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30 Teachers Recall Crazy Excuses Students Have Given Them That Actually Turned Out To Be True
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Smith. I wasn’t able to finish my homework because my dog actually ate it. So I tried to print out another copy, but the power went out. Then I tripped, hit my head and ended up spending the night in the hospital.”
Being a teacher is challenging for many reasons. The workload is intense, the wages are low and motivating students to care about their studies can feel like an impossible task. Especially when they never run out of creative excuses for why their assignments aren’t complete…
But once in a while, pupils come up with such outlandish justifications for their actions that they just have to be telling the truth. Educators on Reddit have recently been recalling the craziest excuses they’ve heard from students that were somehow true, so we've gathered the wildest ones below.
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#1
Not a teacher (yet) but when I was in highschool, on a snowy day. I was waiting for the tram. (Like a slower train that goes through the city, public transport basically) I saw the tram coming from around the corner, promptly before it derailed from the track completely.
So being the good student I am, I decided to call the school like, "Hey my name is .... from class ..... and you are not gonna believe what just happened." So I explained the situation, the school didn't believe it.
I get tapped on the shoulder by some woman I've never met in my life. She asked me what school I went to. I told her. She then asks if she can speak to my school. I'm like "Ehm, sure?
She only said three things, her name, that I was speaking the truth, and to tell the f*****g principal that there better be some hot chocolate waiting for me when I get there and then just hung up.
I'm still completely baffled by the balls it requires to talk to the school like that when she hands me back my phone, smiles, and tells me that she is the executive assistant of the school district supervisor.
LasPapasFritas1234 10 months ago
Yeah rly because if it was there, then she definitely had an in!
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Huddo's sister 10 months ago
I remember one time when the school bus was really late (I don't remember why but I almost walked home after waiting so long) and the driver called ahead to make sure the school knew we were not to blame. I still remember being part of a long line of kids walking into the school office to get our late slips. I also remember some students not going to the office, mucking around for at least 15 minutes longer than us and then turning up to class late blaming the bus. I think there were even some who didn't take the bus using that excuse. Made me so mad, because I had done the right thing but they still got away with doing the wrong thing, because of course I couldn't speak up.
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#2
Not me but this reminded me of an incident which made the news a few years ago. A high school boy came into class one morning with red eyes. His teacher immediately began grilling him about weed. The kid insisted that he hadn't done any d***s, his eyes were red from crying because his father had just died. The teacher didn't believe him.
It escalated to the point that the teacher kicked him out of class and sent him to the principle. The principle called his mother, who backed him up and said her husband had just passed away. The priciple still told her she would have to drop what she was doing and immediately take her son to an approved d**g testing center and pay for a d**g test, or else he was going to be suspended for showing up to school high.
His mother took him to get tested and sure enough, no weed. His father really had just died and that was his first day back at school. From what I remember his mom ended up suing the school.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago (edited)
Teacher and "principle" should have been fired on principle. How utterly evil and vile.
Ren Karlej 10 months ago
It's odd, because I can't think why you wouldn't inform your child's school prior to attendance that the child had suffered a very significant and distressing event so that the school was prepared to support that child. Granted the mother would have a lot on her plate but these are the kind of things parents do have to deal with, alongside all the other issues that come with death. Notifying vast numbers of people is part of it, including those who are a daily part of your child's life, ie school. Been through it. I was not sent to school without them being notified of my father's death. Yes, here it was handled incredibly badly and cruelly, but a) it sounds like the child may be going back to soon and b) you tell the school before the child goes back. https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/information/grief/returning-to-school-after-death
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StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago
Wow! And who can't smell weed on a user? Jeez. Besides being absolute idiots, they treated a boy suffering from grief, terribly. Sounds like they are in the wrong profession. Hope they had to pay a ton of money, AHs.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
These days, weed also comes in consumables - where there is no odor.
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Kit Black 10 months ago
Why would you send your kid to school immediately after their other parent died, and not even bother to inform the school of this event???
Lucas 10 months ago
I agree - the mother here didn't get it right either. Yes, we can cut her some slack when in an emotional state (school doesn't get to use an excuse) but you still need to parent even if you're bereaved. Sad.
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Tom 9 months ago
Wait.. so teacher and principal were projecting their own usage on a teen ?? Yikes
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meeeeeeeeeeee 10 months ago
This is why so many people hate teachers. Too many of us have dealt with horrible bastards like this.
#3
I had a student casually come to me saying she wouldn't be in class on Thursday just as a "heads up" and started to leave my office. When I inquired why she very calmly and logically told me it was because she was going to [unalive] herself on the way home after she left campus. She had a complete plan of how and where to crash her car as to not injure anyone else. I told her we were going for a walk to our campus counselors. She said she would come. We walked across campus together. She was eerily sweet and talked about uplifting things, which I mirrored. I got her to a counselor that she was willing to talk to and told her if she needed anything I would be there in a heartbeat. Three hours later she knocked on the door of a class I was teaching. When I answered she grabbed me and hugged me. She thanked me for saving her. She was going to get the help she knew she needed at an inpatient clinic.
I was told I wasn't allowed to reach out to her since she left school but I think about her nearly every day.
Cee Cee 10 months ago
Like the OP I hope she's OK. Awful to think your life isn't worth living at such a young age.
Judy Reynolds 10 months ago
Sometimes it's not that life isn't worth living, It's that you can't see any other way out of an intolerable situation.
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Earonn - 10 months ago
Yep, that's how my depression felt when it got suicidal. I was calmly planning how to kill myself but making sure that someone would try to "visit" me in time so that my pets wouldn't starve. But of course, that person mustn't suspect anything and rescue me! - All that with the calmness and emotional distance that one uses to consider whether there's still milk in the fridge. Luckily I realised what I was doing and went straight to a good friend. Got into hospital that evening, slept in the hallway (albeit in a bed) because they had no room for me. Stress-induced depression, got it from work. And that is why you never allow your work to overwork you for an extended period of time. Here endeth the lesson.
BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago
I also felt like no matter how hard I worked, and how much I earned, my wife was never satisfied with what I provided for her (I make $250K in cash and another $100K in options). She constantly told me that I was worthless, and she hated her life. I ended up hanging myself from a pipe in my basement so nobody would be disturbed by my body. I passed out and woke up a few minutes later because the rope I rigged up had snagged and ripped on a sharp rusty part of the pipe. So I called the suicide hotline and talked to a guy named William who sounded exactly like Ving Rhames. He was the first person who talked to me like I mattered more than just the immediate value that I could provide to them. He convinced me to talk to my wife and seek help. When she found out I called the hotline she told me she could never forgive me, and left me a few weeks later. But I did get help from a great therapist and a psychiatrist, and I'm doing really well today. Be good to yourselves out there
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Xenia Harley 10 months ago
Some kids just stick with you. One of the highlights was when I was attending graduation and this man come up to me and tells me his name! (I had not recognized him because he was a young teen when I taught him.) He wanted me to know that he had straightened up his life, was married and had a baby, was there seeing his brother graduate (middle school). This student had gone to jail a few years after I had taught him after robbing someone and had turned his life around! I was so happy to hear that, it made my day/month!
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
When I had some trouble with school attendance the school's wellbeing coordinator made sure she was available to speak to me every day I turned up as long as I needed her to. Eventually I got back to school regularly and didn't need to see her anymore. I didn't forget her kindness though (even though I have blocked out what was causing my attendance problems and what she actually said to me) and I was also deeply touched when seven years later she and three other teachers came to my little brother's funeral. The other teachers that came had also been ones I adored, so I was so glad to see they were as compassionate as I had hoped. My mum ran into one of them in the supermarket a few years later and filled her in on how I and my other brother and sister was doing.
