Teachers Share Their REVENGE Stories (r/AskReddit)

our slashes credit I taught math last school year at a high school there was this really snotty disrespectful kid in my class he was a senior and he quickly decided that class was beneath him and stopped coming the way I approached grading is half the graders attendance and participation I feel like I can teach any kid math and help them get really good at it as long as they come to my class and do what they are supposed to the other half of the grade was going to be their comprehensive final guess who comes into my class one week before finals with some sob story about how he needed me to pass him for blah blah reasons yeah so I tell him okay here's the deal half your grade is attendance and participation half is the final that means you can't get more than a 50% right now however I also don't fail anyone that gets at least to be on my final if you were able to learn the math without being here listening to my spiel every day fine you pass of course there was no way this guy was going to pass my final I was teaching trigonometry and he couldn't even do basic algebra worth Adan given his attitude toward me I have to admit I enjoyed this thought passing my classes soo important to him a week before finals but not important enough for him to attend my lessons justice equals served so he says what am I gonna do I don't know the stuff so I tell him okay I have a review here of all the types of problems that will be on the final it's what we are working on all week you come in every day and do your best and if you need extra help I'll help you at lunchtime and you can try to pass my test VAT or you can just give up of course he realizes it's futile and gives up right no he actually comes in works hard and spends every minute of every lunch in my classroom getting individual attention and he gets an A on his final when I grade his tests and he sees he got an A his eyes actually tear up so I point to the test and say look at that math feat some hard damned math most people can't do that math but you know what you can I wonder how many other things you can do that other people told you you couldn't do that you told yourself you couldn't do he agreed and thanked me profusely for all my help and for not letting him take the easy way out I don't think I'll ever teach a kid a more important thing than that edit some people are asking how a guy learns a year of math in a week I'll clarify I taught the class for the last three months of the year up to that point the class had seven teachers come and go when I got there it was total chaos no grades no progress being made at all I asked one of the other math teachers what should I teach them she said well my class is doing trig so triggered was I'm a professor at a State University for the past 17 years and teach pre-health and pre-med students I've many stories both good and bad but I've never felt the need to retaliate against a student until one day I met my nemesis this student wanted to go to medical school though they were a very middling intellect and came off as socially inept and personally odious I and my class stood in her way so I had to be shoved out of the way on her route to being a healer she figured the best way to get ahead was to be the squeaky wheel and [ __ ] about everything in academia if you complain enough about a class we give you a high grade and send you up to the next poor bastard for you to torment rinse and repeat so nemesis went all out to find everything and anything to complain about exam had 80 questions on it syllabus said 75 questions complained lecture notes were released in a format that was based on PDF but the student wanted PowerPoint hell no complained missed in class questions on quizzes and material wasn't covered in lecture readings children I assigned them for my health complaint inappropriate language in lecture anatomy class penis penis penis but always anatomically correct complaint I did not return her NL's the same day she wrote them complained everything I did said or thought about complaint by the end she had escalated these issues all of the way to the top and I got called in to the dean's office my administrators above me have worked with me for years giving me no fear of a student going over my head with a complaint but this student tried dean nvm underscore it will underscore he'll this student has sent more than a dozen complaints to the administration me just a dozen I was betting far far more Dean normally we would let this pass as this student is known for doing this and has even involved legal counsel in previous classes but you have somehow exceeded a previous complaint record by a factor of three and none of her other instructors this semester have gotten one she has singled you out for complaints and some arguably appear to be about you specifically targeting this student yeah in clinical cases I replaced all of the patients names with her first name even if the patient was a guy but her name was very common and there were three other ones with that name in class so go easy don't antagonize her just ride it out and be done with it me thanks Dean good talk bro my nemesis kept it up I gave her a higher grade than she deserved which I believe was the whole point as she needed the grades for med school then I washed my proverbial hands a year later I was assigned to be the committee head of the faculty that create group letters