It’s no surprise that gossip or stories of incidents that really happened travel very fast, especially in high school. If somebody saw some students making out, half of the school is going to know the next day, if somebody got in a fight or made a fool of themselves - the same situation.
However, there is nothing more interesting than seeing your teacher where they aren't supposed to be or, let’s say, spotting them on a date. Oof, those stories travel way faster than any dramas that students were involved in. But you know what’s even more interesting? Finding out that some teacher got fired and the reason that they got fired makes you even question if you are talking about the same person.
So speaking about that, one Reddit user created a thread asking folks online to share some stories about their teachers that led to them getting fired. Scroll through these incidents and upvote your favorite - just be ready because some of them are literally insane.
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She walked into her house to find her only son had hung himself. The school district did not allow her any grieving time and then fired her because “she wasn’t at the same level she used to be and her students were falling behind”. Needless to say the community ripped the school board a new a*****e and she was hired back and received the rest of the school year off.
That's one of the worst things I ever heard. :( I know someone whose son did the same thing and they're still a wreck one year later BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY F*****G ARE. Good lord.
My middle school choir teacher was a closeted gay man. He had a long-term boyfriend but none of us knew about it, until one day a parent saw them at a HOUSE PARTY making out. They spread rumors throughout the school and multiple parents immediately removed their children from his class. The parents complained to the school and got him fired. The good news is, he eventually quit teaching and opened up a bakery with his partner, which did very well and got featured on Cupcake Wars.
In the early 90s, A female student at my high school was receiving obscene phone calls. When police interviewed her, she told them "he sounds kind of like my history teacher." The police put a tracer on her phone, and the caller did turn out to be her history teacher.
Teacher called up a female student to work a problem on the blackboard. The student didn't want to participate. After some verbal back and forth, the student went to the blackboard and muttered something under her breath.
The teacher grabbed the student's hair with both hands and proceeded to slam her head into the blackboard. "You **(slam)** will listen **(slam)** to me **(slam)**!"
About three seconds later, the teacher realized what she was doing and released the student's hair. The student looked at her, said "You are sooooo fired" and left the room.
We had a new math teacher the next day.
Had any of my teachers did this to me or my siblings, my dad would gladly have gone back to prison for the same reason he spent a number of years there.
A football coach doubled as a high school substitute teacher. He was covering my history class. A cheerleader left her bag in the back of the class. I took it to the teacher to let him know and went back to my seat. From my corner seat I saw him go though the back and pull out a pair of panties. He pocked them. I stood up and said out loud “did you just pocket her panties?” He got red in the face and yelled at me “what did you say? Why the f would I do something like that?” He then stupidly stood up. They were hanging just slightly out of the corner of his pocket. Everyone saw them. Two girls ran out of the classroom and got the principal that just happened to be in the hallway. They confronted him as he tried to leave the classroom. We never saw him again. As a teacher or a coach.
Some foolish people thought it would be funny to accuse a teacher of groping them. It never happened, but by the time the truth came out the teacher had already lost his job and his reputation. He never worked again. Jokes have real consequences.
What the f---? How can someone believe this can be funny? They ruined the poor guy's life and these kind of fake stories affect real survivors of SA out there. Hope your pillow is always warm on both sides!
Used corporal punishment. We were first graders and she made those of us who didn’t have their homework kneel on salt/seeds/buckwheat. One of the kids in my class was literally the most obedient kid and she was top of the class and always had her homework—that day she must’ve forgotten it at home. She made her kneel and the girl cried so quietly and without a sound and peed in her uniform. She transferred and never came back after that day.
Yeah, it was a private school. Parents heard about it and threatened to sue.
Oh they'd have to protect that teacher for sure if she did that to my kid, that had to be so traumatizing.
He murdered three people. So yeah, teaching just wasn’t going to work out…
She referred to the January 6th "event" as an "insurrection" when asked by a student and a certain hyper Republican board member's kid was in the class. She was fired 2 days later for "inappropriately political remarks" in class. Yes, this was Florida.
Separated students seating arrangements based on their grades. All the black kids ended up being lumped together in the lowest seating grade and was assigned additional work. Black parents got mad and stormed the classroom one day. Teacher got escorted out, never to be seen again.
