Today, I asked my class to name some West African countries. Several of them thought Ebola was a country. I teach an AP history class. FML
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Today, while teaching my history class, a girl asked me where North America was. She lives in North America. FML
Today, I was assigned to fill in for a French teacher who was out sick. I had asked the class to name some French-speaking countries. I called on one girl and she replied, "Uh, Europe. That's, like, the only other one, right?" Nobody disagreed. I'm filling in for the rest of the month. FML
Today, during class our teacher asked us, "Who is Uncle Sam?" A girl answered, "He's the guy who founded KFC, right?" I'm in an AP class and have to put up with these morons constantly. FML
Today, during a lecture, my teacher jokingly talked about the time he was best buds with George Washington. Another student then asked, "Really? You knew him?" I'm in an advanced placement U.S. history class. FML
Today, I heard two of my students having a conversation. One asked what state Arizona was in, and the other replied Canada. I teach sixth grade social studies and they weren't joking. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, in my AP U.S. history class, we had a very long, very slow discussion about whether or not Vermont is a state. I think I lost brain cells. FML
Today, I gave a big presentation to my class. It included PowerPoint slides and video clips of the country I'd been researching. Another student did a presentation on the same country, except he just read from its Wikipedia page. He practically got a standing ovation. I got a single clap. FML
Today, I found FML for the first time in class, and literally laughed out loud in the middle of the lecture in front of 200 classmates. Today's lecture? The cruelties of slavery. FML
Today, while teaching juniors about black holes, I said, "Imagine everything being sucked into a black hole." An African-American student shouted, "I'd better start clenching!" Nobody took the lesson seriously after that. FML
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Welshite 40
That answer is going viral.
nityasomaiya 46
I'm wondering what they thought the disease was....
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Comments (174)
Manic1 13
Wow! I hope they were just messing with you, if they weren't that would be really sad.
captainsmegma 12
Must not take much to get into that school's AP class.
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Trust me, my school will just put anybody in an AP class if they signed up for it. There are some kids in my school that are in AP classes, and you wonder why they're in an AP class.
imbedderdenu 23
today's kids are seriously retarded.
MzZombicidal 36
And apparently they're more offensive too? Using "retarded" to describe some misinformed kids does not make you look better. It makes you look like an asshole. That's the beauty about being in school - you're not expected to know everything. That's why you're in school.
vanessa3546 11
Woooow ??
Chase_runner 6
Welcome to American classrooms everybody
odamaliekh 26
Things like this happens everywhere, not just the US.
foxmatrix15 8
Yep the future is over.
BeccaWella 15
They must be American.
Kn0wledge123 21
I don't want to live on this planet anymore
leaahhmariie 6
Ebola is a river in Africa, hence the disease's name. So they aren't TOO far off.
thenielsens 12
The kids these days are idiots..and lazy. But hey someone's gotta do the burger flipping for me ;)
MzZombicidal 36
Yes, lazy idiots. Tell that to the kids working their asses off in class or on the field so they can get scholarships just to move onto college and take on the stresses of that! Oh, but sure, they're only here to serve jackasses like you the artery-clogging burgers you need so much. Asshole.