My special education teacher in 4th-5th grade once accused me of reading her emails because I happened to be using a computer that had an Outlook window open. She refused to listen when I said I wasn't.
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There was this one elementary school teacher who'd often cut me off and yell, "STOP!" (complete with making a "time out" gesture) when I was trying to explain myself. Yet she didn't like being interrupted herself.
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A loyal animal lover
I had a few teachers who really didn't like the words "yeah" and "uh-huh" for some reason. Heh, guess it's the Hello Kitty episode "Replying Properly" all over again.
Oh, I believe in yesterday
I still remember my grade 1 teacher at the school I originally went to. She’d let people blame stuff on me and keep me out of group activities, forcing me to clean up after other people.
Why do I remember something from 25 years ago?
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If we're allowed to mention daycare providers, I had a particularly weird case of this when I was about 5-6. One day, when we were playing outside, I told a kid "Outta my way!" without realizing that wasn't a very nice thing to be saying - pretty sure I learned it from a TV show or something.
The supervisor said something like "That was disrespectful, go sit down!", so I apologized and sat down... and then for some reason, she was like "No, not you." and told the kid I said it to to go sit down because what I said was "so disrespectful".
I still really don't understand the logic here - punishing a kid because somebody else said something rude to them? What the fuck?
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
A loyal animal lover
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Reminds me of the time a teacher was scolding a kid, and I mistakenly thought she was upset with me (I forget the reason why). I was crying, and when she told me I wasn't the one in trouble, I was still crying a bit, so she had enough of my meltdown and was like, "For God's sake, go outside and sort yourself out!!" Confusing, isn't it?
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In elementary school, I used to have teachers who'd read a book to the class. One time, the teacher was reading a line of dialogue from one of the characters, which was something along the lines of "The only way you'll be able to make balloon animals is out of your own..." before she stopped, said "Oh, he didn't say something very nice here!" and skipped over the word.
We, of course, wondered what word was so bad that the teacher wouldn't read it to us. She simply answered "It was a gross word."
Sometime later, I found the same book (probably at the school library or something like that) and decided to read it. The word that the teacher thought was so bad that she had to skip over it was... "boogers".
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
A loyal animal lover
One time in elementary school (might have been second grade IIRC), our teacher was reading Arthur's Valentine to us. When she got to the part where Francine said, "Hey, hot lips!", she was like, "I'll...skip what Francine said." Even though "hot lips" isn't that bad.
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That reminds me of one teacher I had whose Mad Libs Catchphrase was, every time someone said a word that wasn't in the dictionary, "I think you need to find another word. Is ____ in the dictionary?".
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