One of those things is managing students' actions that may garner some serious consequences.

so many teachers provided their stories.

Here’s what they said below.

A small child's hand is holding a pair of scissors very close to an electrical outlet, posing a dangerous situation

“There was a loud pop and a flash in the back corner of the classroom.

I asked the student sitting there what happened.

She said it was firecrackers.

menstrual supplies in a bathroom

I sent her to the office.

While she was still in the office, I realized the electrical outlets in the room didnt work.

“Stab another student in the back of the head with a pencil.

A person sitting cross-legged on a circular rug is holding an open book in their lap. The focus is on the book and their hands

It went in right at the base of the skull.

Luckily, it didn’t hit anything important; it just needed three stitches.

But it was deep enough that it stayed in before the doctors took it out.”

A trash can containing disposed blue and white medical items, located in a clinical or hospital setting

u/Linusthewise

3.

“I was teaching for three months in an inner city school in London (UK).

Well, one student was caught peeing into a bag and dumping it into the containers.

A child smiling behind a fishbowl with three goldfish in it, sitting on a classroom desk. Various educational posters are visible in the background

The student was 11 or 12.”

u/huzzahserrah

5.

They hadnt been interacting in any way prior.

A young child is squeezing glue onto a piece of paper at a craft table, concentrating intensely on the task. Various craft materials are visible around the table

“I’m an early years educator specializing in children with S.E.N.

(special educational needs).

Seeing a child chewing their own shit is something that stays with you.

sharpened pencil with pencil shavings

u/just_some_arsehole

7. u/CherryManhattan

9.

“They stole my class pet, a fish that I really loved.

They claimed to have flushed it down the toilet.

Another student said they gave it away to a kid on the street in a water bottle.”

“During class, one girl was sitting with her hands in her lap shaped like a bowl.

Upon further inspection, I noticed she was collecting her spit in her hands.

She said her name, made eye contact, drank it, and wiped her hands on her shirt.

She didn’t make a move to ask to wash hands, so I sent her to.”

u/Condition_Boy

11.

“I had a kid superglue both hands to his desk.

He thought it was really funny until they sent the janitor to venture to get his hands unstuck.”

“Once caught a child looking up furry porn on a class iPad.

That was something.”

Then, another classmate pushed down on their shoulders as they sat on the pencil.

How f*cked up are some 9-year-olds?!

The boy had to go to hospital.”