Teachers of Reddit: Tell us about your creepiest, awkwardest, or just overall strangest students.

KimchiWarrior · 1 year

I taught in a special needs school for a while and in my form class I had a kid who had rage issues. If he didn't like something he would get very very angry. One day he got mad about something and I had to stay with him until he calmed down. He turned his rage onto me and shouted "I wish I didn't like you"

Fair to say the smile he put on my face didn't make him calm down.

Albondigo · 1 year

I had a student who would sit there and do nothing other than draw pictures of hot, naked women giving birth to swans.

amayain · 1 year

I had to proctor exams during my first year as a graduate student. In the middle of a stats exam, this kid yells "FUCK" as loud as he possibly could, and starts running full steam toward my desk in the front of the room. As he approaches my desk, his path starts to arc, so that he is now able to throw his exam across my desk without stopping his sprint, now running full speed toward the door. As he approaches the door he jump kicks the door open like this, and continues to run down the hallway, yelling "FUCK" as loud as he could.

I turn to the class and everyone's jaws are just hanging open.

EDIT: To everyone asking what happened after: absolutely nothing happened. He failed the exam, and since it was the final, I never saw the kid again. I have no idea what prompted the outburst other than maybe he knew that he was going to fail....

Jillish · 1 year

I had a student that only wore Insane Clown Posse shirts.

Also, during introductions at the beginning of the year, she told the class that she had the temperament of a rabbit. I asked what she meant by that and she said she "oh, you'll find out."

Also, she would cover her ears and sing Celtic folk songs at the end of class.

Oh and she would correct the other student's pronunciations of words while reading, usually as, or right after I corrected them. I had to ask her to stop. The rest of the class hated her.

butterforfilm · 1 year

I'm an assistant English teacher at a Japanese high school, where most students stare at their desks to avoid eye contact. One boy, however, waits for me to look at him and then makes an insane face until I lose it. He occasionally walks by my desk in the teacher's room and shouts random western things like "Obama! Harry Potter!" and then continues on his way.

minifer · 1 year

There's a kid at my mum's school who's rather autistic. His obsession is with time, as in everything has to be done at the same time as the previous day, and the day before that, and the day before that and so on. At the moment he also has a thing about cardigans. My mum practically always wears cardigans so when he sees her walking round school he repeatedly asks her what time she's taking her cardigan off.

wanttoplayball · 1 year

When I was in High School, one kid had to wear diapers because he would piss or shit himself whenever he had to go.

His logic was that if he had to go, he shouldn't have to go to the bathroom. He was not in 'Speshul Ed', he was in normal classes(and AP Biology).

The classroom always got super awkward after he'd shit himself in the middle of class and act like nothing weird happened at all, but we knew... Everyone has a poop face.

TL;DR - Kid would shit himself whenever he felt like going on a daily basis. Zero fucks were given by the administration.

Dowgellah · 1 year

The kids these days make me feel bad about my own adolescence. A conversation in class betw. a 13-yo and a 11-yo boy:

13: arrogantly So, bro, do you, like, already fuck chicks?
11: innocently perplexed Wha? :(
13: condescendingly Oh nvm, kid, no biggie. I'll ask ya again when you're thirteen.

True story.

yeahright · 1 year

I have taught 3 that really stand out, although only one was really creepy or awkward.

A 5th grade girl with OCD, ODD, SID, and any other D her mother could pay someone to diagnose her with (but not ADD; mom didn't believe in that). Would often pick at her scabs and eat them. Then suck the blood from the wound. If she had no scabs she would pick at freckles till they bled. In her defense, her mother was flipped-out nutso crazy and drove her to it.
An 8th grade boy who photoshopped a penis onto a picture of an infant; the penis and the rest of the child were equal in size. I didn't catch him with it; he actually brought it to my desk and said, "Hey Mrs. Yeahright, wanna see my baby picture?"
The one for whom every assignment, trend, song, and class was "gay." Principal brought the mother in to discuss it, and we (her teachers) had to be present. Mom asked for specific instances, thought each one over, and said, "Yeah, that sounds pretty gay to me, too." Turned out the student's father had recently left the family for his male lover.

TL;DR - scab-eater; penis portrayer; unsupportive of Dad's new lifestyle

Leelluu · 1 year

When I was in high school, there was a kid who would randomly get up and leave the room and wander the halls. Sometimes he would get up and go through the storage cabinets in the classrooms. Once, he had a hole in his jeans. He picked the fuzz off the frayed edges and ate it.

He would often say, "Yes," in agreement to whatever the teacher was saying. After being told that it was distracting (many times ) and that he needed to raise his hand to talk, he would frequently raise his hand and when called on, he would say, "Yes," and nothing else.

A_Fortiori · 1 year

I'm not sure if this counts, but I'll get propositioned every once in a while by a (college) student looking for a better grade.

It happens more often than you think, and also is not nearly as awesome as you think.

Maxxters · 1 year

I had a 16 year old student profess his love to me. I was out patrolling the yard at lunch time and he simply came up to me (extremely nervously) and let me know that he'd had a huge crush on me all year and that he would really like to take me out sometime. He also mentioned that he wasn't able to "perform" with his girlfriend anymore because she can't compare to me. I made it very clear that it would never happen and that he was never to bring it up again and had to keep myself from sprinting away. Well, the next day, he's sitting at his desk with a book from home. I could tell he was trying to catch my eye with it and I glanced at the title... "How to be a good lover". FML.

BitchesGetStitches · 1 year

During my internships, I worked at an alternative high school, and one student in particular was very memorable. He was tall, chubby, and had a giant Jew-afro. He was involved in an accident as a baby that left him with severe brain damage, and he lacked basic social behavior skills - he would interrupt, scream in the middle of lectures, talk all the time, and constantly be drumming on his desk with his pencil (he would never notice that he was doing this until I told him). However, I discovered he was an absolute genius when it came to chemistry, particularly in the area of narcotics. He knew the chemical composition of every drug known to man, and could discuss in detail how they were made, how the chemicals interacted with the human brain, etc.

