‘What’s a small injustice from your school days that you’re still annoyed about?’- 17 experiences people can’t let slide
10.
‘When I was about the same age or younger my class was doing a PE lesson just after lunch.
The girls were playing hockey and the boys football.
I asked the teacher if I could play hockey with the girls as I liked the sport.
The teacher said in front of the whole class ” You want to play with the girls do you? Are you a girl? ”
This teacher was a miserable old cunt and I was already quite used to this behaviour.
During the hockey game someone accidentally hit me in the face with their stick. It cracked my front tooth in half and the nerve was basically hanging out.
The teacher wouldn’t let me go to the office to call home, she made me finish PE and then made me finish the school day.
I was crying as the pain was very bad, she ridiculed me in front of the whole class calling me “cry baby” etc. Bear in mind I was a young child with a bloody mouth and a broken tooth with the nerve hanging out in the open.
Anyway I walked out of school to meet my mother at the gates. She saw my tooth and the nerve. Went to the dentist, was given my first root canal treatment.
Teacher was suspended for four weeks, no official apology made etc.
As I’ve grown older I’ve become quite frustrated with the whole ordeal. Why was she such a cunt to me specifically? Why was she allowed to even return?
Guess I just have to let it go as she will be dead now.’
-DarthRick3rd
11.
‘Oh here we go…
Age 12 I dropped off my English essay homework early for the first time in my life. It was a sunny day, I was smiling and proud of myself, wondering if I was turning a new leaf.
Then I received a message to meet my English teacher at lunch. She was an old battleaxe and always picked on me. So at the start of lunch I went to her room, where she made me sit while she finished a call that lasted for 75% of my lunch break. She wouldn’t let me leave either — it felt like detention. She eventually finished her call and told me I’d handed the work in too early as it wasn’t due until the next day, handing it back to me to take home.
The next day I arrived at English class and the teacher asked where everyone’s homework was. Because I’d already marked it as ‘done’ in my workbook, I’d accidentally forgotten it at home. I explained this to her, thinking that surely she’d understand because she saw I’d given it to her the day before, and said I’d bring it in first thing the next day. Instead she said it was unacceptable and gave me a lunch detention for that day — effectively my second detention for the same piece of homework.
I never tried doing my homework early again after that.’
-EssentialParadox
12.
‘I’ve got a swimming one too. Probably aged 8 or 9 we were doing our 25m swimming certificates. I did the 25m with about a dozen other kids but a few days later when the certificates were handed out in class, I didn’t get one. I asked the teacher where mine was and she said I must have failed it but I knew I’d swum the length of the pool and my classmates backed me up. She made enquiries and the swimming teacher told her I hadn’t done it so no 25m certificate for me.
My teacher then very generously offered to assess me as it turned out she was a qualified swimming teacher too (no idea why she hadn’t done it in the first place). So, I went along to the baths once a week for a few weeks- she insisted I trained and couldn’t just do the test right away and then I got tested and passed. I remember really not liking being alone with my teacher even though I liked her as a teacher (odd I know) but it was very good of her to do this for me.’
-Own-Lecture251
13.
‘When I was in high school we had a substitute art teacher. When handing it in, I explicitly told her I put my homework at the back of the book. She gave me an after school detention for failing to hand in my homework. I did the detention (and was mortified). We had to write an essay on why we were there and what we would do differently in the future.
Sassy 13 year old me wrote “I’m here because I apparently didn’t do my homework even though it was in the back of the book and I told Miss B where it was. I wouldn’t do anything differently in the future because I did nothing wrong in the first place” I’m now more annoyed with myself for not taking more of a stand.’
-Ill-Explanation-5059
14.
‘A bully in my class stole my pencil case, I complained to the teacher who then instead of getting it back from him punished me for not having a pencil case for class. I was about 7-8 years old and ever since then I lost any respect for most teachers, but I still have problems standing up for myself sometimes.’
–Proper_Instruction67
15.
‘I was in the school choir, and the teacher was picking soloists. She’d call you forward, feed you the line of a song, then play the piano accompaniment.
When she got to me, she gave me the beginning of the verse – but started playing the chorus. So I sang the line, faltered on realising it was all wrong, and she said, “No, NEXT.” Everyone laughed.
Dreadful woman, she stabbed her husband and went to prison.’
-RadioDorothy
16.
‘Our PE teachers were atrocious – if you weren’t good at football, basketball, or netball you were pointless. I was labelled useless because oddly enough it’s quite difficult to play ball sports which rely on accuracy when you wear glasses but aren’t allowed to wear them in PE!
The irony being that I was the most accomplished individual athlete in my whole year by miles if you just looked at my extracurricular swimming. I was on the podium at national competitions. But they never knew or cared and I’m still a bit salty all these years later! I look back and feel so bad for the little girl who was actually doing so well and trying so hard but was made to feel so shitty about herself.’
-LetFelicityFly
17.
‘I was once called in from playing at lunch time by the head dinner lady. She walked me over to a table, which underneath was a pile of ham sandwiches dismantled and strewn across the floor.
She then proceeded to tell me off and lecture me about throwing food around (I hadn’t) and that she would report me to the head teacher, who would tell my mum and put me on some sort of record for bad behaviour.
Me, a relatively bright 8 year old, asked what evidence she had for said crime.
All she had was that some grass had told her I’d had ham in my packed lunch.
I ascertained that no one had actually seen where these sandwiches came from and queried how many other children had ham for lunch.
She had nothing.
It’s not affected me at all either, 30 years later.’
-ajame5
READ MORE
Source Reddit, Image Wikimedia Commons, Screengrab
