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30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone

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Young kids soak up new information like a sponge. That is why educating them is important from an early age. It’s also crucial to have your facts straight before telling them to children—some of them might never forget what they've learned from a teacher. Whether it’s right or wrong.

The AskReddit community discussed statements by their elementary school teachers that couldn’t have been further from the truth. Their examples ranged from blindly denying scientific facts to cases of plain ignorance, all of which prove two things: a) some of the information you learn as a kid sticks for years to come, and b) certain people should be taught rather than teaching.

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#1

I had a teacher try to tell the class that Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus were the only planets known to have rings. I raised my hand and added that Jupiter had rings too, but that they were so faint they were hard to see. She vehemently denied it. When I politely (yes, really) told her that I had just seen it in a book, she gave me detention for trying to correct her in front of the class.

The next day, before class began, she approached me with an encyclopedia opened to a page about Jupiter, and apologized. She told the class I was indeed right, and that it's important to listen and learn from people even when we think we are 100% right. One of the more wholesome moments I can remember from school in my youth.

Final score:

507points

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#2

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That if I didn’t learn my times tables I’d wind up a broke garbage man, never learned then but I’m a garbage man who made 6 figures last year

Additional_Swan_6531 , Chris Liverani Report

Final score:

333points

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#3

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone Sex ed teacher in grade 7 told me that the white stuff that collects in my underwear is semen. I’m a girl.

I learned way later that it’s actually discharge and EVERY vagina does this.

oblatespheroids_ , Anthony Tran Report

Final score:

261points

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#4

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That I won’t always have a calculator in my pocket. F****n liar.

CriticallyThougt , Kelly Sikkema Report

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261points

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#5

My name's pronunciation. 1st grade 1st day of the year we all told our names, introductions etc. My name is from a SEA country and not even that difficult to say just read differently than its spelled, its even monosyllable. My teacher screeched at me and told me it'll be pronounced the way its phonetically spelled in English which included swapping two middle letters for some reason. The other students went along with it and so did I. Even to this day I still introduce myself by that pronunciation except to people of my own race.

In university I started getting people that wanted to pronounce it correctly which was incredibly kind and they sort of pointed out how messed up it was for that teacher to decide that for me.

GeneralBullshit Report

Final score:

261points

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#6

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone People are going to offer you drugs disguised as candy at the park.. Just say no!

20 years later and I still haven’t been offered drugs at the park.

Curiously-curious928 , Joseph Frank Report

Final score:

259points

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#7

"You shouldn't write 'Xmas' instead of 'Christmas' because you're X-ing out Christ."

The X is really the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter in the Greek word for Christ.

amboy_connector Report

Final score:

224points

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#8

My mom told her 1st grade teacher her favorite color was magenta. Her teacher punished her for not picking a real color, and for arguing with her about it. My great-grandma, a painter, sent my mom to school the next day with a tube of magenta paint! Not long after this my mom skipped to the second grade😂

Final score:

221points

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#9

1st grade math

Teacher: what's 2-1

Class: 1

Teacher: What about 1-2

Class: confused

Teacher: See, you can't subtract a smaller number from a bugger number

Me, an intellectual: Hey, wait a minute, that's negative 1

Teacher: Shush, those don't exist til third grade

mistyhell Report

Final score:

216points

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#10

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That I could avoid a nuclear blast by hiding beneath my school desk.

Silly woman. I saw a movie about this, and now I know to climb into a refrigerator instead.

pullin2 , Мария Кашина Report

Final score:

211points

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#11

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone A student in my class asked why we call it the 20th century when the year was 19xx. The teacher explained that most likely that a long time ago probably in the dark ages they made a mistake in printing a calendar, but by the time it was noticed all the calendars had been made and sent out, so they just left it that way.

I heard her say this and knew it was all kinds of bull s**t, but I said nothing because I was a shy 4th grader and she was a hostile nun.

DVWhat , Pixabay Report

Final score:

210points

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#12

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That the moon emits light, just like the sun. As a nerdy kid interested in space I told her that it’s actually reflecting the light of the sun, but she did not believe me.

mandys14 , Andrés Gómez Report

Final score:

210points

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#13

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone Never forget it. In 4th grade we were learning about bats. And the teacher asked the class to name as many different types of bats as we could. I raised my hand and said "Vampire Bats," and he said name only real ones please.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_bat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_bat)

They are real, and I knew it. But he made me feel like an a*s.

