I'm infuriated that the teacher still had his job after that fuck-up. I know my mother would have gone straight to the principal and said, "He's fired, or the school gets a lawsuit that WE WILL WIN." What's sad about all of these stories is that all the teachers stayed working.
@@The_real_Arovor a kid almost died and it's not common sense to strip him of the power that allowed that to almost happen because he was an ignorant shitweasel?
@@bl4ckhearts802He learned his lesson and changed completely. Should he have to pay for the damages caused? Absolutely, but in most countries he would be prosecuted automatically and would have had to pay fines anyway, and there most likely would have been some additional training etc. But to uproot and destroy his entire life because of one major fuck up is completely unnecessary.
spite. if you don’t want me to deal with my medical condition ill sure as hell make YOU deal with it instead. and you get to feel like shit for almost offing a child on top of that.
I don't have kids yet, but I will make sure they know to notify, not ask, when they are going somewhere to seek medical attention, if they know the teacher can or will not help them for any reason. A teacher who physically prevents a child from leaving the room is guilty of kidnapping and/or false imprisonment, depending on the jurisdiction.
@@vickymc9695 in what day and age in the last 10 years did students give a shit about what a teacher told them when it involves a medical emergency such as this? is your wellbeing and possible life, less important than a teachers orders to refuse letting you go and get your life saving device? especially at a grade where you are literally self aware of the consequences of not getting it?
I was in the gym with a friend who had asthma. It was when inhalers were required to be in the nurses office. So my friend started having problems breathing and I asked the teacher if I could take her to the nurses office. The teacher told her to walk it off. Well, at that point, I decided I hated that teacher and did what I could to annoy her. We had a rule that if you couldn't run the mile in like 10 minutes or less, you were basically punished and had to walk the rest of the class. We also were not allowed to talk to each other. Well, I started singing, and she wanted me to stop. I told her I was not talking to anyone. So everyone else started singing, and we did it for a couple of weeks to piss her off.
The first story is awful. My cousin died from an asthma attack aged 18. Her parents had to give permission to turn off her life support system. It is almost 40 years later and they are still traumatised by the experience. The teacher should have been prosecuted for their behaviour
The first story actually got me ticked off. Unfortunately there are teachers who don't believe asthma is a real thing and that kids use it as an excuse to ditch class. I'm an asthmatic as well and know how bad asthma can get. When I was in kindergarten I started having an asthma attack and the teacher actually had the gull to mock me and even said, "Look at her, class! Let's all "cough" like her!" And even laughed at me until one of the kids noticed that I was really having trouble breathing. Needless to say my mom was was called and had to use my nebulizer and when she found out what happened she was rightly ticked off and I was taken out of the class and placed into a new one with a teacher who understood about my asthma.
sounds to me like the same kind of idiots who believe that allergies arent real to. i was told in gradeschool that i had asthma as well but i never had symptoms of it. i was given an inhaler for it but it never really did anything. i doubt i even had asthma, but the dollar store doctor they got for me was also convinced i had ADHD and forced me on pills to. so not only do people need to be careful of teachers but also doctors to.
I used to have an inhaler sometimes when I was in elementary school, and one time I got into trouble for having it on me, because apparently any inhalers needed to be kept in the nurse's office. Luckily my mom stood up for me. For one, I was an elementary schooler, I had no idea an inhaler qualified as a drug. But more importantly, _any_ kid who has to use an inhaler likely can't afford to waste time trying to get to the nurse's office to get it if they need to use it, especially if their asthma is severe.
It makes no sense to keep an inhaler at the office anyway. I understand not wanting opioids or something out there, but no one's going to use an inhaler to get high! It's such a stupid policy, and it's life-threatening.
My husband called a hospital because I was beginning an anaphylaxis attack. He was told it was probably just sun stroke. I ended up in ER in full anaphylaxis.
“If you respect me, I’ll respect you” does not mean “if you don’t treat me like an authority, I won’t treat you like a human.” People demanding respect better know how to give it.
Words that can mean different things are a real favorite of manipulators and egotists. They know exactly what they're saying and think no one else is smart enough to notice.
I thought this looked familiar and it was the qoate from the perspective of "respect" the full qoate was if I remember correctly "something people see respect as being treated as a person and see respect as being treated as an authority, and those who are used to being treated as an authority think 'if you won't respect me I won't respect you' and what they mean is 'if you won't treat me like an authority than I won't treat you like a person' and they think they're being fair, but they aren't"
I have had type 1 diabetes since I was a teen during my freshman year in college. 1966 to be exact. I became a teacher and I knew so many teachers who believed that ALL student health conditions were fake. I had so many students put into my classes (high school) with major health diseases. One was waiting for a heart transplant, a few were on kidney dialysis, many with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease,, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. I was called by a student to another class because the "teacher" believed a student was faking when her blood sugar went very low and she fainted. That teacher did NOT loose her job. I protected my kids and made sure they were safe whether in my class or another class. I ALWAYS BELIEVED THE KIDS AND PARENTS AND MAD SURE THEY HAD 504 PLANS.
Some people really think their ""authority"" makes them lord over everything. Like dude, allergies and asthma attacks are not subject to your will!! Let this kid get their medicine, damn.
Asthma story. I know the feeling. NOT only did my teachers ignore my issues with asthma and allergies but the Assistant principal AND school nurse gatekeep me from meds as needed and prescribed for me. Ended up in ER multiple times.
A kid in grade seven class died during outdoor PE class. He had an asthma excuse not to run, but while the teacher wasn't looking the other kids bullied him into running. Not my class, but the whole school was either stunned or furious at the kids.
Our school seemed to no longer have wrestling as one of the activities we had to cover in class after this: I wasn’t really a rough housing boy. We were partnered by weight for the duration of the wrestling course. The kid I was partnered with was, kind of a bully, and like purposefully causing pain. I told the teacher repeatedly I wanted to be paired up with another partner because this kid was actively trying to hurt me. I’m told “don’t let him.” One day, the teacher was going over moves with a couple other kids not paying attention. The kid I’m partnered with trapped me in a position where he proceeded to give me a pile driver on to nothing but one of those thin blue mats. The next thing I knew the teacher rushed over and was looking over me, concerned. When it was clear I didn’t have a concussion or neck injury he asked the kid “what were you thinking?” Kid didn’t respond. Next PE class, we were in a new activity and never did wrestling again as a class activity in future years.
Jerk in "authority": [Do this.] Me: No. Jerk: I said [do this]...! Me: No. Jerk: I won't ask again! Me: _Thank_ you, your finally shutting up is appreciated...
One of my mom's coworkers lost her freaking job for contacting a non-custodial parent. When I was teaching, part of each student file was a list of family members in order of contact priority and a list of family members who are NOT to be contacted. That was part of the basic paperwork for every single student. I can't imagine a school not having that info for every kid and sticking to it with freaking limpet tenacity. Dad should have gone to the superintendent about that call.
Yeah, with the context clues that they don't have contact with the mother 'for good reasons', this screams it went legal, which probably means restraining order. That principal coulda gotten a hell of a lot worse than a non-perfect senior test score if the kid gave a damn enough in the moment.
Yeah, when the parent are at war, the teacher's communication work doubbles. I've been arrogantly upset - but then I find out that the mother is bending over back wards to keep Dad in the dark, so he can look like an ignorant carefree "Looser"... I can copy, paste and forward.... EVERYTHING... to Dad... If he shows serious interest in his kids, and her interest has shifted to stealing love from her own children to just to spite him... I'm happy to copy, paste, forward and send - what ever...
Every year parents sign a "it's okay to phograph my child, and put it on the shcools webside formular". Easy peacy... until one single mum shows signs of fear/worries Oh, shit! She's semi underground - protected adress, secret phone number and what have we got? You never, ever forget, even for a split second - among 1,000 other pupils - 75% of the children are from divorced families - but one child lives in danger from being stolen from Mum - or vice versa.. these days 😉😂 Danish school are OPEN to the public. ANYone can just walk cross the schoolyard to reach the offices. No security, no metal detectors, no nothing. Just eyes.... teachers' eyes! 👁👁Very sharp eyes... 👀 But at college they didn't teach us how to handle/cope with parent's problems Just how to teach and deal with the kids' problems 🙄
@@ane-louisestampe7939I'm sorry but who are you to make an uninformed judgment on whether or not the limited or no contact with one of the parents is justified? You don't have the right or knowledge to determine what's best and if you feel like something is wrong, you go to the correct authorities with your concerns and not make the judgment on your own.
Surely if the teachers are so convinced the medical condition is fake they can spend 5 minutes going to the nurse/medical office and ask does "student" have x condition, nurse looks in file, finds notes from parents and doctors and says they do or find nothing and says they don't, not assume till you need to call an ambulance.
Problem is, it’s not just teachers thinking a student is faking having a condition. Some people think **the whole condition is fake/a lie** Like, they’re the “Allergies don’t exist” sort of people.
The Teacher was an idiot for thinking that Asthma is fake, the fact his face turned white when he noticed another student checking to see if OP was breathing and said he wasn't was priceless. Gotta love Entitled Teachers being put in their place.
@@RicIngh No it doesn't the whole point of giving this information to the school is so the child's teachers and other necessary staff (like the nurse) are informed of it. The child's homeroom teacher's at least need's to be informed of such medical problems at the start of the year so they can act in the instances it happens.
This, he was clearly on the principal's shit list and would get axed if he fucked up again in the slightest. I'm assume he learned nothing and despised the op for getting him in trouble
I'm glad OP was OK after that attack, but in no way should that teacher still be allowed in the classroom, and should be sued. Being protective of OP after that doesn't make up for the fact OP's life was endangered by his arrogance. A compotent teacher would have asked another student to accompany OP to the office just in case there were problems along the way.
Agreed teachers that don't believe in medical conditions need to not be employed at schools. I have epilepsy and the stories I have of teachers not believing I'm having a seizure even when flopping on the ground is sad. The teacher my mom hated most was the one who said I needed to be put on ADHD drugs since I had that and was trying to get attention. She didn't shut up about that even after we explained that the ADHD drugs she was talking about would essentially be a death sentence.
@@phoebegradert9790 😂 I love the teacher's reasoning, there. She knows the "attention deficit" part means YOUR attention, right? Not needing other people's attention on you? I guess if she's that ignorant on epilepsy, there's no reason to expect her to care any more about understanding ADHD.
Story 4: A lot of teachers seem to be bullies that never grew out of that phase, just turned to positions of (mostly perceived) power, because singling out people and demanding respect when she doesn't even give it, it gives that vibes of a bully. That kind of mentality doesn't belong in a school
Doesn't belong in healthcare either yet they tend to be there too The amount of staff that get called out for unprofessional and unhelpful behavior is disgusting.