At my school the new French teacher started [getting busy with] the old computer teacher, who was married to the geometry teacher. At the end of it just the geometry teacher had her job and all the other two teachers money because she divorced the computer teacher and managed to sue the French teacher as part of an alienation of affection suit. Then she hooked up with the metal shop teacher.
High School science teacher. Not so much fired as "forced to resign" for getting caught with a hidden camera in the supply closet in his class where he would let girls change for doing displacement experiments. A girl apparently noticed a red light or something, saw it was a camera, got tf out of there and went straight to school leadership. They came and apparently found the teacher frantically trying to delete footage. Resigning was better for the school's reputation, of course.
Robbed a bank wearing the same clothes he wore to school that day
When the teacher salary is so bad you gotta rob a bank . . . 🫠
He cut off my grandpa in an explosive road rage incident, pulled him out of his truck and beat him to the ground so bad that my grandpa was in the hospital for weeks. Thankfully my grandpa was okay, but his job (and his marriage, and social life) didn’t survive.
Edit: missed a whole word there
Teacher at my school wasn’t quite right. Students and staff had been mentioning things regularly to the deputies…just noting they were a bit odd, said a few funny things, didn’t seem to quite be with the schedule.
One day she was supervising an exam and she s**t herself. In the classroom. Then continued supervising. Eventually a kid left for a bathroom and desperately flagged down a teacher to ask for some help.
She left that day and didn’t return. She was weird but I hope she’s okay.
Embezzling from the students. For quite a few years, she would collect money for this "senior trip" that never seemed to materialize.
She was arrested a few years after I graduated. I wonder if she's out of prison yet?
Got caught getting high in her car between class periods
She got caught making [hard illegal substances] when her in-home [hard illegal substance] lab blew up lol
Used a sick day rather than a vacation day to fly to Japan to fight in mma. Got caught and was fired for improper use of time off.
This happened a few years after I had his class. He was a cool dude and taught 8th grade history. But when he was teaching class one day, he hooked his laptop up to the projector to get the PowerPoint presentation going for that days class, and apparently he accidentally left very [LGBTQIA+ friendly adult media] up on his laptop and projected it onto the screen in front of all the students. He was fired soon after
Middle school teacher brought in her personal camera so students could record video projects. I guess she had a bunch of tapes in a box somewhere and just grabbed a random one for us to record over. She should have checked the tape first.
When me and my friends did something dumb in front of the camera (can't remember what we did), we rewound the tape to record over that part. When we stopped the tape to see if we had gone far enough back, we realized we probably went too far.
When we pressed play, the video that started playing was [an adult movie]. We later found out it was our teacher's sister and new husband on their wedding night. Our teacher was transferred to a different school and we all had to have meetings with the school admin to talk about what we'd seen.
Wait... this teacher had a sex tape of her own sister and the sister's husband? Alabama wedding nights are messed up, son.
My kids’ principal got fired because she and her husband (also a principal in the next district over) were selling guns and [illegal substances].
He freaked out because the 13 year old boys wouldn't stop running their mouths. He threw a textbook across the room and told the class he could [take someone's life] with his bare hands
I had a similar one - science teacher had a sudden breakdown in a class of mouthy 15 year olds and started smashing equipment and shouting how much he hated us and that we'd all fail our exams and he'd be glad about it. He didn't get fired, just had to take some time off to get help and we were all instructed to pretend it never happened.
Had an art teacher who basically ignored the class and sat at her computer the whole class.
One day, a guy goes to the TV/VCR in the corner of a room and put on [an adult movie, you know the kind], muting the TV.
She didn’t notice. Word spread and she ended up fired.
Also, my a*****e of sophomore English teacher got fired for being “too friendly” with some female students.
I had a sixth grade male science teacher that gave the females grades based on their chest size alone. As far as I know, he never got fired for that.
He got drunk and went driving naked, flashing truckers
So? That happened off the clock and had nothing to do with his job. He shouldn't have been fired for that reason.
Teacher threw a donut at an annoying student.
He used to bribe students with good grades in return for food
Same thing in my class but reverse. The teachers are trying to bribe this kid in my class with chocolate if he improves his grades
As in, if you get good grades I will feed you, or bring me food for "extra credit?"
