Did you have any 'inappropriate' teachers at school?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Let’s see, where to start?

A couple of years back, my grade 6 teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography. I haven’t heard anything about it in the news recently, so I’m not sure if the charges went anywhere, or if there’s still going to be a trial, or what.

Everyone joked that the theme song for my grade 8 home-ec teacher should have been “I Touch Myself” (this was in the early '90s, so the song was popular at the time), because she was constantly touching either her boobs or her crotch.

In grade 10, my social studies teacher told a classmate that she would get an A on her report if she attached a photo of herself in a bikini to the front page. He later resigned.

In grade 12, a French teacher with a well-deserved reputation as a pervert got placed on “indefinite sick leave” after a school dance. He was one of the chaperones, but showed up drunk and proceeded to hit on every girl he could find.

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I had one that went beyond inappropiate on one occasion. In Spain students stay in one classroom and it’s teachers who move; the students only move to different locations for gym and electives. So, students are organized by “classroom” and each classroom gets a “mentor.” This guy was our mentor in 7th grade.

He said that, since he was new in the area and therefore hadn’t been hearing about us from our previous teachers for years, he wanted us to come in to see him for initial mentoring. He divided the class in four groups, each group had to stay after class one day for this. We’d start the next day. I was in the first group. His “mentoring” was centered on questions like “so tell me, dear, are you having your periods yet?” and groping. The parents of every student in that group (except mine :rolleyes: because it would have “undermined the teacher’s authority”, uhm, this teacher whose hand I slapped away? what authority?) presented forceful complaints. The teacher was told to keep his dick-o-pause to himself and that if he so much as looked at one student funny he wouldn’t just be fired, he’d get walked out of the school and into a police car. We found this acceptable. The only person traumatized was the teacher, who’d gotten slapped or punched by several of the students.

His dick-o-pause ended about five months into the school year. If we tell this story mentioning him by name to any of the students who had him after us, they get angry because we’re insulting “the sweetest old gent ever!”

One of my TAs in college spent a whole party banging one of my classmates in the ladies’. We’re still angry, not at him getting laid (although given her rep, we hope he got his manly bits checked by a doc afterwards, Og knows what he could have caught), but at having had to go to the other ladies’ room, which was a lot farther damnit! Ineedstapeenow!

I also had several teachers who were viewed as “inappropiate” by parents but it had nothing to do with sex. It had to do with teaching us to think outside the box. I’d like more of these, please!

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We had a couple of drinkers and a couple of shirt looker downers.

At my reunion I talked to the girl who sat in front of me in the science class I dropped in 10th grade. I said I wouldn’t have lasted as many grade periods as i did if it hadn’t been for her. She said I was nuts and that the only reason she passed that class was that she walked in on the teacher having sex with another teacher in the storage room…her silence bought her As.

Not nearly as bad as some of what’s been posted her, but something I’ve noticed in my son’s elementary school is inappropriately dressed teachers. Women in their early 20s wearing low rise pants and short tops. Teaching grade school involves a lot of physical avtivity, bending and squatting and so forth. Too often I’ve seen a teacher helping a first grader on with a jacket and seen thong underwear visible over the top of her pants. An aide in my son’s class dresses as if she’s going straight to a club from work. Hey, I don’t have a problem with her having a pierced navel, but it shouldn’t be visible while Junior’s supposed to be learning how to divide fractions. He shouldn’t see an image on a skateboard on the web and say “that’s like Ms. Merrick’s tattoo on her back”.

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I graduated from a very small (class of 26 folks) public High School in 1991. I never noticed anything off about any of our teachers, until they piled the Senior class into a schoolbus for the traditional year-end Senior trip to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.

A science teacher that I was quite happy with was one of our chaperones. I’ll call him “Mr. Duuude” (he was an avid wind surfer, and had that Fast Times/Keanu Reeves sort of speech).

Once we arrived and checked into our hotel, we hit the beach and the midway rides. We could wander off on our own as long as we met back with the whole group every few hours. The chaperones ended up hanging out with small groups of us now and then.