Load More Replies... BG 10 months ago
Had a friend in school who did that and was successful on the second attempt. First attempt, she struck a family in an SUV and there were a lot of injuries. Parent's bought her another car and she immediately pulled out in front of a semi.
Vinnie 10 months ago
Did the parents think it was an accident the first time? Or the parents didn't care enough to spend money on therapy instead of another car?
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Science Nerd 10 months ago
Who told you not to reach out to a troubled person? I would ignore it if the district told me that.
Ghostpotato 10 months ago
A lot of people already know this but it's important information to share: people who decide to kill themself often feel relief once they have made the decision and has a plan for it, so if someone you know have been depressed/struggled with their mental health and they suddenly seem happier/better it can be a warning sign. Talk to them, show them you care and are there for them, get them help if they need it.
#4
A student, tween-aged, needed to go to court to give a character reference for her father. He was trying to adopt his deceased girlfriend's children after she died in a tragic accident. The student couldn't stand the kids her dad was adopting, but she knew it was the right thing. That was the first turned out to be true story.
Fast forward to online quarantine school and the same student tells me they no longer have any books because one of her adopted siblings hid them in a vindictive emotional state while at dad's house. I'm friends with the student's mom (dad's ex-wife) and I didn't believe it until the mom confirms this. I then told the student I would send digital images of anything they needed. Once the books were finally found 3 weeks later, I made a deal with them to leave them 100% of the time at their mom's and for them to ask me for digital versions whenever the student was at dad's house.
The kid has had a very hard life, but I already know they will be someone amazing as an adult!
StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago
If this was when Covid was a thing, how was she allowed to go back and forth, re: her dads? I'm assuming she lived with her mum? Still terrible, though. My step-brother used to do mean s**t like that (he's still a pain in the a**e, even in his 50s).
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
Because "bubbles" were allowed - at least in the UK anyway. A safe collection of people.
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I taught a non-credit ESL class for adults. I had a very polite young man from an African country in my class who would sometimes be absent for 2-3 days in a row. It wasn’t a huge deal because our class only had one pretty basic exam at the end of the course. When I asked him why he had missed class (out of concern—sometimes I had students with major family problems or illnesses or whatever), he would just say vaguely, “I had to go out of town.”
One night I went to a game of my local pro indoor soccer team, and there was my student, announced as part of the starting lineup! He was “out of town” because of the away games.
Joe Reaves 10 months ago
Pro means that was his job so yes it would have been his only income, because he was a full time soccer player.
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#6
When I was in grad school, I lived in the heart of tornado alley. I was doing a timed online final for one class and had just finished a huge paper for my other class. I’m typing away, stressed, and my phone rings. It’s my mom, telling me there’s nasty weather coming. I blow her off and get back to work. Suddenly, it gets dark and I hear tornado sirens. I grab my dog, my shoes, my keys, and drive like hell to get to a friend’s house - she had a shelter. We ride out about four hours of storms and I head home. My house had quite a bit of damage and all of my electronics were completely fried...including my computer.
The next day, I finally reach my professors. Both were shocked but were able to verify what happened and gave me extensions. Still, one laughed and said he’d never heard the excuse “The tornado ate my homework!”.
LasPapasFritas1234 10 months ago
Craziest thing happened recently- my dog actually ate my homework- I found it shredded under a table...
Nikki Gross 10 months ago (edited)
On May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma, Briarwood and Plaza Towers Elementary Schools were hit and PT had several fatalities, the school districts put a new policy in place. If they're predicting a possible Severe Weather Event, parents are allowed to keep their children home or check them out of school and it will be an automatic excused absence. Before everyone starts in about why schools don't have shelters there are 429 School Districts in Oklahoma that range from Elementary, Middle/Junior schools and High Schools. Those outside of the US, that's K-12, which is Kindergarten 5/6 years old, to 12th Grade/Seniors 17/18 years old. Outside of Oklahoma, you may see Different names for what they may label school names, but the age bracket is still the same. That ranges from Tiny Districts in Rural areas, to the much larger inner city Schools. Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Lawton, Moore, Norman and Edmond that are the largest Districts in Oklahoma.
Nikki Gross 10 months ago
Some schools are in poor/poverty areas, to the ones that upper class children attend. Taxes vary from different Cities and school districts, so school funding is a HUGE issue. Does it suck? HELL YES!! But, this is one of the reasons why we can NOT afford to put shelters in Every School. Plus, you have to factor in how old the Schools are in those Districts. We still have school's that were built in the 1940's and all the way up to 2024.Trying to install safe rooms or shelters in those schools are impossible. The school that I went too and graduated from in 1995, will turn 80 years old in the Summer of 2025. Yes, it was already 50 years old when I graduated in June, 1995. The point is, there are so many REASONS why we are unable to install shelters in every single school in Oklahoma. We are in Toronto Alley, so we have to do the best that we can and make do with what we already have. Every single state that is in TA, has to face the same problems and issues as Oklahoma.
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That she has problem sending her project because the roof is too slippery for her.
Background: Online education, students need to submit a video project. Student only relies on mobile internet because only the rich affords affortable internet in the Philippines. So she climbs their house to get a good cellular signal. That time it was raining.
She sent a picture as evidence. Made me rethink how my students could submit academic requirements.
#8
I was a student teacher and they placed me at one of those special schools for students that have learning disabilities, troubled homes, etc. I had one student who's dad was driving her to school and another teacher cut him off in the parking lot. He gets out of the car and goes ballistic on that teacher and then pulls out a knife to threaten them.
Poor student had to watch the cops arrest her dad in the school parking lot and then still attend class that day. I left her alone to do whatever the hell she wanted to that day.
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
I'm more worried about him actually assaulting his kid.
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ScootyPuffJr 10 months ago
The same thing happened between a bus driver and a father at my school, and the father and his two sons nearly beat the bus driver to death in front of all the other students entering school. He was lying in a pool of blood as I arrived.
Ren Karlej 10 months ago
Maybe they're dyslexic and not an english language teacher? Or maybe their 'brain' wasn't paying attention... I often find myself typing similar sounding words when doing it quickly and then rereading and wondering how I got it wrong. Eg the other day I wanted to say 'mine' and wrote 'mind' instead. Near enough said my brain despite the sentence now making no sense! It happens!
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Him: "I just mailed my homework to Russia"
Me: You what?
Him: I wrote my old host family in Russia a letter, and I dropped it in the mailbox on the way here, and now that I'm here, I don't have my homework, but I DO have 3 pages in Russian.
#10
A kid told me once he peed himself because he was scared of the toilet was going to drown him.
Turns out his brother had been holding his head underwater every time he had an accident.
StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago
Poor kid! Sometimes, siblings are worse than school bullies. Hope he got over the trauma.
Ren Karlej 10 months ago
That is absolutely a bully in his own home. Being a sibling doesn't stop them deserving that title. Children have fights, obviously, but if it's sustained and nasty like this it's bullying. Hope the parents dealt with this.
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I hope that the teacher hotlined the brother. This seems to cross the line of just having a mean sibling but falls under legit abuse, especially if the brother was much older. It makes you wonder if the parent(s) knew of any of this.
Auntriarch 10 months ago
Parents? Makes me wonder where the elder brother learned it from...
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sharyn turnicky 10 months ago
Parents and brother are in need of an intervention from CPS. Young man needs a good stable foster home with another family member. Child abuse and assult are not a joke
DC 10 months ago
I don't understand how this is supposed to work. Every time he had an accident - in this context, most likely wetting his pants - his brother held his head under ... so, in order to avoid this, he did just exactly what usually prompts his AH of a brother to inflict this on him?
