Hey Pandas, Have You Ever Tricked A Teacher? (Closed)

Share your stories of tricking teachers.

I once had to write an essay on Shakespeare. Hamlet, it was, I think. Bored as I was with these glorified summaries, I decided to have some fun. So I invented a sixth act of Hamlet. Now, these old plays ALWAYS have only five acts. At most. There are some with three or just one, but six acts? Nope. I was sure the teacher would notice right away. Intended it as a joke, kinda. I even gave some invented quotes from that alleged sixth act. Tried to get the language as close to original as I could. And.... I must have done a great job. My dear English teacher, college-educated, with 20 years of teaching under her belt, DID NOT NOTICE and gave me full marks. I am still confused about this but did not want to embarrass her. So I never told her.

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Old One Eye

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Softball05 2 years ago

Oh my gosh this is totally something i would do

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I spread a rumour around school years ago that one of the heads of year (also an art teacher) wasn't qualified at all. He'd just walked in off the street and found an empty classroom and started teaching. The head teacher at the time was a very meek and mild man so I told them the head was too scared to ask him to leave and as it turned out the guy was good at art. The teacher in question was really Scouse (from Liverpool) and a couple of kids asked him about it and he just replied "No comment". Years later most of the kids in school still believe this rumour.

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Ru Bee

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Amy G 2 years ago

I don’t know why you got a downvote, I thought this was great! I love that he played along with ‘no comment’. Classic!

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In 10th grade, we had to research a historical figure and report with a written essay and a short presentation to the class. I was assigned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the late 18th century German author. I did the usual...wrote an informative essay and knew my research well enough to present and answer basic questions.

Then the teacher optimistically asks, "Did you read 'Faust?'" As if a 10th grade C student has been reading classical European allegory plays. "Yes," I answered confidently, having never seen or touched the text in my life.

I proceeded to summarize the play perfectly, answer the teacher's followup questions and describe the overall themes of Faust's struggle perfectly. The teacher was stunned and gave me an A+, blissfully unaware that I had learned everything I knew about classical literature from Wishbone, the educational children's show. You can catch the Faust episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QbS3JmKMgI

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Emma Stripp 2 years ago

Children's shows although they're meant for kids actually have great information in them. Especially if it's an educational or animal show

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I went to a small high school, my graduating class was around 50. Our band director was among the most popular teachers. He had a great sense of humor, and prided himself on never falling for pranks from any senior class. Cue my senior year. We only had 3 seniors in band that year (1 girl and 2 boys, I was the girl) and so we were convinced we could pull it off and set the record for most senior pranks pulled on said band director. On Homecoming night, after our half time performance, one of the guys and I huddled around the third guy and made a big deal of him being injured while he clutched his nose. I went running over to the director, urgently telling him that I’d accidentally hit the guy in the nose with my flag pole. He came bustling over to help, we surrounded him, and hosed him down with the three cans of shaving cream we’d kept hidden. It was a glorious moment. We ended up pranking him twice that year and as far as I know, the record still stands. Could have been three but my dad stopped our last one. 🙄

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Amy G

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Calyfan Yelood 2 years ago

I'm invested. What was the stopped prank?

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On a day when my teacher had a projector set up, we connected a Bluetooth controller to her PC that controlled the mouse. We were moving the mouse around like crazy and selecting random names on the class list. Thanks to the projector, the whole class could see it. Our teacher wasn't very tech-savvy, so she thought her computer was possessed.

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Rokas J.

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Well, I broke my left arm and tricked my teacher that I was left-handed all along. I got to only read for a few months, was a great holiday from school work.

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Titas Burinskas

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My teacher had known me for years and occasionally I play a funny prank on her. This year I put on a fake cast a pretended I was seriously hurt, the teacher actually fell for it and gave me good grades for about 2 weeks (she asked me questions about the lecture and used that as my grade). I didn't have to do anything and was allowed to go on my phone whenever, I eventually thought about telling her but I never did. Thanks Teach ;)

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Laci Fuller

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I once pranked a teacher on April fools day in fourth grade. I put a fake bug under her remote to the board. I didn’t know at the time, but she was actually really afraid of bugs. She jumped a few feet in the air. Later I told her it was me, and we shared a laugh. We joked about it for the next few years until she moved to another school.

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Emerald Ocean

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Deepak 2 years ago

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Not my class, but I heard the Junior High band class got a sub and they all swapped each others instruments so they played horribly. I knew the sub they had, and she was a regular who got tormented a lot, and for good reason. She was mean and talked to us like kindergartners (we were nicer to other subs). Apparently the band class made her cry. Might've been a bit too far?

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MyOpinionHasBeenServed

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I have. I needed to do my homework and then forgot it. I told her it was in my locker, and as expected she told me to wait 'till the pass was back. I have a notoriously bad memory. So the pass came back and then I didn't get it because 'I forgot.' Then it was delivered the next day, completed and when she asked where it was I just said I put it on her desk. I got away with it!

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