Today, I was reading a picture storybook to a kindergarten kid. She could pronounce more words than me, and corrected me. I'm about triple her age. FML
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Today, the kids I teach informed me that I had spelled my name incorrectly on the board. I looked at it and assured them that I had spelled it correctly. I'm 22 and a graduate student, they're six and mentally challenged. Guess who was right? FML
Today, while at work I was reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to me class of 5 year olds. I got near the end of the book and said "Look at the big fat caterpillar" to which one of my pupils replied "Just like you, Miss!" FML
Today, I was babysitting a 4 year-old with a speech impediment. I asked her, "Do you got your bag?" And she said, "No. I have my bag. Babies say got. I'm a big girl." I am 20 years old and in the honors program in my college. I was corrected by a 4 year-old with a speech impediment. FML
Today in class I accidentally called my teacher very old and almost dead. As we were discussing a book I said that the book character is very old and close to death since it fitted to the context. Turns out this character is one year younger than my teacher and she wasn't amused. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, a friend told me that when I read, I make all the expressions the characters in the book are making. Apparently, I have been doing this since I was a kid, and no one ever told me. FML
Today, I took my toddler to a library story hour. He sat quietly for almost ten minutes, which should have been my first warning. Right as the librarian began reading a dramatic part, my son pointed at her and shouted, “That lady is very old.” FML
Today, I have learned a lot of "big" words from reading so much, but can actually only pronounce about half of them correctly. FML
Today, while at my tutoring job, a middle school kid couldn't find a word in the online dictionary. I told him he could check a regular paperback dictionary. His response was, "That's what you did in your day. That's not what we do in our day." I'm only 19. 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
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Top comments
TheHinduHomie 12
An education might be in order.
Lilkat39 5
You need to go back to school. Right now.
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Comments (82)
Talis99 26
That's actually quite sad.
MagnusDeus 24
I could totally understand this FML if English isn't your first language. But if it is, see the above comments.
onlychildFTW 34
What if they have a learning disability? Something like dyslexia. Those things do exist and are real.
BathroomGlasses 7
They should have said that then.
omid379 14
You should keep going to that kindergarten. Not as a teacher!
Kog_fml 4
learn better english mexicant
Teyros 24
It's alright OP, some kids are pretty bright
booty_sniper 10
It's not a big deal. Learning how to read is overrated anyways
ratboy07 10
Wtf
JonBall 17
When I was in school, kindergarten was between ages 4-5 so you're between 12-15 . . . Just pay attention in class and you should be fine
ribx 16
Unless they have terrible maths as well as pronunciation...
RedPillSucks 33
git oof FML n go red a buk
chy_fml 22
You will not be a good contestant for are you smarter than a kindergartner
mergeterge 24
Why are people voting that they deserved it? Am I the only person who has friends and loved ones who have dyslexia? It's a very frustrating disorder. I could be wrong, but I assumed OP might have it as well.
EsDeeCee 12
It's Kindergarden. Maybe if it was eighth grade or something people wouldn't YDI
MRSwick2525 23
@64 do you think that it just pops up out of the blue one day? I have a issues with numbers. I read them and write them starting with the last number and to the first number. When I was in kindergarten I had no idea it was wrong to read it and write it in that way. it was not until middleschool that I told someone about it.
mergeterge 24
It doesn't matter if they are kindergarten-level words... If they're jumbled and backwards, then they are jumbled and backwards.