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
He was scared of going to the toilet because his only experience was of him being drowned, so he tried to hold on, thus ending up having an accident even though that's what got him the abuse, because kid brains don't always get the 'logical' connection. To us the way to avoid it was to use the toilet but to a child, an abused one at that, it was to hope the need to go went away on it's own.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 10 months ago
Oh no, this poor kid needs help and the bully brother needs his a*s beat for it.
Eva Ant 9 months ago
The brother probably gets beat. Bully kinds are normally victims of bully parents.
Load More Replies... BrownEyedPanda 10 months ago
That wasn't sibling rivalry; it was sibling abuse. If the parents weren't stopping it, they were the biggest part of the problem.
#11
Teaching 7th grade advanced Biology - smart kids in a pretty low income school. I am used to seeing d***s, bad behavior and contraband pretty regularly. So my first instinct is always that the student is doing something wrong.
I glanced around and see a puff of vapor is coming out of a students mouth. Immediately, I ask to have his vape pen and please go to the office. "It's not a vape Mr.!" I argue with the student, who vehemently believes he doesn't have a vape pen.
"Well I saw a vape cloud did I not?"
"yes sir." So he goes to the principals office and I call his mom after school to let her now what happened.
"Oh no Mr., its a misunderstanding. He can hold his breath and somehow create clouds with his mouth. I tell him not to do it, but its like his favorite party trick."
Why didn't that little s**t show that to me? That sounds f*****g awesome. I quit my long term sub position before I had that class again, and never did get to see it again....
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 10 months ago
We're going to need a way to differentiate between drúgs and dícks if we're going to keep censoring.
UKGrandad 10 months ago
It's more important to know the difference if you're going to be using one or the other.
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Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
Erm he didn’t show you cos you didn’t give him chance ! I hope you learned from this op
rorschach-penguin 10 months ago
If the student had time to argue back and forth, he had time to say "no, I can show you."
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Az Oz 10 months ago
Yeah, something to do with creating air pressure in your mouth along with heat and water vapour which basically makes a cloud when you exhale. Google, something along the lines of "make a cloud with your mouth"
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#12
Horse ate her homework. Corroborated by her living on a farm and her mom emailing to apologize as well 😁.
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
Lmao ain’t hard if you live in a farm I grew up on a farm lol I’d often sit in a barn with the animals doing homework well more playing with the calves etc but yup I had animals eat my books many times 60 now n it still makes me laugh
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Nikki Gross 10 months ago
Both sides of my family is country folk, so that's where they went to school. A cow or horse at my homework is an accepted and valid excuse.
#13
Not a teacher. I was in first grade when *Donny* arrived 20 minutes late for school. Loud enough for the whole class to hear, Mrs. P. asked him why he was late. Donny responded, "the purple girl." The whole class, including Mrs. P. burst out laughing. Mrs. P. in a chuckle responded, "a purple girl???" Donny dead pan responded, "yes, she was laying on the ground and she was purple." Everyone laughed again, except Mrs. P. She gently took Donny's hand and they left the room.
Never did find out any details about "the purple girl", but Mrs. P. didn't return to class until after lunch and Donny was out for the next two days.
Mother Lunatic 10 months ago
I think Donny may have found someone who had passed on from this life...
#14
~10 years ago I had a student say he didn't do the homework because his car caught fire on his ride home, and his textbook was in the back seat. I was suspicious, but he quickly produced the badly charred textbook, which was also completely waterlogged from when the fire department put out the fire, and asked me if I could issue him a new one.
It's possible that he burned and soaked his textbook in an effort to getting out of doing the homework. If that was the case, bravo.
#15
A student (14) brought alcohol to school. He was the troublemaker type so everyone thought he was consuming alcohol at such a young age, while he was denying vehemently and said that his dad must have put it in his bag unknowingly. Unbelievable, I know. He was sent to the counsellor immediately while his mother was called. She was adamant that her son could never touch alcohol. The principal asked her to keep an eye on the student anyway as teenagers are unpredictable, the student got detention for a week and mandatory counselling session.
Turns out, his dad did put the alcohol in his bag but not unknowingly. His parents were in a process of getting a divorce and the student was living with his mother. That morning his dad picked him up to take him to school and hid a bottle in his bag. From what we've heard, his dad is an alcoholic and real a***ive and his mum was getting divorce on grounds of domestic violence. The dad was facing the possibility of jail time so he tried to build a case against the mum by showing that she is manipulative and controls people around her by getting them addicted to d***s and alcohol. Evidence was that she was turning their son into an alcoholic too.
Joe Reaves 10 months ago
For anyone who like me was having trouble figuring the word out it's a b u s i v e.
Clown fish 10 months ago (edited)
Abusive they are just weird with there sometimes cencership
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Beak Hookage 10 months ago
WOW that's evil. On a lighter note, I once brought some empty beer bottles to school to use as props in a play and the first period teacher saw them on my desk JUST as I randomly got the hiccups. Eyebrows were raised.
BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago
On a slightly less lighter note, I did bring alcohol to school when I was 14, but I only did it to get drunk, so it was okay.
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Robert Cosgrove 10 months ago (edited)
Thank you Bored Panda. Your censoring of words has ensured I have never taken h****n, smoked m**h or c******e or done any d***s, I haven't been a***ive to anyone, not been the victim or perpetrator of s**ual assault. I haven't tried to unalive my self (s*****e) or anyone else (m****r). Proof that if we don't say these words they won't happen
Billo66 10 months ago
Our 7th grade history teacher also worked in produce at the grocery store, also was the town mayor, also sold all of us stoners bags of weed. Yes, all at the same damn time.
Billo66 10 months ago (edited)
Just remembered. Called my bus driver southie because if he was driving the bus he had a bottle of southern comfort nearby. This was late 70's early 80's Edit: Just a small midwestern town. Hannibal, Missouri if you are curious.
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Showed up late to a college final because his neighbor's apartment was on fire. He smelled like fire smoke so I gave him an extension on the time limit.
#17
I taught GED prep classes, and I had a student raise their hand and say, “I need to go. Someone is robbing my house.”
The next day I asked her about it and she told me it was her mom. On m**h.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
I thought someone had broken into my parents' house on two separate occasions (and on one of them I was so freaked out I grabbed a knife!). Both times it turned out to be my sister. XD
Sillywaster Stayalone 10 months ago (edited)
why is mooh censored? And what does "On mooh" mean.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
On meth, and in case it autocensors. It's method without the od.
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#18
I’m not a teacher but this happened at my apartment. In college, I had a huge exam on a Thursday and the few nights before, I made sure to study like crazy. The day before an exam, I typically go over EVERYTHING and do my notes, work on the study guide, etc. and it stays ingrained in my brain and I do really well the next day on the exam.
The morning of my exam, at 5am, I’m woken up to the frikking SWAT team throwing flash grenades into my patio area, my sliding door is shattered, other members of SWAT are using a battering ram against the gate we all use to enter the complex. I thought I was going to die. I get to the ground, crawl to my bathtub and hide in there crying and shaking.
I left my phone and couldn’t call anyone. I crawled out to see what was going on in my living room and the moment I stand up, I look down and see 14 red dots on my body and 14 rifles pointed at me. I’ve shot guns but NEVER had any pointed at me. I was surprised I didn’t pee myself.
Turns out they actually wanted my neighbor and terrorized me FOR NOTHING. I literally forgot everything I had studied. I told my teacher what happened. She told me to do my best and I fosho failed that exam so hard.
She was kind enough to let me retake the exam.
Stephen Wild 10 months ago
People wonder why Canadians aren't exactly thrilled at the thought of being annexed by the United States and all...
