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There's just something about watching a teacher completely lose their composure that makes an embarrassing moment so much more memorable. It's the kind of thing students talk about years later, when the teacher probably hopes everyone would forget.
When a user on Reddit asked, "What's the most embarrassing thing you've witnessed happen to a teacher of yours?" former students wrote in, and WOW. You will not believe some of these:
1. "We had a student-teacher one time in eighth-grade science. He was actually doing really well for nearly the entire lesson until he took out his laptop to show us a video about friction, with a car sliding around in the snow. He's searching through his personal laptop for this, and little does he know that it's being displayed on the projector for the entire class to see. It started off with episodes of Family Guy and Facejacker, which made us like him even more, as he seemed like an actual person rather than a teacher. Then things got a lot more personal: Boobs.jpg. Naughty_naked_video.mp4. His entire catalog of porn. One kid shouts out, 'IT SAYS BOOBS!!' and when he realized what had happened, his face went as red as a beetroot, and you could feel his stomach turn inside out. That was all we saw of him."
2. "My high school geometry teacher walked full-speed into a floor-to-ceiling window. The walkway was two feet to her right. And then she said, 'Someone give the window washer a raise.'"
3. "I had an English teacher in middle school. We were giving presentations on problems in America, and someone chose obesity. The teacher started crying in the middle of the presentation. It was so painfully awkward."
4. "My junior high math teacher turned out to be our pizza delivery guy. One weekend, he ended up delivering pizzas to my birthday party. Probably five or six of us, his current students, answered the door to pay and grab the food. I had the party at my mom's house, which was in a neighborhood about 30 minutes from our school, so he probably assumed he wouldn't run into any of his students. He seemed pretty shocked and embarrassed when the door opened and a bunch of his students were standing there, looking at him. I felt pretty bad for the guy, so we never brought it up at school."
5. "My classmate wrote gay fanfiction about two male teachers of ours and uploaded it online. One of the teachers moved schools, and his new students found it when they looked him up on Google."
6. "We had a football team meeting with one of our coaches (a 65-year-old man) in junior high, and he sat down on one of the boxes in the front of the room as he began to speak to us, as he usually did. When he started to lean forward as he got to the serious part of the talk, one of his balls just plopped out of his shorts, bounced, and then hung there, like a lava blob in a lamp, as he kept talking. Of course, guys started to notice the thing dangling there, and people started snickering before one guy lost it and openly laughed, prompting the coach to ask what was so damn funny. The coach looked down at his sagging, exposed nut and started to laugh, not even bothering to put himself back in his jock as he said to the kid, 'Well goddamn, son! Why can't you see like that on the field? This is the closest you've come to catching a ball all season!'"
7. "We were studying reproductive health in freshman year science class. Our teacher was talking about sperm and mentioned that fructose is a big part of it. One guy asked, 'So would that mean it's sweet?' and a few people chuckled, but she replied, 'No, not really, it's —' and stopped dead. I've never seen anyone go so red, and the whole class f*cking lost it. She had to leave the room, and I'm pretty sure she still hasn't lived that one down, like 6 years later."
8. "In my freshman year biology class, I walked into my teacher's office to see her flexing and feeling her biceps. It was awkward for both of us. I'm embarrassed for her..."
9. "When I was doing the school debutante ball, we had out-of-school dance classes, so one day, my partner and I got there early, and there were female panties and a bra on the chair. We sat there for about 10 minutes, and eventually our teacher came out with another teacher, completely unaware of our presence, casually talking about the quality of the sexy times they just had, right as everyone else walked into class."
10. "My seventh-grade science teacher was arrested in the middle of class. The rumor was that he had been smoking crack in his supply room throughout the day. It was never confirmed by the administration, but I remember him stopping lessons, going into his supply room, shutting the door for a few minutes, then coming back out smelling bad and not bringing any supplies with him. Then he'd just continue the lesson."
11. "At a fairly small high school, I walked in on one of the teachers taking a poop in one of those walk-in bathrooms. We exchanged eye contact; then, I closed the door and didn't have to poop anymore."
12. "I had a teacher who would talk nonstop about how her boyfriend of 3 years was going to propose. She talked about it for weeks. Then, one day, she got a call on her cell, and her boyfriend broke up with her. She cried for days, and still came to work. She was teaching through the tears."
13. "We had a calculus teacher who was just...awkward. He acted awkwardly, and his entire personality was just...awkward. One day, he stood up from his desk to give us a presentation using the newly installed SmartBoard in his classroom... but he had a raging boner. It was completely obvious, and he just pretended like it wasn't there. It was just...awful."
14. "Two douchey kids in my eighth-grade class put glue on the teacher's chair. She sat down, everyone giggled, and she ignored it. She tried to stand up again, and the chair came with her before falling back down. She got herself out of the chair and ran away, very upset."
15. "Someone asked our senior-year chemistry teacher how old he was, and he, in turn, asked us to guess. Our guesses all fell within the range of 45 to 59. He was 39. He seemed hurt that every single person overshot his age by at least 5 years."
16. "In woodshop, during the first lesson of the year (which is always a safety lesson on how to use the equipment), our teacher showed us how (not) to use the bandsaw by slicing his own finger off."
17. "An eighth-grader took a photo under a teacher's skirt and shared it around. I stayed back after school to get help with some work that day, and on my way out, I saw her running to the office, bawling her eyes out. I felt sorry for her. She wore pants for a good while after that."
18. "I saw our male physics teacher and female chemistry teacher f*cking completely naked on a table in the chemistry lab."
19. "One teacher accidentally locked herself in a supply closet."
20. "A first-year ninth-grade math teacher sh*t her pants during a school drill while huddled under her desk. All the students in that hall smelled it and were told by her class. Her contract was not renewed."
21. "My teacher said the N-word in front of the Black principal. She meant to say Niger, the country."
22. "Our teacher took us out to the pond in the garden for a lesson...and then fell in it."
23. "I had a teacher who got corrected by the dumbest kid in the class. Everyone knew this kid was dumb — as did the kid. He was quite proud of himself."
25. And finally: "My math teacher got knocked off his bike by a deer on the way to school. 'Twas hilarious."
What's the most embarrassing thing you witnessed a teacher do? Let us know in the comments or via this anonymous form!
Note: Responses have been edited for length/clarity.
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