Teachers Share The Time Karma Finally Caught Up To That One Horrible Student

The class clown, the school bully, the kid who never wants to listen to authority, the person who never tries in school: these typically describe who teachers consider “bad students.” As students ourselves, we’ve witnessed these bad students. As teachers, these bad students are still present and are even harder to manage than thought possible.

The truth is, students are “bad” for different reasons. Sometimes their behavior or lack thereof is a result of a behavioral, mental, or learning disability. Other times, it may be a result of having grown up in a toxic home environment. Generally when children “act out,” there’s more likely than not an underlying issue at hand often affecting the child on a personal level.

Although there’s usually something going on under the surface, there’s no doubt that a struggling student often disrupts daily class lessons, makes the job of a teacher more difficult, and gives other students a tough time. Whether they’re constantly interrupting the teacher or spreading nasty rumors about a fellow classmate, other people tend to get pulled into the lava pit as well.

Regardless of the reason for their bad behavior, it’s important that a student receives the appropriate consequences for their actions.

Karma, unfortunately, isn’t always so kind. However, sometimes the payback karma gives is much-needed as it can help open one’s eyes to the reality of their behavior and how it affects other people.

In the following stories, teachers share with us the crazy ways karma finally caught up to their “bad student(s)” for their poor actions.

31. It Finally Clicked To Him And He Fought Back

“I coached middle school football. Some kids have come out of their s**** by then, others have not. But at least most of the early bloomers were jerks to make life **** for everybody. The teams starting halfback was one of those jerks.

He gave a defensive lineman **** and since all the other boys thought he was cool, they gave the defensive lineman **** right along with him. The d-lineman was a big guy but not aggressive or outgoing, still just in his s**** really. He did fine out there because he was a big guy but hardly played to his potential. The little running backs took their Napoleon complexes out on the big guy by running by him and shouting “****!”* every time he failed to stop them. Rather than fight back to make the play he would just ignore it and line up and try again the next play.

One day the whole thing just clicked for the big guy and he started making plays. He learned to get off his blockers and form tackle and attack the ball carrier. It was a cool thing to see. He loved it. When he really started getting into a groove I started running the jerk halfback right at the blooming d-lineman and watched him plant that guy in the ground with a thud every time. It was just getting easier as I made sure they ran the same play at him, play after play. Soon, bruised and beaten, the jerk halfback asked: ‘How many times are you going to run this play?’ And I responded: ‘Once for every time you called him a ****.'”* king_hippo77

30. She Accidentally Hit Herself In The Head With A Dictionary

“I’ve got hundreds of these stories as I work in a school for residential treatment facility for kids who’ve been royally screwed up by their parents.

Anyways, the story that comes to mind is this girl who routinely flipped her ***,* starts doing her normal routine of screaming, threatening, and then throwing her desk about 3 feet toward whomever she’s pIssed at, and then proceeds to the nearest bookshelf to begin clearing it off.

So, here she is throwing these books over her shoulder, and then she grabs a dictionary. Dictionaries are special to her. Mind you, this is a hardback, thick dictionary, the kind that has every word ever imaginable in the smallest print that still manages to have the most complete definition of the word ‘the’ that I’ve ever seen.

Anyways, she grabs this and attempts to lob it over her head. The dictionary is hurled heavily but slips out over her head. It makes a high arc. She looks up at it only to see it coming down…right…into..her…stunned…face. The dictionary misses her eye by an inch and smacks her just to the left of her nose. ***** immediately coming out of her nose, tears follow, class laughing.

I wanted to feel bad, but she was the worst kind of person-constant bully, highly aggressive, attention-seeking, and volatile. For the curious, I believe she went on to a state hospital. Hope she’s growing out of it, but I’ll be d*mned if there isn’t a new entry in that dictionary under ‘justice.’ Gauwin

29. The School Gave Her A Free Car, Then It Caught On Fire…

“I teach high school. I locked horns with a student a few years back.

She was smug about everything, came from a prominent local family, was a generally ***y *****************person but was completely untouchable. Her parents would always complain to me about things that would happen in class.

The student went on a field trip to a local museum and got kicked off the tour for being her normal ***** self. After a few phone calls, the museum actually apologized to her. As much as it sucked having to deal with the student and her parents, I understood it was a one-year thing and then I’d never have to deal with her again, so I just tried to push through.

