Sadistic teachers

[Lilith7]

Came across this - I suspect most of us will have had similar experiences. I certainly did. The headmaster also taught the two final years & he disliked me for some reason I've never worked out, & after a while I was none too keen on him either. He took delight in picking on various kids & ridiculing them, whenever he got the chance.
I went to a small country school & once into the last two years we all had to be bussed to another school for what was then called 'manual training' - cooking for girls & woodwork or metalwork for boys.
The roads were mostly shingle so vehicles got dusty, & one day I committed the heinous crime of writing in the dust on the back of the bus 'please clean me' - highly original.

The absolute bastard saw me or someone told - I never knew which & so he decided that the only fitting punishment was to strap me. At that time it was a boys only punishment there, but he did it any way.

I had a very strong sense that it was wrong. And it was our last year before high school so I waited. Waited until the last day & sneaked into the empty class & cut the strap into little pieces.

I've never once been sorry I did it.

So who else has a similar story of awful teachers...?


https://www.newsroom.co.nz/letter-to-a-s...1678039622