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Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My biology teacher in high school asked me a question regarding something she was talking about, the answer of which was projected onto the whiteboard with an overhead projector. I looked at the whiteboard, and she placed her left hand over the part that had the answer so as to conceal it. I told her that the text was still projected onto her hand and that I could see it. She was visibly upset, and then she proceeded to place her right hand on top of her left hand. I bursted out with laughter, she kicked me out and called my parents.

ok-ox , Fabrice Florin Report

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247points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

It happens dude.

55points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My Algebra teacher had us take 10% off a number to find 90%, then to undo it she said take 10% of the 90% and add it back in. That is not how math works. I called her on it and she told me I was mistaken in front of the whole class. After class she admitted I was right but didn't want to confuse everyone else. Lady, doing simple math wrong is what confused everyone else.

HonoraryCanadian , blairwang Report

Final score:

202points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

or maybe not embarrass herself??...which is still wrong

66points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered Teacher asked what is the language spoken most in the world. I replied Mandarin, he said that's an orange and the correct answer is Spanish.

jdb888 , Michael Coghlan Report

Final score:

194points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

¡Oof amigo! This is the only Spanish word i know tho

54points

John Baker 2 years ago

I know one that applies to that teacher .. pendejo.

20points

IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 2 years ago

What about Technoblades' war cry?

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StrangerOfTheDark 2 years ago

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El muerto 2 years ago

there are tons of people out there that thinks everybody in China speaks "Chinese"

15points

TrixicBird(Any pronouns) 2 years ago

Bro what?

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John Dilligaf 2 years ago

question is ambiguous; English has the largest *total* number of speakers, Mandarin has the most *native* speakers.

10points

Anthony Lynn 2 years ago

Chinese, or Mandarin, has the most speakers. English is the most studied langauge on the planet due to most countries requiring it as a subject from 1st-12th grades. Even though so many people "study" English, it does not mean they have any real ability with the language. They only studied it because it was/is a requirment for school.

3points

ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

that's just a result of racism...a sad one

5points

Patrick Wilson 2 years ago (edited)

They were both wrong. It's English. Mandarin is second, Spanish third, then French and Arabic. It says "most spoken" Not the most whose Mother Tongue is.

2points

Glynn Reid 2 years ago

Correct answer is now English....then Mandarin. Spanish isn't even third.

1point

Julian McCallum 2 years ago

I find u=it funny that they are both wrong, it's English

1point

Lyone Fein 2 years ago

Wow. Stupid or racist?

1point

redties_and_blackparades 2 years ago

Yay orange language

1point

ADDchallengedINFP-T 2 years ago

This? Who teaches teachers?

1point

IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 2 years ago

Es estupido

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Connor vander werf 2 years ago

f***r

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GramDB 2 years ago

OMG!

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j miller 2 years ago

Ay caramba!

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backatya 2 years ago

I think its Spanish

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Mallory m. Brewer 2 years ago

para ser justos, es UNO de los idiomas más hablados. El chino mandarín sigue siendo el número uno.

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Katarzyna Fabian 2 years ago

Spanish is not even top 3

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Craig Reynolds 2 years ago

Erbi

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jimmy pop 2 years ago

While Mandarin has the most native speakers, English has the most speakers generally.

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Indra Servo 2 years ago

1.3 billion people : "什么??"

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Ozymandias73 2 years ago

LOL yes, but no. Just no

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Dave P 2 years ago

actually it is English if you include all the people as a second language, between India, the US, UK, and the former british colonies around the world, all the business people, the nordic countries, etc. English is most spoken

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Printerman 2 years ago

Maybe this has changed over the years, but currently, English is #1, Mandarin #2, and Spanish is 3rd (& the difference from #2 to #3 is huge). But not knowing Mandarin is a language is... just wow.

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Per Westling 2 years ago

1.5 billion speaks English in the world, 1.1 billion speaks Mandarin, 0.6 billion speaks Spanish.

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BasedWang 2 years ago

i hate people

-1point

Piku 2 years ago

He mixed up Mandarin with tangarine lol

-1point

Potato 2 years ago

Or they are not from an english speaking country, in Sweden for example mandarin is what we call a tangerine.

7points

I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago (edited)

Pt 2/2 --Tangerines are a specific type of mandarin orange. They are a bright orange color, slightly tougher skins, and their flavor is a little less sweet and a bit more tart. --Clementines are the smallest type of mandarin orange. They are super sweet, seedless, and have red-orange skins that are smooth and shiny. The mandarins you see in grocery stores called Cuties and Sweeties are Clementines. They are easier to peel than tangerines, but not as easy to peel as Satsumas. --Satsuma Mandarins are a specific type of mandarin orange, originating in Japan more than 700 years ago. They are a lighter orange, sweet, juicy, and seedless. They are also the easiest variety to peel. The most tender, easily damaged type of mandarin, Satsuma mandarin oranges are harder to find fresh in stores.

