TheNightCreature
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I had a bad maths teacher this year which caused me to leave school, So i was wondering whether anyone here is or has been bullied or intimidated by a teacher ?
I can say yes, there have been many instances where I have been bullied or humiliated by teachers.
In 6th grade my English teacher noticed how bashful I was and singled me and another boy out during class, writing out grammar examples in sentences on the board about us being a "couple" causing the class to oooh and joke about this particular boy and I in and outside the classroom. Neither of us were actually interested in the other.
In 8th grade, I had a German teacher who picked on me more than anyone else. This was at around age 13-14, when my social anxiety started getting severe; whenever I was merely called on I would stutter and choke and blush and he realized this. Once our class broke into groups and we had to write a German story or something and he decided for whatever reason it would be a good idea to have only one person from the class be picked at random and the rest of the class would criticize it. Sure enough with my luck, he pulled my name out to read and I remember standing up in front of the class reading that idiotic story. You could tell by the tone of his voice every time he interrupted my reading that he was absolutely reveling in my misery, how I was shaking, and how I had this inability to articulate myself.
In 10th grade I got my wisdom teeth removed and hadn't attended school for 2 days, and as I walked into my algebra II class my teacher was handing out a quiz. Of course I didn't know about it because I was absent; after he handed the quiz to me I told him I hadn't been in school for the past few days so it was unrealistic for me to take it and he proceeded to call me "irresponsible" and "ridiculous" in front of the entire class. This particular teacher was also my homeroom teacher, and I later avoided homeroom that day. I barely talked in that homeroom, but after that situation I made sure to never utter a single word to him. What bothered me the most is how this guy always badgered my outgoing friend with questions in that homeroom behind my back asking "is something wrong with her?" For all I know this questioning could've taken place in front of several other people in my homeroom.
In my junior year of high school, I had this psychology teacher who basically did the same thing my 6th grade teacher did to me, made me pretend along with another boy in the class that we were "married" and had to do some kind of psychology marriage/personality analysis. The entire class made a huge deal out of this, booming with laughter and my teacher wouldn't stop interrogating us both and making me roleplay it out even though it was incredibly obvious how much I hated the attention.
After my freshman year of college I decided to take an EMT course and the professor picked on me after I had a deer in headlights moment during an icebreaker. Basically during this icebreaker you stated your answer and picked on someone else. Another student picked on me because I was the only name she remembered and I had no time to think of what I wanted to say, and basically made no sense when I spoke. The prof lectured me in front of the class saying I had to be more prepared/give a well thought out answer next time. :/ (I dropped out of this course after the first day because I was so humiliated; I actually switched out of being pre-med totally to engineering after realizing it better fit my personality/lack of social skills, thank goodness.)
Sorry this was such a long rant/story telling. I've never actually had classmates outright bully me on their own, but teachers definitely have and are the main reason I've developed a fear of speaking up in class, and one of the main reasons I have social anxiety.
^ Exactly. That same teacher did that too. He did it to everybody. I was scared to talk to him enough, I didn't ask for a single thing from him.Side note, but I hated it when I asked "can I go to the bathroom" to be told "I don't know, can you? May you go to the bathroom is correct." Obviously you know what my question is asking, screw you.
/rant over