- Joined
- Nov 27, 2019
There was a kid I was in either 4th or 5th grade with who had some kind of behavioral problem, though I never heard anyone say exactly what it was. He would just yell and raise his voice or smart off to the teacher but never really looked mad, so it came off as being funny instead of scary. He got in trouble every day for it. One day we had a male substitute teacher (regular teacher was female) and the kid got even weirder around him, saying he was going to run out of class and at one point literally made a run for the door. The sub ran over, quick as lightning, caught him and nearly tackled him to the ground. The kid full-on sperged out, started yelling but the teacher didn't let up and held onto him. It was one of the most shocking things I'd ever seen (at that age, of course.) The sub was unable to teach anything and just had to deal with this kid's behavioral issues the entire day. I didn't see him for a while after that but he was back in class eventually. The sub left a glowing note about how the rest of the class didn't give him any trouble so the teacher told the rest of us how good we were and she was proud of us. As a kid I didn't understand why he was allowed to remain in class with the rest of us when he couldn't behave, especially since our school was "zero tolerance," but I think he helped fit a quota or something and that was probably why.