By the end of the semester, I would purposefully end my lectures short so I could have time to hear him talk. It was awesome. He decided by the end of my class that he wanted to go to college to become a chemical engineer, to create non-addicted pain medication. I have high hopes for this dude.

[deleted] · 1 year

I teach English as a second language to adults. I once had a student who wore the same suit every day, and ALWAYS smelled absolutely terrible. One day, he asked me to settle an argument he was having with his friend.

Apparently, his friend had told him that Americans shower every day, and he had tribble believing it. When I told him, "I can't speak for all Americans, but I shower every day, sometimes twice a day when it's hot," he flipped out.

He started throwing desks around the room while screaming at the top of his lungs, "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! NO ONE COULD EVER SHOWER THAT MUCH!"

tl;dr: I shower more often than is humanly possible.

missxmolly · 1 year

it has been common knowledge since 7th grade that a guy in my class fucked his cat.

EDIT- forgot to mention that the same kid recently got arrested/suspended for bringing a gun to school to shoot a guy who said something about his mom...so shit is going down.

smel_bert · 1 year

When I was in 11th grade, someone who sat in my desk in another class started writing really dark poetry on the desk, and drawing creepy pictures. I absentmindedly doodled hearts or butterflies or something, and the next day he had written another poem and "broken" a heart (drew a jagged line through it). I responded with a poem about happiness and rainbows, and then we basically had a happy vs. angry poetry battle all over the desk. I eventually found out who the guy was. He was really quiet and lots of people thought he was strange, but I never got a scary vibe.

We ended up being pretty friendly acquaintances by the end of senior year, although I think he thought I was pretty weird. :)

TL;DR found a creepy poem on my desk, responded with sunshine-rainbows poem, sparked epic poetry battle with goth kid.

cinereoargenteus · 1 year

I once had a student who used to eat her own hair and who once took out her tampon and put it in her mouth.

ngravy21 · 1 year

Had a student several years ago that would wiz himself every other Wednesday...it was like clockwork. He was a 7th grader.

Also had a student that used to draw pictures of beavers eating almost every other animal out there.

InferiousX · 1 year

I remember a kid I went to grade school with who would rarely participate in classroom discussions.

The reason for this is that almost anytime he did decide to raise his hand to answer a question, the answer was "Jesus".

"Who got America involved in World War II?"

raises hand

Weird kid: "Jesus."

Every frickin time

condescending-twit · 1 year

I had two students (from Korea although I'm not sure it matters) who were brothers. They started out in different sections but I told people I didn't care which section they went to so they started coming to the same section. Of course they sat together. They got the exact same scores on the first two quizzes with the same wrong answers (and there were a fair number). Anyway, I told the prof and started keeping an eye on them. I mean, they were on track to fail either way... I made sure they got different tests for the midterm and all. Anyway, right after the midterm, I got identical (word-for-word) e-mails from them saying which prompt they had written their papers about. The papers were as poorly-written as the e-mail but definitely different. Then again, it's an intro class so stupid, unoriginal papers are the norm. However, when I got their tests results back back and saw the same scores, I decided to figure out if they had the same wrong answers. The thing is, though, given how long the test was and how bad their English was, I seriously doubted they could have found the identical questions in a 50-question test and answered them the same way in less than 50 minutes--all while being flagged for the other six TAs proctoring in the lecture hall as likely to cheat. I spent about ten minutes hunting through the test and gave up.

It was at this point that I remembered the getting-to-know-you sheets from the first day. I went back and pulled them out only to find that they too were identical with the exception of name and age. The weird thing was that not only were they in different sections--I had everyone interview their neighbor and write down their answers. Yet nonetheless it seemed like even filtered through different students in different sections the two kids were essentially the same person. I sent the e-mails to the other TAs and the prof, recounted the whole episode and everyone had a good laugh and decided not to do anything about it.

TL;DRI had two students who were ostensibly brothers from Korea but may in fact have been Vulcans.

sanspanties · 1 year

Marty is a 14-year old sexual offender, who requires accompaniment by an aide at all times, because he will masterbate to ANY FORM of stimulation. I had to change my lesson plans and visual resources to censor out even the most mundane images.

Danny is a special needs kid who communicates with only chirps and squeaks.

Sam is an 18-year old female who is obsessed with pasta. She talks about it, makes art with it, shouts out various pasta terms (FUSILLI! AL DENTE! TAGLIATELLE!) at inappropriate times.

Cody is an 18-year old male who has never, in 3 years of classes, responded to me with more than a yes or no. Many times he just stares at me with a blank look on his face. His work always includes references to weaponry, and he recently welded his own cross-bow.

NipponNiGajin · 1 year

I have a special needs kid who is tiny. He is in second grade of JHS and the smallest possible uniform is still huge on him. He found out that we live near each other so now he always wants to walk to and from school with me. This kid is so ADHD it's not funny. When we have sports day and he needs to run 2km, you have to have two teachers running with him because he will forget he's running and either fall flat on his face or wander off to do other things. When we walk to school everyday he quizzes me relentlessly with 'Do you like..?" and often yells random things like "I like...it's SUNNY!!"

This kid totally makes my day, and I adore him.