Yetizod , Waldemar Report

Final score:

208points

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#14

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone 6th Grade

Me: But what happens when you subtract a negative number *from* a negative number

Teacher: You...can't do that

I_Code_Stoned , Katerina Holmes Report

Final score:

200points

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#15

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That I couldn't have blue eyes if my mom had brown eyes. Thus began a life long obsession with genetics so I could prove her an absolute f*****g fool. Bless my mom's single recessive gene she passed to me. I missed the blonde but I'll take the blue eyes.

PeppermintNya , Juan Goyache Report

Final score:

193points

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#16

Science teacher in 4th grade told us it takes food 45 minutes to get to your stomach after swallowing. Spent an entire class period on it.

He handed us each a piece of cereal to eat at the beginning of class. Halfway through (some 20 minutes later), we had to point to where it likely was in our system. The correct answer, according to him, was somewhere right above our collarbone.

Years later, a bite of too-hot oatmeal told me he was an idiot in all of about four seconds.

markkaschak Report

Final score:

184points

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#17

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone I got sent to the principal's office for using the word "plethora." The teacher thought it was a swear word. So did the principal.

EDIT: For those asking about a dictionary, yes, they looked it up. And there is some obscure, arcane definition that means a swelling of a body part. This, of course, is the only definition my teacher knew, not the extremely common one.

DenL4242 , RODNAE Productions Report

Final score:

170points

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#18

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That there was no such thing as a black flower. She put a big X through my painting.

Splattacus , Anelia Report

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169points

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#19

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That Lincoln was the first American president. I told her she was wrong, it was Washington, and she snapped, saying ‘well why do you know so much about American politics it is pathetic.’ And all the other kids in my class started making fun of me for being stupid.

Reasons why I hate rural Canada.

ProfessorPie1888 , Rebecca Siegel Report

Final score:

166points

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#20

Not a teacher but the principal. When I reported one of the school bullies for physically attacking me (plenty of obvious proof), he put the blame on ME, & told me to "grow up". Spineless worm!

Final score:

153points

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#21

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone "The higher you go up on a mountain the hotter it gets because you're getting closer to the sun" - my 5th grade teacher

Major-Panda-1775 , Kalen Emsley Report

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152points

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#22

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That in a court of law we are guilty until proven innocent. She confidently told us that multiple times, pretty sure she got it backwards

kainerobins , Hansjörg Keller Report

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142points

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#23

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone I had a primary school teacher ask the class how many hours were in a day. I proudly put up my hand and said '24'. She said no. So someone else said 12. She said no.

Her answer was 8. There are 8 hours in a say. I still don't know whether she was trying to ask about a work/school day, but asking 8 yr olds doesn't really clarify that, especially when she said in a day.

moisiebug , Artem Riasnianskyi Report

Final score:

131points

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#24

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone Before the blood touches oxygen, it is blue

kbronzov , Karolina Grabowska Report

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130points

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#25

"You'll never be successful at anything you do."

Adjusted for inflation, I probably make 3 times her salary.

F**k you Mrs G.

Shesaidshewaslvl18 Report

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130points

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#26

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone I had a religion teacher tell us that humans evolved simultaneously across the world at the same time. This was proof of a "miracle." I insisted we all came from Africa and then spread out.

-BentoOreos- , Eugene Zhyvchik Report

Final score:

126points

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#27

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone I remember an elementary school teacher warning us to not accept apples on Halloween, cuz some people put razorblades in them. I mean, wouldnt you see the big fat cut on the apple?

uncultured_swine2099 , Talal Ahmad Report

Final score:

125points

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#28

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone I was told in no uncertain terms that the match in shape between Africa and South America was coincidental.

*edit* That is to say: The match between the Western coastline of Africa and the Eastern coastline of South America.

RhoOfFeh , Andrew Stutesman Report

Final score:

112points

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#29

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That when you get to middle school and high school, the teachers won’t constantly remind you of assignments that are approaching their due dates, or hunt you down for missing assignments

No_Skylark , Towfiqu barbhuiya Report

Final score:

92points

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#30

Not many people know this but the USA bombed Pearl Harbour.

We’re Canadian, but still, an adult should know better.

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89points

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#31

That teaching multiplication tables as fast as possible is the best way to do it. No. Speeding through teaching each set (like blowing through a set a week) and having timed tests set me up for complete failure. The timed tests made me so anxious I couldn't think straight enough to correctly answer the ones I actually had the chance to try and answer. Then of course all the ones left undone were counted against you. I don't think I ever managed to fill one of those things completely out before the timer went off. The saddest part is even though I was visibly struggling and failing the subject the teacher never seemed to see that as a red flag and attempt to help me. And math builds on itself so after the multiplication tables everything else I ever had to learn was way harder than it needed to be. If more time was taken to teach each set, ending with a normal non-timed test, I would probably know my multiplication tables today. But I don't. I was also told I'd never graduate without knowing my multiplication tables, that was also a lie

Objective-Medicine51 Report

Final score:

41points

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#32

I teach high school. I had a student recently tell me that she was nervous that all the detentions she got at her old school because of being late to school would remain on her record. She was so relieved when I told her that they wouldn't.