At the end of the year, the school gave away a used car that had been donated by an anonymous member of the community. The draw was open to students with a certain GPA. The student didn’t qualify because of the grade she’d received from me. She and her parents lost their *** over it and wanted me to change the grade. The principal heavily suggests that I should go along with it, mostly because she was really close grade-wise and since she most likely wouldn’t win the car anyway. I rounded the grade up just to keep everyone from ***ing on me.

The **** totally won the ****** car. I was ****** angry.

Two weeks later, the car caught on fire as she smoked while pumping gas. She escaped without injury, but the car was a total loss.” Jameseatscheese

28. The Manipulator Got Beat Up

“Early in my career, I had a 6th grader who completely lacked empathy. He could fake being gracious and well-behaved with sickening accuracy but would terrorize other students physically and psychologically as soon he knew adults weren’t watching. This went on all day, every day. His parents never defended him or his behavior, and yet they refused to acknowledge that there was something deeply wrong with their kid.

Nothing got through to him, and he seemed to truly derive pleasure, almost joy, from causing pain.
To make things worse, he was such as a master at manipulating situations that, on the rare occasions when one of us did catch him red-handed and could do something about it, the other student had to be disciplined as well for behavior that any reasonable person would consider self-defense.

His 8th-grade year, he targeted a kid who was typically pretty quiet and peaceful and started in on him while they were waiting to be picked up by their respective rides after school. Unbeknownst to the little child terror, his would-be victim had been training and fighting MMA for several months and promptly beat the brutal and ever-loving daylights out of him before an adult managed to pull the kid off.” waitingforsupermom

27. Someone Stole The Bully’s Crutches So He Couldn’t Get A Snack During Break

“When I was teaching ESL, I once had a kid who thought he was hot ***.

Sporty, relatively bright, quite popular with his boy classmates but went out of his way to annoy the girls. He was constantly stealing pencils, copying work, messing up their hair, etc. He clearly just didn’t know how to interact with females.

One day, he broke his leg and had to be on crutches awhile. I was teaching his class for a double period, so the kids got a 10-minute break (with snacks provided by the school) in between. As soon as I announced break time, the girl next to him took both crutches and ran away with them to play a game of baseball with the crutch as the bat.

Snacks got dealt out one by one, so kids weren’t allowed to fetch for their friends. His friends all abandoned him for Choco Pies, and he was left sitting, immobile and alone. I decided not to intervene…” low_lobola

26. She Changed Her Own Marks, So I Lowered Her Grade Even More

“I had a student in my first year of teaching that had 20% in a high school English class. She only had that high of a grade because I felt sorry for her and stopped putting in zeros in the grade book, leaving the spots blank instead. She was always late and obnoxious, so the low grade wasn’t surprising.

We had just finished an activity, and it was around the end of the year, so we had state testing. (In VA, they’re called SOL’s.) She said she was finished with her activity for Romeo and Juliet and asked if she could get on my computer to study for her geography final. I said okay.

What I didn’t realize is that she accessed my grade book. Her 20% magically became 80%. When I found out, I was furious. Absolutely pissed. Well, for my class, we had folders that the students kept their work in. I went back through her folder and put in anything that she had.

She had just thrown away a bunch of stuff from the last unit, so anything missing, whether it was a warm-up or a test, went in as a zero. Her grade ended up becoming 12%.
Next class, I was greeting people in the hallway before they came in and pulled her aside. I handed her a grade report and said that something had happened with the grade book after she got on my computer last class and her grade was changed but not to worry because I changed it back to what it was supposed to be.

She immediately got on the defensive and said she didn’t do it, yadda yadda, lip service.

I said it didn’t matter if gnomes did it; this is your current grade based on the assignments I have in class and that I hoped she’d try harder in 9th grade next year.” justkidding515

25. He Was Acting Tough Until A Smaller Kid Dropped Him On The Pavement

“Last summer, there was a kid, maybe 11, who was always acting tough. He wasn’t a big kid, and if he had picked on a boy his own age, chances are good the fight would have been even at best.

Well, during a game of basketball, he ended up choosing one of the smallest boys there to bully.