EDIT: Wow guys, I got reddit gold just for doing my job? I though telling reddit about this kid would be cute but I didn't expect this kind of response. Thank you very much everyone!

doctorscurvy · 1 year

We have a student who printed erotic fanfiction in the library

Krieger91 · 1 year

Alien In The 8th Grade

I'm not a teacher, but this is a damn crazy story that I just have to tell everyone. Now, when I was in middle school there was a kid who looked real nerdy. Not just nerdy but... off: crooked glasses, huge eyebrows, a nasally voice, and acted very detached/reclusive. Let's call him Josh. Josh sat near me in History class, the teacher was a well known bitch and everyone coming into her class that year was fully aware of it. One day Josh was sitting there with some graphing paper, I asked him what the hell he was doing and he begrudgingly showed it to me. It was some advanced looking drawing of a spaceship schematic. I kid you not this drawing looked as legit as something coming out of a graduate engineering course. Scrawled all over it were equations of some sort, most likely trajectory and wind vectors. This is when he told us he was half-alien. His proposed plan -brace yourself for this- was to launch this spacecraft from the roof of the school and return to his home planet.

Make a footnote here: This is where shit gets really fucked up.

Many times I observed this kid scribbling on paper. I thought nothing of it. He's just scribbling, you know? One time I took a closer look at what exactly he was doing during this class. Every single page of his notebook was filled to the brim with some kind of alien marking. He hand-drew thousands upon thousands of lines of odd script like some kind of grotesque alien manifesto. At this point I freaked the hell out and firmly resolved to left this nut-job alone. As time passed, there were a few scattered incidents where he went ape-shit. All of these minor incidents were merely the foreplay leading up to the grand finale.

My middle school was a large oddly shaped building that had two floors. The top floor was protected by a railing, but by the gym the railing was not built because that section was never worked on. It was essentially derelict and was impossible to access unless you climbed up. All that was up there were some sort of air conditioning ducts and abandoned construction equipment.

During our usual gym period one day, Josh decided to hide behind the bleachers. These bleachers were the ones that retracted, and at the time were done so as to leave a very small crawlspace in the back for him to hide in. Everyone tried getting him out because they thought he was stuck. Little did we know, he was not stuck. More on that later. All of the commotion drew the attention of the nearby teachers and faculty. He refused to leave the space, so chaos naturally began to ensue. Out of nowhere he decides to crawl out and bolt.

He managed to somehow climb up to that inaccessible area above the gym and was now on the roof. The staff didn't know what the hell to think. They called in the other faculty such as grounds-keepers and janitors in and attempt to coax him down. Finally out of pure frustration they just went decided to get up there themselves. On the roof, they found him as he was trying to climb into some duct. Around the outside of the duct were the majority of his "alien plans". He had things set up like some kind of command center. I assumed this was where he was going to launch his space ship or whatever the hell this kid was planning on doing up there.

Now, back to the bleachers for a moment: when they investigated his hiding spot behind the bleachers they found something quite similar. A bent spoon was lying next to what can only be described a bizarre attempt at tunneling. There were also more of his alien markings on the walls next to the tunnel scribed in some kind of phosphorescent paints.

This was not the end of this, min you. The only reason he was still there was that bitch of a history teacher that I mentioned in the beginning of the story that was making a consistent determination at defending him. She just thought he was misunderstood. Yeah right. Until one day back in that damned class I saw Josh behaving furtively in the corner of the room again. Obviously I didn't want to get into this shit, but I couldn't look away. It appeared as though he was laying out pieces of something. It looked like a battery, pieces of other batteries, operating tools, chemicals and fuses. Strange. I decided to take note of it. At home that evening, I went on the internet and thought what's the most outrageous thing this kid would attempt to make besides an alien ship?. Holy shit. No way. This kid was trying to make a god damn bomb.

I couldn't just go to the teacher in the morning, or to the faculty. Nobody would believe me. They would think I was messing with this kid and they would promptly tell me to leave him alone. No, I needed one thing: numbers. The next day at school, I immediately told the nearest person to me in class and they freaked the hell out. The whole class was going into an uproar over this kid building a home-made explosive device right in front of us. The teacher defended him and told us to leave him alone. The class finally ended and he stood up in front of the class and said:

"I'm going to blow this mother fucker up!"

The teacher was aghast, but still didn't give a shit, clearly. Holy shit? Didn't nobody just see this? I ran down to the Dean's office and confided in them. They practically called 911 right on the spot and cops were swarming the place. I had to stay and write out a statement. The Dean's office was on the second floor and had a perfect view to the parking lot. When I was leaving I looked down and saw the cops dragging Josh into the back of a squad car. Never ended up seeing him again. After all this had fizzled out, the school ended up cleaning out his locker and I can only describe what I saw in there as something from the movie "Virus". A menagerie mess of tangled wires and broken electronics. No wonder why he was always asking people for headphones or batteries. He roamed the school grounds picking up things for his bizarre collection. But the one thing I will never forget were the sounds he made when they were forcing him into that police car. If you can imagine some loud clicking sounds, kind of like the Predator, accompanied with howling so unnatural and bone chilling you would only be scratching the surface.

TL;DR: Crazy kid may be part alien, school ends up discovering his hidden lair, tries to build bomb, then gets arrested.

bukkoctopus · 1 year

I teach English in Korea. The creepiest student I've ever had would always run around with his arms up like a T-rex, eat food out of the garbage can, and sit in boxes. He really admired Hitler and would talk about how he wanted to be just like Hitler when he was older but to the Japanese. He had no concept of personal space and would always stand so close that I could feel him breath. Despite being eleven years old and a Korean boy, he was not shy at all about hitting on all of the girls in the class and declaring his love for them. He also had a wispy little dirty teen mustache that he would brag about all the time.

chemistry30 · 1 year

I teach right in the bible belt of good old Florida, I guess I don't have to point out how many people say there that their favorite book is the bible and how many people have something against gays. One of my kids decided to not give a fuck anymore and openly show: Hey look, I am gay and I LOVE it. He wears make up, you can't sometimes tell whether he wears a shirt from his sister or stole it from a 3rd grader. He gasps like a girl and tells other boys in class: You look pretty today! He get's very girly when I give him tests back and it's a good grade, he jumps up, gasps and wants to hug me. Even though some people are very uptight I have yet to meet someone who doesn't like him. He is very unique and god damn, he can make your day with his comments! He is the funniest guy I ever met in an American High school.

