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By Anonymous - 02/04/2014 11:30 - Australia - Maribyrnong

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

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By anonymous - 05/09/2012 16:25 - United States - El Cajon

Today, my teacher assigned us teams in a class debate. I landed on the team that had to argue the obviously wrong point of view. When I finished, my teacher told me and the entire class how much I disturbed her, and how I reminded her of Hitler and Napoleon. FML

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By Huedadaa - 19/10/2013 00:05 - France - Cauffry

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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By badessaymyass - 17/04/2014 19:59 - United States - Phoenix

Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML

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By happy birthday to me - 05/12/2013 05:14 - United States

Today, I had to explain to half of my class that yes, my birthday is on the same day as Hitler's, but no, it does not make me a Nazi. FML

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By This guy - 21/02/2016 02:53 - United States - Jackson

Today, my teacher gave me a 0% on my personal narrative in my writing class. His only comment on the whole paper was, "Too long, didn't read." FML

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By Anonymous - 02/06/2020 08:00

Today, I finished writing a 60-page essay on the history and people of Australia. Turns out it's supposed to be on Austria. It's due this morning. FML

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By oooooops - 23/03/2015 00:32 - United States

Today, I made a speech in front of my entire graduating class and their families, despite my fear of public speaking. It seemed to go well and I got a big round of applause at the end. Then I panicked and instead of waving, I lifted my arm straight out in a Hitler salute. FML

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By desperate - 05/10/2012 09:47 - Malta - Paola

Today, as an introduction to the history of China, I asked my APA World History class to write a 500 word essay on a historical Chinese person. Out of a class of 18, five of them were about Mulan. FML

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By Teacher - 26/02/2017 04:00 - United States - Phoenix

Today, I asked students to identify a woman that made a difference in history. I got several people answering Martin Luther King Jr. These are 9th graders. FML

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By Mrs. Teacher - 18/09/2012 00:21 - United States - Suwanee

Today, I collected my students' notes in class to check them. One girl, who is always drawing weird anime crap in her sketchbook, turned in just one piece of paper that read, "FUCK YOUR CLASS." FML

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pwnman 33

Wednesday 2 April 2014 22:20

I did not Nazi that coming, nor you did.

Pleonasm 35

Wednesday 2 April 2014 22:30

The "not" wasn't necessary, know you.

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ohSNAPyall 26

Wednesday 2 April 2014 23:44

One troll was tired of half the class's copying her homework.

askewd 2

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:11

They probably didn't know what benevolent meant :/

gypgyp55 7

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:15

hi guys, OP here. i just created an account so icould comment on this! Im happy (and kind of depressed) that my FML was posted. My class is kind of mixed and i have some brilliant students in it who wrote amazing papers on people such as Nelson Mandela. on the other hand, some of my students aren't so great. most of the kids who wrote on Hitler were just plain stupid but some are very twisted, like all creepy and dark and grim. My class is alright overall and though it is wrong, all of the Nazi puns are really making me laugh!

Voij 16

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:20

Hope you explained to them in detail what the term "benevolent" implies. If neccessary, just mention that someone who was the leading figure in orchestrating the worst thing that ever happened in human history, the Holocaust, can never be considered benevolent... ever. At all times. Also, this might just be me, but I'd tell those who wrote on Hitler to redo the assignment or get a failing grade for it. There are points where you have to draw the line and writing an essay about Hitler being benevolent should be waaaay past that.

Dawnstempest 17

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:59

Hahahaha Mandela as a benevolent leader? He was just as benevolent and good a leader as Hitler (so that it's clear -- he sucked. It's just a shame that unlike Hitler he didn't suck a gun too). You talk about how foolish your students were... Yet you are right there with them. To keep it short and simple. UmKhonto we Sizewe (that lovely terrorist group the Western Media left out of their Praise SAINT Mandela campaign of late) belongs to the ANC. And guess who was the head of the UmKhonto we Sizewe? M-A-N-D-E-L-A. At his head the organization lead brutal attacks against the CIVILIAN POPULATION from 1983-1988. A fact Mandela refused to APOLOGIZE For (the Pretoria Sterland movie complex gives a great example of this). He was so much of a trashy person that Amnesty International -- who goes to bat for the Innocent and not-so-but-believed to be innocent -- REFUSED to take his side and defend him because of just how bad a criminal he was. If that doesn't tell you the kinda trash he is, you should see some of the cases Amnesty has picked up in their history. And all this is to say nothing of the crimes that happened once he was in power. But I expect nothing else from a Western teacher these days.

nokturn_fml 11

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:18

Well hitler was considered very good at giving speeches and talking to people. Even though what he did was bad he was a good leader..

Voij 16

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:23

Still doesn't qualify as "benevolent". He is the person behind the Holocaust, the most horrible thing that ever happened in human history. He even has a phrase coined after him: "worse than Hitler", as in "You're worse than Hitler". It's used because it implies that no human being can ever be as bad as he was and that the thought of someone being even worse is extremely abstruse and unbelievable.

hulopro 16

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:25

I would have done Napoleon

mjdjoy 5

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:32

in the US atleast, im sure a few people will agree with me that the only leaders really talked about heavily are the US presidents and Hitler. its not a good thing, but i have found it to be true back in my public school career.

horneyhic 15

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:41

You might want to teach them the meaning of benevolent

Taurus_ChicKa 36

Thursday 3 April 2014 0:46

Maybe they thought the word was synonymous with "malevolent," and Hitler did influence the world, just in a bad way. Did you explain what "benevolent" meant?