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40points

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#33

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That I will I will never amount to anything

Fast-Volume-5463 , Michał Parzuchowski Report

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38points

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#34

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone Never start a sentence with “because.”

faith00019 , Keren Fedida Report

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36points

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#35

I live in Germany and my teacher told us poor 3rd graders who knew little to no english in Sex Ed that "Sex" by definition means abusing someone.

I think about that a lot and I still have no idea why she would tell us that.

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Final score:

35points

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#36

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone The sun was on fire 🤦‍♀️ wasn't til last year that my boyfriend reminded me that fire needs oxygen and the sun is a nuclear fusion. Los Angeles Public School system guys.

DirectTea3277 , James Day Report

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31points

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#37

I had a teacher try telling me you sweat urine and that's why you smell when you sweat.

Naturally as a young gullible I believed it because your teacher is supposed to be right, and went home telling my parents that who then told me the truth.

DSams2020 Report

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31points

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#38

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone middle school not elementary, but my sixth grade _science teacher_ told the class that sound travels faster than light because “if a plane is flying overhead, you hear it before you see it!”

gain_glowsack_sun , Ben Neale Report

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30points

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#39

I went to a catholic school and our mascot was the Pelicans. They told us they chose the Pelicans because when pelicans can't find enough food, the mother pelican will tear off pieces of her own flesh to feed her children. I learned as an adult that this is a complete myth.

seanofkelley Report

Final score:

30points

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#40

"The ash at Pompeii sealed everything up so well that bakers' ovens were found containing bread that was still fresh enough to eat!"

Yeah, no. The very idea is completely preposterous.

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30points

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#41

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That "A lot" should be "Alot". I always got that red pen underline bringing them together and lost marks. I'll never let that go.

remotegoodness , Unseen Studio Report

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29points

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#42

The teacher when talking about being left handed and right handed, stated that if you write with your right hand that you kick with your right foot.

I had to correct her as I'm ambidextrous.

I can write with both hands and kick with both feet. I loved playing footy as a kid and would annoy people a lot. The issue is the rules in some sports as I would get told off when I would switch hands.

Table tennis/Ping pong, badminton was a no, but it was allowed in baseball and cricket. People weren't happy with me changing hands. Aren't you supposed to play to your advantage?

Gooner71 Report

Final score:

28points

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#43

In Junior High I had a social studies teacher that told the story of her friend who got a raise and ended up taking home less money because of the taxes... no wonder that myth is so prevalent in my province.

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#44

Light cannot bend, at all. She was adamant about that

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27points

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#45

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone Christopher Columbus proved the Earth was round.

Snrub1 , Sebastiano del Piombo Report

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26points

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#46

The tongue has different areas of taste

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#47

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone I’ll never forget my year 2 teacher telling the class that “crayon” is the only word with the letter y in the middle. Even as a child, I knew that was utter bollocks lol

t0b9 , National Cancer Institute Report

Final score:

25points

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#48

That it's weird that you can write with both hands, pick one and stick with it. I could've had horrible chicken scratch handwriting with both hands instead of just one! For that I'll never forgive my kindergarten teacher.

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25points

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#49

OP here with just a quick example:

I have this one really clear memory of a teacher at some point in my early school-years coming up with this really weird explanation of the Moon's existence. Someone asked her something about the Moon and where it was from or why it existed and she ended up saying that the Moon was actually part of the Earth that broke off (maybe true by some theories?), but she claimed that it happened in like the 70s lmao (definitely not true).

VandyThrowaway21 Report

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24points

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#50

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone You will need to write in cursive once you get to middle school and beyond.

7th grade teachers explicitly prohibited kids turning essays in written in cursive. Don't think I ever saw it in high school, college, or throughout my career except from older people.

LeeroyTC , Katya Wolf Report

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23points

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#51

My third grade teacher said that if you're close to them clouds don't look like clouds, but like dew. I was really surprised the first time I was in an airplane and saw that clouds do indeed look like clouds.

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#52

That you can’t have thunder and lightening at the same time as a tornado. Got marks taken off a drawing for that.

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Matthew Fox 1 year ago

How did you draw thunder? It's a sound.

