My APUSH teacher senior year at boarding school was apparently having an affair with a student. Found out the next year when he committed suicide when he was found out.
Ooh! I have a crazy teacher story! When DS1 was a freshman in 2021 his school fired an English teacher because some of the students found her porn videos online. The real nail in the coffins was that she filmed a couple of them AT THE SCHOOL!!! She assured everyone that it wasn’t done during school hours, so there’s that, I guess.
Do you live in Central CA because yeah that happened here too.
Post by maudefindlay on Mar 6, 2024 16:49:45 GMT -5
Married neighbor lady with 2 small kids who lived 3 doors down worked as an aide at the high school and while her husband worked nights and her kids were in bed she started hosting guys from the wrestling team and sometimes the coach and by hosting I mean fucking them.
My apologies for dropping that small bomb and not coming back to the board until after 4:00 pm the following day! Here's a local news story about it that came out right after our AP (and one of our English teachers--our school had fewer kids enroll that fall than expected, so they just took one of our new hires and plopped her into the middle of a very messy and public situation) were transferred:
From what I remember hearing in district scuttlebutt at the time the teachers who didn't immediately resign were put on administrative leave and had their contracts cancelled at the end of the school year. Pretty much their entire advanced academics team was involved/implicated. I don't know how many were arrested/did time, but for years afterwards nobody I knew talked about that school without mentioning the coke ring. It destroyed their reputation in the community.
That's not even my wildest coworker story from the time I worked in that district. The Craziest NSL Coworker Award goes to the guy who was physically abusive to his girlfriend, ran when she called the cops and had to be chased down in an alleyway, and lied about at least some of the details when he reported his arrest to the district (which teachers are legally required to do) and was placed on administrative leave. Everyone thought he'd be fired, but his lawyer found a loophole in the employee handbook--the line about having to report your arrest didn't say anything about providing an accurate report--so they had to let him come back a couple months later. Then he did something else (I never learned the specifics) and was arrested as part of a Texas Rangers operation. They actually instituted a soft lockdown of the school so that he could be called down to the office, arrested, and walked outside in cuffs without many witnesses. Somehow he still didn't get fired after that, and he was still teaching there when I finally got tired of the nonstop craziness at that school and quit.
My HS drama teacher used to smoke weed in his hotel room on school trips. The vast majority of the time he was our only chaperone, and we'd basically be left on our own in another city with absolutely no supervision. We found out about the weed when he answered his door all bleary eyed and high because we going to go see a movie and thought we'd invite him along, and he answered the door because he was high and probably not thinking about being caught.
As far as I can remember he was never high while driving us anywhere. And it was the '90s so the lack of adults being around was pretty normal. But I'm sure none of our parents would have been ok with that. Which is why none of us narc'd on him.
I would like to salute the local journalist who structured these two paragraphs in that story:
She said she was aware teachers were using drugs because she was also using cocaine with them when she was an employee at Parkland High School.
"I honestly don't know why I became a part of the group," she said. "It was just, it was offered to me, and it was offered to me when I was having a bad day, which was every day almost."
Post by BlondeSpiders on Mar 6, 2024 18:29:51 GMT -5
This is very tame in comparison, but still, English teacher.
My 10th grade English teacher taught Composition, Satire, all the usual English electives. He told us all about an unofficial holiday at his alma mater and our local university, UW. Outdoor Intercourse Day, on May 8th. To a room of 10th graders.
Believe it or not, he was not a creep at all. I adored him (had a wee crush.) I TA'd for him as a senior, and actually ran into him at a wedding about 8 years ago. We are now friends on FB and he always likes and comments on my posts.
I’m a career teacher (25 years, 24 of them in middle school). I can say with complete confidence that you’ve got to have some crazy, or a slight substance dependence, to do this job 🤷♀️
My crazy teacher story is that I had a colleague who took the kids to Quebec (French teacher), and left us there. Me and another chaperone. Just disappeared. He never returned to school.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
I’m a career teacher (25 years, 24 of them in middle school). I can say with complete confidence that you’ve got to have some crazy, or a slight substance dependence, to do this job 🤷♀️
My crazy teacher story is that I had a colleague who took the kids to Quebec (French teacher), and left us there. Me and another chaperone. Just disappeared. He never returned to school.
I watch too much l&o. He was never heard from again? Was he on the lam? A crime victim?
I’m a career teacher (25 years, 24 of them in middle school). I can say with complete confidence that you’ve got to have some crazy, or a slight substance dependence, to do this job 🤷♀️
My crazy teacher story is that I had a colleague who took the kids to Quebec (French teacher), and left us there. Me and another chaperone. Just disappeared. He never returned to school.