Mr. R should be fired and have his teaching credentials revoked permanently. He should never be allowed to work with kids again in any capacity. 😮 Story three.... I never "walked" for graduation. I literally set foot on school grounds three times in Senior Year, to sign in, for graduation photo and to sign out the last day. I spent that whole 12th year taking an aircraft mechanics course at the Vo-Tech school, airport location. I had finished my course credits in 11th grade, and the 12th was all elective. They mailed my diploma to my home. 😊
What does this "walk" thing even mean? Not everybody is from the US or Britain or wherever that is used and it would have been nice to hear at least a short explanation in the video.
@@Milkymalk Basically "Walking at Graduation" means you attend the Ceremony (usually held in the School Auditorium/Gymnasium) where a mock Diploma (usually a rolled up piece of paper held closed by a ribbon) is handed to you when your name is called and you walk to the front of the room to shake the hand of the presenter...
My husband didn’t attend his high school graduation either. He got special permission to go to college a year early and use his first year course credits also as his senior year credits. He went to college a year early and never looked back.
Before they go saying that the teachers should have known the teacher probably did. The teacher was probably informed about the students condition but is probably one of those types that doesn't believe diabetes exists
Story 1: speaking as someone who has asthma, I really want to serve Mr R a knuckle sandwich after his blatant disregard for a student’s life and disrespect towards OP
They almost need to make it a mandatory test to see if teachers don't believe in medical conditions or are anti Vax if they are either than they should not be employed at the public school. They can go get a job at the schools that agree with their views
@@phoebegradert9790 Seriously. It's so much worse for physical conditions, but ridiculously common with mental and neurological conditions. I once watched a teacher give detention to a kid with Tourettes because his involuntary movements were "distracting the class." Like, man, he CAN'T stop, and he's also sitting in the back of the room deliberately so that nobody will find him distracting.
@quiestinliteris i had to deal with a teacher that said I was faking my epilepsy and that I was just faking. There were so many incidents where something happened and she still denied it.
I'm asthmatic and I have a neurological condition that causes me to randomly pass out, with no warning... it's why I can't drive. Thankfully, I've never had anyone refuse to let me do whatever I need to do to be safe.
The silence after the senior project story was DEAFENING, literally nothing to say and honestly same!!! Y'all sat here and grilled me about this and held that punishment like I care about it and then decided to let me walk anyway?? I would've taken those tickets and handed them out to people that needed extras and STILL not attended the graduation
I'm Autistic, and I absolutely hated ceremonies. Missing my own graduation would have been a dream if it wasn't for the benefit of my relatives showing up to celebrate it. Still, its funny to image the principal calling OPs name at the ceremony they didn't attend and being confronted with an empty seat.
@@gorilladisco9108 Yeah. Something's fishy about this. Or probably just fiction, because apparently people believe Reddit stories AREN'T real, even when they're plausible
Story #3: I'm still wondering why they called his mom but not his dad. I thought he needed at least one parent in a conference! I would have had my lawyer hold someone accountable if this were my kid!
I had my denture glue taken away. I had to wear a partial senior year and denture glue was the only thing holding it in place. I couldn't eat with it and had to take it out at lunch. After lunch I was pulled aside and asked who knocked my teeth out. I told them that I had to have teeth removed and had a partial that needs denture glue to hold it in place. They told me to either get a partial I could eat with or not wear the partial at all. The only solution that would have worked would be to get tooth implants, which cost $6,000 a piece and I would need at least 10.
... WHY??? Obviously, schools don't get to dictate what medical devices you're allowed to use, but why did anyone consider that one an issue? Just to throw some power around?
@@quiestinliteris they considered anything OTC they didn't provide as a dangerous drug because they can't verify what is in it. One diabetic girl in middle school almost died because they took away her lunch amd refused her insulin to be permitted on school grounds. She ended up in the hospital and the school wanted to expel (actually arrest on criminal charges) who gave her the little bit of candy she ate that kept her blood sugar up enough for her to make it to the hospital. She refused to tell anyone, even her own parents, who gave her the candy until after graduation and I know she didn't tell. Because I'm the one who snuck her the candy and carried her to the nurse. The nurse was almost fired for calling the ambulance because "it was an attempt to incite a panic." We remained good friends until we lost touch after we both had to drop out of college for financial and medical reasons and moved to different areas, but I know she's doing well now.
@@quiestinliteris just how the school district was. In middle school, a diabetic girl had her entire lunch taken away and was denied her insulin. I was told to follow her to the nurse and she collapsed. I caught her and snuck a "fun-sized" candy into her mouth and she could barely chew it. Her head was tilted forward, so she couldn't choke easily. Her blood sugar was so low the meter couldn't register it. The nurse called an ambulance (she was almost fired for that because "she was inciting a panic) and the girl was saved, but was hospitalized for at least a week. The school wanted to k ow who gave her the candy because they were going to have them arrested. They couldn't prove when she got the candy and the security cameras didn't catch when I caught her, so they didn't see me give her the candy. Her parents tried to sue, but the principal said, "She got her fix somehow". She refused to tell anyone, even her own parents, it was me until we graduated.
When I was in high school a kid had absence seizures. It was really creepy to just see it happen, you could be having a conversation, and suddenly he's all glassy eyed and not responding, then 5-10 seconds later he continues on as if nothing happened. Luckily he never got in trouble because someone didn't know or anything, and they got way less common as he got older(age 11 when we started high school they were once or twice a day, by age 16 he had them about twice a month). A few kids didn't know about them and got confused when he'd never have to do PE despite looking fine(school was afraid he'd have a seizure on the field, get hurt, and then not know afterwards), extra time on tests(which he argued was dumb since getting 15 minutes extra because you might possibly miss 10 seconds is overkill), and always have even the meanest teachers be extra nice to him(no one wants to be accused of discriminating against a kid who's excuse for anything can always just be that he must have had a seizure and not noticed things changed/what was said/put two sentences together).
You are lucky that you witnessed absence seizures and not grand mal seizures. I have witnessed ten grand mal seizures in a two-year timeframe. It was very disturbing, but I knew how to handle them.
I guess colleges have changed since the early 90s… if we walked in late the only thing the instructors asked was we walk in quietly and sit in the back to not disturb the class. We could even send a proxy student to sit in for us to take notes and ask questions on behalf of the student who couldn’t make it to class (my best friend and I did this about three times per month taking turns). It got so normalized that near the end of each semester the instructors in class sizes of 60+ actually knew we weren’t the true John or Shawn enrolled in the class. According to the instructors, whatever it took to legally pass the class was perfectly fine… and since we were adults, we could figure out how to best pass the class as we chose. Then again, this was back when NO college student would be referred to as a kid or child, even if they were 17. If you were in college/university, then you were an adult who could handle adult responsibilities. No questions asked.
A teacher accused my brother of having a knife in his back pocket in school and threatened to suspend him, only for him, my mom and the principal to discover that it was only a big black pen.
Story 2: At least she didn't actually try to grab it, I imagine some serious charges (and by that I mean more than assault of a minor), would be placed if she actually tried because it's an Insulin Pump. The ignorance of some people is pretty baffling tho
Also, doesn't America have a law about interfering with medical equipment? I think I heard it in some other story. That combined with grabbing a minor could most likely have gotten her in serious trouble, like prison type of trouble.
Story 1... While I don't disbelieve the story as I too have witnessed teachers being almost as stupid, I find it hard to believe that teacher was not fired, and the teacher, school, and the school board were not sued. This story is about a life threatening, arrogant, blatant, disregard for a student's health and wellbeing and legal sanctions should be mandatory.
As fellow diabetic, the stories of diabetics make me very nervous. I have bloodsugar sensor on my arm and I need my phone to check my levels. Thank goodness I'm not in school anymore.
Exactly and they're trying to make it illegal for people to have their phones on them in schools it's like your phone is the only way you can get your mother's help when your teacher is bullying your phone is the only way you can get help if your teacher has passed out or is unconscious or is dying your phone is the only way you can do anything to help anyone and you're not supposed to have it on you because you could cheat with it what do people expect us to do in modern day they expect us to do complicated long division or math on paper instead of using a calculator on our phone do they expect us to just know or memorize all these factoids when all we have to do is Google it we don't need to learn all this stuff and memorize all this stuff anymore they need to teach us how to use Google they need to teach us how to use a calculator they need to teach us how to do things in the modern day not how to do it in the past if we want to take a class on the past we can always take a history of blank history of math History of Science History of English even better: "how we used to do it"
Final Story: OP did NOT subvert that teacher's rules, they FOLLOWED THEM TO THE LETTER. I'm guessing she wasn't expecting to be contacted by the principal over it, & honestly I wonder if there was MORE blowback due to it. I wouldn't be surprised if the Principal also informed her that locking the door could also be a BIG fire code violation, after all if the teacher has a medical emergency during class the students are effectively trapped in there. Perfect Malicious compliance.
*Story 1-* something like that happened to me in high school. I’m epileptic, but my seizures just make it look like I’m ignoring/daydreaming, scared, and don’t know what’s going on around me. (Complex Partial seizures) I describe it as my brain shuts off, but my body keeps going. A couple times I’ve passed out, but I don’t do it very often. One time I passed out in PE and I woke up to one of my friends crying next to me (scared) and another yelling at the teacher, telling her that I had a seizure! The teacher didn’t believe I was epileptic and just thought I was trying to get out of what was going on.
I have asthma & have had it for about 68 yrs (I’m 70 now), about 6-7 yrs ago I ended up in the hospital for a few day’s because of an attack, I get released with a nebulizer but No Prednisone. A week later I feel an attack coming on & started using my nebulizer, an older gentleman, who was a former nurse, was watching over me, realized it wasn’t working & called 911…the 911 operator told him to just have me go to the ER, he told them I was having problems & I would’ve had to take public transportation, the operator actually ARGUED with him!! After 2-3 or so, I guess she finally send FINE, but I probably wouldn’t be going to the hospital. Paramedics got here, I immediately got put in the ambulance & since the VA wasn’t taking emergencies at that time, I went next door to OHSU, where I spent the next 5 days up there. Twice, in the middle of the night, my coughing & breathing were so bad, the first time I didn’t even have time to call a nurse, I had 3 nurses who’d been walking by, hear me & literally RAN into my room…I thought I was going to die that night, that’s how bad it was. But I could not believe a 911 operator ARGUED about sending an ambulance!!
