This happened last year, but reading through this sub reminded me of it recently.
So I’m a pretty new teacher - been teaching for about 3 years. I teach secondary school (11-18 year olds) and this class in question were in Year 7 (6th Grade in America from what I understand, I’m in the UK).
This class (and the school) were both quite rough. Suspensions and isolations were pretty common, and the kids were quite disruptive, however it taught me a lot about teaching. This is all to set the scene.
So I’m getting the class in and seated ready to start the lesson. Obviously Jimbo runs straight to the other side of the room without a care in the world, Tom, Dick and Harry are shouting for no apparent reason and it’s the last lesson of the day so I just want a peaceful lesson.
So as they’re shouting and not sitting in their seats, I authoritatively think to say ‘sit down and stop shouting’. Covers all bases, right?
You can see where this is going.
In my weariness of getting through the last lesson of the day, my brain decides to simply give up, mash up my planned phrase in the worst way possible, and I instead end up saying to Jimbo ‘stop shitting’ in a loud voice audible to the whole class.
Of course this is the one moment the class are completely silent to hear my unfortunate slip. Cue shock, awe, horror and laughter.
In my defence, I took it as a teachable moment to say that we all mess up and make mistakes, even in professional settings. The class got a good laugh out of it and then we moved on.
I’ve changed schools since but this still gets brought up regularly by my friends. Truly a great start to my teaching career.
TL:DR - Said ‘stop shitting’ to a group of children when teaching instead of ‘sit down and stop shouting’. Will never live it down.