren't, but his eyes... My one classmate fell into such a depression after he was done with her... He eventually got fired, but then got another teaching job. And then got fired. I think it took about another decade before he finally got arrested. Yeesh.
kim morris 3 years ago
Younger sister's best friend was sleeping with the art teacher. In Middle school. Middle school. They later got married, they've been married for 35 years now. Of course, he's not a teacher anhymore.
just me 3 years ago
Both after I graduated but... One really nice HS teacher threatened to blow up the school. Not any of the students, he liked them, but was tired of all of the school politics. The HS boy's Hockey coach was fired after one of the hockey players had sex with an unconscious girl at a party. With a handful of his team mates watching. And at least one recording it. Obviously the coach's fault. Not the parents that raised such sh*t kids or even the one's whose house it happened at.
SunofSpringtime 3 years ago
Raped, not had sex. Feel so bad for the coach. Hope at least the shitty hockey players got punishment.
Load More Replies... Cosmetica Solist 3 years ago
I played the saxophone as a kid. When I was 12 yo we moved to a new town, with only one saxophone teacher. I didn't like him. Couldn't clearly explain why, he just made me feel really uncomfortable. My mom trusted my instinct and let me pull out of the class, though that meant I could no longer receive lessons. One year later he was fired and arrested for sexually abusing several female students. My mom always tell this story to emphasize the importance of believing and trusting your children.
You are Beautiful (He, Him) 3 years ago
My principle got fired for spanking a kid. With a paddle. This was 2 years ago.
Ms.GB 3 years ago
I mentioned my alcoholic teacher above but I forgot about the time that she decided to lock an annoying student in the supply closet during class and forgot about him...I don't remember how long he was in there, someone said it was overnight because it was last period and I heard he was crying when they pulled him out. This was in high school.
Bill Anderson 3 years ago
Can top everyone(I think) had a teacher who defected to the Soviet union In the 60's from the UK! We thought it was just a rumour but a long time later it was in the news. He had some connection with an employee at a nuclear sub base and they wanted to interview him. After the Berlin wall felt he tried to come back but he had given up his British citizenship so he was stuck!
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
In my sophomore year of college a female teacher & male student got caught having sex in a vacant classroom. The student was over 18 so no criminal charges, but she was fired and the student was kicked out.
Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
I have two stories. My father got inappropriately touched by one of his teachers (a priest of course...) when he was 16yo. He punched the teacher hard and they both ended up in the directors office. My dad got punished and the teacher just got transferred to another school, where he could assault more boys. Another one I mentioned already in the post. My friends uncle came out of the closet and was fired from a catholic school for being gay.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
And this is why I'm glad I went toa Catholic school full of *nuns*....
Load More Replies... Chewie Baron 3 years ago
This was in my first year of high school (UK). The teacher was our Music teacher and everything was fine for the first fortnight, but then she just disappeared. No word from the school about her, nothing. Then about a couple of months later, I was watching the local evening news and there she was! She was going through a messy divorce, and it was u sure who would get custody of the children. So she absconded with her kids and was last seen somewhere in France. Never heard anything more about her ever again. Anther teacher (at another school, I was fostered a lot as a kid so was moved around all the time) got fired as he was having an affair with a girl in my form class. This took place when we were doing our A Levels. What was surprising was this girl was very prim and proper and took everyone by surprise. He left his wife for her.
Ploploplop 3 years ago
Met a girl in rehab that taught special needs middle schoolers that was there for heroin addiction (smoked it, not inject). She admitted to me that she was using during class, in the bathroom or during lunch and recess. Left early since her husband left her for this. Saw on the news about two years later, she got caught with meth, heroin and needles at the school during school hours because she kept going to her car repeatedly throughout the day. Obviously fired, but never served any prison time for this. The local news made her out to be a victim.
Joseph OReilly 3 years ago
When I was in 7th, the school hired a new 6th English teacher. She got arrested on a DUI 18 hours into her school career. Never saw her again.
D-m Keilman 3 years ago
My husband had one of his first teaching jobs at a local high school. He loved it. A few weeks later a new tenant moved in below us. She was odd but ok and had a sweet 4yo daughter. Found out she was hubby's principal's estranged wife and kid. She was also a stripper ( not that there's anything wrong with that just saying). A few months into her living below us we hear her screaming and begging for her life. Hubby runs down the stairs connecting our apartments to make sure she's ok. Principal is there beating the s**t out of her in front of their kid. Sees my hubby (300+ lbs in nothing but boxer briefs) and asks we'd are you doing here? Hubby kicks his ass out of the house. Principal tries to run hubby over with his hummer. A month or so go by, principal never mentions incident to hubby at work. All is good. Until principal freaks out that his wife got a ride home from work by a customer because her car broke down.
