Teachers: Funniest (or stupidest) thing a student asked you?

Question

I had one asking me how to spell: YMCA... Yes, I know... lol

Answer 1

Not really a dumb question, but a dumb situation.

Sixth grader: "Mr. _! I got my ponytail stuck in my backpack zipper!"

Answer 2

When I was in 8th grade, we were discussing the Revolutionary War and the military forces we had then. You know, the Army and the Navy when one girl raises her hand and asks "What did the Air Force do in the War?"

And when I was in 10th grade: "Why does 2 and 2 always equal 4? Why dosen't it ever equal 5? Do they have, like people who sit around all day and make up math problems? I hate math!"

Answer 3

I'm not a teacher.
However, I've witnessed the asking of...
..."Mom, when is the assignment due?" (No, they WEREN'T related.)
..."Can I have my homework sheet back yet? I need to give it to Kenny, so he can copy it before 6th period."
..."Do you like ducks?"
..."Are you gay? I bet you're gay. Dam*, you gotta be a f*ggot. So, ARE you? (teacher glare) Haha! He's not answering! GAYFAG!"
..."If I bring a cake to class on my birthday, are you gonna make me share? Cuz then, there's only a couple pieces left for me. And I want the WHOLE THING!"
..."How can I make you go away?"
..."Can't you just, like, text me the work, and stuff?"
..."If I call you a b*tch in front of the class, how many days of detention do I get?" ("WHY!?" -teacher) "So I'll know whether it's worth it to call you one. If it's not worth it, no biggie, I can just tell everybody later."

Answer 4

I have one asking me how to spell the word 'leisure'. Maybe it's because of a long vacation that made her a almost total stranger in the school lol.

Cheers and have a nice week ahead :)

Answer 5

At the end of a laboratory session on safety (including proper use of burners), the students were required to prepare a solution by adding a colored salt to a beaker of boiling water.

One young lady in an Angora sweater backed into her lit Bunsen burner which she had positioned too close to the edge of the lab bench. The fine fur of her sweater went off like a flash-bulb... whooop!

After she regained her composure, she quickly brushed at the blackened fibers and then raised her hand to ask "Will this affect my grade?"

Answer 6

I am a nurse now, but many years ago I taught school. I had an eighth grade english class that was really woooping it up and I shouted, "Cool it!" With that, one of the kids got up and got the pole and started opening all the windows!

Answer 7

no longer fairly humorous, yet unusual. In my university math analyses type the professor got here in, wrote each and all the subject concerns for the day out on the board. It took him all of roughly quarter-hour. He then stated, "Any Questions"? no person spoke up so he stated, "type brushed aside". You better wish you obtain reason he become out the door actual after that.

Answer 8

I've had students try to negotiate their way out of homework on Fridays. One argued that it was his family movie night, and I'm the reason his family has to wait for him. Mind you he's in a homework club in the afterschool program, and his homework is done before he arrives home.

Answer 9

One of my teachers in high school was asked about the great American Rehired Stands

Answer 10

When I was tutoring for "No Child Left Behind", one of my students told me:

"Why don't you just show me the movie V for Vendetta? There is alot bigger words in that movie than the ones you use... I think that movie is smarter than you."

I resisted telling him that he would probably learn a lot more from that movie than the material the government supplied me to teach him.

Answer 11

"Are we doing anything important today?"

I've gotten that question more than once. I usually tell them that God is going to make an appearance.