School is supposed to be a place of growth, curiosity, and intellectual discovery, and for the most part, teachers are the unsung heroes making that happen on a budget that would make a grown adult cry. But then there are the others. The ones who confused authority with power. The ones who took a question as a personal challenge. The ones who assigned three hours of homework on a Friday afternoon.
This list is for every student who sat in a classroom thinking, "I don't think this is legal," and turned out to be completely right. It is a tribute to the passive-aggressive sticky notes, the public humiliations disguised as teaching moments, and the inexplicable grudges held against 11-year-olds. We see you. We survived them, too. Barely, but still.
#41 My College Professor Says I Cheated On A Homework Assignment With Bizarre Claims
So, I’m a college sophomore studying mechanical engineering. My dynamics professor went on a long rant at the start of the semester about how we are only hurting ourselves by using Chegg and stuff like that. Okay, I thought to myself, that’s fine cause I’ve never used those sources before. Should be good to go.
Fast forward to today, and I get my homework grade back. All good except for one problem that I got 0 points on. I’d normally be fine with that, but I saw that the comment accused me of using online homework solvers, so I decided to send my professor an email.
He responds with the text seen above, accusing me of the most FAR-REACHING claims of cheating I have ever seen. This got me extremely angry cause I’m not a cheater. I had a big, angry response written out, but I thought I should cool off and see what other people think before responding. (And yes, the irony of getting help online for this is not lost on me.)
My professor accused me of cheating because I used some strategies he didn’t teach in class.
Fast forward to today, and I get my homework grade back. All good except for one problem that I got 0 points on. I’d normally be fine with that, but I saw that the comment accused me of using online homework solvers, so I decided to send my professor an email.
He responds with the text seen above, accusing me of the most FAR-REACHING claims of cheating I have ever seen. This got me extremely angry cause I’m not a cheater. I had a big, angry response written out, but I thought I should cool off and see what other people think before responding. (And yes, the irony of getting help online for this is not lost on me.)
My professor accused me of cheating because I used some strategies he didn’t teach in class.
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12points
#42 I Hate My Business Teachers. All Of Them
These 5 business teachers at my school run DECA, the only competitive club I actually like because I'm bad at sports (skill issue, I know), but they don't even TRY to hide how much they don't want me there.
Never was rude to these people (I’m a quiet kid, so I’m usually just chilling in the background). Never missed an assignment in one of their classes. And it's not like I'm bad at DECA— I made it to nationals last year AND this year.
Just got sent an email after missing school today (it's Monday, and we came back from the states on Friday) telling me to send an apology letter to all my teachers for being sick. This has literally NEVER been a policy at my school.
I had my parents email her about it, and she DOUBLED DOWN?
I’m incredibly irritated, and I’m definitely not writing those letters because I have 10 different teachers.
Never was rude to these people (I’m a quiet kid, so I’m usually just chilling in the background). Never missed an assignment in one of their classes. And it's not like I'm bad at DECA— I made it to nationals last year AND this year.
Just got sent an email after missing school today (it's Monday, and we came back from the states on Friday) telling me to send an apology letter to all my teachers for being sick. This has literally NEVER been a policy at my school.
I had my parents email her about it, and she DOUBLED DOWN?
I’m incredibly irritated, and I’m definitely not writing those letters because I have 10 different teachers.
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11points
#43 Don't Try To Justify This (My 11th-Grade Homework)
I was thoroughly annoyed that this was my night's waste of time. My teacher threatened to call my parents when I poked fun at it.
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11points
#45 The Teacher Marked My Son’s Homework As Incorrect. I Disagree
I feel like this is so cut and dry, but here we go. My son is in first grade and just switched to a new, better school in our area. Last night we did his math homework together. Today, it came back marked as incorrect.
I am so irked by this because I feel like when you look at the example at the top of the page, it’s clear that this is how you’re supposed to do it. Not to mention that the size of the blank spaces beside the red and yellow counters clearly insinuates something longer belonging there than a one or two-digit number. I know it’s a stupid hill to die on, but... Am I crazy here?
I am so irked by this because I feel like when you look at the example at the top of the page, it’s clear that this is how you’re supposed to do it. Not to mention that the size of the blank spaces beside the red and yellow counters clearly insinuates something longer belonging there than a one or two-digit number. I know it’s a stupid hill to die on, but... Am I crazy here?
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10points
#46 My POV When The Teacher Announced, 27 Minutes Before Class, That We Would Be Studying Online Instead Of Offline
If you zoom in, you can vaguely see the end of this stream of motorists.
The road is not even a one-way street; it's a two-way one. There are just too many people coming from one direction that you pretty much can't even go back in the opposite direction.
And I ain't even close to either the class or my house, I was literally 5km away from both of them.
The road is not even a one-way street; it's a two-way one. There are just too many people coming from one direction that you pretty much can't even go back in the opposite direction.
And I ain't even close to either the class or my house, I was literally 5km away from both of them.
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10points
#47 The Teacher Gave Me A 4-Page Worksheet, Saying It Was The Answer To One Question In The Exam
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10points
#49 The Teacher Knows My Daughter Is Being Treated For ADHD. Mark Her Down For Playing Tic-Tac-Toe
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10points
#50 My 8-Year-Old Nephew's First Day Of School. Apparently, The Teacher's Ability To Teach Isn't Graded On Their Own Intelligence
The kid didn't write any of that. That was the teacher.
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10points
#53 Our School Added Lock Systems Only Unlockable By Teachers, So Students Can't Close Classroom Doors
We have no idea why they made this unnecessary change; there was no explanation.
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9points
#54 My Daughters 4th Grade Math Teacher, Everyone. More Concerned About The Correct Way To Say Laptop Computers Than The Answer Being Right
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9points
#55 Our Teacher Took 5 Students And Is Making A "Private Lesson" With Them, Leaving The Other Kids Unattended
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9points
#56 My Teacher Ruined My Phone
I'm so mad and I can't really do anything about it, she forcibly took it from my hands and put another phone of top of it (an iPhone 14 if I remember correctly), they got rubbed together and it left this huge scratch, yes that's a scratch doesn't wipe off, I saved up for this phone and I loved it, now she ruined it.
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9points
#57 My Teacher Is Making Our Class, And Only Our Class Does A TikTok Dance
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9points
#60 I Live In Turkey. I Argued With My English Teacher About This, But She Still Said This Was Correct
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8points