Have you ever had a mean school principal?

[DaBiggestBird]

I mean a very rude one, I’m talking a principal who cusses at bad kids and refers to certain students as “cock suckers”.

[WhiteSteve]

So one of my elementary schools had this principal who was always wicked nice to me, I think because I had scored really well on some sort of standardized aptitude test when I was really young, and he hand me marked as a star in the making, haha. I think he was generally pretty nice, too, but I’m just mentioning it because maybe he was mean and I just thought he was nice because of how he was with me.

So anyway, our school was kindergarten through 4th grade. I’m in my first grade class, and out of nowhere, the door busts open and this principal, Mr. Curtis, comes charging in and he’s dragging an older kid from the fourth grade by the shirt.

He apparently was trying to discipline this kid through public humiliation by infantilizing him, because he starts going “You want to act like a little kid? Ok, no problem, we’ll put you in a class full of little kids!” He drags a chair front and center and tells the kid “Sit down!” The kid is still defiant, and he says “make me…”

Holy shit…all you millenials and Gen Zs, I assure you this is the way it used to be, children weren’t a protected class of citizen back then😂😂😂 Mr. Curtis grabbed this kid, sort of tries to sit him in the chair forcefully, but more so just earthed the kid right off the floor, twice over, lmfao, poor kid got absolutely ragdolled. Finally got him in the chair, all out of sorts, kid got FUCKED UP. Never looked at Mr. Curtis quite the same way again😂😂😂 But I’ll bet my last dollar that dude has a plaque in the lobby or a library named after him or something, he was well-respected. Nowadays he’d be fired as fuck, lmfao

Another funny story from my dad, who’s 92 and was in school in the 30s and 40s…. his class was learning about the legal system and they did some mock trial, probably like 5th or 6th grade. The kids all decided to hold their own trial after school, and put some rando kid on trial, went through the whole process, found him guilty of some imaginary crime…. and sentenced him to fight the class bully.

Long story short, kid got sent home all peppered up and his mom called the school the next day. Everyone got called into the principal’s office and grilled. So my dad gets pulled in with another kid, and the principal starts in on my dad, “I know your parents, I know you come from better stock than this, I’m very disappointed in you, I suggest you tell her about this before I do”, etc, etc. Slap on the wrist, really. Then, he turns to the other kid, who happened to be Italian-American, but at the time, that was considered “not white”, and this is Boston, it’s kinda racist. The principal started off that reprimand with “And YOU, you yellow Guinea!”💀💀💀 Different times, lmao

[NathanDavis]

not really