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Additional_Swan_6531 , Chris Liverani Report

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

Final score:

333points

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Abby da great 1 year ago

Where can I apply

106points

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

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261points

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WindySwede 1 year ago

That's why sex ed need to have some standards!

183points

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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Seabeast 1 year ago

To be fair, it was true at that time. Nobody could have predicted smart phones.

10points

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

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261points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

well what was the name?

91points

Curiously-curious928 , Joseph Frank Report

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.

Final score:

259points

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Nenyone_yay 1 year ago

Don't take strangers from candy

134points

"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

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224points

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Ciara McMurdo-Farr 1 year ago

How did I not know that

85points

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😂

lexzish Report

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221points

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Colin 1 year ago

RGB system then magenta is midway between red and blue. CMYK system then magenta is a primary colour mixes with yellow and some black to create red and mixed with cyan and black to generate blue.

55points

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

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216points

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Blurryface 1 year ago

Hey but this is kinda funny. The teacher didn’t outright deny the existence of negative numbers, just kept all the rest of the kids from getting confused. At least, IMO. :)

164points

pullin2 , Мария Кашина Report

#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.

Final score:

211points

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Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

No, no, it only works with old refrigerators that had a thin lead linning, the new ones have insulting foam, só you may survive the blast lmao, but you Will end up dying from radiation poisoning .... ( And yes i am in fact jocking )

73points

#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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Nenyone_yay 1 year ago

Hostile Nun 😆

122points

#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

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210points

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Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

Where the hell do the people find these teachers lol...

147points

#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

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208points

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Blurryface 1 year ago

I would have done my next paper all about vampire bats. :)

137points

#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

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200points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

urgh.

69points

#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

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193points

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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago

That's one we had as an example in biology class. Get one blue gene, one brown gene, your eyes are brown. Your kid will get from you either the blue or the brown and it's 50% chance on which. if both parents have one blue gene and one brown, they both have brown eyes with the 25% chance of a blue eyed kid (getting blue gene from both parents), 50% chance kid will have the one blue one brown combo with brown eyes and 25% chance the kid will have both genes for brown eyes (looks the same as the 50% chance kid, but can't have blue eyed kids, cause both the genes are brown)

50points

#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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Bobby 1 year ago

Maybe the teacher meant that's how long food stays in the stomach? 45 min is still lower than I was taught but much closer to fact than what OP heard from them

54points

#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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Doctor Strange 1 year ago

Thank you for teaching me the word plethora. It means a lot

336points

#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

Final score:

169points

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

This enrages me as an artist.

162points

ProfessorPie1888 , Rebecca Siegel Report

#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.

Final score:

166points

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Ari (they/them) 1 year ago (edited)

Ah yes, the first 15 leaders of American are completely irrelevant. LiNcOlN wAs ThE fIrSt PrEsIdEnT!! /s

60points

#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!

shdwilm Report

Final score:

153points

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Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago

Had that happen once

34points

#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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FakeOptimist 1 year ago

You get sunburn easier tho

81points

#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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Zia Barrett 1 year ago

O.o It being the other way around is a fundamental human right and a cornerstone of democracy...

70points

#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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Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago

Yeah normal work hrs lol 🤦

40points

#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

Final score:

130points

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Abby da great 1 year ago

Did they get it from the tampon ads

125points

Shesaidshewaslvl18 Report

#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.

Final score:

130points

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Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago

Another person who should never be in the educational system

65points

#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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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

the argument that we evolved separately is to try prove we're different species and therefore race is real. not surprising from a religious person.

81points

uncultured_swine2099 , Talal Ahmad Report

#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?

Final score:

125points

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Jojo 1 year ago

Must be some seriously commited people out there, growing apples around a razorblade in prep for Halloween 😂

80points

#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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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

I noticed this in kindergarten and pointed it out... If a 5 yearold can figure this out, so can a teacher. Unless she's a young earth creationist. Guessing from these being american posts, I'm going with young earther.

