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[acornrevolution]

Hello teachers!

Hopefully, this is in the right forum. I have
been a teacher for 4 years now, and in that time have come
across some pretty funny conversations in the classroom, and
have heard some pretty hilarious ones from other teachers as
well. I started Stuff My Students Said as a place where
teachers can share their funny conversations and read others
as a way to brighten their day, have a laugh, release some
tension, or feel connected to other teachers.

All posts are anonymous and no registration is required.
Please consider contributing!

www.StuffMyStudentsSaid.com

Thanks,
Anthony

[Denizen]

It seems like it could be an entertaining idea once the rough is cleared away from the true jewels.

[acornrevolution]

It's success depends on how many people contribute. I am trying to get as many teachers as possible to contribute to the site.

If you think a story is funny (or not), there is a voting system in place.

[naturegirl321]

Here's mine. just happened today. It's funny, but also frustrating becuase we went over this for two entire classes, it was posted on the intranet, and they used real examples in class. And they're university students, so even though we learn about this in Middle School, they probably have never had to write a bibliography before.

Student: Teacher, can you help me with my bibliography and in-text citation?
Me: Ok, what's your question?
Student: is this ok? Jane Smith, 2011 May 5.
Me: Is this from a book or online?
Student: My thinking.
Me: Did you interview someone?
Student: No, my thinking.
Me: I don't understand
Student: Invent.
Me: You invented this?
Student: yes.
Me: Really? You can't invent information for a bibliography. Etc, Etc, I had to show her again how to do one.

It was kind of funny though. She looked very confused that you couldn't just invent information and add it to your paper.

[danydan]

Good idea. Will contribute.

[posh]

15 years ago when I taught in China I used to invite the graduating class round to my flat for dinner. They would come six at a time each week. The deal was that I'd give them 20Y and they'd do the shopping then cook it (cunning, huh?).

One time we had fish and this cute girl asked me if I liked head. Before I could muster a suitable reply she continued by telling me that her Granny had told her she should have a lot of head as it was healthy.

About 3 months later the same girl said she wanted to come round and clean my flat. I spent many moments wondering whether or not this could be a euphemism for something else.

[BadBeagleBad]

I am not sure how funny this is, it was funny to me though. I have one class that only has two students. One day, one of them sent me an email that she wouldn�t be attending the next day. Since I don�t cancel classes if there is just one person, I sent the other student an email telling him the other
student would not be attending that day, and to let me know if he wanted to do anything in particular that day, so we could make good use of the time. He wrote me back and said, yes, thanks, I will have breakfast with my daughter that day, see you on Tuesday. So I guess his idea of making good use of what could have been a one on one class was to not come.

[Sashadroogie]

For some strange reason all the funny stories remembered centre on students' mistakes that have errr...a racy edge to them. For example, student sends me a text asking when he can can come round for a lesson. I reply something like come over at 17.00. The inevitable reply - I'll come over you at 17.00.

I thought better of correcting that one...

[Trinley]

Recently I had a lesson about hotels. One student was supposed to make a complaint as a hotel guest, and the other one would apologize and rectify the problem as the hotel clerk. So one of the complaints was the very random "my room smells like old cheese" to which the hotel clerk replied "I'm sorry, but we have no new cheese." She was serious. I laughed my ASS off right in front of her. I felt bad, but it was hilarious.