Allergies sucks... My friend got a box of chocolates from coworker from Switzerland... I asked " does it have nuts?" As it's my bestie so I don't question her unwrapping a chocolate for me 😅........ She tell me no.... So I ate half...... In comes throat tightening, wheezing, coughing, and hoping It wouldn't be bad enough that I pass out ( luckily it passed) .. a half hour later after I was able to calm down... I asked " wtf did you give me?" So she gave me the wrapper.... It said ' Haselnuss' .... " This is hazelnuts!!" My friends like " it's Swiss chocolate; I'm not the one that can read German" 😂😂😂
Story 1 - I don’t have asthma but I know some friends that do. My mom would’ve gone scorched earth on that teacher to the point where he wouldn’t have a job at any school.
Exactly and the fact that they're trying to force him into it when he's already made up his mind that he ain't doing it is ridiculous it's an optional project you just don't get to walk at graduation who wants to walk at graduation and be stared at for an hour
@sheyennemerritt3215 yep, but if you remember from the post. The principal was on his way to a new school und wanted to be able to brag about having a one-hundred percent participation in the project. Which is asinine. They're supposed to be looking out for the students *NOT* worrying about bragging rights. Und this "kid" had made it crystal clear that he wasn't going to do it. Understanding that he wouldn't be able to walk across the stage. I have a feeling that the reason why they called his mother. Is that they'd already called dad. Und dad backed his son. Und imagine the look on their faces when OP said, "you called my mother, the parent that I'm no contact with? Do you *REALLY* think that that's going to make me participate?" There's another Reddit post I've heard a couple of times. That this kind of reminds me of. The OP had a Karen working for him. Who had gotten injured. She milked that for all she could. No calls, no shows, arriving late und\or leaving early. Not working when she was there. HR finally told her that she needed to go out on disability. She was, of course, fully recovered. But she found a doctor who said in writing that she was still disabled und that she needs to be excused for short-term disability. When that ran out und her doctor refused to sign off for more l. Whenever her boss gave her an assignment. She'd actually complain to HR that he was "harassing" her. He finally got fed up with her, quit, went to work somewhere else. When her new boss expected her to do her job. She tried to get the OP in trouble with HR at a company where he no longer worked. When that failed, she actually had the cajones to call him, demanding that he provide her with the contact information for HR where he currently worked to report him.
I figured OP would be able to walk for his graduation, even though he did not do the project. There is so much administrative bullying in California, whether in schools, politics, school boards, city councils, etc, that it is almost a staple of procedure in that state. "Do it or else..." is SOP. However, they cannot stand the light to be shown on what they are doing, so in the end, if you stand your ground, they will probably capitulate.
In my country, that teacher would not only be fired. They would also be permanently blacklisted to do teaching jobs of any kind. And also be in the news. Get huge fines and jailtime to boot.
I had something like that when I was in elementary school. I told my teacher she needed to call my mom cause I was about to have a seizure and instead of doing that she sat me in the hall for being disruptive. And the last thing I remember is falling on the floor. I wake up in the hospital.
The teacher in the asthma attack story would find himself facing attempted murder charges. If that didn't fly legally, then I'd take more....extreme steps.
I think the only time I really ever have a teacher give me flak about anything medical related is one day in elementary school, I was in my science class. Instead of desks, we had tables with chairs you pulled out. One day, we had a substitute and when I went to go sit down, one of the asshole kids at the next table over pulled my chair out from under me and made me fall back and crack the back of my head on my chair. I was bleeding, but thankfully only a little. But I still needed to go to the nurses office to be tended to. The following day, when my teacher came back, she actually fussed at me, saying that I was probably horseplaying instead of paying attention and that was why I got hurt. Mind you, I was a rather well behaved and straight-A student when it came to my science classes...so how she ever jumped to the conclusion that I was acting up and got hurt was beyond me. Schools making BS obligations that students must follow in order to attend their graduation is utterly baffling. I graduated back in 2011 and I remember that in order to attend our graduation ceremony and be able to walk the stage and grab our diploma, we had to actually pay a fee. Now, it wasn't a large fee...only like $12-$15 (When asked multiple times what the fee was for, we were told it was to help cover chair rentals or some BS like that.) But the fact we still HAD to pay the fee otherwise we would not only not be allowed to walk and get our diploma...we wouldn't even be allowed to attend the ceremony and would have our diploma sent to us in the mail was mind boggling. I remember my mom being so upset about this that she actually wrote an article and sent it to the local newspaper. I still have a copy of the article in my graduation shadowbox.
Teachers that ignore student's medical issues to the point they pass out or cause permanent injury are a huge liability for the school. There are parents that won't hesitate to file a lawsuit the next day suing not only the school but the teacher in question.
As a teacher myself, there is absolutely zero excuse for not knowing about your students' health problems, especially in this day and age with computerized attendance and digitized records. The system my school district uses to take attendance and grade assignments explicitly lists any potential health issues and other important things like parental custody, and this information is shown to substitute teachers as well. If a student and parent has done their due diligence to make the school aware of these issues, there should be no reason that the teacher should be unaware of them. Plus, as an adult who is responsible for children, your first goddamned job is to take care of them. Their health and well-being comes before their education in the subject matter. Definitely not something you mess with, because on top of just being a scummy thing to do it sets you and your school up for lawsuits. If a student wants to fake illness to skip classes and school, then that's on them and their parents, failing a class and having to repeat it is also a lesson in and of itself.
That boils my blood when people don’t believe in asthma. When I was 13, I nearly died from an asthma attack and I had to be airlifted to a hospital. Asthma at its worst is like someone has their hands around your neck choking you all the while having you lungs stepped on.
I read/heard of a news from China where a med student died in campus due to cardiac arrest or something because the school admin or something doesn't want to believe that she's having an attack and doesn't permit anyone to perform CPR. The irony is that school just had some best CPR certification or something just days ago.
Back when I was a student I’d never be able to confront a teacher over something like that. But my adult self would absolutely hit the panic button on my phone to SOS 911 out of spite. And never ask permission for anything relating to health or bodily functions
Teachers need to get their heads out of their asses and deal with being "back talked". This is why I struggle to be sympathetic to teachers trying to get better pay; if that's increased pay just to be higher paid bullies, then forget it. If you're making being a teacher about ego and control, you shouldn't be a teacher, and yes "no back talk" is about control, just like "no hats".
I had a teacher in school who was really strict about being late, saying we couldn't enter the lecture if we were a minute late later in uni (utter BS, but sure, go off). One day I was running late and got to class just on time, only for him to get angry. We had these interactive boards instead of chalk boards, so I could see the exact time, in walking past him. I made an off hand comment about it being at most 30 seconds and he was utterly dumbfounded. Didn't say a word, much less try to punish me. These people are fueled by their own perceived power. Ignore it and they only know to react in anger if at all
The last story with the teacher locking the door, she should have been fired. Not only was she keeping out, but she was locking the rest of those students IN - which is a hazard, not to mention child endangerment.
In high school I had to take a final exam of a strength and conditioning class that involved a 3-mile run, no breaks. Around this time my asthma was really bad and I didn't have an inhaler because in the US (at the time) inhalers are prescription only. I tried to tell the instructor that I was having an asthma attack and needed to go to the nurse, but he told me I was just being lazy and didn't want to finish the exam. I decided to be a stubborn little shit and forced myself to finish the entire run, towards the end of the run I started blacking out and my vision failed but I still ended up crossing the finish line. Naturally I was the last student in class to do so and almost immediately fell to the ground, pulling down my shirt and scratching at my throat as I tried to catch my breath. The teacher started panicking and asking me if he needed to call an ambulance, but I told him no and he was going to watch me suffer until the attack faded. One of my friends in the class ended up helping me stumble back into the school to sit down on the bleachers, the teacher bringing me a bottle of water that I only vaguely poured over my head because I felt overheated. Eventually the attack did end and I was okay, but I did happen to notice that the three-mile mandatory final exam was no longer implemented in that class 🙃
Story 1: OP's parents should have sued the school and the teacher for a few million dollars, and had the teacher charged with child abuse (the teacher had controlling authority over OP and it's just like a parent abused a child.)
The teacher in the first story should have been fired for gross misconduct. Failing that, the school should have been sued into oblivion for not doing so.
My own teacher story. I went back to college in my late 40s. I was working on the associates so I could step up to the senior university. This meant I was the oldest living student in every class. I had also had massive trouble with math in my time back in high school and never understood why (because I was an honor student everywhere else) until the college gave me a test and found out I was a victim of dyscalculia. This means I mix up my numbers (5's look like 2's, 8's and 3's look alike, 6's and 9's are horrible, etc). Even proof reading I will mix them up. I had to take a science class (i'm an English/History double major) and there was a Chemistry for Non-Science students offered. Sounded like a good thing (I'm also allergic to formaldehyde so Biology's is a problem.) The teacher for this class was a sub for the year. Every teacher had been given a letter from the counseling office's department of disability that told of my particular problem. That should have ended the problem. Nope. One day she called each of us up to the board to demonstrate a formula. I dread this sort of thing because not only am I having trouble with my numbers, I'm having that trouble in front of everyone AND I'm almost the kid's in this class's moms age. When it was my turn, she gave me the problem and I worked to solve it, all the while getting more and more nervous. As I finished it, I stepped back to look at it, I was sure there was something wrong with it. In front of everyone, she said "What is your issue? You got it right, are you just stupid?" I burst into tears, walked to my chair, grabbed my books, and left the class, her calling "where are you going?" after me. I walked straight to the Dean of Student's office and made a complaint. I wasn't the first to run into her attitude face first. I think she got into trouble because she managed to not come to class several times the rest of the semester and even sent her husband in to administer the final. Our entire class took the final and went to the Dean of Students to complain about that because her husband wasn't the teacher and didn't know the material to provide assistance. I heard later she was asked to resign, and she did. I went on to get four associate degrees (English, History, Technical Writing, and Desktop Publishing) and my History major with English minor B.A. And I remained the oldest person in every class until I left. I loved being with the students and learning new things, I just hated that teacher for making me feel stupid.
"are you just stupid?" Are words that should never come out of a teacher's mouth. Ever. If someone has a desire to learn, they are by definition not stupid.
