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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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

Final score:

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

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

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#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

Hoody Hoo 1 year ago

Got expelled for that once, until my parents pointed out the finger-shaped bruises around my neck.

3points

Zane Lumagrowl 1 year ago

God I hate this attitude so much from teachers and admins. When I was getting bullied in school, it was always my fault for "not trying to make friends with the other kids"... why would I want to be friends with them when they treat me so horribly?

11points

Spiderman the webhead<3 1 year ago

The obvious thing to do the next time it happens is slap/hit the bully back and if you get punished just say I manned up like you told me to.

8points

Dawn Thomas-Cameron 1 year ago

Still happens today. Blame the victim.

8points

Petra Schaap 1 year ago (edited)

same here! got sent to the principal after hitting a girl that kept bullying me. Principal said it was my own fault because i "dressed weird" I wore back jeans and black shirts. Not even emo or gothic or new wave or anything. idiot. When my mom came to school she told him he's an idiot. edit: i also wore army boots. A teacher (not mine) once aproached me and snapped "are those your dads shoes" i was way passed the age of always being polite, and snapped "no my moms" to wich he replied "does she have such ugly big feet too" A TEACHER.

4points

Marissa Wolff 1 year ago

I do sincerely want that teacher to kill himself. F**k him and his judgemental way of thinking.

0points

gingercat 1 year ago

theres a girl in my class thats been bullying me but the principal just had her apologize and she hasnt changed at all... i almost got suspended for telling her to f'ing suck it up but she called me an jacka$$ and dropped an fbomb and suspension wasnt even mentioned.

3points

Do_You_Think_I_Give_A_Tortilla 1 year ago

had that happen cus the girl who hurt me had her obsessive mom working at the school

3points

Cajun Affiliates 1 year ago

This is exactly why my teens are homeschooled. The powers that be at public school chose victim blaming over addressing the problem.

2points

H.c Ch 1 year ago

Sorry to say he right in a sense thou, only way ti deal with bully is fight back. Telling teacher or adult don't work, they can't be with you 24hr a day. You want to stop a bully grab a baseball bat beat him with it. How much you wanna bet your bully problem will be solved. Everyone need to stop saying violence don't solve our problem, but it does. In the case of bullies.

2points

R.A. Haley 1 year ago

Violence does not solve problems. It eliminates them, which is what it is supposed to do. It's the last resort, the nuclear option.

2points

Tiffi 1 year ago

Victim blaming. As old as time.

2points

Catastrophisticate 1 year ago

Teachers, principal, counsellors... I got 6 years of "just ignore them and they will stop". It didn't.

2points

Marissa Wolff 1 year ago

I really hate that piece of advice because it never works. Ignoring mean people doesn't make them stop harassing you, it actually makes them KEEP harassing you.

0points

Deeelite 1 year ago

Happened to me too

2points

Ari (they/them) 1 year ago

Just say no. /s

2points

Cynthia Wilkins 1 year ago

Sounds like how most schools handle bullying.

1point

Brandon Parisien 1 year ago

I told mine a student had a gun out, in class. He did: nothing. Not a damn thing.

1point

Marissa Wolff 1 year ago

I reported a student for almost burning another student (who was pne of my friends) alive with his dad's lighter he had in his zip-up hoodie pocket in my high school and the dean, principal and superintendent had spend time in the detention room for a full week and he had Saturday school too. We used to be friends, but not anymore after that, which made me happy.

0points

Poppy 1 year ago

I got told to stop being so sensitive when I reported bullying. I had severe depression and undiagnosed ADHD and I wasn't being taken seriously by my teachers.

1point

Karen Philpott 1 year ago

Had that happen to my kids. Yes he was not the best principal I'd ever had to deal with.

1point

Mary Lugo 1 year ago

Attacked, physically and verbally, by another male teacher. I was told I was being too confrontational. Does that make two spineless worms?

1point

Marissa Wolff 1 year ago

Yes.

0points

SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

Ah. My teacher watched my bully pull a chunk of hair out of my head, rolled her eyes, and turned her back. I grabbed his hair and pulled his head down to the floor. Long story short, my parents were friends with the principal, which I knew and she learned the hard way.

1point

Ashen Brooks (They/Them) 1 year ago

I got harassed last year when I told the principal that it was because I told them I went by they/them she said "look, you cant expect us to all feel comfortable" even though I said "I dont care if they dont call me by these, but I personally dont think they should be assaulting me like this" because they had been pulling on my hood and pulling me to the ground, causing dizziness, but the guys said I threatened them and so she let them off the hook..