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Kiss Army 10 months ago
My son came and woke us up one morning and told us the "dog catcher" was in the backyard. We looked out his window and it was a full SWAT Team. They motioned us back and we closed the curtain and went and looked out the front window. There were police, sheriff, SWAT, etc. vehicles lining the whole street. Just what we could see, we counted at least 20. When it came time to go to work, I had to call my boss and tell him we were blocked in because they were conducting a raid on the house next door. (I sent him photos because "pictures or it didn't happen"...) Turns out the people that rented the house next door were running a meth lab and and illegal day care (one of the residents was a registered sex offender but was not registered to that address).
Kiss Army 10 months ago
Here is one of the pictures that I sent my boss that shows I can't leave my driveway. There were many more vehicles up and down this street. This just shows a few of them. (Forgive the condition of my window screen... a stray cat got into a fight with my indoor cat through the glass and my screen lost.) Raid-67b89...32a5e5.jpg 
Nikki Gross 10 months ago (edited)
One time I was on the phone with my boss and a big shooting happened outside my house. Apparently, it was a drive-by gone wrong, so one guy was chasing another down the street shooting at him. I told my boss I had to go, because y'know dropping to the ground was a thing. My brother and I were both in the living room when it happened, since we worked in the same lab it was on speaker. Our Boss got to hear the whole damn thing, including gun shots and yelling that was going on. One of the very few times that I heard my boss cuss, "Holy S**t!!! What the f**k?!!!" Our Boss was awesome and came from a middle/upper class family, so he had NEVER heard anything like that happen IRL. After that we would send him pictures and videos of the aftermath and being late or taking PTO was a valid reason to be late or taking the day off.
Matthew Barabas 9 months ago
yeah you got swatted. happens often enough that its an actual word now.
James King 10 months ago
The militarization of police in America along with the rise of nighttime raids is a cancerous blight on society.
Matthew Barabas 9 months ago
people doing crimes serious enough to *justify* such a thing is the real blight. dont f*****g blame the police.
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Meowzers! 10 months ago
There would have been an official report of the incident afterwards. I'm guessing she didn't count the red dots pointing at her but rather just quoted the number of officers detailed in the report.
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Student not teacher I had to tell my teachers the reason I wasn't in school was because my best friend was in hospital with the doctors saying she might die. Teacher said I was lying, my mum sent teacher a picture of me and my friend. My friend had an IV drip and like those breathing tubes in her nose, I was sitting next to her. Sure as hell believed me then
I was 8, my friend was 7 and she lived.
Kit Black 10 months ago
Op was 8, but they're the ones who had to call the teacher - not the school - the specific teacher - to explain why they wouldn't be in school that day???? Right....
Dilly Millandry 10 months ago
I agree. Again, that should be a parent notifying the school.
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Ruth Watry 8 months ago
In the US, most hospitals would have required that she be 12 years old, especially since she was not family
#20
A guy I knew in high school missed class because he had to help a cow give birth. Lived in a farm.
cadena kuhn 10 months ago
Kid missed school cause he was chasing his escaped emu. Everyone in the bus saw him chasing it down the street... Florida man
Lee Banks 10 months ago
Was friends with a guy who had to call in for his son because the neighbor left his gate open and a herd of longhorns were blocking their drive. Know it was true because we were stuck on the other side of the herd.
Helen Rohrlach 10 months ago
I was walking up the driveway of our farm after school, and one of the cow was calving and the calf was backwards IE rear first. My mother turned up as it fell out and we both got it breathing as it had inhaled fluid. I think the sports teacher didn't believe me that was why I didn't have my gym shoes the next day because they were covered in cow birthing gunk
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
Yup same here in uk when I was a kid I’m now 60 lol when u grow up on farms thems the brakes lol
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Not a teacher, but my mother had her car broken into.. the only thing they took was my school bag that had all my books in it.. I was told to go explain my story to the principal, he didn’t care. I looked completely crazy trying to explain my story to him when he honestly didn’t care at all. He didn’t care how it was stolen, why, or where.. all he cared about was how I was going to replace about $800 worth of books... I was 11.
Kit Black 10 months ago
Why wouldn't the mother have been the one in school explaining this? And a police report would have solved the problem.
Lucas 10 months ago
YES! Making an 11 year old solely responsible? My parents would have expected it to be on my shoulders but it's a rotten thing to do. I suppose the car's insurance wouldn't cover the theft but doesn't the school have insurance at all for things like that? Hardly be the first time school books are damaged/lost/stolen after all and a lot of people would struggle to find that kind of money.
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“I cant come to class (virtual learning) because my grandma keeps having arguments with the ghosts in the walls.” Its true. She actually screams at the walls regularly while he’s on Zoom for class with me.
HardBoiledBlonde 10 months ago
Mental illness and related hallucinations are not a crime.
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#23
Not a teacher but dealt with some crazy stuff growing up (some of which I've posted).
1) Science book was destroyed courtesy of a church book burning. Still can't watch Fahrenheit 451 to this day (major anxiety attack). School knew it had happened and I was given a replacement no questions asked.
2) Mugged, badly. Just got out of hospital. Was accused of making it up and ordered to take my sunglasses off, that covered two black eyes and major bruising. I was then ordered to put them back on. I blew off PE because I didn't want to tear the stiches from my knife wounds.
2) Escorted out of house by CPS. No clothes, books, etc. Was the Sunday before school, and was my 17th birthday. Kind of hard to do homework in that situation. I'd say it was half/half. Some teachers understood and let me work in class, even gave me loaner books. Some didn't care. Main reason my grades tanked from A's to D's overnight.
Xenia Harley 10 months ago
I had a student that blew off a major project. I got called by his parents to see what we could do. We set up a meeting. Now, I was lenient about redoing work, etc. So he's basically given an extension, gets a decent grade, all good. Mom is super nice, dad is kind of distant, business like but glad kid got the extension. A short while later, I find out the student's mom died of cancer! He was basically dealing with mom being terminal. I was glad I cut him some slack with previous assignments. (Parents did not tell me mom was terminal, just wanted student to do well.)
Chris the Bobcat 10 months ago
Church book burning... fvck. If christians had their way, the West would never have advanced beyond the 6th century. No knowledge deserves to be burned, not even the bible.
Billo66 10 months ago
Wow sounds like the story of Lot in the bible. Devil says "I bet I can get him to mess up" God says "Go ahead, take your best shot". Lots like WTF?
znhgww9rs6 10 months ago (edited)
Job! And it proved his faith and made him a better person in the end.
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Teacher here, but these are two things that happened to my colleague. My stories aren’t that interesting.
Student #1 said he couldn’t do some sort of physical activity because he just had open heart surgery. Teacher didn’t believe him but went along with it, asking questions to get more info. The kid lifted his shirt to show off an angry red wound where they had cut open his chest, still in the process of healing.
Student #2 couldn’t get up and go to the nurse because she was having a miscarriage. She wasn’t visibly pregnant or anything, it was the first day of school so the teacher had no idea if she was legit or just a drama queen. Turns out she was having a miscarriage and proceeded to miscarry right there on the chair. Nurse came and got her, she definitely made an impression that day.
Earonn - 10 months ago
#1 - aren't schools informed about such things? The student surely was away for quite some time? // #2 OMG, the poor girl!
Ren Karlej 10 months ago
Absolutely, parents really should inform schools. Schools then need to make sure that all the people involved with the pupil KNOW! Particularly any medically trained personnel on site.
