20 Teachers Who Are So Evil, They Made Schools A Living Hell For The Youngsters

They do not deserve to be called educators.

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• Published in Interesting
• July 12, 2022

The thing is, some teachers are just naturally more toxic than others. It's like they're born with it or something.

Maybe it's because they had terrible teachers themselves and they're just taking out their frustrations on the next generation. Or maybe they're just miserable people who enjoy making other people's lives as difficult as possible.

Who knows. All we know is that these teachers are the worst.

They're the ones who are always yelling at their students, never have anything nice to say, and always find ways to make their students' lives miserable. If you're unlucky enough to have one of these teachers, then you know exactly what we're talking about.

So, how can you deal with a toxic teacher? Well, there are a few things you can do.

First of all, try to have a sense of humor about it. We know it's easier said than done, but if you can find the humor in the situation, it will make it a lot easier to deal with.

Try to be as patient as possible. Toxic teachers can be frustrating, and losing your cool with them is easy. But if you can keep your cool, it will go a long way in making the situation more bearable.

You can also start a conversation about it. Just like the Reddit posts we're looking at today, expose the misdeeds of those people.

It will make you feel understood since you can vent to people online who understand your situation.

1. "My Apologies" this teacher says.

My teacher sent out this “apology” after yelling at me for not turning in the chapter assignment 24 hours before it was due. She called this “not staying on top of my work” and used this as justification for not curving out first exam.

— AdAdditional9225

Such generosity to grant that 0.1% — thank you, dear knowledgeable one! Power was living-rent free in her head.

— AlphaNorth

"I have a similar professor this semester — she sent an email to her boss and attached the dean. She changed her tone quick. Maybe try a similar pathway?"

— CloudedMike

"Professors at my school are bullet-proof. There's a music professor at my school who drops a grade by a full letter for missing class (INCLUDING ABSENCE DUE TO COVID). This year half of his classes got together and reported him (literally 90 people went to the dean with the same report) and the dean just said, 'We'll look into it.'"

— AdAdditional9225

2. Why can't some teachers just be understanding about what their students are going through?

There was a fellow student in my homeroom who fell asleep halfway through class every day. He was always quiet and reserved. Our teacher was a grade-A jerk, and constantly tried to get this kid to stop sleeping. Even though a lot of us tried to defend him, one day our teacher took a huge book he brought with him and slammed it down next to the kid's face on his desk.

The kid jumped up and fell against the wall; the teacher started yelling; other students started yelling — it was chaos. A few days later, our teacher wasn't in homeroom with us (as well as the kid). We had a sub for two days.

It turned out the kid had two jobs, and would start work an hour after school and wouldn't get let out until 2 a.m. He worked because his dad was absent, and his mom was a drug addict — he needed money to feed his little brother (as well as himself). Our teacher let him sleep after that.

— Riyeko

In high school I was heavily medicated with prescriptions I never should’ve been prescribed. I was always sleepy, no matter how much I had slept the night before. One of my teachers was a literal medical doctor before she started teaching forensic science — I spoke to her on the first day of class and told her: 'This is what I'm taking, and these are the side effects. If I fall asleep, it's not out of boredom or lack of respect — it’s just the medication. You’re more than welcome to wake me up in front of my peers. It won't embarrass me, and I want to pay attention.'

After I told her this, she kicked me out of class and made me sit in the hallway every time I fell asleep. It was infinitely more embarrassing, and changed my grade from an A to a C.

— teriyakibeansprout

Fortunately, there are teachers out there who are like this.

My senior year of high school I went through a lot of stuff — couch surfing, health issues that made it impossible to show up, unmedicated insomnia, and drug addiction. My English teacher asked me one day what was going on because my attendance was poor (and when I was there for a full day, I was usually sleeping). I told her what was going on, and she made me a little nook in a spot by her desk with pillows and blankets. She told me I could use it during any of my free periods and take a nap or decompress — no questions asked. I'm still forever grateful for her – she was a great teacher.

— ericakay1

3. Unbelievable!

What in the actual hell was wrong with this woman? How did this even become a thought in her mind? I don't understand what would've compelled her to do something like that.

—man_in_da_mirror

"Yeah, they had video cameras all over their house so they wouldn’t miss a single second of their twisted, disturbing lives. I live in the same parish as them, and it was HUGE news when it happened — they're absolute monsters.

The husband was a high-ranking cop, and she was a school teacher, but in the privacy of their own home, they were raping and doing other unspeakable things to children and animals. It was sick."

—scverzwyvelt

"Their whole house was covered in surveillance equipment — audio and video. He saved his exploits to his hard drive, which was seized as part of his child pornography warrant.

Source: I’m from this parish, and the school sent a memo."

—allicattin

4. The child wrote everything clearly. It's the teacher who's wrong here.

A teacher did this to me in second grade — I wrote my 1s like that, and my 4s with the closed top. She marked them all wrong even after I pointed it out to her. She said she wanted me to write them like everyone else with the 1 as a single line and the 4 with the open top. I didn't understand because I was writing them the way I saw them, like on a keyboard — I hated that teacher.

