17-year-old student records substitute teacher's outburst at classmate: 'She threatened me with a lawsuit'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 6, 2024 8:00 AM EST

This is how you get fired, y'all!

This substitute teacher stepped in while the Redditor's actual teacher was on maternity leave, and let's just say that she quickly became unpopular. Of course, it's easy for students to dislike substitute teachers, but this time, it was justified. Everyone who was getting A's in the class up to that point quickly started getting C's. She frequently went on tirades about how all the students in her class were entitled. She clearly was projecting and had an axe to grind. Matters were made worse when one of the Redditor's classmates stood up to her, which led her to throw a full-on temper tantrum. What she did not realize is that the Redditor secretly recorded her little outburst.

Keep scrolling below to see how the substitute teacher got her comeuppance and to find out what happened when she figured out who posted the video of her temper tantrum. For more stories like this, check out this post about a neighbor's petty behavior to other residents in the neighborhood.

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    Maternity leave sub wants to fail us all? Have fun being fired.
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    This story happened when I was a junior in high school and 17 years old at the time. First a bit of background. I was taking a regular english class, and I genuinely
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    liked my teacher, we'll call her Mrs. P. Anyway, Mrs. P was pregnant at the time and due to go on maternity leave about a quater way through the semester.
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    When she leaves, the class gets to meet her sub, we'll call her Mrs. M. She seemed nice at first saying how much she
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    loved teaching and she would not change how the class operated from Mrs. P. The first sign that something was fishy was when all of the sudden
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    she stopped accepting late work (something Mrs. P was always generous with). She gave no warning and people's homework grades suddenly began to drop.
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    She began to gave us ridiculous tests over our reading that nobody could do well on (keep in mind I am a straight-A student and I was getting C's and D's). Anyway, the
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    semester continues and Mrs. M. keeps on making the class suffer here and there and my class grade was down from an A to a C.
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    The final straw came in December when we were about to take our final No Red Ink test (I'm sure my fellow high school students can relate to No
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    Red Ink). No Red Ink is a site that has a lot of grammar tests. For example: proper comma usage, and other grammatical practices.
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    For No Red Ink, there was always homework that didn't count for a grade but rather allowed us to retake the unit test if we did poorly. Anyway, unit
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    test roles around, I get something around a 29/30 but when I look in the gradebook, I received
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    a O. I was not the only one, only a handful of students did the homework, and the one's who did not do the homework received O's.
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    Obviously, everyone was ped because we received no warning for this sudden change in policy. After a barrage of
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    questions, we can tell that Mrs. M is about to break. After my friend asked why this was happening, she snapped and went out on a rage.
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    Calling us all "eggs" ready to break the moment something did not go our way. She also said that adults looked down on us in the world,
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    that we were not prepared for real life because we were all "pampered little brats".
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    Unfortunately for Mrs. M, I was recording her little rampage the entire time for evidence. After she was done with her fit of rage, realizing her mistake she apologized
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    to my friend who ended up rejecting her apology (good for him to stand up like that). I then posted the video, unlisted, on youtube so my friend could see.
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    The next day, I was in Physics, sitting in the hall because I was absent for a test the previous day and the class was going
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    over it, so I had to sit outside. A crying Mrs. M shows up as I'm outside, asks when I'm free, I say I'm not because I had to makeup the Physics test that day. Case in point,
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    she found out it was me, apparently I accidentally showed my face in the video and someone ratted me out. I was threatened with a law suit and that people will hate me for what I had done.
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    Naturally, I removed the video and went straight to my councillor, told him what happened, and he directed me to the Student Services Director
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    claiming he couldn't deal with the issue. The Student Services Director called the Principal and told me to tell my story to the Deans. I showed them
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    the video and told them how she threatened me with a lawsuit. They were shocked. The hour I was supposed to go to english they said I didn't have to go because it would have been VERY awkward. The
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    next day, we had a new sub and she was never to be seen again at our school. Everyone congratulated and thanked me for getting her fired and our new sub
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    was so polite and understanding. She allowed us to turn in all of our late work and I finished with an A- in the class. Mrs. P returned the next semester and apologized profusely for the damage the sub did. to her class.
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    TLDR:Maternity leave sub tries to give us all O's even though she was in the wrong and gets fired for yelling at my friend.
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    Edit: I actually received no punishment. However, I was warned to not record people, to just go directly to the deans instead in the future.
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    Edit 2: Formatting. Edit 3: Thank you to person who gave me silver status!
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