2points

Goth Nurse 2 years ago

Mandarin is similar to tangerine tho

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I'mNotARoboat 2 years ago

I was under the impression that clementines, mandarins, and satsumas were the same thing just names differently due to the region in which they are grown however I was incorrect. The linked site explains it well. https://www.sandjmandarins.com/whats-the-difference-between-oranges-mandarins-satsumas-clementines-tangerines/ --Oranges are second in size to the grapefruit. This citrus fruit has a thick skin, is round in shape, and has a tart flavor. --Mandarins are a type of orange and the overarching category that Tangerines, Clementines, and Satsumas fall into. They are generally smaller and sweeter than oranges, a little flatter in shape, and they and have a thinner, looser skin that makes them easier to peel. Pt 1/2

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Tee Witt 2 years ago

No, there are Mandarin Oranges

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Henry Russell 2 years ago

thats it true because mandarin is the languegae in china so more people speak and not counting that is english

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Per Westling 2 years ago

Mandarin is one of the languages that are native to China. (And it is spoken in more countries.) But there are other languages in China, e.g. Cantoneese. But note that there is a difference between spoken languages and native/first languages. There are probably more people that have Mandarin as 1st language than English.

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Damon 2 years ago

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Sven Devestele 2 years ago

No, English is actually the most widespread. Mandarin is, as far as I know, still the most spoken language.

2points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered I was around 5 or 6 years old and drawing pink trees. They were supposed to magnolias: obviously I was too young to remember the name but I did know them from the annual blossom viewing my family did each year, and my neighbours had one in their front garden as well. My teacher looked past and said, "there's no such thing as pink trees." I tried to explain that there are, "even my neighbours have one", etc. but she cut me off and told me to stop lying. I'm still kind of mad about that lol

korenbloemen , marloesvandervalk Report

Final score:

189points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

Bruh didn't she see Sakura trees before?

96points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered I had a teacher who told us alligators never attack people because they are vegetarians.

mariam67 , Tambako The Jaguar Report

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186points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

Nice! Now I will go befriend one.

87points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered Not my teacher, but my daughter's teacher.

In Science class, they were discussing the scenario of a Skittle dropped into water. Pointing out the red cloud coming from the candy, he asked the class what was happening to the coating in that context.

Student said, "It's dissolving."

He argued, "No, it's going away."

asstyrant , oddharmonic Report

Final score:

177points

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Libstak 2 years ago

Really? Where is it going away to?

75points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My wife and I were in a birthing prep class...we're both in the medical field, but didn't advertise it to the teacher. She was actively advising parents not to have their babies vaccinated against Hep B as newborns because she thought you get Hep B exclusively from eating contaminated foods, and couldn't see why newborns would need such a thing.

It's one thing to be wrong, and it's another to be wrong and advising a room full of first-time parents with your ignorance.

ABunchofGhosts , Matt Burton Report

Final score:

176points

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Snorkeldorf 2 years ago (edited)

At our birthing prep class one of the fathers had a reasonable question. He wanted to know if his wife was given an epidural during labor could it be a problem for the baby because he himself had a severe allergy to one of the medications within an epidural. Her smart *ss reply was "Well you won't be the one getting it, will you?". Very educational.

94points

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered When I was being bullied almost every day and cried to her for help. She shrugged it off and ignored me.

So i settled it myself with violence by punching the bully square in the eye. He left me alone ever since.

"Violence is never the answer" they said :go to a teacher" they said.

HA

roan33 , Ryan Scott Report

Final score:

170points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

YEAH! VIOLENCE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER!

80points

#10

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered She thought dolphins were fish.

No amount of arguing by third grade me was enough to convince her otherwise.

"They live in the ocean, they're fish."

AssociationJumpy , Ross Hawkes Report

Final score:

161points

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RandomX123 2 years ago

Take her to show her some "fish" called saltwater crocodile, and take that "crocodiles don't attack" teacher along.

130points

#11

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered In 2nd grade when she spelled February wrong (as "Febuary") on the board and I went up to her desk to inform her and she explained to me how she was right and I was wrong. This was the beginning of my realization that most people are stupid.

january_stars , DaPuglet Report

Final score:

160points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

life skills come to us from very early stages of life

42points

#12

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered I had a teacher argue with me that "sate" isn't a word. I had to pull out a dictionary to prove them wrong.

Later on I had to do the same thing with die being the singular of dice.

shaidyn , Kevin Hodgson Report

Final score:

157points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

just accept it if u r wrong or u r not sure

27points

Heronmarkedflail , Aleksandar Cocek Report

#13

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered When she wrote “amateur code” on my first project in C++ class. No s**t it’s amateur it was my first program lol.

Final score:

154points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

okkk....so how can ANY programming language be amateur??? like I cant program n I find it kinda difficult...scratch that very difficult to make sense of.

34points

#14

Teacher doing basic 10 year old anatomy: “can anyone tell me what this is?”

Me, whose family’s fav show was House: “the trachea?”

