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There are many reasons why people become teachers. &quot;To mold the minds of the next generation and change lives&quot; is just one of them. Other ones include: having summers off, seeking revenge on children, and the fact that it&#39;s just part of being a nun. Needless to say, some teachers aren&#39;t always on their best behavior and definitely deserve detention.In an unofficial but epic crossover between Reddit forums, a recent<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lg4for/when_did_you_realise_that_teacher_you_loved_was/"> thread asked,</a> &quot;When did you realise that teacher you loved was actually an a**?&quot; It&#39;s full of moments in which respected role models are revealed to be The A**hole.(We didn&#39;t include the stories of criminals, because those are both too disturbing too obvious.)1.<blockquote> The day before Christmas break my 7th grade English teacher gave us a crossword puzzle about how Santa wasn&rsquo;t real. She was sitting in the back with students laughing about how one year she did this and a student still believed. I still believed......... worst last day before break ever. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/newfielover998/">newfielover998</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>2.<blockquote> When I asked for an academic reference after leaving school. For 8 years she was my head of year and history teacher for 4 of those. Called me a star pupil, we had in jokes, I gave her gifts at the end of each academic year. But suddenly 3 years after I left, she &quot;didn&#39;t know me well enough&quot; to write one. I was really disappointed and tbh a little heartbroken. I complained to some school friends who mostly weren&#39;t surprised and said they&#39;d all found her two faced and didn&#39;t like her back then. I was the only one who thought she was amazing and inspiring. Later in life I&#39;ve had university lecturers happily give me references without batting an eyelid, 5 years after completing their modules.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thezoolologist/">thezoolologist</a> </blockquote>3.<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> I had an Ap English teacher in Junior High that I loved. I had a 98% in her class and truly enjoyed her teaching. In our school our english teacher would hand out the student of the month awards. My football coach had nominated me, however I didn&#39;t know until she brings it to me one day in class. When she handed it to me i was shocked and said something like &quot; wow student of the month i&#39;ve never received on of these before&quot; and she said without hesitation &quot; I know you definitely don&#39;t deserve it&quot; .... I paused for a second a said excuse me thinking maybe I misunderstood her and without blinking she said I don&#39;t think you deserve that. It was then and there I realized how much of an ass she was. I immediately replied with well i don&#39;t give a fuck what you think, which of course swiftly landed me in the office. Despite me advising the principal what she had said I was hit with the classic &quot; were not talking about her&quot; It still to this day blows my mind that she was able to get away with that.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Desilu027/">Desilu027</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>4.<blockquote> Not an a** but still disappointing. My favourite HS teacher, with whom I took three classes in my final two years, didn&#39;t remember me at all when I visited the school again a few years later. Not even the slightest hint of having seen me before. I was in his classroom when 9/11 happened.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/eggplantsrin/">eggplantsrin</a> </blockquote>5.<blockquote> My math teacher in 5th grade put me in a corner in the hallway for like a month every lunch because I once asked the whole class to be quiet and that was &ldquo;disrespectful&rdquo;. My dumba** thought I was getting my own quiet space and went there more often which I guess brought the attention of another teacher and he said you&rsquo;re punishment is done you can leave. I wonder how many more times I would have had to go there and eat lunch all alone if he hadn&rsquo;t said that.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Anarsissist/">Anarsissist</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>6.<blockquote> When he made 80% of our grade about coming in and recording our choir concert and I sent him 3 emails saying I couldn&#39;t go in and I got a 0 on it because he never responded to any of them.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/satoshima03/">satoshima03</a> </blockquote>7.<blockquote> When he was fired (rightfully so) for make a joke about needed to mask up when a student from Wuhan joined a Zoom class. College professor that does marketing courses. I always thought he was approachable and seemed to know what he was talking about. In retrospect, he was childish and that was why I found him approachable when I was 18.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/singleslammer/">singleslammer</a> </blockquote>8.<blockquote> My 4th grade teacher was so supportive of my writing. He praised everything I did and I thought he was a amazing teacher. Other students never seemed to like him but I just thought they were bad students. Then one day a kid left a classroom book face open on a desk to save his spot and they teacher yelled at him so long he cried. He finished yelling by throwing a chair across the room. I now see him as the worst teacher I ever had.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Jackthebodyless/">Jackthebodyless</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>9.<blockquote> My 8th(?) grade history teacher. Super cool and funny dude that coached most teams and was THE teacher for boys to have. In hindsight, having a personality that middle school boys find cool and manly is really, really bad as an adult...an absolute douchebag through and through. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CaucasianDelegation/">CaucasianDelegation</a> </blockquote>10.<blockquote> I had a teacher that was really nice to children tear up my work in front of me and shove it in the bin because I hadn&#39;t coloured within the lines well enough for her. I was 3/4. Ruined art/drawing for me for life.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HairyHorux/">HairyHorux</a> </blockquote>11.<blockquote> Drama teacher. Super popular with everyone and charismatic. He &ldquo;borrowed&rdquo; money from students with the promise of being paid back. It was supposed to be for snacks/ items the class needed He would later claim he never took any money in the first place. That was a hard $100 lesson I learned.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cooldart61/">cooldart61</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>12.<blockquote> When they allowed me - with permission - to leave class for health reasons, to go to the bathroom etc, only for them to bring up during a conference with parents how I was intentionally missing class time, despite getting permission to go from him and also being top of the class. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/britishbish/">britishbish</a> </blockquote>13.<blockquote> I liked my seventh grade social studies teacher until I realized he NEVER answered emails, and if he did he was rude about it. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Silent-Income-8231/">Silent-Income-8231</a> </blockquote>14.<blockquote> When I overheard him call me a piece of shit who was going nowhere in life behind my back. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kermunism/">Kermunism</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 former students share the moment they realized their teacher was a jerk.

