Has anyone seen their teacher die?

[FinnSven]

University or College professors included.

I literally mean they had a stroke, brain hemorrhage or other fatal and sudden attack in the middle of a lesson.

Not victims of school shootings.

I just wonder how people react in that situation?
Do kids laugh or cry? Or just stunned silence?
Did someone take it upon themselves to tell other teachers or available adults, or did they just sit there until the bell rang?

 

[Lemmingwiser]

I know it's not exactly an answer to your question.

I had an alaskan teacher (immgrant to the netherlands) who gave her first lesson to my high school class. At the end of the lesson she had died on the inside.

She started the lesson with a lot of energy. For some reason she told us to always listen to her or "she will make our lives a living hell". I had a pretty well behaved class generally, but very mouthy. Like a class full of lawyers. Always debates about everything. So when she made her declaration of war, even the most studious guy in our class was keen to test her out. At the end of the lesson I saw this nerdy guy (in a class of nerds) throwing air paper planes through the class. And he was still the best behaved, it was just complete chaos.

She tried giving lessons 3 more times and though not quite as a disaster it still went poorly for her. From the other side of an office door, I overheard her crying while talking to her superior, failing to keep things together. After that she had 100% given up and just came for her paycheck. People would have their books open and read it during a test and she didn't dare say anything.

That's the closest thing I saw. I saw someone who tried to start a new life in another country and discover that she was just as much a fuckup here as where she came from. I saw her spirit extinguish in about 2 weeks time and give up on making a contribution forever.

Her body type looked kinda like this video:

 

[Justtocheck]

You have to be a bit of a ruthless, manipulative psychopath to teach effectively in modern times. Otherwise, modern kids will crush you.

And to answer the question, I have seen one teacher not die, but pass out from low blood sugar and pee themselves. Some of us were trained in first aid and asked everyone to leave the room. The situation ended well.

 

[Bargain Bin Laden]

No, but kids who go to school in Canada might.

 

[CornBogFitz]

My Japanese language teacher in community college always acted super depressed. Last day of class he brought a bunch of gifts for everyone in class. Real shit from japan. Everyone was ecstatic. Later found out he threw himself in front of a buss after the semester was over. Still have his gift. Vowed to recognize the signs of depression from then on. 10 years later I saw the signs in a coworker. Straight up ditched work to party with him. Offered him a ride to church the next day. He said he would go. He never showed up. Later found out he tried to hang himself. No guilt here. I was the one there for him. He attempted suicide because he got sentenced 10 years for vehicular manslaughter.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

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He was lucky to have you. Good for you.

You have to be a bit of a ruthless, manipulative psychopath to teach effectively in modern times. Otherwise, modern kids will crush you.

It really isn't that hard to teach. It's only made difficult by:
1. No social cohesion. No central culture. The culture and values between parents is so different that it's almost like trying to appeal to constituents in a political process.
2. Lack of authority (in the netherlands anyways). Parents are more likely going to fight with teachers than work together with them towards helping their kids.
3. Bloated classes. There are ideal sizes and generally classes today seem twice as big, at least.

But the biggest problem is probably
4: Low reward for teachers (pay, prestige), resulting in mostly unambitious, not the most competent people doing the job.

If you go back 60-70 years, even high school teachers needed a university degree. Teachers were educated and respected people, not daycare for kids. It may differ a bit from country to country, but until recent history, it wasn't uncommon for parents to SEEK ADVICE from parents, instead of looking down on them as the proverbial garbage collectors they are today.

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The kids that have the capacity to learn, generally want to learn. The skills of controlling a classroom aren't that difficult to learn. It's all the stuff around the classroom that makes it difficult.

 

[Wine em Dine em 69 em]

I know this isn’t the type of answer you want but you’ve jogged my memory so here goes.
In elementary school we had a Pervy teacher. Uncle touchy type creep. This was decades ago & girls were too intimidated to say anything. Well eventually one did, and the guy asphyxiated in his garage with a running car. Everyone was relieved that his behavior didn’t have to be dealt with publicly.
I’m going to see if I can find anything about him for old times sake. I’ve tried looking up other dead creeps from my hometown and they manage to come out pretty clean in the transition from paper to internet.

 

[I've Seen Some More Shit]

This was quite some time ago. In my area there was a semi-extracurricular program where you could go to other schools to cover more esoteric courses not covered in normal curriculums of the school system meant to put you right in the job market out of high school (Digital networking shit, air traffic control, shipwrights of all fucking things, etc). I was in one of those courses purely for the excuse of getting to go to multiple schools and broaden my educational experience.
The teacher for my course was friends with a shop teacher I also had back in my main school and I had mentioned that after he brought it up anecdotally. I then mentioned it to the shop teacher, and there became a running joke between the three of us involving me playing messenger for the two of them since we all found it pretty amusing and they didn't get to keep in contact much anymore outside of rare occasions, and I proved to be a worthwhile bridge rebuild.
One day, shop teacher was being pretty lax in class because of what he thought was heartburn. Kept wolfing down tums but it apparently wouldn't go away. When class ended, he mentioned he was gonna call in sick and head home, since he felt too shitty to keep up for the day. Didn't think anything of it.
He doesn't come in the next day. No one knows why. One of the secretaries calls his home, no answer. Calls again, no answer. Now she's worried, calls his emergency contact (His daughter) to check in on him. At some point much later in the day, the daughter calls back. She found the shop teacher on the floor of his living room, dead. Heart attack, he lived alone, no one was able to help him in time.
I had to go to the other school around that time, I tell that teacher the news. He goes "Huh. Died today?" I nodded and said yeah, i didn't know how to really articulate the topic better. He just says "Huh. Knew him for fifteen years." in an almost non-plussed tone and was just quiet the rest of the class.

