teachers

‘So instead of $30, I’m spending $150 for paper towels’: Science teacher uses school funds to buy price-gouged supplies to make admin think twice about giving teachers purchasing autonomy

Jesse Kessenheimer

Preschool teacher sends child home in another student's clothes that their parent brought in, mom is baffled: 'Clothes are really expensive and I can't afford to replace them'

JR Atkinson

School superintendent docks teacher's pay after she took 1 day off to get married before a 3 day weekend: 'My principal didn't care and approved my PTO'

Emmy Pratt

18-year-old daycare worker forbids 7-year-old from using her colleague's hand sanitizer, despite her colleague offering the hand sanitizer to her: 'She needs to learn that she can't always get what she wants.'

Emmy Pratt

College student gets even with 'smug' professor who refuses to give them class notes: 'I came up with my simple malicious compliance'

Remy Millisky

School teacher tells 10-year-old male student girls are allowed to be physically confrontational with male classmates, student's parent steps in: ‘My son feels like the school is telling him he matters less’

Lana DeGaetano

After two 9-year-old boys get into incident on the school playground, one boy's mother publicly blames therapist-mom for the incident, accusing her of being unfit parent and therapist out of spite: 'You therapists think you’re better than everyone else'

Emma Saven

Teacher confiscates 13-year-old diabetic student's glucose monitor because it went off during class, signaling a health crisis: ‘No electronics, period’

Lana DeGaetano

Teacher bemoans her 2nd-grade students cannot tie their shoes or eat an apple without it being sliced: 'I’ve been teaching since 2011, and I’ve seen a decline in overall capability in today’s kids.'

Emmy Pratt

7th grader melts down over English teacher making him read a book of his choice and write an essay every month: 'This is Honors English in 2025'

Emmy Pratt

‘You can't make me play’: Disrespectful high school band teacher uses teen student's medical absence as a chance to lecture class on ‘selfish band members’, then pettily tries to force the teen to stay in the class, but the teen fights fire with fire

Lana DeGaetano

School forces teachers to pay $30 for soda machine, birthday parties, and greeting cards: 'I don't drink soda and they forgot my birthday the first week of school.'

Emmy Pratt

Coworker convinces clueless new boss to give her a fellow teacher's job because it pays $1.5k more, can't handle it: 'She's getting my 1.5K stipend now, but I no longer have to deal with extra meetings, extra parent phone calls, miscommunication, etc.'

Brad Dickson

High school teacher with hearing impairment gets job stolen by colleage, gets to watch her struggle to adjust to the new position: ‘What has taken me minutes is taking Tenny sometimes hours’

Ely Bulnes

17-year-old student steals his teacher's wedding ring, admin refuses to punish him because he has an Individualized Education Plan: 'He passed my class with a 12%. I bumped it up to 60%'

Emmy Pratt

Teacher told to "work contracted hours" when he's been helping kids in the gym after school, he stops forcing the district to hire someone: ‘I was told to work my contractual hours, I’m only paid until 2:22. I did this for fun, and it was unofficial’

Brad Dickson