of recommendation for medical school applications and she submitted the form for our committee to create her recommendation packet students can and should waive the right to read these evaluations if you are afraid of what a professor will say about you don't ask them for a letter my nemesis made sure to point out to the committee in a formal letter that because of problems with all of the professor's that would be writing letters she wanted to make sure their letters were appropriate and of the correct tone and content before we sent them off therefore she would review them before approving them for inclusion in her packet nobody wanted to drop the atom bomb on her and write a true letter as you know lawyers and she would see all of these letters as with her counsel before we sent them so our hands were tied but one brave souls went around and solicited her letter writers into creating sublime choruses of praise these would be the letters you would expect to read to the Nobel Committee about Hawking in steam Newton and FEMEN we are talking through works of art nobody would believe that a student with this background or MC 80 score could get one of these eulogy masterpieces let alone a whole panel and I included a note from the committee stating that the student had previously filed academic complaints against each and every professor that wrote her a letter therefore these letters may not reflect her true academic potential we got our Furber lawyer to check this with a fine-tooth comb but our committee had a duty in our committee recommendation letter to inform those reading the professor's individual recommendations if there may be a mitigating circumstance or formal action that could influence the veracity and quality of the recommendations the student didn't have the right to see that part unless they request it later after the letters have been sent out unfortunately for them so she carpet-bombed the medical schools with primary applications every MD do and offshore school that existed got one the cost must have been staggering but with parents that can afford lawyers for their brat in undergrad I'm sure they footed the bill gladly to get her out of the house within her application packet came those beautiful letters and those three explosive paragraphs explaining that this student filed academic complaints against every letter writer and did not waive the right to keep their letter secret it doesn't take a genius on the admissions committee of each of these schools to read between the lines on this one and drop that application in the trash before granting an interview she did not get one interview more than 30 applications not one school invited her to continue her application process that gets a professorial B oooo jana and for those of you whose lives i may have saved by preventing her from becoming the most litigious and incompetent doctor imaginable and screwing up treatment to you or your loved ones you are most heartily welcome I'm that kid and my 10th grade English teacher ruined my academic career I didn't cheat most of these posts are taking for granted that cheating is the only way to piss a teacher off instead I disagreed publicly with the teachers interpret the poem I wasn't intentionally trying to derail anything I was just offering an alternate read I like it was Frost's the road not taken' and I suggested that made all the difference didn't necessarily mean frost like the choice he made that this poem could mean as much to someone who regrets their choice as someone who believed they choose correctly she informed me that I was categorically wrong I was ready to concede no point making enemies on day one I said that I saw the value in her interpretation and was ready to read it from that perspective she wasn't satisfied though she insisted that my interpretation was wrong and that class couldn't continue until I understood that her way was the only way to interpret the piece that I showed learned this last year and she couldn't start a 10th grade education on a broken foundation and here's where I messed up I stopped my social filter I just add my train of thought all the way through I don't remember what I said but I'm told that she started crying when I said who could have the gall to call themselves an educator when they themselves aren't educated on how to value the interpretations of others eventually she left the room and decided to end me but this lady was smart I knew I was out of line and was waiting for another shoe to drop I was and am genuinely apologetic for the distress I caused and wanted to make amends I apologized in person after class in writing I arranged meetings in which I apologized each time she told me that I had raised valid points and the fault was as much hers as mine and I had nothing to fear so long as I didn't do it again but the proof was in my grades I consistently got C's this would have been fine with me but I started getting C's on assignments I didn't turn in just always getting C's when I approached her on it she fixed the assignments I didn't turnin changed then two zeros but now all my subsequent work was getting A's it turns out she wasn't trying to mess with my grades to get back at me she was making sure I passed with a high C no matter what I had to say about it she met with my parents to discuss my issues of self-esteem and these meetings she said she wanted me an Advanced Placement English I said I wasn't