He was taunting and teasing him, trying to look ‘cool,’ I guess. I guess he didn’t know anything about this kid. I do. The kid he was picking on grew up in Africa and was rescued from Boko Haram and brought to North America. He grew up in a dog-eat-dog world and knew how to hold his own. I think he was nine-years-old.
The first kid, I guess, assumed that such a small guy wouldn’t stand up to him. He was proved wrong when his taunts brought the other kid to his limit. He grabbed the bully and swiped his legs out from under him, dropping him right there on the pavement.

If a fight had broken out, I’m sure the first kid wouldn’t have had a chance. To his credit, the nine-year-old just left him lying there and walked away.

When the supervising counselors saw what was going on, they put a stop to it, but were hard-pressed to conceal their laughter.” TwoLastNamesGuy

24. His Mom Finally Realized How Much Of A Liar He Was

“Had a kid who was a real d*uchenozzle when I taught 5th. This kid, let’s call him Ray, had one of those moms who refused to hold him accountable for anything. It was always, ‘Some other kid did it,’ ‘Ray was just protecting himself,’ ‘Ray just wanted to fit in,’ ‘Ray was being targeted.’ Also, she was one of those kids who would ask Ray if he were guilty and take his ‘No’ as the incontestable truth.

She would say, ‘My son doesn’t lie to me.’ Oh really? Your kid doesn’t lie? Your kid and Jesus? All kids lie.

Anyway, I had a full caseload as a special ed teacher, so I got a paraprofessional (call him Steve). Ray HATED Steve. Had some kind of issue with male authority figures. One day Ray gets in trouble coming back from recess; Steve reprimanded him (verbally). By the time Ray makes it to the classroom, he’s saying how Steve got in his face and shouted at him (nope).
He asks to go talk to the principal. (Yay, Ray’s gone for at least 5 minutes!) Tells the principal how Steve grabbed his arm.

When Mom comes and gets him. Now he’s saying Steve pushed him. Next day, we get a phone call. Ray’s mom and grandma are coming in and want a meeting with Steve and the principal to discuss how Steve choked Ray.

Steve’s freaking out. Other kids were there but no adults, no cameras. How can he prove his innocence? I tell him, ‘Go to the meeting, and before anybody says anything, have Ray share what happened.’

Steve came back smiling. As soon as one story came out, everybody else is disagreeing, ‘Well Ray told me-‘ ‘But Ray told ME-‘ I would have loved to see the mom’s face as her kid is proven a liar in front of everyone.” Stmpnksarwall

23. He Would Beat Up Everyone Until A Bigger Kid Came Along

“I teach middle school. We had one eighth grader who was the oldest, meanest kid in the class of 200.

Fought a lot and was actually pretty good at it. Tended to beat up a lot of the smaller, weaker kids though. Put a girl up against the wall with his forearm across her throat so that her feet came off the ground. No other kids stepped in because they didn’t want to get beat on too. He was suspended regularly.

We got a transfer kid. This huge, and I mean huge (6.25 feet tall, easily 260lbs), kid transfers in. He’s a tough kid but quiet about it. Doesn’t do much academically, but he’s super respectful and is just kind of quiet and keeps to himself for the most part.

I saw a lot of bar fights in my slightly less responsible days, and this kid carried himself like that dude that knew he could take someone apart. Nothing to prove, but he will wreck you if you start something.
Bully kid gets into some family beef outside of school with the big kid’s family. He walks up to the big kid in the hall and challenges him to a fight by screaming ‘YOU WANNA GO?’ up at him with his arms spread wide and his face forward.

Big kid quietly says, ‘Yep,’ drops his binder, and then drops bully kid with the most beautiful jab I’ve ever seen outside of a boxing match.

Bully goes down like a ton of bricks, and the big kid calmly picks up his *** and heads to the office. Bully gets expelled (admin was looking for a reason), and the big kid gets a suspension and is suddenly the most loved person in that building by both students and teachers.

The VP was actually giggling as he helped the bully kid stagger to the office.” Not_Jimi

22. His Ego Killed His Music Career

A bad attitude won’t get you anywhere.

“I was teaching music. I had a flutist who was fantastic. He practiced four hours every day and wanted to be the next James Galway (the guy who does the flute Shire theme in the Lord of the Rings).