I got the impression it was "bring me food for extra credit". The reverse doesn't seem like something that would cause you to be fired (even with strict rules it seems like they would just tell the teacher to stop first)
Load More Replies...I had a teacher who would write us a hall pass if we bought one of the chocolate bars his kids were selling.
Was this a low income school? If so I don't blame him he probably couldn't afford food.
Use of alcohol on the job.
Bottle in the top left drawer.
Took years, though.
If I had to be a teacher today I would either end up an alcoholic or in jail. Teachers are putting up with a lot of BS and are not getting the support they should from administration and or students parents.
She made students make a tag saying “ I am a useless boy “ and made them wear it for a whole day in the school, also made them walk around the football field for an 1hr in her session.
What wrong the students did??, well they were talking and playing odd or even in her session”.
Next week she was fired.
Damn, they didn’t.
Multiple semi known affairs with students among the staff and life just kept on going…
The 80’s were a different time
Some students came to class and found the chemistry teacher in a fetal position under his desk. He had some type of breakdown and was removed by ambulance. He came back after taking year off and seemed ok. I hope so, he was a pretty good guy.
I mean, I get it for some of these. I don't approve, but I see where this comes from. I had to spend 10 minutes today telling a bunch of AP juniors and seniors to stop throwing sticky-notes-stapler darts at the ceiling. They didn't stop even after I told them the whole class would stay after for a minute per dart. I literally had to take away the school supplies I gave kids because they were throwing them at each other.
Kids are idiots. Regardless of how good/bad the teachers are.
Load More Replies...My former Hindi teacher used to break a lot of rules and was physically & verbally violent to the boys
These make my experience pale by comparison. Junior year at Catholic high school. Physics teacher was Mr. Carpenter. He spent most of the class time talking about anything except physics. His favorite subject was his dog. I was struggling in the class and once when I asked him a question pertaining to the course he gave me a half-assed answer and went right back to talking about his dog. I complained to my mother and she told me the next time to just leave. It was my last period class anyway. So a few days later when he was off subject again I just got up and left. I called my mother and told her. She said to let the main office know I was leaving and that she would soon be calling them. By the time I got home my mom had called the vice-principal and given him and earful. He told her that they had received numerous other complaints and would not be renewing Mr. Carpenter's contract which was set to expire at the end of the school year.
One of the coolest teachers I ever had got fired for being "too political" [read: he was openly liberal in the American South in the 90s]. He got a job at a posh private school in the nearest city almost immediately. Our loss was definitely their gain.
this was super recent. there was this teacher who showed his class his chest hair, winked at a few girls, told a girl to keep talking bc he “liked her voice”, his wife is like 25 years old and he’s around 50, he made students say if they’re going pee or poop when they need to go to the bathroom, but added another P: periods.
I have 3 stories!! My 8th grade teacher got fired because I caught him googling "girls in school uniforms" (we wore school uniforms at my school). Yup, I got him fired. Second story: a retiree that should have stayed retired often talked about how her doctor "prescribed" her one glass of red wine a day. She came to school every day smelling of cigarettes and red wine, she would come to school every day more drunk than the last until all of us students mentioned to the principal how weird she is and how we think she is drunk. We never learned anything from her, in fact I dont even remember what class she was supposed to be teaching. Third story: gym teacher became our financials teacher, he was horrible at it. There were 3 students in that class and he yelled at all of us, loudly and red faced, for not understanding the homework. I friggin cried and ran out of the room. The principals son must have told his mom (the principal obviously) because teacher never came back.
That was one hell of a school year. A very small 40 student private christian school, no less.
Load More Replies...I know I could never be a teacher because I definitely can see myself throwing something at a kid. Not saying it's right, just that I understand.
A substitute teacher got fired from my old school for embezzlement if I remember correctly. And another allegedly for giving out exam answers.
My gramma got fired back in the 80s for marrying my grandfather. She had left her physically abusive and unfaithful first husband a few years prior and obtained a divorce. Then she met my grandfather (a widower) and they fell in love. When they were just living together she kind of got away with it being swept under the carpet by the Catholic school she worked for, but when they decided to get married and the school would have had to admit it was official, they fired her for "adultery", since they didn't recognise her prior divorce and considered her still married to her abuser. Just in case you wanted to know how screwed up the way Catholic Education treated women at the time was...