ready for that my strengths were science and math but app English had a workload I wouldn't be able to meet it turns out that in miami-dade public school system teachers can override the wishes of students and parents when placing a student in their next class it wasn't enough for her to neut my GPA this year she wanted to nuke it next year - and it was her recommendation that later landed me in remedial reading for a summer when I figured out what she was doing she started being real coy about it even if your theory was believable there's nothing you could do she simultaneously started being a real [ __ ] to me in class the other students knew that couldn't do anything the most help I got was from the deeply courageous or a oq teacher asked me a question about the text laughed at my answer and asked the class if anyone could help me get the right answer so I wouldn't have to be wrong forever Soria raised her hand and answered verbatim staring the teacher dead in the eye every word I had said teacher looked disgusted said that was not just the correct answer but the best way she'd ever heard it phrased another student started to protest and I told him to shut up that I didn't want anyone else hurt over this the next day the teacher suggested we do some show-and-tell to offer insight into situations other students couldn't experience what was it like to be in your band Steven how does it feel to be the only Jewish student Zachary what was it like losing your father to cancer this week Soria the last time I heard Soria speak she was repeating my words to the most vile woman I have ever met the most petty move and the last I was present to see her Paul was ruling against my word in Scrabble on the last day of class she was very clear at the outset if the word was not in this dictionary it could not be played now at this point in my life I played Scrabble just about once a month since I could spell it's one of the few ways my grandmother and I could interact so I'm pretty [ __ ] good at this game the teacher tells everyone to break into groups of three and start play she follows me to my group and joins the other players are visibly distressed and basically don't play they avoid anything that will get them points but not McAllister queen [ __ ] of senior high she does her damnedest taking ten minutes a turn checking things in her dictionary my last turn is Ray's finishing my tiles and using a triple word score and spellings out in another direction not only do I take the lead but it will basically be impossible in her remaining term to get that many points her first complaint is that I can't use the triple word score in both directions I have to choose actually no I have to take whichever Direction is fewest points to be fair to the other players whatever the [ __ ] that means as she does the math in her head she changes her mind again I can't play the word because that isn't in the dictionary I ask if it's a formal challenge she says no it's a ruling I say the dictionary makes the ruling in turn to the Zed's she says it's her board and her dictionary and her rules and I can't play Ray's and I need to leave I congratulate her on winning leaving the dictionary open to that I then proceed to fail app English but the exam Proctor finds out that I've tried to change the class Ayman and some other teacher is keeping me here against my wishes in the proctors the proctor Institute's a new policy take the app exam and Sheen overwrite your grade to one comparable to your score this means that when I got a three on the exam I got an in the class even so Queen which then requires me to take remedial reading on day one the remedial teacher tells me she knows what's going on and I can do anything I want with that time she has no problem overruling the decision and can place me in the normal class instead I take the time to relax I learn programming make a couple short films and apply to college mrs. McAllister remains to this day my proof that justice is a lie and must therefore be fought for at every opportunity it doesn't mean living and working in China for six years opened my own school two years ago with a partner and it's been really kicking off there was nothing secret about this situation many teachers have had it and it's extremely satisfying when you see the kid change anyway we have a primary aged group real young really starting to boom and young children will be children well I have a trouble class the class has five boys and two girls one of the boys is three years older than the others cocky rarely listens to the teacher wants to show off to the girls naturally the boys look up to him and you know the saying one bad apple spoils the barrel so yeah that's the situation we had with this boy this was about one and a half months ago despite many interviews with this boy's parents it was obvious they were typical hard-working Chinese parents who let their parents look after the boy and earned money for the family the boy is an only child and like many in China he has spoiled rotten never been punished in his life I got permission from his parents to punish him as it was simply a case of I'm willing to give you back all the money you paid because I simply do not want him here they said please other schools have removed him please you can discipline him as you wish class came gloves came off two minutes into the class he started acting up boom went angry teacher on his ass think