Teachers of reddit, what's the most immature or unprofessional thing you've done because you didn't like a student?

I once caught a student turning in essays I knew her mother was writing... and then her mother blatantly plagiarized an essay. As an opportunity to make up the assignment for a 50% grade, the student (ie mother) had to write a 10 page essay with 15 academic sources (the original was a 3pg essay with 3 sources). I knew the mother would slave-away at the thing, and she did. I can’t stand parents like her.
— WonderCounselor

Had a kid steal my pen once. Kids at my grade level don't use pens yet, and the pen was the exact same brand, style, and color that I always use (I teach in a small school and no other teacher uses that exact pen). Kid said that he "found it in the hallway." Little shit knew that I couldn't prove that he stole it, so I just ignored him and went on with the lesson. Fast forward 10-15 minutes and I hear a shout from him. He had been chewing on the pen and it leaked all into his mouth. He then tries to wipe it out using his (brand new) shirt. Shirt gets completely ruined. I couldn't help but laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation. His sister is a year younger than him and couldn't wait to tell me the next day that the boy got his rear end tore up for ruining his new shirt. For the next month or so, whenever he didn't have a pencil I would offer to let him use one of my pens. He never took me up on the offer.
— Honkey_McCracker

Kid was/is a sociopath. Would purposefully do things to hurt other kids emotionally. Lied constantly, including to his mother in front of my face and when called out on it, the mom laughed. She always defends his shittiness. Kid even accused my amazingly patient, super sweet friend of slamming him against a wall the year she had him. Anyway, in 17 years of teaching he is the only child I have even remotely come close to hating. After several months of his awfulness, I started waiting for days he was absent to do extra special lessons and activities that were extremely fun, just so he'd miss out on them. Then when he came in the next day, I'd have the kids write in their journals what they learned about and what they enjoyed about the activity just so he would know he missed it.
— quickwitqueen

I videotaped a student and played it for the kid's mom because she didn't want to believe her child was the problem.
— estrogyn

I didn't mind the student but his parent wouldn't return some forms I needed signed. It was his IEP which was made at THEIR request, so the fact that they wouldn't sign and return it so he could receive the services THEY were convinced he needed, drove me mad. Now, someone had donated some kazoos to be given as treasure box prizes; which I had laughed at and put away. However, I decided this kid deserved to have a kazoo. I put yet another reminder slip in his homework folder and sent him home with the kazoo (with full permission to tell his parents exactly who he had gotten it from). The IEP was returned signed the next day,
— emera_leigh

I remember my 3rd grade teacher screaming at the top of her lungs "I DONT GET PAID ENOUGH FOR THIS" because a student she was working one on one with wouldn't listen.
— joesteve128

As a TA at large public uni, teaching chemistry... I reminded my students several times, each semester, and put it in the syllabus \- you can email me 24/7, but I will only respond between the hours of 7:30AM and 10PM. You need to work on things \(homework assignments, lab reports, whatever\) in advance. If you email me at 10:15PM and expect an answer on the thing that's due tomorrow at 7:45AM, it sucks to be you, since your lack of planning is not my emergency. Every damn semester I'd have a handful of idjits that would throw fits and repeatedly email me after my cutoff hour \(as in, FEY, WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING ME?!?? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ANSWER EMAILS type of responses\). *Every damn time*. So for any email that I got after 10PM that was snitty/should have been sent considerably earlier/is in the syllabus, the question that got asked would get read out loud \(with no names\) in the next class period, which was often after the assignment was due, to get answered by the rest of the class. After a few times of hearing their classmates ask why the question was even asked, usually the impatient students in question would get the hint.
— feykitty

I have been teaching is Asia for awhile now. This was during my 3 years in South Korea. I had this class of 3 middle school boys. It was one of my favourite classes, but they could be little shitheads sometimes. One day they wouldn't listen or work, they kept speaking Korean ( not allowed in my class) and one kept throwing eraser bits at my face. So with 15 minutes left I gave them the silent treatment. I just opened my schedule and made random notes. Atfirst they just started drawing on the board and having fun, but soon they were scared and tried to get my attention. When the bell rang I grabbed my stuff and left. The next time I taught them I walked into class and they had written Sorry Rabiwimps Teacher! On the whiteboard and were all bowing to me. It was adorable and I miss that class.
— Rabiwimps

I crop dust obnoxious students while I'm walking around the room and lecturing.
— Handsonanatomist

I don't know that he didn't like her, but my teacher had a pretty funny reaction for one of my classmates in middle school. She would not stop whining and it was starting to get really annoying. The teacher casually went over to his desk, said he had something for her, and flung a tiny object right into her lap. It was a baby's pacifier. The whole class lost it and fortunately she took it pretty well. The whining eased up for a while after that.
— queenofthegrapefruit

Mom was a history teacher. Get a new student mid year from Mexico named Alberto. Tried giving him schoolwork assignments, call on him, he always replied "No se." which means "I don't know" in Spanish. Frustrated by weeks of this, my mom vents to other teachers on her team about how the kid could possibly get a grade if he can't speak English, and they are all stunned. "Uh, Mrs.XXX, Alberto speaks English. He's been fooling you". Embarrassed she gives him an assignment the next day and he pulls the same stunt, "No se". She takes a giant red marker and draws a huge F on his paper that takes up the whole page. Looks him in the eye and says, "Do you comprende now?" Rest of the year he was an A student in there.
— Americasycho

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