We had one in fifth grade who terrorized the students, screamed in their faces, ridiculed them when they could not complete a program on the chalk board.
She’d place students under her desk and kick them if they moved. She would pull students out of their chairs by their hair.
The teaching assistant who had been assigned to her was terrified of her and not once stopped the abuse. The principal and other teaches did nothing. She was an old hag who had been a teacher in the Holbrook, Massachusetts school system for a long time.
Over forty years later I can still smell the cigarette smoke and blackberry brandy on her as she screamed in my face.
I hope she rots in hell. I hope the damned teaching assistant does too.
The teacher you are describing should have been fired and never gotten another job.
Teachers like that should be hanged in the public square.
The children of today will be running our nation some day. What these types of teachers do is not only child abuse - but treason.
I bet after the first hanging the other teachers will step in line or quit their jobs.
I had a fifth grade teacher who was a nasty piece of work, but she was a saint compared to yours.
I suspect that this thread's valedictorian was being honest and objective. Good for her. I gave a speech to my fellow high school students that got me in a bit of trouble with the school administration, but I don't regret it.
Yes, I had one in the third grade. Besides some of the things you mentioned this evil man would torture the kids by having one in front of class and demand they confess - without telling them why. After some tears he would finally tell them what bizarre crime he felt they had committed.
My third grade teacher hated me the most in my class. I too hope she rots in hell for what she did to me.