Unfortunately, he had an ego the size of Texas. He told the girl next to him, who also wanted to be a professional flutist, that she was abysmal and should just go kill herself. He refused to audition for our local honor band, which was part of his grade, because he refused to lower himself to playing with such talentless musicians. He would **** about my conducting in class when I wouldn’t cue him because I was too busy cueing the low brass who needed help with their entrances (aka teaching). He refused to play a theme from a popular video game at a concert, something that we play to get people to attend because we need that money to keep the program going.

It was apparently ‘not artistic enough.’ Then he refused to show up to a concert because he was embarrassed to be seen performing with his high school band.
So, he failed band, and I kicked that toxic little *** out. But he was talented, and he wanted to be a flutist, so he auditioned for Juilliard and made it in. This ***** quits before the first semester is over because he believed he was more talented than his teachers.

He earned a symphony gig in a very well-known group thanks to a blind audition where he wasn’t permitted to talk and reveal how much of a d*uchebag he was.

That lasted two weeks before he dissed the very famous conductor’s conducting and got his a** fired. His career is dead because he couldn’t keep his ego in check, and I find it immensely satisfying.” Kanotari

21. He Got Punched In The Stomach After Harassing A Student

“Last year, I had a 7-year-old in my class who was just a pain. He’s the only child I’ve ever taught who I’ve actually disliked. He would throw things around the classroom, pinch other children, stab them with pencils, he was rude to everyone and would always blame it on someone else. Talking to his parents wouldn’t help because they believed everything he said, even over adults who had actually witnessed him doing it.

They would give excuses and say that other children were blaming him or that he was being picked on. There was nothing wrong with this child other than he had been brought up with no consequences in his life. Anyway, one break time he was harassing another child, and I guess they just had enough, and this usually mild-mannered child just punched him in the stomach causing the horrible child to wet himself.

When following the incident up, all of the other children who witnessed it (around 5 or 6) completely closed ranks and denied that it ever happened. I can’t usually condone when children hit back (it causes so many other problems), but you better believe all the adults that have had to deal with this child were rooting for the hitter.” Globewall

20. He Was Forced To Go To School With An Awful Haircut

I mean, hey, he did it to himself…Luckily for him, he only had to keep the bad haircut for one day.

“There was a student who was always causing problems. He didn’t do his work, picked on other kids, damaged property, etc.

One night at home he was fighting with his parents about getting a haircut and locked himself in the bathroom and gave himself the haircut. It was awful. Picture lots of bald spots. His dad was fed up with his behavior, so he made him go to school with his ridiculous hair for a day before taking him to get it shaved.” Unknown Reddit user

19. He Got Knocked Out With A Ball After Hitting Other Students

“1st grade here. Had a boy that would not stop hitting kids with basketballs.

He’d run up and pop the ball right at students. Sometimes he’d toss it real fast and say ‘Catch,’ but most often, he’d just throw it at children on the playground who were completely unaware. This kid seemed like he was trying to knock other children down, he’d laugh his a** off if he saw someone stumble or fall after they were hit by his basketball. After talking with his parents, we told them we’d be taking the balls away from him until after spring break to see if his behavior improved.

As promised, he was allowed to play basketball again after the break, but we warned he better behave.

It didn’t take even 5 minutes before he stalked and shot that Spaulding special at this poor little girl, knocking her down. She cried and pointed at him, mulch dangling from her hair, ‘He’s mean, Ms. Mysty!’ I agreed and told her he’d have the basketballs taken away for the rest of the school year.
As I got up and walked his way, he started to bolt. He ran out of the playground, past the sandpit, and on to the basketball court. He maintained eye contact with me, and before I could take another step, a stray ball from a 5th-grade game hit the edge of the backboard, bounced off, and hit that little *** square in the face…He went down like a sack of potatoes.

Of course, I ran over to him and made sure he was ok. (He may be acting like a little ***, but he’s still just a child.) I called for the nurse since he was out cold. He woke up with me above him and started crying saying he’d never do it again. ‘Please… I’m sorry, I’m so sorry! I won’t do it again!’

I’ll have to wait and see this coming year if karma kicked his a** or not because he didn’t want to pick up another basketball the rest of the school year.” MystyDikship

18. His Arrogance Got Him Denied From Medical School

Brains aren’t the only thing you need to get into medical school, kid.