I had ended up spending most of the trip hanging out with a girl (I’ll call her Jenny) who I hadn’t spent much time with at school before, mostly because she wasn’t in any of my college-prep classes. She had a reputation for being a ditzy airhead (which I can’t argue with) but she was very nice, and we managed to bond in the final days before graduation.

Mr. Duuude had been walking around with Jenny and I and a couple of other kids for a while, and we were all standing in line for one of the dinky roller coasters. Jenny and I were laughing to ourselves because a couple of pimple-faced young teenagers were totally making out on a park bench nearby. After everyone in front of us had gotten on the coaster, there was one 2-seater car left to fill, and somehow Mr. Duuude ended up sitting behind Jenny in the cozy seat, basically spooning her, even though Jenny and I had been trying to sit together. I ended up sitting that one out. As the coaster pulled away, Mr. Duude’s hands started going quite a few places that I thought they had no business going, pretty much right in front of me, though I don’t think he realized I was watching.

I didn’t really know what to think, and was second guessing myself as to whether or not I was being too sensitive and such. When the ride ended, I tried to guage my new friend out of the corner of my eye and see if she was upset or uncomfortable, but she showed no outward signs of distress. Mr. Duuude ended up walking around with the two of us for a while, and eventually I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I manufactured some reason or another for Jenny and I to go off on our own and lose him.

Once we were alone, I asked her if Mr. Duuude had been bothering her, and said that I’d seen his hands wandering, and explained that he had been making me uncomfortable with how he was acting. She said that she’d noticed, but that was just how guys always treated her, so it wasn’t anything she wasn’t used to. I remember spending the 8 hour bus ride home the next day, awkwardly trying to talk her into having some self esteem and the confidence to stand up for herself, and maybe talk to the principle about him. She assured me that the feeling up on the roller coaster and creepy shadowing behavior was the only creepy interactions she had ever had with him, and they had come out of nowhere.

I played mental tug-o-war with myself for a few days, trying to decide if I should be the one to say something about him, but I ended up not saying anything. A few weeks later Jenny and I graduated with our class, and I have not seen or spoken to either of them since.

I think about that whole situation quite often, and the memories are very vivid in my mind (hence the rambling). I can’t deny that I do have some regret for not coming forward, just in case he ever tried to cross any further over the line with any of his students that came after us.

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Um, okay, but I think the word “inappropriate” is appropriate in this context.

Although, personally, the word has been ruined for me by Clive Clemmons.

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Not inappropriate in the way a lot of your are describing, but one of my teachers in the first year of secondary school clearly missed his first choice of being a comedian and it was very apparent in class. His favourite tactic was to pick on the none-too-bright kids and make serious fun of them, which frankly I don’t think is right for a teacher to do (sure it was funny at the time, but looking back on it I don’t think he was very suited to teaching). He quit shortly after and became a lawyer. Hmmmmm.

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We had a health/gym teacher who was a lesbian. I thought that it was inappropriate to have her in the position of a girls gym teacher.

My sixth grade music teacher was well known in our small town for starting a “Kids on Broadway” type of thing. He was later arrested for inappropriate behavior with young boys. I remember when I read the article in the local paper about him I was shocked as he always appeared to like the girls more than the boys. It was one of those “I never had a clue” moments.

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One high school teacher who used to chain-smoke in class. She was a sexy youngish widow who would definitely use her charms on the boys. On one memorable occasion she invited the class stud, who stereotypically was as thick as pigshit, to her house for ‘extra lessons’. Not sure whether he took her up on that offer, and if he did, what he learned.

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In the seventh grade we had a science teacher that apparently would check out the girl’s regularly. Look down their shirts, drop a pencil to look up their skirts. I didn’t know it at the time, but later when I knew some of the girls better they mentioned how creepy he was.

And supposedly the gym teacher was well-known for banging cheer leaders, but I don’t know if that is true and would be amazed. He was a big lump of a man with few redeeming qualities that I remember.

