[Carmen Queasy]

I remember in school that my English teacher used to bully me quite a lot. I was a really good pupil (really) so I didn't see why she used to dislike me so much.

There's a few occasions I recall when she was a little bit "out of order".

I did about 4 pieces of coursework for her, and she gave me a C for all of them. After being remarked by another teacher, I received an an A and 3 Bs, and ended up getting the entire classes coursework remarked; mine being the only one they disagreed on. Apparently, she got all fussy about the other teachers not agreeing with her.

Another time, I was working on the doors at a school play and I said something like "are all yous together?" (meaning "are you all together?") to a rather large family. I was, I think, 9 years old, and she was stood behind me and shouted at me in front of everyone, correcting me on my grammar. I was so embarrassed, especially since I was only 9! Fair enough, correct me, but she made a massive deal about it in front of a crowd of people.

Then, I did a mock exam once, and she gave me 29%!! I asked why, and she said "it wasn't very good" The actual exam was practically the same thing, and I ended up getting an A... hmm.

In an exam, we required the book "The Lord of the Flies". I had a perfectly acceptable copy. I highlighted a few lines on several of the pages - basically what I thought were important lines - and she made me rip them out, saying it was not acceptable! Lukily, I didn't require those pages in my exam. I later found out that underlining things was perfectly acceptable; well, everyone else had done it and nothing happened to them.

She was generally mean to me - My name was about 5th in the register, but I sat close to the front of the room, so she always seemed to pick on me to read aloud, or something.

I eventually got so fed up of her bullying that I faked an illness and spent an hour in the nurses office in school. The nurse started talking to me, and clearly knew I wasn't ill, and I eventually changed English classes. I was in the top set, but I was more than happy to drop down a set to get away from her.

I eventually got an A in English for my GCSE thanks to the new, really lovely teacher - she even phoned me after the results to congratulate me.

Anyone else had teachers who just don't like you, and because of that you feel your work was suffering?

[Crashed]

One of my teachers [Mr Clayton] used to pick me
up by the ears just because my older sisters gave
him a hard time... If Mr Clayton you are still alive
you are so going to...

[Stascream]

ste... your teacher sounded like a total reekette, i hope you reported her

[hardtarget]

my headteacher hated me,
whenever i got into trouble,
i was in a group of 6-7
i was the only asian there and i always got into trouble while the rest were got off scot free,
got our own back though,

her nephew was in our year too,

we were just about to go swimming when we realised he didnt have his clothes on,
we actually scared the hell out of him and made him run out of the changing room acting like we were about to beat the crap out of him!!

result: his dear aunt was just coming out of the front office and the rest of the teachers and some girls were standing ouside in the corridor,

luckily that was just a couple of weeks till we left school otherwise she would have made our lives hell

[Mark.]

I was bullied by one of my teachers at primary. She took a dislike to me because I was a boy that dared to get grades better than her precious girls. She kept making digs at me and eventually it got too much and I ended up spending a year-and-a-half out of a classroom environment.

The school didn't do much to help - the headteacher couldn't see past her "perfect staff" and even threatened to exlude me for...um...being the victim.

[alone]

Not really bullying I don't think no... I sometimes didn't do what I was told though! Favourite memory of primary school was being told off for not doing my work and being made to sit on a chair next to the teachers desk *Mr Green*. So sitting there and still misbehaving... much 'discussion' whereby I refuse to play ball still... ends up with him dragging my chair out of the room with me sitting on it and me holding onto the desk pulling it with me and results in me outside the room clinging to this desk that got jammed by the doorway Oh those were the days

[*Em*]

I once had a table pushed on to me as the teacher charged towards me with a chair, I know this sounds exaggerated but its true.. thing is I was no angel .. mind you, still dont think it was called for

[TheIronyofIt]

Originally Posted by dundee_mark

I was bullied by one of my teachers at primary. She took a dislike to me because I was a boy that dared to get grades better than her precious girls. She kept making digs at me and eventually it got too much and I ended up spending a year-and-a-half out of a classroom environment.

The school didn't do much to help - the headteacher couldn't see past her "perfect staff" and even threatened to exlude me for...um...being the victim.

but mark

you were the only boy in needlework
with perfect cross stitch

[comedyrox]

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miss breeze

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my geography teacher always picks on me and 2 of my mates whenever we are alowed to get into groips and us three are in a group. I've only been in that class for one and a half terms. she is such a

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bitch

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anyway, someone in yr 7 made her ill by putting glue in her coffee 2 weeks ago. she's been off sick. good sub teachers.

