What? Elementary school isn't all fun and games?

Tonight at the dinner table, the children were reminiscing about their time in elementary school.

What's up with those 2nd grade teachers?
Maddie:  I remember that my 2nd grade teacher took me out in the hall one day and told me that I needed to stop rolling my eyes at her because it was disrespectful.

Nate:  Did you stop?

Maddie:  What do you think?  (Followed by an eye roll).

Aimee:  Well in 2nd grade I was having nightmares and was scared to go to school because my teacher yelled.  Mom had to have a talk with her.

Grace:  Why didn't you talk to MY 2nd grade teacher?  She was terrible.

Robyn:  Well, I felt like you could handle it and that it was a growing experience for you.  It was debilitating for Aimee so something had to be done.

The Trunchbull at Lunch
Nate: At our old school, I remember we had to raise our hands to be excused from the lunchroom.

Rod: What?  Seriously?

Maddie: Yeah and sometimes my arm would get tired because you'd be waiting for like 5 minutes to get noticed.   I admired those kids who would sneak out without being excused and make a mad dash for the door.

Rod:  What rebels.

Aimee:  And, a lunch lady would come and check our trays and lunch sacks to make sure that we ate all of our food.

Rod:  That's ridiculous.

Aimee: One day, my friend asked me to hide her yogurt in my lunch sack because she didn't want to eat it so I did but then the lunch lady looked in the sack and asked me why I didn't eat the yogurt and I was scared and said that I didn't eat it because I didn't have a spoon but then she pulled out the spoon that I had for my pudding and looked accusingly at me, "What is this then?" I didn't know what to say, so I burst into tears and my teacher had to come rescue me.

Robyn (outraged):  Sounds a like The Trunchbull.

Aimee: And one time me and my friend put our heads down on the table so that we could say a prayer on our lunch and the lady came over and told us not to do that.

Robyn:  Yep.  THE TRUNCHBULL.

P.S.   There are just a few of these.  The children had great teachers and good experiences for the most part.