What's the worst thing a professor or teacher has ever said to you?

Not me, but a friend. Her class was doing a mock trial and she got assigned the role of a rape victim. She had been a victim in real life, and requested to play a different role. The teacher asked why, and my friend only said it was for very personal reasons. The teacher said she would have to explain if she wanted to be re-assigned. She didn’t want to explain, but said she really couldn’t play this role. Eventually the teacher got fed up and asked loudly in front of the class

“Why do you have such a problem with this?”

“It’s very personal...”

“What, were you raped or something?”

“Yes...” she started crying and left the class. They changed the entire project after that.

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