Times your teachers surprised you

[White_Lama]

Had a psychology teacher that had the fun outlook about joking to us students that there were snipers outside the windows ready to kill one of us just to see the reaction.

Had a Swedish teacher (I'm from Sweden, duuh) that decided it was appropriate to show this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154421/ to a group of teenagers and then walk out on the sex scene in the movie (and that sex scene was exactly the kind of sex scene you don't expect to see in class what with it being basicly porn and all). That same teacher was a quite calm one until most of the girls in the class became to annoying and he decided to throw papers and pens and shit all around.

And a history teacher that liked Battlestar Galactica

 

[Screamarie]

Well I had a psychology teacher back when I was in highschool who told his students that he was married to his cousin. We were never sure whether or not to believe him and I knew he got a kick out of telling us and everyone going "For real? No you're not! You're just yanking us." And it was very like of him to tell us a little fib like that, he was an interesting teacher and would mess with our minds in examples of psychology.....I don't think he was lying though.

Then I had a professor in college who sent me an email at random in 2011, inviting me to her Super Bowl Party at her home. We were and still are good friends, but I was very surprised, it's not every day you get an invitation to your professor's house for a party. I went, had a great time, and was invited back this year's Superbowl as well even though I graduated and I think I have an invitation to any more Superbowl parties that she has.

I may come back with some other stories, but I gotta run, got things to take care of.

 

[Mr Companion]

My drama teacher used to be a lookalike for Tony Blair (our ex prime minister you Muppet) and once went on an episode of Weakest Link lookalikes as him.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

My track coach's husband turned out to be a pedophile and was arrested for possession of child porn. It was kind of strange to find that out considering all of us knew him and he seemed like a completely normal decent guy. Hell, we'd had a BBQ at his house were he provided all the food.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Well, my white-haired, cheerful and knowledgeable English teacher turned out to be a huge metalhead. Awesome. And one of my maths teachers was at the very last ever Nirvana gig in Britain before Kurt Cobain died.
Aaaand there was a time an elderly German teacher once asked me if I took drugs at festivals. He then said 'I'm not judging- there's a reason I can't remember any of the 60s.

Oh, and a different English teacher turned out to have been a semi-pro tennis player when he was younger. He must have been about 50, but he could still kick anyone in the class's ass on the court.

 

[Woodsey]

The time my English teacher surprised me while I was getting supplies from the stationery cupboard. Oh the things she made me do to her...

I jest, I jest. I did have a massive crush on her though. And the Drama teacher. My school seemed to have this thing for hiring really attractive women when it came to humanities subjects.

I used to have a really fit English teacher too. Her nipples were constantly poking through her shirt, which became... distracting. We were pretty upset when she left.

 

[Surpheal]

I had about four of them.

1) A quirky substitute teacher that we had for half the school year in 7th grade because our normal teacher was about to have a baby. That was the best science class I can remember. Just quirky.

2) Another science teacher I had, though this time in grade 11. Had her for physics both semesters before she went to a different district, because ours was very so much fucked. One day she decided to bring in a Van de Graph generator to demonstrate something about electricity. Then she decided to string us all together to show how a circuit works, and guess who found a way to make it so everyone got zapped?

3) This time in grade 10 for my math class, one day our teacher was out, so we got a sub. Turns out he was once able to be on a (american) football team.

4) The most recent, for my college psychology class, our teacher looks almost EXACTLY like Commissioner Gordon for Batman: The Animated Series. Seriously, look at a picture and that is about the gist of what he looks like. He also hypnotized someone in class and got suppressed another persons fear of closed spaces.

 

[auron200004]

My 11th grade honors biology teacher (this isn't the surprise) was teaching us about evolution and the theory of natural selection. Not the whole "from monkeys" stuff, the theories that every person who takes biology must learn. The non-honors biology teacher seemed like a pretty nice guy, very intelligent. He overheard her, and (this is what surprised me) he went to the school board to complain about her teaching us lies.

What's funny is, evolution is part of the curriculum, so he was supposed to be teaching it, too. It turned out that he actually stopped showing up to teach after that, refusing to call in sick or anything. Long story short, they let him go for obvious reasons. I learned about all of the specifics of this because my grandfather is good friends with a man on the school board.

