Real Life Teachers Who Got Revenge on Their Ill-Mannered Students
Teachers are usually the ones expected to keep the peace in their classrooms, but sometimes students can be so unruly and mean that even the kindest of professionals need to remind them who’s boss.
These real life teachers decided to finally show their students their mean side, even if that meant losing their job in the process.
What’s Done is Done
In ninth grade, I went to a weird art program that was in a block of buildings on the campus of a regular public high school. I had a drawing teacher that made my life a nightmare.
My class started at 6:30 AM and every day was spent with the teacher laying into me. My friends in the program, as well as the life drawing teacher, noticed that he was unusually hard on me as well, but nothing was ever done. The teacher would tell me my work was garbage.
Any compliments about my work were backhanded. He would raise his voice and tell me that I should quit, so I did. It drove me to give up art. At the end of my senior year, I was a student at the regular public high school where the art program was held in.
I got a message in my homeroom that I needed to go see that drawing teacher. He took me into his office, sat me down, and started crying.
He said, “I’m so sorry. My wife and I had a baby to save the marriage. Between the baby and the early morning class time, I was so tired and angry and I took it out on you. I don’t know why it was you, but it was”.
I just said “What’s done is done” and went back to class. However, that was by FAR the most unprofessional thing I had ever encountered.
Story credit: Reddit / bigchillrob
Second Language
There was a kid who spoke Spanish in my sister’s class. He spoke English as well but refused to do so with her. He was also disruptive, and all the other students would get all ruffled and excited by his outbursts.
Over a couple of months, it got so bad that she was having a hard time getting through a lesson without this kid acting like a fool. He was calling other kids names and doing it all in Spanish because he assumed he could get away with it. So my sister came up with a serious revenge plot.
She googled an inappropriate phrase full of profanity in Spanish. She called the kid’s home and in her sweetest voice, chatted her up with her normal teacher spiel. Then, she said the kid kept, “Shouting out this phrase in class and unfortunately, I don’t speak Spanish”.
She continued, “I’m worried he may be asking a question or trying to get help, and I’m not providing him with every tool he needs. I wrote it down from how it sounds. Sorry if I mispronounce this”.
Then, she read off the sentence, making sure to hesitate a bit like she was trying to get the pronunciation as correct as possible. The mom was silent. She then stuttered, “I cannot repeat that to you. Do not worry. I’ll take care of this. I am so very sorry.
He speaks English and will no longer interrupt class”.
The kid came to school the next day, spoke nothing but perfect English, and never acted out in her class again.
Story credit: Reddit / fatapolloissoxy
Is This What You Wanted?
When I was in the sixth grade, my homeroom teacher wasn’t a very laid-back person. She had a tendency to get stressed out easily. It wasn’t very far into the school year, and by that time, whatever was stressing her out was starting to break her.
One day, for whatever reason, she was in full-on stress mode and was fumbling a lot throughout the lesson. This was causing the class to become fidgety and a couple of the boys that would harass classmates, as well as this teacher, were mocking her in stage whispers.
At one point, as she was moving around in front of the chalkboard, a portion of her shirt got caught on something, and when she turned around it was showing some of her belly.
She didn’t notice it right away, but it was brought to her attention when one of the boys started whispering to his friend that she was flashing us.
From there, it all went wrong.
Her response to hearing them joking among themselves, and realizing that she was having an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction, was to shout at them and pull her shirt almost off and really flash us. Her bra was completely visible.
She yelled, “IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED, YOU LITTLE FREAKS”?! She then replaced her shirt and stormed out of the classroom. The assistant principal came in and asked the class about it twenty minutes later and stayed to teach the class for the rest of the day.
The next day one of the regular substitute teachers was there and he took over the class for the rest of the year.
Story credit: Reddit / PopcornGoddess
Can I Borrow a Pen?
I had a student take my pen once. The kids at my grade level didn’t use pens yet, and the pen was the exact same brand, style, and color that I always used. The kid said that he “found it in the hallway”.
He knew that I couldn’t prove that he took it, so I just ignored him and went on with the lesson.
After about 10–15 minutes, I heard a shout from him. He had been chewing on the pen and it leaked all into his mouth. He then tried to wipe it out using his brand new shirt. The shirt got completely ruined. I couldn’t help but laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation.
His sister, who was a year younger than him, couldn’t wait to tell me the next day that the boy got his rear end torn up for ruining his new shirt. For the next month or so, whenever he didn’t have a pencil, I would offer to let him use one of my pens.
He never took me up on the offer. Story credit: Reddit / Honkey_McCracker