I still think about that reaction a lot. I feel like it genuinely broke him but he was in too much shock to really react.

 

[SandyCat]

I know it's not exactly an answer to your question.

I had an alaskan teacher (immgrant to the netherlands) who gave her first lesson to my high school class. At the end of the lesson she had died on the inside.

She started the lesson with a lot of energy. For some reason she told us to always listen to her or "she will make our lives a living hell". I had a pretty well behaved class generally, but very mouthy. Like a class full of lawyers. Always debates about everything. So when she made her declaration of war, even the most studious guy in our class was keen to test her out. At the end of the lesson I saw this nerdy guy (in a class of nerds) throwing air paper planes through the class. And he was still the best behaved, it was just complete chaos.

She tried giving lessons 3 more times and though not quite as a disaster it still went poorly for her. From the other side of an office door, I overheard her crying while talking to her superior, failing to keep things together. After that she had 100% given up and just came for her paycheck. People would have their books open and read it during a test and she didn't dare say anything.

That's the closest thing I saw. I saw someone who tried to start a new life in another country and discover that she was just as much a fuckup here as where she came from. I saw her spirit extinguish in about 2 weeks time and give up on making a contribution forever.

Her body type looked kinda like this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1VfBPJICoTE

I want to feel bad for her but she brought it upon herself with that "I'll make your lives a living hell" line

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

I didn't see one meet their end myself but we had a P.E. Teacher all the kids loved, years and years later my family was hanging out in the backyard and someone finds an article from that morning, Turns out the dude was a pedo and killed himself when caught, he hard a hardrive or usb full of child porn and was still a teacher at a different school.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I watched my second grade teacher fall into a table during class. Don't worry, she didn't die. Found out she was a pothead a decade later, which explained a lot. She was a pretty good teacher.

She was probably a little stoned when the table incident happened.

 

[cybertoaster]

I wish...

I saw someone who tried to start a new life in another country and discover that she was just as much a fuckup here as where she came from.

I seen this happen so many times, I call it the "I'll be big in japan"-syndrome, thinking that because you can hack it at home you will make it somewhere else.

Her body type looked kinda like this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1VfBPJICoTE

You could've posted the og instead of that shithead asmonfag

Parents are more likely going to fight with teachers than work together with them towards helping their kids.

This is happening everywhere tho, I seen it here in America and even the third world countries I been sent to.

Heart attack, he lived alone, no one was able to help him in time.

I'm unironically scared of this, wonder if there are any devices that you can wear that will call an ambulance and/or sound an alarm when that happens.

 

[Lokenstien]

Are you okay? This feels like an oddly specific question to ask a drama forum about saying slurs.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Well none that died but one of my old teachers was a pedophile. I found out years later. Pretty disturbing shit.

 

[I've Seen Some More Shit]

I'm unironically scared of this, wonder if there are any devices that you can wear that will call an ambulance and/or sound an alarm when that happens.

Been around since the 80s, it's a glorified Pager with a singular button press that sends phone alerts to whatever you program into it that basically says "I'm having an emergency and cannot reach my phone." Some knock-offs of the original LifeAlert specifically let you talk into it to send as a voice recording - I've heard LifeStation is a preferred version since LifeAlert's more costly.

 

[FinnSven]

Are you okay? This feels like an oddly specific question to ask a drama forum about saying slurs.

I am fine thanks!

I just figured that it has to have happened at least once, and an edgy forum with the capacity to talk about grim happenings without overreactions is a good place to ask.

I never saw a teacher die but some poor old sod died at his desk in a job I worked at.
Fatal heart attack, just keeled over and died with a customer still on the phone.

 

[cybertoaster]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQBeen around since the 80s, it's a glorified Pager with a singular button press that sends phone alerts to whatever you program into it that basically says "I'm having an emergency and cannot reach my phone." Some knock-offs of the original LifeAlert specifically let you talk into it to send as a voice recording - I've heard LifeStation is a preferred version since LifeAlert's more costly.

I saw a guy having a heart attack once, he barely uttered a word and crashed down, you don't get to press the button, the only reason he lived was because it happened in the middle of a mall and there was a defibrillator nearby.

That button its for old people and those with mobility problems falling down.

 

[OrionBalls]

Had a chef go into cardiac arrest on the line, once. Chef is the kitchen equivalent of teacher.

 

[gamerweeb1]

I had a teacher who died of cancer but not at school.

 

[Moths]

Yeah my chemistry teacher was a known alcoholic and the one of the kids challenged him to who could shot the most pure ethanol