Flames_Bot · 1 year

I'm a high school teacher, and a girl I taught once in a supervision developed a crush on me. Her teacher later told me she was in her English class with her friends writing a list of things she liked most about me. Her list was very strange. It included wears practical shoes and nice clothes, knows Geography, licks his lips, has an accent, favourite colour is green. The strangest item on the list however was "He is the only person outside of my family to see me wearing sneakers". The funniest thing about the whole situation was her teacher (who told me at lunch one day) didn't realise the list was about me at first, and was playing along with the crush list for most of the lesson, then had the awkward moment of realisation and frantic attempts at subtly distancing herself from the situation. Fun times.

JohnCthulhu · 1 year

I'm not a teacher but I do remember this one student that was in the same class as me for quite a few years. Let's call him 'Dave.'

One of my earliest (and most horrifying) memories of school actually involves something Dave did.

It was morning break and all the students were playing in the school yard. Unfortunately, one of the kids obviously wasn't feeling the best so he ended up puking his guts up in the middle of the yard (I distinctly remember it being a pretty warm day).

Anyways, Dave walks over with this shit-eating grin on his face, gets down on his hands and knees; and proceeds to start licking at the puddle of puke. We then watched, horrified, as Dave crawled over to where we had left our jackets and bags only to then start depositing the puke from his tongue on to one of the bags (I'm almost certain it was the bag owned by the kid who had gotten sick).

Dave, still smiling like a loon, then went back to the puddle (still on his hands and knees) and repeats the process.

My memory after that is kind of hazy but I'm almost certain that Dave was never caught in the act by any of the teachers.

TLDR; KID BARFS IN YARD. WEIRD KID GETS ON HANDS & KNEES AND STARTS LAPPING IT UP.

EDIT: Thinking about it, I had my weird moments as well. Take when I did this in Junior Infants, for example.

alfalfa1985 · 1 year

I remember Artie, he was a Special Ed. kid. Everytime I saw him in the bathroom he would wait for me to pee on the urinal so he could throw invisible Shouryuuken and Sonic Booms at me. I had to pretend i was being hit by them while peeing or he would throw wet toilet paper at me.....

specialized72 · 1 year

I'm a fine arts teacher. I had a student in one of my classes that was obsessed with making video art with his obese, hairy girlfriend as the main subject. She was often fully naked and portrayed as muse or a fertility goddess. Often in sexual situations.

[deleted] · 1 year

Not a teacher yet, but while in high school I was friends with someone who ended up being the most fucked up kid around. After school one day he ran some lady over with his Ram Charger and attempted to load her into the back so he could have sex with her dead body. She didn't die though, and he will be in prison until he is 80. He is not my friend anymore. Here's the story

atrevelan · 1 year

My most memorable "different" student was actually from a summer camp I worked at, not one of my classes. This kid was autistic and he could tell you EVERY SINGLE THING about the previous night's episode of Wheel of Fortune. I'm talking contestant names, the numbers they got on the wheel, the puzzles (and the order in which contestants guessed letters), the prizes (and their values)... in short, just about everything that happened in that brief half-hour period.

While he could effortlessly remember all of that information and recall it without any hesitation, he had a hard time putting his bathing suit on because he usually ended up putting both arms and both legs through the same hole. The human brain is truly amazing.

scrappster · 1 year

My sister knew a girl who was very weird. I didn't know her, and I had only seen her a few times in the hall. Anyway, there was apparently a girl who had said something nice to her, but they didn't know each other or anything. The weird girl drew a picture of her and the nice girl holding hands in front of the school burning, and said 'You are the only person in this place I wouldn't kill'. It really freaked her out, and I think she might have gotten in trouble for it (the weird girl).

I felt kinda bad for her. It sounded to me like she was a very misunderstood girl with a lot of pain, who just didn't understand why that might be disturbing to someone. That story still depresses me. But is definitely pretty creepy.

mcb5h · 1 year

Not a teacher but I was a camp counselor at an overnight camp. We had one kid, I'll call him Ted. I'll just list a few things he did. 100% of this is true.

Ted wouldn't sleep and sit on his bed winding his flashlight up and then shining it around the room until it ran out, then started winding again.

People would routinely wake up in the middle of the night and find him standing over them staring at them. When asked why, Ted would just say he liked watching you sleep.

Ted told us he had a dream where he was in hell, and there were flying black figures with glowing eyes everywhere. He said, "Trust me, you do not want to go there"

Finally there was one night where he actually was sleeping and the counselors were still awake. He sits up really suddenly from his bed and screams "Help!" and immediately after that it starts raining hard as shit out of no where.

TL;DR I had a camper that was possessed by the devil

womanisadangercat · 1 year

I like to think that Simon and Alanna-Joy are on at least a few teachers lists.

Simon was a mostly normal is somewhat awkward child but at lunch he kind of lost focus and let his craziness out. He would slowly tear off small chunks of sandwich and feed it to his thermos through the square straw. While doing this he would hum and do a strange little wiggle dance in his seat.

Looking back it's rather unsettling.

Alanna-Joy on the other hand was straight up weird.

She loved unicorns. I mean fucking loved them. Instead of playing with the other kids she would gallop around the playground with her imaginary baby unicorn. At lunch she would share her food with said baby unicorn. I mean that literally. She wouldn't pretend to feed the unicorn and then eat the food herself. No. She would spoon out some pudding, reach her arm out as though she were feeding the unicorn (occasionally it would need some coaxing), and then she would turn the spoon over and let the pudding hit the floor. The whole time she would also be carrying on a conversation with the unicorn. Sometimes in 'Unicorn Language'.

She was also ridiculously gullible.

I want to preface this by saying I am not proud of my part in the incident. Anyway...

