Pupils have begun returning to school as lockdown restrictions were eased across England.
Outdoor markets and car showrooms have also started reopening, while the first horse racing event in months was being staged and pigeons took to the skies for a race over Yorkshire.
Even if these lasting impressions might not have been owing to words of wisdom, or setting a good example.
Far from it, we often remember bad teachers for their poor behavior in the classroom.
Something some teachers took to an entirely new level.
Redditor MrBananaStand1990 was curious to learn about the most jaw dropping behavior people ever witnessed in a classroom, leading them to ask:
"What unhinged thing did a former teacher do in the classroom?"
"My Bio teacher in High School had another science teacher come in the classroom while he was teaching, have an argument with him and shoot him in front of all of the students."
"Everything was staged including fake blood, but it looked real enough to all of us."
"Then he jumped up, and told us all to take our pulse."
"It was supposedly a way for us to experience the effect of stress or trauma."
"Never found out what, if anything, happened to him or the other teacher."- ReesieVA
"Unhinged in a fun way, but my Religion teacher put on the DreamWork’s movie 'Prince of Egypt' for us in class one day."
"When it got to the part where the song 'You’re Playing with the Big Boys Now' was about to play he paused the movie, told us it was his favorite song, and that he was going to sing along and that none of us could stop him."
"He proceeded to prance around the room like a Cabaret dancer, yelling the song at the top of his lungs, staring down whoever was the nearest student to him."
"Loved that guy."- LittleNigiri
"Mr. Bloom earned the nickname Mr. Boom when he threw a desk so hard (toward, but not at, a certain student) that one of the legs punctured the wall and it just stayed there."
"The student was a POS and said some real vile sh*t (about Mr. Boom's recently deceased kid), so the whole class backed Mr. Boom and we all said the student did it."- BlottomanTurk
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"We had a French teacher who slept with one of the students in her classroom, I also had a teacher send me to the shop across the road and give me the money to buy him a newspaper and myself a pack of cigarettes so I could calm down and stop disrupting the lesson."- Huge-Collection6746
"Decided to show us how earthquake proof the lights were by hanging down from them."
"They were not indeed rated for such a test."- NecessaryPurpose6026
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"Not a teacher, but a bus driver."
"He pulled the bus over, picked up a text book and smacked a disruptive kid with it."
"Dropped the book and went back to driving us."- showstoppergal
"I sh*t you not, my coworker just told me, like, an hour ago about the day her high school philosophy teacher said, to the entire goddamn class, 'making love to my wife is such a beautiful act that, after we’re done, I sit on the edge of the bed and cry'."
"I’m still reeling."- cyoung1024
"We had a rather eccentric History teacher."
"At the start of each lesson he would walk into the classroom and say 'Good Morning class. Who wants to learn about history today?'."
"This was our first term at the new school, so of course we wanted to learn, and a sea of hands went up."
" After a few weeks we began to wonder what happened if we didn’t want to 'learn about history today'."
"So the number of raised hands got fewer and fewer."
"Eventually, we persuaded all our classmates not to raise their hands."
"So in walks our History teacher."
“Good Morning, class. Who wants to learn about history today?'"
" Not a single hand goes up."
“'Right, so there’s no one here who wants to learn about history?'"
"We all sat in silence."
“'So, if no one wants to learn about history, there’s no point in me trying to teach you. I’m off for a smoke'."
"He walked out of the classroom, and appeared a few minutes later in the car park, standing next to his car smoking a cigarette."- Accurate_Till_4474
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"It was unhinged but in a good way."
"My chem teacher lit his desk on fire using alcohol and a taser to introduce us to one of our next chapters."
"Also built a cannon in the hallway."
"He went through around 100 ceiling tiles a semester."- caughtyoulookinn
"It was a college Intro to Logic professor."
"In the first class, he slammed his head repeatedly (and hard!) into a desk when someone answered a question wrong, while screaming 'no no no no no!'”
"Second class, another wrong answer, and he ate a handful of chalk in frustration, like he was Cookie Monster slamming some cookies."
"I dropped the class after that."- somastars
"Over weight science teacher once sat on a chair and the metal legs buckled in front of the class."
"Dude was so pissed, or embarrassed, he got up off the floor and threw it out of the third story window."
"2 minutes later a science teacher from downstairs came running up demanding to know who threw the chair."
"After my teacher told him to relax it wasn't a student, he was then told the gardener was working down below and copped the chair to the head."