I watch too much l&o. He was never heard from again? Was he on the lam? A crime victim?
My boss went to his house. I was sure they were going to find him dead (he was a pretty heavy drug user — to bring this full circle). But he was just gone. i never heard any more but several years later, we did track him down on FB and he’s alive so…that’s good.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
I opted not to take biology freshman year because I heard the teacher required you to chose one color ink for the whole year and use this jumbo sized loose leaf you had to special order which was a real pain in the late nineties. That just sounded off to me and not someone who I’d want to deal with.
Anyway, it was a big deal because it would mess with my GT/AP schedule for all four years and I kept getting pressured by my advisor and teachers to take his class but I didn’t cave.
I was later vindicated when it came out he was having students camp over spring break at his house, hosting student parties, taking students on unauthorized “field trips” in days he called out sick, he was seen out at dinner with the student body president (he was the advisor) and other questionable activities There were a group of PTA parents who had had him back in the 1970s were at odds with the normal, sensible parents who sounded the alarm.
He kept teaching at the school until he resigned after it became public that he was arrested for soliciting sex in the basement bathroom of a Sears. I guess that was the last straw and it was a resign or get fired situation? Or he didn’t want to face people?
Instead I had a lot of nice science teachers over the years and never had to take physics. I have accepted that if I feel something seems off about a person, even if other people disagree, I’m right and that is normally just the tip of the iceberg!
ETA: I never cared about the solicitation but the stuff with students was super creepy even if it didn’t seem to be necessarily sexually inappropriate.
Post by basilosaurus on Mar 6, 2024 19:52:37 GMT -5
Of all the places to solicit, a Sears basement would not have crossed my mind!
Just wait til we transition to talking about religious upbringing 😈. Lots of coke and sex about 10 years before I was in the hs choir. And it gets more sordid from there.
Of all the places to solicit, a Sears basement would not have crossed my mind!
To be fair, it was a very large basement bathroom with seating, far from the elevators and stairs. I bet most people didn’t even know it was there but apparently it was quite a hot spot and people would get busted there often.
Post by whattheheck on Mar 6, 2024 20:46:35 GMT -5
My chemistry teacher would routinely (multiple times a period) leave the classroom to grab a drink from his flask in the teacher lounge. We would only have tests if his favorite football team lost. I only passed chem bc they had a good season and won the super bowl.
My earth science teacher gave off a weird vibe and the joke was “Mr Smith likes little boys.” After I graduated he was arrested for being an active member of NAMBLA.
My apologies for dropping that small bomb and not coming back to the board until after 4:00 pm the following day! Here's a local news story about it that came out right after our AP (and one of our English teachers--our school had fewer kids enroll that fall than expected, so they just took one of our new hires and plopped her into the middle of a very messy and public situation) were transferred:
I went down a rabbit whole on that news website and read the story about the person who was outraged about having to spend $24 for a meal for one person at 5 Guys:
Post by nothingcontroversial on Mar 6, 2024 21:01:16 GMT -5
So, I went to a really small school district and grades kindergarten - 12 consisted of 2 buildings connected by a tunnel. My sister's fourth grade teacher, Mr. J. (not his real name), was married to the elementary school music teacher as his second wife. Except, he was having an affair with the elementary school nurse. Everybody knew about it. They eventually got divorced and each of them married other people. (When Mr. J. got remarried, he didn't marry the school nurse. He married someone else.)
Years later, when I was in college, I had a summer job working at the same mall clothing store as Mr. J's third wife. She was a great deal younger than him. She was the third key at the store. One day, Mr. J. came into the store to pick up his wife or something. I said to him, "Hello, Mr. J." He said to me, "Oh, you can call me Johnny." (Not his real name.) I thought, "Oh, I'd really rather not, Mr. J."
Post by underwaterrhymes on Mar 6, 2024 21:01:21 GMT -5
My HS math teacher used to bang erasers over kids’ heads so chalk rained down on their heads and then also would throw chairs. He never physically put his hands on anyone and although I was bad at math, I was a good kid. But when he was frustrated or mad, he let everyone know and while I was never was on the other end of his wrath, he scared the shit out of me.
I’m friends with his son, who graduated the same year I did, on FB and his dad recently died. All of these students from my school were raving about what a wonderful teacher and coach he was and how he changed their lives and perspective on math.