One day at lunch Alanna-Joy was hanging around near me and my friend and we were seeing what kind of crazy stories we could get her to believe. She believed all of them. So we decided to see if we could get her to do something crazy by telling her a ridiculous story. So we did.

We wove this sorrowful tale of the lost baby unicorn. The baby was lost in our world and only Alanna-Joy could save it. In order to do so she would have to knock on every single door in the townhouse complex (our school at the time was surrounded by a small wooded area that divided us from a large townhouse complex). When someone answered the door she would then have to sing the 'Magic Baby Unicorn Song' as fast as she could. She had to do it or the baby unicorn would die. And it had to be fast. No fucking around. But if she messed up the words even slightly she would have to start all over again.

She barely let us finish making up the words to the 'Magic Baby Unicorn Song' before she was off and running through the trees. We laughed like idiots and ran off to play wolf pack.

The bell rang and we all trudged inside.

"Has anyone seen Alanna-Joy?".

It took them a while but they found her. Or rather she was returned to the school by one of the people she sang to. They were very concerned for her because she was just frantic and in tears babbling about how she killed the baby unicorn because they didn't let her finish. They couldn't calm her down enough figure out what was going on so eventually they simply had her mom come and get her.

I know we were eventually punished but considering the fact that I don't remember it I highly doubt it was as bad as we deserved. I do know that I felt really bad when I realized how deeply she believed in the unicorns. I spent the rest of the year trying to be nice to her in an attempt to assuage my guilt. And because my mom told me to on threat of grave bodily harm.

I really hope she doesn't remember that day but considering how upsetting it obviously was for her I don't think it's likely.

If you're out there Alanna-Joy...I'm sorry.

pajamakitten · 1 year

Not a teacher but there was a kid in my tutor group who would masturbate in class through a hole in his trouser pocket, he would then scoop the cum in his hand and eat it in class. He'd go up to random women and ask how their haemorrhoids where and would print out pictures of creepy clown dolls and ask people if they had seen his missing babies. He moved after nearly 2 years there, he was seriously weird.

Mandyrad · 1 year

I'm not a teacher, but I had a crazy classmate. I decided to friend the new girl in my 6th grade class and she quickly became obsessed with me. After a few weeks of hanging out with her at school and constant phone calls at all hours, it was apparent that she was a bit clingy. One day, on a class field trip, I sat with another friend on the bus. When Crazy got on the bus and saw that I was sitting with someone else, she walked by and gave me an evil stare. By the time we had reached our destination, she was curled up in a ball in the back of the bus crying hysterically, kicking the teachers, and screaming, "I want Mandy! I want Mandy! I want Mandy!" I later found out that she had a similar episode in the middle of class on a day that I had stayed home sick. Needless to say, I was terrified of her and the school counselor thought it was best to move her out of my classes. I ended up moving to another school for reasons unrelated to this and never spoke to her again. A few days after I got married (eight years later) I get a random message from Crazy on FB that said, "I heard you got married. Thanks for the invite, Bitch."

Livinginaclassroom · 1 year

My first year of teaching, I had a student (5th grader) who approached me and told me he had a dream about me showering. Didn't have him in my class after that little gem.

He had a history of making really sexual comments to other girls. I really believe this kid has something going on....

AlwaysAppropriate · 1 year

I was substituting a math class for 6th graders (12yo here) and had just gone through the new section and went around class to help students out.

Walking through the aisles a few benches ahead I notice a girl that seems to be counting on her fingers under the bench. Or so I thought.

As I approached that particular row she suddenly whips out her hand and grabs my junk. What I had thought was counting on her fingers was just pre-emptive cupping of her hand. I flinch backwards (it was close to a punch in the nuts) and just lean over to her desk and tell her to solve the next question in her book and write it up on the board.

I continue down the aisles like a boss.

TL:DR; I was groped by a 12yo girl.

lizzygal12 · 1 year

Not a teacher, but a guy in my year apparently whipped his junk out and started fapping in the middle of class. Also had another kid who would draw really graphic porn comics (manga) involving the characters from Dragon Ball Z and show them to all the girls in his classes.

Horses_On_Stilts · 1 year

Oh shit I was the weird kid.

Teach85 · 1 year

Had a child in my class once called Indiana Jones. Seriously. Then a few years ago I had a complete psycho child in my class, he was 9 at the time and when he was in a bad mood (which was most days) he would stand outside the classroom door with his coat on and hood pulled up and would just stare into the door. He would also hold up a red pencil and point it at me saying,' red means I'm angry.' He would also threaten to go to America (I'm from the UK) get a gun, come back and shoot us all. He goes to a special school now, and to be honest I can totally see him being capable of carrying out his threats in the future.

[deleted] · 1 year

Im an assistant in a human biology class for nursing students. Had a student lick a sheep brain.

Edit: As a result I called him zombie for the rest of the semester.

Pollux324 · 1 year

Crap, do I have to be a teacher to participate? Screw it, you get to hear about my classmates:

when I was in 10th grade, there was a student in my class who was just...off. Everyone knew it. He had the crazy eyes. You looked at him and it felt like you were staring at an alien, cause he was that weird. Well around this time he started telling people he had a hit list, and that he was going to bomb the school. EVERYONE was on the hit list. Everyone. I was, because I was friends with a girl who was friends with a guy who he didn't like. So people were a little freaked out, but weren't taking it too seriously. 2 days before the supposed bombing, this kid fucking disappears. Just...gone. No one knows where he is, people are freaking out, and the police are looking for him. School gets canceled, and the police find him HIDING IN THE BASEMENT OF THE SCHOOL. No weaponry on him, but just...hiding there. He comes into the store were I work now sometimes and he still scares me.
I personally know a guy who shot a man seven times in the face during the summer between my junior and senior year of high school.
There was also this one girl who walked around like she'd OD'd on crack and lost all of her brain cells except maybe four. Her face was absolutely blank and she never showed any emotion, and she was as dumb as a sack of rocks. Her shining moment was in English class, when the teacher asked the class, "So, Emily Dickinson was a recluse, who can tell me what that means?" and she calmly raised her hand and responded with: "It means Emily Dickinson was a spider." She got kicked out of the honors class for that one (that just being the final straw)
One guy was threatening the school again this past year (I was in college at this time but I heard about this one) and then he also disappeared, and was arrested three days later trying to climb the fence to an airport 2 towns over.

