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
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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
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
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
Today, it was the last day of school, and I said goodbye to one of my students. She then told me how to correctly pronounce her name. I'd said it wrong all year. FML
Today, one of my students corrected the problem I had solved on the board, explaining that you do multiplication before subtraction. I teach the second grade. FML
Today, I found out I've been misspelling my middle name for 25 years. FML
Today, my 10-year-old niece asked me how to spell "embarrassing." I confidently spelled it out. She giggled and said, "No, that's wrong." She was right, and to make matters a tad ironic, I'd just finished bragging about winning a spelling bee back in middle school. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, I confidently corrected someone in a group conversation. I was wrong. Very wrong. Everyone stared while Google proved me incorrect in seconds. I nodded and pretended I meant something else. FML
Today, my 8 year-old niece and I were arguing over how many letters were in the alphabet. Guess who was right. FML
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Top comments
pogostick_fml 2
WTF? How does ANYONE spell their own name incorrectly and still get it wrong when checking it over?
Milord_fml 16
never underestimate those little rascals lol
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Comments (118)
SparkleLush 0
How are you a graduate student at 22?
meanbeech 0
guess i wont be seeing you on are you smarter than a 5th grader
shalvius 3
maybe his name is something like "hduiemnahdtsaf"
lala_land 0
FAIL. However, look at the bright side. You're teaching them how to spell correctly. At least THEY knew how to spell your name.
rawblerawble 0
maybe you have dysgraphia?
beardsnbicycles7 0
I don't know who was correct. Were you? Be more clear!!! lolz
killface_fml 0
@31: Apparently that's a good question...
ccjero05 0
hahaha oh geez. but i bet they got a good laugh at you!
eyekillasnitch 0
...Epic FAIL
tincan 0
Your EQ is clearly not high enough to pity those who are mentally retarded. I am sick of you people who think you are smart and don't give a damn to those who are mentally retarded. They are BORN like that. They didn't want to be retarded. They think your name is spelled incorrectly because they have seen a similar name before elsewhere, and did not know that names can be spelled differently. What you should have done would be to explain that names can be spelled differently. If you are a teacher, then I hope you won't be teaching my kids in future.
PhoenixFiend 0
She was saying the handicapped kids were right. Her name is normally spelled like everyone else's but she spelled it wrong and they noticed