I graduated 2010. I didn't walk do to a number of reasons. I refused to pay the price they wanted for the uniform. I hade absolutely no respect for the school, as they did everything they could to try and fail me. All do to the drama my older sister put the school though. She was assaulted in that school by another student so badly that she was hospitalized. The school buried the event as best they could. But the story still stuck, they knew the student that did the deed was violent, but refused to expel her. She eventually put my sister in the hospital. They were so tight lipped about it that if you brang it up in conversation, you'd get detention for it. They forced my older brother to drop out. He wasn't a great student, but was tired of the schools BS and didn't let them put him down. So they got a group of girls to accuse him of doing stuff to them on school property. Problem is, he himself wasn't in school that day "with proof" but the school told him that they'd call the police to press charges if he didn't drop out. They tried many times to keep me from graduating. But i was an A/B Student and had zero disciplinary issues. So they decided to loose my records for a while and tried to fail me on an incomplete. When that didn't work, a teacher "misplaced" my school work and didn't find it in time to add it to my grade. So i failed an important class and had to repeat it the following year adding to my work load. In the end I dodged all their attempts to fail me and graduated. But I didn't walk. I signed off on not being apart of it. So out of spit they refused to give me my diploma. I tried all summer long to get it, and eventually ended up walking into the school office during the start of the new school year and demanding it. They couldn't find it and one of the secretaries told me that I'd of had it by now if i'd of Walked. I had to call the school super, just to get it. Took the lady a week of arguing with them, but she got it for me.
When I was a kid I had a school nurse that wouldn't call your parents unless you had a fever, the problem was I could have a raging strep infection and still not get a fever, you could only tell I was sick by any other non fever related symptoms, but because of this nurse my parents had to let me stay home whenever I said I felt unwell because they couldn't trust the nurse to call them if shy me felt unwell enough to leave class to go to the nurses office. This did lead to me taking advantage of the fact and missing school just because I didn't want to go for whatever reason, but I was carefully not to do it too often so I didn't lose the privilege of my parents trust. I didn't get my first fever until I was an adult with kids and all I can say is wow! Fevers suck! I'm so blessed that I almost never run a fever, I had no idea how much worse they make a person feel. I've had a second fever now almost 20 years later after the first, and am quite thankful it's still so rare for me. But without a fever you can still feel crummy when fighting an infection and I've been sick loads of times without one. But I do get a cough whenever I get sick, even with when I got chicken pocks (doctor called it viral asthma) which also sucks, but not as bad as a fever.
We had a teacher who physically locked us in to do a mass detention, but he then left us to our own devices, twice. The first time we escaped by putting a chair on a desk and climbing up into the space above the classroom through a trap door and going through to another trap outside over the cloakroom. The tallest bloke in the class dropped down and put another chair on desk from adjoining classroom. He also put the chair back in the classroom as he could reach from the desk. The teacher came back to an empty but locked classroom and no idea how we (for once the whole class co-operated with each other) got out. The following week when he pulled the same trick, we merely dismantled the lock on the fire escape door, left that way. This was in about 1968 uk.
Nice to know teachers haven't changed since I was in school more than 30 years ago. I had a teacher tell the class I was faking when I had a seizure in her class. She never did call an ambulance, a classmate ran and got the nurse and the teacher even told her I was faking. She told her it was on record I have epilepsy and the teacher said it was just me playing so I can go home early. The only thing that happened to her is she was told to read her student's records, ever since then I have been completely against tenure since all it does is protect bad teachers and teaching is the job most chosen by abusive narcissist.
My flabbers are absolutely ghasted that there are so many people who think asthma and life-endangering allergies are not real! Story 1 - No OP, he wasn't being protective after. He was in full CYA mode, to keep his job. I'm shocked they didn't fire him! My parents would have been in the principal's, superintendent's, and on up the food chain, demanding satisfaction for almost killing their child. AND filing a lawsuit, too.
I had a math teacher who disliked me for reasons I don't know why. She generally hated girls though and never answered question from girls. If any girl ever asked a question about something she would scream "ARE YOU STUPID?" and not answer. I guess maybe because I said "No, but it's your JOB to explain it!" might have rubbed her the wrong way. So she decided she was going to try to flunk me. Now, she wouldn't grade homework assignments. She would have us pass the assignments to another student and she would call out answers and we would mark the papers and then put them on her desk. I should also note, the kid who always got my papers was a friend of mine and was the one student in class that she really liked. He was her favorite. People used to pass him notes with questions to ask her bc if he asked a question she would answer very sweetly. Anyway, near the end of the semester she smugly told me that I was failing her class bc I hadn't turned in 10 homework assignments and I had zeros on them. The friend of mine heard this and said "But Ma'am, she did all of her homework assignments! I graded them and turned them in!" He then said he would help her look for them and searched her desk-- finding every single one. and on every single one I had 100%. I was a straight A student. She decided to fuck me over at the end of the year though. So, I had an A for every semester and an A on my final exam, but she decided to write down that I had a letter grade B for my final grade- no number grade and no explanation for why she arbitrarily gave me a B. But it stuck as a B when I transferred overseas to my next school and fucked up my GPA. At the new school there was a teacher like OPs who would hate students and grade them badly if she didn't like them. She disliked my brother and I bc we weren't from a wealthy family and I secretly suspect she had contempt for my father & his job. She would give us failing grades on subjective tests and tell us we were going to fail (she did this to numerous other students). I saw a paper my brother wrote where she had written notes saying "Great!" "Wonderful" "Everything I wanted!" and then "F" as the grade. She told him she graded him harder than other students bc he was such a good writer she expected more from him. It was just an excuse to fuck him over.
I had a professor in college nicknamed El Diablo because he did not believe that anybody deserved an a on their assignments. About half the class failed
I am visually impaired, in ninth grade and my PE teacher wanted me to kick a couple of empty bottle jugs up and down the basketball court. I stopped dead at tracks and told her no and got kicked out of PE for the rest of the year.
I had a university professor once who really hated people coming in late and would chew on anyone that was late for disturbing the class. Well, this one morning on the way to class I got into a car accident, a person didn't look when changing lanes and tried to occupy the same space as me. So I was late to class. The prof started to go off about being late to which I explained I was in a car accident. He didn't believe me and said prove it. His expression changed when I showed him the police report and just said go sit down.
Last story: of course the policy was gone. Imagine the school being sued because the teacher tried to force a student to fail by locking them out of the exam room.
I had a similar issue with one of my early community college professors with being late. I worked (to pay for college) and got off work right before class. After about 2 or 3 weeks after he kept telling me the same bs “if you wanted to be here you would, this is your only responsibility” not caring I have a JOB. So I told him “f*** it, I’ll leave the class then” and dropped the course.
Story 4: My high school implemented a rule where the electric door holders would turn off when the bell rang, and the doors would be locked. They would then go through "collecting" any students who were locked out in the hallways, and take them to the office. So instead of being 15 seconds late to class, you would now be 15 minutes late.
I'm not a parent. I dont even have a cat. But if I had a kid that went to the hospital because a teacher ignored their condition, I would make it my life's mission to see that teacher not only becomes jobless and homeless, but stayed that way
Senior project again - if that principal wanted to go out with 100% participation rate, he should have just been honest with the students about that. If he wss a half way decent or well liked principal, i think this fellow would have tried to help.
Asthma Story: OP's mistake was listening to the Teacher and not simply walking out of the class to stagger to the Office to get his Inhaler... I would have... Then I'd call the Police and CPS to report the Teacher for Criminal Negligence and Child Endangerment...He doesn't believe Asthma is real? Then he has no business being anywhere near kids!
If you have a chronic illness as a student in the US, get a 504 plan. Not a safety plan. 504 plan is based on federal law. If it's violated, like the asthma and diabetes stories, you have federal backing.
I made a complaint about a teacher locking the doors when my oldest son was in middle school. I went to the fire department. My oldest has asthma but 45 years ago, there weren’t inhalers. He had meds in the office. Kids aren’t allowed to keep their inhalers on them in school, which is ridiculous. U have to go through bull to get a student to be able to keep theirs on them.
I'm infuriated that the teacher still had his job after that fuck-up. I know my mother would have gone straight to the principal and said, "He's fired, or the school gets a lawsuit that WE WILL WIN." What's sad about all of these stories is that all the teachers stayed working.
Yeah in the US, where lawsuits are filed for even the smallest inconvenience.
This happened in Canada, where people have some common sense.
@@The_real_Arovor its moree common sense to not sue the teacher who literally tried to kill a kid?
@@The_real_Arovor dude a kid almost died how is that not a thing worth suing over?
@@The_real_Arovor a kid almost died and it's not common sense to strip him of the power that allowed that to almost happen because he was an ignorant shitweasel?
@@bl4ckhearts802He learned his lesson and changed completely.
Should he have to pay for the damages caused? Absolutely, but in most countries he would be prosecuted automatically and would have had to pay fines anyway, and there most likely would have been some additional training etc.
But to uproot and destroy his entire life because of one major fuck up is completely unnecessary.
Kids when denied medical service in schools are always like "guess I'll just ☠️ then."
it kind of baffles me. I would have just walked out. What was the teacher going to do?
Kids are taught for years to always comply with teachers.
spite. if you don’t want me to deal with my medical condition ill sure as hell make YOU deal with it instead. and you get to feel like shit for almost offing a child on top of that.
I don't have kids yet, but I will make sure they know to notify, not ask, when they are going somewhere to seek medical attention, if they know the teacher can or will not help them for any reason. A teacher who physically prevents a child from leaving the room is guilty of kidnapping and/or false imprisonment, depending on the jurisdiction.
@@vickymc9695 in what day and age in the last 10 years did students give a shit about what a teacher told them when it involves a medical emergency such as this? is your wellbeing and possible life, less important than a teachers orders to refuse letting you go and get your life saving device? especially at a grade where you are literally self aware of the consequences of not getting it?
I was in the gym with a friend who had asthma. It was when inhalers were required to be in the nurses office. So my friend started having problems breathing and I asked the teacher if I could take her to the nurses office. The teacher told her to walk it off.
Well, at that point, I decided I hated that teacher and did what I could to annoy her. We had a rule that if you couldn't run the mile in like 10 minutes or less, you were basically punished and had to walk the rest of the class. We also were not allowed to talk to each other. Well, I started singing, and she wanted me to stop. I told her I was not talking to anyone. So everyone else started singing, and we did it for a couple of weeks to piss her off.
"Walk it off." 🤬
I hope it was _The Song That Never Ends._
The first story is awful. My cousin died from an asthma attack aged 18. Her parents had to give permission to turn off her life support system. It is almost 40 years later and they are still traumatised by the experience. The teacher should have been prosecuted for their behaviour
Story 3 contacting a parent whom OP was no contact with was a MAJOR safety violation.
