Student glues classroom door shut and locks teacher inside as payback for unfair treatment all semester: 'The fire department had to come to free him'

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Jul 8, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Everyone has that one teacher who gave them a hard time in high school. If life were a movie, there would be some sort of inspirational and emotional arc to that teacher where the two of you come to understand, appreciate, and respect one another. However, in reality, there usually isn't much of an arc at all. Most of the time, the two of you end the year still resenting one another. The only real ending is one of you leaving the school and no longer being a part of one another's lives. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit by u/Generally_Tso_Tso, who recounted his story of enacting petty revenge on his difficult teacher and then getting away with it. After getting terrible grades all semester and being the object of his teacher's paranoia and outbursts, the Redditor got some major payback on Mr. K with the help of some super glue. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about this frustrated teacher's malicious compliance with his school's dress code policy.

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    "Treated unfairly by teacher all semester, but I gave him some payback."
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    This story goes back over thirty years ago when I (m50) was a senior in high school. Civics was a required course necessary for graduation. My older sister had taken Civics four years earlier with the same teacher, Mr. K.
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    My first day in class Mr. K takes attendance and recognizes my last name and asks if I'm related to my sister. Upon acknowledging that we were in fact related Mr. K
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    shakes his head and in his West African accent says, "Baaaahd citizen. I will have to watch you."
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    "Bad citizen" was his catch-phrase for anyone who did something he didn't like in his classroom. I thought he was just kidding me, but I soon learned that he was actually serious.
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    Now I don't know what kind of trail of destruction that my older sister had left in her wake, but I wasn't a troublemaker. I get into class on day two of Civics
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    and 10 minutes into class I start getting chastised by Mr. K for talking during class. What was particularly odd, beyond the fact that I hadn't spoken a word, was that no one was talking. I tried to explain that I hadn't said anything, but
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    it didn't matter. Not five minutes later I was getting sent to the office with a suspension referral for talking in class without speaking.
    via u/Generally_Tso_Tso
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    Apparently Mr. K's credibility was already somewhat tarnished with the school administrators and I wasn't suspended from school. Nonetheless this is how much of the semester went. I would
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    get sent to the office for Mr. K's paranoid delusions. He would mark my tests with grades of C or D eventhough I had answered every question correctly. Gave me a final grade of C eventhough I had earned an A.
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    Mr. K always stayed after school each day until exactly 5:00pm in his classroom with the door closed. No one knows what he did in there, as he never had a lesson plan that went beyond having students read the textbook out loud to the rest of class.
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    So on the last day of school everyone left right away for the summer. Everyone that is except for Mr. K and myself.
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    Mr. K was secluded in his classroom as he always was after school was done. I tiptoed silently up to his door, standing with my feet wider than the door to prevent the shadow of my feet being
    via u/Generally_Tso_Tso
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    seen under the door. I then proceeded to empty an entire tube of glue, the fast drying kind, into the seam between his door and the doorframe.
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    Well Mr. K and the glue had a little over two hours for the glue to set. Plenty of time for the glue to harden. I wasn't around for it, but I heard that the fire department
    via u/Generally_Tso_Tso
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    had to come to free him from his classroom. Mr. K could only guess who the "Bad citizen" was that glued him in his room.
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    Malphas43 11 hr. ago Did you ever figure out why he disliked your older sister so much? I was a younger sibling as well and had teachers judge me at first when they realized i was her younger sibling, but i already knew enough to know why they had reservations.
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    floobidedoo. 11 hr. ago I hope you don't have any younger siblings. If you do, remind them the answer to his first question is, "who? Nope, I'm an only child."
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    Curlingmama48. 11 hr. ago That revenge is really going to stick with him
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