Making the teacher cry

Nairume · May 10, 2020

That said, I guess as a teacher, I did end up getting pushed to the point of yelling at my class once due to an incredibly infuriating batch of dual enrollment students to the point that the counseling staff across the hall checked in and then called the dean over.

Administration was at least on my side there, since it turns out that a lot of those students had basically been giving every professor shit. It's basically a hazing ritual to teach them now.

Deleted member 4367 · May 10, 2020

mbpm said:
Lmao

The really ridiculous thing is i don't remember being THAT kind of annoying very often, that is i don't really recall making a habit of questioning teachers like that. I was the annoying kid who would talk all class and bother others because was so bored because it was easy for me.

But that day, i just couldn't reconcile her teachings with the conflict with the fundamental theorem of calculus. It had something to do with how she taught deriving sums vs integrating them. You wouldn't get the same function. And like a little asshole i couldn't let it go.

I helped get her that sweet sweet AP bonus though.

Saifu · May 10, 2020

Grade 5 or 6, my class had a real mean and strict teacher so students will constantly talk shit behind her back.
But one time some retard classmate actually secretly wrote her a hate letter and sneakily put it on her desk.
Afterwards the teacher read it, confronts the whole class about it while crying her eyes out..
It was such an awkward and uncomfortable day...

dennett316 · May 10, 2020

Didn't witness this myself, but it was the hot gossip in the playground. In the year above mine in primary school a teacher broke down because she was trying to discipline a couple of asshole bullies that were in that class, and they just picked up their desk and threw it at her. Wasn't an individual desk, it was a 6 foot, fairly solid table with a metal frame that could've done a fair bit of damage if it hit her. It didn't, but the intent was enough for her to walk out of the class crying.
Little dickheads.

OG YOLOwen · May 10, 2020

I'm not a teacher, but as someone who has been an authority in a classroom, it's tough when kids are little shits.

Speaking at a 3-5 level, most of the kids are too young to REALLY be malicious, but they can be distracting, disruptive, loud and annoying. You want to dislike these kids, but you can't.

It's tough because you just know it's because of something that's largely out of their control, i.e. a home problem.

GarudaSmiles · May 10, 2020

I remember in 8th grade my English teacher was pregnant and told us she was going to name the baby Skyler. A bunch of students started laughing, and made fun of the name. She burst into tears.

Another time in 9th grade we had a new teacher fresh out of college. We just completely disregarded her authority. She broke down and quit within a week.

It's such a stressful job and teens especially can be ruthless.

Reversed · May 10, 2020

A classmate did it once in highschool and it was really awkward. What a jackass.

Ryuhza · May 10, 2020

I moved my 7th/8th grade English teacher to tears with some poems I wrote the night before they were due. My ego has never been the same.

DoubleTake · May 10, 2020

Freshman year of HS in an all boys choir class. Our teacher was a really nice lady and we were not a particularly mean class but boy did we just...not listen when we didn't want to. Amazing our group was as good as it was. Props go to her tbh.

Well one day were supposed to be listening so she can teach us a parts to a new song and of course we're all just jawing back and forth. She wasn't really the type to yell at a classroom(though we forced her hand a few times) but this time she just stood silently and watched us for about 5mins. Eventually she started tearing up and just walked away and into her office.

Took the whole class another 5min to realize we should probably shut up. From then on we tried to give her the respect she deserved, key word tried.

You dont realize how much of a little shit you can be when you're young. Even when your not being explicitly mean.

Deleted member 41520 · May 10, 2020

Protoman200X said:
Goddamn. If any teacher in my school did that, they would get their asses thrown in jail for physical assault/abuse.

That's a VERY modern standard. For most of civilised history, up until the 90s if we're generous, kids were physically punished in school. It was endemic.

Deleted member 9241 · May 10, 2020

My 4th grade teacher sent in to be considered as an astronaut for the Challenger. When the shuttle blew up, we came in from lunch and she was sitting at her desk crying. Than a kid said "Too bad you didn't win that contest!". She was upset at the time, I remember thinking that she was going to hit him. Instead she screamed at him to go to the office and then put her head down on her desk and cried for about 15 minutes straight and no one said a goddamn word the entire time.