1point

RafCo (he/him) 1 year ago

That was the era. All adults were like that before the 90s, and probably well into the 90s. My step dad told me to find a weapon and make them regret it. That was just the way things were, spare the rod, spoil the child, and all that c**p.

1point

Biana Weatherford 1 year ago

My mother contacted the principal of the school who said the same thing. So she called the district attorney. Who said the same thing. So she kept working her way up. They couldn't provide a safe environment for me to learn. Took about 3 months, but they got it.

1point

Kat Min 1 year ago

I want to slash the tires of these people and then just say 'grow up and quit whining. You deserve this'

1point

Virgil Blue 1 year ago

Story of my life.

1point

Lizzie Lola 1 year ago

Similar, but different. HS drama class, learning theater makeup, teacher made a "black eye" on a student. Student went to office saying she'd bit him. Teacher gets called down, "Did you touch it?" Office, "NO! It looks really painful!" Teacher wipes makeup off students face, office is befuddled.

1point

Harlan Sarvis 1 year ago

Yes, SPINELESS WORM!

1point

Sarah SH 1 year ago

At a school in a nearby community two groups of kids got into a big fight. One group wearing shirts that said Black Lives Matter and the other wearing White Lives Matter shirts. Only one group got suspended.

1point

Marissa Wolff 1 year ago

It had to be the WLM students that got suspended from school because they're racist.

0points

RedBadgerCan'tSwim 1 year ago

When/where I went to high school (USA/20yrs ago), we didn't report bullies. Either the person being bullied, or one of their friends, clocked the bully in the jaw. If it got worse we went off campus and settled it. Not saying violence is the best solution but it usually worked.

1point

Hobby Hopper 1 year ago

I don't know if I could trust myself to do that. I feel like I'd let my anger get the best of me and either kill someone or end up dead myself. Just another reason I avoid fighting. I know they say dudes can fight and end up best friends, but I must be weird, because I'm not built that way. To me, physical violence is a line you don't cross unless you're prepared to kill or be killed.

1point

Marissa Wolff 1 year ago

Okay, wow! I've had this same thing happen to me on Facebook; I'd be getting bullied in a group I'm in and then the blame would be put on me instead of the members who actually were treating me like s**t and then I would be banned from the group.

0points

Brian Dean 1 year ago (edited)

Without saying what was said. Got in a fight with a kid using racial slurs and he was allowed to return to class while I got suspended for 3 days, the principal just asked me and I quote "well are you?"

0points

Maple Porkly 1 year ago

I had this happen to me. Was in my school for 7 years (started in preschool), the kids was new. Principal said I could go to a different school if I had a problem. It later escalated to the parent of that kid yelling at me as I walked home from school. I didn't want to leave my school so I said nothing and just lived with it until I graduated from that school two years later.

0points

DRinLBK 1 year ago

Sounds like he gave you a "hall pass" to stand up to your bully and kick their a$$. It'd be their fault they got beat up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

0points

Evi Grimes 1 year ago

No, what I hate is that you can't fight back anymore.

0points

Amy Albertson 1 year ago

Had it happen toooooooo many times, way too many. A$$ hats!

0points

Michelle Rever 1 year ago

I was THE kid everyone bullied, and I remember in elementary school something had happened. I can't tell you what, because what stuck with me was the vice principal saying, "What happened NOW, Michelle?" with utter contempt for me in her voice. She wasn't nearly as bad as my math teacher, who was just so cruel. She made me feel so stupid that I actually lost skills.

0points

michele mbennett1010@att.net 1 year ago

Gaslighting at its finest! That is where this behavior is learned, right from the professionals.

0points

digitalin 1 year ago

I think schools might take it more seriously now, though?

0points

Angie Falzarano 1 year ago

Have that happen a lot to me. Even as. Grownup in the workforce.

0points

Joe Hurd 1 year ago

I have my child permission and even showed her the solar plex, needless to say her bully only touched her 1 time afterwards

0points

Tim Martin 1 year ago

In the 70's the principal was the bully.

0points

Walter Brameld 1 year ago

The bully's dad was the principal's bully.

0points

Klopec 1 year ago

Iceholes

0points

Indecisive and Untalented 1 year ago

Every. Single. Time.

0points

#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

Final score:

152points

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FakeOptimist 1 year ago

You get sunburn easier tho

81points

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

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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

Final score:

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

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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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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

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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.

lovesmyirish Report

Final score:

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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What do you think ?

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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)

0points

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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