EDIT: I remembered another one! My honors chemistry I teacher that I had my sophomore year of high school would always brag about being from the NAVY during the Vietnam War, but he'd always be...weird about it. One day, a kid brought in a laser-pointer to class and shined it at him. He freaked out and jumped on the floor. He then, trying to sound normal, claimed that it was a joke he liked to play on kids to show the dangers of pretending to be a sniper. Yeah, none of us bought that.

Later on, we found out that the picture of the cruiser he kept on his PC's background wasn't actually one he served on, and he made up about half of his stories. He was in Vietnam serving in the ARMY, but he left due to an injured leg from an accident while marching. He was never in combat or even in any danger. He'd always tell us stories about life below the decks of the cruiser, but he actually had never been on one. Weird.

 

[SquidVicious]

My English 101 professor in college completely schooled me on the D.C. post-hardcore music scene in the late '80's / '90's. I still occasionally go up to his office when he has free time and we chat about new music, new documentaries, what bands reunited, who's coming to town, etc. We keep on saying we need to meet up for a drink, but our conflicting schedules have thus far prevented this from happening.

 

[Henriot]

History teacher. Not only included playing Boney Ms "Rasputin" as in introduction to that section of the Russian Revolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjdZKfumEI), he re-enacted his assassination, to the point of jumping out of the classroom window at some point.

On top of that, found out my stepdad had him as a teacher when he was in highschool, and was exactly the same back then.

 

[Micromyni]

My Drama teacher burned all of her teaching materials on the school parking lot when she finally retired and invited all her former students, me included. We roasted marshmallows and made smores from the burned remains of our past homework while chatting about what we doing out of high school. Felt good, man. She was always my favorite teacher.

 

[Lizardon]

Well my chemistry teacher once had a pet Rhino.

Okay it's a bit more complicated than that. He once taught in a school on one of the small islands off the coast of Australia (I forget it's name). Animals and items that needed to be quarantined before entering Australia were often kept there. And once a zoo was importing a rhino which stayed on the island for awhile and became the islands unofficial mascot and apparently became quite attached to my teacher.

That teacher had lived quite an amazing life. I'm surprised that we somehow managed to get through the entire chemistry course as well as hear so many stories.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

My grade eight teacher had a tramp stamp. She once bent over to pick something up and the whole class saw it. Oh and this was in a private Christian elementary school. Yup.

 

[Ungenericteen]

THe IT guy at my school left Scotland because he was against the VAT-SCOTT test,

My photography teacher, a laid back art major who looked nerdy as hell, surprised me by asking me about a match, and what styles I used, the criticizing my tactics and choice in martial arts, turns out the guy is a second degree black belt in karate

My chem teacher is a dresden files fan, and would reference the books in lab(mainly quoting bob)

freshmen year American Government teacher taught a Cambodian boy english, that same boy is a navy seal, his grandfather was executed by Pol Pot, and his father was Pot's whipping boy. That family is one of the largest land owners in cambodia right now

My track coach and english teacher, a bubbly smiley woman broke all coast guard land records for running times, and still holds two 100 and 300 meter times respectively, and served as a captain.

my school's wrestling coach has a masters in Child Psychology, this is a guy named Hogg, who would show us the what we did wrong by slamming us to the mat.

 

[notebook_holder]

My english teacher junior year in highschool ended up publishing two books. He would also open up the door when we were taking tests and yell at another one of our english teachers. He also told us a story about how he dozed off alittle behind the wheel and when he jolted up he rolled down the windows and started to blast the music and scream at himself.

And my psych teacher almost shot two kids cause they accidentally went into his house when the party house was 3 houses over... Idiots

 

[Nouw]

My science teacher last year was really into the internet, pop culture and gaming. Man he was great .

 

[BNguyen]

This was about 3 years ago in my college American history class that about 3/4ths the way through the class, my teacher, black Jamaican, talked about how he moved into a predominantly white neighborhood and was warmly welcomed by the elders who brought food that he quite quickly tossed out and how he felt endangered for his life. Then about a week later, just after giving us our previous test, he completely disappeared, not a note or a call to the school. And apparently because he disappeared, every grade that he had given us was made null and void and our class grade was solely based on the final given to us by another teacher, but he also made every other grade in class an A.

 

[Zoomy]

Well, there was the Chemistry teacher in my school who basically kept a Serbian bloke prisoner in her house. Seriously. We only found out when it was revealed in the paper. Here's an archive of the article: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/WEB+OF+DECEIT%3B+DATING+BLAME+-+Teacher+played+dead+to+end+internet...-a0118087080