WillyFive · May 10, 2020

Happens all the time, but teachers usually do it in private.

jack_package_200 · May 10, 2020

Never had a teacher cry because the students were awful. The librarian broke down at school her son was MIA in Iraq but we all were super nice to her. It was usually the teachers who made me cry.

In sixth grade I had an English teacher who endlessly bullied and gaslit me in front of the class. First time I seriously contemplated suicide was when I was a 12 year old in her class and I thought about walking out in the middle of lecture and running into traffic.

If I ever have a kid, empathy will be lesson #1

Delicious Waffles · May 10, 2020

I'm a teacher. I've made kids cry. Not for what I've said to them but because I said I'll get in touch with their parents. They're not so fresh after that.

DrScruffleton · May 10, 2020

I took a cooking class in high school, I didn't need it but it was the only thing I had any interest in at all from the choices. I then realized that it was the class that anyone who didn't give a single fuck took. The classmates were absolutely terrible. Students literally smoking weed in the back of the class, and some kids even tried to cook their food with drugs in them and give them to other students who didn't know. Classmates screaming across the classroom. They had to get campus security involved quite a few times to remove students from the class. It was a horrible and the teacher looked like she was going to breakdown daily. I had to go back after class one day cus I forgot a notebook and she was just sitting at her desk staring off. And she apologized to me for the class. I just said it wasn't her fault. Felt really bad for her. Never saw her cry though

Schwarzbier · May 10, 2020

I don't think she cried over it but I called a teacher a little troll once. I wasn't trying to be mean, she was always joking around with me so I used to banter back with her. The second I said it she got mad and said that wasn't very nice and I insisted I was just kidding and we joke around all the time. The next day I was called to the principals office where she was there and I was asked to apologize which of course I immediately. I said I really was just trying to be funny and the last thing I ever intended was to hurt her feelings but I was very sorry and I'll never do anything like that again.

She accepted and we were friendly again, but I was careful to think about what I said after that. I never was mean to a teacher, this was the only incident ever and I felt really bad about it.

Lightus · May 10, 2020

Had a professor cry during class at community college. He never actually taught anything and seemed to not even know the material because he couldn't ever answer questions. Everyone was very annoyed about it because it was an important class and a waste of money.

Friend called him out on it during class and the guy started crying telling us to give him a break because he's trying his best to teach while opening up his own yoga studio/coffee shop. Sorry man, that's not really an excuse. We ended up talking with our academic advisors and got a refund on the class.

Gunny T Highway · May 10, 2020

My 8th grade homeroom teacher who was also the English teacher one time a few students made her cry and she left the room. I do not really remember what they did to spark it, but I do remember we as a whole class got in a lot of trouble for it.

M. Wallace · May 10, 2020

In 5th grade our teacher was running about five minutes late to class. He was a stickler for being on time when the bell rang. That meant if you were not in your seat you had to go to the principle's office. He shows up kind of quiet, we all start heckling him, telling him he's late and needs to go to the principle's office. This went on for a good 30 seconds because he was just standing there. Finally he said it. "My mom just died, is that a good enough excuse for you?"

We all went quiet, he started to teach but then broke down and ran out. We felt like shit.

Aeriscloud · May 10, 2020

1998 I had a 7th grade math teacher in Jr. High quit on the first day of school. It was her first day as a teacher I'm fairly certain, she seemed early to mid 40's. I think we had her for 7th period, earlier classes clearly had her rattled, and some of the asshole students knew this by word of mouth. Someone, somehow, had rolls of pennies and handed them out to a couple other kids and they would just randomly throw a single coin at the window blinds breaking pieces of them when she would turn her back.

She absolutely broke down scream crying by the end of the period. It was heart breaking. Quitting on your first day, after spending years on a degree, I can't even imagine. I still wonder what actually happened to her.