“This one student had an ego so large it could barely fit into the room. However, this individual was very intelligent and often scored near perfect on exams. They wanted to go to med school.

What made this person troublesome: every detail was a small battle they had to win. They would bring articles about how one small minute detail was incorrectly taught. One point off on an exam was met with highlighted notes from the book, PowerPoint, and articles on how they were correct. Mind you, the score on the exam was 99%.

Karma justice: did not get into medical school. One school e-mailed the pre-professional guidance counselor and told them how much of an a** this individual was during the interview.” Macabalony

17. I Refused To Let Them Go On Our Field Trip

“Elementary teacher here. My first year of teaching was ****** terrible.

A really tough school combined with my rookie class management skills made for a free-roaming terror class. By mid-year, I was at my wit’s end, was trying to right the ship and struggling. Field trips were the worst thing I’d ever experienced.

Enter my principal. He had observed my class a few weeks before and was shocked at easily ten of my students’ behavior. Told me he knew I had a field trip coming up, and he would happily stay back and watch any of my students that I didn’t want to go because of their behavior. So, a few days before the trip I told my class this.

However, I waited until read aloud because that’s when it was toughest. The 12 good kids in class loved read-aloud, they just wanted to enjoy the book. The other 10 to 14 would constantly goof around and not listen to a word. So, I casually mentioned, in the middle of read-aloud that some students would be staying back from our fabulous field trip in a few days with the principal. I told them it was all behavior based.

Of course, the good kids heard me, the little **** didn’t. The next two days the little **** continue being little ****. The morning of the field trip, about two hours before the trip I remind the class of the principal’s visit.

The little **** become little angels.
The field trip comes and in walks my principal. I calmly read off the list of 13 names staying while the rest of the class comes with me. I had left the most boring worksheets possible for the kids staying behind, and as we walked out the door all the little **** were crying while my principal was reading them the Riot Act.

The remainder of my class and I had a lovely trip, enjoyed a great play, they glimpsed what school should be like and I got the glimpse of what teaching could be. When we got back, it looked like the little **** had never stopped crying.

Best day of the year.” darmok11

16. She Tried To Lie To Get Her Failing Grade Up, It Didn’t Work…

“Very end of the year, I had a student failing my class and doesn’t bother to try to get help until the last day. She failed because she never showed up for class, ever. Like, I didn’t recognize her.

She tells me, ‘You’re the only class I’m failing and if I don’t get a D, I won’t graduate.’

I go to the school grade book to see if this is true. ‘Hmm, according to this, you have a 13% in math and an incomplete in chemistry.’

‘No, that’s wrong.

I already talked to those teachers, and they said my grade was up. You’re the only one who is failing me.’

‘Why don’t we give your math teacher a call and find out?’

So, I dialed the extension for her math teacher. ‘Mr. Math teacher, the student tells me that she isn’t failing your class and that the grade in the book is incorrect. Is that true?’

Math teacher responds with, ‘Actually, the grade in the book is incorrect. I just discovered the one piece of homework she did turn in was actually a photocopy of another student’s work. She now has a zero in my class.’

She did not graduate.

For many, many reasons, grades and attendance being only part of it.” SalemScout

15. He Stole A Student’s Pepper. He Nearly Burned His Tongue Off…

“I had a student that was a real twerp. Always doing things he was not supposed to and purposely causing conflict with other students. He was a daily headache. One day in class, he stole a candied pepper from one of the Hispanic students and ate it. It was a very hot pepper (not sure of the type).

At first, I didn’t notice ’cause he is a sneaky kid. He started to sweat, and his sweat turned to tears.

‘I need to go to the bathroom,’ he cried, ‘My mouth, my mouth!’ I went to investigate and found out what happened.
The karma payback plan was now collecting, and I refused to let him go get a drink and continued with the math instruction in hopes of teaching him a lesson. For the next few minutes, he pleaded with me to go to the nurse with tears running down his face. I said, ‘I do not negotiate with thieves.’ He started running around in circles.

It wasn’t until he started sobbing and crying out. ‘I just want my mom,’ that I finally felt bad and said, ‘If I take you to the nurse.

are you ever going to act out in class again?’ He promised that he wouldn’t, and he never did.

