There have been two cases that have got to me and that were never resolved or continue:
One person would habitually place all of the chalk and erasers behind an amplifier on the highest shelf of a locked AV cabinet, forcing the next teacher to go around to neighboring classrooms to borrow or take chalk and erasers. This went on for a full year (at least), though eventually either our schedules became out of synch or the teacher left.
Another person occasionally decides to defecate on the floor in front of one men’s room toilet.
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Are those students or teachers?
…I have never encountered that kind of behavior, from students or teachers.
And I teach preschool.
You’ve got to be kidding.
But I fear you aren’t, and from what I know of some companies hiring procedures, it shouldn’t surprise me that much that some of the hires are …. less than ideal people.
I’ve also heard stories of teachers sexually abusing students as well as other teachers, other types of sexual harassment, bullying, drunkenness, assault, arrests …
It’s part for the course that in any population you’re going to have dimwits, assholes, and idiots, as well as outright criminal behavior. But when you hire thousands of people every year and put them to work in schools, without a background check or a real vetting procedure, and no real training, a good number of baddies are going to slip in.
Ugh. I don’t understand why the government permits this situation to continue.
Former coworker showed up on his fifth day strung out after a cocaine bender with some girl he met at a bar. Continued to experiment with drugs throughout his contract, calling in sick when he failed. Mediocre teacher, weirdest thing was continually stopping music at karaoke so he could adjust the pitch because “the track is wrong.” I don’t know if that’s how teachers at NOVA still are, but they definitely used to be wild.
first one doesn’t want to share his stuff(most probably cleanliness freak,adhd types)
second one – must be some student (another form of mooning i guess)
If the chalk were hagoromo I would understand.
Trying to force doors open.
People in this area of Japan seem have to trouble understanding and respecting the idea of a locked door. When I am in the bathroom trying to relax and do my business, it’s often the case that someone will try to barge in without knocking. When they find the door is in fact locked, it would be rational to stop there. But these people in this city become forceful and try to force the door open. 10 seconds of trying to overpower the metal lock, 2 seconds of silence, then their second attempt begins. The image of that one meme always come into my mind. “Let me in. LET ME IIIIIIIIN!!!”
One day a teacher finally had enough and plastered as much tape onto the lock as they could to try and ensure nobody ever locks the door again. I’m not sure what they were thinking because it’s a one-person bathroom anyway, so all this achieves is allowing them to walk in on someone with their pants down and then waiting outside anyway.
In all my time in this city, I was given a friendly knock from the outside of the bathroom door exactly one time and it was another Native English Teacher. When I was in the north many people would knock, but apparently the art is lost here in Kanto.
I do shit like this to troll. Like mixing up all the children’s flashcards and then watching teachers panic during their five minute prep time between lessons.
I had a teacher show up to teach at a different school because “God” told her to go there that day. Also the guy who left in the middle of class to Mr Donuts. When asked why- “Duh. I was hungry”. Yep, Nova
Had a fellow teacher who rarely showered and the manager didn’t handle anything (he avoided confrontation and was just out of the office all the time).