I went to a very small school of 100 students and each class was made of 2 yr groups. My yr 1-2 teacher used to get a kid to stand outside the classroom and watch for other teachers while everyone inside had a disco or did something we shouldn't be doing. She was so fun but taught us nothing and probably didn't know much herself. The second story happened after I left the school. The former yr 5-6 teacher became the head teacher. She was always a horrible lady, she had favourite students and bullied all the other students. Only her favourites got good marks. When she became head she was finally fired because a student was sent to her to be punished (normally they were just told to sit in the corner of her office for 30 minutes as for some reason the school didn't do detention) she hit the child which made him stumble back into the doorframe which he hit his head in and got knocked out.
For people who aren't in the UK yr 1-2 is aged 5-7 roughly and yr 5-6 is roughly 9-11
Load More Replies...These things happened in my school but the teachers ( excluding the first one ) didn't get fired, PE teachers got a girl in year 11 pregnant, Deputy head married an ex student ( they got together while she was still at the school and was my friends mums friend) fast forward to when I was at the school the same deputy head was sleeping and was caught with my RE teacher, French teacher and when I had left school and working in a nursery my ex English teacher came in with her new baby who turned out to have been fathered by you know who ( he was obviously much older when I was at the school and all of the teachers he was involved with were much younger) the 80s and 90s were made but how the F this guy never got fired is completely beyond me. Absolutely F up as everyone knew what was going on but nothing was done. I was so disappointed in my English teacher.
Forgot to mention that the RE teacher was also an ex student but much younger that his wife
Load More Replies...I had a teacher in 7th grade who was apparently high sometimes. (I’m rather oblivious, I just assumed it was a bubbly personality.) Apparently the cops went to her house and found a stash of drugs. We had a new teacher for the rest of the year
My science teacher in year 8 or 9 accidently projected some very inappropriate and sexual images on the board along with a folder of inappropriate videos... at a Christian private school...
My super cool science teacher was let go because it came out that she was a lesbian. This is suburban Chicago in 1992. Two years later the creepy Spanish teacher told a girl with large breast “You’ll go far with those.” But the creepy history teacher who seated the pretty girls in the front row so he could look down their shirts, he kept his job. That school must have been a s**t show behind the scenes.
My 6th and 7th grade math teacher got arrested halfway through my 7th grade year. Yeah, turns out she had r*ped a kid at the school she worked at before in a different state 😬. It was a bit of a bummer because besides that she was genuinely a really cool teacher.
Grade 2 student. Everyone knew he was severe asthmatic. One day he had a bad asthma attack and teacher kicked him out. Told him to walk home. Never phoned anyone. He lived 2 blocks away and no one was home. Neighbour found him on front step, almost dead. Called ambulance. Teacher was PROMOTED to art specialist, circulating several schools on the condition that she never be left alone in a classroom. Go figure.
My english teacher (in Europe) purposely failed my (native english speaker) exams for perfectly correct answers. She also forced my mom to have a meeting with her because I “didn’t greet her in the hallway” Edit: Yes she still teaches there
Ha! I always got bad grades for perfectly correct (native speaker at the time) answers in english
Load More Replies...1st photographer teach embezzled $2k photo equipment, next one was found stone and drunk a sleep on the gymnasiums roof.
Assistant principal got the boot for mishandling a bomb threat. It was pretty much utter chaos with no solid plan of action in place. Kids crying and wanting to call their parents. It was around the same time as Columbine. (Our school's threat was fake. I can't remember if they caught the student).
Also at an area religious school, a male teacher/coach got busted for sleeping with half his team of teenage girls.
Load More Replies...We had a girl in first grade that told us boys "thing" are yuckie and she knows because the teacher showed her his. Suffice to say, it was discovered that it was not the only case and other things happened which I'll avoid the graphical details. He didn't collect his $200 and went directly to jail.
I had a choir teacher last year who didn't have a degree, had absolutely no discipline plan, no idea why she was hired. Anyway, heard from a friend that when she went in to talk with her, it ended up in a screaming match. She also made a kid wear a caterpillar costume to our concert, we later found out that that closet had lice and other bugs in it. She also tried to discipline us with jolly ranchers, individual skittles, and other treats. We would regularly do nothing/get nothing done/"meditate" aka chat for class. I believe either she was fired or left but she told us it was a family emergency. 🫤Worst teacher I ever had.