it was the first time he'd been shouted at by an adult terrified him removed him from the classroom crying and bawling his eyes out at him sitting in a corner staring at a wall for 15 minutes after class finished I personally supervised him cleaning the tables and the floor the other children got to watch and laughed at him further embarrassing him and taking away his face / my anzi in front of others second class he acted sullenly and refused to do some writing boom stand at front of the class for whole class when class finished did old school punishment 20 lines on whiteboard I will always write what the teacher asks pretty hard as he's beginner level but after 20 times he got the hang of it after two classes and him complaining to his parents that his teacher is a crazy man who only punishes him and him saying I'm a good teacher and he needs to listen to me third class and was a perfect boy he said there he didn't act up and did everything I asked we will see in the future how he behaves but I actually think he has potential and could be quite bright just needs to realize who is the power in the he's really learning stuff right now and I can see his you sable vocabulary has improved dramatically now I think the other boys have learned whenever I get a new troubled kid that's my routine crush them early I even tell parents we are not a kids club where the kid can do what he wants without punishment we will discipline your child if he /she is disrupting the class most parents here are very overprotective but they've seen the results with our well-behaved kids we allow potential customers to watch silently classes at will using a throw away although I'm not sure why if anyone involved in the incident reads this they are going to figure it out if anyone reads it at all spring of 2003 I was taking art history to clear an elective i sat next to a guy who was pretty close to one of my roommates we had party together quite a few times he was a bit overclocked at times but I liked him so I was looking forward to the semester looking back though he and this professor were going to clash it was just inevitable my friend will call him Cade was a high-strung bullshitter who was one of the early hips to slash bro hybrids of the 2000s he loved Pabst Blue Ribbon for inconceivable reasons considering he was otherwise a total beer snob and a random winnow to boot he wore polo shirts with thin framed non hipster glasses was super stoked about the upcoming technologies and all Apple products knew the ins and outs of every movie ever and diamonds for some reason were his thing along with souped-up Asian cooze most enjoyably he loved talking about threesomes that never happened and was generally determined to make his life sound may be bigger than it was yesterday every day he was like a young Barney Stinson on a lot of caffeine you might think that sounds like a criticism and it is to the extent that he was my friend and definitely needed to calm down but it was also kind of Awesome I thoroughly enjoyed kid he was a [ __ ] to himself but he tolerated zero [ __ ] and the spontaneous bull by the horns way he dealt with it was priceless entertainment he was kind of loud and didn't mind attention which was great because I hated attention and could hide in this skinny kids metaphorical shadow he was pretty smart too and the random factoids he spit out filled in the occasional silence before lecture swear to God he was one of the most enjoyable people I've ever hung out with the prof on the other hand will call him Skippy was the complete opposite of kid he was trying very hard to be the low-key artsy fartsy true hipster he had a curly fro thick rimmed narrow style glasses sweaters and whereas kid was twenty going on twelve Skippy was trying very hard to be thirty going on mm I think he was probably pretty genuine but because of this very manufactured way in which he presented himself he was like a beacon of [ __ ] he was like the great lighthouse of Carthage of [ __ ] and you could see it all over kid's face every day kid just had this agitated surprised silent storm of [ __ ] this guy building inside him before I sprint through the incidents plural I have to stop and talk about me for a second because ultimately I'm the one who got [ __ ] I'm an idiot or at least I was not the kind of idiot you might think while reading this although I might be that kind of idiot as well I was a brooding self-absorbed kind of deluded lost idiot this in part is probably why I loved hanging out with kid kid was crazy but kid was fun kid smiled non-stop I did not unless I was hanging out with people like kid and even then it was 50 over 50 or maybe 1 over 99 so how did the Prophet I get along you'd think that after 20-some years of trying to lay low and not be seen I would have [ __ ] figured out how by college not the case I have a somewhat remarkable face and instead of keeping my nose to my notes and wearing a poker face I would roll my eyes and shake my head of things that annoyed me someone wore too much cologne I shook my head and looked aggravated for the whole class every time I got an overwhelming whiff someone asked a stupid question saying somehow probably because he was an insecure tool not saying I wasn't at all Skippy sensed my head shaking like a [ __ ] bat senses of [ __ ] that flitting in the breeze from three miles away he just honed in on it every time and he didn't even have to be facing toward