'I should suspend you': Teacher Mistakes Another Teacher for a Student, Snatches Phone Out of Her Hand and Sends Her to Detention

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Eleonora Bader
Jun 12, 2024 6:00 AM EDT

If you were blessed with young-looking genes, you encounter some pretty funny things. You get asked for ID in your thirties. You get told by a distant aunt at a family dinner to go sit at the kid's table. You get mistaken by teachers for being a student… that is, if you work in education. The list is endless, and embarrassing, but there's some good in it too — you look young, that's great. Lucky you.

This teacher was absolutely gobsmacked when another teacher came up to her in the hall and began speaking in a demanding tone, as if she was a kid, a student, or both. Where was her uniform? Why was she on her phone? She began explaining that she wasn't a student and that this teacher should probably check his tone, only to be dragged to the principal's office to be given detention. Check out the hilarious events unfold below.

Next, an employee who refused to work overtime as a favor to a coworker because of how the situation was handly. Hint, it was handled badly.

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  • 01
    "Now give me my phone back. Don't you have a class to teach? Because I do."
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    I'm a teacher. Give me back my phone.
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  • 03
    I work as a substitute teacher at various local highschools, I am 24 but obviously look younger according to this teacher. AT = angry teacher. Me = self explanatory. AT: "why aren't you in uniform? And no phones during school!"
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    I thought he was talking to a student so I ignored him. AT: "Excuse me, don't ignore me." He said as he snatched my phone out of my hand. Me: "What the f k, give that back, I'm not a student." AT: "thats detention for swe ring at a teacher, you will get your phone back at the end of the day, now you will come down to the office and tell the principle about how disrespectful you are being."
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    By this point I thought it would be funnier to let him complain to the principal who I play netball with and watch his reaction. He was raging. Saying I deserved to be suspended and that students always had their phones out yada yada. The principle and I were just trying not to laugh before she told him I was a teacher too.
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    Me: "now give me my phone back. Don't you have a class to teach? Because I do." I have never seen anyone go so red.
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    Schnozzberry_ Fu ng beautiful. It's always so weird to be mistaken for a High school student, but this makes it perfect considering you were a teacher. 9.0k Share ...
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    finnknit. While I was studying to be a teacher, I visited my former high school to observe classes. I think I had just turned 20 at the time, so I knew I was at risk of being mistaken for a student. I made sure to cleverly disguise myself as a responsible adult, and they even gave me a visitor's badge at the office when I checked in. That didn't stop several teachers from asking me for my hall pass while I was there. Some of them had actually had me in their classes when I was in high school, bu
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    PinkiePie90 I'm still mistaken for a student at 27. Mostly people come into my classroom and ask, "Where's the teacher?" when I'm the only person standing up and in professional dress. I'm hoping one day I'll have a juicy IDWHL moment. 1.2k Share ...
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    Char543 I had something similar happen to a teacher when I was in high school, in that a teacher was mistaken for a student. We were all outside standing around near the football field, which is at the front of the school. Someone had a family member or something pick up Dunkin Donuts for them. Up pulls a car by the fence facing the road. A rather young teacher, who had been hired that year or the year before goes up to the fence to tell the car to go away. She was afraid the Dunkin would cause
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    On her walk over to the car and the fence, a coach who was patrolling the bleachers yells down to her, "Hey! Get away from there!" The teacher stops, and looks up at him, with a face. Man, I had never seen that coach get flustered before, but he did. He shouted out a quick apology before quickly going back to bleacher patrol.
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    Lionel_de_Lion ⚫ Sorry for the formatting, I am on my phone. Typical student. Always on their phone... 1.5k Share ...
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    kuroyouko That's awesome! This makes me think of my Japanese 4 teacher in high school. He looked young and was shorter than a good number of his students. It was fairly funny when one day, a student came in to give him a notice from the office. But she couldn't tell where he was because he had been in the middle of the students' desks, helping them out. She only figured out where he was when he actually walked out to the door to talk to her. (Ah, memories...) 944 Share ...
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    byndawn We had a REALLY young physics teacher back when I was in high school. She was 25 (I think) at the time, tiny, skinny blond girl (I feel awkward defining her as anything else since I'm older now than her at the time), looking nothing like the rest of the teachers at the school. One day at the beginning of her first year me and 2-3 guys are walking to class and she's talking to a girl (also from my class) further down the hallway, right in front of the physics classroom. We were 10th(?) gr
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    So here come the two dip .t bullies of the school, almost two meters tall, beefy twins with the combined IQ of a house plant. One of them sees the teacher and assumes she's a student, and slaps her hard from behind. To this day I've never seen someone being 180% slapped so fast in my life.
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    Best part was after all the shouting and apologizing was done to see them walking to the principal's office, two huge... "men" led by a girl half their size. God bless you miss Idontrememberyournamebutthatsokaycauseyouprollydonteit her, I'll cherish that memory forever.
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    Agerstein. When I started working at the University I graduated from, many of the faculty and staff were still working there, including the department of one of my minors. While talking with one faculty member I was friendly with from my time as a student, the one I'd been waiting for showed up - so I tried to introduced myself by saying "Hello, Frank, I'm..." and was interrupted with "I prefer to be addressed as PROFESSOR Jones".
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    I felt bad for him when I ignored that and continued with "OK, I'm agerstein and I just started in full-time IT; I'm the new "George" (guy I replaced). You were having problem X with your computer?" He got very quiet for a minute, and I could tell he was still confused.... I continued to introduce myself as the new George for about 2 years.
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    nlderek . I had somewhat a similar thing happen where I was a "guest of honor" for this event at my old high school (after I was well into my 30's). I was berated by the principle for not being in class and roaming the halls...right up until I explained I wasn't a student but was, well, me. He felt a bit stupid.
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    Anenceon. I used to get the same thing. I'm 25, work for a school district as their Computer Technician, and I look rather young. I was walking through the highschool(being based at another school, they don't see me often) and a teacher walked up to me while I was on my phone and asked if I had somewhere to be. He felt pretty silly once I told him who I was. Also the tech at the school gave me the annoyed "What do you want this early in the morning" when I walked in, thinking I was a student on
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    LAW & MORDOR Troubador222. My parents and several of my dads sisters were all teachers. Back in the 60s one of my Aunts busted a fellow teacher for having her skirt too short, thinking she was a student. Similar thing where she marched the poor woman to the principle. The woman ended up having a sense of humor about it Nd became good friends with my aunt and they taught together for years. My aunt would tell the story when she got old and laugh.
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