ltocadisco:
How old do you have to be to smoke crack? ~ a fellow student at Waukegan circa 1988.
CrowSage:
As part of teaching U.S. Government I ran a zombie apocalypse scenario where the students had to respond to an ongoing crisis in real-time using the actual powers of the government as different parts of the government. It was my favorite activity all semester and I went all in, including with a large map of the U.S. that would be updated for every day that passed.
As part of this activity I prepared a handout of a fake news story about the zombie apocalypse beginning in our home town. It had pictures of zombies shambling around and was written all newspaper style.
One day, after handing these out, an 18 year old student raised their hand and said “Mr. CrowSage, did this really happen?
PoopNoodle:
Was teaching a 101 lvl college freshman survey course.
Told the students i was born in Alaska and a girl from the midwest asked me if it was hard to learn english so I could teach college.
A guy in my class once asked the science teacher why 3.14 is called Pi and why isn’t just called pizza or cake or something.
RedditRobotic:
“We’re watching documentaries in black and white (I think the Great Depression). Kid raises his hand, I call on him, he says “never mind it’s a stupid question.” I say, ” there are no stupid questions, go ahead.” He proceeds with “did they have color back then? Like, in real life?”
I was dumbfounded, and could not keep a straight face. Turns out, there are stupid questions.”
-10thDoctorTeacher
MurielStacey:
There’s a lot of funny stuff in the classroom, but this one is the first one I thought of.
At the beginning of the year I was assessing some basic content knowledge with my group(high school E/BD boys).
I asked, “can someone name one country other than the United States?”The answers: Chicago, California, New York, Africa, and “that place where Mexicans come from.”