Today, on my first day of being a trainee teacher in a classroom, I told a boy to stop using that stupid accent or else I'll give him a detention. Turns out he just moved here from Romania. FML
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Today, it was my first day at school in the United States. Being from France, my French accent is really strong. After being made fun of all day, I met someone from Montreal. I was so excited and said, "Parlez-vous Français?" And his response? "HUH?!" FML
Today, I had my first interview. Everything was going well until I made him repeat his name numerous times, as I couldn't understand what he was saying due to his thick accent. FML
Today, we had a substitute teacher. She was taking attendance and had trouble pronouncing my last name. When I corrected her, I heard her mutter under her breath about, “Goddamn Mexican immigrants…” I’m from Greek ancestry, born in the USA. FML
Today, my teacher, who's Irish, called me insensitive and stupid for imitating her accent. I'm Filipino and my parents immigrated to Ireland where I was born, and then we moved to Canada when I was 14. Her response to my explanation? "Bullshit." FML
Today, a client came in and was struggling to speak properly. He said, “Sorry, no good English” so I offered a Spanish speaking colleague who could assist. He frowned and said he was from Greece. He threw a fit and got my manager involved. I got a write up and have to do an online sensitivity training. FML
Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML
Today, a customer asked me if I was English, because I was struggling to understand what he was saying. I said yes. He then called me a liar, and said I must be "one of them Polish immigrants." Oh, and he also had a thick Scottish accent. FML
Today, I started my first teaching job ever. As I was teaching, another teacher interrupted my class about 5 times because she thought it was her class. Not only did she ruin my confidence, her behavior caused my students to laugh at me. FML
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, my French teacher set up a role-play scenario to act out in front of the class. During one of my lines, I mispronounced a phrase and called my teacher sexy. FML
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claiiire_fml 17
Way to be a jerk, OP.
raphanne_fml 33
Poor kid...
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31kitty12 4
Rule number one: Find out about students (and their backgrounds) before you are in front of them in a classroom.
asdtiger14 0
Did you have any formal education whatsoever? I am majoring in education and one of the first things we learned was to tolerate and accept our students. Furthermore if he wasn't disrupting class you can't give him detention. Learn your stuff before becoming a teacher in charge of children's lives!!!
Jaylan_o 5
That's truly terrible, for both he student and you. I can't recall the amount of times I've seen students torture teachers and make their job absolute hell day after day, completely disregarding what the teacher is trying to provide for them. It is absolutely painful watching a teacher try retain control over a classroom and fail, getting torn apart by those relentless little asshats in the process. I understand this man mistaking the student for a clown, how often do you see a genuine foreign child in your classroom who isn't attempting to cover his/her accent vs. someone feigning a heavy indian/middle eastern accent? I just hope the student didn't have to serve detention and received an apology.
sexychickxoxo 0
I'm Romanian.....jerk I bet the boy was thinking the same thing about ur accent
sfhkxvn 4
2,002 "good job"s and 17,285 "wtf man''s
CommanderBalls 10
fired
Peach3 1
Even if it wasn't real, who cares if the kid was using a "funny" accent. Who gives out detention for that? Someone's taking their authority get to their head...
Allyrocks113000 0
If your a teacher you probably shouldn't jump to conclusions like that... You never know which kid is going to tell their parents and whatever you do, you don't want to deal with angry parents
tre4899 0
It was his first day he didnt kno !!!
norisorroz 28
Yeah, we have terrible accents.