—rdyer347

Man, the 2s really irked me when my kid was learning how to write. My parents would see the correct 2 and try to get him to change it to the curly one. I went to school for drafting, where we were taught the mechanical way of writing numbers correctly, and it's not curled. I taught him how to write it correctly, and my parents tried to change it after that. They tried to pull the same thing on me as a kid when they insisted I be right-handed (I was originally left-handed, and my handwriting is equally horrible with both hands now).

—WimbletonButt

Did you talk to the teacher?

—ILike2eatcake101

No, I haven't — I've noticed this a few times, and it's only with his 1s. She'll circle it wrong instead of correcting his writing. I like the way he writes it, and it was the fact he showed his work and she clearly knew what he wrote (so it mildly infuriated me). I'll keep a closer eye on how she grades him and bring it to her attention if I keep seeing it.

—jarociro

5. This punishment is so unfair.

It happens more often than you’d think. My oldest child has hearing loss, and background noise is the worst for him. He’s attended the same school since preschool, and they're aware of his limitations. When he was in first grade, he didn't hear the order the teacher gave to the class to clean up and return to their desks. So, he was happily playing with blocks. His teacher waited until all of the kids were back at their desks, approached my son, and started SCREAMING at him. He started bawling, saying: 'I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you. I’ll clean up now — I’m sorry!'

She took him into the hallway and made him sit out there for two hours — he cried the whole time. I only found out because the classroom aid told me. I met with the administration, and they told me his teacher was being 'reassigned' after the school year. And since there was only a month left until school was over, it didn’t 'make sense' to move her.

— Environmental-Arm468

This reminds me of my sixth-grade English teacher. She caught me trying to clean a smudge off of my glasses, so she took them away from me. She moved me to the back of the class, and then gave us an assignment where we had to copy answers off the board. Since I couldn't see the board, I got a zero on the assignment, and she stood there staring at me the whole time. She didn't give my glasses back at the end of class, so my math teacher literally had to go to her class and get them back for me.

— Hornet1137

6. A culturally insensitive school

7. Teacher has a very narrow outlook about life.

Teacher here — fuck this. The 'safe space' sticker I have on my classroom door isn't just for show. If my students don't feel safe and comfortable to be who they are, how in the hell can they feel comfortable to learn anything?

—newenglandredshirt

Her colleagues and administrators knew about this for years and did nothing. It makes me happy that these kids stood up for themselves — they're awesome.

—Spec_Tater

So that's why I'm bisexual? Because my mom wanted me and my dad didn’t?

—weallfalldown310

8. A Spanish teacher created the worse kind of assignment.

Why become a Spanish teacher if you’re racist against Mexicans?

—Road_Warrior86

At least they'll 'be polite' while trashing me...

—MeDicenAmiel

And on top of that, the whole assignment was typed in Comic Sans — awful.

—J-_Mad

9. This "educator" has the wrong set of priorities.

Just make sure the battery is flat next time — then you can't work. She wants to play games? Then play games back.

—Bobart88

One of my teachers bought about six power strips for our class since people needed to charge their computers so much — there are better ways to deal with this issue.

—Spiritual-Sweet2869

I had a controlling professor like this — they tried to tell us that we couldn't charge our phones because 'too many people get distracted by their phones when they should be paying attention.' Normally, all of my things were prepped before I attended class. But one day, as luck would have it, my phone was at 5% because I got into a fight the night before. I was released from the hospital around 8:15 a.m., and my class started at 9 a.m. (I arrived 15 minutes late, which obviously annoyed my teacher).

I sat down and unpacked, then plugged my phone into the wall and left it face down on my desk. She immediately asked if I reviewed the first day handout regarding phone rules, and I told her I was aware, but I was still charging my phone because it was at 5%.

After debating for two minutes, I told her I was paying $800 for the course and that I was utilizing the campus's resources to the fullest extent. Her phone rule was arbitrary due to the learning environment (we were all adults — not in high school). In the end I kept charging my phone, and about a week later, other students started doing the same. I was aware that in some areas phone usage wasn't allowed, but in a sociology course I was forced to take run by a 'Karen' wasn't the area.

—Brof_Psychy

10. Teacher doesn't know how online tests work and causes a large percentage of fail rate.

My previous Math 1060 Professor has nearly a 50% drop rate, 30% fail rate, and a mere 20% pass rate. Didn't take me long to find out why. (actual snapshot from hw)

— Zanthom19

11. Tardiness that wasn't the fault of the students

This is like what happened at my kid's school a few weeks ago. They closed three out of four entrances to the parking lot because they were annoyed that a few people went through the bus lot and admin parking (they all connect). Half of the student body was up to 20 minutes late, and the line to get into the lot was about a mile long. Parents called the superintendent, who came down hard on the principals of the school. The police were pretty unhappy about it, too, because the school created an unsafe traffic condition.

—Cusslerfan

I was marked tardy almost every morning at my high school because of the school bus. Half the time it didn’t arrive until one minute before the bell — sometimes after. My high school was the second largest in the US, and my very first class of the day was on the complete opposite end of the building. I’m still bitter about it in my 30s.

