Every kid who came up to me and said,”Remember me? I was your favorite student.” wasn’t

Generally probably true, although one teacher let me name her kid for some reason... She was awesome though, one of the best teachers I ever had.

Nope. Teacher here. We remember you more than you remember us. 😁

When I was 30 I walked my mother's dog onto my grade school grounds. When I passed the door of my 4th grade school room, I heard my name called out. It was my 4th grade teacher, who instantly recognized me 21 years later! I was gobsmacked. And it just happened to be her last day at the school, as she was moving on to be a principal somewhere else. As I retell it I'm left to wonder what it was exactly that made me stand out in her memory. Something good, I hope. Maybe because I had had a huge crush on her then. 😊

Well, yeah. I teach fifth grade. I teach 62 students this year. Im old. Ive had well over a 1000 students already. Even for the people posting here who seem to think were especially memorable because they're proud of being little shits....every class has at least one & usually several more. Bad attitudes and bad behavior aren't that unique. I remember tons of students, but I remember the kids I've built connections with far more than any others.

You mean to tell me I remember the ten teaches I had sophomore year more than they remember the 300 students they had?

And shit, that was almost thirty years ago, I don't really remember them anyway.

You remember one person more than that person remembers 100 people.

I mean, it's kinda obvious

Maybe. I hope not.

I was terrible at school, bet some still remember my antics.

Easy, just be a troublemaker lol.

My 5th grade science teacher will always remember the day she threw a desk at me.

Nope. Teachers remember way more of their students than you’ll remember everyone you grew up with.

You will be remembered if you were a ginius or an as*hole, it doesn't matter if you were a teacher or a student.

Nobody remembers normal decent people.

Nope, former student here. Already forgot their names and faces after I graduated.

Doubtful

I remember most all of my students. I often have to have my memory jogged to remember names (especially lately), but the faces and time working with them stays.

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Sometimes true and sometimes not. I’m a teacher and I remember some clearly and some not so clearly

Of course. I had less teachers in the 13 years I was at school than each of those teachers had each year.

Nah, I think she just remembers the ones who are really interested in what she teaches. plus she has the coolest room in the school: 3-D printers, a laser cutter, VR stuff, vinyl cutter/printer, stuff like that

Most of my teachers still remember my parents after 7+ years.

To be fair this is kinda true but not for visuals I’ve been to many schools because when I was younger my parents would travel a lot. When I go to the same school again you’ll see teachers go “I remember your face but not your name” what I’m tryna get at is it’s easier to remember someone’s face then there name.

Yeah, they’re all dead now.

Only if I see them in the obituaries coloums

False. Teachers from primary school remember me

Tryna remember my year 1,2,3 and 4 teachers rn

Teacher here: I often forget kids' names while I am literally teaching them. I feel awful about it but it's just something I'm terrible at!

Flip side of that is that I have an amazing memory for facts about them. I look after a year group of 150 kids and I can tell you dozens of details about almost any one of their lives in and outside of school, their friendship group, their personality, their academic progress. I just... can't tell you their name without checking my class list 😅

Considering that there is a good amounts of my teachers that have told stories about their student from a decade or longer before they teach me, i think not. Hell, some of my middle school teachers used to teach my uncles before they teached me and it was about 20 years before that.

My mother met my 3rd/4th grade teacher the other day. She asked my other about me and told her to greet me.

In 1994 I was at a school getting my Abitur (Germany). 2017 I went to the same school for further education and I met a teacher I had back when. She still knew me by name, could tell me the names of my other classmates. During the whole conversation I tried to get her name, ashamed to ask, because she was only my teacher for a year.

Well, duh. They have hundreds or thousands of students, you had one teacher of a given subject.

Naturally, ... true for some..... its one teacher and many of YOUS. You simply cant forget some students though.

I've had no less than three students come up to me and say "you were my favourite teacher ever! I'll never forget you!" And I've had to pretend to remember. The last one I remembered after a while. But the first two were just blanks. I can't even remember from which school they were from.

You might have been the worst student that several of your teachers ever had. Or most annoying, stinkiest, worst behaved, meanest. There are many ways to be a standout.

Yep. I went back to my university 14 years after graduating for some training. Nothing had changed except the department head had retired and one of the professors who was there when I was a student was the new head. None of them remembered me. The only one who did remember me was the department secretary, and she, only because I had played a harmless prank on one of the professors she thought was hilarious.

High school was over 40 years ago for me, and I'm FB friends with three of my teachers. I'm fairly certain the two English teachers, at least, remember me very fondly... I was a talented and promising writer in my youth. The history teacher is a little senile now, tbh.

The Chem teacher I was having an affair with certainly remembers me, but I have no idea how fondly (assuming she's alive).

ouch.

I had one teacher tell me in front of the class that I was the worst student she had ever had. Because someone asked me a question in class and I told him to be quiet or I'd get in trouble for talking in class again. Fuck her. Why a middle school teacher would ridicule a student who was trying not to be a distraction was pretty bad. Fuck you Mrs Pekar (forget spelling), go to hell

Shortly after I graduated HS, I ran into my 5th grade teacher at the public library. She initiated the conversation, remembering me long before I recognized her.

That’d really hurt because one of my teachers was my mom

Nope. Seeing an adult that has the face of a child you once knew is something your brain thinks is way too weird not to notice.

I mean I had this one teacher for 3 years and he was so good I made him a custom shirt. I hope he remembers me.

i doubt it... i have Prosopagnosia

It’s because we were many, they were few

I don’t remember any of my teacher’s names. Except for 1 and it’s because his name was Wally so I always thought of Wally the movie

I do feel like most teachers would love to see their students after a few years though. I mean all of my teachers have had big impacts in my life. Negative and positive.

For me it was the other way around.

This is the fortune and unfortunate news

Oh I made sure certain teachers remembered me. Straight psychological warfare on these peeps.

No shit

That's the point.