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BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 10 months ago
omg I have my own cute story relating to this lol. My PE teacher didn't believe that I had foot surgery over the summer and shouldn't be doing physical activity besides like, walking lol, on the first day of school, even though we contacted the school. I was out of my boot so there wasn't really any proof and it was my second one so I already had a scar there (not like I thought of showing the scar that's smart ngl) So she *made me run* and I was in so much pain. Girl I went home to my mom and she got so mad lmao. I brought in a doctor's note and she seemed so skeptical because she "wasn't informed before" but she said she needed the doctor's note anyway. Literally all of my other teachers knew 😭 That still pisses me off ngl 🥲
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
One of my colleagues (after school care) had tried to get a girl to join in a game of basketball when she said 'I can't, I had my appendix taken out on the weekend'. Turned out to be true, the school just hadn't passed the info on.
Rebecca McManus 9 months ago
To those asking if schools are informed about things like surgery, the school is but they don't pass the information on to the teaching staff. Found this out when my daughter had knee surgery, she was on crutches and each teacher asked whether she'd broken something.
Kit Black 10 months ago
Even in the modern era, you are hospitalized for 3-5 days for open heart surgery, and you are supposed to remain at home for the first week at least, because there's quite a bit you can't do. And an ~angry red wound~ is INFECTED, which would have had him right back in the hospital after a surgery like that.
Min 10 months ago
It depends on tour definition of "angry red wound". My wounds are red as they heal before they fade. Infection is also red, but different.
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We had a girl at my High School . She missed a week of school because her brother murdered her whole family kept her alive . We had to act like everything was completely normal when she came back. I told her I'd keep her in my prayers even though I barely knew her at the time. She went to spend the weekend with her brother her sister and her Stepdad and her brother [unalived] the entire family.
Meowzers! 10 months ago
She went through that and only missed 1 week of school? Surely that's grounds for a considerable amount of compassionate leave, definitely more than just 1 week? That poor kid.
Papa 10 months ago
It might have been better to get her back in her regular routine, and the longer she was out the more difficult it would be to catch up on what she missed.
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BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago
I had a friend in college whose whole family died on one of the planes on September 11th 2001. It was his mother, father, and two younger sisters. He ended up missing the rest of the semester, but somehow came back to school in January, and finished his degree. He ended up becoming a really fantastic artist.
Flo 10 months ago
Since when does murder become "unlived"? What a weird way to be politically correct.
Jennifer Drake 10 months ago
It’s not about being PC, it’s about being censored on every single social media platform and website. We’re not allowed to say things like killed. Can’t handle it apparently.
Load More Replies... 285q6dgq6d 10 months ago
I think it’s more about praying for comfort for the child. The child just experienced the most horrific and tragic thing. I think the teacher reaching out in a compassionate way is okay here.
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6th grade, I told a teacher my homework wasn't done because my friend died. She flamed me in front of the class, and sent me to ISS. Word of the murder got around school, and the local news networks. She never said sorry, but it was excused off my grade.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
I'm guessing that flamed means that they were pretty much chewed out by the teacher? And for those who don't know ISS- In school suspension.
Grenelda Thurber 10 months ago (edited)
It is. "Flamed" was used a lot online in the days of the internet news groups. I haven't heard that bit of slang since the mid-1990's.
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All various excuses heard secondhand so not a teacher: escaped horses blocking the driveway, tractor broke down in the middle of the road, train crossing break down (the rails never came up), pigs giving birth (ag kid), creek flooding (minor but roads were blocked) and horse manure truck flipped over (the guy reeked so cue proof).
Its a small town.
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
lol teachers should be grateful the kids even went to school country life can be tough
Auntriarch 10 months ago
You can only hope that your teacher is a country person too
Load More Replies... Nikki Gross 10 months ago
My Sister, that lives out in BFE worked at the only 2 schools that they had in that whole area. Kids would ride all kinds of ATV's to the school and the school parking lot was half pick-up trucks and whatever else you could think of. They had a ride your tractor to school day, hog races and half the school was in 4H. Being late, because someone's livestock got loose was valid and acceptable excuses. All the kids had fishing rods and tackle boxes in the back of their trucks and if it was a weekend then there might be sleeping bags and camping supplies in back to.
#28
Student claimed book caught on fire. I just said, Sure it did. Next day he showed up with a copy of an insurance claim. Turns out he left his book by a space heater, the kind with heating elements, setting said book on fire as well as his homework. The pics of his rug, scorched, sealed the deal.
#29
They told me they couldn't study for a test because some rapper had broken into their house the night before and robbed them and they were too traumatized to study. I did not believe them but then the rapper got arrested for burglary and the local newspaper ran a story on it and it was actually a true story.
I unfortunately cannot remember the name of the rapper he was not nationally famous but well known in our part of Baltimore.
rorschach-penguin 10 months ago
Oh. I thought this person was trying to avoid saying "rapist". But no, an actual rapper.
#30
The student for this one. We had an essay assigned on Wednesday, first draft due Monday. Planned to do it during the weekend. I caught the teacher walking into the classroom right before class Monday.
"I am really sorry, I know I shouldn't have waited to do it last minute, but I planned to do it during this weekend. My mom and I went to visit a college on Saturday and I planned to do it when we got home. I know I shouldn't have waited to do it so last minute and please do not take this as an excuse, I am not really telling any other teachers because I don't want anyone to think I am just using this as an excuse, I am just trying to get through finals next week. I am so sorry but we got a call when we got home that my dad died on Saturday-"
"Wait what!"
I got an extension, but just handed it in by Wednesday.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
I hope his dad's passing didn't interfere with his final exams too much and that he was able to graduate.
Litepanda 10 months ago
Good for you. I hope you stop commenting pointlessly
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 10 months ago
I can understanding not wanting to make a big deal out of it and using it as an excuse. My little brother died when I was in uni. The year before I missed a class because I was worried about him as he was having pretty bad seizures. Because it exceeded the amount of absences allowed I failed the unit and I didn't realise until later. I could have easily gotten special considerations for missing the class but I didn't want my brother to feel like it was his fault I failed, or make a fuss. So I took the hit and redid the unit the next year. It meant changing things around, because it was a prerequisite for some of the other units, so had to do the last two years of units over three years.
#31
Not a teacher but I heard it from one. A student wasn't in school for around two weeks. The reason for it was they fractured their skull because they were leaning too far back on a chair and slammed their head on a table behind.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
In primary school the teachers were always warning us about the dangers of leaning too far back in our chairs because we could fall back and smash our head or neck on the table behind. Guess they weren't just making that up.
#32
I was the student. Crashed my car on the way to an exam; was able to take an identical exam with a different class at another time slot after filing the accident report.
Years later, I was able to get an extension on a project because I wound up in the emergency room over a kidney stone
The professors in both classes took my word at face value when I explained through text and email.
#33
Not a teacher, but someone in one of my classes my junior year got to retake his exam because him and his dad got stranded when the dad was giving his son a helicopter flying lesson and they had to emergency land or something. The student was prone to skipping classes so they didn't believe him until he called up his dad in the office, it was talked about by our school for a couple days.
#34
Once had a student, probably around 12 year old, who had an exercise to hand in. Went something like this:
Student: I did my exercise but my sister took it and ripped it up.
Me: So you haven't got it?
S: No, I did it again but this time she threw it in the fire.
Me: So you haven't got it?
S: I have, I just wanted to explain why it was burnt around the edges!
Auntriarch 10 months ago
Sister could be very young, my brother was a right little ratbag when he was 3 or 4.
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#35
Not a teacher, but a cousin of mine wasn’t the best student, and frequently didn’t have his homework done. One day the teacher demands to know why, and he tells her his mother had a heart attack the night before and was rushed to hospital. He gets chewed out for lying about such a terrible thing and got detention. Turns out my aunt really did have a heart attack...
#36
Not a teacher but one kid was late for class because he had a “run in” with the F.B.I. Turns out his father was wanted and was found that morning so he had to walk to school because he could not drive. Teacher still marked him tardy.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
Wtf? That teacher sucks, like the kid wasn't dealing with enough bs already.