—Jessception

At my school, three tardies made up for one absence (and being absent 20 or so times made up a failing grade — even if the tardy was one minute late). Also, the teachers would close the door as soon as class started and not let you in or make up the class.

—Werelez

12. That ain't fair at all!

My history teacher won't let us use wikipedia but apparently she can!

13. It's a professor's job to protect their students. This educator isn't doing it well.

Unless locking the door also activates a force field, this is dumb AF — bullets can still penetrate walls.

—SilverSocket

What about when the gunman is already in the classroom? Then what?

—skitterybug

14. Teacher is on the wrong track, thinking she's a positive role model by not wearing a mask.

So Miss [redacted] was not only sans mask, but sans proper teaching credentials? It's funny how this kind of person is so opposed to actual facts.

—_SweetBoxyBrown_

Gee, I thought Miss [redacted] would enlighten the masses! Seeing how proudly ignorant she's pointing to her empty head was exactly what I envisioned for that group of students.

—ppw23

15. This student was so anxious until she found out what got her into trouble.

In second grade, I decided to start writing the letter 'y' at the end of my name with a loop, like a cursive 'y.' I had no idea what cursive was at the time — I just thought it looked nice. My mother got a call from my teacher, and my teacher said that I wasn't supposed to learn cursive until third grade. So, I had to stop writing my 'y' like that.

—CutActive4433

My fifth-grade English teacher was convinced my mother wrote my book report because it had dependent clauses in it. Apparently fifth-graders weren't supposed to know what dependent clauses were, or how to use them — so, she made me read the report out loud to her (apparently fifth-graders were also too dumb to know how to...read dependent clauses? I don't know).

A few weeks later, there was a parent night where the parents came to school to meet with the teachers. I left a handwritten note for my mother on my desk, and it contained several dependent clauses. She insisted that my homeroom teacher show it to my English teacher (I don't know if that ever happened, but it was still extremely satisfying to know my mom did that).

—DramaLlamadary

16. Teachers should prioritize the health of the students. They can start by allowing students access to the bathroom whenever they need it.

Not being able to just go to the bathroom when you needed to was the single biggest source of my anxiety through my entire public school education.

— Pog3566544

My sister and I have celiac disease, and she's had GERD since she was 13 years old. So, access to the bathroom is essential. Anyway, it was always a fight with the school to allow her to leave and use the restroom without explicit permission (fortunately, that never happened to me). It was a huge deal with one bad teacher in particular until my sister just started puking in her classroom trashcan and going back to her seat. I hate teachers on power trips — they know what they're doing, and how that impacts students. They just don't care.

— bbygodzilla

Someone who works for me was telling us a story about her son's first-grade teacher. He doesn't allow kids to have water in class, so they don't have to go to the bathroom. Her poor 7-year-old is stressed out when he really has to go, and is afraid to even ask.

— boyoflondon

However, not all teachers do the same thing.

My favorite teacher I ever had told our class on day one we didn't have to ask to go to the bathroom — we could just go if we needed to. He was the only teacher throughout my education to ever do that. He was a very no-nonsense guy, and worked at a pace that I could actually follow. I feel like his direct teaching style really helped me remain focused. It was probably the only A I got in high school — all of my other grades were Cs.

— _Equinenox

17. Anti-vaxx teacher who's being unfair to vaccinated students.

As a teacher, you should do everything you can for your students. You should not be in the classroom if you're this petty.

— Gaming_Gent

I hope the parents of the students in her class saw that and responded appropriately. I would make her life as miserable as possible if my child were involved.

— OscarBrownley

I mean, being in the back of the class is superior, especially when your teacher is this dense. What was she even teaching? Clearly not biology.

— jakob767

18. All this professor needed to do was simple.

19. How evil!

The Holocaust was not a 'widely debated and controversial' issue.

— Heinrich_Bukowski

Reading multiple sources and learning what happened from opposing sides is an important aspect of studying history, but why use such a vile example like the Holocaust?

— relishthehustlerfrog

This happened in Texas (and I'm from Texas) — this baffled me. Why the hell would anyone want to focus on the 'good' aspects of the Holocaust? People were lined up and slaughtered like cattle during that era — there was nothing 'good' during that time at all.

— astrodomekid

20. This teacher needs to be punished for what they did.

The woman in the blue behind him has the right WTF expression.

— Wooshi_

Who knows what's going on in their home life. If anything, ask the student if there's anything they can do to prevent them from falling asleep in class.

— TbaggingSince1990

It's been shown that school hours are actually bad for teenagers. They benefit from being able to stay up later and sleep in, so to punish them because the system has failed them is even more egregious.

— vhisic

This poor student is gonna have to shave the rest of their head and wait months until it grows back to where it was before this incident. Hopefully whoever did this was properly punished.

— ednamode23

These teachers are just plain old mean, and there's really no excuse for it.

If you're a teacher and you're reading this, then please, for the love of all that is good, try to be less toxic. The world will be a better place for it.

Instead, be a motivator. Be the one who will bring hope to the future generation.

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