Today, I asked my students to buy a copy of Anne Frank's diary for an assignment. One of them asked me in all seriousness who wrote it. FML
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Today, a parent of one of the students I teach called me to complain that I was teaching her child "lies" and "fairytales". I was teaching them about the Holocaust. FML
Today, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
Today, my students all handed in their 1,000 word papers. The assignment was for them to write about a strong, benevolent leader who influenced the world. Around half of the papers were about Hitler. FML
Today, I got an A+ on a writing assignment. My teacher asked me three times if I really did write this article myself, and didn't memorise an article from the Internet. FML
Today, I finished my position paper for my social studies class and read it to my mom to get her opinion on it. After I'm done reading it, she asks me if I copied it from somewhere because it sounded very professional and smart, and it didn't sound like me. FML
Today, I asked my friend to hand in my homework for me since I have tonsillitis. She thought it would be funny to draw a big heart on it with my teacher's name inside, which she then handed in. FML
Today, I turned in an essay about a book I'd read over the summer. My teacher later called me to her desk and began to gush about how interesting the book sounded and asked to borrow my copy. The book I wrote about isn't real, and the main characters are named after my childhood pets. FML
Today, I wrote my boyfriend a love letter during class and told him to read it when he got home. He texted me later asking me why I gave him my school assignment. I must have handed the love letter in to my teacher. FML
Today, I was reading my students' Halloween stories I made them write for my creative writing class in high school. One of my students wrote about attacking me. She got my street address perfect and everything. FML
Today, we were taking a bio quiz and I understood the subject, so the people sitting behind me asked me to help them out. Being a kind fellow classmate, I did. When the teacher got suspicious, she asked the class, "How are all of you getting the same answers?" everyone pointed directly at me. FML
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cmchewy 15
And they say there's no such thing as a stupid question.
Chris93Jones 20
just tell them Tom Cruise wrote it.
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adjwejaelwkdc 21
If they are too young ever to have heard of it before, then they should be forgiven for thinking that it might be a work of fiction. "Bridget Jones' Diary" was written by Helen Fielding.
cakefete2 31
Columbus probably snatched it from Anne Frank, then claimed it as his.
lulifama 4
It's not that bad if they aren't familiar with who Anne Frank is. After all Bridget Jones didn't write Bridget Jones Diary.
AliSama 17
She may have thought it was a biography instead if an autobiography. Who knows.
Zeishah 26
its appaling! during our first year we were assigned the tempest. This fresher actually asked the lecturer(who was also the head of department) who the author was!:|
Raesin 21
Until I googled it I didn't know who wrote it either so.. y'know. At least Anne Franks' Diary is pretty self explanatory, ask a random person on the street who wrote 'The Tempest', chances are they won't know. But in all fairness a lot of Diaries aren't written by the person in the title; Adrian Mole and Bridget Jones for example. Books can also be biographies so aren't necessarily written by that particular person. Even though I've never read it myself I would've thought they would know about Anne Frank just by going through school.
TogeBara 12
I was an English major in college for 3 years and took a TON of English and literature courses (at least 2 per semester). I have never once heard of "The Tempest" from any professor. I love Shakespeare and I hadn't even heard of this play till I stumbled across it on my own. I wrote my senior thesis for advanced placement in college English on "Macbeth" and that wasn't even one of the options. (By the way I attained my placement) You aren't making a point, you are just saying that it is appalling that there are people in the world who have not heard of a set of books yet they are in their freshman year? Guess what, that is why they are attending school, to learn that which they have yet to learn. I was an advanced student and I had yet to even hear about it and I would read Shakespeare for fun. Also, this may come as a surprise, but not all teachers or curriculum teach Shakespeare. I had a teacher that basically said, "Since I don't like his plays we are going to watch a movie of 'Hamlet' and then you will take a 5 question test, as I am required to at least go over 'Hamlet' this year at some point." As for #161, I haven't a clue why you got down-voted since you were just pointing out a possibility, so I am voting you back up again because you are absolutely correct. Probably some idiot that thinks all biographies must be written by the person they are about, turns out, most were not written by said person in fact. "Anne Frank" was a rare gem that made it through unharmed somehow, to the great benefit of those of us that have read her biography.
langoustine_fml 10
For an English major in - 'ahem hem' - advanced standing (raise pinky finger here), your writing has very poor readability and clarity. Further, I just gave 161 a thumbs down JUST to offset your righteous sense of social justice. Oh and a pat on the back for finding Shakespeare, way to overcome all those academic hurdles that is a crap teacher. "Clap.....clap...clap."
mjnelson 7
To be totally fair, it could be possible that it is a fictionalization of nazi occupation, following a girl hiding with her family while their town and country are being taken by Hitler. Not that it is fictional, but it could be.
crg425 7
I understand the stupidity. Because I know who she is. But maybe the student didn't know who she was, and didn't know it was an actual diary. Isn't that why you are teaching them?
chosha_fml 27
Why is this a surprise? None of knew who Anne Frank was until we learned it in school. Also there are really well known novels called Bridget Jones' Diary and the Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 that obviously have authors of different names.
EvilLittleMan 23
I am shocked this comment isn't from the US.
semiphonic1966 1
And who wrote "The Diary of Adrian Mole"? Was it Adrian Mole? No!! FFS, the reason the world is in the state it is is because teachers don't give a flying **** about what they teach