#37
I knew a kid once that had his whole (trailer) home get sucked into a sinkhole. All his school work (and everything he owned) was gone forever.
Edit: apologies I’m not a teacher. It was a coworker when I was young.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
How deep was this sinkhole and I hope that no one was home, when Mother Earth decided to consume it.
#38
TLDR: I told my professor someone got shot at a Home Depot so I might be late turning in my assignment. He didn’t believe me.
I was the student. I was taking college classes at night and was at my internship during the day. Sometime in the afternoon some guy shot a police officer? security guard? at the Home Depot that was smack dab between my campus and my office. The shooter then fled and there was a manhunt for him. A few offices and shopping centers went on lockdown but not mine.
It just so happened that that day we had an assignment due that had to be turned in with a print out before class started. If it wasn’t printed out then it was half points off, if it wasn’t in the stack right when the professor started class it was half points off. I emailed my professor and told him “there’s a shooter loose between me and campus, I might be late bc they’re closing some roads down so here’s an emailed copy of my assignment.” He tells me “I looked on Google maps and traffic seems normal I expect to see you in class on time.”
Ok I wasn’t gonna argue with my professor over email so I go to my HR lady and tell her “hey I know I normally leave an hour before class is it ok if I leave an hour and a half before so I can make it on time?” She says yes, all my little coworker friends are like I can’t believe you’re driving right through it and I’m like yeah and normally I pick up dinner before class but today I guess I’ll go without it.
With all the barricades and rerouted traffic I make it to class right on time and turn in my assignment, have a normal class but I’m a little hungry.
The NEXT TIME I go to class I sit down and my professor spots me and immediately zooms over and goes “when I got home after class my wife was watching the news and I saw the manhunt and helicopters and I’m sorry of course you wouldn’t have gotten any points off for emailing your assignment or being late”
Edit: I found the article!
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
I read the article and the guy that they were on a manhunt for, was accused of shoplifting at the Home Depot. They brought the suspect into a back room where they found he was in the possession of a knife and mace, which were of course taken away. They also learned that this guy had a warrant out on him, for auto theft. Initially the guy was detained by the store's loss prevention officer, as well as a part time employee, who also works as a Dallas police officer. They called in for backup and 2 officers arrived, to arrest him and transport him to the local jail. During this process, the dude takes his hands out of his pockets and produces a gun, that he had tucked in his groin area and started shooting. One of the 2 officers that were backup, died and the other officer was fighting for her life, after taking multiple bullets. The stores loss prevention officer was also critically wounded. After a manhunt and wild police chase, the douche canoe was apprehended and taken into custody.
Kalikima 10 months ago
It's you, and people like you, that do beautiful things like this. Thank you for doing this, so all of us don't have to.
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Holy S**t!!! Okay, that is beyond f****d up and I hope the other 2 officers survived.
#39
My wife had a student that left her class about 15 minutes into class every day. After about a week of this she asked him what's up. He looked her dead in the eye and said if he eats breakfast in the morning he will need to c**p at that time everyday. She asked the hall monitor to check up on him and sure enough, he went to the bathroom everyday like clockwork.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Definitely needs to change his diet! If he is having coffee for breakfast, that could be the cause (as well as numerous other things)
#40
A snowstorm had just started, and was WAY worse than predicted. One student doesn't show up, and 10 minutes later she calls me "Look out the window, and you should be able to see the highway... that car in the ditch? That's me!" (She waves). "I slid off the road, and I've called for a tow, but they've just announced a towban until the storm is over, and I TRIED to get to the school, but the snow bank is too deep" (not the first snowstorm of the year!).
We ended up cancelling class early so people could have a chance to get home before the roads got any worse, anyways.
#41
"A crocodile ate my homework" i live in darwin australia and some of the students went to a lake after school one of their bags were taken.
#42
In middle school my locker mate got cancer and when they cleaned out his stuff from our locker they took my library book.
So Mrs.cook I didnt lose my library book the cancer kid stole.
rorschach-penguin 10 months ago
At schools that don't have enough lockers. About twenty kids at my old school had to share lockers.
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#43
We were visiting friends and put my young son down for his nap in the room of a teenager. My son woke up and had to go to the bathroom. There was no toilet paper on the roll so he used a detention note that the teenager had gotten and was supposed to get signed by his parents. The teenager had to go in the next day and explain what happened to his detention note.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
Idk if I believe this one. Most kids that still nap are usually ages 5 and under. I can't imagine a little kid not yelling for help, when they saw that there wasn't any toilet paper left. Then to decide that this random piece of paper with writing on it, looks like a good substitute to wipe their butt with. At least in my experiences, kids of this age are not good at properly cleaning/wiping themselves and tend to need the help of an adult. I hope the poor kiddo didn't get any paper cuts.
#44
Was absent due to being stranded on an island during CA wildfires - all means of transport back to the mainland were being used for more pressing matters. Eventually he (and the group he was with) was evacuated by a police plane (he was camping; group was rationing out their food).
#46
I was actually the one giving my guitar teacher the excuse: “My cat vomited on my homework!”
He had given me drill sheets and I had left them on top of my guitar case while I went to have a shower. My poor old cat, who had major GI issues, had a puking episode on said guitar case and the pages were ruined. So I called my teacher and told him I would need fresh copies at my next lesson and wouldn’t be as well practiced as I had planned. My guitar teacher absolutely died laughing.
#47
Was a student, but I remember there was a girl in my JROTC program in HS. On uniform day she only came with her pants and shoes and the Major was absolutely pissed because that's like not even half her uniform.
Turns out she had been shot in the shoulder, her wound wasn't too bad but she had a hole in her jacket and shirt and there was blood. Major couldn't believe his own eyes but she was given a new shirt and jacket and her marks that day were excused.
Evidently she lived in a not-great part of our city that already has gun violence issues.
Leah Brown 10 months ago
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Program for middle and high schoolers in the USA. The program has no service obligations of any kind and provides extra-curricular credit for high school education. Many other countries have a similar type of 'Cadet Corps'.
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#48
Had to tell two teachers (was a joint essay for AP Literature & American History classes) that the crazed ex-girlfriend of my mom's boyfriend set fire to our house. Didn't burn all the way down (she threw an incendiary through the window which landed on a waterbed, the fire put itself out once it had burned through the blankets), but heat and smoke damage pretty much destroyed everything on the inside.
The next morning I walk up to the lit teacher and say "I don't have my homework, but I've got a _really_ good excuse". She was notorious for not accepting excuses, but was very good-natured otherwise, so she laughed and asked to hear it. No problem, got a pass on that one.
#49
Not a teacher, but the student. Studied musical theater in college and woke up one morning with intense pain on right side. Hobbled the half mile from dorm to my tap class. Started to feel really really bad and said I needed to go the medical center. Tap teacher said I can go once I teach a combo I choreographed to the class for a test grade-keep in mind this is a college course from a private college I’M paying money to attend- Medical center said my appendix was likely inflamed and was rushed to ER.
Also had a chorale concert that day where the course rule is if you don’t sing you fail. All of my classmates literally had to convince the music director that I wasn’t lying and was literally waiting in the hospital for surgery.
Stephanie Barr 10 months ago
I hate classes like that. I was in chorus but I had too many hours so I took it for no credit. The concert was scheduled over one of my physics tests (I was an Engineering Physics major) and my teacher told me, if I didn't come, I was failed. I told him (he wasn't a good guy), I'm taking it for no credit. Fail my a*s.