I realize that everyone was sad for him and I told him I was sorry for his loss, but I walked away from the thread feeling like I was being virtually gaslit (not really, but wow our memories differ) by all my former classmates.
Ooh! I have a crazy teacher story! When DS1 was a freshman in 2021 his school fired an English teacher because some of the students found her porn videos online. The real nail in the coffins was that she filmed a couple of them AT THE SCHOOL!!! She assured everyone that it wasn’t done during school hours, so there’s that, I guess.
Do you live in Central CA because yeah that happened here too.
We did! We moved just a few years ago. I think I knew that you lived in the same area. It’s a small world on GBCN.
My HS math teacher used to bang erasers over kids’ heads so chalk rained down on their heads and then also would throw chairs. He never physically put his hands on anyone and although I was bad at math, I was a good kid. But when he was frustrated or mad, he let everyone know and while I was never was on the other end of his wrath, he scared the shit out of me.
I’m friends with his son, who graduated the same year I did, on FB and his dad recently died. All of these students from my school were raving about what a wonderful teacher and coach he was and how he changed their lives and perspective on math.
I realize that everyone was sad for him and I told him I was sorry for his loss, but I walked away from the thread feeling like I was being virtually gaslit (not really, but wow our memories differ) by all my former classmates.
I think some people think teachers like that are legit good! Like being an angry weirdo just meant he was “passionate” and therefore a good teacher.
The parents and students (and some teachers) at my school when talking about the teacher I avoided up thread were like sure he’d kick a kid out of class and make them cry for using a blue pen and host parties for 15 year olds at his house but he was such a great teacher! He was tough but we learned a lot and he really cared.
This is pretty tame, but I had an elementary teacher that would lock kids in the closet for misbehaving. A parent complained and forever after that she'd send kids to the office and make a comment about "since I'm no longer allowed to put kids in the closet" as if it was a totally ludacris policy lol.
Post by underwaterrhymes on Mar 6, 2024 21:35:23 GMT -5
tacokick I think you’re probably right. I also think that, in this case, a lot of my former classmates are still super connected to the community there. It’s not a small community - I had something like 415 people in my graduating class and we were in the DC Metro area. But it seems a lot of them are still tight beyond the typical FB connections, and many of them still have relationships or connections to some of the staff and faculty.
I haven’t lived in the area since 2001, so it’s hard for me to really get.
tacokick I think you’re probably right. I also think that, in this case, a lot of my former classmates are still super connected to the community there. It’s not a small community - I had something like 415 people in my graduating class and we were in the DC Metro area. But it seems a lot of them are still tight beyond the typical FB connections, and many of them still have relationships or connections to some of the staff and faculty.
I haven’t lived in the area since 2001, so it’s hard for me to really get.
Yes! In my scenario the parents were all alumni had probably gone to these parties 20 yrs before and now my classmates’ kids are going to the same school and all hang out together. They have a weird connection to it that I don’t quite get—it was nothing special and also in a large metro area. They love to memorialize the creepy teachers we had!
Post by basilosaurus on Mar 6, 2024 21:55:17 GMT -5
tacokick, I could see that. Tough, abusive, but hey, we learned something and weren't too bored, so great teacher! Corporal punishment is still legal in TX schools, last I checked. Compared to a paddling, what's an eraser or a shoe which was my middle school science teacher's preferred toassable?
I don't recall her making contact, just general direction. She was in a motorized wheelchair and would roll over any bag in her way when she eventually went to fetch it. Chalk regularly flew, too. I won't ever forget how many atoms in a mole, though!
tacokick , I could see that. Tough, abusive, but hey, we learned something and weren't too bored, so great teacher! Corporal punishment is still legal in TX schools, last I checked. Compared to a paddling, what's an eraser or a shoe which was my middle school science teacher's preferred toassable?
H was paddled in school- in TENTH GRADE. He grew up in a small Texas town. So fucked up! They didn't do that in my high school.
My 7th and 8th grade English teacher was known for throwing erasers at kids, and I distinctly remember her swatting kids with a ruler on their bare legs. This was in the early 90's. But (and this is so insane to even type out), it seemed to be....lighthearted? Almost motherly? Like, if she was their mom, instead of "what do you mean your homework is still in your locker," it would be "get upstairs and clean your room like I already asked you to 10 times."
I also remember her calmly walking out into the hallway with her watering can, and dumping it on 2 kids who were fighting. That broke it up REAL quick!
Stuff that would NEVER fly today, but I do remember her fondly. MUCH better than the male gym teacher who made sexist comments and "jokes" all through class. Middle school was weird.