[PsychoTherapist]

In secondary school, I had this 1 teacher - a Geography teacher. He liked to pick on my friend and I. I have no idea what he got out of it, but he never got to me. We (several of us in the class) always joked that this guy would go around everybody and single one of us out. He hated us and we hated him, quite frankly!

He once threatened to ring my house, over some small issue and asked for my home phone number - so I gave him the number for my 2nd telephone line at home, knowing nobody would answer. Good job too, since my mother was friends with several teachers, knew the headteacher and several members of senior staff and knew people in the education board. If she'd have answered the phone, all hell would have broken loose - the amount of hassle he would have had to put up with, would be unfair even for that ol' useless sod.

This was the same teacher who didn't even bother to teach the subject at GCSE level for the whole 2 years, instead giving us the actual exam paper 1 week before the exam and telling us all the answers. I still only got an F in the exam though, since I didn't know anything that was on the paper (he only told a select few people who were expected to get good grades, that it was the actual exam - conspiracy theory here ). All we did in each class was continue with coursework, since he never had any work planned, not even once. By all rights, he should have lost his job over that incident, but nobody ever bothered to complain.

[blueblade]

Well I've just been thinking back. I don't think I had a teacher that actually bullied me as such. But I'm pretty sure that some really didn't like me. I got ignored by some, or given slightly lower marks than others for equally good or better work. But obviously, it's all down to perception and extremely difficult to prove.

You just sometimes have to ride the bad with the good. I did have some great and fair minded teachers as well. So swings and roundabouts.

There was one teacher, a Mr. Symes. He started at the school in my second year there. At the first assembly of the Autumn term I was talking and pratting about, and he came across and said "I've only been here since 8 o'clock and I'm fed up with you already". Think he had a bit of a downer on me after that.....especially when I bowled him first ball in a pupils v staff cricket match. If looks could have killed.....

[lemoncurd]

Originally Posted by Crashed

One of my teachers [Mr Clayton] used to pick me
up by the ears.

That reminds me of one of our Chemistry teachers (who was incedentally a fine and upstanding teacher), who, when they misbehaved in his class, would pick boys up by the sideburn or hair just above the ear. I can remember the searing pain even now We knew not to trifle with him!

[Carmen Queasy]

Originally Posted by comedyrox

anyway, someone in yr 7 made her ill by putting glue in her coffee 2 weeks ago. she's been off sick. good sub teachers.

I'm so evil. This just made me laugh out loud

[digiperson]

Originally Posted by Ste...

I'm so evil. This just made me laugh out loud

Me too...

It's the way comedyrox worded it...

digiperson

[stud u like]

Teachers were not just bullies at my school they were perverts as well. We were not allowed to wear any underwear for PE under our shorts and the perverts used to go and check.

I doubt it would be allowed these days.

[Red Rum]

In Year One in primary school our class were doing the assembly and had prepared this little music piece to accompany a hymn. I was meant to playing this really simple bit on the Xylophone. When it came to the assembly I didn't start playing it at the right time.

Afterwards, a teacher came to me and said "You've ruined God!" She looked so angry and I was mortified.

[*Em*]

Originally Posted by stud u like

Teachers were not just bullies at my school they were perverts as well. We were not allowed to wear any underwear for PE under our shorts and the perverts used to go and check.

I doubt it would be allowed these days.

Urgh, that's sick! It was bad enough at my school when they checked that we'd all showered after PE, thankfully that was just a touch on the skin to see we were wet.. no perving tho

Originally Posted by comedyrox

...anyway, someone in yr 7 made her ill by putting glue in her coffee 2 weeks ago. she's been off sick. good sub teachers.

What a stupid thing to do......

