16 teachers share the most unbelievable things they've seen their students do.
Teachers are on the front lines of educating our youth and preparing them to be functional people in society. Showing youth care and love, but at times, it's necessary to teach them about consequences.
On a popular Reddit thread in the Ask Reddit Subreddit, teachers share the most bizarre things they had to send a student to the office for.
1. joelwhite313 says:
A new male student gets mistaken by his classmates for being female (he has long and shiny hair). I’m guessing this wasn’t the first time this has happened, as he immediately jumped to the top of his desk, pulled out his c*ck and balls, and waved them out to everyone yelling, ‘what the f*ck is this? I’m a boy; I’m a boy!
2. jl_theprofessor says:
Got into a fistfight with their mother outside the classroom door.
3. Beirsed1985 says:
We were doing sketch comedy in my 6th-grade class a few years back, and seeing it was a nice day; we went outside to rehearse. From across the field, I see one of my students very clearly and aggressively trying to put his junk on a prone classmate. When I asked him, he said it was for his sketch, and he was playing a character named 'the iron teabag.' The best was the follow-up text from my boss saying, 'I had to Google what teabagging was before I met with the kid.'
4. ThePhiff says:
Each morning I let my kids talk about whatever they want for five minutes. Kind of like show and tell for teenagers. One morning a kid opens the comment portion by saying, 'Kobe!' That's it. No elaboration, nothing. A kid in the back says, 'Man, Kobe sucks.' The first kid was super offended. 'What?!? Yo, MAMA sucks!'
Before I could even register the craziness, the second kid is out of his chair, over the tables, and wailing away on the first kid's face. I had to write a report of what happened, and the office staff kept saying I needed to finish the report. 'This can't be everything that happened!' Oh, but it was. Utterly bizarre.
5. Deet1950 says:
A kid in boarding school tried to cook a raw chicken for about 5 minutes in the microwave. A whole chicken.
6. Sparklersstars says:
One kid kept stabbing another kid in the neck with a needle. The kid getting stabbed didn't feel it, but I saw it. The stabber was sent to the office, and the other kid was none the wiser.
7. Pronfulh says:
This kid dropped a folder full of xeroxed copies of his hairy a**. He had been taping them to people's lockers all over school.
8. James_Is_Raging says:
The kid was selling cocaine. Thirteen yrs old. Cops were involved. I had to go to court. It was a massive headache all around.
A kid ate the dead class fish when my sister was a substitute teacher. It was Monday, so that it might’ve been dead all weekend.
10. Pretend_Dog_2253 says:
The kid arrives at class 10-15 minutes late for a 40-minute class. 7th grade. Shawn: 'Sorry, Ms. G, I was in a bad mood, and I didn’t want to bring it to class.' Me: Hi Shawn, I will still have to count you tardy. You’re extremely late, and I need to know where you are for safety reasons. In the future, there’s a counselor request form on my Google Classroom page you can fill out.'
Shawn: 'Okay, thanks' Things went normally for about ten minutes until another student shot a rubber band. It didn't hit anyone. In the middle of me giving instruction, he gets up, walks slowly across the room (I assumed for a tissue), and smacks the other student across the face.
11. sopsychcase says:
In 1988 I sent a 7th-grade student to the office on a Monday morning because he was bleeding profusely from a botched nipple piercing he had performed on himself the night before. He pulled up his shirt, and it looked like 2/3 of his nipple was missing. The blood had soaked the front of his shirt.
12. Cardboard_dad says:
School Counselor here who is forced against their will to mostly remediate behavior. I had a 2nd grader coming back from suspension shouting I’m back, mother f*ckas upon returning into the room. I had a 4th grader calling other students' parents to tell on them. (I thought it was pretty creative, although everyone else is up in arms). I had another 2nd grader kicking the cane out from beneath an elderly sub.
I had a 3rd grader have a meltdown about getting their parents called. Not in itself a big deal. But the student shouts, 'They take all their parenting advice from Britney! I hate BRITNEY!' I had a 4th-grade gambling ring based on the school's token economy. I had a 5th-grader 'snack bandit' who covertly sold snacks because the school's food was so bad. (Again not sure why everyone was up in arms).
13. lianavan says:
Tossing a chair at a fellow student's head because they didn't want to let them cheat. Then the follow-up was with the lovely mother, who could not grasp that her kid was being suspended and that she would have to pay medical bills. The other student had a deep gash on his shoulder, and I was bruised on my left side from trying to intervene.
14. Noragen says:
Slightly outside of the question, but as a student, I was once sent to the disciplinary officer with a 'pink slip' that only said, 'Noragen was being overly attentive in class.'
15. TheRedditDatabase says:
I had a student that cried every time I tried to encourage her to answer questions in front of the class. I stopped calling her to the board because I feared she might face bad trauma or anxiety. So I let her do individual work. One day I found out she, during class time, kept sending inappropriate insulting texts around the class about some classmates and myself.
When I emailed her mother about this, she went as far as using her mother’s account to send me an email saying, 'just leave her alone.' The next morning she remarked that I was inconsiderate for giving out homework when some students were working. I was surprised to see her suddenly speak loudly and interrupt me during class. She attempted to name other students that work after school just like her.
However, one of them, Aiden, stood up, saying, 'So? I still get my homework done, except I don’t waste time gossiping about others and using crocodile tears when showing my understanding in class.' She was shocked, stood there for a bit, and started crying, which felt forced. I sent her straight to the office and called her mother to verify who sent the email, and had her come over for a long discussion.
16. Necessary_Sir_5079 says:
There was a stench in the classroom, but they couldn't figure it out for months. A boy was making POOP balls on his desk. Rolling up his turds and putting them where pencils would go on the sides. She has completely blacked out this whole thing.