Society & US
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By: Carolina C.
Hey KSJC Students, Well, I know that all of having that one teacher that we always see do something odd or weird in class. Well, now you will know other things that teacher do that are weird. Some might ahh kinda of weird kinda normal, others will totally weird. This example of teachers doing weird things come from people from different places sharing what their teachers have done. The first story is of a teacher doing something weird is a science teacher putting her cat skeleton on display in this person’s high school when her cat died. I mean who does this. No one wants to see a skeleton of cat, especially from the teacher's cat, that is just totally weird. But poor cat guesses it will be on display in the high school. The second story of a teacher doing something weird is a teacher that was a drug addict. I mean many people nowadays do drugs. But in this case, it was a substitute that left the classroom. She never came back. Two students that were in that class were searching for her. The next thing you know they find the teacher passed out in the passenger seat of her car. Later realizing that the substitute had does meth.
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