My old (married) physics teacher just quit because he started liking my old English teacher
Two teachers from my old school got fired for being p@ədophiles. About a decade apart. The first one, who was wor,ing there during my time there, was at it for years but didn't get caught until the digital age, despite students reporting him.
yeah, one of my old teachers got sacked for sleeping with freshmen to raise their grades. he 'resigned,' once it got around the school.
Some students came to class and found the chemistry teacher in a fetal position under his desk. He had some type of breakdown and was removed by ambulance. He came back after taking year off and seemed ok. I hope so, he was a pretty good guy.
I mean, I get it for some of these. I don't approve, but I see where this comes from. I had to spend 10 minutes today telling a bunch of AP juniors and seniors to stop throwing sticky-notes-stapler darts at the ceiling. They didn't stop even after I told them the whole class would stay after for a minute per dart. I literally had to take away the school supplies I gave kids because they were throwing them at each other.
Kids are idiots. Regardless of how good/bad the teachers are.
Load More Replies...My former Hindi teacher used to break a lot of rules and was physically & verbally violent to the boys
These make my experience pale by comparison. Junior year at Catholic high school. Physics teacher was Mr. Carpenter. He spent most of the class time talking about anything except physics. His favorite subject was his dog. I was struggling in the class and once when I asked him a question pertaining to the course he gave me a half-assed answer and went right back to talking about his dog. I complained to my mother and she told me the next time to just leave. It was my last period class anyway. So a few days later when he was off subject again I just got up and left. I called my mother and told her. She said to let the main office know I was leaving and that she would soon be calling them. By the time I got home my mom had called the vice-principal and given him and earful. He told her that they had received numerous other complaints and would not be renewing Mr. Carpenter's contract which was set to expire at the end of the school year.
One of the coolest teachers I ever had got fired for being "too political" [read: he was openly liberal in the American South in the 90s]. He got a job at a posh private school in the nearest city almost immediately. Our loss was definitely their gain.
this was super recent. there was this teacher who showed his class his chest hair, winked at a few girls, told a girl to keep talking bc he “liked her voice”, his wife is like 25 years old and he’s around 50, he made students say if they’re going pee or poop when they need to go to the bathroom, but added another P: periods.
I have 3 stories!! My 8th grade teacher got fired because I caught him googling "girls in school uniforms" (we wore school uniforms at my school). Yup, I got him fired. Second story: a retiree that should have stayed retired often talked about how her doctor "prescribed" her one glass of red wine a day. She came to school every day smelling of cigarettes and red wine, she would come to school every day more drunk than the last until all of us students mentioned to the principal how weird she is and how we think she is drunk. We never learned anything from her, in fact I dont even remember what class she was supposed to be teaching. Third story: gym teacher became our financials teacher, he was horrible at it. There were 3 students in that class and he yelled at all of us, loudly and red faced, for not understanding the homework. I friggin cried and ran out of the room. The principals son must have told his mom (the principal obviously) because teacher never came back.
That was one hell of a school year. A very small 40 student private christian school, no less.
Load More Replies...I know I could never be a teacher because I definitely can see myself throwing something at a kid. Not saying it's right, just that I understand.
A substitute teacher got fired from my old school for embezzlement if I remember correctly. And another allegedly for giving out exam answers.
My gramma got fired back in the 80s for marrying my grandfather. She had left her physically abusive and unfaithful first husband a few years prior and obtained a divorce. Then she met my grandfather (a widower) and they fell in love. When they were just living together she kind of got away with it being swept under the carpet by the Catholic school she worked for, but when they decided to get married and the school would have had to admit it was official, they fired her for "adultery", since they didn't recognise her prior divorce and considered her still married to her abuser. Just in case you wanted to know how screwed up the way Catholic Education treated women at the time was...
I went to a very small school of 100 students and each class was made of 2 yr groups. My yr 1-2 teacher used to get a kid to stand outside the classroom and watch for other teachers while everyone inside had a disco or did something we shouldn't be doing. She was so fun but taught us nothing and probably didn't know much herself. The second story happened after I left the school. The former yr 5-6 teacher became the head teacher. She was always a horrible lady, she had favourite students and bullied all the other students. Only her favourites got good marks. When she became head she was finally fired because a student was sent to her to be punished (normally they were just told to sit in the corner of her office for 30 minutes as for some reason the school didn't do detention) she hit the child which made him stumble back into the doorframe which he hit his head in and got knocked out.
