School activities should inspire students, not intimidate them.

The following story involves a high school student who loved theater.

During her sophomore year, they had a new teacher who turned out to be so toxic.

When she finally reached her limit, she decided to take action that would end the teacher’s stint.

Read the full story below for all the details.

AITA for getting my theatre teacher fired?

I’ll refer to myself as Ava in this post. I’m 22 now.

This happened a few years ago during my sophomore year of high school.

I went to a pretty small school with about 400 kids or so.

I was obsessed with theatre. Anything theatre-related, I did, and I did it proud.

This high school student thought the new theater teacher was nice.

During my freshman year, our theatre director and technical director were let go.

This left us with the choice to interview potential theatre candidates.

One, Ms. T, seemed like a nice person.

She was dedicated to her craft and wanted to nurture our interests as theatre students.

She seemed like the perfect person.

The new teacher made them act like dogs.

Boy, were we wrong.

For our first show, she proposed something that she wrote herself.

For one of the parts, she wanted us to pant and bark like dogs.

We expressed our uncomfortability. She took that as a personal attack.

She started manipulating us into thinking that we were the problem.

She said she worked hard on the play and that we couldn’t put it on anymore.

The teacher wouldn’t listen to their suggestions either.

After that, there were many times she wouldn’t listen to us.

She would tell us that we made her want to leave the school.

She made us feel bad for missing a rehearsal due to unplanned conflicts.

She deliberately had us do a play that was “childish.” It wasn’t childish.

She finally told the principal what was happening, so the teacher got fired.

It got so bad to the point where I brought the situation up to our principal.

He took the time to let her go, which means he fired her.

I’ve been harping on this for a few years.

I’ve been wondering if me letting the principal know was a bad thing or not.

Until now, she’s wondered if what she did was wrong.

Should I have talked with her even though she wouldn’t listen?

Should I have been more direct or something of the sort so she wouldn’t feel as bad or whatnot?

I’m just very confused and looking for some feedback.

Let’s check out the comments of other people on this story.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

This person makes a valid point.

Another teacher speaks up.

You did exactly what you should have done, says this one.

Finally, this one affirms that it’s not OP’s fault.

Clearly, the way she got fired wasn’t part of the show anymore.

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