Got into an argument with my art teacher in my last year of highschool. I was in a small school, 11 of us in the art class, we were the first matrics(final year of highschool) of the school(new school) so we had good relationships with the teachers
some of you know how it is, final exams are coming up, tensions are high, and art being such an emotionally tiring and stressful subject, we were all particularly on edge.
she was shouting at me because i couldnt hand in my visual diary, meanwhile i was waiting for her to give it back to me from the last time i handed it in, and had done the work for once, without having a visual diary to put it in. or something like that, details on that part are a little fuzzy.
while she was adamant that she already had handed them back, and demanded that i take all my books out my school bag. in front of the whole class, and i was the quiet one of the class.
so i took each book out one at a time and threw them onto the floor, making a large bang each time, burning holes into her eyes each time i took one out, saying(almost shouting) the books name each time i did so.
when i took the last book out, i shook my bag and all my loose notes from classes scattered onto the floor and i threw my bag down on top of it.
she then continued to berate me and address the class that i had obviously not done my work and left it at home, to cover it up.
once i had packed all my books and notes back into my bag, without taking my eyes off her(stare down contest in class) i walked up to the cupboard where i keep my art things, she said it was not necessary because she said she had already checked everyones cupboards and collected the visual diarys she saw. so i went back to my desk, fuming.
when she carried on with the lesson, i went to my cupboard and found it in there, my cupboard was directly behind her, so she had her back to me and i took the visual diary and hit her over the head with it and demanded an apology for embarrassing me in front of the whole class.
she then started sputtering on with "HOW DARE YOU?!" and how she would not look in my cupboard and invade my privacy like that, without being able to look me in the eye.
I just repeated my demand and waited.
after a few minutes, she gave me a full apology in front of the class, saying that she knew better than to question me, as id always been honest with her when not having done my work, that she knew i was of better character than she had made out to the class and for embarrassing me in front of my peers.
the rest of the class, who are usually impossible to shut up when arguments start, where dead quiet during all of this, because here i was the quiet one who never said very much and stayed out of the way as much as possible, shouting at the teacher and hitting her over the head with a book.
Thats the only time ive ever lost my temper with anyone. im usually the quiet and calm guy who doesnt need to fight.
later that year with the same teacher, she was handing out marks of our preliminary exams, and there were only two of us in the class who took standard grade art theory, she announced to class that one of us had gotten 23% and the other had gotten 88%, then added "what i can reveal is that the one who got 23% was male" after a bit of a rant to the class
and being the only guy in a class of 11, she basically announced that i was stupid and got 23%
turns out she got them backward, and i had gotten 88%
i didnt even raise my voice, just a simple "ahem" and handed her my paper, showing her that she had got it wrong.
she then apologised to me in front of the class without me even having to say anything.
for those who "tl;dr"
bitchslapped a teacher over the head with a book.
Last edited by BenDover; Apr 10, 2012 at 09:57 AM.
