I know I can't hurt them but...

[jackfaire]

A 15 year old girl asks to go to the bathroom. He tells her, in front of about 20 witnesses, that if he catches her going out for a cigarette he will rape her.

Man seriously I never got butt hurt over someone smoking.

I guess he is getting butt hurt for it

[infinitemonkies]

I once wrote a math exam with a green crayon.
Also I wrote my HS senior German exam with a 3 foot long novelty pencil


Here's an interesting story about cheating and a very bad teacher:

I took grade 11 drafting, and had a teacher who was not shy at all about his opinion that girls shouldn't be allowed to take tech/shop courses.
I do this one assignment, and get perfect marks for it. A cute girl in my class who was getting behind on her work asked me if she could copy it. I let her.

Instead of copying it, she just erased my name and the mark (everything is done in pencil in drafting class, even the grading) and handed it in as her own. She only got 70% for it.

She went to a guidance councilor, confessed what she had done, but pointed out she only got lower marks because of her gender. GC went to the instructor, and asked what errors were made on the assignment to keep it from getting full marks. Teacher had no reply. He also wasn't allowed to teach shop classes any more.

But wait, there's more:

I found out a few years later, he was teaching social studies. A 15 year old girl asks to go to the bathroom. He tells her, in front of about 20 witnesses, that if he catches her going out for a cigarette he will rape her.

Most of the class walks out, and goes to the office to complain. School officials refuse to believe the students or take any action. The police, on the other hand, felt differently, with 20 or so corroborating sworn statements.

Teacher is teaching shop again. No female students. In prison.
Irony is delicious.

[Jester]

What person dealing with middle schoolers doesn't realize how devious they can be?

Oooh! Ooooh! Ooooh! I know! Could it be.....a complete fucking idiot?

....add into the mix the fact that he's also informed me that I can't listen to my music around the kids (I had some goth rock stuff on--Nightwish, Kamelot, and the like--when some kids walked in to talk to me during my planning).

Okay, this I have no problem with. This is what they invented headphones for.

Unless, of course, you were using headphones and he still said you couldn't listen to it. Then it's crap.

Economics 10.1. Entry level class for the business majors, first semester out of high school, for the kids who think they're still in high school, goof off the whole semester and then panic when exams come round.

Heh. I actually blew off my required Econ class more and more as the semester went on. And my grades improved. Not by cheating, either. It got to the point where on the last pre-final test, I was actually correcting the professor on one question that he had listed the wrong answer for. Even though I was not a math major or business major, and had not, in fact, attended class in well over a month at that point. Of course, that's another story.

Hell, I never said I was the best academic model....just unconventional and unusual.

[Shalom]

When I caught people copying from me, I wrote wrong answers and let them turn it in first. Surprise-surprise when I get an 'A' and douche get's an F.

Holy carp. What a great idea. I wish I'd've thought of that when I was in college.

Economics 10.1. Entry level class for the business majors, first semester out of high school, for the kids who think they're still in high school, goof off the whole semester (and disrupt the class with their conversations: hey, if you don't wanna pay attention that's your business, but at least have the courtesy to freaking whisper) and then panic when exams come round. Suddenly I've got 20 new-found friends, all of whom want to sit next to me or around me. Just before the exam starts, I get up and walk to the other side of the lecture hall, and there's this mob silently following in my footsteps like I'm the Pied Piper. It got to the point that I was covering my answer sheet with a blank sheet of paper and writing underneath it, and the kid behind me had the chutzpah to offer me $20 to take the cover sheet away. I told him what he could do with his 20. He says "Come on, give me a break man, I really need to pass this test!" I told him "Well you should have studied for it then."

I got so urinated off at the people trying to cheat from me that by the last exam I was writing א ב ג ד instead of A B C D, and giving the professor a key as to what the letters meant. Was seriously considering doing it in invisible ink and giving him the decoder, but I couldn't find the Magic Writer pen.

(Hadn't seen it since grade school; I did this on an exam in 7th grade, and the teacher was Not Amused.)

[Kheldarson]

So update.

Did not have to meet with principal and B. B got written up for back talking another, more experienced, teacher on the team. In fact after a meeting with A's mom about her steady behavioral decline, principal pretty much said that anybody the other teacher wrote up would automatically be sent to ISS. On the plus side, didn't have to deal with B and things with A should calm down. On the other hand, still feel like the principal doesn't trust me. And add into the mix the fact that he's also informed me that I can't listen to my music around the kids (I had some goth rock stuff on--Nightwish, Kamelot, and the like--when some kids walked in to talk to me during my planning). Bleah.

[Amina516]

It doesnt bode well that the principal is making you meet with B to discuss this. Its sad that a good teacher has to be second guessed by those that should to be some kind of back up.

[fireheart]

Almighty ALT, I swear I am going to keep that one in mind for when I start teaching.

As for Kheldarson and any other teachers, I salute you for the insane amount of crap you have to deal with from those kids.