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The program is Law of the Playground, for the record.

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When I was in grades 3 through 5, our (male) gym teacher would sometimes walk into the girls’ locker room after class “just to check”. For instance, if he told us to shower before returning to class, he’d come in to make sure we were all showering.

In ninth grade, I had a biology teacher who used to like to press up against the girls when they were bending over a microscope or a dissection tray. Just to add to the fun he always stank of cheap cigars and too much aftershave. On days when we had biology lab I used to run home to shower and change clothes… yuck.

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When I was in high school, the chair of the Biology department was known as a creepy perv. Girls knew that you should NEVER be alone with him. He had a position of significant authority because in addition to being head of Biology in a school that specialized in science, he also was faculty advisor to a super-prestigious science fair.

Lo and behold about 10 years after I graduated he was hauled off school grounds in handcuffs after admitting to an undercover cop that he had sex with a 15 year student. Since he pled guilty and is a now a registered sex offender, I have no problem mentioning his name: Richard Plass – and by the way, although he is barred from ever teaching in NYC again, he holds himself out as a science tutor; parents beware.

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In high school I was part of an organization that was pretty much all about college prep. During my sophomore year, we got a new teacher for the class. He was fresh out of college and came off as one of those mousy but frat-like guys who loved the power of authority he was going to get for the first time. He toned it down later on, taught us some decent stuff I thought but still maintained the “I’m going to play Mr. Cool teacher and hold you under my authority but try to be friends at the same time”. He tossed in some innuendos often, which was really akward but nothing too serious. Then he started flirting with all the females in the class, especially heavily with the prettiest ones. He didn’t come back to teach next year and we all assumed that he either moved on or got fired for something. It wasn’t until this year that another teacher confirmed it and said that he was caught giving a love letter to a student. Dummy.

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My 9th-grade English teacher had a tendency to wear blouses that were unbuttoned a little too far, and then she would lean over the boys’ desks in a rather purposeful manner. The boys would kind of scooch back in their chairs and try to get away from her as she flirted with them. They were grossed out by her and made fun of her out of class.

A volleyball coach was eventually arrested for fooling around with the girls on the team, but I don’t remember the details except that there was a hot tub involved.

My chemistry teacher was the worst for me, though. He would give me neckrubs in class, which made me horribly uncomfortable but I didn’t know how to tell him to knock it off. I wasn’t the only one by any means. He always had pretty girls for TAs and they all knew never to go for a ride with him–he would invite them to go driving in his red Porsche. I’m pretty sure he played favorites with grades–I got an A in that class and I don’t think I deserved it. I suppose he got away with it because it never occurred to any of us to tell our parents or the principal; we were embarrassed. Or maybe someone did tell and nothing ever happened.

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Yep.

I’m still in touch with my ninth-grade history teacher, and she was as amazed and appalled as I was to learn about Mr. Sigler. She had been good friends and gone to church with him and his family.

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Did she ever behave inappropriately?

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No, though some were not particularly intelligent and some were not nice.

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I (we) have no idea whatsoever what you are trying to say. If a teacher stands up in front of a 5th grade class and starts ranting about cunts and assholes, then that is inappropriate. If an attractive female teacher wears a miniskirt and no bra to a freshman high school class consisting mostly of 14 year boys, that is inappropriate. If a drunk uncle stands up at a wedding to give speech and laments how he is sad about the wedding because he always wanting to ride the bride like a bronco, that is inappropriate.

Many of the stories people are giving her are very similar to those types of examples. Purposely making loud farts in church is inapprioate as are millions of other examples that we could come up with that usually match an inappropriate behavior that happened somewhere. Why is that so hard to understand?

Did you actually mean what you wrote because it makes absolutely no sense in this context.

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12 year old girls? Girls just on the verge of puberty and raging hormones? Absolutely appropriate. Hopefully the respect you had for her would help you resist the lures of those evil boys.

Obviously no respect in this case!

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Seconding the request for an explanation. Did she ever behave inappropriately, or is it just that lesbians are icky?