Teacher: “no, this is called the wind pipe”

LordCosmagog Report

Final score:

151points

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Ryan Deschanel 2 years ago

"And what is it? -The r****m. Wrong. It is the poop bag."

70points

#15

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered I remember the time my 4th grade teacher tried educating us on what makes an animal. One of the criterion she came up with was all animals have brains.

I asked, “What about jellyfish? They don’t have brains.”

To which she replied, “Well then they aren’t alive, are they?”

cakeman936 , tonko43 Report

Final score:

147points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

she a jellyfish in disguise??.......anyways she must just have known it that time

80points

#16

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered I had a teacher who gave a lecture he had already given, word for word. He asked a question which I answered correctly. He asked how I got the answer and I said "I wrote it down the last time you gave this lecture"

funky_grandma , Braden Kowitz Report

Final score:

139points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

prolly he was just having a bad day?

51points

#17

I had a substitute ask me to stop reading and "pay attention" while the rest of the class ran roughshod over them--jumping on chairs, throwing things, talking over them. But no, I was the problem for pulling out a book from my bag and reading quietly, waiting for the teacher to regain control of the class.

nickelcap Report

Final score:

129points

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Spikey boi 2 years ago

She most likely called on you because you were quietly reading a book instead of being all crazy, making you look like an easier target, she wanted to make an easy example out of you.

86points

#18

"WWII was started when Hawaii bombed California" -My 9th grade english teacher

super_smash_apple Report

Final score:

129points

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Tigre_86 2 years ago

The US became involved when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The US was an Ally but did not come in to play until then. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

47points

#19

Gave me an F for plagiarism, I didn’t steal anything and she refused to show me her proof because this was high school and I wrote at a “University level” her words… she stated she didn’t need to show me the proof when I requested it.

Limited_U Report

Final score:

126points

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Lawrence Clark 2 years ago

similar thing happened to me! i spent ages writing this short play about something or other - parents got called in , teacher was trying to get me kicked out of the school as I 'must have copied it word for word off a real play' - at which point my mum produces all of my notes - rewrites, drafts etc etc from her handbag. She is a LEGEND. i kinda took it as the highest form of praise but the teacher was still a t***t , either way

112points

#20

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered After a substitute chemistry teacher heated a test tube over a Bunsen burner:

While securing it in a test tube holder, he absent-mindedly handed the red hot test tube to a student standing nearest to his demonstration.

The boy, trusting that "it must be okay," got his hand badly burned and, of course, the glass test tube shattered on the floor.

Back2Bach , Jason Woodhead Report

Final score:

121points

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Ryan Deschanel 2 years ago

I hope this teacher was fired. And sued.

98points

#21

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered When my ENGLISH teacher (I’m from Italy so we have English as a second language) said “lettoochay” instead of lettuce. She was also one of the worst teachers and ended up getting replaced.

Kriumpus , Audrey Report

Final score:

116points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

Whoa and I thought my English teacher is the worst? (I'm an Arab)

45points

TheBoomExpress , Christian Córdova Report

#22

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My eighth grade social studies teacher thought Panama was a part of Canada. Why? Because in the geography textbook we were using, Panama and Canada were colored in with the same shade of pink.

Final score:

115points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

arent like lakes inside a country and the oceans outside the same color too?

37points

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#23

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My English teacher asked when Woodrow Wilson was president, we were reading scarlet ibis and it mentioned him, so I raise my hand. I replied both his election dates, 1912 and 1916 if I’m not mistaken. She tells me no. I assumed I got the dates wrong and it was actually 1914 and 1918 or something. Then some girl raises her hand and answers “Nine teen hundreds” and she says yes.

kermitscommune , Rick Wagner Report

Final score:

110points

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Ryan Deschanel 2 years ago

"When did the last dinosaurs die? -BC?"

75points

Big-Calligrapher-532 , vickysandoval22 Report

#24

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered He would brag about how many people fail his class

Final score:

107points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

no matter how much i think...this simply doesn't make sense

47points

#25

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered Had my high school geography teacher insist that Antarctica is a country.

I lost points on the test because of it…

49blower , Eli Duke Report

Final score:

106points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

My teacher insisted that the study of places and people was history.

27points

#26

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My geography teacher when he explained that self checkouts had something to do with the mark of the beast and the end times. I don't remember all the details.

Fournote , pin add Report

Final score:

103points

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Spikey boi 2 years ago

Those self checkouts are very evil, those screens, and the ability to check your own groceries, almost, satanic.... (/s)

48points

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#27

when she started showing medieval Europe’s trade routes on a South America map

No__Tap Report

Final score:

101points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

i am just so confused right now

40points

Implicit_Hwyteness Report

#28

I had an English teacher in high school who was obsessed with poetry, and one afternoon she got into an argument with half the class over a poem because she was reading the word written and printed "noone" (no one) as "noon" and refused to believe it could possibly be "no one" even though that was the only way the line in the poem made remotely any sense.