4points

Frozengeckolover 1 year ago

What is up with teachers deciding that elements of art are "wrong"? One time I did a simple, crayon-style drawing with stick figures, a square house, rolling hills, and a badly drawn sun. In the background, a tornado was sucking up the stick figures, while they were running in terror. It got a lot of laughs. The teacher squinted his eyes at me and said, "I was initially mad, because I know you did that for the laughs; but humor is art too. Personally, I hate it, but art is subjective. Good job." Lol.

2points

JoJo Anisko 1 year ago

Teacher was never near any tornadoes?

2points

Rylan Sturgeon 1 year ago

If she did she got clonked on the head

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#53

That in high-school, you not only need to memorize the answers to the questions, but you also have to memorize the questions as well. Apparently, according to my teacher, you were just handed a blank piece of paper 💀

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#54

My middle and high school English teachers insisted that annotating novels was going to be a vital skill for college and life beyond that. I didn't have to annotate a single book since high school.

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#55

30 Students And Parents Call Out Their Teachers Who Were So Wrong, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Anyone That George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

Mist2393 , Saher Suthriwala Report

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#56

That you're supposed to start every word with a capital letter

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#57

That middle and high school teachers were super strict and wouldn't put up with any of our BS because they would put everything on our "permanent record."

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#58

That 9 9s is 83. Which she then went on to prove, to her own satisfaction, using a Snakes and Ladders board.

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#59

That white fire was the hottest fire

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A writer here at Bored Panda, I am a lover of good music, good food, and good company, which makes food-related topics and feel-good stories my favorite ones to cover. Passionate about traveling and concerts, I constantly seek occasions to visit places yet personally unexplored. I also enjoy spending free time outdoors, trying out different sports—even if I don’t look too graceful at it—or socializing over a cup of coffee.

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

I’ve told this story before but in kindergarten, I had a teacher tell the entire class that there were no marine mammals and dolphins were fish. My nerdy a*s corrected her, and I got sent to the principal’s office. I got a lecture on you can’t fix stupid, and she got embarrassed by a 5-y/o

19points

crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago

Wait till she learns about whales. Or seals if you define them as marine

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RafCo (he/him) 1 year ago

I got in school detention in 8th grade when my civics teacher said anyone can be president. I said I can't. I am an immigrant, and the constitution does not allow immigrants to be president. But i was being disruptive

2points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

What a stupid teacher.

0points

What_the_actual_sloth? 1 year ago

Wasn't so much teaching; moreso teacher/student conflict. Im epileptic and often seized in the middle of class in Year4. My teacher (Miss Hodgekins- deserves to be shamed) would yell at me regardless of the fact that I couldn't hear her. She would send letters home stating that I am ignorant and refuse to pay attention and often disrupt the class with weird noises. She called my seizures "daydreams" and my mother was livid. She stormed up the school and tore her a new one. Bear in mind I was 9 years old. This was a PRIMARY SCHOOL. A PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER! Wherever you may be Miss Hodgekins, I hope you step on a lego every day of your life until you do.

13points

Onyx May 1 year ago

Atonic seizures exist. I also got in an argument with a teacher about this

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Carbonel 1 year ago

From my daughters primary school, only a couple of years ago: that we have Easter eggs because the rock that was in front of Jesus’ tomb was shaped like an egg: that Mary Seacole was not a suitable subject for a project on famous women as the teacher had never heard of her.

10points

Colin 1 year ago

The British Hotel nurse. Teacher probably never heard of the Crimea War either.

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T5n 1 year ago

Im going to preface this by noting that I’m tolerant of all religions. But I was teaching geology to some homeschool students and was showing a fossil shell imprint that was found in Colorado . When I asked the kids how they think it got to Colorado (which has been underwater six times throughout geological history), the mother(their homeschool teacher) immediately insisted it was a flood, despite me holding physical proof that a shell(one of many ) had imprinted via natural geological/biological processes. I just gave up (since she was adamant about it)and went from teaching science to “look how cool these rocks are” so she wouldn’t interject again. She took her kids and stormed off afterwards. Don’t ask about science if you aren’t prepared to learn science.

8points

Frozengeckolover 1 year ago

I was also homeschooled for part of my childhood. A lot of homeschool curriculum is very religious. Evolution is refuted, "God did it" is the explanation for a lot of things, and the Noah flood is the basis for a lot of lessons across various subjects. My mom bought some books at a book fair that were full of religious rhetoric, presented as factual information. (ex. God created the earth exactly as it is today. He made beautiful things for us to enjoy, like the Grand Canyon. All of this has existed for exactly 6,000 years). The books were also sexist; with an entire social studies lesson on why women are inferior human beings. They threw out that set of books when they realized how awful they were. My parents were very religious, but they did try to keep an open mind.

