Students of reddit, what is something your teacher has done that made you think "Wow, how hasn't this person been fired yet?"

1. He brought a thermos with more whiskey than coffee to work every day. By early afternoon he'd be a reeking, slurring mess.
   — Captain_Vegetable


2. Had a Human Anatomy and Physiology teacher that said you get muscle cramps because your muscles dry up and rub against your bones.
   — VIP_KILLA


3. My sophomore algebra teacher was known in the school for being the biggest asshole but he was tenured so he knew he was safe. After one particularly brutal test he must’ve gotten some complaints from the students because in the next class he handed out articles to everyone about how self-esteem doesn’t exist and it doesn’t matter
   — Espeon8910






4. A history class in 7th grade. Everyday he would sit outside the classroom before the bell would ring and talk to the teacher next door until it was 10min. into the period. Then he would turn on the news and say, "History is happening around us. Learn it as it happens". Then he would snack on Little Debbies and read the newspaper for an hour.
   — DublinChap


5. When I was in culinary school, first trimester and the class was Stocks, Sauces, and Soups. The instructor was clueless. This is a pretty prestigious culinary school and he was teaching us things like using powder mix to make demi glace to save time, making roux with flour and water so there wouldn't be added fat, and that for added flavor, when making vegetable stock, throw in bones and scrap meat from any given animal. We would say "yeah, but that's not veggie stock, that's chicken/beef stock" and he would just get pissy. He was fired after that trimester and we got to take that class again.
   — 5meterhammer


6. Didn't happen in my class, but in a friend's class an elderly music teacher got so angry she picked up a chair and flung it across the room. She was widely known to be a horror to her students, and wasn't even fired after that.
   — xvi49






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   — [deleted]


8. Made a rule that no one could wear those sweats that had buttons all the way up the leg in class - no idea why. Then proceeded to rip them off the first student who wore them to his class. A female student, who wasn't wearing shorts under them. In front of an almost full classroom and a hallway full of students headed to their next class.
   — EatLard


9. I had this English teacher in high school who doesn't like taking criticism or anything that involves telling her that she is wrong. So during halfway through the semester, our teacher decided to post our marks. My friend and I checked to see what kind of mark we got with the bullshit we've written all semester. I got 75% while my friend got a whopping 1081%. My friend was confused while I was wondering what kind of bullshit did he write to get that mark. Obviously it was a mistake so we decided to let the teacher know about it. When we did, she started to throw a fit and yelling at us that she made no mistakes. By the time she started yelling, the whole class already noticed the 1081% that my friend got, and decided not to say anything since we all knew she wouldn't listen. By the time class ended, the whole class decided to give my friend a pat on the back, mentioning how he is gonna get a full ride scholarship and congratulating him for getting the highest possible mark in existence. That 1081% stayed that way for the rest of the semester and my friend decided to fuck around to see how low of a mark he can get before the semester ended. By the time we got our report cards for the semester, the teacher finally corrected the mistake and due to my friends fuckery, he fortunately got a passing grade of 53%. He honestly didn't care about the grade but was slightly disappointed that the teacher wasn't prideful enough to leave the 1081%. Too bad. I bet he could've gotten a nice scholarship with that grade.
   — ItsElloz






10. Art teacher. Called black and white primary colours. Pronounced gouache 'goo arch ahy' Threw a kid against a wall for backtalking her and damn near broke her arm.
    — BillieRubenCamGirl


11. When my teacher decided to spend the last month of the quarter in Iceland on vacation without telling us he was leaving. He then decided he didn't want to grade any assignments before final grades were due to the school so he gave every student a B in the class regardless of if they did any work or not. Edit: words
    — ztwunder


12. When a fight broke out in the classroom our maths teacher screamed in the most panicked, fearful screech "SOMEONE GET A TEACHER"
    — OIiver