Hey Pandas, What’s The Worst Advice A Teacher Has Ever Given You? (Closed)

A teacher once told me I was "overreacting". I had just been stabbed in the arm by a plastic knife. I just walked out of the room with him yelling after me to come back. When I got to the office, they yelled at me for getting my eleven-year-old blood all over their floor. Madam, I was a child that had just been stabbed. I ended up going to one of the older students in the hall and borrowing his phone to call my mom. He and his friends were very nice, they got me paper towels to clean my arm and sat with me until my parents came.

In fifth grade, I was bullied continuously for being the new kid-- as well as one who was very obviously being neglected and abused at home. When I came in from recess angry from being tormented the entire time, my teacher told me I "had a chip on my shoulder.".

When I was 15, my father broke my nose. I was still being neglected: not allowed to bathe more than once a week, made to wear outgrown and out-of-style clothing (because it was cheap). I had two gorgeous shiners from the broken nose on top of all that as well as my increasing stony silence in class. Not a single "responsible adult" took me aside or tried to intervene.

I will be furious about this for the rest of my life, not least because continual events like that made me unable to trust humans or maintain long-term relationships of any kind.

But I guess I'm just "angry" and "bitter", right?

"Your results in the (foreign language) mock exam were not good, we advise you not to pursue further study in this subject".

After leaving school with top marks in that language, I went to the country where it is spoken and put myself through university there.

'Walk it off' - After I broke my ankle.

Catholic school in the early 1990s. I developed VERY early. A group of boys would grab at my chest, snap my bra, flip my skirt up and try to pull at my underwear.
When I got the courage to speak up to a teacher she told me to put on a sweater and ants under my skirt and pray. In May. In a school with no AC. Great advice
I learned at a very young age about victim blaming.

One teacher told me "if you don't get this, then you're dumb." which is incredibly rude and unnecessary. I didn't get it. Guess I'm dumb.

My gym teacher made us do planks to entire hour, and were werent allowed to get up. The class was yelling him to make it stop and that it hurt real bad and we were all crying but he did nothing. The only one allowed to get up was the teachers pet which just stared at us and smiled as we were in pain.
When we were able to go to the next period he told us "suck it up. It cant hurt that bad." When I count even make my elbows straight anymore. Before you say that I could have just not done the planks, he said he would give us detention. Yea he was reported to the office by the whole grade an he got fired

"Don't worry if you don't understand. Girls just can't do math." Male math teacher, circa 1995, in an American public high school.

My PE teacher. "You're not going to the nurse if you can still walk." I had nearly broken my arm.

I had just gotten glasses and my teacher asked me why I didn’t tell anyone I needed them. I wouldn’t have known because I didn’t have anything to compare it to.

"Sit down. Torah will make you feel better."

When I, a seven-year-old, told her that I'd run into someone at recess and fallen down, and that my head had hurt 'since I woke up.'

Yep. I had a concussion.

"You're not allowed to ask questions for the rest of the day" after I asked her if I could use the bathroom in 1st grade

You should not even try to go to vet school because you are female and you are only a B+ student.

When Iasked a math teacher if he could tutor me in what I missed after hospital he just refused

In junior high I told my history teacher I wanted to become an archeologist. I thought he would react positive. Instead he looked at me, paused, and then said: 'you know you'll have to study really hard and really long to achieve that, don't you? I don't know if that is a carreer for you..'
I was dissapointed. I believed him because I was twelve and he was my HISTORY teacher (he would know, right?).
From that moment I believed it was not for me and I didn't pursue this carreer.
Today I'm 34 years old, I (almost) have a Masters degree in Social Work I'm very pleased with that, but to this day I very often regret that I didn't follow my dream and I still want to become an archeologist.

In 1982, when I was 17, one of the kids in my Vo-Tech Diesel Mechanics class was killed in an accident at his after-school job.

The day of his funeral, our teacher called us into the classroom and started his remarks with, "As hard as this is, if you kids could see into the future and see how hard it's going to be, a lot of you would kill yourselves right now."

I was the only girl in the class and I don't remember anything else he said...I just remember the pain on the faces of all those boys who refused to cry and being glad I could.

Not me but my friend. In 5th grade she made a few minor mistakes (missed a comma and had some misspelled words) on an essay that took 5 1/2 hours and he just ripped it in half in her face and when she walked away I heard him whisper "dumb" under him breath. He also did other stuff like that to other students and got fired at the end of the year when a few students finally emailed the principal about it all

"Don't study drama, that's for prostitutes." I'm currently an art and drama specialist.

I have a skin disorder (ichthyosis vulgaris) and up until about early adulthood, I didn't sweat much. We'd have to go outside on very hot days for PE. The teacher wouldn't allow us water or to go inside to get a drink from the fountain. Not even to go to the washroom. Because I had a hard time sweating I would overheat quickly. Every hot day I would get symptoms of heat exhaustion: dizziness, disoriented, weak, out of breath, then I'd start feeling a bit cooler. Each time I'd be begging the PE teacher to go inside to cool off and she refused saying I'm fine and just making an excuse to not participate. By the end of gym class I'd look so flush and so tired. You would think gym teachers would understand how serious heat exhaustion and heat stroke is. I'm pretty sure I was close to heat stroke.

one of my freinds got punished just because he wasn't siting up straight. i said "it was ok" and the teacher said that it wasn't. he was crying, why did she say that?!?!?!