They didn't try the same thing with any of the subs, they were all long time subs, but they did try doing similar things to the replacement teacher and I definitely saw her cry as well, but god damn was she strong in standing up to them. She was pretty young maybe 26, traveled well over an hour to the school district. She put up with a lot of shit that year. I'm fairly certain she's still teaching at my high school.

Kleefeld · May 10, 2020

Everytime I read about other people's school experiences I feel almost guilty that my 13 years of school were absolutely wonderful and almost like a fairy tale. Why was my experience so different? I was an introvert, ugly kid that only had about 2 good friends but still school was amazing-

Mariolee · May 10, 2020

Exist 2 Inspire said:
I remember in 7th or 8th grade a teacher broke down crying. My class was the worst, like imagine the most moronic teenagers. If i remember corectly we where in a auditorium without windows and people knew our teacher had asthma so some dumbasses started smoking while she was writing on the board and then she had had a real bad coughing fit. To top it all of someone threw a fucking glass bottle on the board. Teach ran out of the room crying. People knew they could fuck with her and so they did. It was super bad.

Jesus wtf

Xenoblade 3 · May 10, 2020

In my middle school, I had a teacher that was just ignored by the class. She would try to get the class to quiet down, but they would never listen.
One day she threw a stapler at the door in frustration, but the stapler missed and hit a boy in the head. The class was shook.
She was deeply apologizing and said she was trying to get the class' attention. The kid said t was alright and he wasn't gonna snitch.

jack_package_200 · May 10, 2020

Francokid1 said:
In my middle school, I had a teacher that was just ignored by the class. She would try to get the class to quiet down, but they would never listen.
One day she threw a stapler at the door in frustration, but the stapler missed and hit a boy in the head. The class was shook.
She was deeply apologizing and said she was trying to get the class' attention. The kid said t was alright and he wasn't gonna snitch.

Did y'all behave after that?

Nexus2049 · May 10, 2020

Francokid1 said:
In my middle school, I had a teacher that was just ignored by the class. She would try to get the class to quiet down, but they would never listen.
One day she threw a stapler at the door in frustration, but the stapler missed and hit a boy in the head. The class was shook.
She was deeply apologizing and said she was trying to get the class' attention. The kid said t was alright and he wasn't gonna snitch.

I had a teacher who would purposefully throw stuff like staplers at students if they were being rude or rowdy. No one fucked with him. Ironically he was the schools favorite teacher and we all staged a walkout when he got suspended once haha

mbpm · May 10, 2020

Elitist1945 said:
I had a teacher who would purposefully throw stuff like staplers at students if they were being rude or rowdy. No one fucked with him. Ironically he was the schools favorite teacher and we all staged a walkout when he got suspended once haha

Why did he get suspended lol

TheeFanatic · May 10, 2020

I had a middle school teacher throw a desk across the room when some fool tried to diss him. Class was shooked, the student had nothing to say. After class a couple of classmates and i clowned the student.(Student was a prick)

Nexus2049 · May 10, 2020

mbpm said:
Why did he get suspended lol

He told a student to quiet down and the student said "Fuck you, you can't do shit". Well the teacher walked over to him, picked his desk up with the student still in it, dropped him in the hallway, and closed the door.

Tapiozona · May 10, 2020

Saifu said:
Grade 5 or 6, my class had a real mean and strict teacher so students will constantly talk shit behind her back.
But one time some retard classmate actually secretly wrote her a hate letter and sneakily put it on her desk.
Afterwards the teacher read it, confronts the whole class about it while crying her eyes out..
It was such an awkward and uncomfortable day...

I get that it's hard because we grew up throwing that word around but 'retard' isn't something you should throw around as an insult. I used to use it like the word 'the' but my wife is a social worker/OT and has shown me how wonderful children with downs syndrome and other cognitive disabilities actually are.

Xenoblade 3 · May 10, 2020

jack_package_200 said:
Did y'all behave after that?

Yes lol. Everyone learned to quiet down when she asked.

Mariolee · May 10, 2020

Elitist1945 said:
He told a student to quiet down and the student said "Fuck you, you can't do shit". Well the teacher walked over to him, picked his desk up with the student still in it, dropped him in the hallway, and closed the door.