That teacher in Story 1 didn't become protective of OP, he became protective of his own ass
The first story actually got me ticked off. Unfortunately there are teachers who don't believe asthma is a real thing and that kids use it as an excuse to ditch class. I'm an asthmatic as well and know how bad asthma can get. When I was in kindergarten I started having an asthma attack and the teacher actually had the gull to mock me and even said, "Look at her, class! Let's all "cough" like her!" And even laughed at me until one of the kids noticed that I was really having trouble breathing. Needless to say my mom was was called and had to use my nebulizer and when she found out what happened she was rightly ticked off and I was taken out of the class and placed into a new one with a teacher who understood about my asthma.
sounds to me like the same kind of idiots who believe that allergies arent real to.
i was told in gradeschool that i had asthma as well but i never had symptoms of it. i was given an inhaler for it but it never really did anything. i doubt i even had asthma, but the dollar store doctor they got for me was also convinced i had ADHD and forced me on pills to. so not only do people need to be careful of teachers but also doctors to.
Story 3: I would have loved to see that vice principal’s face when OP just walked out of the office without the tickets.
I used to have an inhaler sometimes when I was in elementary school, and one time I got into trouble for having it on me, because apparently any inhalers needed to be kept in the nurse's office. Luckily my mom stood up for me. For one, I was an elementary schooler, I had no idea an inhaler qualified as a drug. But more importantly, _any_ kid who has to use an inhaler likely can't afford to waste time trying to get to the nurse's office to get it if they need to use it, especially if their asthma is severe.
It makes no sense to keep an inhaler at the office anyway. I understand not wanting opioids or something out there, but no one's going to use an inhaler to get high! It's such a stupid policy, and it's life-threatening.
"it's distracting for kids to use inhalers"
I'm sorry everyone's health is a burden on your rigid schedules
My husband called a hospital because I was beginning an anaphylaxis attack. He was told it was probably just sun stroke. I ended up in ER in full anaphylaxis.
"Just sun stroke?" They said that? Sun stroke is considered a life-threatening condition!
@dinascharnhorst6590 Yeah, I know.😟 Hospital no longer exists.
@@dinascharnhorst6590 You beat me to it. There's no such thing as "just" sunstroke. Heat exhaustion, sure, but not sunstroke.
@@DianeCasanova A fitting punishment!
“If you respect me, I’ll respect you” does not mean “if you don’t treat me like an authority, I won’t treat you like a human.” People demanding respect better know how to give it.
Words that can mean different things are a real favorite of manipulators and egotists. They know exactly what they're saying and think no one else is smart enough to notice.
Or where by "respect me" they actually mean "fear me.'
Exactly why my view is “Respect is earned, not just given”
I thought this looked familiar and it was the qoate from the perspective of "respect" the full qoate was if I remember correctly "something people see respect as being treated as a person and see respect as being treated as an authority, and those who are used to being treated as an authority think 'if you won't respect me I won't respect you' and what they mean is 'if you won't treat me like an authority than I won't treat you like a person' and they think they're being fair, but they aren't"
@@linda-0587"respect is earned, not inherited or bought"
- Ezio Auditore de Firenze
I have had type 1 diabetes since I was a teen during my freshman year in college. 1966 to be exact. I became a teacher and I knew so many teachers who believed that ALL student health conditions were fake. I had so many students put into my classes (high school) with major health diseases. One was waiting for a heart transplant, a few were on kidney dialysis, many with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease,, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. I was called by a student to another class because the "teacher" believed a student was faking when her blood sugar went very low and she fainted. That teacher did NOT loose her job. I protected my kids and made sure they were safe whether in my class or another class. I ALWAYS BELIEVED THE KIDS AND PARENTS AND MAD SURE THEY HAD 504 PLANS.
The life-or-death Malicious Compliance stories always make me so anxious. This kind of thing could so easily take a fatal turn. 😬
Some people really think their ""authority"" makes them lord over everything.
Like dude, allergies and asthma attacks are not subject to your will!!
Let this kid get their medicine, damn.
Asthma story. I know the feeling. NOT only did my teachers ignore my issues with asthma and allergies but the Assistant principal AND school nurse gatekeep me from meds as needed and prescribed for me. Ended up in ER multiple times.
A kid in grade seven class died during outdoor PE class. He had an asthma excuse not to run, but while the teacher wasn't looking the other kids bullied him into running. Not my class, but the whole school was either stunned or furious at the kids.
Our school seemed to no longer have wrestling as one of the activities we had to cover in class after this:
I wasn’t really a rough housing boy. We were partnered by weight for the duration of the wrestling course. The kid I was partnered with was, kind of a bully, and like purposefully causing pain. I told the teacher repeatedly I wanted to be paired up with another partner because this kid was actively trying to hurt me. I’m told “don’t let him.”
One day, the teacher was going over moves with a couple other kids not paying attention.
The kid I’m partnered with trapped me in a position where he proceeded to give me a pile driver on to nothing but one of those thin blue mats. The next thing I knew the teacher rushed over and was looking over me, concerned. When it was clear I didn’t have a concussion or neck injury he asked the kid “what were you thinking?” Kid didn’t respond.
Next PE class, we were in a new activity and never did wrestling again as a class activity in future years.
Jerk in "authority": [Do this.]
Me: No.
Jerk: I said [do this]...!
Me: No.
Jerk: I won't ask again!
Me: _Thank_ you, your finally shutting up is appreciated...
One of my mom's coworkers lost her freaking job for contacting a non-custodial parent. When I was teaching, part of each student file was a list of family members in order of contact priority and a list of family members who are NOT to be contacted. That was part of the basic paperwork for every single student. I can't imagine a school not having that info for every kid and sticking to it with freaking limpet tenacity. Dad should have gone to the superintendent about that call.
Yeah, with the context clues that they don't have contact with the mother 'for good reasons', this screams it went legal, which probably means restraining order. That principal coulda gotten a hell of a lot worse than a non-perfect senior test score if the kid gave a damn enough in the moment.
100%, in my country that would have had them fired and the school investigated over unsafe practices.
Yeah, when the parent are at war, the teacher's communication work doubbles.
I've been arrogantly upset - but then I find out that the mother is bending over back wards to keep Dad in the dark, so he can look like an ignorant carefree "Looser"...
I can copy, paste and forward.... EVERYTHING... to Dad...
If he shows serious interest in his kids, and her interest has shifted to stealing love from her own children to just to spite him... I'm happy to copy, paste, forward and send - what ever...
Every year parents sign a "it's okay to phograph my child, and put it on the shcools webside formular". Easy peacy... until one single mum shows signs of fear/worries
Oh, shit! She's semi underground - protected adress, secret phone number and what have we got?
You never, ever forget, even for a split second - among 1,000 other pupils - 75% of the children are from divorced families - but one child lives in danger from being stolen from Mum - or vice versa.. these days 😉😂
Danish school are OPEN to the public. ANYone can just walk cross the schoolyard to reach the offices. No security, no metal detectors, no nothing. Just eyes.... teachers' eyes! 👁👁Very sharp eyes... 👀
But at college they didn't teach us how to handle/cope with parent's problems Just how to teach and deal with the kids' problems 🙄
@@ane-louisestampe7939I'm sorry but who are you to make an uninformed judgment on whether or not the limited or no contact with one of the parents is justified?
You don't have the right or knowledge to determine what's best and if you feel like something is wrong, you go to the correct authorities with your concerns and not make the judgment on your own.
Surely if the teachers are so convinced the medical condition is fake they can spend 5 minutes going to the nurse/medical office and ask does "student" have x condition, nurse looks in file, finds notes from parents and doctors and says they do or find nothing and says they don't, not assume till you need to call an ambulance.
Problem is, it’s not just teachers thinking a student is faking having a condition. Some people think **the whole condition is fake/a lie**
Like, they’re the “Allergies don’t exist” sort of people.
The problem with this solution is that it violates privacy laws.
The Teacher was an idiot for thinking that Asthma is fake, the fact his face turned white when he noticed another student checking to see if OP was breathing and said he wasn't was priceless. Gotta love Entitled Teachers being put in their place.
@@RicIngh No it doesn't the whole point of giving this information to the school is so the child's teachers and other necessary staff (like the nurse) are informed of it. The child's homeroom teacher's at least need's to be informed of such medical problems at the start of the year so they can act in the instances it happens.
See these types of holier than thou AH's think that their beliefs are the only ones that matter so they'd never "lower" themselves to going to check.
Story 1, i think he was only protective with op because his career at risk, if i was op i won't accept his apology
This, he was clearly on the principal's shit list and would get axed if he fucked up again in the slightest. I'm assume he learned nothing and despised the op for getting him in trouble
In my head, the principal would've pulled a Director Ton and named the teacher Calendar or Short Timer.
I'm glad OP was OK after that attack, but in no way should that teacher still be allowed in the classroom, and should be sued. Being protective of OP after that doesn't make up for the fact OP's life was endangered by his arrogance.
A compotent teacher would have asked another student to accompany OP to the office just in case there were problems along the way.
Teacher should have lost his job for that! WTF
Agreed teachers that don't believe in medical conditions need to not be employed at schools. I have epilepsy and the stories I have of teachers not believing I'm having a seizure even when flopping on the ground is sad. The teacher my mom hated most was the one who said I needed to be put on ADHD drugs since I had that and was trying to get attention. She didn't shut up about that even after we explained that the ADHD drugs she was talking about would essentially be a death sentence.
@@phoebegradert9790 😂 I love the teacher's reasoning, there. She knows the "attention deficit" part means YOUR attention, right? Not needing other people's attention on you?
I guess if she's that ignorant on epilepsy, there's no reason to expect her to care any more about understanding ADHD.
@@quiestinliteris she didn't believe I had epilepsy even though we had a professional dr and brain scans that prove i did
Nah AH should go to jail for this.
Lost is job, he shouldn't been blacklisted as an educator
Story 4: A lot of teachers seem to be bullies that never grew out of that phase, just turned to positions of (mostly perceived) power, because singling out people and demanding respect when she doesn't even give it, it gives that vibes of a bully.
That kind of mentality doesn't belong in a school
Doesn't belong in healthcare either yet they tend to be there too
The amount of staff that get called out for unprofessional and unhelpful behavior is disgusting.
@@girl1213and police
@@Patriot46426 My thoughts exactly. I would add HOA board members.
Mr. R should be fired and have his teaching credentials revoked permanently. He should never be allowed to work with kids again in any capacity. 😮
Story three.... I never "walked" for graduation. I literally set foot on school grounds three times in Senior Year, to sign in, for graduation photo and to sign out the last day. I spent that whole 12th year taking an aircraft mechanics course at the Vo-Tech school, airport location. I had finished my course credits in 11th grade, and the 12th was all elective. They mailed my diploma to my home. 😊
What does this "walk" thing even mean? Not everybody is from the US or Britain or wherever that is used and it would have been nice to hear at least a short explanation in the video.
