Being a high school teacher cannot be easy. While there have always been those "cool teachers" that the kids respect, almost nobody on staff is safe from getting a good roasting from the teenage terrors. Back in my day (which was much longer ago than I'd like to admit), the bullying was usually benign, but a few cases pretty damn brutal. One kid found a French teacher's profile on a gay dating site for "bears" - complete with a playlist of some seriously corny country songs. After sending the site to every one of our classmates, he printed out the images from the profile and passed them around class. Some kids were whistling the Dolly Parton they learned he loved. It was terrible. Other teachers were mocked for everything from their height to their fuzzy sweaters - or even their choice of soft drink.
Fortunately, the kids usually pick something incredibly dumb to mock, which kind of gives the roasting more of a comedic feel. Twitter user @jkirk___ shared one such occasion on the site, tweeting about a student who razzed her for the necessary act of drinking water.
High school kids will really make fun of you for anything 😭 I have a new student who saw my almost-empty water bottle and he goes DAMN MISS YOU WERE THIRSTY and the other kids laughed lollll how do you get clowned for drinking water 😭
— Jessica Kirkland (@jkirk___) February 7, 2022
After Jessica Kirkland shared her incredulousness over being clowned for drinking water, other users were inspired to chime in with their own tales of being picked on by teenagers. Thankfully, none of the stories involve being mocked for sexual orientation.