The tears and sobbing in front of his peers broke his ego, and he was a stellar student for the rest of the school year. (I teach middle school.)” headlice

14. His Impatience Resulted In Him Getting Splattered With Pig Brains

This is why you should listen to the teacher.

“I taught a comparative anatomy animal dissection lab section back in college. I had one kid in a section (let’s call him Kevin) who never listened to dissection instructions and just dove in with a scalpel, dicing and chopping and generally mutilating most of the internal organs.

His first karmic warning came when we were dissecting a squid, and he got squid ‘juice’ on himself. Smelled awful for the rest of that class. However, he kept on ignoring instructions and hacking away…and this time, karmic justice struck on our very last dissection project, the fetal pig.
Kevin really wanted to see the pig’s brain. Kevin couldn’t get through the skull, so he started whacking away at it with the butt of a flat pry knife. I told him to stop, but he had to give it one last, mighty thwack…

Crack! The skull breaks and rubbery piglet brain bits come flying out everywhere…mostly over Kevin, splattering him.

Unfortunately, while protesting my refusal to let him dice this piglet into pancetta cubes, Kevin had his mouth open.

Thankfully, preserved pig brain ingested orally seemed to have a calming, subduing effect on Kevin for the last couple of classes.” Romanticon

13. He Learned The Hard Way That Rules Are There For A Reason

“I’m an elementary school teacher, so this doesn’t seem quite as serious as the others. Here it goes though!

There was a ‘problem child’ in my class who thought it was cool to not listen to teacher advice, shrug off reprimands, and make snarky comments. He was hard to manage but by no means a bad kid.

We have a rule at our school that there’s ‘no running on the deck’ outside of our classroom. The official reason for this is ‘that it’s dangerous,’ but the rule is often ignored when no teacher is looking.
One day the entire class and I were standing out on the deck lined up for lunch when this particular student was coming back from getting something in the front building. He decided to blatantly ignore the ‘no running on the deck’ rule that he had been reminded of probably a hundred times before, and he began to sprint towards the class.

Right as I yelled his name, he tripped and went FLYING.

It was an epic wipeout that sent him sprawling across the deck, which the entire class saw. I checked if he was okay and didn’t say anything about it at the time, but I was able to remind him later that we do have rules for a reason.

I did feel rather like justice had been served in that once delicious moment, however.” fruitmatters

12. He Failed Gym For Making Fun Of Someone With A Disability

“There was a clique of the ‘popular’ kids who were often jerks and acted out because, hey, that’s ‘funny’ in high school.

Our city had a living center for those with mental illness that also had a public swimming pool, and when we got to the swim module in gym, that was where we headed.

Well, one day, there’s a 14-year-old at the pool with low-functioning autism. And chucklef*ck decides that it’ll be funny to sit there and growl at him aggressively (like a hostile dog) because why the *** not. The 14-year-old loses his ***; he freaks right out. The kid’s aid figures out what happens and goes and talks to the teacher about it.

‘Cool’ guy is banned from the center. He automatically fails the module. They choose to take it a step further, however, and decide that he instantly fails the gym course, losing the credits he needed to graduate, in addition to a lengthy suspension.” SyfaOmnis

11. The Bully Got Put In His Place By The Adopted Kid

“Not a teacher but a friend of mine, who is a kindergarten teacher, had one student last year that would always make fun of everyone to the point of making other kids cry.

She had another student who was adopted, and after he had told some of the kids in the class that he was, the bully overheard, he starts making fun of him by saying things like, ‘No one likes you. No one wanted you.’ She was about to intervene, but the adopted kid spoke up and said, ‘My parents got to choose me, but yours got stuck with you.’

The kid didn’t say anything for the rest of the day. My friend said she tried her best to not burst out in laughter.” thatguyoverthere345

10. He Got Expelled And Sent To An Alternative School

“Subbed for a low SES district one year in between student teaching and getting hired, and most of the students I got were great, but there were a few who were just awful.

Was subbing for an ESL class, mostly Spanish speakers, but we had a few from other languages, too. One kid was faking not being able to speak English at all (I overheard him speaking in rather good English to his friends during group work time), and whenever I would try and talk to him/get him back on task/etc., he would just scream at me in his native language and act like he couldn’t understand a word I said.
As a sub, I only have so much power over these students, and as I was about to call in a resource officer to deal with it, campus security came in and stood right in front of this student’s desk.