"Straight trip to the hospital and workers comp pay out for him."- Matured_in_Oz
"We had a teacher who needed to leave class to use the restroom one day and the teacher across the hall who could normally watch us both for a few minutes was on a field trip."
"He took out his glass eye and put it on his desk and warned us 'I'm watching you' while he left to do his business."
"That's how some of us learned he had a glass eye."- Illustrious-Science3
"9th grade World History."
"Annoying entitled rich kid with Napoleon complex (he was a small guy) acted up, just nonstop verbal harassment."
"She picked his entire desk up, with him in it, and threw it out the door."
"Yes he was small, and she looked fit, but that was a flex nobody saw coming and no one messed with her again."- ghost_suburbia
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We've all had teachers we look back on less fondly than others.
But hopefully none of us have had teachers like these, whose actions may very well disrupt our sleep for the rest of our lives...
Oz said:
"There's no question about it, whether you want it or not ... the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars."
You can see his comments here:
The multimillionaire has also said healthcare is a privilege, not a right, and suggested more people go to work immediately out of high school and retire later to eliminate the national debt.
Oz's suggestions were met with outrage and ridicule.
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Oz was trained as a cardiothoracic surgeon and worked as a professor, but the majority of his wealth came from his wife's family fortune and his sales and endorsements of supplements that have been described as "snake oil" and "pseudoscience quackery."
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials claimed Pretti had brandished a weapon and that agents fired “defensive shots,” assertions that have been contradicted by video evidence showing Pretti holding a phone and not brandishing a gun.
The Trump administration's critics have since called out the hypocrisy of officials who've previously praised armed right-wing protesters but are now attacking Pretti, a legal gun owner with a valid Minnesota concealed-carry permit.
Almost immediately after Pretti's murder on January 24, Miller, replying to Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, called Pretti an "assassin" who "tried to murder federal agents"—a lie that Vance retweeted to his own followers.
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Vance later took to X to shift the blame away from federal agents and toward local authorities and protesters, alleging there is now “chaos” caused by state and local officials’ refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
And now he had this to say after Daily Mail reporters asked him if the agents who killed Pretti should face criminal charges if an investigation found they violated Pretti's civil rights:
"I think we should follow the law. You're asking me to engage in a hypothetical. I'm not going to pre-judge these guys. I think that everybody is deserved the presumption of innocence in the American system of justice."
"That's how it's going to work. They're going to investigate. If they find out that he violated the law, of course, you should face consequences for violating the law. But I'm not going to engage in conjecture about the different permutations of how this or that officer might have violated the law."
"Let's do the investigation. Let's figure out, did these officers have a reasonable fear of Alex Pretti given what happened? Did they engage in lawful conduct or unlawful conduct? Let's let the investigation determine those things."
Vance was then asked directly whether he had apologized to Pretti’s family. “For what?” he replied, smiling as he put his hypocrisy about "pre-judging" people without knowing the facts on full display.
When the interviewer specified that an apology might be warranted for labeling Pretti “an assassin with ill intent,” Vance said:
"Again, I just described to you what I said about Alex Pretti, which is that he's a guy who showed up with ill intent to an ICE protest. ... So if this hypothetical leads to that hypothetical leads to another hypothetical, will I do a thing? And again, like I said, we're going to let the investigation determine."
"If something is determined, that the guy who shot Alex Pretti did something bad, then a lot of consequences are going to flow from that. We'll let that happen. But again, I don't think it's smart to prejudge the investigation, I don't think it's fair to those ICE officers."
You can hear his response in the video below.
Vance was slammed after footage of his remarks went viral.
New national polling conducted fully after Pretti's killing shows that a majority of Americans see the incident as emblematic of excessive force by federal agents and are skeptical of the government’s account.
An Ipsos survey found that 55% of respondents said Pretti’s killing involved “excessive force,” compared with just 16% who said it was “necessary,” a roughly 3-to-1 margin against the federal agents involved—an even stronger verdict than earlier public reaction to the killing of Renée Nicole Good.
A Quinnipiac University poll similarly found that 62% of registered voters said Pretti’s shooting was “not justified,” compared with 22% who said it was justified, with opposition to the agents’ actions growing most sharply among Republicans between the two events.
These polls also suggest broad backlash to the administration’s handling of the case: a Quinnipiac survey found 61% of voters believe the Trump administration has not given an honest account of the shooting, and 80% said there should be an independent investigation into the incident.