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)
Saraishi 25
Amazing for her, not so much for you OP.
fpants2010 18
Are you sure you're triple her age? You can't read, let alone do multiplication!
FalloutScrolls 25
Unless this storybook is written in a language you're newer to and still learning, I think this is a poster story for "stay in school, kids."
The_Big_Boss 20
Triple her age? So that makes you about 12?
DedeleMan 21
Well you got a problem...
Jord_Fox 14
Sooo your about 15/16?
Tarlachia 33
Jeff Foxworthy called and says he wants you in his new TV show: "Are You Smarter Than A Kindergartner?"
heyitsmikayla 14
That's embarrassing
vikky538 29
Looks you are not a teacher anymore in That room
thebiteof87 27
Hey, OP here. Loving all the comments. I'm actually a straight A student in everything, including english, and I don't have any learning disabilities. It wasn't a dr seuss book, but it may as well be by the way it was written. In my defence, the girl could have read the book over multiple times and learnt how to read all the words. I do have a bit of an accent and have trouble with pronunciation, and I don't often read out loud. I'm taking the advise of reading for an hour everyday. I'm also still in school, and am looking to become a doctor. And most kindergarten kids are around the age of 5