#50
I had a student tell me her parents kept the bodies of 6 dead hamsters in her freezer. I called her mom and she admitted to it - apparently they were waiting until the ground thawed to bury them.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
I hope these people never got another hamster, ever again. I had a hamster as a pet, when I was around 12 years old and he lived for almost 5 years. When he did pass, my dad built a little wooden coffin for him and I buried him in the backyard. So for these people to have had 6 hamsters die, in roughly a 6-9 month time span, raises a lot of questions.
Science Nerd 10 months ago
Average life expectancy is around 2 years, the longest lived hamster we've had lived to 2 years, 9 months. This is with a large cage (42" x 23"), weekly bedding changes, nightly play time in a kiddie pool, and regular vet checkups. Five years is not believable.
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#51
Obligatory not a teacher but I have a good one. I once emailed a professor that I needed an extension on a midterm because my house burned down.
#52
I’m a 6th grade FACS teacher teaching distance learning. I had a student and parent email me that their dog ate their sewing project (it was a stuffed felt monster). Never would I have thought I’d get a “my dog ate my homework” excuse but it happened!
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
For those who also had no clue what FACS stood for, it means Family and Consumer Sciences.
#53
"Sorry I'm late, I was stuck in the WC because the handle broke".
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
WC means "toilet" or "bathroom" if anybody's wondering. It's short for "water closet".
PandaGoPanda 10 months ago
Thank-you so much. How would we ever manage to read to the end of a sentence without your assistance in telling us what the words mean?
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When I was collecting homework, one of my 2nd graders pointed to his forehead and told me, “I don’t have it because I got bruised.” It looked like a normal f*****g forehead. And I also don’t understand the connection between those 2 things. So I just chalked it up to a weak excuse and moved on.
A week later that student’s dad came in for a parent teacher conference. During our conversation the dad says “Well he told you how he quit breathing and we called 911 the other day, right? It really freaked us out.” And I go “no....” the dad proceeds to tell me that he took his son’s video games away as a punishment, and in a fit of rage, the child dove headfirst into a wall and KNOCKED HIMSELF UNCONSCIOUS.
A little more than a “bruise”.
I could not quit laughing. Im picturing a 7 year old shrieking like a banshee, barreling across the floor, and taking flight with his hands at his side, convinced he’s gonna take the house down with him. It was bringing tears to my eyes. And how horribly the kid downplayed what had happened was just outrageous. Thankfully the dad had a good sense of humor and laughed with me too.
Montanavanna 10 months ago
My first grader has homework. It isn't so much used to reach a grade as it is an opportunity to work on skills at home. Like if he just refuses to do it (he has special needs and absolutely loathes doing school work at home) I can't force him and he will not be marked down for it.
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My girlfriend's sister asked to have her final moved so she could be there at girlfriend's graduation. They're twins and went to schools at opposite ends of the country.
To this day neither of them can believe "Can I take my final on a different day? I'm going to California to be there for my twin sister's graduation" actually worked.
PandaGoPanda 10 months ago
it was real, but she was permitted to change the date of her final exam just to attend her twin sister's graduation ceremony - most universities wouldn't allow you to change your final exam date for anything short of being in hospital.
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PandaGoPanda 10 months ago
My kids have just started university (different universities) and I'm already worried they will have graduation ceremonies on the same day and I won't be able to go to both.
Kalikima 10 months ago
They're in the same grade? Oh boy, that would be a hard one, how in the world do you choose with one to attend? You attend either and the other wouldn't understand. I say, go to neither, then they can't accuse you of playing favorites..
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I had a student tell me that he was arrested for shoplifting. He missed his assignment deadline. He even showed me the paperwork from the BPD. I gave him a generous extension of two weeks, since his life was in disarray and I could tell that he was already sorry for his actions.
#57
Not a teacher, but one time a student showed up with very red eyes. Everyone thought he was high on weed, but he had allergies. The teacher informed us he gets allergies around certain time of the year.
Edit:typo.
#59
I had a student email me asking for an extension on homework because they had a medical issue as a result of a recent medical procedure. I was sent photos of A LOT of blood all over the shower and bathroom as evidence .
#60
One of my students called me and he said, hey teacher im gonna be late because there are too much traffic, so i said him
traffic, are you kidding me? our class is on teams
what the hell are you saying me?
so my student told me, yeah sr, a lot of network traffic because my sister is watching Netflix with her boyfriend.
#61
I once walked up to a teacher after being late, handed her my note, and told her that my buddy got hit by a car.
He was fine, literally no injuries beyond a little bruising.
#62
Parent here and a multi-user account
My son didn't go to school for the death of my brother, who in the town was honored and remembered as a hero.
Meowzers! 10 months ago
Compassionate leave is pretty standard for the death of a family member.
Bi.Felicia 10 months ago
I'm pretty sure that many of the people that shared their stories, on this thread would beg to differ.
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Not a teacher, but one of my classmates during my high school years heard they noticed something going on at the parking lot. They were asking who was the owner of the car that was being looked at. We sat next to the windows, which had a near view of the parking lot. I took a peak for a moment. If it was a fire truck, that was going to be a drill time. I often had issues with that certain loud noises likely due to the pitch to the point, I ended up getting an order to have either a pair of earplugs or headphones on standby. Yet, there was no sign of the truck, apart from a few pick-up trucks that belong to folks in the school. Finally, they alerted the teacher, so was in the middle of explaining an upcoming exam. Just as the teacher was about to tell the classmate to pipe down, a blast of nosie got into the air. The teacher looked at yelled at the two men to beat it, or the cops were going to get called. The two would-be thieves fleed the area, while the teacher disabled and reenabled the car alarm with a remote.
The teacher went back to work as if nothing happened.
I later learned someone had broken a hood ornament from a random car and the two idiots were trying to have a replacement.
Billo66 10 months ago
Why did I randomly read that in Groundskeeper W*****s voice?
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This isn't that crazy and I'm not a teacher but it's still a good excuse and it was today.
I went on a run before my last online lesson today, got carried away and ended up running over half a marathon and missing my lesson. I love running but I've never done that before phaha.
#66
Ok, Im not a teacher, but everyone thought I was making sh*t up.
In sixth grade I woke up with a pain in my knee, but it was normal at the time for me to wake up with a little pain as I often slept weird. My bed was one of those that had a desk underneath it and I loved jumping down from my bed.
So my mom came to wake me up and I got up and jumped down ignoring the pain in my knee. Well, when I hit the floor I fell down, but that I also saw as normal, until I tried to get up and I couldn't stand on my right leg. Me and my mom wrote to my teacher and I stayed home that day since I couldn't stay up. When I went to school the next day a bunch of kids told me I was "making stuff up" and to "stop trying to get out of class". It hurt, but that wasn't the end. A few weeks later I woke up in pain again, but this time I realized with wasn't one of those normal pains. My left ear and eye hurt and I couldn't hear or see very well. So me and my mom wrote to my teacher again and the same kids thought I was making things up. 🤷🤷.
What do you think ?
Earonn - 10 months ago
Not at school but about 20 years ago we had a really nice week with lots of sunshine in my area. I had to take the train to work, and in Germany they plant lots of bushes and trees next to tracks. This caused a lot of flickering light in the train (sunshine-shadow) and my epilepsy chose that moment to become very lively. I got a doctor's not for a week because of "sunshine". Lot of people at work didn't believe me (but also weren't willing to give me a lift or sit with me in the train and take care of me when I've got the inevitable seizure, strange....) Oh, and no, you can't just close your eyes, try it with a strong light and shade it - you still see the bright/dark effect.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 10 months ago
no fr tho! I have epilepsy too, when I do sleep studies, they test me with flashing lights, and tell me to close my eyes. I don't think I have reactions to lights (although the one I had a few days ago might tell us otherwise sadly, they had to redo it and I don't remember part of it, but I think I fell asleep because I was so tired lol, we'll see) Lights give me major headaches, and I'm more sensitive to them than I was before I had my first seizure. I'm also more likely to have a seizure when I breathe heavily, like hyperventilate, which is so fun for panic attacks lol. Do you wear like dog tags or something that say you have epilepsy? My mom got me a little medical alert bracelet off of Amazon (I think?) that was customizable, with my name, says I have epilepsy, allergy, and an emergency contact. It's really cute and I make sure to wear it everywhere and I'm glad she got it for me!
