I was humiliated in front of 30 students in the class
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That is so wrong.
I just retired from my vocation as a public school teacher after 38 years... Most of my career was spent in middle school. Yes, some students were very trying, but I hope/know I never intentionally humiliated any one of them.
Each of us needs to exhibit behaviors to earn respect, but we also need to be shown respect to learn how to do so.
(I was once marked down on an observation for “being too polite” to my students.)
I did get one day of retribution against my horrid 3rd grade teacher. Her husband ran a butcher shop, and did his own meatcutting of course. Which, back in the late 50s meant starting with until-recently-live stock.
She got the brainy idea that it would a great place to take the class for a field trip. So we rode the bus downtown to his shop and he explained a bunch of stuff that I didn’t pay attention to, and then we went in back where he revealed a dead cow hanging from a hook. Without further ado he took a knife and slit the thing open from stem to stern and what seemed like a sea of guts came falling out into a pile on the floor. I think all of the girls and about half of the boys threw up on the spot, it was like something out of a Steven King book - a chain reaction. Not because I had an iron stomach but because my 3rd grade brain instantly saw the downside for the hated teacher, I stood firm and joined the remaining boys laughing our tails off and teasing the others. It was glorious to see her screaming at her husband who was probably going, hey, whose idea was it to bring a bunch of kids to my butcher shop anyway?
On occasion after that, when we were feeling like pushing her buttons, me or one of my cohorts would mimic the act of gutting the cow and bending over retching horribly...
Because we were 3rd grade boys and that’s what you do!