[flutes_and_fabric]

I've been subbing for a music teacher in a school with a reputation (bad area and even worse there's a magnet school right next door, so the more motivated students are sent there.) I love it. The way I see it the students have big personalities. I find that with kids like that it's best to make them feel guilty. I gave them a rest quiz, informed them that there were four different tests and still got kids cheating. The one kid who got a 0 was sitting next to the kid who got a perfect score. I had a talk with him, let him know how disappointed I was and that WE do not cheat, because this is what happens, and I gave him his score back. I think it's easier to deal with the boys than the girls though.

[AlmightyALT]

My aunt's a teacher. And the best gift she got was a tape recorder from my mom. She's had to use it several times when the little brats got caught doing something they shouldn't and get punished and then run home to mommy and say 'Teacher did something bad while I was alone in a meeting with her!' and then mom takes it to the principal and then they call my aunt forward who produces the tape recorder and then sits back and watches little darling go pale with 'OH S*!T. I got caught!' and mommy go red with embarrassment and anger.

And that was a long run on sentence....

[NateTheChops]

At this point he says that all he has is my word and theirs and that he has to go with the teacher. But he wanted to be the first to apologize to them in case I was wrong. And told me that he was going out on a limb for me.

That's amazing. At my school the principal and the teachers were egotistical jack asses who ignored me when I was being bullied but threw the book at me if I so much as disagreed with anyone.

[trailerparkmedic]

See, I'd hope that, except that the only other time I've written up students, he pretty much cut my legs out from underneath me. I'd been warning the class all day about the excessive talking, then had to go out to take care of an issue with another teacher, they started talking, issued another warning, talking starts again, so I wrote two of them up. They, of course, insist they weren't.

Well, I get called down to talk with this principal. The students are in with him. He asks me what happened. I tell him the same thing I wrote up. They insist they weren't again. At this point he says that all he has is my word and theirs and that he has to go with the teacher. But he wanted to be the first to apologize to them in case I was wrong. And told me that he was going out on a limb for me.

So yeah. I'm not expecting this to go well.

Ugh, that's terrible. I'm glad you're just subbing there and not stuck with him long term. What person dealing with middle schoolers doesn't realize how devious they can be? I always got called out when I tried pulling stuff like that (not that it stopped me from trying ).

[Broomjockey]

"Hey, the last four answers were right against the board... maybe the rest are as well?" *write write, scribble* "Yeah..."

Or, "Evil teacher trying to trick me again. Better just do my own work." After all, the best way to absolutely slaughter someone is to make them trust you, rely on you, and then *bam* cut out when they're least prepared. After the first few stunts, I'd probably not even bother looking at the board until I was done.

[Imogene]

Anyway, at the end of the year, on a final pop quiz he didn't actually grade them on, he repeated the process... except he wrote the CORRECT answers on the board... and the class would summarily ignore them and do their own work, only to find out to their surprise that they were getting the same answers.

Awesome... "Hey, the last four answers were right against the board... maybe the rest are as well?" *write write, scribble* "Yeah..."

[Kheldarson]

If he has any spine and any sense, he'll back you, rather than listen to kids who are, in essence, trying to get out of being in trouble by being caught cheating.

See, I'd hope that, except that the only other time I've written up students, he pretty much cut my legs out from underneath me. I'd been warning the class all day about the excessive talking, then had to go out to take care of an issue with another teacher, they started talking, issued another warning, talking starts again, so I wrote two of them up. They, of course, insist they weren't.

Well, I get called down to talk with this principal. The students are in with him. He asks me what happened. I tell him the same thing I wrote up. They insist they weren't again. At this point he says that all he has is my word and theirs and that he has to go with the teacher. But he wanted to be the first to apologize to them in case I was wrong. And told me that he was going out on a limb for me.

So yeah. I'm not expecting this to go well.

[Polenicus]

I used to have a math teacher in High School... and he was the best Math Teacher in the universe. This was even recognized by the Province of BC.

His favorite pasttime was taking the remedial math class in grade 8, and having the entire class in Enriched (Advanced) Math by grade 12. He had a rare talent for getting the most out of ALL of his students.

Of course, he was also an incurable prankster.

One of his favorite early tricks with the remedials was to give them a test at the start of the semester, then start writing answers up on the board, while they were still writing it. These answers were generally completely nonsensical... things like if question #4 was 'What is the Square Root of 25?' The answer he would put up would be '$12'.

He would then collect the tests. He would then go OVER the tests, and see how many had used the answers he had posted. Naturally, it'd be most of the class, and he'd rib them mercilessly for it.

The students would then learn not to copy answers from anything, as any time he got an answer with no work shown, he'd call the student on it. It was easier to just do the work, even if it was wrong, than to copy the right answer, then try and bull your way out of it.

He did this in ALL of his classes by the way. Any time you didn't show your work (He didn't care HOW you solved it, as long as you showed HOW) you got to show the entire class how you magically conjured this number.

Anyway, at the end of the year, on a final pop quiz he didn't actually grade them on, he repeated the process... except he wrote the CORRECT answers on the board... and the class would summarily ignore them and do their own work, only to find out to their surprise that they were getting the same answers.