28 Dumb Things People Were Punished for at School
‘Looking at the teacher’
It’s clear that some people become teachers for the express purpose of bullying students. How else do you explain the teacher who punished a kid for not wanting to read that part of Old Yeller aloud the day after their dog was put down? Or the teacher who gave a kid detention for laughing? You can’t!
Redditors have remembered the times their educators ranged from “stupid” to “very stupid and also cruel,” and there are quite a few instances that support my theory of the school-bully-to-teacher pipeline.