Most Outrageous Stories (c-Stories) (TM):  Education/Schools/Academia

The story about not working in the rain reminded me about a situation I found myslf in a few years back. In my third year of teaching, I was placed in a first grade classroom. The class had twice as many students as was acceptable by the district, so a new teacher had to be hired. The new teacher arrived and she was placed in my room so we could team teach. I taught in the morning, because that was too early for her and she was unable to pronounce spelling words clearly enough for the students to understand what she was saying. Right after lunch, she would teach math and I would walk around helping students or I would be grading the morning's work. Well, on her first Friday here, we came in from lunch and I was waiting for her to start her lesson 5 minutes passes, 10 minutes then I tell her the students are restless and waiting for her to start their math lesson. Her exact words were, " Oh, didn't I tell you? I don't teach on Fridays." I couldn't believe, but she never did, and when the class was split into two separate rooms, she put the lessons on the board on her first day in there and played cards, on the computer, for the rest of the year (the lesson never changed from that first day). Needless to say she was not rehired for the next school year.

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For my first year of full-time teaching I taught kindergarten in a very small private school. The students were allowed to use the restroom by themselves 2 classrooms away down the hall. One little boy went to use it after gym class. A while later while the class and I were reading on the carpet, the boy came back, walked right in and cried, "I pee-pee'd myself!" That I could deal with, but the real problem was that he was totally naked! He left all his clothes in the bathroom and walked down the hall that way. I felt so sorry for him..and the class was in an uproar. Then at the end of the day,I had to speak to each parent individually and explain how their child saw a naked student..they were all understanding. I chose to teach the upper grades after that. God Bless the kindergarten teachers!

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This is a two part story. 1. It was the first day of kindergarten for my twins..boy and girl. We were all excited, of course, and I was also on the verge of tears. We waited at the end of our driveway for the bus. "Here it comes!" I said, camera ready to snap the pictures of them getting on the big, yellow bus. Then it passed us right by! I called the transportation dept. and they sent a white van. Those are my pictures..not of the big yellow bus! 2. Same day. I awaited their return and smiling faces. My son came to the door, holding back tears with his sister right behind. "How was your first day?!" I asked. He couldn't speak. Then, "What's wrong?" I, of course thinking my son was molested or something horrendous like that. My daughter spoke up. "We went outside for a fire drill and had to stand on the sidewalk. Then we went back in and Ricky didn't come. I tried to tell the teacher that he was still outside and she wouldn't listen!" Finally, she took a roll count and figured out that he wasn't there. That's when she again piped up to say he was still outside! (he was last in line and must have been watching the birds or something) Needless to say, I was on the phone with the teacher and my daughter always felt that she would not be listened to by her teacher.(It actually created a fear in her.) She always kept a careful eye on her brother after that. What a first day!

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I teach in a middle school. This particular day I met with a mother to talk about the trouble I was having with her son repeatedly using extremely vulgar lanuage. I definetely got a response I didn't expect. She replied, "Well how is he supposed to know? Where in the handbook is it specifically spelled out how/what he is supposed to speak in school? Dumbfounded and shocked, I attempted to explain proper etiquette and actually explain what vulgar and inapproprate language was. She said if it's not in the handbook, then he could say what he wants. What a parent.

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I worked as a librarian in a certain university. I prefer not to reveal the name of the school for my own anonymity. I had an affair with a divorced professor who worked there. He was far older than I am. Actually, her youngest child was of my age. Our relationship had a good start. But, after a while, it became worst than I imagined. He became very jealous of my colleagues and friends. Her children did not like me either. I extended my patience to my “boyfriend.” I followed what he wanted me to do just to save our relationship. Then one day, I was with my friends, when he came out from nowhere yelling at me. He badmouthed me in front of other people. I was so ashamed. I broke up with him at that very moment. In a relationship, age really matters!

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I work in a middle school and one day our elderly receptionist received a phone call on the main line asking to speak to Harry to which she replied Harry who? which the caller replied Harry Testicles, she had to have him repeat it several times before she caught what he was saying. It was then discovered it was a student calling from his cell phone from one of his classrooms without the teacher knowing .

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I have students reading 2-3 years below level. What should I do?

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My husband retired at age 58 from being a university professor at the Universtity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Three years later, he decided to return to work...bored...and now he is a teacher in the Wake County Public SChool System as an Autistic 1 teacher. He has 6 students, k-2 grade, and is regularly bitten, spit on, hit , and scratched. But he loves the job and his students and knows he can make a difference with these challenged little ones. Now that's giving back!

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