Final score:

100points

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Pete 2 years ago

I bet noon believed her

103points

RedHotChilliFeta , 70023venus2009 Report

#29

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My science lecturer said that water in a kettle boils at 60 degrees Celsius. BOILS!!

Final score:

93points

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Snorkeldorf 2 years ago

I did not know that but I never realized my lack of knowledge could have gotten me a teaching job. Heck.....with all the things I don't know, I could have been a biochemist!

69points

#30

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered She said since we were learning about the formation of democracy that she will let the class vote whether I passed or failed a presentation.

ODBasUcansee , Lars Plougmann Report

Final score:

79points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

Was your teacher an election supervisor?

40points

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#31

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered We were asked to name healthy foods. I said fish. He responded 'maybe if you don't eat all the batter'.

randomnumber46 Report

Final score:

42points

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Ryan Deschanel 2 years ago

Batter? Fish is not a pastry!

14points

#32

German teacher marked my "My Family and Pets" essay a D because I had "mis-spelt" a word repeatedly... no miss, that's the German word for ferrets... bumped up to an A

She just assumed I had messed up instead of the possibility that I owned a pet other than "Hund" and "Katze"

L_Bilbo Report

Final score:

40points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

glad to know she accepted her mistake

25points

#33

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered In my German class the teacher never actually TAUGHT us anything. It was just morning exercises and for the entire rest of the hour he'd just tell a story about his time in Germany. As for the material? Gives us a book and expects us to learn it ourselves. You're a teacher, your job is to /teach us/. It's not that I don't like your stories, but people aren't passing because you aren't teaching.

xSantenoturtlex , James Emery Report

Final score:

39points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

maybe teach the basics first and then story time?? in the german language?

13points

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#34

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered English teacher in a non-English speaking country where I was studying abroad insisted that the correct term is in fact “escapegoat.”

delusivelight , Sil Silv Report

Final score:

37points

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Malek Basata 2 years ago

I need one escapegoat, NOW!

20points

#35

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered In 7th grade, a teacher gave our class an assignment that included our birthplace, but she wrote on the board “where were you borned?”

KSickles318 , Caleb Maclennan Report

Final score:

37points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

i was borned at the hospital

20points

Is_Bob_Costas_Real , Pedro Szekely Report

#36

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered My mom went to take a university class in Greek. She’s a native speaker, so she was hoping for an easy A and to maybe just read some new literature. The professor was Peggy Hill-ing it hard and my mom tried to correct and she said told my mom that she was wrong; then another native speaker confirmed it. She never called on either of them in class again lol

Final score:

36points

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May 2 years ago

What's Peggy Hill-ing?

18points

#37

She kept saying that 12x 3 was 48 and corrected a student when they said it was 4 and not 3

LuciLu72 Report

Final score:

32points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago

maybe give her 12 candies 3 times??

15points

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#38

When she was asked a question by one of the three students in the class and she asked me for the answer because she wasn't sure and I had read the book.

It was an AP Bio class that she was unqualified (and didn't care enough about) to teach

TheEvilGoats Report

Final score:

28points

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ShriSha Kamboj 2 years ago (edited)

this is somehow better.....she at least accepted her defeat....not saying she was right

14points

#39

Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered Student next to me loudly farted but I got blamed and she yelled at me and sent me out of the room

Jedi_Outcast , Scott Wilcoxson Report

Final score:

26points

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Henry Russell 2 years ago

for a fart

14points

#40

I was in grade school. Maybe 3rd or 4th grade. The teacher asked what was the capitol of the state of California. I said Sacramento. Teacher said I was wrong. It’s Los Angeles. To add that the teacher said it was Los Angeles.

Melbourne2Paris Report

Final score:

17points

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May 2 years ago

What?

7points

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

As a child in the 5th grade, my teacher told us that oranges were green on the tree and were injected with orange dye to make them orange. It was in Texas, where I had moved after growing up in California. I was confused because I grew up watching orange groves next to where I lived. My grandmother was so angry she went to the school and chastised my teacher for telling her granddaughter a fallacy. Classic grandma, miss you every day.

18points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

This is hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

7points

Samantha Lomb 2 years ago

But lots of oranges are dyed because many are a greeny yellow when picked and shipped. "ccording to the FDA, oranges can be dyed in one of two ways. First, an artificial dye called "Citrus Red 2" can be added to oranges “not intended or used for processing.” Translation: If it’s not being made into orange juice, red dye can be sprayed on the peels to make them look more orange. The other way Red No. 2 is added—and it’s worth noting this is usually only done in commercial applications—is through ethylene gas. This speeds up the blanching process, which is normally done right after picking." https://www.cookinglight.com/news/are-oranges-dyed

3points

Donna Leske 2 years ago

Love grandmas that don't let lies just lie there.

1point

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

This is my own gaffe, and it's funny. Kinda unrelated, but we had a Scottish art teacher in primary school. I could have sworn she said, 'what is the difference between a lion and a sheep?'. My maybe grade 3 self put my hand up confidently. 'A lion says 'rawr' and a sheep says 'baa'.' Turns out she was actually saying, 'what is the difference between a line and a shape'. I hope it still makes her laugh to this day as it does me.