......they should have used Tip-Ex and done the job properly!

we used to get chalk and blackboard rubbers thrown at us by our teachers, as well as being dragged from one end of the school yard to another by the scruff of your neck. the good ol days.

english was one of my fav subjects at school. we had the same english teacher for about 3 years at high school. he was polite and efficient but he favoured a few students.

they always got good grades at creative writing/composition....yet i would work really hard at it and not get as good marks. i was dumbfounded as i did brilliantly in other aspects of english and was used to getting good grades in english throughout my schooling.

imagine my surprise when, in our final year there was a change of teacher....our first piece of writing was something to do with the iraq war.....the whole usa kicking iraq's ass over the kuwait invasion....bla bla....

well i did my best and im assuming so did the rest of the class. when we got our books back i was amazed to find i had been given a high mark yet the ones who had usually been getting high marks were floundering with muchhh lower marks!!

it was a revelation. he was one of the sternest, strictest but most motivating teachers ever. he looked a bit like hitler but he produced great results and his wit was unmatchable.

i adored him and realllly enjoyed his teaching and his rather dry humour.

[HOFF]

Originally Posted by dundee_mark

I was bullied by one of my teachers at primary. She took a dislike to me because I was a boy that dared to get grades better than her precious girls. She kept making digs at me and eventually it got too much and I ended up spending a year-and-a-half out of a classroom environment.

The school didn't do much to help - the headteacher couldn't see past her "perfect staff" and even threatened to exlude me for...um...being the victim.

Making "digs" in what way?

Spending a year and a half out of school seems a bit extreme unless you are using words which underplay the seriousness of her actions.

[HOFF]

Originally Posted by Ste...

I remember in school that my English teacher used to bully me quite a lot. I was a really good pupil (really) so I didn't see why she used to dislike me so much.

There's a few occasions I recall when she was a little bit "out of order".

I did about 4 pieces of coursework for her, and she gave me a C for all of them. After being remarked by another teacher, I received an an A and 3 Bs, and ended up getting the entire classes coursework remarked; mine being the only one they disagreed on. Apparently, she got all fussy about the other teachers not agreeing with her.

Another time, I was working on the doors at a school play and I said something like "are all yous together?" (meaning "are you all together?") to a rather large family. I was, I think, 9 years old, and she was stood behind me and shouted at me in front of everyone, correcting me on my grammar. I was so embarrassed, especially since I was only 9! Fair enough, correct me, but she made a massive deal about it in front of a crowd of people.

Then, I did a mock exam once, and she gave me 29%!! I asked why, and she said "it wasn't very good" The actual exam was practically the same thing, and I ended up getting an A... hmm.

In an exam, we required the book "The Lord of the Flies". I had a perfectly acceptable copy. I highlighted a few lines on several of the pages - basically what I thought were important lines - and she made me rip them out, saying it was not acceptable! Lukily, I didn't require those pages in my exam. I later found out that underlining things was perfectly acceptable; well, everyone else had done it and nothing happened to them.

She was generally mean to me - My name was about 5th in the register, but I sat close to the front of the room, so she always seemed to pick on me to read aloud, or something.

I eventually got so fed up of her bullying that I faked an illness and spent an hour in the nurses office in school. The nurse started talking to me, and clearly knew I wasn't ill, and I eventually changed English classes. I was in the top set, but I was more than happy to drop down a set to get away from her.

I eventually got an A in English for my GCSE thanks to the new, really lovely teacher - she even phoned me after the results to congratulate me.

Anyone else had teachers who just don't like you, and because of that you feel your work was suffering?

This teacher seemed to get around quite a bit. Primary age and then GCSE.

Still, her methods seemed to do you the world of good, what with the A at the end.

[Taglet]

One of the male teachers at primary school was 'over fond' of me. He was put in charge of my group on a trip to France - and I spent a great deal of my time keeping out of his way.

[Mark.]

Originally Posted by HOFF

Making "digs" in what way?

Criticising my work, telling me that the girls were much better than me, making lectures about immature boys and looking in my direction... One day it all got too much and I broke down in tears in class. She refused to let me leave until lunchtime and for the whole morning I had the rest of the class snigger away at me.

It may not sound a lot now, but it was very upsetting when I was 9/10 years old.

Spending a year and a half out of school seems a bit extreme unless you are using words which underplay the seriousness of her actions.

Whenever I tried to go back into the class, she wasn't co-operative. Telling me that I had to sit in a seat near her desk, quite far into the room; towering over me and screaming in my face when I didn't go in to the room, only for her to deny it (but the Deputy Head heard her).

As I said, it may not sound a lot now, but it certainly was at the ages of 9/10/11.