@@Milkymalk Basically "Walking at Graduation" means you attend the Ceremony (usually held in the School Auditorium/Gymnasium) where a mock Diploma (usually a rolled up piece of paper held closed by a ribbon) is handed to you when your name is called and you walk to the front of the room to shake the hand of the presenter...
My husband didn’t attend his high school graduation either. He got special permission to go to college a year early and use his first year course credits also as his senior year credits. He went to college a year early and never looked back.
Before they go saying that the teachers should have known the teacher probably did. The teacher was probably informed about the students condition but is probably one of those types that doesn't believe diabetes exists
Story 1: speaking as someone who has asthma, I really want to serve Mr R a knuckle sandwich after his blatant disregard for a student’s life and disrespect towards OP
They almost need to make it a mandatory test to see if teachers don't believe in medical conditions or are anti Vax if they are either than they should not be employed at the public school. They can go get a job at the schools that agree with their views
@@phoebegradert9790 Seriously. It's so much worse for physical conditions, but ridiculously common with mental and neurological conditions. I once watched a teacher give detention to a kid with Tourettes because his involuntary movements were "distracting the class."
Like, man, he CAN'T stop, and he's also sitting in the back of the room deliberately so that nobody will find him distracting.
As someone else with asthma agreed
@quiestinliteris i had to deal with a teacher that said I was faking my epilepsy and that I was just faking. There were so many incidents where something happened and she still denied it.
As someone who's best friend died from an asthma attack, I'd be next in the queue.
I'm asthmatic and I have a neurological condition that causes me to randomly pass out, with no warning... it's why I can't drive. Thankfully, I've never had anyone refuse to let me do whatever I need to do to be safe.
The silence after the senior project story was DEAFENING, literally nothing to say and honestly same!!! Y'all sat here and grilled me about this and held that punishment like I care about it and then decided to let me walk anyway?? I would've taken those tickets and handed them out to people that needed extras and STILL not attended the graduation
It's not the students' job to make their school look good, it's the school's job to make the students the best they can be
That wouldn't have done as good a job of driving the point home. Disdaining the proffered tickets was definitely the way to play it.
I'm Autistic, and I absolutely hated ceremonies. Missing my own graduation would have been a dream if it wasn't for the benefit of my relatives showing up to celebrate it.
Still, its funny to image the principal calling OPs name at the ceremony they didn't attend and being confronted with an empty seat.
I'm just curious. Why OP's mom was in the contact list? Why not his dad? I presume it was his dad that enroll OP into that school.
@@gorilladisco9108 Yeah. Something's fishy about this. Or probably just fiction, because apparently people believe Reddit stories AREN'T real, even when they're plausible
Story #3: I'm still wondering why they called his mom but not his dad. I thought he needed at least one parent in a conference! I would have had my lawyer hold someone accountable if this were my kid!
I had my denture glue taken away. I had to wear a partial senior year and denture glue was the only thing holding it in place. I couldn't eat with it and had to take it out at lunch.
After lunch I was pulled aside and asked who knocked my teeth out. I told them that I had to have teeth removed and had a partial that needs denture glue to hold it in place.
They told me to either get a partial I could eat with or not wear the partial at all. The only solution that would have worked would be to get tooth implants, which cost $6,000 a piece and I would need at least 10.
... WHY??? Obviously, schools don't get to dictate what medical devices you're allowed to use, but why did anyone consider that one an issue? Just to throw some power around?
@@quiestinliteris they considered anything OTC they didn't provide as a dangerous drug because they can't verify what is in it. One diabetic girl in middle school almost died because they took away her lunch amd refused her insulin to be permitted on school grounds. She ended up in the hospital and the school wanted to expel (actually arrest on criminal charges) who gave her the little bit of candy she ate that kept her blood sugar up enough for her to make it to the hospital.
She refused to tell anyone, even her own parents, who gave her the candy until after graduation and I know she didn't tell. Because I'm the one who snuck her the candy and carried her to the nurse. The nurse was almost fired for calling the ambulance because "it was an attempt to incite a panic."
We remained good friends until we lost touch after we both had to drop out of college for financial and medical reasons and moved to different areas, but I know she's doing well now.
@@quiestinliteris just how the school district was. In middle school, a diabetic girl had her entire lunch taken away and was denied her insulin. I was told to follow her to the nurse and she collapsed. I caught her and snuck a "fun-sized" candy into her mouth and she could barely chew it. Her head was tilted forward, so she couldn't choke easily. Her blood sugar was so low the meter couldn't register it. The nurse called an ambulance (she was almost fired for that because "she was inciting a panic) and the girl was saved, but was hospitalized for at least a week. The school wanted to k ow who gave her the candy because they were going to have them arrested.
They couldn't prove when she got the candy and the security cameras didn't catch when I caught her, so they didn't see me give her the candy. Her parents tried to sue, but the principal said, "She got her fix somehow".
She refused to tell anyone, even her own parents, it was me until we graduated.
When I was in high school a kid had absence seizures.
It was really creepy to just see it happen, you could be having a conversation, and suddenly he's all glassy eyed and not responding, then 5-10 seconds later he continues on as if nothing happened.
Luckily he never got in trouble because someone didn't know or anything, and they got way less common as he got older(age 11 when we started high school they were once or twice a day, by age 16 he had them about twice a month).
A few kids didn't know about them and got confused when he'd never have to do PE despite looking fine(school was afraid he'd have a seizure on the field, get hurt, and then not know afterwards), extra time on tests(which he argued was dumb since getting 15 minutes extra because you might possibly miss 10 seconds is overkill), and always have even the meanest teachers be extra nice to him(no one wants to be accused of discriminating against a kid who's excuse for anything can always just be that he must have had a seizure and not noticed things changed/what was said/put two sentences together).
You are lucky that you witnessed absence seizures and not grand mal seizures. I have witnessed ten grand mal seizures in a two-year timeframe. It was very disturbing, but I knew how to handle them.
That guy should have been sued for all of his money. Asthma attacks are dangerous.
Why would he has to sue the school for all his money? Did the school take the money from him?🤔
I guess colleges have changed since the early 90s… if we walked in late the only thing the instructors asked was we walk in quietly and sit in the back to not disturb the class.
We could even send a proxy student to sit in for us to take notes and ask questions on behalf of the student who couldn’t make it to class (my best friend and I did this about three times per month taking turns).
It got so normalized that near the end of each semester the instructors in class sizes of 60+ actually knew we weren’t the true John or Shawn enrolled in the class.
According to the instructors, whatever it took to legally pass the class was perfectly fine… and since we were adults, we could figure out how to best pass the class as we chose.
Then again, this was back when NO college student would be referred to as a kid or child, even if they were 17. If you were in college/university, then you were an adult who could handle adult responsibilities. No questions asked.
OP was in high school when this happened, not in college.
My best friend’s daughter almost died from an asthma attack. Asthma is no joke, it’s serious and dangerous illness. 😢
A teacher accused my brother of having a knife in his back pocket in school and threatened to suspend him, only for him, my mom and the principal to discover that it was only a big black pen.
It may have been a fountain pen like the kind that was ubiquitous before the ballpoint pen hit the scene.
Story 2: At least she didn't actually try to grab it, I imagine some serious charges (and by that I mean more than assault of a minor), would be placed if she actually tried because it's an Insulin Pump.
The ignorance of some people is pretty baffling tho
Teachers are not allowed to touch students at all except under special conditions namely it being in either an IEP or if its an emergency
Also, doesn't America have a law about interfering with medical equipment? I think I heard it in some other story. That combined with grabbing a minor could most likely have gotten her in serious trouble, like prison type of trouble.
They shouldn’t even f-caking care anyways, it wasn’t in class, the two stories were in the hallway and during lunch, so what the f-ck
Story 1... While I don't disbelieve the story as I too have witnessed teachers being almost as stupid, I find it hard to believe that teacher was not fired, and the teacher, school, and the school board were not sued. This story is about a life threatening, arrogant, blatant, disregard for a student's health and wellbeing and legal sanctions should be mandatory.
*TENURE*
@@nancyomalley6286 My thoughts exactly. There really needs to be exception clauses written into the tenure contract.
1st story nope!!! He would be fired and I would have pressed charges or filed a lawsuit!
As fellow diabetic, the stories of diabetics make me very nervous. I have bloodsugar sensor on my arm and I need my phone to check my levels. Thank goodness I'm not in school anymore.
Exactly and they're trying to make it illegal for people to have their phones on them in schools it's like your phone is the only way you can get your mother's help when your teacher is bullying your phone is the only way you can get help if your teacher has passed out or is unconscious or is dying your phone is the only way you can do anything to help anyone and you're not supposed to have it on you because you could cheat with it what do people expect us to do in modern day they expect us to do complicated long division or math on paper instead of using a calculator on our phone do they expect us to just know or memorize all these factoids when all we have to do is Google it we don't need to learn all this stuff and memorize all this stuff anymore they need to teach us how to use Google they need to teach us how to use a calculator they need to teach us how to do things in the modern day not how to do it in the past if we want to take a class on the past we can always take a history of blank history of math History of Science History of English
even better: "how we used to do it"
Final Story: OP did NOT subvert that teacher's rules, they FOLLOWED THEM TO THE LETTER. I'm guessing she wasn't expecting to be contacted by the principal over it, & honestly I wonder if there was MORE blowback due to it. I wouldn't be surprised if the Principal also informed her that locking the door could also be a BIG fire code violation, after all if the teacher has a medical emergency during class the students are effectively trapped in there. Perfect Malicious compliance.
*Story 1-* something like that happened to me in high school. I’m epileptic, but my seizures just make it look like I’m ignoring/daydreaming, scared, and don’t know what’s going on around me. (Complex Partial seizures) I describe it as my brain shuts off, but my body keeps going. A couple times I’ve passed out, but I don’t do it very often.
One time I passed out in PE and I woke up to one of my friends crying next to me (scared) and another yelling at the teacher, telling her that I had a seizure!
The teacher didn’t believe I was epileptic and just thought I was trying to get out of what was going on.