D-m Keilman 3 years ago
For some reason he was waiting for her at our home. She saw him and told the guy to keep driving. Principal chased them and at some point began shooting at their car (a state cop witnessed it). After a chase he wrecked his hummer on a local highway driving the wrong way( nobody hurt thank god). Arrested but still not fired. The firing came 6 or so months later when 1) he was found to have been selling off his school's computers and 2) he was arrested selling cocaine to under cover cops. After he got out of jail he worked at a tire retailer until they found that he had been stealing from them. Hubby is still a teacher. A really good one btw. Stripper mom is now a full on sex worker. The daughter was in and out of foster care now an adult. Dang that was long.
Load More Replies... elia 84631 3 years ago
My middle school Religion teacher forced us to memorize all the old and new testament books, some prays and she said the same things in a bad way
Zophra 3 years ago
As a US teacher - you don't get fired on the spot - you have a school board review first. You have union representation. Etc. etc. Also for some of these I bet there were already warnings and other disciplinary notes in their file. Were these private schools?
Theater Kid 3 years ago (edited)
My 1st grade teacher was dating my principal even though he was married and had 3 kids. Neither of them got fired, but they were moved to separate schools. Not as interesting as some of these though. （⊙ｏ⊙）
DelvianBlue 3 years ago
Had a music teacher get fired because he was gay and his boyfriend proposed to him. The school was okay with him being gay as long as he stayed single. The sad thing is they ended up divorced three years later.
Jordan Smith 3 years ago
A teacher at an elementary school in my district is currently being investigated for dragging a 6 year old girl with down syndrome on one of those cart things you would use in gym class.
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
Quite a few of these cross the line from ‘almost unbelievable’ to just ‘unbelievable’.
Nia Loves Art 3 years ago
My science teacher in middle school was fired the third time porn popped up while he was teaching class.
hydrostatic joints 3 years ago
A teacher from my middle was arrested last year for child exploitation and distributing inappropriate child images. Another teacher was just a horrible person all around. She would get into multiple arguments per class every day and would send you to the principles office for things as small as not writing notes in the format she wanted us to. She got one girl's father banned from the school. And to top it all off she taught us literally nothing during the whole time she was there and she would yell at people for asking questions. Even the other teachers hated her. She got fired after a couple of months thankfully.
Betty Napolitan 2 years ago
I was fired for joking with students after school, while waiting for a parent-teacher conference. I made a comment about the boy who drew in sharpie, 100 penises on brand new oak furniture, it wasn't anything all that bad, but the girls had planned on baiting a teacher and posting online to embarrass. I didn't realize this and NY is a one consent state. It was after school, the girl was eighteen had received a 95 in my class the year before, I thought she liked me and we had a good relationship. I was stupid. I lost a million dollars in wages, pension, and savings through the tax-deferred savings plan, had I been able to teach until my retirement, 4 years later. Pension is based on last three years, and the new negotiated salary would have bumped my pay up considerably. I am now living in financial distress. I put in 16 years, but needed the last 4 years to get a good pension. It was devastating to my life. I have never recovered.
Jason Kitchner 3 years ago
The wife of one of my best friends was fired for sleeping with two of her male students - she was the PE teacher and soccer coach. They divorced and she was put on the sex offenders list - probation, no jail time. My friend got custody of their child and the mom can’t take her to b-day parties because other kids are present. She was early 30s when it happened and the boys were 16 & 17. She was also hot.
ScarlettofHydraIsland 3 years ago
My sixth grade teacher had been debating retiring for years, but the school forced her to do it after they heard how badly she’d treated me and two of my friends (for no reason I might add). She treated me probably the worst because I hadn’t wanted to be her “pet” at the beginning of the year and shied away. So, she aided my bullies, agreed with whatever they said and helped them permanently ruin my self image, punished me whenever I fought back, and told me I’d go nowhere in life and was a failure. All because I didn’t want to be her pet.
bill marsano 3 years ago
Poorly edited post, About half of these aren't anything like 'almost unbelievable' and were included merely because someone sent stuff in. Editor should make friends with wastebasket.
bill marsano 3 years ago
Poorly edited post. About half of these don't come close to qualifying as 'almost unbelievable.' Don't include dull, worthless stuff just because someone has sent it in: it seriously dilutes quality.
Paradise 3 years ago
My fifth grade teacher said to me"I wish I could adopt you so I could harass you all day" She either talked about or actually also stapled a kid to the wall, which was funny to everyone, including the kid. I can't remember if it happened. looking back, how she could get away with it and not to mention ruin his clothes.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
We straight up had a pedo teacher (i wasn't in his class), went to jail, they interviewed every kid in all his classes for evidence
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