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Corvus 10 months ago
Not a teacher, but I work with students (university). One of them once gave me the classic "dog ate my gradebook" and I smiled, thinking it was a joke... but then he showed the gradebook, and indeed - there was a huge bite mark on its side :P
Mr. Toast 10 months ago
To be honest if I had a big dog as a kid growing up there were times like with French homework or English book report I would fed the book to the dog and make it look like an accident. Mind would have liked to get the dog to bite the teachers some right assh*Les...
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 10 months ago
I once got myself excused from doing my Geography exam because the instant I turned the paper over... splat! A big drop of blood came out of my nose and landed right on it. Had to come back later and do it using a fresh copy.
veryvenasaur 10 months ago
My two best excuse stories are when I was late and said, “sorry my dog got stuck under the trampoline and I had to get her out.” I had a photo so the teacher believed me. The other story isn’t a ridiculous excuse but more of a hilarious miscommunication. I showed up late in I think 4th grade and said “sorry I’m late my mom is out of town and my dad had to go to the hospital.” The teacher was obviously very concerned and only later found out my dad hadn’t had a medical emergency. My dad is a cardiologist and he was on call the night before. He’d been called in to an emergency at around 6:30 AM. He’d wanted to get home in time to drive us to school but for complicated medical reasons I don’t remember he ended getting home an hour after we needed to leave making me an hour late to school.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Old story. Four college students arrived too late to class to take the exam. Their excuse was that their car had had a flat tire on the way to class. The prof said, "Fine. come in at 4 this afternoon to take a make-up." When they arrived, the teacher put each of them in a different room with a copy of the new exam. It had only two questions. The first was very basic and reasonable and was worth 25%. The second question was worth 75% of the grade and read as following: "Which tire was it?"
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago
Only ever missed homework once - it was chemistry, and I couldn't find out anything about the subject matter (1970s - library the only option).
BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago
I didn't get anything excused, because it was my own fault. But when I was in college, I was also full time in the Army, and worked part-time on side gigs. I worked an office job, but I had to be on base really early to get through reports before my CO needed them, so I would leave for base at 4AM, then go to my first class at 7AM (calculus). I was usually done with my day around 11PM. My calc book was supposed to last for 3 semesters, and it cost me $280. One morning I was a bit dazed and I put my books on top of my car to unlock the door. When I got to base, my books were no longer in the car. I had left them on the roof of my car, and they were scattered across the highway. I had to buy all new books. Cost me a LOT of money. Especially that calc book.
OneHappyPuppy 10 months ago
Not school but uni. I had a huge paper to do on a very tricky matter for the strictest professor. I'm talking 20+ pages of material, we were given a month to do it. My laptop crapped out, sent it for servicing (it was new, the little bastard and still in warranty) and long story short I got it back on a Friday, the paper was due Sunday 11:59pm. I managed to finish the paper, all hell be damned, fueled by quick bites and a shitload of coffee
Earonn - 10 months ago
Not at school but about 20 years ago we had a really nice week with lots of sunshine in my area. I had to take the train to work, and in Germany they plant lots of bushes and trees next to tracks. This caused a lot of flickering light in the train (sunshine-shadow) and my epilepsy chose that moment to become very lively. I got a doctor's not for a week because of "sunshine". Lot of people at work didn't believe me (but also weren't willing to give me a lift or sit with me in the train and take care of me when I've got the inevitable seizure, strange....) Oh, and no, you can't just close your eyes, try it with a strong light and shade it - you still see the bright/dark effect.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 10 months ago
no fr tho! I have epilepsy too, when I do sleep studies, they test me with flashing lights, and tell me to close my eyes. I don't think I have reactions to lights (although the one I had a few days ago might tell us otherwise sadly, they had to redo it and I don't remember part of it, but I think I fell asleep because I was so tired lol, we'll see) Lights give me major headaches, and I'm more sensitive to them than I was before I had my first seizure. I'm also more likely to have a seizure when I breathe heavily, like hyperventilate, which is so fun for panic attacks lol. Do you wear like dog tags or something that say you have epilepsy? My mom got me a little medical alert bracelet off of Amazon (I think?) that was customizable, with my name, says I have epilepsy, allergy, and an emergency contact. It's really cute and I make sure to wear it everywhere and I'm glad she got it for me!
Load More Replies... Corvus 10 months ago
Not a teacher, but I work with students (university). One of them once gave me the classic "dog ate my gradebook" and I smiled, thinking it was a joke... but then he showed the gradebook, and indeed - there was a huge bite mark on its side :P
Mr. Toast 10 months ago
To be honest if I had a big dog as a kid growing up there were times like with French homework or English book report I would fed the book to the dog and make it look like an accident. Mind would have liked to get the dog to bite the teachers some right assh*Les...
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 10 months ago
I once got myself excused from doing my Geography exam because the instant I turned the paper over... splat! A big drop of blood came out of my nose and landed right on it. Had to come back later and do it using a fresh copy.
veryvenasaur 10 months ago
My two best excuse stories are when I was late and said, “sorry my dog got stuck under the trampoline and I had to get her out.” I had a photo so the teacher believed me. The other story isn’t a ridiculous excuse but more of a hilarious miscommunication. I showed up late in I think 4th grade and said “sorry I’m late my mom is out of town and my dad had to go to the hospital.” The teacher was obviously very concerned and only later found out my dad hadn’t had a medical emergency. My dad is a cardiologist and he was on call the night before. He’d been called in to an emergency at around 6:30 AM. He’d wanted to get home in time to drive us to school but for complicated medical reasons I don’t remember he ended getting home an hour after we needed to leave making me an hour late to school.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Old story. Four college students arrived too late to class to take the exam. Their excuse was that their car had had a flat tire on the way to class. The prof said, "Fine. come in at 4 this afternoon to take a make-up." When they arrived, the teacher put each of them in a different room with a copy of the new exam. It had only two questions. The first was very basic and reasonable and was worth 25%. The second question was worth 75% of the grade and read as following: "Which tire was it?"
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago
Only ever missed homework once - it was chemistry, and I couldn't find out anything about the subject matter (1970s - library the only option).
BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago
I didn't get anything excused, because it was my own fault. But when I was in college, I was also full time in the Army, and worked part-time on side gigs. I worked an office job, but I had to be on base really early to get through reports before my CO needed them, so I would leave for base at 4AM, then go to my first class at 7AM (calculus). I was usually done with my day around 11PM. My calc book was supposed to last for 3 semesters, and it cost me $280. One morning I was a bit dazed and I put my books on top of my car to unlock the door. When I got to base, my books were no longer in the car. I had left them on the roof of my car, and they were scattered across the highway. I had to buy all new books. Cost me a LOT of money. Especially that calc book.
OneHappyPuppy 10 months ago
Not school but uni. I had a huge paper to do on a very tricky matter for the strictest professor. I'm talking 20+ pages of material, we were given a month to do it. My laptop crapped out, sent it for servicing (it was new, the little bastard and still in warranty) and long story short I got it back on a Friday, the paper was due Sunday 11:59pm. I managed to finish the paper, all hell be damned, fueled by quick bites and a shitload of coffee
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