I have asthma & have had it for about 68 yrs (I’m 70 now), about 6-7 yrs ago I ended up in the hospital for a few day’s because of an attack, I get released with a nebulizer but No Prednisone. A week later I feel an attack coming on & started using my nebulizer, an older gentleman, who was a former nurse, was watching over me, realized it wasn’t working & called 911…the 911 operator told him to just have me go to the ER, he told them I was having problems & I would’ve had to take public transportation, the operator actually ARGUED with him!! After 2-3 or so, I guess she finally send FINE, but I probably wouldn’t be going to the hospital. Paramedics got here, I immediately got put in the ambulance & since the VA wasn’t taking emergencies at that time, I went next door to OHSU, where I spent the next 5 days up there. Twice, in the middle of the night, my coughing & breathing were so bad, the first time I didn’t even have time to call a nurse, I had 3 nurses who’d been walking by, hear me & literally RAN into my room…I thought I was going to die that night, that’s how bad it was. But I could not believe a 911 operator ARGUED about sending an ambulance!!
Imagining gambling with someone's life just to flex your power as a teacher.
Allergies sucks... My friend got a box of chocolates from coworker from Switzerland... I asked " does it have nuts?" As it's my bestie so I don't question her unwrapping a chocolate for me 😅........ She tell me no....
So I ate half...... In comes throat tightening, wheezing, coughing, and hoping It wouldn't be bad enough that I pass out ( luckily it passed) .. a half hour later after I was able to calm down...
I asked " wtf did you give me?" So she gave me the wrapper.... It said ' Haselnuss' .... " This is hazelnuts!!"
My friends like " it's Swiss chocolate; I'm not the one that can read German" 😂😂😂
You ate half a box without tasting the "Hasselnuss" in the first bite?
I think it was half a piece of chocolate.
@@melissaz2825 That makes more sense.
S4: That teacher is endangering the lives of everybody in her class by locking them in. Supreme fire hazard!!
Also, false imprisonment.
Story 1: Too bad OP couldn't milk the stupid teacher for everything he has and if he has issues I would ask if he want me to have another issue again.
Story 1 - I don’t have asthma but I know some friends that do. My mom would’ve gone scorched earth on that teacher to the point where he wouldn’t have a job at any school.
The third story, why should a student who is new to the school be required to participate in a school senior project?
Exactly and the fact that they're trying to force him into it when he's already made up his mind that he ain't doing it is ridiculous it's an optional project you just don't get to walk at graduation who wants to walk at graduation and be stared at for an hour
@sheyennemerritt3215 yep, but if you remember from the post. The principal was on his way to a new school und wanted to be able to brag about having a one-hundred percent participation in the project.
Which is asinine. They're supposed to be looking out for the students *NOT* worrying about bragging rights.
Und this "kid" had made it crystal clear that he wasn't going to do it. Understanding that he wouldn't be able to walk across the stage.
I have a feeling that the reason why they called his mother. Is that they'd already called dad. Und dad backed his son.
Und imagine the look on their faces when OP said, "you called my mother, the parent that I'm no contact with? Do you *REALLY* think that that's going to make me participate?"
There's another Reddit post I've heard a couple of times. That this kind of reminds me of.
The OP had a Karen working for him. Who had gotten injured. She milked that for all she could. No calls, no shows, arriving late und\or leaving early. Not working when she was there.
HR finally told her that she needed to go out on disability. She was, of course, fully recovered. But she found a doctor who said in writing that she was still disabled und that she needs to be excused for short-term disability.
When that ran out und her doctor refused to sign off for more l.
Whenever her boss gave her an assignment. She'd actually complain to HR that he was "harassing" her.
He finally got fed up with her, quit, went to work somewhere else.
When her new boss expected her to do her job. She tried to get the OP in trouble with HR at a company where he no longer worked. When that failed, she actually had the cajones to call him, demanding that he provide her with the contact information for HR where he currently worked to report him.
If a teacher (or anyone) DEMANDS respect, they DESERVE none.
I'd have brought charges against that teacher. And my child certainly wouldn't be going back to his class.
I figured OP would be able to walk for his graduation, even though he did not do the project. There is so much administrative bullying in California, whether in schools, politics, school boards, city councils, etc, that it is almost a staple of procedure in that state. "Do it or else..." is SOP. However, they cannot stand the light to be shown on what they are doing, so in the end, if you stand your ground, they will probably capitulate.
Story 1: child abuse, child neglect, attempted murder of a child (infanticide) should have been looked into, as well as a personal law suit.
In my country, that teacher would not only be fired. They would also be permanently blacklisted to do teaching jobs of any kind. And also be in the news. Get huge fines and jailtime to boot.
The 1st teacher should be charged for acting with wilful disregard for human life.
Why are any of these people teachers? Power tripping people like this should never be allowed near children! Let alone teach!
There needs to be a mandatory psych evaluation before a school would hire the teacher.
I had something like that when I was in elementary school. I told my teacher she needed to call my mom cause I was about to have a seizure and instead of doing that she sat me in the hall for being disruptive. And the last thing I remember is falling on the floor. I wake up in the hospital.
The teacher in the asthma attack story would find himself facing attempted murder charges. If that didn't fly legally, then I'd take more....extreme steps.
If that had been my kid, _I_ would be facing attempted murder charges. >:(
I think the only time I really ever have a teacher give me flak about anything medical related is one day in elementary school, I was in my science class. Instead of desks, we had tables with chairs you pulled out. One day, we had a substitute and when I went to go sit down, one of the asshole kids at the next table over pulled my chair out from under me and made me fall back and crack the back of my head on my chair. I was bleeding, but thankfully only a little. But I still needed to go to the nurses office to be tended to. The following day, when my teacher came back, she actually fussed at me, saying that I was probably horseplaying instead of paying attention and that was why I got hurt. Mind you, I was a rather well behaved and straight-A student when it came to my science classes...so how she ever jumped to the conclusion that I was acting up and got hurt was beyond me.
Schools making BS obligations that students must follow in order to attend their graduation is utterly baffling. I graduated back in 2011 and I remember that in order to attend our graduation ceremony and be able to walk the stage and grab our diploma, we had to actually pay a fee. Now, it wasn't a large fee...only like $12-$15 (When asked multiple times what the fee was for, we were told it was to help cover chair rentals or some BS like that.) But the fact we still HAD to pay the fee otherwise we would not only not be allowed to walk and get our diploma...we wouldn't even be allowed to attend the ceremony and would have our diploma sent to us in the mail was mind boggling. I remember my mom being so upset about this that she actually wrote an article and sent it to the local newspaper. I still have a copy of the article in my graduation shadowbox.
Teachers that ignore student's medical issues to the point they pass out or cause permanent injury are a huge liability for the school. There are parents that won't hesitate to file a lawsuit the next day suing not only the school but the teacher in question.
Story 3: Old story, yet still very satisfying.
As a teacher myself, there is absolutely zero excuse for not knowing about your students' health problems, especially in this day and age with computerized attendance and digitized records. The system my school district uses to take attendance and grade assignments explicitly lists any potential health issues and other important things like parental custody, and this information is shown to substitute teachers as well. If a student and parent has done their due diligence to make the school aware of these issues, there should be no reason that the teacher should be unaware of them.
Plus, as an adult who is responsible for children, your first goddamned job is to take care of them. Their health and well-being comes before their education in the subject matter. Definitely not something you mess with, because on top of just being a scummy thing to do it sets you and your school up for lawsuits. If a student wants to fake illness to skip classes and school, then that's on them and their parents, failing a class and having to repeat it is also a lesson in and of itself.
That boils my blood when people don’t believe in asthma. When I was 13, I nearly died from an asthma attack and I had to be airlifted to a hospital.
Asthma at its worst is like someone has their hands around your neck choking you all the while having you lungs stepped on.
Where do these idiots get their denial of medical conditions?
Story 1: That guy needs to be sent to prison.
I’m sorry, but punishing a student simply because you don’t like their sibling is beyond pathetic
I've noticed I'll sit in silence at work until a fluff post comes up
I read/heard of a news from China where a med student died in campus due to cardiac arrest or something because the school admin or something doesn't want to believe that she's having an attack and doesn't permit anyone to perform CPR. The irony is that school just had some best CPR certification or something just days ago.
why are people who work with kids so bad at working with kids fr
Back when I was a student I’d never be able to confront a teacher over something like that. But my adult self would absolutely hit the panic button on my phone to SOS 911 out of spite. And never ask permission for anything relating to health or bodily functions
Teachers need to get their heads out of their asses and deal with being "back talked". This is why I struggle to be sympathetic to teachers trying to get better pay; if that's increased pay just to be higher paid bullies, then forget it. If you're making being a teacher about ego and control, you shouldn't be a teacher, and yes "no back talk" is about control, just like "no hats".
Part of being an adult is dealing with "back talk" from teenagers
Also… if you pay teachers better, you attract better teachers
No, you drop them like a hot potato and hire the higher-quality teachers you could not afford before.
Your logic is so flawed. Just like cops if you pay them like shit you get shit employees.
I had a teacher in school who was really strict about being late, saying we couldn't enter the lecture if we were a minute late later in uni (utter BS, but sure, go off). One day I was running late and got to class just on time, only for him to get angry. We had these interactive boards instead of chalk boards, so I could see the exact time, in walking past him. I made an off hand comment about it being at most 30 seconds and he was utterly dumbfounded. Didn't say a word, much less try to punish me.
These people are fueled by their own perceived power. Ignore it and they only know to react in anger if at all
Story 1: the teacher should be paying the hospital and ambulance bills out of pocket, to make it a learning experience!
The last story with the teacher locking the door, she should have been fired. Not only was she keeping out, but she was locking the rest of those students IN - which is a hazard, not to mention child endangerment.
These teachers need to be investigated for child abuse.
In high school I had to take a final exam of a strength and conditioning class that involved a 3-mile run, no breaks. Around this time my asthma was really bad and I didn't have an inhaler because in the US (at the time) inhalers are prescription only. I tried to tell the instructor that I was having an asthma attack and needed to go to the nurse, but he told me I was just being lazy and didn't want to finish the exam. I decided to be a stubborn little shit and forced myself to finish the entire run, towards the end of the run I started blacking out and my vision failed but I still ended up crossing the finish line. Naturally I was the last student in class to do so and almost immediately fell to the ground, pulling down my shirt and scratching at my throat as I tried to catch my breath. The teacher started panicking and asking me if he needed to call an ambulance, but I told him no and he was going to watch me suffer until the attack faded. One of my friends in the class ended up helping me stumble back into the school to sit down on the bleachers, the teacher bringing me a bottle of water that I only vaguely poured over my head because I felt overheated. Eventually the attack did end and I was okay, but I did happen to notice that the three-mile mandatory final exam was no longer implemented in that class 🙃
Story 1: OP's parents should have sued the school and the teacher for a few million dollars, and had the teacher charged with child abuse (the teacher had controlling authority over OP and it's just like a parent abused a child.)
The teacher in the first story should have been fired for gross misconduct. Failing that, the school should have been sued into oblivion for not doing so.