16points

John Zevers 2 years ago

To be a writer here you copy paste reddit.

14points

Ryan Deschanel 2 years ago (edited)

At least, they do all the research, compiling and selection for us.

11points

S. 2 years ago

To be fair, I find Reddit a bit perplexing to use, and to find good posts from. Plus, the Pandas' comments make them funnier!

5points

Unslaadahsil 1 year ago

Hey, they found a way to do almost no work and get paid for it. Call them stupid if you want.

0points

Yort 2 years ago

It’s so irritating to get the “turn off your Adblock uwu” message on this site, 90% of the content is just stuff they scraped from Reddit and other websites anyway with barely any new, meaningful content.

-1point

Orange is aging 2 years ago

I once had a teacher who told me I spelled my dogs name wrong

8points

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 2 years ago

Had a teacher tell me I answered the question "how did the poem make you feel?" incorrectly.

0points

Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

The problem, at least in the US, is that to be a primary school teacher, one must have a degree in education. The education major is the silliest, most made up collection of crap that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject(s) you'll be teaching.

8points

Marnie 2 years ago

Agreed.

1point

Lauren Christie 1 year ago

Geez. In Australia, you either have to have a degree in education WITH a major and minor in the subjects you're specialised to teach, or you have a degree in a subject area such as science or mathematics, and then you get a Master in order to teach that subject

0points

Karen Lyon 2 years ago

@Nikki Sevven: No, that's not entirely correct. That is one option, particularly if you go to a traditional teacher's college. My undergrad major is technically Liberal Studies -- but my emphasis was Sociology, not education; I minored in biology. I work with teachers who majored in subjects such as English Lit. What teaching candidates have to do is to take a certain number of undergrad classes in education before applying to a credential program. Plus, the idea that education classes are "made up collections of crap" is a ridiculous and uninformed statement.

0points

madbakes 2 years ago

Yes, leaning all that non-sense about how different people learn is just crap.

0points

Julina Wilson 2 years ago

Just out of curiosity do you have a degree in education?

0points

Jef Bateman 2 years ago

Had a math teacher tell me that if you don't want to round out pi, you could use 22/7, which is pi exactly. I did the quick arithmetic and saw that this was far from true. I told her that 22/7 repeats while pi keeps going, but she told me it didn't. When I tried to show her, she said, "Why don't you argue with my husband, who is a physicist at national lab?" I would have liked to, but he never showed up. I don't mind a teacher being wrong, but at least allow the student to present the evidence.

7points

S. 2 years ago

Plus, there is also the argument that pi is an irrational number; it cannot be expressed as the ratio of two numbers, ie, p/q. Whereas, 22/7 is being expressed in the form of p/q, it is being expressed as the ratio of 22 and 7, meaning it's rational. 22/7 is only a close approximation for pi, but it's not right to say they're the same.

2points

Abby Heather 2 years ago

As a high school teacher, I can attest to the fact that elementary school teachers are the least knowledgeable!

5points

Karen Lyon 2 years ago

Oh, just some of them are. Your experience is not universal.

-1point

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

Small town, and I am 'friends' on social media with some of my kids' teachers. Their posts alarmed me. Clearly, English education is to be achieved at home. If you're a teacher and you don't know the basics like, 'your and 'you're', 'there, they're and their' and, 'two, too and to', you have no business teaching primary school children.

4points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

Equally, I am studying my RNs currently, and despite communication being one of the major components of nursing, the amount of grammatical and spelling errors in both the learning material and assessment feedback confounds me. Communication is both verbal and non-verbal. It's the difference between 'helping your Uncle Jack off a horse', and 'helping your uncle jack off a horse'.

4points

Bobby 2 years ago

I remember when my oldest was learning conservation of mass and I thought it would be cool to give him an extra fact and teach him that only applied to chemical and physical reactions, but that it doesn't apply to nuclear reactions. His teacher told him I was a liar. That was a fun parent teacher meeting afterward. He could have told me "we're just trying to teach the basics, I don't want him confusing the other kids with details we aren't going to address" but he stood his ground with me and asked what references I had to tell him he was wrong... well I did work as a nuclear plant operator for years and that was kind of required knowledge... I just don't share things beyond the scope of my kids lessons anymore

4points

Nadine 2 years ago

One of the old nun teachers told us wool comes from sheep and cotton comes from lambs.

3points

bonnyatlast 2 years ago

Not me but my mom. She went to college for an Associates degree when I was in high school. She turned in a paper to her English class that she got a failing mark on because a women could not possibly know all that technical data. She had to have plagiarized it. She was the safety inspector for the local post office. She had a large area of post offices she had to do safety inspections on. It was her job she wrote about. For me however was in college when I was taking an education class to teach art. I had to come up with lessons plans and lecture a class on the subject. I was also in an anthropology class at the time studying Physical and Cultural Anthropology. I combined Art with it to show how to paint portraits of people from different cultures with different skin types. Used a complicated graph to show how to mix the paint to achieve a variety of true skin tone. I failed because I was told there is no proof of different physical characteristics between races. Not kidding.

