CougarMagnum:
From my first year teaching: “How did I receive a zero on the assignment? I didn’t even turn it in.”
“High school foreign language: “Why do people speak in other languages when they all just translate into English in their heads anyway?”
Yes. He thought that everyone everywhere has English words in their brains and speak their own languages just to be difficult.”
MissAppear:
Not a teacher, but on the first day of my freshman chem class the professor was telling everyone he wanted the homework to be completed on scantrons. He then pointed to a huge stack of them and told us all that he would bring scantrons every day, and everyone was free to take as many as they’d like. Some girl then raised her hand and asked if she could buy them in the bookstore.
lady_red92:
I was subbing for a middle school social studies class. one kid was just perusing the maps in the back of his textbook. Suddenly, he looks up with a shocked look on his face. “There’s a country called Niger? [he pronounced it as if there were 2 g’s]…That’s racist!”
pm_send_tits:
A professor was presenting on eating vegan and a classmate tried to compare/argue that potatoes can sense pain much like animals.
SalemScout:
High school Earth Science teacher…
“Where do clouds go at night?”
PlantaAliena
Not a teacher, but I had a girl in my junior year Environmental Science class seriously ask “If no one knows what’s at the bottom of the ocean, why don’t we just drain all the water in one section and find out?” She asked this like she had some sort of huge grand idea and thought of something revolutionary that no one else had.