There are many reasons why people become teachers. &quot;To mold the minds of the next generation and change lives&quot; is just one of them. Other ones include: having summers off, seeking revenge on children, and the fact that it&#39;s just part of being a nun. Needless to say, some teachers aren&#39;t always on their best behavior and definitely deserve detention.In an unofficial but epic crossover between Reddit forums, a recent thread asked, &quot;When did you realise that teacher you loved was actually an a**?&quot; It&#39;s full of moments in which respected role models are revealed to be The A**hole.(We didn&#39;t include the stories of criminals, because those are both too disturbing too obvious.)1. The day before Christmas break my 7th grade English teacher gave us a crossword puzzle about how Santa wasn&rsquo;t real. She was sitting in the back with students laughing about how one year she did this and a student still believed. I still believed......... worst last day before break ever. -newfielover998 2. When I asked for an academic reference after leaving school. For 8 years she was my head of year and history teacher for 4 of those. Called me a star pupil, we had in jokes, I gave her gifts at the end of each academic year. But suddenly 3 years after I left, she &quot;didn&#39;t know me well enough&quot; to write one. I was really disappointed and tbh a little heartbroken. I complained to some school friends who mostly weren&#39;t surprised and said they&#39;d all found her two faced and didn&#39;t like her back then. I was the only one who thought she was amazing and inspiring. Later in life I&#39;ve had university lecturers happily give me references without batting an eyelid, 5 years after completing their modules.-thezoolologist 3. I had an Ap English teacher in Junior High that I loved. I had a 98% in her class and truly enjoyed her teaching. In our school our english teacher would hand out the student of the month awards. My football coach had nominated me, however I didn&#39;t know until she brings it to me one day in class. When she handed it to me i was shocked and said something like &quot; wow student of the month i&#39;ve never received on of these before&quot; and she said without hesitation &quot; I know you definitely don&#39;t deserve it&quot; .... I paused for a second a said excuse me thinking maybe I misunderstood her and without blinking she said I don&#39;t think you deserve that. It was then and there I realized how much of an ass she was. I immediately replied with well i don&#39;t give a fuck what you think, which of course swiftly landed me in the office. Despite me advising the principal what she had said I was hit with the classic &quot; were not talking about her&quot; It still to this day blows my mind that she was able to get away with that.-Desilu027 4. Not an a** but still disappointing. My favourite HS teacher, with whom I took three classes in my final two years, didn&#39;t remember me at all when I visited the school again a few years later. Not even the slightest hint of having seen me before. I was in his classroom when 9/11 happened.-eggplantsrin 5. My math teacher in 5th grade put me in a corner in the hallway for like a month every lunch because I once asked the whole class to be quiet and that was &ldquo;disrespectful&rdquo;. My dumba** thought I was getting my own quiet space and went there more often which I guess brought the attention of another teacher and he said you&rsquo;re punishment is done you can leave. I wonder how many more times I would have had to go there and eat lunch all alone if he hadn&rsquo;t said that.-Anarsissist 6. When he made 80% of our grade about coming in and recording our choir concert and I sent him 3 emails saying I couldn&#39;t go in and I got a 0 on it because he never responded to any of them.-satoshima03 7. When he was fired (rightfully so) for make a joke about needed to mask up when a student from Wuhan joined a Zoom class. College professor that does marketing courses. I always thought he was approachable and seemed to know what he was talking about. In retrospect, he was childish and that was why I found him approachable when I was 18.-singleslammer 8. My 4th grade teacher was so supportive of my writing. He praised everything I did and I thought he was a amazing teacher. Other students never seemed to like him but I just thought they were bad students. Then one day a kid left a classroom book face open on a desk to save his spot and they teacher yelled at him so long he cried. He finished yelling by throwing a chair across the room. I now see him as the worst teacher I ever had.-Jackthebodyless 9. My 8th(?) grade history teacher. Super cool and funny dude that coached most teams and was THE teacher for boys to have. In hindsight, having a personality that middle school boys find cool and manly is really, really bad as an adult...an absolute douchebag through and through. -CaucasianDelegation 10. I had a teacher that was really nice to children tear up my work in front of me and shove it in the bin because I hadn&#39;t coloured within the lines well enough for her. I was 3/4. Ruined art/drawing for me for life.-HairyHorux 11. Drama teacher. Super popular with everyone and charismatic. He &ldquo;borrowed&rdquo; money from students with the promise of being paid back. It was supposed to be for snacks/ items the class needed He would later claim he never took any money in the first place. That was a hard $100 lesson I learned.-cooldart61 12. When they allowed me - with permission - to leave class for health reasons, to go to the bathroom etc, only for them to bring up during a conference with parents how I was intentionally missing class time, despite getting permission to go from him and also being top of the class. -britishbish 13. I liked my seventh grade social studies teacher until I realized he NEVER answered emails, and if he did he was rude about it. -Silent-Income-8231 14. When I overheard him call me a piece of shit who was going nowhere in life behind my back. -Kermunism 

There are many reasons why people become teachers. &quot;To mold the minds of the next generation and change lives&quot; is just one of them. Other ones include: having summers off, seeking revenge on children, and the fact that it&#39;s...