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MicrowaveGoddess 1 year ago

One of my friends was told that narwhals didn't exist.

7points

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

They don‘t exist! They are unicorns of the sea! /s

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

Arizona desert, 1956: found seashells all over yard, took them to Show 'n Tell. Teacher not impressed, said they were souvenirs from a beach trip. I checked cousins and neighbors' yards. Shells embedded in rock all over neighborhood. Teacher *should have told our class about the ancient inland sea that covered much of the area ...but no ...she said all the neighborhood finds were beach souvenirs. Right... someone brought home buckets of fossilized shells to scatter around neighborhood.

6points

Ash 1 year ago

My mom once worked as a teacher's aide in a 3rd-grade class where they had a long-term sub who told the kids that there were 5 continents (in the US we define them as 7 continents), that the Arctic was a continent, and that owls were mammals. My mom was horrified.

5points

Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago

Wait, so if the Arctic is a continent, what were the other four continents he recognised? Laurasia, Gondwanaland, Micronesia and the moon?

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No Way 1 year ago

I had a sex ed teacher tell us that guys knew when a girl was on her period because they could smell it :(

5points

Ru Bee 1 year ago

If they are giraffes then yup seems legit...was it a giraffe sex ed class? ...oh wait no that's if they are fertile... my bad.

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HarperTheCentaur (they/them) 1 year ago

I can't remember now what the problem was, but my teacher was once stumped with a math problem because she got a different answer than the one in the grade book and couldn't figure out what she did wrong. I ended up explaining it to her and the class. It was very satisfying considering that teacher hated my guts and would verbally harass and gaslight me (literally, as in she tried to convince me I was crazy and that the Devil was speaking to me) on a near daily basis. F**k you, Ms. Harris.

5points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

She probably knew you were smarter than her and was intimidated by a child. Just because teachers are adults and supposed to be mature and responsible, doesn’t mean they actually grew up and learned life lessons.

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Raine Soo 1 year ago

When I was in the sixth grade, our class had a weekly spelling bee. The opposing team had to spell my word, which was 'invincible'. The teacher said that she had never heard of that word before. I answered "Yeah, it exists. It means 'to not be beaten''." To her credit, she believed me.

4points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

I bet there are a few thousand words in the dictionary she also hasn’t heard of…

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Phoenix the Frog 1 year ago

I had a S.S teacher who said autism was because cavemen didn't eat enough vegetables. Also a friend's brother has a Science teacher who does not believe in evolution.

4points

Hoody Hoo 1 year ago

Got sent to the Principal's office for correcting a teacher who said the Lost Colony was in present-day Roanoke, VA. It was in present-day Manteo, NC, which was part of the Virginia COLONY, not the current state. I knew this because my family lived there every summer, but the teacher was insistent. Never admitted she was wrong, either.

2points

CrazyKnitter 1 year ago

My first grade teacher was antisemitic and did a lot of passive aggressive behavior, but what I still remember is right before Christmas break all the other kids got presents of stuffed animals and candy and I got nothing. When my parents complained, she gave me a small Santa ornament.

1point

Jessica Avery 1 year ago

This makes me so glad I went to a DOD school most of my life... We apparently took better care to get competent teachers cause I never had any experiences like this

1point

Ava Leal 1 year ago

In high school, my Marine Biology teacher kept using Giant and Colossal squid designations interchangeably. I informed him they're actually two species of squid and the terms are not interchangeable. He denied it and moved on with class, continuing to use them this way. I went home that night and printed out pages from the internet that included their exact taxonomies, which showed them as separate species, and brought them into class the next day. The teacher thought it was pretty cool that he could still learn something about his own topic, so that was neat.

1point

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

Good for you!

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fogharty 1 year ago

Was told if I didn’t learn touch typing I’d never get a job as a secretary.

1point

V 1 year ago

Gasp! How did you ever cope?!? /S

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roepi 1 year ago

How did any of those teachers ever get a degree?

1point

Seabeast 1 year ago

I wonder how long ago many of these experiences occurred? There was a time when women who went to college pretty much got the choice of being nurse, being a teacher, or finding someone to marry. There were probably a lot of them still teaching some 20 or 30 years after that was no longer the case.

1point

Old Roadie 1 year ago

Circa 1960s: denied science career. Girls had 2Choice Plan: Homemaking and Secretarial.

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Pat Ferryman 1 year ago

I’m pretty sure I taught with some of those people

0points

Dodo 1 year ago

Huh. TIL George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter.