3points

bonnyatlast 2 years ago

And yes I did point out that each cultural group has a wide variety of skin types within it. Not just one set color. At the time you could only purchase peach (Coral) or chocolate (Umber).

2points

Isabella King 2 years ago

In 5th grade, I read a book about the United States' second war with England. Went to ask my history teacher about when it happened because the year wasn't mentioned in the book, and she told me it didn't exist. I didn't know it was a real war until 8th grade

3points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

There seems to be a lot of controversy about when the actual start date was. Was she saying WWII didn't actually happen, or was she saying there is no real concrete evidence of the start date?

-2points

Lsai Aeon 2 years ago

Guess I'll start with 1st grade. The teacher wrote a sentence on the chalkboard, incorrectly. Our assignment was to correct the sentence then we could go to lunch. For some reason, mine wouldn't be correct until the lunch period was over. Jokes on her, I wrote it correctly once, then didn't touch the paper again, just kept taking it to the teachers' lounge to have her tell me it was still wrong. This happened on an almost daily basis for the entirety of my 1st-grade year. I was left alone in the classroom with the lights off and even if I brought my lunch with me I was not allowed to have it. There were instances like this all the way through my last year of high school.

2points

John Baker 2 years ago

You get what you pay for. If you aren't willing to pay enough to attract good teachers, you'll get bad ones.

2points

Ruben M 2 years ago

My 11th grade English teacher was the schools chelating coach. She had never taught English before. We consistently had to correct her on pronunciation of our weekly vocabulary. I didn't like her from the start because she was the ex wife of my favorite 8th grade teacher. She cheated on him with one of the other coaches at the high school.

2points

Rhia Yao 2 years ago

it feels annoying when ur right and the teacher still says ur wrong

2points

Barbara Skolly 2 years ago

I am Canadian and did volunteer work one summer in Chicago in 1996. I spent an afternoon at a school with kids and noticed the maps were not to scale. USA looked bigger than Canada, that was all I needed to know about the American education system and indoctrination of thinking that USA is the greatest country on earth

1point

Karen Lyon 2 years ago

@Barbara Skolly: Where that teacher got that, I do not know. I can assure you that is NOT typical. I grew up here, never EVER saw that in my all my years as a student or my 32 years as an educator. I have been many schools, classrooms, not to mention teacher supply stores. What you are talking about is not even close to the norm. Indoctrination my foot.

1point

Abby Parker 2 years ago

A few years ago I discovered teachers in some schools (UK) were allowing students to state the contraction ‘would’ve’ as ‘would of’ and marking it correct!!

1point

LimaBeanie 2 years ago

how do people like this get hired????

1point

Cathy Jo Baker 2 years ago

Guys, on behalf of my dumba** colleagues, I apologize. I'm a high school teacher, and I will be the first to admit when I'm wrong. Not all of us are like the ones in the above situations. Sorry!!

1point

JKitte 2 years ago

Third-grade teacher told us (a class of white 8-year-olds) that all “colored people” have rhythm because of the drums in Africa. I knew better than to argue with a teacher but I thought to myself, “I don’t think that’s how it works.“

1point

Lara Verne 2 years ago

We once discussed meteorites in class, and I had one at home, so i brought it to school. Teacher insisted that my stone was fake, because it should me green, like all moldavites .She probably cofused them, since meteorites fall from space to Earth's surface, and moldavites are formed by a meteorite impact. I pointed it out, but my teacher told me meteorites and moldavites are the same and should be green. It was impossible to convince her othervise.

1point

Marnie 2 years ago

In my observation in Minnesota, USA, elementary school teachers are not all that fond of learning, especially of facts. I'm sure there are a variety of reasons many of them got into teaching, but love of learning never seemed like one of them in any teacher I've ever known. (They might have had a love of SCHOOL when they were kids. That's how my sister - a schoolteacher - was. But my sister never once read a non-fiction book just for the fun of learning. She couldn't even believe I had read one of her college textbooks for fun even though I didn't "have to".)

1point

Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

I had more than one teacher like these throughout the school years. A couple of them nearly ruined me for doing any kind of art, calling me "stupid," "untalented," "inept," "dumb," etc. One of them, supposedly an artist herself, did the most hideous paintings ever, but considered herself to be "far superior" to my mother, who was an excellent artist, and who had had her work hung in City Hall. The teacher was extremely jealous of Mom, but took it out on me. I've been drawing every day of my life for the last 57 years despite that witch's yammering, and am quite good at what I do.

0points

Unslaadahsil 1 year ago (edited)

I remember the moment in my "Economy and Civics" high school class when the teacher declared with absolute conviction that politicians are amazing people who work hard for the good of the population. I'm not sure if she had drunk way too much of the koolaid or was just a complete idiot.

