20 Toxic Teachers Who've Made This Past School Year A Living Hell For Their Students, I'm Sorry To Say
Not all teachers were superheroes this year.
Warning: This post contains topics of verbal abuse, sexual assault, school shootings, rape, and antisemitism. Please proceed with caution.
1. This teacher, who grabbed her student's hearing aid because she claimed she "wasn't listening during class":
2. This teacher, who forced her student to explain why he always fell asleep in her class:
3. This school, which posted signs in classrooms that boys weren't allowed to use the bathroom during class:
4. This teacher, who's anti-vaxx and shamed her KINDERGARTEN students who safely got the COVID-19 vaccine:
5. This teacher, who shaved their student's hair when they caught them sleeping in class:
6. This teacher, who yelled at their student for not handing in an assignment on time:
7. This teacher, who punished her students for using Wikipedia as a source (when she used it to teach her class!):
8. This teacher, who had no idea how to make an online test (which ultimately made the student get a bad grade):
9. This student, who was accused of plagiarism in art class (when in reality, she sourced her own work that went viral online):
10. This teacher, who was interested in teaching not only the negative effects of the Holocaust, but the "positive ones, too":
11. This school, which was culturally insensitive and encouraged their teachers to celebrate "Africa Day" in their classes:
12. This teacher, who was anything but helpful to a student after her class was cancelled last minute:
13. This school, which gave their students tardies after they enforced a parking pass check-in before classes started:
My high school was checking parking passes today, so everyone got into school fifteen minutes later than they should've. But the issue is that they didn't excuse our tardy like it wasn't their fault we were late, and they didn't even excuse everyone's tardy. tl/dr school is bullshit from mildlyinfuriating
14. This elementary school teacher, who marked their student's math answers wrong just because they weren't "written to their liking":
15. This English teacher, who literally blocked the outlets in her classroom so students couldn't use their computers to write:
My language arts teacher never lets us charge our computer in class. Even though our class is towards the end of the day, she will get mad at us if we ask to charge. Today she took the step of literally putting baby-safe outlet covers and tape in the outlets so that we can’t charge our computers. from mildlyinfuriating
16. This professor, who just told their student to "lock the doors" instead of informing the police of a suspected school shooter:
The email reads:
17. This teacher, who discriminated against LGBTQ+ and historically marginalized communities:
18. This Spanish teacher, who used truly horrific examples in her homework assignment:
19. This teacher, who refused to wear a mask in her classroom and declared herself a "positive role model" for her students:
Her Facebook status reads:
20. And this teacher, who laced her students' cupcakes with her husband's sperm:
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