0points

Fritz Dygert 1 year ago

My first day in Kindergarten my teacher read my last name and stated that it was wrong. There was no such last name as mine. I went home crying because my parents had given me the wrong last name The next day my mom straightened out that teacher.

0points

Maple Porkly 1 year ago

I had a terrible sex ed teacher one year who told the class that boys can have sex with any girl without consequence but girls will hurt and bleed and get a disease from everyone they do it with. I think it was a scare tactic for the girls to reduce teen pregnancy but why single us girls out? The same year we had a wonderful student teacher who gave us a great exercise on sexism. He gave us professions and told us to give the person a name (no pictures, just the job). For example, a bus driver and you could say Joe or Sally or whatever. After about 20 of these he asked how many were given man names and how many were women names. My parents were old fashioned so I was taught that unless I wanted to be a teacher or nurse I was a mom and nothing more. So of course all but one had a man name. He gave me hope for my future to not just be a vessel for babies. Wish I could remember his name.

0points

Haunted Human 1 year ago (edited)

Tenth grade world geography "coach" insisted there are 8 continents & year after year would mark any other answer wrong... until my Mom arrived to take the matter up with the principle. You'd have thought he would have learned the 1st time when my older brother was in his class, but he clearly needed a refresher course when I got him 5 years later. Central America, if you're wondering.

0points

hereforthecatpics 1 year ago

My sister’s teacher told her to measure from the end of the ruler. Not a metal one, a plastic one where the end is about a cm before 0.

0points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

Well I guess I had pretty good teachers back as a kid in the mid 70’s and 80’s, but I was also curious and read a lot myself about anything that interested me.

0points

Rhon Young 1 year ago

I was told that the suburb my aunt and uncle lived in in Sydney was not in Sydney but in Melbourne. Funny it never seemed to take that long to visit them for the day!

0points

Dina Anastasakos 1 year ago

How come there are so many stupid f**ing teachers?

0points

Angie Falzarano 1 year ago (edited)

In elementary school we had these reading things called SRA and RFUs. You read the story and then answered questions about what you read. Each had its own number so that you could mark which ones you had done on the list. Having done this for about 2 yrs I knew how to mark them. But a new teacher told me I was wrong. That I mark number 1 then the next one I mark number and so on even though I did like #30. Went home very upset. Mom called the teacher. He went back and realized his error and apologized. Drama director in HS told me I did nothing when I received an award from my peers saying I wouldn't have received it had it been her. I put a lot of hours in with drama. I have put costumes together that Ive won awards on (nothing fancy just put together from several different pieces I find or have). I always do a raspberry at her name with every new costume and specially with an award in my hand. Miss yarborough you were an #!!#!#!

0points

Daria 1 year ago

Couldn't read the whole list because of annoyance. How can anyone, let alone teachers, be so thick-headed today? There's the whole world of knowledge available to us at our fingertips, yet some people still fail to reach it. Ugh... *smh*

0points

Suzy Creamcheese 1 year ago

(sigh) I don't remember teachers being this stupid when I was a kid.

0points

BookDragon 1 year ago

To be fair, not all teachers are like this. Mine are very clever and always willing to learn new things. (I'm 15 btw, so there's still some sane teachers nowadays)

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

I’ve told this story before but in kindergarten, I had a teacher tell the entire class that there were no marine mammals and dolphins were fish. My nerdy a*s corrected her, and I got sent to the principal’s office. I got a lecture on you can’t fix stupid, and she got embarrassed by a 5-y/o

19points

crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago

Wait till she learns about whales. Or seals if you define them as marine

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RafCo (he/him) 1 year ago

I got in school detention in 8th grade when my civics teacher said anyone can be president. I said I can't. I am an immigrant, and the constitution does not allow immigrants to be president. But i was being disruptive

2points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

What a stupid teacher.

0points

What_the_actual_sloth? 1 year ago

Wasn't so much teaching; moreso teacher/student conflict. Im epileptic and often seized in the middle of class in Year4. My teacher (Miss Hodgekins- deserves to be shamed) would yell at me regardless of the fact that I couldn't hear her. She would send letters home stating that I am ignorant and refuse to pay attention and often disrupt the class with weird noises. She called my seizures "daydreams" and my mother was livid. She stormed up the school and tore her a new one. Bear in mind I was 9 years old. This was a PRIMARY SCHOOL. A PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER! Wherever you may be Miss Hodgekins, I hope you step on a lego every day of your life until you do.

13points

Onyx May 1 year ago

Atonic seizures exist. I also got in an argument with a teacher about this

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Carbonel 1 year ago

From my daughters primary school, only a couple of years ago: that we have Easter eggs because the rock that was in front of Jesus’ tomb was shaped like an egg: that Mary Seacole was not a suitable subject for a project on famous women as the teacher had never heard of her.