0points

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 2 years ago

Algebra 2 student teacher asked if I had done the homework. I said yes and she wanted to know if I understood it. Again I said yes. She wanted to borrow it. I said as long as she didn't call on me. She did and I said loudly that since she had my paper I didn't have the answer in front of me.

0points

Shawn Ruester 2 years ago

My 2nd grade teacher actually called me "r******d" to my face and told my parents the same thing. Note though this was in the 1970s. After extensive testing it was discovered my reading difficulties was due to being Dyslexic, but otherwise I have a very high IQ and am in no way "r******d".

0points

Christoph 2 years ago

Teacher who would never give any student an A, because that meant perfection and NO ONE is perfect. Despite grades. (USA)

0points

Derek Clark 2 years ago

I remember how we had an elderly teacher who taught us English. He pronounced words really awkward though (I live in the Netherlands) and I corrected him on it when I said 'The' wasn't pronounced as 'Zsuh' as he did. I was eight and he said I wasn't English so I couldn't know, I refused to use his pronunciation. I was already watching BBC with subtitles, but he didn't believe me.

0points

Viv Hart 2 years ago

Two points - #1 Where were these teachers educated, and where did they qualify? #2 - Bored Panda, I'm getting so tired of these posts about stupid people, I keep getting the impression that they are in the US. Please give us posts about clever people, who inspire their pupils. My history and geography teachers in High School, inspired me to learn more about their subjects, which is what got me travelling for much of my life. One term report from my History teacher had the comment - 'Vivienne has an enquiring mind.'

0points

Amy Broderick 2 years ago

Freshman chemistry in HS. That in a room filled with students I couldn't smell pure oxygen. Okay maybe it didn't 'smell' but it was definitely different than the air not in your little jar.

0points

Meami 2 years ago

I had a neighbor I used to walk with who was a 4th-grade teacher. She used to come up with some of the stupidest stuff. She also thought that you should walk with traffic and ride your bike against traffic. I'm surprised she's still alive.

0points

Efia 2 years ago

in elementary school, our teacher asked us about instruments we have at home, and I said "Balalaika" (my dad collected a lot of instruments, even exotic ones) and she insisted, that this instrument doesn't exist and is just part of my imagination because she never heard of it. Even if she doesn't know this instrument (it's from russia and looks like a triangle-guitar) she could've believed it insted of playing the "I'm older and wiser" card. The other time my religion teacher in high school gave me 0 points for a task we should answer with our OWN OPINION. how are you able to rate that?! Some teachers are so over the top that I still don't have words for it :D

0points

Ham Explosion 2 years ago

One time my first grade teacher told us the white parts (not the cuticles) on our fingernails were because we werent having enough milk --- one time a kid tried to murder me by choking me out (same first grade teacher) went okey and said to SCREAM next time (how the f**k am I supposed to scream)

0points

Daniel Atkins 2 years ago

Had a creative writing Professor In college that said success as a writer is only selling a few thousand books while alive then having you work "discovered" after you die. Then somehow they become classics. What an utter defeatist self loathing idiot it was like he was discouraging everyone just because he wasn't a well known author.

0points

Abby Heather 2 years ago

Teachers who repeatedly tell students that bats are blind!!

0points

buttonpusher 2 years ago

Lol I remember in primary school when our class learned about the teacher's edition books. Pretty much everyone decided anyone can be a teacher, no matter how stupid you are, because they all feckin cheat and use the books.

0points

DC 2 years ago

... when I walked in the classroom, I was seconds away from this discovery...

0points

athornedrose 2 years ago

had a teacher who thought "a modest proposal" was a historical document, not a work of satire. she told us there was a time when the irish ate their babies to survive...

0points

Littlemiss 2 years ago

Had a teacher tell me that putting toys that have been washed, outside to dry was a waste of time because the sun wouldn't sterilise them, just dry them. She wanted to put away toys still soaking wet. She continued by stating that you don't put dirty unwashed clothes on the clothes line for the sun to clean! P.s. she was a preschool teacher who didn't think children were Petrie dishes.

0points

PebbleBoy Gaming 2 years ago

I wish I could have put something on here, I had a teacher ask what the answer to a math problem was, I said one thousand, she told me I was wrong, someone else answered with ten hundred and was told they were correct. In my mind I questioned my sanity because apparently 1,000 and 1000 aren't the same thing.

0points

Meredith Tucker 2 years ago

I had a teacher who taught us that the sky was blue because it reflects off the ocean.

0points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

Ha! Same!!

0points

Goth mouse (they/them) 2 years ago

My teacher got really angry with me when i said id seen frogspawn in late summer and she insisted it only appears in spring, no idea why i was punished for saying that 🙁

0points

Ryan Deschanel 2 years ago

I was told that the Sun turns around Earth, that the "affaire des fiches" was a catholic conspiracy, that Marie-Antoinette was guilty in the affair of the diamond necklace... And a lot of other stupidities that you can only hear in a public school.