My school was full of weird people.

u2aerofan · 1 year

I teach high school debate and a kid in one of my classes - (really, just a terrrrrrible class all around) - loved to make racist remarks then declare that he did not understand why we found it offensive. This was during the 2008 election, so you can imagine what fun there was to be had. Anyway, one day he said Obama's face looked like "burnt cork board" (whatever...) and that his brother did a whole report on how "afro-americans" were genetically inferior to the white "master race". I had grown VERY tired of this terrible child this late in the year and stopped putting out effort to send him to the office (where he never received any punishment anyway - welcome to Texas...). So I replied, "Did he present his report to the Grand Wizard? Or was the whole Klan there?" (Not my best moment, I realize.) Kid freaks out on me, leaves, comes back during the next period to retrieve his stuff then walks up to my desk and says, "I am owed an apology! You can't say stuff like that to me!" I simply replied, "Surely you're joking." Got a phone call from his angry mother the next morning, asking me if I thought it funny to call her son a KKK member...I said I didn't think it was "funny", I was just under the impression it was "true". I let her scream at me and told her to call the principal if she had a problem. Then she said, "In Debate - you should have freedom of speech" and hung up...

akrams1 · 1 year

it's possible that she is just fascinated with how historically epic it is. people are like this all the time. look at the success of games like call of duty or films like schindler's list. ww2, despite it's awful atrocities was one hell of an epic tale.

mpelli2 · 1 year

I teach Special Education and had a student who was a compulsive masturbator. He would masturbate at least 10 times a school day. It got to the point that he was spending so much time in the bathroom, we had to set a 2 minute timer. When the timer went off, he had to either close up shop or 'finish up' quickly. He called it pumping gas.

FalconPUNNCH · 1 year

Not a teacher, but I gots me a story: 9th Grade, German Class... Sit next to a kid (lets call him Jason) who seems pretty excited to finally be in high school, we talk and become kinda friendly. A few days of being friends in this class, I start to notice, this kids kind of weird...He yells out things he thinks make great jokes, but are not at all funny, he stares at this girls boobs ALL THE DAMN TIME, even when she tells him not to, just stares. Then like a week after, someone nudges his shoulder as we are sitting down...this kid FLIPS HIS SHIT, starts throwing desks to the side, screaming obscenities at this poor confused little kid. Jason, who is himself kind of small and not particularly strong, keeps flipping shit until school security escorts him out of the room, never touches the other kid mind you, just throwing stuff and screaming. Well i distance myself from him after that, and its a damn good thing i did. The stuff I heard about this kid and the stuff i saw him do, this bastard was either bound for a poorly ending police standoff, or a padded room. To name a few things, he did a slideshow report on bondage porn for Psychology, he joined the football team, and couldn't do shit, didn't know how to play, but screamed at everyone and fucked games up until the coach kicked him off,and he full out slapped (the whole room of talking people heard) the ass of the girl who's bazooms he was ogling (they were nice, ill admit it).

He was suspended for all of these things of course, for week(s) at a time usually.

Last time i saw him was 8 weeks later in German class, he flips shit again, this time on a bigger kid, throwing desks and screaming at him, the bigger kid pushes him away, Jason starts crying hysterically, screaming for help, and backing away into the corner. After that, the campus security escorted him out, and I never saw him again.

Tl;dr: Fucking insane kid stretches limits of public schooling, gets carted off, read whole thing for full effect.

ThePiggle · 1 year

Not a teacher but had some strange occurences in high school, I'm now in uni so it's still fresh memories.

I had to sit next to this boy in Science, he was in my English class the year previous, sat with him then too. He was quite strange but I didn't mind, I like that moderately. Anyway, everyday he'd tell me I was his best friend. He didn't have any friends at all, (everyone thought he was creepy and didn't bother) so I didn't mind being his friend, he was alright if you weren't mean to him, I never was. Well one day I was talking to another friend in class and because I wasn't talking with him about Yugioh (I was 14, I hated Yugioh but I let him describe it to me in detail all the time) he tapped me on the arm, looked me square in the eyes and said "I have cameras in your room, I can see everything you do and at midnight a spectre will come in that I have summoned, go through you and you will die."...He looked slightly maniacal and I won't lie, it was stupid but I didn't sleep that night. Next day he apologised and I got over it. Looking back, I think he had problems but I was glad I was that one friend.

extantcopy · 1 year

Last Fall I was co-teaching a 9th grade English class in a semi-urban environment. Every kid was typical except one who sat in the front right where my podium was. He was tall and very skinny. His clothes were mostly brown which is odd considering all his contemporaries dressed like thugs with Jordans, white tees, and baggie black pants. He wore big wire glasses and always blinked one eye before the other eye. He never blinked them together.

He was also constantly doodling. One time he stayed long after the bell had rang for lunch to finish a sketch that he was vigorously working on all period. When he finished he showed it to me and it was a very detailed drawing of a demon crawling on the ground. Like in the movies, this kid would constantly draw his demonic subject non-stop and in all sorts of positions.

