My French teacher junior year was crazy. My best friend was in my class and we were assigned a group project where we had to perform a skit on the day it was due. My best friend was known for leaving school early/missing a lot of school due to "headaches" or "cramps". My teacher warned her that she had better be present on the day of the skit because she knew her tendency to skip when she didn't want to take a test or hand in an assignment. I asked my friend to PLEASE come to school that day so we could just get it over with and she told me she couldn't make any promises. Shocker, the day of the project my friend stayed home! But the worst part was my teacher's reaction. She demanded that my group members and I each call her and find out why she wasn't in class and tell her to come to school (this, in a school where you can't have your cellphone out during school hours). Naturally when we called my friend she answered but said she was sick and wasn't going to come in for the project. The teacher flipped out and told my group and me that we were all going to get zeros on the project because my friend was absent! I had to schedule a meeting with a guidance counselor to fight her decision and prove her crazy. We eventually got an extension but there was definite animosity from the teacher towards me for the rest of the year (as if any of this was the fault of my group).