Holy shit this is awesome

Rotobit · May 10, 2020

I vaguelly remember examples of teachers crying in a positive way after her students helped her out, that was in primary school though so I don't remember the specifics.

I do remember one religion teacher in my secondary school had a phobia of oranges and one time kids put an orange onto her classroom's doorhandle while she was inside, essentially locking her in. And there were the instances where false rumors of pedophila just to mess with teachers.

For a while I considered becoming a teacher but I eventually realized I'd only be able to tolerate it with kids under 7 or 16-21 year olds. In between those years kids can be absolutely awful and I can't imagine the internet has made it any easier (although I figure it's somewhat easier to be a minority now depending on where you are)

One of the most defining moments of my childhood was when a teacher publically asked me to come back for a private one-on-one talk after I said something offensive (it was something ignorant about the Iraq war). That was the moment where I learned a lot about empathy, and the wildest part was that it was a substitute teacher who did it. There are absolutely ways to make kids understand, but it's a hard thing to pull off.

Razgriz-Specter · May 10, 2020

My 7th grade elective music class was so mean to the teacher she quit towards the end of the year and didn't teach anymore(she was in her 40's i'd say).
She was also the regular music teacher, band teacher and I think choir.

Basically we signed up for "Guitar & Piano class" 90% of the class took it for guitar, she told us at the start of the year that we'd learn piano first semester then guitar in the second.
So we learn piano pretty quickly, not incredibly indepth but all the fundamentals and a handful of songs to play.
Everyone starts pushing to learn guitar early but she holds off however we don't go any deeper with piano.
Students start getting a little bitchy and smart with her.
We come back in the 2nd semester and she says "I don't really know anything about guitar but i'll follow the program"
she teaches us the strings and thats absolutely it.
Everyone in the class starts to disrespect her, name calling and back talk like crazy people would roll their eyes at her to her face.
After a few weeks she just started crying and left school the next period, had a substitute for a few days and they announced she quit after that.

TheKid · May 10, 2020

In High school A couple of students got in a fight inside my math class and the teacher tried to stop them but couldn't. Eventually one of the students stormed out and the other one was acting like he won and decided to put his ball sac on the projector while the teacher was calling the principal. She started crying and we were all shocked. That dude's a teacher now lmao

mbpm · May 10, 2020

TheKid said:
In High school A couple of students got in a fight inside my math class and the teacher tried to stop them but couldn't. Eventually one of the students stormed out and the other one was acting like he won and decided to put his ball sac on the projector while the teacher was calling the principal. She started crying and we were all shocked. That dude's a teacher now lmao

Disturbing

M. Wallace · May 10, 2020

TheKid said:
In High school A couple of students got in a fight inside my math class and the teacher tried to stop them but couldn't. Eventually one of the students stormed out and the other one was acting like he won and decided to put his ball sac on the projector while the teacher was calling the principal. She started crying and we were all shocked. That dude's a teacher now lmao

Stifler?

Ginger Hail · May 10, 2020

Math teacher, must've been 7th or 8th grade, I'm not sure. It was her first year at our school and from what I could tell, she wasn't new to teaching but she struggled to keep her classes under control at times. There were multiple groups of us in different levels of math so I wasn't there for it, but apparently at some point during the year she did end up having a break down and crying during a class. Never learned what exactly happened to cause it though.

Fantastical · May 10, 2020

I remember a teacher in 6th grade left class to take a call and came back and started reading something to us and then started crying. Really sad to think about, she was very nice and a good teacher.

Neece · May 10, 2020

I remember my teacher in 5th grade had a mental break down and cried out "God help me!" as she raced towards the door to get the hell away from us. And as she was leaving, this kid named Terrance shouted in a deep voice "this is God, you don't have to worry" and everybody erupted in laughter as she bolted from the room.