My co-teacher and I introduced a diagnostic writing assignment where they would be required to write an essay on a significant moment from their lives. After taking questions where I had to remind the kids that non-fiction means "not made up," he called me over and asked me if he could write his about "the first time I saw him." I asked who and he head nodded to his portfolio of creatures. Not wanting to stifle this kids creativity I told him to go ahead and write a rough draft but if it didn't meet the criteria then he would have to rewrite it. He agreed and immediately pulled out 5 written pages. His writing had no spaces and all letters were capitalized except for the instances where the demon talked; then it was in very elegant cursive. The story seemed a little too far-fetched to honestly have this proofread by other students. The demon would crawl up to him every night and watch his sleep before suggesting he do something bad, but he was too strong and moral to comply which increased the presence of the demon.

He also always wore a coonskin hat.

LieutenantCuppycake · 1 year

I had a nine-year-old student in a Christian learning environment. We were all taking time to listen to a guest pastor speak in our ampitheater. While almost 400 students quietly listened, I had an itch under my breast and scratched it absently, which shifted the underwire of my bra. My student then screamed "Are those REAL?!" catching the attention of the entire audience, including the pastor.

Awkwardest silence of all time.

TruckerBunny · 1 year

I was a creepy kid who thought very dark subjects were totally fascinating. I always made my mom buy me books on The Holocaust, The Titanic, Pompeii and various natural disasters. I did my book reports on the Chicago Fire while other girls wrote about Nancy Drew. All my teachers were creeped out by me till I learned to keep that stuff to myself... I still find those subjects interesting but consider myself pretty normal otherwise.

I also used to breed rats and gave my 7th grade science teacher one. I was a weird kid.

Reptarftw · 1 year

I feel like most of these are just stories about kids with fucked-up home lives. Just makes me sad.

LaLaBlacksheep · 1 year

Around 10 years ago, one of my mom's student's mother came into school and demanded an exorcism be preformed to remove the demon that was causing her kid to misbehave. My mom and the principle actually improvised one and all was well. Catholic schools ftw?

Eaglesheart · 1 year

I'm not a teacher but I have a creepy student story.

During my freshman year in high school, there was a group of kids who wore trench coats. Everyday, no matter how hot or humid it was outside. They all had those ominous trench coats. Near the end of the school year, one of the trench coat gang told somebody in the school system that their leader was planning to bomb the school on the anniversary of Columbine (I think this was two days away at the time). So the word gets out, and the entire school knows by the next day. So April 20th rolls around, and I stay home because my mom was worried. Friends texted me after school to tell me that Homeland Security was at the school.

Sure enough, for the next few days we had security teams all over the school. Eventually they search the head hancho's house and finds quite a few bombs and guns. He also had a hit list which many of my close friends were on.

TL;DR Creepy guy tries to blow up school, read it. Article

dudefuckthatshit · 1 year

the guy who has no eyebrows and walks without moving his arms

ThoughtNinja · 1 year

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jlee20101 · 1 year

Former Math teacher here. On my first year of teaching, I had a student who was considered legally insane. I didn't find this out until the after the incident I'm about to tell you because the school didn't want me to know (it's weird for a teacher to actually be given relevant information to KNOW their students....am I right?). Anyway, it turns out she had to go to a psych ward two times a week. She had a tendency to burn things (not in my class thank raptor jesus). She had always been a behavioral issue in my class, however one day I see her sitting at her desk 'writing down notes' (the quotes will be explained a little bit later) for the first time while I am teaching. I am impressed and continue going on with my lesson. I turn my back for a second and all of a sudden I hear some chair rustling because somebody stood up really quickly. She screams "THAT'S IT" and lunges for a boy in the front seat. Now mind you, I didn't see anything go on between the two kids. I break up the fight and I notice that she had a weapon in her hands.

It turns out the 'writing down notes' was actually her filing a shank against the desk. She had a psychotic outbreak and thought that the kid was a demon. So yeah...that's my weirdest story

PinkFart · 1 year

Not my story but this just reminded me of this guy who thought school in Japan and had to play a game called dodge dick! Very weird culture!

Dodge Dick [SFW]

mymonster · 1 year

I teach acting, most of my students are between the ages of 18 - 30. I have had one student get obsessed with me to the point where she found out where i lived, invited her self over in order to drug and rape me. She did manage to drug me but i somehow got her out before she managed to get her will done.

Also had a student who had a boyfriend that was a bit strange. One day out of the blue he calls me up to tell me that i had in fact been sleeping with his gf which was news to me. He then called the principal of the school and told him the same story in order to get me fired. When that did not work he tried to hiring some gangster to take care of me. My friend who is a bit involve in that world heard of it and put a stop to it.

So yeah, being an acting teacher can get you killed if you do not have the right connections.

rodskeward · 1 year

I'm a special educator in the deep south, and I have a emotionally/behaviorally challenged student who is obsessed with "Beat It," by MJ. He moonwalks in line during transitions, actually does the fight choreography from the video when he gets in schoolyard fights and intersperses random lyrics from the song into every day conversation without realizing. When they get free time, the only thing he does is watch the YouTube video over and over.

[deleted] · 1 year

There was a kid 2 years below me in hs that brutally murdered a famous lawyers wife and then carved satanic symbols on her flesh. He was a very very weird guy. Wore trench coats, make up, all black and had some of those peter pan boots that the goth kids wore.

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InsertRandomPun · 1 year

I had a student who always counted 4,5,6,1,2,3. Grew up to make Star Wars if I remember correctly

bigcitycrows · 1 year

The person who immediately comes to mind is the jackass Rammstein-CD-stealing crackhead who kept talking about how his religion worshiped male orgasm and that ejaculation was the only way to reach "full meditation."

Whenever someone told him to STFU about it he would do the whole "but it's MY RELIGION!" bullshit song and dance and then cry about it in front of the teacher, then later when we were more or less unsupervised (this was band class, lots of free time, especially Fridays waiting after school for the football games) he would get right the fuck up in the face of whoever called him out and, like, pantomime biting them. He was a skinny little bitch so of course like half the people in the class could have simply pushed him and been done with it, but of course no one wants to be the one to start something.