For people who aren't in the UK yr 1-2 is aged 5-7 roughly and yr 5-6 is roughly 9-11
Load More Replies...These things happened in my school but the teachers ( excluding the first one ) didn't get fired, PE teachers got a girl in year 11 pregnant, Deputy head married an ex student ( they got together while she was still at the school and was my friends mums friend) fast forward to when I was at the school the same deputy head was sleeping and was caught with my RE teacher, French teacher and when I had left school and working in a nursery my ex English teacher came in with her new baby who turned out to have been fathered by you know who ( he was obviously much older when I was at the school and all of the teachers he was involved with were much younger) the 80s and 90s were made but how the F this guy never got fired is completely beyond me. Absolutely F up as everyone knew what was going on but nothing was done. I was so disappointed in my English teacher.
Forgot to mention that the RE teacher was also an ex student but much younger that his wife
Load More Replies...I had a teacher in 7th grade who was apparently high sometimes. (I’m rather oblivious, I just assumed it was a bubbly personality.) Apparently the cops went to her house and found a stash of drugs. We had a new teacher for the rest of the year
My science teacher in year 8 or 9 accidently projected some very inappropriate and sexual images on the board along with a folder of inappropriate videos... at a Christian private school...
My super cool science teacher was let go because it came out that she was a lesbian. This is suburban Chicago in 1992. Two years later the creepy Spanish teacher told a girl with large breast “You’ll go far with those.” But the creepy history teacher who seated the pretty girls in the front row so he could look down their shirts, he kept his job. That school must have been a s**t show behind the scenes.
My 6th and 7th grade math teacher got arrested halfway through my 7th grade year. Yeah, turns out she had r*ped a kid at the school she worked at before in a different state 😬. It was a bit of a bummer because besides that she was genuinely a really cool teacher.
Grade 2 student. Everyone knew he was severe asthmatic. One day he had a bad asthma attack and teacher kicked him out. Told him to walk home. Never phoned anyone. He lived 2 blocks away and no one was home. Neighbour found him on front step, almost dead. Called ambulance. Teacher was PROMOTED to art specialist, circulating several schools on the condition that she never be left alone in a classroom. Go figure.
My english teacher (in Europe) purposely failed my (native english speaker) exams for perfectly correct answers. She also forced my mom to have a meeting with her because I “didn’t greet her in the hallway” Edit: Yes she still teaches there
Ha! I always got bad grades for perfectly correct (native speaker at the time) answers in english
Load More Replies...1st photographer teach embezzled $2k photo equipment, next one was found stone and drunk a sleep on the gymnasiums roof.
Assistant principal got the boot for mishandling a bomb threat. It was pretty much utter chaos with no solid plan of action in place. Kids crying and wanting to call their parents. It was around the same time as Columbine. (Our school's threat was fake. I can't remember if they caught the student).
Also at an area religious school, a male teacher/coach got busted for sleeping with half his team of teenage girls.
Load More Replies...We had a girl in first grade that told us boys "thing" are yuckie and she knows because the teacher showed her his. Suffice to say, it was discovered that it was not the only case and other things happened which I'll avoid the graphical details. He didn't collect his $200 and went directly to jail.
I had a choir teacher last year who didn't have a degree, had absolutely no discipline plan, no idea why she was hired. Anyway, heard from a friend that when she went in to talk with her, it ended up in a screaming match. She also made a kid wear a caterpillar costume to our concert, we later found out that that closet had lice and other bugs in it. She also tried to discipline us with jolly ranchers, individual skittles, and other treats. We would regularly do nothing/get nothing done/"meditate" aka chat for class. I believe either she was fired or left but she told us it was a family emergency. 🫤Worst teacher I ever had.
My old (married) physics teacher just quit because he started liking my old English teacher
Two teachers from my old school got fired for being p@ədophiles. About a decade apart. The first one, who was wor,ing there during my time there, was at it for years but didn't get caught until the digital age, despite students reporting him.
yeah, one of my old teachers got sacked for sleeping with freshmen to raise their grades. he 'resigned,' once it got around the school.