10points

Colin 1 year ago

The British Hotel nurse. Teacher probably never heard of the Crimea War either.

5points

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T5n 1 year ago

Im going to preface this by noting that I’m tolerant of all religions. But I was teaching geology to some homeschool students and was showing a fossil shell imprint that was found in Colorado . When I asked the kids how they think it got to Colorado (which has been underwater six times throughout geological history), the mother(their homeschool teacher) immediately insisted it was a flood, despite me holding physical proof that a shell(one of many ) had imprinted via natural geological/biological processes. I just gave up (since she was adamant about it)and went from teaching science to “look how cool these rocks are” so she wouldn’t interject again. She took her kids and stormed off afterwards. Don’t ask about science if you aren’t prepared to learn science.

8points

Frozengeckolover 1 year ago

I was also homeschooled for part of my childhood. A lot of homeschool curriculum is very religious. Evolution is refuted, "God did it" is the explanation for a lot of things, and the Noah flood is the basis for a lot of lessons across various subjects. My mom bought some books at a book fair that were full of religious rhetoric, presented as factual information. (ex. God created the earth exactly as it is today. He made beautiful things for us to enjoy, like the Grand Canyon. All of this has existed for exactly 6,000 years). The books were also sexist; with an entire social studies lesson on why women are inferior human beings. They threw out that set of books when they realized how awful they were. My parents were very religious, but they did try to keep an open mind.

1point

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MicrowaveGoddess 1 year ago

One of my friends was told that narwhals didn't exist.

7points

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

They don‘t exist! They are unicorns of the sea! /s

1point

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

Arizona desert, 1956: found seashells all over yard, took them to Show 'n Tell. Teacher not impressed, said they were souvenirs from a beach trip. I checked cousins and neighbors' yards. Shells embedded in rock all over neighborhood. Teacher *should have told our class about the ancient inland sea that covered much of the area ...but no ...she said all the neighborhood finds were beach souvenirs. Right... someone brought home buckets of fossilized shells to scatter around neighborhood.

6points

Ash 1 year ago

My mom once worked as a teacher's aide in a 3rd-grade class where they had a long-term sub who told the kids that there were 5 continents (in the US we define them as 7 continents), that the Arctic was a continent, and that owls were mammals. My mom was horrified.

5points

Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago

Wait, so if the Arctic is a continent, what were the other four continents he recognised? Laurasia, Gondwanaland, Micronesia and the moon?

4points

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No Way 1 year ago

I had a sex ed teacher tell us that guys knew when a girl was on her period because they could smell it :(

5points

Ru Bee 1 year ago

If they are giraffes then yup seems legit...was it a giraffe sex ed class? ...oh wait no that's if they are fertile... my bad.

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HarperTheCentaur (they/them) 1 year ago

I can't remember now what the problem was, but my teacher was once stumped with a math problem because she got a different answer than the one in the grade book and couldn't figure out what she did wrong. I ended up explaining it to her and the class. It was very satisfying considering that teacher hated my guts and would verbally harass and gaslight me (literally, as in she tried to convince me I was crazy and that the Devil was speaking to me) on a near daily basis. F**k you, Ms. Harris.

5points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

She probably knew you were smarter than her and was intimidated by a child. Just because teachers are adults and supposed to be mature and responsible, doesn’t mean they actually grew up and learned life lessons.

0points

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Raine Soo 1 year ago

When I was in the sixth grade, our class had a weekly spelling bee. The opposing team had to spell my word, which was 'invincible'. The teacher said that she had never heard of that word before. I answered "Yeah, it exists. It means 'to not be beaten''." To her credit, she believed me.

4points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

I bet there are a few thousand words in the dictionary she also hasn’t heard of…

0points

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Phoenix the Frog 1 year ago

I had a S.S teacher who said autism was because cavemen didn't eat enough vegetables. Also a friend's brother has a Science teacher who does not believe in evolution.

4points

Hoody Hoo 1 year ago

Got sent to the Principal's office for correcting a teacher who said the Lost Colony was in present-day Roanoke, VA. It was in present-day Manteo, NC, which was part of the Virginia COLONY, not the current state. I knew this because my family lived there every summer, but the teacher was insistent. Never admitted she was wrong, either.

2points

CrazyKnitter 1 year ago

My first grade teacher was antisemitic and did a lot of passive aggressive behavior, but what I still remember is right before Christmas break all the other kids got presents of stuffed animals and candy and I got nothing. When my parents complained, she gave me a small Santa ornament.