He finally actually got in a fight one day and, as predicted, the guy who punched first got bitten up then punished worse for "starting it." At least the little punk got a black eye out of it.

Nikuhiru · 1 year

I'm trying to remember this correctly partly because the ending was through word of mouth.

So when I was about 8 a new kid joins my school. Let's call him E. Seems a bit off. Eyes don't blink at the same time and had a massive speech impediment. Nothing big - most people would generally try make an effort. Initially he seems alright and turns out to be a savant with Maths.

Then the crazy started coming out. He would go nuts sometimes and during sports sessions would just go off in a random direction and dig. In the changing room he'd take as long as he could and then whip out his dick and show it around to those still changing. I should point out that this was an all boys school. I'm pretty sure he bit someone. I remember when yo-yos came back into fashion he would get one, swing it around as though it were a lasso and ended up whacking someone in the ear.

Throughout the years he got away with a lot of shit. He was scary and would randomly kick and hit people. He'd hide under desks for subjects he didn't like. During our penultimate year of school his class had a form tutor who was leaving so decided to treat her class out to a day out. On this trip some parents went along as supervisors. Apparently one guy had a mechanical pencil shaped as a syringe. This made E go absolute nuts and attack the kid with the pencil. That kid's mum stepped in and tried to pull him off so E goes to attack her. The teacher then tries to stop him and he ends up trying to choke her. They managed to stop after which he ran to a chain fence and clung onto it for dear life. Some guy's dad had to rip him away from that fence after which he was promptly expelled.

Our 'rival' school decided to take him based on his Maths ability for the final year before we went to secondary school. From what I heard he scared the shit out of all the kids there. If he was roaming the halls some guys would actually lock themselves into an empty classroom.

tl;dr Kid was crazy. Ended up strangling a pupil then the teacher who stuck up for him for 4 years who then got him expelled.

condescending-twit · 1 year

Back in the day, I taught in the Peace Corps at this crazy primary school. The local teachers used rubber hoses to herd the kids from place to place (and obviously for disciplinary purposes) but every now and then, the kids would lock arms in sufficient numbers to overpower a grown man.

Of course there was no concept of special needs so I had a lot of interesting ones:

-An 11-year-old in first grade who was cross-eyed and always smiled but had a habit of getting up and walking around (which was fine until he started going for some six-year-old's eyes without warning or provocation

-A blind kid who was remarkably strong and liked to grab a hold of people and talk at them (usually just effusive flattery) until they broke free

-A third grader who liked to get up on the desks and dance around and sometimes liked to whip it out.

FentonCrackshell · 1 year

I have only been teaching for a few years but I have had a few strange ones come through, like

Had a grade 4 boy who would always wear sweat pants and constantly played with himself at his desk. Pretty much everyone in class knew what he was doing but he wouldn't stop despite uncomfortable talks with parents and repeated reminders to keep his hands on his desk.
This year I had a grade 6 boy threaten to kill me because I took his cell phone when he was using it inappropriately. Not in the like "I'm so mad, I am going to kill Mr. Crackshell" way, but in the "I have a knife and I am going to stab Mr. Crackshell in the neck when he has his back turned" way.
Had a student in my class who absolutely refused to participate in gym and wouldn't give any verbal responses, just stood quietly staring. I tried to talk to him to get a response for about 10 minutes and he wouldn't talk at all, just sat on the side staring with his eyes rolled up in his head, rocking back and forth and grunting. I was convinced he was having a seizure but his mom said, "He just does that sometimes." The kid was legitimately strange all around. We found him one day sitting in the hall under all the coats holding out the bottom of his shirt with a HUGE booger on it just staring at it. This was after he refused to go outside because he was convinced there was someone out there killing children.
Also had a girl this year who was a biter. She was 12 years old and regularly bit other kids in the class. Multiple boys came to me saying they were going to beat her up if she didn't stop. She also compulsively stole and lied. She would take things from kids' desks and hide them in little piles throughout the room. I found her piles in closets, under my desk, in cabinets, in basically any possible crack or hiding space in the room. They normally had items kids had come to me saying were missing that they saw her with earlier. She stole things off my desk regularly, at the end of the year I found a pile that had my USB camera cord, a copy of Gulliver's Travels (that I had rented and had since paid to replace), multiple crumbled up pieces of paper that had been on my desk, most had been stapled repeatedly and chewed on.

I am sure there are tons more.

SquintPoopzilla · 1 year

My friends mom is a 2nd grade teacher, and i remember her telling me this story of this one kid that was afraid of the toilet, so he would go into the bathroom stall, take a shit in his hand, and then smear it on the walls of the bathroom. The janitors could never find out who it was until one day the little boy forgot to smear his poop on the walls. So he walks back into the classroom with a handful of crap. And she said when everyone noticed he dropped it on the floor and casually walked back to his desk.

MAC_TRUCK_HITS_BABY · 1 year

Throughout middle school and junior high there was a girl, Sarah, who would basically fuck her desk. She wasn't quiet either and often gave it a go during tests while everyone was quiet. The class would be sitting there and you'll hear a mild panting, glance over to Sarah's desk, and see her fucking it 5 ways to Tuesday. The intensity of the panting and thrusting would progress until the desk began to move and she started breathing and panting like she just fucked her way through a brick wall. Then she would stop and act like nothing every happened. This happened multiple times a week, and nobody ever said anything.

She also took points off a test (the class would grade one another's) because I wrote "Yeah" instead of "Yes" on a Yes/No question. Fuck..

Cantras · 1 year

Not a teacher, but a kid graduated in my class -- the end of his 6th year of high school. I guess he knuckled down because he was informed state law barred him from being 20 in high school.

I was in a slacker science class with him -- his second time taking it -- and the teacher was reading off grades. "Everyone has an A, except for Jesse [last name]... who.. ::peers around computer:: isn't even here."

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