This was about nine years ago, and a separate post on another sub about prank phone calls brought this roaring back into my memory.
I had a bully in fourth grade who was absolutely adored by our math teacher. She always made me help him even though she knew we didn’t get along. Any time we got into it (him bullying me and me standing up for myself and other kids he bullied) she would treat me like garbage after.
She was hyper-religious. Disclaimer, I’m not anti-religion (I’m Jewish myself), but she would refer to me as “the devil” whenever I upset her and/or her favorite student.
One day the student and I REALLY got into it in gym class, and I fought back. Like, fought fought. By that I mean I tried to bludgeon him with my arm cast after he had shoved me to the floor repeatedly. I was stopped by the gym teacher, but of course the math teacher made me pay for it later by, once again, calling me the devil and treating me like crap.
So I proved her right. 😈
I spent a couple of weeks compiling a list of all of the online psychic, tarot reading, and medium services I could find, everything I knew she would be against. Then, after the dust from the gym incident had settled, I signed her up for each and every one using her school-issued email.
The best part about it is I never got caught, but I do remember hearing about some extra email protocols being put in place for the teachers. Afterwards I smiled as sweetly as I could at her every time we interacted. I laid the cheese on thick, and started purposefully misleading my bully whenever I helped him with math, all while watching her nerves and his grades spiral.
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I have sympathy for you, man.
I’m sure there were more productive uses of your time but this is a surprisingly relaxed prank, for the devil.
You’re all in the details
That’s insidious. And petty. I doff my hat to you!
Umph…very methodically navigated!!!
Oh man…you straight up schooled that Bible-thumping witch. Like a perfectly executed trap set by an old-timey gunslinger. I love it when karma’s math adds up to epic payback!
Calm down, Satin (sic).
Devilishly devious 😈
Bad tutoring is such petty revenge. Perfect. Fuck that little asshole. Any idea where the bully is now?
I was bullied as a kid. I was "the fat kid" so I was picked on by the jocks. In Algebra class, when we had a big test, the bully tried to copy from me. I wrote all wrong answers. After he finished, I corrected my paper. I got an A & he got a D-. He never tried again. Go, you devil! lol
You handled that damned well. I hope you’re proud of younger you there. When dealing with bullies (student + teacher), you’ve just gotta do what you’ve gotta do to redress the power imbalance, and this is a 10/10 job at doing that.
Ingenious! 🤣😈
I’m imagining coming up with ways to teach math so that the pupil would get it completely wrong, but the tutor would have plausible deniability — "That’s not how I taught it to him, he just misunderstood it."
I feel deep respect for you, once my bullies were copying from me, so I started failing as badly as I could. It was a race you to the bottom situation.
I was saved by what I can only call divine intervention from repeating seventh year.
This sounds made up.