the [ __ ] class to catch it and like an idiot I made eye contact without changing my expression even though it had nothing to do with Skippy I'm pretty sure Skippy thought it was all about him now for the incidents as quick and dirty as I can do this so one day Skippy announced to the class that a weekend retreat to Chicago museums was not going to count toward our grade so basically the deal was off the whole class moaned and complained at once because a lot of people had set aside time taken off work shelled out some cash and it sucked kid kid said loud enough to be heard clearly over the groaning and complaining of about 300 people doubt sure bag remember when I said I was an idiot just as skippers insecure bat sense is honed in on the sound of someone calling him a Dolce bag after finally earning a title in life and some respect I covered my mouth as if I happen to be the [ __ ] who just called him a doubt sure bag why I don't know I guess because sometimes people do that when they're laughing so hard their whole body shakes Skippy glared I looked at kid kid just sat there in a state of outrage in disgust Skippy looked at me Skippy looked at kid and Skippy made the decision right then and there I could see it in his dull boring brown eyes Skippy was gonna fail us Skippy was gonna fail us good and hard art history for [ __ ] sake art history I was going to fail [ __ ] art history I love history and wholeness auntie the class was very informative and provided a lot of additional context to my favorite topic ancient history I warned kid but kid was blissfully naive which is another thing I loved about kid time goes by kid and I a sour Exum's but there's a problem our art project our art project counted for like 20 percent of our overall grade not so much the art itself but our demonstration of art history knowledge long story somewhat shorter kid bounced into the pit day of the final happy-go-lucky and put his project down while Skippy was watching Skippy spied kids name and project with all the skill and grace of a paragliding walrus but he pulled it off without get still smiling like an idiot ever figuring it out kid got screwed but me I'm a [ __ ] ninja I was there like 20 minutes early and as soon as a couple projects accumulated izip down place mine then ducked out of the pit when I walked and later skip he tried to 0:07 me but when I just sat down without turning anything in he stared at me like a dog who just can't figure out this new human word I laughed to myself then I waited until the masses were lining up to turn in their exomes and took the tars line Skippy tried to get the tar to show him my name but while he was talking to her she just kept grabbing exomes I was in the clear Skippy never figuring out my name because my ID photo didn't look anything like me at the time remarkable face but not photogenic at all plus I started buzzing my hair off gave me an A and a rather flattering review of my project kid got an F on his project but at least Skippy left it at bat not that kid cared kid was primed up and ready for revenge more on that later fast forward to fall of 2003 kid and I are taking history of jazz for another elective why hella fine you I think it was into it because kid was into everything I was just coasting so we are walking there one day and Skippy shows up in front of us he was about a hundred yards away facing the other direction and we'd all had months to forget each other but apparently kid hadn't quite forgiven Skippy for giving him an F on his project so he did it again doubt sure bag this time I played it cool but here's where the story starts to suck Skippy didn't care which one of us said it this time he was pissed and he never did get his chance to [ __ ] me over and apparently as kid explained to me now kid had actually run into Skippy at the bars the campus bars mind you Skippy was pulling the cool professor routine on the college girls who we're still in town all summer kid finding this repulsive apparently not that he needed motivation went out onto the dance floor and ansed with Skippy to the rhythm of doubt she bagged doubt she bagged out she bagged doubt you bag down sure bag so he tells me all of that as we are taking our seats in jazz history and then I see it the Jazz Pro flux out the door see someone trying to get his attention and excuses himself from the class I tell kid it's probably Skippy kid brushes it off nah come on jazz prof walks in about three minutes later looks me dead in the eyes as if he's weighing something sees that angry at the world look on my face that I was telling you about earlier Eddie it gives me a cold condemning look and I just [ __ ] knew I got an F in jazz history Skippy finally got me back I don't know why but I didn't even fight it I guessed a safe kid from potential harassment allegations maybe also because part of me felt guilty for being part of making the profil disrespected anyway kid and I were both transferring kid was headed to a bigger University and I was headed to a state school closer to home for my final two semesters I took a semester off took my transfer and took my earth right up the ass TL DR my friend called R proffered a bag on several occasions I laughed profited me finally got his revenge through another professor thank you so much for watching the whole video please leave a like and subscribe

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Published: Mon Aug 26 2019