0points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

I believe my own public school education was above average, and we moved states a lot when I was a kid, so it wasn't just the luck of the draw with one school. Yes, in some cases, public school teachers are not educated enough to be teaching, but don't bash on public schools as a whole.

0points

Arti Doane 2 years ago

Since teachers are now there to indoctrinate not educate, none of this surprises me.

-1point

Kevin Lam 2 years ago

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Yort 2 years ago

Shakra is one of several acceptable and used pronunciations.

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sofacushionfort 2 years ago

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Walking On Sunshine 2 years ago

18points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

This is hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

7points

Samantha Lomb 2 years ago

3points

Donna Leske 2 years ago

Love grandmas that don't let lies just lie there.

1point

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

16points

John Zevers 2 years ago

To be a writer here you copy paste reddit.

14points

Ryan Deschanel 2 years ago (edited)

At least, they do all the research, compiling and selection for us.

11points

S. 2 years ago

To be fair, I find Reddit a bit perplexing to use, and to find good posts from. Plus, the Pandas' comments make them funnier!

5points

Unslaadahsil 1 year ago

Hey, they found a way to do almost no work and get paid for it. Call them stupid if you want.

0points

Yort 2 years ago

-1point

Orange is aging 2 years ago

I once had a teacher who told me I spelled my dogs name wrong

8points

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 2 years ago

Had a teacher tell me I answered the question "how did the poem make you feel?" incorrectly.

0points

Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

8points

Marnie 2 years ago

Agreed.

1point

Lauren Christie 1 year ago

0points

Karen Lyon 2 years ago

0points

madbakes 2 years ago

Yes, leaning all that non-sense about how different people learn is just crap.

0points

Julina Wilson 2 years ago

Just out of curiosity do you have a degree in education?

0points

Jef Bateman 2 years ago

7points

S. 2 years ago

2points

Abby Heather 2 years ago

As a high school teacher, I can attest to the fact that elementary school teachers are the least knowledgeable!

5points

Karen Lyon 2 years ago

Oh, just some of them are. Your experience is not universal.

-1point

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

4points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

4points

Bobby 2 years ago

4points

Nadine 2 years ago

One of the old nun teachers told us wool comes from sheep and cotton comes from lambs.

3points

bonnyatlast 2 years ago

3points

bonnyatlast 2 years ago

And yes I did point out that each cultural group has a wide variety of skin types within it. Not just one set color. At the time you could only purchase peach (Coral) or chocolate (Umber).

2points

Isabella King 2 years ago

3points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

There seems to be a lot of controversy about when the actual start date was. Was she saying WWII didn't actually happen, or was she saying there is no real concrete evidence of the start date?

-2points

Lsai Aeon 2 years ago

2points

John Baker 2 years ago

You get what you pay for. If you aren't willing to pay enough to attract good teachers, you'll get bad ones.

2points

Ruben M 2 years ago

2points

Rhia Yao 2 years ago

it feels annoying when ur right and the teacher still says ur wrong

2points

Barbara Skolly 2 years ago

1point

Karen Lyon 2 years ago

1point

Abby Parker 2 years ago

A few years ago I discovered teachers in some schools (UK) were allowing students to state the contraction ‘would’ve’ as ‘would of’ and marking it correct!!

1point

LimaBeanie 2 years ago

how do people like this get hired????

1point

Cathy Jo Baker 2 years ago

Guys, on behalf of my dumba** colleagues, I apologize. I'm a high school teacher, and I will be the first to admit when I'm wrong. Not all of us are like the ones in the above situations. Sorry!!

1point

JKitte 2 years ago

1point

Lara Verne 2 years ago

1point

Marnie 2 years ago

1point

Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

0points

Unslaadahsil 1 year ago (edited)

0points

alloutbikes@yahoo.com 2 years ago

0points

Shawn Ruester 2 years ago

0points

Christoph 2 years ago

Teacher who would never give any student an A, because that meant perfection and NO ONE is perfect. Despite grades. (USA)

0points

Derek Clark 2 years ago

0points

Viv Hart 2 years ago

0points

Amy Broderick 2 years ago

Freshman chemistry in HS. That in a room filled with students I couldn't smell pure oxygen. Okay maybe it didn't 'smell' but it was definitely different than the air not in your little jar.

0points

Meami 2 years ago

0points

Efia 2 years ago

0points

Ham Explosion 2 years ago

0points

Daniel Atkins 2 years ago

0points

Abby Heather 2 years ago

Teachers who repeatedly tell students that bats are blind!!

0points

buttonpusher 2 years ago

0points

DC 2 years ago

... when I walked in the classroom, I was seconds away from this discovery...

0points

athornedrose 2 years ago

had a teacher who thought "a modest proposal" was a historical document, not a work of satire. she told us there was a time when the irish ate their babies to survive...

0points

Littlemiss 2 years ago

0points

PebbleBoy Gaming 2 years ago

0points

Meredith Tucker 2 years ago

I had a teacher who taught us that the sky was blue because it reflects off the ocean.

0points

Girl Anachronism 2 years ago

Ha! Same!!

0points