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Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the various stunts that teachers pulled that people are still mad about. Honestly, with some of these it's understandable. Like, the teacher that was clipping his toenails in class. What's that madness about? There's a time and place for everything, prof. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the times that teachers realized kids were gifted. Sometimes the signs are just too obvious to miss. 

Depending on where you went to school and what classes you took, you may have had a project where you had to take care of a sack of flour as if it were a child, or in this case, a robotic doll programmed to cry. Based on how frustrating these things can be, we're not sure if these projects were designed to be a learning experience so much as birth control. It doesn't take simulated parenting to know that kids are weird and dumb, and that toddlers have meltdowns over nothing, but having a robot baby wake up in the middle of the night might be a literal wake-up call for a high school freshman.

This student deserves some high marks for their exceptional revenge. Plus, the vivid imagery used to describe this mean teacher really immerses the reader in the story, as it unfolds. It sounds like this teacher was pulling off some serious BS, and ultimately her antics resulted in her own downfall. 

We were all dumb in school, but some kids just showed it better. Whether it was a kid trying to wing their way through plagiarized material, some dude doing a wildly inappropriate and incredibly personal PowerPoint, or even a teacher trying to get through a horribly ill-conceived assembly, we've all seen some real embarrassing presentations. The thing is, people you knew from school on't really change a lot, and that can lead to some really awkward moments at high school reunions. Sometimes these school events get so bad they're eventually referred to as the school's "incident."

This teacher had had enough of some slacker seniors messing around and as a result, negatively impacting other people's grades in the class. Anyone who has ever found themselves muddling through a group project, and trying to keep someone else who isn't accountable, accountable, will connect deeply with this revenge. It's honestly beautifully done. Probably the most powerful lesson the teacher ever taught. Those entitled parents and kids never saw it coming. 

Sometimes it was a normal thing that a teacher mistook for something else. Other times it was a living thing. Sometimes weapons, and other times just weird. It's strange to be an adult and realize how schools are just pure chaos with adults trying their best (sometimes) to keep things sort of in order. Here are people sharing the drama that became their school's "incident".

An outspoken few of us are scouring our lives looking for unwholesome imagery in television, music and apparently, elementary school art exercises. Some real wild stuff gets passed off as legit by mom groups. This misunderstanding had some extra facepalm on it. Fittingly, people made an even bigger mockery of the situation. Being a teacher can be hard especially when it comes to wild parent teacher conferences.

This tutor schooled himself. Sometimes you get caught up in the motions of the job, and you end up being a "tutor" who can't even get their student's name right. To make matters even better, you botch their name to such an extent that you're literally calling them the name of their laptop. Beautiful stuff, really. 

This teacher decided to ask the people of Reddit whether they were a jerk for choosing to fail a student on the last day of class.

The life of a teacher is pretty wild. Teachers can see some incredibly dumb kids. Sometimes a good teacher will do a kid a solid. Teaching can be funny and full of chaos. Sometimes parents have a very limited idea of what a teacher's job actually is, and take any criticism of their child personally. These are some of those times parent-teacher conferences were a little wild.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the most savage things they've heard teachers say to students. We're not sure whether the savagery comes from teachers just being fed up with all the stresses of grading papers and keeping students in line, or what. All we know is these rare insults from teachers deserve some high marks. 

A viral Twitter moment has people looking up their old teachers. Bring on the tidal wave of nostalgia. You never know; your old high school teacher who always had a low key cool vibe, might actually be a massive social media influencer nowadays. Or maybe your teacher retired right around your birthday. Either way, a fun little experiment to try out with your old teachers from back in the day. 

These funny teacher tweets do an excellent job at capturing the chaotic existence that is being a teacher. When teachers aren't dealing with kids breaking out in wild temper tantrums, or handing in incomprehensible exams, they're just trying to keep things somewhat in order. Easier said than done.