1point

Jessica Avery 1 year ago

This makes me so glad I went to a DOD school most of my life... We apparently took better care to get competent teachers cause I never had any experiences like this

1point

Ava Leal 1 year ago

In high school, my Marine Biology teacher kept using Giant and Colossal squid designations interchangeably. I informed him they're actually two species of squid and the terms are not interchangeable. He denied it and moved on with class, continuing to use them this way. I went home that night and printed out pages from the internet that included their exact taxonomies, which showed them as separate species, and brought them into class the next day. The teacher thought it was pretty cool that he could still learn something about his own topic, so that was neat.

1point

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

Good for you!

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fogharty 1 year ago

Was told if I didn’t learn touch typing I’d never get a job as a secretary.

1point

V 1 year ago

Gasp! How did you ever cope?!? /S

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roepi 1 year ago

How did any of those teachers ever get a degree?

1point

Seabeast 1 year ago

I wonder how long ago many of these experiences occurred? There was a time when women who went to college pretty much got the choice of being nurse, being a teacher, or finding someone to marry. There were probably a lot of them still teaching some 20 or 30 years after that was no longer the case.

1point

Old Roadie 1 year ago

Circa 1960s: denied science career. Girls had 2Choice Plan: Homemaking and Secretarial.

1point

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Pat Ferryman 1 year ago

I’m pretty sure I taught with some of those people

0points

Dodo 1 year ago

Huh. TIL George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter.

0points

Fritz Dygert 1 year ago

My first day in Kindergarten my teacher read my last name and stated that it was wrong. There was no such last name as mine. I went home crying because my parents had given me the wrong last name The next day my mom straightened out that teacher.

0points

Maple Porkly 1 year ago

I had a terrible sex ed teacher one year who told the class that boys can have sex with any girl without consequence but girls will hurt and bleed and get a disease from everyone they do it with. I think it was a scare tactic for the girls to reduce teen pregnancy but why single us girls out? The same year we had a wonderful student teacher who gave us a great exercise on sexism. He gave us professions and told us to give the person a name (no pictures, just the job). For example, a bus driver and you could say Joe or Sally or whatever. After about 20 of these he asked how many were given man names and how many were women names. My parents were old fashioned so I was taught that unless I wanted to be a teacher or nurse I was a mom and nothing more. So of course all but one had a man name. He gave me hope for my future to not just be a vessel for babies. Wish I could remember his name.

0points

Haunted Human 1 year ago (edited)

Tenth grade world geography "coach" insisted there are 8 continents & year after year would mark any other answer wrong... until my Mom arrived to take the matter up with the principle. You'd have thought he would have learned the 1st time when my older brother was in his class, but he clearly needed a refresher course when I got him 5 years later. Central America, if you're wondering.

0points

hereforthecatpics 1 year ago

My sister’s teacher told her to measure from the end of the ruler. Not a metal one, a plastic one where the end is about a cm before 0.

0points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

Well I guess I had pretty good teachers back as a kid in the mid 70’s and 80’s, but I was also curious and read a lot myself about anything that interested me.

0points

Rhon Young 1 year ago

I was told that the suburb my aunt and uncle lived in in Sydney was not in Sydney but in Melbourne. Funny it never seemed to take that long to visit them for the day!

0points

Dina Anastasakos 1 year ago

How come there are so many stupid f**ing teachers?

0points

Angie Falzarano 1 year ago (edited)

In elementary school we had these reading things called SRA and RFUs. You read the story and then answered questions about what you read. Each had its own number so that you could mark which ones you had done on the list. Having done this for about 2 yrs I knew how to mark them. But a new teacher told me I was wrong. That I mark number 1 then the next one I mark number and so on even though I did like #30. Went home very upset. Mom called the teacher. He went back and realized his error and apologized. Drama director in HS told me I did nothing when I received an award from my peers saying I wouldn't have received it had it been her. I put a lot of hours in with drama. I have put costumes together that Ive won awards on (nothing fancy just put together from several different pieces I find or have). I always do a raspberry at her name with every new costume and specially with an award in my hand. Miss yarborough you were an #!!#!#!

0points

Daria 1 year ago

Couldn't read the whole list because of annoyance. How can anyone, let alone teachers, be so thick-headed today? There's the whole world of knowledge available to us at our fingertips, yet some people still fail to reach it. Ugh... *smh*

0points

Suzy Creamcheese 1 year ago

(sigh) I don't remember teachers being this stupid when I was a kid.

0points

BookDragon 1 year ago

To be fair, not all teachers are like this. Mine are very clever and always willing to learn new things. (I'm 15 btw, so there's still some sane teachers nowadays)

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