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KOREAN_MAN · Joined: 01 Oct 2006

What are your favorite excuses that your students told you for not doing their homework? My favorite is from an 8-year-old boy (who wasn't too bright by the way) who said,

"Teacher. Uh... we don't have paper at home." Shocked

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I got this one years and years ago when I was teaching high school in the US.

I asked for the students to hand in their essays and one girl timidly raised her hand, tears in her eyes..."Mr. Ya-ta, I can't hand it in today. My parents put new carpet in yesterday and my book got nailed under the rug. I'll bring it tomorrow."

It was true.

antoniothegreat · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Yangpyeong

not quite on topic, but i teach at a middle school, one girl left early, when she was leaving she said her husband would come to pick up her books, i thought i misunderstood so i asked a korean teacher to translate, and she was dead serious, her husband...

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject:

From a university student:

"Teacher, I didn't do the assignment last week because I had an abortion." The she handed me her hospital bill, and a fully-translated English copy, so I knew she wasn't lying.

Too Much Information. Next time, just say you were in the hospital, thanks.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

thursdays child · Joined: 21 Sep 2005

a whole class didn't come. tracked them down.
Their excuse: "We thought you had gone home to your country."
Me: "But I taught half of you for (a different class) 2 hours ago!"
Them: "oh yeah?!"

Gaber · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

"My grandmother [scrunching up paper and thowing it away hand motion] rubish"
I bought it first time, when she tried it again I hauled her off to the manager.

crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

Mine when I was in elementary school: My dad threw my homework in the garbage.

Of course the teacher didn't believe me so I asked her to call my dad at his office. So my dad, English professor and chairman of the school board, had to admit that yes, he had thrown his son's homework into the garbage.

Gaber · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

Wow. Are Korean parents big on thowing away homework or something?
Woops, disregard

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

i had a student tell me he didn't show up for class the week before because he had been arrested for fighting. i thought that was going to be the coolest one on here, but it doesn't even compare to abortions and married middle-schoolers.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject:

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject:

numazawa · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: The Concrete Barnyard

Let's not forget the "excuses" (justifications) advanced for soliciting a better grade. I've just heard the most compelling reason yet to reconsider a 4th year university student's mediocre score:

"I'm not good at English and that's why I had a bad grade."

Um... Okay, he had me dead to rights there.