57points

#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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i_like_boats 1 year ago

When I was little my 1st grade teacher told we would only be allowed to sit a certain way in 2nd grade so we should practice sitting “criss cross applesauce”. Yeah, second grade teacher didn’t care

45points

#30

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

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

lovesmyirish Report

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89points

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Ari (they/them) 1 year ago (edited)

Destroy your own military base as a world war is raging around you. Completely logical. Edit: I know that sometimes military bases are destroyed on purpose (but usually when they are retreating)

64points

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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

Final score:

41points

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Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago

Or if you do 9×3 it be 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3=9 You take what ever and make it what ever number your times it with that many. Another one 4×3 4+4+4=12 But in everyday life you don't really need it unless your job calls for it.

3points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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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.

Downtown_Cat_1172 Report

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40points

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Elchinero 1 year ago

They'll even be on any diploma you earn! Maybe your passport ... too.

16points

Fast-Volume-5463 , Michał Parzuchowski Report

#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

Final score:

38points

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Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago

I'm so sorry a teacher should never say that and get in big trouble for saying that. She is just a big bully. And don't need to be working in any educational system.

17points

#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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Blurryface 1 year ago

Because it’s “ungrammatical?”

31points

#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.

LearaJackson Report

Final score:

35points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

maybe she was a molestation or rape victim?

22points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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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

Final score:

31points

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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 1 year ago

Depends on what kind of fire we are referring to I guess?

9points

#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

Final score:

31points

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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 1 year ago

Plot twist: she was messing with you.

10points

#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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Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago

That makes no sense what so ever......because there was no example of light.

11points

#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

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30points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

well they did teach you other complete myths at that school as well. The myth of the pelican is a metaphor for jesus sacrificing himself for his children (us). once you are a grownup you realise both are myths.

10points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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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.

MagicSPA Report

Final score:

30points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

no the ash was at like 800 degrees centigrade so it basically vaporised anything organic, leaving hollow moulds of peoples' bodies.

14points

#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

Final score:

29points

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C .Hunger 1 year ago

My high school English teacher had us not use it at all. He said it made for poor writing - did not say it was not "correct", just poor writing. So I avoid that even now. A lot.

6points

#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

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28points

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JoJo Anisko 1 year ago

I'm a right-hander who deals cards with my left. No, not slipping any off the bottom of the deck or up my sleeve. 😚

5points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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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.

crakke86 Report

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28points

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Zia Barrett 1 year ago

The new tax band only taxes at that higher rate the amount of money above that number, not all of it. For context.

10points

#44

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

D-Rez Report

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27points

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OhnoI’vebeencensored 1 year ago

She should go to prism for such stupidity.

49points

#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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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Eratosthenes I think.

21points

#46

The tongue has different areas of taste

Stormflier Report

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26points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

everyone taught that till like 5 years ago.

34points

#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

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25points

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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago

anyone could disprove that

45points

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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.

ouchmypeeburns Report

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25points

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Zia Barrett 1 year ago

Same, ad "picking" my left one because I could write with it longer before it would hurt got my right hand tied to the chair so I couldn't switch hands when it did hurt.

6points

#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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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Yes that is was part of earth is one of the theories. But to congeal into a neat ball would imply it happened like 4 billion years ago when we were still a mere accretion disk or hot ball of lava.

6points

#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

Final score:

23points

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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 1 year ago

I still write in cursive. Find it easier than making a break for every character.

33points

Detective Miller's Hat 1 year ago

My handwriting is like a weird hybrid of cursive and non.

9points

Iris 1 year ago

I write in normal writing or whatever, but i still connect the characters with a quick line.

0points

readingthequibbler 1 year ago

I learned it while I lived in Michigan, during my elementary school years. Moved to Georgia at the beginning of middle school and my classmates didn't understand it/know how to write it. I ended up writing my notes in it since kids would steal notes at my school.

0points

Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago

I think this might be age related. We were still encouraged to write our final exams in highschool in cursive because even though texted versions were supposed to be ok, the exam board was rumored to give better scores for cursive answers. Few years younger cousins were on the other hand told not to use cursive.

4points

Elizabeth Basinger 1 year ago

The schools in my state (USA) have stopped teaching cursive at all in primary school. This blows my mind. I'm 50ish and some teenagers that I interact with at work cannot read my handwriting. I guess this is because of e-signing technology? It still seems like it should be a vital part of basic knowledge. And don't let me get started on the lack of spelling capabilities. What happens if we lose electronic/technical access? In the medical field, we have to hand-write notes until computers come back up. It's going to be a hard day for some of the younger folks.

