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From @das-a-kirby-blog
#STORY TIME. SIXTH GRADE
#my math teacher chewed me out in front of the whole class for not turning in an assignment EVEN THOUGH DID
#so she handed me a paper and thought I could do it in class and then turn it in fora late grade
#she called me out telling me was being defiant and threatened to call my grandmother
#time skip. she's handing back graded papers. at this point had completed the missing assignment
#AND WHAT'S THIS? SHE HANDS BACK TWO OF THE SAME PAPERS. BOTH WITH TWO DIFFERENT DATES
#ONE BEFORE THE DUE DATE. AND ONE AFTER #SO HAD COMPLETED THE PAPER. IT WASN'T A MISSING ASSIGNMENT
#ANDI GOT NO APOLOGY FOR IT
#still hold a grudge to this day. I'm sorry Im not letting that slide #reblog
#another story is with one of my elementary teachers #in language arts
#after reading an article/ story we were expected to have the page filled with notes #well we did so. but it wasnt enough
#instead of. y'know. encouraging us to analyze a little more we were constantly shamed for not doing enough
#like whole class time telling us how mad she was LIKE. TELL US HOW TO IMPROVE
I have lost a few paper assignments. But I always assumed it was my fault for being disorganized, not the student's fault for not turning it in. Like, yeah, I asked them to check everything and be sure but... I really cannot care about the piece of paper with answers written on it.
Unfortunately, The System needs a grade. And teaching can be very stressful. But what the fuck, why didn't they apologize?
What other stories do people have?
Edit: There are some incredible stories from the replies and comments on this post. I have posted them to @ilp-wall-of-fame here, here, here, here, and here.
Two:
One teacher I had when I was eight and twelve. When I was eight it was my birthday. I came into the classroom with treats to hand out and everything. At the end of the day she hadn't even acknowledged me and I had to take all of them home. My mother was livid.
When I was twelve we were going on a school trip to some airbase because the father of a classmate worked for the Dutch airforce and wanted to give us a tour. There was no bus like usual, there were parents who would drive us with their private cars, carpool idea. The teacher had 'forgotten' to assign me to a car, and I had to be put in one last minute that happened to have a seat free.
Later that year we were preparing for the musical that is traditionally put on by the elementary school graduating class at the end of the schoolyear. We were being told the scenes we would have to audition for and the class was being rowdy. I was clearly being assigned scene 4 for a part I was really hoping to get. I went to our neighbours, practiced and rehearsed my heart out, and when the day of the auditions came, suddenly I had to perform scene 6.
And in university I wrote a paper that involved the concept of shipping. I used the term in the introduction and it could be inferred from the context, and then in the theoretical framework I expanded on the term and gave it a proper definition, but apparently it wasn't good enough. I was given feedback to change it in the draft and I did, I gave it a quick but clear definition in the introduction as well. She sent me an email being pissed that I hadn't properly defined the term, with weird derogative language and very inappropriate for a university professor. I had another course at the same time so I didn't need the ECs, so I decided not to rewrite it for a resit. She sent me an email asking, suddenly nicely, why, and I sent one back saying that considering some of the bullshit feedback (put nicely ofc) and the unprofessional way she had communicated in her email I did not feel like putting the energy into 'fixing' the paper. She was 'sorry to hear that'.
And those are just the ones I personally had beef with. There were some teachers that were very unpleasant or even inappropriate with some of my classmates.
