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Post by castletonsnob on Oct 22, 2023 15:34:45 GMT -5
Let's face it, kids are temperamental creatures. They can get angry or upset over trivial things. School is one of the most stressful places imaginable for kids, which can result in meltdowns.
What were the worst meltdowns at school you've ever personally witnessed?
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Oct 22, 2023 15:47:44 GMT -5
When one girl in my eighth grade French class got her Hanson poster accidentally ripped and she was trying not to start bawling.
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Post by Kalmia on Oct 22, 2023 17:11:51 GMT -5
During one of my GCSE exams one of the kids apparently didn't like the exam paper and literally flipped his desk up into the air. Luckily the exams were done in the assembly hall and the desks were well spaced out so he didn't hit anyone.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 22, 2023 17:15:13 GMT -5
Probably not the worst, but I remember in Spanish class, around 6th grade or so. A girl visited Spain and her family had bought her some kind of bracelet as a souvenir. There must have been something special about it because the teacher suggested she pass it around the room so everyone could see it up close.
I’d like to post more about what kind of bracelet it was, but the bracelet never made it over to me. Instead one of the stupider students, who never paid attention in class, destroyed it when it got to him. The girl looked over and started crying. The destroyer wasn’t listening and I guess he just thought the bracelet was a piece of trash or something so crumpled it up. The teacher admonished him and the girl got the destroyed bracelet back. To his credit at least the destroyer looked like he felt really bad about it.
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Post by Hypnosis on Oct 22, 2023 17:36:53 GMT -5
My high school Economics teacher had finally been fed up with some obnoxious student who kept smart-talking him for a while, and started yelling at the student.
My Biology teacher threw some guy's Mountain Dew at the chalkboard, and the teacher went on a rant about how "Biology isn't boring!" I forget how that one started.
Not a meltdown, but I saw a fight during my sophomore English class with two of the other male students.
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Post by darbus alan on Oct 22, 2023 17:44:01 GMT -5
When I was substitute teaching (filling in as an aide for one of the special education kids), a troublemaker took the teacher's coffee cup and put it on her chair. I took it off and I wasn't going to rat her out (I was in my early 20s so I chalked it up to a silly prank that could slide). But then said troublemaker tried to pin it on me and I wasn't going to take that.
Teacher yelled at her and then she went apeshit screaming and angry crying. This was like an 11 or 12 year old throwing a temper tantrum like she was a toddler. And no, she wasn't a special ed kid herself. Just a brat.
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Post by J. Hova on Oct 22, 2023 17:54:49 GMT -5
How should I put this? We had a basket case of a girl who I swear if the wind changed direction, she'd bawl her eyes out. This was over twenty years ago, so we might not have treated her the nicest or recognized that she was obviously suffering from some sort of mental disease.
The one that sticks in my head since I was adjacent to the break down was that no one asked her to either prom or homecoming or some sort of dance senior year. She was beside herself to the point where they sent her to the nurse or counselor or something like that, she came back a few minutes later, and then immediately started sniffling again as she went back to desk but was at least trying to hold it together but decided to just throw herself into her chair at her desk. You know how the desks weren't the most stable things in the world? Yeah, that thing flew and she ended up on the floor.
I've always been pretty good about being able to hold myself together and was doing a decent job of it until I looked at the teacher at his desk and he just put his head down to mask his face and I lost it.
I heard a few years ago that she did finally get the help/diagnosis/medication she obviously needed, but back then, you were almost numb to her outbursts. I mean it was like a weekly or biweekly thing.
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Oct 22, 2023 18:19:17 GMT -5
At a school I was teaching at where the kids eat their lunch in the classroom a student was being disruptive so the old-fashioned principal (unwisely IMO) made him eat sat on the floor in the hallway - well you can imagine what happened when he didn't take that too well. Spaghetti and milk all over the walls, he even managed to get an extra bowl from somewhere and decorated the teacher's room with it.
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Post by tirtefaa on Oct 22, 2023 19:25:58 GMT -5
I mentioned this in the other thread, but several fights broke out in classes, one with my then friend getting punched so hard his glasses flew across the room in spectacular fashion.
There was a nasty art teacher who I refused to take due to her attitude. She eventually pushed some kid to the point where he attacked her, picking her up and trying to slam her through her desk.
There was a kid who put on a strong front, but I was in an adjoining office when he eventually had a crazy breakdown after he and the kid who bullied him were both brought in. I'd never seen a kid cry that hard. Afterwards, the other kid never bullied him anymore.
7th grade was an absolute nightmare for me. While 6th grade was no cup of tea, I was the new kid to a school full of cliques, and it took a while to find a means to fit in. Anyways, 7th grade was bad since every cruel kid shared classes with me, especially one guy who was an absolute emotionless sociopath, a guy who reveled in hurting people. I shared every class with this guy other than the first two classes. Anyways, he made sure to make comments to me every day, and while I was not one to avoid a fight, he had his own little clique who would not avoid jumping in and fighting dirty. Everyone was intimidated by this guy. So unfortunately, I couldn't do anything about it, other than take it. 7th period was the absolute worst since it was chalk full of awful kids, and a teacher who was dumb to their antics, and got her to believe I was the troublemaker, despite never being one to start stuff. They gaslit her so much, that I sat at a separate desk in front of everyone, isolated from the rest of the class. I almost lost it when the sociopath purposely stole some of my stuff to purposely get it confiscated, only for the stupid teacher to give it back to the wrong kid. When I approached the "wrong kid", he wanted me to pay for it. When I refused, he destroyed my stuff in front of me, while the sociopath laughed. I was absolutely humiliated, and it took everything I could do to hold it together. I truly thought about suicide during this time since it felt like a better alternative than dealing with that every day.