3points

Andrewsarchus42 1 year ago

Do you mean actual spelling issues, or just slang? Texting “Where r u” to a friend is not a spelling issue, as it’s just quicker to type (like cursive is quicker to write). However, most of us younger people know that in professional emails, you should write out the whole word. Those who don’t should learn to, as texting shorthand is definitely a casual thing.

1point

B.Nelson 1 year ago

It does let you take notes faster for most people.

3points

Lyla McLean 1 year ago

The handwriting in that picture tho…✨

3points

FloralDangerNoodle 1 year ago

I wish I could write like that/learn calligraphy! Sooo pretty.

0points

Rob Stevens 1 year ago

Told not to use it so the teacher wouldn't have to teach it. Part of the "Great Dumbing Down" of the USA

3points

Brenda 1 year ago (edited)

Taught my kids cursive since the school didn't. Daughter got a 0 on a paper because it was in cursive, making it illegible. (It was a bit rough, but perfectly legible.) Had a field day fighting about that. There were no instructions NOT to use cursive. I win, daughter gets an A (5th grade). Teacher then makes them type all papers. 🙄

2points

Seabeast 1 year ago

I wonder how old this teacher was? It was still the case in the 70s, when I was in junior high and high school.

1point

crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago

I learned how to write an a in cursive in 3rd grade, then they just stopped teaching us. I taught myself (same with teaching myself to have legible handwriting) and now my cursive sucks although I can write my name in it

0points

Whiteout 1 year ago

Am i the only one who’s school gave up on teaching anyone cursive?

0points

Eevi 1 year ago

In my country the system changed after I finished my upper secondary school. So I started to learn cursive like at third grade and I had to write my matriculations with cursive, but the next year it just disappeared from our school system. Lucky me!

0points

Hobby Hopper 1 year ago

My oldest learned it at home. Typing too.

0points

BasedWang12.7 1 year ago

I agree it's not really used or needed in writing, but if we don't teach it to kids, generations of history would not be able to be read.

0points

Andrewsarchus42 1 year ago

You do know that we can still read print, right?

1point

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

that's weird, in our country you are encouraged to use cursive till you get to university, then everything must be digital.

0points

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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.

haloarh Report

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21points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

unless you are flying through them, then they look like mist.

19points

#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

#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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16points

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jjdubs W 1 year ago

Seriously? That's stupid.

4points

#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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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

it depends on whether you go into academia or politics. In either you end up reading long documents as PDF form and need to annotate them to remember your thoughts on the document as you go.

11points

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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.

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Bobby 1 year ago

I think it might just be because the man invented so many uses for peanuts. If we want to be technical it was actually the Inca and John Kellogg and Marcellus Edson just rediscovered it

10points

#56

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

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15points

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Jojo 1 year ago

^ I like how you rebelled against it 😎

7points

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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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15points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

ah, terror tactics, the favourite of teachers.

9points

#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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13points

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Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago

So ten 9s is 92. Obviously.

9points

#59

That white fire was the hottest fire

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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 1 year ago

It's blue right?

11points

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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

9points

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

3points

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

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

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

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

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.

1point

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

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

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!

0points

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

0points

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

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

19points

crowspectre (he/they) 1 year ago

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

9points

RafCo (he/him) 1 year ago

2points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

What a stupid teacher.

0points

What_the_actual_sloth? 1 year ago

13points

Onyx May 1 year ago

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

3points

Carbonel 1 year ago

10points

Colin 1 year ago

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

5points

T5n 1 year ago

8points

Frozengeckolover 1 year ago

1point

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

Old Roadie 1 year ago

6points

Ash 1 year ago

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

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.

1point

HarperTheCentaur (they/them) 1 year ago

5points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

0points

Raine Soo 1 year ago

4points

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

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

0points

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

2points

CrazyKnitter 1 year ago

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

1point

Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

Good for you!

0points

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

0points

roepi 1 year ago

How did any of those teachers ever get a degree?

1point

Seabeast 1 year ago

1point

Old Roadie 1 year ago

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

1point

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

0points

Maple Porkly 1 year ago

0points

Haunted Human 1 year ago (edited)

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)

0points

Daria 1 year ago

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)

0points