He asked him to come with him to the office, and suddenly this kid spoke perfect English, professing he didn’t do anything and that he was just messing around. Apparently, he’d been yelling at me so loudly that the officer heard him through the closed door and thought there was a fight or something.

Officer took him to the office, and class proceeded without a hitch. Later learned this student had a history of bad behavior and belligerence, and this was his last chance to straighten up or be expelled and sent to the alternative ed school. Oops.” AmiPanda

9. His Ego Was Crushed When He Got Paired Up With Someone Smarter

What a coincidence!

“I interned in a class with this kid who always thought he was smarter than everyone else.

He was pretty smart but not by too much. He always got paired with kids not as smart as him, so he would always be really smug when dealing with them.

We learned he got that from his parents, during a parent-teacher conference. His parents praised that boy up and down and thought he was the smartest kid in the school. They built him up like that, and they got him thinking that too. Then they went off on my mentor teacher. She ‘wasn’t providing him with higher enough education; she was bringing him down; she was terrible.’ The conference ended when my mentor teacher left the room crying after the verbal lashing.

Well about a week later, there was an event where parents came to watch their children in class. It was to watch them do math games with other students. Well, my mentor teacher paired this smug little b*stard with the actual smartest kid in class, the one who was working on more advanced classes after school.

The kid got shamed. His parents were so flustered during the event. They were very visibly nervous and upset as this kid got destroyed game after game. They left before it was all done and took him out of school for the rest of the day.” The14thNoah

8. He Finally Got Arrested

“Taught 6th grade at a middle school.

A student who would constantly make my life and every other teacher’s at the school a living h*ll kept upping the ante with no consequences.

Started by interrupting serious lessons by telling me to *** myself, etc. in front of the whole class. Then began to come in late in the middle of class, interrupted whole class, and began to take over class pretending to teach until I got an administrator to remove him. This happened daily. He then started to jump from one desk to the next to see if he could make it to the other side of the class, pretending the floor was lava.

This was during a lesson.
He brought a knife to school, and I thought this was finally it; he’s gone, but the blade was deemed too small to warrant expulsion. As I contemplated a new career, he ended up starting a fire in the bathroom, which caused a school evacuation, and the police arrested him, and he was finally expelled.

Funny side note: That year, we were required to read a book as a staff to help us deal with issues in middle school. The name of the book was called, Fires in the Middle School Bathroom. I wish I could make this up.” MrFeeney33

7. She Went To Jail Five Minutes Later…

Rule number one of committing a crime: don’t post about it on social media.

Actually, scratch that: just don’t commit the crime if you don’t want to do the time.

“I taught high school science/math for four years in a rougher part of Melbourne’s (Australia) western suburbs. Most of our kids were pretty amazing for their circumstances, but we always had a handful of students that were batsh*t crazy.

One girl in particular (around 15- to 16-years-old) was a massive pain in my a**. Would take any chance to disrupt the class, shout very obscene things, get into fights with other students, plus much more. She generally thought she ran the school for some reason, and I wasn’t the only teacher who had a massive problem with her.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t too much we could do aside from sending her through the detention-system. You can’t just kick a student out of school for being an ***** (very unfortunate).
Anyways, one day she was around the VP office, and she noticed in the back corner of the office a stack of cash that the VP kind of stupidly left out. So, the student didn’t hesitate to grab the cash and run outside.

Here’s where her stupidity got the best of her, not 10 minutes after stealing around a thousand in cash she Facebooked, ‘Just stole a thousand dollars off [VP’s name] desk…what a moron!’ It took about 5 minutes for another student to see this and showed it to another teacher.

Cops were called, and well the rest is pretty self-explanatory. Sometimes you just have to let the Darwin-awards take care of themselves….justice!” Canucker2017

6. He Would Pretend To Hit His Head On His Desk, Then He Accidentally Did

 

Why do I feel like I’ve witnessed this in real life before…?

“I taught an awful 5th-grade class. Behavior problems were galore. Insubordination like you’ve never seen. There was this one real piece of work that did everything he could to get attention and could not be controlled. Parents coming in, losing field trips, missing recess, nothing made a difference. Everyone was at a loss.