Thankfully, my reputation improved. And by high school I was friends with guys, who were friends with the most intimidated guys in school now, which by this time, was not the sociopath. While he never apologized or anything, the sociopath was at least no longer cruel to me, especially since we shared some of the same friends by this point. It was definitely awkward for me at times though.
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Post by Paul on Oct 22, 2023 19:26:17 GMT -5
When one girl in my eighth grade French class got her Hanson poster accidentally ripped and she was trying not to start bawling. Relatable. Hanson is awesome.
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Post by Error on Oct 22, 2023 21:16:19 GMT -5
When one girl in my eighth grade French class got her Hanson poster accidentally ripped and she was trying not to start bawling. 8th art class our teacher would turn on MTV but black out the picture. Hanson came on and one of the guys grabbed the tv remote and turned it off, then they started to toss around the remote to keep the girls from turning the tv back on. It lands in front of me and before I can so much as look up from the drawing I'm working on, a girl smashed me in the back of the with a dictionary knocking me out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2023 21:21:09 GMT -5
I was not in the class myself but it was the talk of the entire school for a moment.
A teacher who was having a Falling Down (the movie) type of day I assume because he was teaching a rather rowdy class of students who were not listening to him at all and so apparently completely flipped his shit ranted and raved at the class as loud as he could and then took a chair and threw through the window that pretty much every school door has and quit.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Oct 23, 2023 9:38:42 GMT -5
I nominate once more my Spanish teacher who got fed up one day with our antics and called us a bunch of pumpkins.
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Post by chrom on Oct 23, 2023 9:43:03 GMT -5
At a school I was teaching at where the kids eat their lunch in the classroom a student was being disruptive so the old-fashioned principal (unwisely IMO) made him eat sat on the floor in the hallway - well you can imagine what happened when he didn't take that too well. Spaghetti and milk all over the walls, he even managed to get an extra bowl from somewhere and decorated the teacher's room with it. Not accepted anymore, but I think they would've been justified in breaking the ruler on his ass.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 23, 2023 9:57:37 GMT -5
3rd grade once a week a handful of us got taken to a bigger school for advanced placement classes.
My cousin,who is 6 months older than me,had be mega spoiled by his parents. Like if they played a board game with him they made sure he won.
It was the last AP class before Halloween,Teacher dia party and there was games. At the end of the day you could trade in the points you earned in the games for prizes. With whoever had the most points going first.
I went second and picked something,no clue what it wwas now. Cousin,Jason,came in last and was stuck with something he hated. He started crying and yelling.
Teacher tries to calm him down nothing. Few other kids try to do it nothing. Finally being related to the asshat I walk over, ask him if i can do anything. Seems he wants whatever prize I picked out. So i traded him that for whatever he had and he stopped being a asshat.
Right at 10 years later we are graduating. Class ranks is being told,Jason came in 38th and again throws a fit. This time the other classmates just pointed and laughed at him.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 23, 2023 10:01:08 GMT -5
Worst I'd seen was actually a friend of mine. In high school everyone knew he was... Different, so they'd find him annoying and also go out of their way to get a rise out of him. It wasn't unusual for him to get into a very passionate argument with others and then angrily storm out of the room, after which everyone would make fun of him. Surprise surprise, turns out he was autistic and the school knew about it but let the bullying continue because the vice principal (a cokehead with a pill problem) hated him too. So, he sued the school (oddly enough my cousin was a star witness because he bullied my friend and was flat out told by the vice that he didn't care and he could keep doing it) and he got a pretty sizeable settlement. So at least the story has a happy ending.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Oct 23, 2023 10:32:14 GMT -5
I went to an all boys catholic high school and we had a female teacher. One kid just ripped a loud and lengthy fart in class and everybody started laughing and she ran out of the room and cried in her car
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 23, 2023 11:21:17 GMT -5
Literally graduation day in high school. During the rehearsal that morning I thought the principal was going to have an aneurysm. No one was in the mood to kosher to him, and he knew it. His face was so red you could have mistaken him for a stunted Alex Jones.
PS I will confess, I did not like the man. When I shook his hand and got my diploma, as I walked away I quietly tossed over my shoulder “Thanks a$$hole.” I have no idea if he heard me, doesn’t make any difference.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Oct 23, 2023 13:07:31 GMT -5
One time Bryan Clark showed up and hit a kid with a pumphandle slam.
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Post by SneakMan on Oct 23, 2023 15:31:09 GMT -5
I went to high school with this one dude who was weird but largely seemed harmless - mainly remember him giving enthusiastic fist bumps and being a big Cradle of Filth fan. Anyway, he once replied to a friend of mine asking about who he was going to prom with, with "I'm gonna f***ing kill you, you fat bitch" which got him a suspension until said prom. He ended up bringing his sister, who he slow-danced with.
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