'[She] starts SCREAMING at us to tell her who was late': Students get teacher fired in glorious tale of malicious compliance

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 2, 2023 2:00 PM EST

There's nothing like a success story about rebelling against authority. In this case, the setting was a Catholic high school, and the authority figure was the senior-year Social Justice teacher (ah, the irony!). 

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/lalalakee, who reflected on their former years as a high school student and shared this epic tale. For context, this Social Justice teacher was new to the school and was extremely strict. So strict that she locked the doors to the classroom for the daily morning prayer and pledge of allegiance. Even though the bell to the first class hadn't officially rung, she would consider students to be late if they missed either of those "essential" activities. Sounds like a bit much, don't you think? Well, the students all thought so, and when a kid was late one day, they all rallied around him instead of following the teacher's rules.

 

Keep scrolling below to see what happened when the principal got involved. When you're done, take a look at these school fails!

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  • 01
    Motor vehicle - SCHOOL BUS "IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHO WALKED IN DURING PRAYER YOU WILL ALL GO GET LATE SLIPS FROM THE PRINCIPAL!"
    via Thomas Park
  • 02
    Font - Teacher said "if you don't tell me who walked in during prayer you will all be sent to the principal's office!"... S OC I was reading through this sub and was immediately brought back to senior year of HS. I went to a Catholic school and we took a religion course every year. My senior year it was Social Justice. Our teacher (we'll call her P) was the absolute worst. She was brand new, extremely homophobic, and basically hated anyone who wasn't EXTREMELY Catholic.
    via u/lalalakee
  • 03
    Font - Every morning, we had morning prayer, pledge of allegiance, and announcements before the official start of class. P would purposely close the classroom doors and lock them so anyone who came in after prayer started would have to stand in the hallway until morning announcements are over.
    via u/lalalakee
  • 04
    Font - On this particular morning, my friend B (who was the smartest person in our grade... our valedictorian) was speaking to a teacher before first period Social Justice. He made it right at the bell, but P had already locked the doors. Prayer began and one of our classmates snuck over to the door and let B in.
    via u/lalalakee
  • 05
    Font - We thought all was well until announcements ended and P starts SCREAMING at us to tell her who was late. None of us say a peep because... snitches get stitches and end up in ditches. P gets angrier and says "IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHO WALKED IN DURING PRAYER YOU WILL ALL GO GET LATE SLIPS FROM THE PRINCIPAL!" Our entire class (about 20 kids) looked at each other and decided to comply.
    via u/lalalakee
  • 06
    Font - We all walked downstairs and into the lobby of our school where the principal and VP offices were. Our VP took one look at us and said "What the are you all doing here?" We told him P sent us all there to get late slips because we let B in during prayer... P considers that "late", and none of us wanted to snitch. Plus, B was on time to school and would have been in the classroom had P not locked the doors before the bell. He paused and looked at us all for a bit, chuckled, and said "Get b
    via u/lalalakee
  • 07
    Font - streetad 4 hr. ago Principal: "Oooh no, I'm not doing all that fu paperwork!"
    via u/lalalakee
  • 08
    Font - teapots_at_ten_paces +1.4 hr. ago For real. Teach, you want all your kids to get late slips? Come down here yourself and get started.
    via u/lalalakee
  • 09
    Rectangle - Mean_Possibility_526. 4 hr. ago My favorite part is the VP of the Catholic school saying "What the you all doing here". are
    via u/lalalakee
  • 10
    Gesture - skipdot81 . 9 hr. ago Very "I am Spartacus" vibes
    via u/lalalakee
  • 11
    Font - De_chook 5 hr. ago Excuse my ignorance, but as a non USA person, WTF is the pledge of allegiance, and to whom?
    via u/lalalakee
  • 12
    Facial expression - Lylac Krazy 4 hr. ago She didnt have a prayer of keeping that job, eh?
    via u/lalalakee
  • 13
    Font - HMS_Slartibartfast 7 hr. ago So, did anyone point out that you were committing an act of social justice against administrative overreach to P?
    via u/lalalakee
  • 14
    Font - Laundry0615 3 hr. ago yeah, in your senior year (especially last semester) those threats don't mean what they meant to a freshman.
    via u/lalalakee
  • 15
    Font - JSutt771 3 hr. ago P would purposely close the classroom doors and lock them Yea...fire marshal? Can I have a word...
    via u/lalalakee
  • 16
    Font - • 1 hr. ago Sounds like a story that I think I told here before. Long story short version is that we had another teacher covering our science class. I had to pee and asked the teacher several times Grimm2785 and got told no each time. Finally I told them that I can't hold it anymore and was going to the rest room with or without permission. Teacher said if I went that I would he going to the principals office after. I said ok and did just that. Principal just sent me back to class.
    via u/lalalakee

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