Anyway, he did this annoying thing where he would pretend to slam his head on his desk.

He would get close to making it look like his head hit, but he’d really slam his hand underneath the desk to make the bang without otherwise making contact with the desk.

I think you can guess what happened one day. He was in pain, clenching his head for a solid 5 minutes. It was hard not to laugh at that self-inflicted karma. After that, he went right back to the same shenanigan. Hit his head again about a week later. Never learned his lesson.” jibberjabbery

5. Another Student Threatened Him

“My ex-wife did substitute teaching for a couple of years and always had this one kid who’d throw stuff at other kids, heat up his pen by rubbing it really fast on paper, and then burn someone by touching it to their neck, kicking other kids in their seat.

Basically, a grade A piece of ***.

One day during class, this ***** kid kept kicking the boy in front of him in the side of his head, and the kid he was ****** with got so angry that he got out of his seat and pushed the little ***** over along with his desk while wielding a pencil and threatening to hurt him if my wife didn’t have him removed from class.

She promptly sent the little *** to the office, and he never f*cked with anyone else in class again.” xtheory

4. All Four Of Them Went To Jail

“During my first semester of teaching, I was faced with a junior class of 19 boys and one girl at a very wealthy school.

They were in the lowest English class, and 75% of them were entitled *****s.

There was a group of four who were the absolute worst though. They never did their work, said disrespectful things to me, bullied their classmates, and were overall awful human beings whose parents never seemed to discipline them when I called home. I often overheard them bragging about getting away with stuff (like being drunk at football games and smoking in the parking lot), and I reported their conversations to admin, but it was never enough to actually get them in trouble.

The four worst kids ended up getting arrested for stealing a car, crashing it, and breaking into a clubhouse.

Also, three out of the four failed my class. That was great karmic justice.” 8lb_6oz_babyjesus

3. She Slammed His Fingers Between The Desk

“I teach kindergarten, and I had a terrible, terrible child in my class last year. He liked to pull his desk away from the girl sitting across from him so her pencils and crayons would go falling on the floor. Finally, one day she got fed up and slammed her desk back into his. Unfortunately for him, his fingers happened to be there. I had to resist the urge to be like ‘that’s what you get!’ but instead I just reminded him that that’s why I said not to move his desk away from the rest of the table and sent him to the nurse.” legoeggo323

2. She Flew Across The Playground After Getting Hit By A Swing

“I help my grandma teach preschool.

And this one little girl would not listen at all. So, at the end of the day, we go to the swings. The conversation:

Me: ‘Don’t play in front of the swings.’

Girl: ‘I do what I want.’

Me: ‘You are gonna get hurt.’

Girl: ‘You ain’t my mom.’

*Runs right in front of the swing. POW, she flew across the playground*

Me: ‘What do we do?’

Girl (trying to hold back tears) ‘We don’t sniff play sniff in front of the swings.’

Me: ‘That’s right.’

And I walk away. I was about 12 at the time. It felt so nice to see her learn her lesson.” DapperPig33

1. She Finally Started Doing Her Homework

If you’re a teacher and have trouble getting your students to do their homework, take advantage of this teacher’s advice!

“I was teaching an elective and had trouble making kids accountable for their homework.

I created a homework excuse form that kids had to fill out if they did not have their homework done. One girl was finding her attitude and filled out a few with things like, ‘This class sux,’ and “I had better things to do.”

Well, her grade goes downhill, and we have a parent-teacher conference. Mom defends her daughter’s grade saying homework was too hard or not clear. I show her the forms signed by her daughter. Daughter is completely stunned and embarrassed. So was Mom. I got an immediate apology from both, and all other homework was covered and on time for the rest of the year.” rednstrong
I’ll admit that some of the ways karma came back at these students were a little brutal.

However, the good news is, many of these students learned their lesson once and for all. Regardless of how good of a person we are overall, we all deserve to suffer the consequences for those times we aren’t such great people. We are all a work-in-progress and deserve nothing more than opportunities that teach us how to be better people in the end.

If you thought these karma stories made for a great read, be sure to share them on social media! Your teacher friends will definitely get a kick out of them.