Not walking on graduation is a punishment? I begged my parents to get out of that.
My own teacher story. I went back to college in my late 40s. I was working on the associates so I could step up to the senior university. This meant I was the oldest living student in every class. I had also had massive trouble with math in my time back in high school and never understood why (because I was an honor student everywhere else) until the college gave me a test and found out I was a victim of dyscalculia. This means I mix up my numbers (5's look like 2's, 8's and 3's look alike, 6's and 9's are horrible, etc). Even proof reading I will mix them up. I had to take a science class (i'm an English/History double major) and there was a Chemistry for Non-Science students offered. Sounded like a good thing (I'm also allergic to formaldehyde so Biology's is a problem.) The teacher for this class was a sub for the year. Every teacher had been given a letter from the counseling office's department of disability that told of my particular problem. That should have ended the problem. Nope.
One day she called each of us up to the board to demonstrate a formula. I dread this sort of thing because not only am I having trouble with my numbers, I'm having that trouble in front of everyone AND I'm almost the kid's in this class's moms age. When it was my turn, she gave me the problem and I worked to solve it, all the while getting more and more nervous. As I finished it, I stepped back to look at it, I was sure there was something wrong with it. In front of everyone, she said "What is your issue? You got it right, are you just stupid?" I burst into tears, walked to my chair, grabbed my books, and left the class, her calling "where are you going?" after me. I walked straight to the Dean of Student's office and made a complaint. I wasn't the first to run into her attitude face first. I think she got into trouble because she managed to not come to class several times the rest of the semester and even sent her husband in to administer the final. Our entire class took the final and went to the Dean of Students to complain about that because her husband wasn't the teacher and didn't know the material to provide assistance. I heard later she was asked to resign, and she did.
I went on to get four associate degrees (English, History, Technical Writing, and Desktop Publishing) and my History major with English minor B.A. And I remained the oldest person in every class until I left. I loved being with the students and learning new things, I just hated that teacher for making me feel stupid.
"are you just stupid?" Are words that should never come out of a teacher's mouth. Ever. If someone has a desire to learn, they are by definition not stupid.
The teacher MR R should have been charged with attempted murder!
And this is the kind of incompetence that results in big time lawsuits against schools.
Teachers like this are just terrible 😔
I graduated 2010. I didn't walk do to a number of reasons.
I refused to pay the price they wanted for the uniform.
I hade absolutely no respect for the school, as they did everything they could to try and fail me. All do to the drama my older sister put the school though. She was assaulted in that school by another student so badly that she was hospitalized. The school buried the event as best they could. But the story still stuck, they knew the student that did the deed was violent, but refused to expel her. She eventually put my sister in the hospital. They were so tight lipped about it that if you brang it up in conversation, you'd get detention for it.
They forced my older brother to drop out. He wasn't a great student, but was tired of the schools BS and didn't let them put him down. So they got a group of girls to accuse him of doing stuff to them on school property. Problem is, he himself wasn't in school that day "with proof" but the school told him that they'd call the police to press charges if he didn't drop out.
They tried many times to keep me from graduating. But i was an A/B Student and had zero disciplinary issues. So they decided to loose my records for a while and tried to fail me on an incomplete. When that didn't work, a teacher "misplaced" my school work and didn't find it in time to add it to my grade. So i failed an important class and had to repeat it the following year adding to my work load. In the end I dodged all their attempts to fail me and graduated. But I didn't walk. I signed off on not being apart of it. So out of spit they refused to give me my diploma. I tried all summer long to get it, and eventually ended up walking into the school office during the start of the new school year and demanding it. They couldn't find it and one of the secretaries told me that I'd of had it by now if i'd of Walked. I had to call the school super, just to get it. Took the lady a week of arguing with them, but she got it for me.
When I was a kid I had a school nurse that wouldn't call your parents unless you had a fever, the problem was I could have a raging strep infection and still not get a fever, you could only tell I was sick by any other non fever related symptoms, but because of this nurse my parents had to let me stay home whenever I said I felt unwell because they couldn't trust the nurse to call them if shy me felt unwell enough to leave class to go to the nurses office. This did lead to me taking advantage of the fact and missing school just because I didn't want to go for whatever reason, but I was carefully not to do it too often so I didn't lose the privilege of my parents trust. I didn't get my first fever until I was an adult with kids and all I can say is wow! Fevers suck! I'm so blessed that I almost never run a fever, I had no idea how much worse they make a person feel. I've had a second fever now almost 20 years later after the first, and am quite thankful it's still so rare for me. But without a fever you can still feel crummy when fighting an infection and I've been sick loads of times without one. But I do get a cough whenever I get sick, even with when I got chicken pocks (doctor called it viral asthma) which also sucks, but not as bad as a fever.
We had a teacher who physically locked us in to do a mass detention, but he then left us to our own devices, twice. The first time we escaped by putting a chair on a desk and climbing up into the space above the classroom through a trap door and going through to another trap outside over the cloakroom. The tallest bloke in the class dropped down and put another chair on desk from adjoining classroom. He also put the chair back in the classroom as he could reach from the desk. The teacher came back to an empty but locked classroom and no idea how we (for once the whole class co-operated with each other) got out. The following week when he pulled the same trick, we merely dismantled the lock on the fire escape door, left that way. This was in about 1968 uk.
Nice to know teachers haven't changed since I was in school more than 30 years ago. I had a teacher tell the class I was faking when I had a seizure in her class. She never did call an ambulance, a classmate ran and got the nurse and the teacher even told her I was faking. She told her it was on record I have epilepsy and the teacher said it was just me playing so I can go home early. The only thing that happened to her is she was told to read her student's records, ever since then I have been completely against tenure since all it does is protect bad teachers and teaching is the job most chosen by abusive narcissist.
My flabbers are absolutely ghasted that there are so many people who think asthma and life-endangering allergies are not real!
Story 1 - No OP, he wasn't being protective after. He was in full CYA mode, to keep his job. I'm shocked they didn't fire him! My parents would have been in the principal's, superintendent's, and on up the food chain, demanding satisfaction for almost killing their child. AND filing a lawsuit, too.
Everyone who ignores allergies and astma should go in prison for attempted murder, because it quite frankly is.
I had a math teacher who disliked me for reasons I don't know why. She generally hated girls though and never answered question from girls. If any girl ever asked a question about something she would scream "ARE YOU STUPID?" and not answer. I guess maybe because I said "No, but it's your JOB to explain it!" might have rubbed her the wrong way. So she decided she was going to try to flunk me. Now, she wouldn't grade homework assignments. She would have us pass the assignments to another student and she would call out answers and we would mark the papers and then put them on her desk. I should also note, the kid who always got my papers was a friend of mine and was the one student in class that she really liked. He was her favorite. People used to pass him notes with questions to ask her bc if he asked a question she would answer very sweetly. Anyway, near the end of the semester she smugly told me that I was failing her class bc I hadn't turned in 10 homework assignments and I had zeros on them. The friend of mine heard this and said "But Ma'am, she did all of her homework assignments! I graded them and turned them in!" He then said he would help her look for them and searched her desk-- finding every single one. and on every single one I had 100%. I was a straight A student. She decided to fuck me over at the end of the year though. So, I had an A for every semester and an A on my final exam, but she decided to write down that I had a letter grade B for my final grade- no number grade and no explanation for why she arbitrarily gave me a B. But it stuck as a B when I transferred overseas to my next school and fucked up my GPA. At the new school there was a teacher like OPs who would hate students and grade them badly if she didn't like them. She disliked my brother and I bc we weren't from a wealthy family and I secretly suspect she had contempt for my father & his job. She would give us failing grades on subjective tests and tell us we were going to fail (she did this to numerous other students). I saw a paper my brother wrote where she had written notes saying "Great!" "Wonderful" "Everything I wanted!" and then "F" as the grade. She told him she graded him harder than other students bc he was such a good writer she expected more from him. It was just an excuse to fuck him over.
I had a professor in college nicknamed El Diablo because he did not believe that anybody deserved an a on their assignments. About half the class failed
I am visually impaired, in ninth grade and my PE teacher wanted me to kick a couple of empty bottle jugs up and down the basketball court. I stopped dead at tracks and told her no and got kicked out of PE for the rest of the year.
Isn’t it illegal to withhold or block emergency services from someone who needs it? Forget loosing his job, why wasn’t he arrested and face charges?
I had a university professor once who really hated people coming in late and would chew on anyone that was late for disturbing the class. Well, this one morning on the way to class I got into a car accident, a person didn't look when changing lanes and tried to occupy the same space as me. So I was late to class. The prof started to go off about being late to which I explained I was in a car accident. He didn't believe me and said prove it. His expression changed when I showed him the police report and just said go sit down.
Last story: of course the policy was gone. Imagine the school being sued because the teacher tried to force a student to fail by locking them out of the exam room.
It's amazing that more kids don't fail to graduate, not to mention die, because of a few teachers with power problems.
I had a similar issue with one of my early community college professors with being late. I worked (to pay for college) and got off work right before class.
After about 2 or 3 weeks after he kept telling me the same bs “if you wanted to be here you would, this is your only responsibility” not caring I have a JOB. So I told him “f*** it, I’ll leave the class then” and dropped the course.
Story 4: My high school implemented a rule where the electric door holders would turn off when the bell rang, and the doors would be locked. They would then go through "collecting" any students who were locked out in the hallways, and take them to the office. So instead of being 15 seconds late to class, you would now be 15 minutes late.
I'm not a parent. I dont even have a cat. But if I had a kid that went to the hospital because a teacher ignored their condition, I would make it my life's mission to see that teacher not only becomes jobless and homeless, but stayed that way
Senior project again - if that principal wanted to go out with 100% participation rate, he should have just been honest with the students about that. If he wss a half way decent or well liked principal, i think this fellow would have tried to help.
Asthma Story: OP's mistake was listening to the Teacher and not simply walking out of the class to stagger to the Office to get his Inhaler...
I would have...
Then I'd call the Police and CPS to report the Teacher for Criminal Negligence and Child Endangerment...He doesn't believe Asthma is real? Then he has no business being anywhere near kids!
If you have a chronic illness as a student in the US, get a 504 plan. Not a safety plan. 504 plan is based on federal law. If it's violated, like the asthma and diabetes stories, you have federal backing.
I made a complaint about a teacher locking the doors when my oldest son was in middle school. I went to the fire department. My oldest has asthma but 45 years ago, there weren’t inhalers. He had meds in the office. Kids aren’t allowed to keep their inhalers on them in school, which is ridiculous. U have to go through bull to get a student to be able to keep theirs on them.