Has a teacher/coach/instructor ever laid a finger on you?

[Dionysus]

I'm not talking about pats on the back, lol. When you were a kid, has a teacher/coach/instructor ever hitted, pushed, shook, or grabbed you?

[Rudey]

Yes. Teachers in the middle east don't play.

-Rudey

[ZTAngel]

Yes, when I was in Japan.
I was in preschool and I had these mean lady for a teacher. She use to give all the bad kids a spanking.
We were on some fieldtrip at a museum and I began to walk ahead of the group. She yanked me back and gave me a spanking.
I never said anything to my parents about it because I thought they'd be mad at me for walking ahead of the group. I finally mentioned something to them about it when I was 10. They were PISSED when I told them that my teacher had done this. My parents' approach is that they can hit me if they want but nobody else is allowed to lay a finger on me.
Oh well, it was too late then to do anything about it. It didn't scar me for life or anything.

When I was in 7th grade, Mr. Lockwood, my social studies teacher, had a reputation for taking chalkboard erasers, chalking them up, and pelting us with them. Our uniforms were ugly pieces of polyester or polyurethane navy blue, and a bitch to clean off.

He was fired by the time I reached 8th grade.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

A teacher never touched me, but I remember a teacher slapped my classmate in the face. When my mother heard that, I was sent to private school.

I did have a teacher and a coach who were verbally abusive to me. Only a grown up with a complete lack of social skills and some serious problems can be mean to a young girl. I didn't know that at the time and thought that it was my fault.

[carnation]

When my husband was in first grade, his mom noticed that his arms were covered with tiny violet half-moons. So were his friends' arms. Turns out that this vicious teacher was digging her nails into them when they missed questions. The school told my in-laws that they couldn't fire her until the end of the year. Back in the day, you didn't have much recourse when that stuff happened.

The evil old witch must be 90 and still lives around the corner from my in-laws.

[Dionysus]

When I was in elementary school, I refused to write in cursive. My fine motor skills was little behind, since I was the youngest in my class. I didn't like how I had to write much slower in cursive, opposed to writing pretty fast in print. One day, this bitch (my teacher) shook me and shouted "write cursive, write cursive!" My neck was sore for days. Til this day I have an aversion to cursive writing, and only do it whenever I need to sign something.

[WCUgirl]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I did have a teacher and a coach who were verbally abusive to me. Only a grown up with a complete lack of social skills and some serious problems can be mean to a young girl. I didn't know that at the time and thought that it was my fault.

I did too! He was later forced to resign b/c of "personal reasons" (he got caught doing a 17-year-old student).

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by AXiD670
I did too! He was later forced to resign b/c of "personal reasons" (he got caught doing a 17-year-old student).

Oh snap!

My coach was a volunteer who yelled at the team that we all sucked and were losers. She quit after we lost a softball game. We replaced her with a really nice and supportive coach. She was great and had a wonderful approach. The truth was we really did suck, but we were 12 and 13 year olds who needed instruction. We actually improved a lot with the second coach because we weren't afraid and anxious around her.

The teacher picked on a girl who told her parents. It was only girls that he picked on. She and her parents lodged some complaint against him. There was a big investigation. The Board of Trustees almost fired him, but instead demoted him from principal to teacher. When I had my reunion, he apologized to my sister for being mean to me. What a weirdo!

[Munchkin03]

I don't think this stuff happens more in public schools. Asshole teachers can be in any sort of school situation.

I was verbally harassed by my 6th grade PE teacher. My parents kept on going to the principal and guidance counselor about it, but nothing was ever done.

[SSS1365]

I had a teacher who had definite anger management problems. He was my 5th grade math teacher, and I remember him getting so mad one day that he picked up a desk and threw it. But as far as I knew, he never laid a hand on any students. Apparently, his anger issues became such a concern in the following years that by the time my little brother (6 years younger than me) got to 5th grade, the teacher had been removed from his position. Since he never had hit a student, he was given a vice principal position in hopes that less direct contact with students would be okay. But I heard that he snapped one day and actually grabbed a kid by the throat.

Needless to say, he is no longer in that position either.

[James]

Only the females and I was pretty ok with it.

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
I don't think this stuff happens more in public schools. Asshole teachers can be in any sort of school situation.

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I agree. In Toronto right now, a former teacher of one of the most prestegious boys' schools is on trial for sexually abusing his students back in the 1970s.

[lifesaver]

I got my ass beat in every grade K-8, with the exception of K & 3. Mostly for talkign or not doing my homework. Them bitches in west texas dont mess around.

BTW, I went to public school.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by Taualumna
I agree. In Toronto right now, a former teacher of one of the most prestegious boys' schools is on trial for sexually abusing his students back in the 1970s.

My grade 11 math teach was charged with 20 counts of sexual assult. He was charged after I had left the school. I don't know how long it had been going on. Fortunately, I was not one of his victims.