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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kenerics 12
you deserve it for teaching history lmao
thebrainiac 9
I'm like 15 and people in my generation are so ignorants it's so so annoying
limabeans101029 21
You're "like 15"? That's an oddly vague way to describe your age
Music_rocks 7
As a fellow educator all I can say is at least you have identified an area which they can improve on if it is necessary for your course. With regards to other people's comments saying that the youth of today are ignorant, stupid and the likes this is simply not true. The youth of today is no less bright than the youth that went before it, we are just living in a society which places different emphasis on different things over time. Does it make sense for the youth to have a well grounded knowledge of countries (roughly at least)? Yes, it does but they do not need to know all of them, to be crude I have an app for that! I have to admit that I am just finishing a BA Honours degree in Geography at college, got an A in Geography at school and came in the top 20 of my class in geography at college but I do not know where a lot of countries that are outside the EU are. This is a product of the emphasis which we place on different places i.e. I live in Europe so our focus is on Europe. Your student's comments about thinking a disease was a country are interesting as a case study into ways in which people think about places, they don't hear much about Africa only that some parts of it are in crisis so that is what they associate with it (right or wrong!).
meganmax 14
I hope they learn more about our country's ?
The_Joker_013 7
Sounds like they have listened to ruka ruka too many times
palosqueak 19
well it is a river..
Oley96 8
You dont have to be smart to take an AP history class, you just do more hw
jude_iscariot 7
At least it's not AP geography?
stolenname 1
Ebola is a real place in Africa. The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
tchopper1969 16
and that's our future people.....