Deleted member 39374 · May 10, 2020

Our teachers were way too icey to cry. In the rare instances where they lost control of class, they would silently head back to their desk, sit down, write like 15-20 detention slips, and then get up and slam them onto the desk of anybody he/she choosed while calling the security guard to come escort them to the admin office

Either that or they would just go apeshit and yell in your face and throw your books/stuff across the room lol

Actually the one time I saw a teacher cry it was because she lost relatives in 9/11 and someone made an edgy 9/11 joke

AntoneM · May 10, 2020

Happy cry.
I was in a high school English class where we found out why it teacher was gone for a week. Her father died. We found out when she was coming back and organized to have a each student walk in single file with a flower to make bouquet. She cried but said she wasn't going to take it easier on us. Lol

Necromanti · May 10, 2020

I don't think I've ever had a teacher cry. Plenty that had lost their minds and screamed at the class as if they were possessed, though. It was kind of frightening at times.

Scheris · May 10, 2020

In eighth grade myself and a number of other students made a bet with the teacher for that year's Super Bowl where we'd get a free class to do whatever if that team won (and she was a big fan of the team we were betting against).

Her team got royally beat badly, she was pretty emotional that day from what I remember.

So "technically" we made her cry, albeit indirectly I suppose.

Benzychenz · May 10, 2020

In high school some kids stole the PE teachers phone from her bag and found a sex tape she'd made with her boyfriend and proceeded to send it to everyone.

Sagroth · May 10, 2020

I fucking hated my high school choir teacher. Dude was an at times outright abusive piece of shit. When I dropped his class to take study hall, he tried everything he could to make me feel awful about it, too.

Fast forward two years, and my brother drops as well, except when this teacher tried to pull the same shit he did to me (calling my brother a quitter and a failure), my brother instead tears into him (by then the teacher's wife had left him and taken their kid). IIRC he told me he had said something along the lines of "Dude, no wonder nobody wants you in their life."

These days I can see how it may have gone too far, but at the time I gave my brother a big high five because fuck that guy.

Elfgore · May 10, 2020

In high school a problem child, who was either the class clown or dick depending on his mood, said boobieplate rather than chestplate in our latin class. Our teacher was the sweetest old lady and I think that was her breaking point with him. She took him outside for like ten minutes and came back in clearly crying. It changed a lot of opinions about that guy.

BringBackSonics · May 10, 2020

MY wife's a teacher. And she's never cried due to mean kids. She's made dozens of kids cry though.

PlatypusDude · May 10, 2020

In 10th grade math class had a fellow student write on his test the teacher was terrible, which she saw and cried over. She was a bad teacher, but the way some people treated her went way too far. She had MS and hadn't taught in a few years and wound up resigning after that school year since it got worse while teaching, likely due to the stress from folks like the one who wrote she sucked.

Lord Moriarty007 · May 10, 2020

I seen teachers breakdown in some of my classes. I was never the aggressor but I felt shame as a bystander who didn't stick up to the classmates. It one of the main reasons why so refuse to teach with my degree. I don't like kids very much.

Keywork · May 10, 2020

Taught as a long-term sub at a Title One school in Florida for one year. I had my ESE license as well so I was put in charge of the most problematic students who were all in 8th grade. I was given a walkie talkie and had a direct line to the school behavior officers. I used the line about 3-4 times a week. A number of the kids I had that even though they were graded as having a lower reading level (I had one who was reading at elementary grade levels) they were actually pretty damn bright and could actually read at on-grade level. They of course just didn't like going to school and being from the black community in my town they all viewed school as something they didn't want to do and didn't see anyone from their community get any benefit from it. They wanted to play professional sports, rap, or hustle drugs which they were upfront with telling me about. I adjusted my teaching plans and by the end of the year they had made impressive gains on their standardized tests and all ended up moving on to 9th grade. Funny how when I dropped on them that I listened to rap and watched DBZ a good number of the most problematic boys became positive in their outlook towards me. I never cried per se, but I was physically, emotionally, and psychologically drained each day. Due to my disease I ended up not continuing on as the year simply took too much out of my health, even if emotionally I felt so fulfilled and happy for the work I did that year.

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