Teachers Share Shocking Home Lives Revealed By Their Students
When we're students, we spend most of our days at school. But all students have lives that go far beyond the classroom.
Hopefully, they'd be full of loving parents and stress-free environments, but as these teachers learned, that's not always the case.
1. A For Effort
I had one kid whose parents would only give him a pillow and blankets for his bed if he had all A's in school.
I contacted the school counselor and confirmed that it was true, along with the fact that all of the food was locked away and he was only given specific amounts per day.
Shockingly, when we contacted the authorities, we were told that this was not considered against the law. I made a deal with him that as long as he was doing his best, his grade would never drop below an A. He teared up and was very grateful.
2. Spice Up Your Life
Last year we had a girl start randomly pepper-spraying people in the library.
It turns out she had snapped after she found out her ex-boyfriend had been hooking up with her mother during and after the relationship—a whole legal bullet was dodged there because he was 18 when it all started.
At first, it was just a Twitter beef when she found out.
Then, it escalated to the point where she went to confront him over this, armed with pepper spray, and one way or another had a nervous breakdown, snapped, and then went to pepper spray everyone in the library.
I heard that she had been told he was there. She ended up leaving the school after the incident and the guy got suspended, but it was a mess for the school's PR.
I honestly felt bad for her because I'd had a class with her and she was always really nice and it seemed like a super awful situation had just brought the absolute worst in her.
3. Green Pilled
I had a girl playing with something while sitting on the carpet. She was rolling it back and forth, and putting it in her mouth, and taking it out, and rolling it around again. I told her to give it to me when the other students started their independent work. She gave me this large green pill. At recess, I asked her about it. What she told me next was shocking.
She said that her mom and dad give her and her siblings one of these every night to make them sleep. I take the pill to our school admins and tell them what she told me before searching Google images to find out what it could be.
I find a short list and go back to admin, where I'm told that it isn't my job to worry about stuff like that.
I try several times that day to get answers and they say they think it's melatonin, so I should stop overstepping my place. This girl and her siblings are in and out of foster care and often come to school with no food and filthy clothes.
She once came to school in a sweatshirt covered in dried blood for three days in a row. Her parents wouldn't even bother to sign the papers to get the kids the free school lunches. I forged the mom's signature every month.
4. Spilling the “T”
From my wife's pre-K class: "That's daddy's new girlfriend. Mommy says she's a slug."
