making a mockery of the education system

[black lincon]

Have you ever done it? Anything from making your teacher look stupid to answering a stupid question on a standardized test with an equally stupid answer. While taking the ISAT(Illinois standardized achievement test) I got the question; imagine someones best day ever. So i filled it with fights, robot apocalypses, and sex. This was all in 7th grade mind you. That will teach those ISAT graders not to put vague questions in tests and give people free reign to answer them.

 

[Jobz]

In high school there was a group of about five of us who almost always made our teachers look stupid. Because of this (And out general unwillingness to cooperate with or listen to the school authorities) we found ourselves in detention every single week.

So from that evolved the Detention Club, and because detention at our school was only held once a week (On Fridays) if teachers wanted to give us detention we would have to check our calenders and tell them how many weeks/months they'd have to wait in advance.

This made our teachers upset to say the least. To this day I'm not sure why they didn't expel us, but hey, I'm not complaining.

 

[meatloaf231]

Well, I haven't done it, but someone in my math class pulled one of

Spoiler: these

the other day.

 

[Amnestic]

I only did about 1/20th of the homework I was set. Only got a few detentions over the course of my last 3 years. I guess the teachers just gave up expecting it.

If a teacher made a mistake which I spotted I'd call them on it, not (necessarily) to make them look stupid, but so that they didn't make it again and so my classmates didn't copy the mistake.

 

[wewontdie11]

Well I spent most of my AS level chemistry course correcting my teacher, as he was essentially a bumbling idiot that would actually mark the coursework our grades were based on in the pub over a pint and would rather ramble on about "ye oldie days" then actually check to make sure he wasn't talking bollocks (which 90% of the time he was).

I also Bel-aired one of my General Studies papers because the whole subject and the test questions were absolute jokes and have no place in the modern curriculum. Still got an E on it though so s'all good.

 

[Ultrajoe]

As someone who knows a lot of teachers, all of you are going to hell.

 

[000Ronald]

I made either the teachers or the subject look stupid in class continuously. When I made the subject look stupid, it was an interesting conversation. When I made the teachers look stupid, I was suspended. It got to the point where the superintendent thretaned to expell me if I didn't tone it down. I asked her if she was expellng me because I was smarter than she was or if I didn't bring the ACT score of the school enough (I single-handedly brought it up a whole point). She told me not to come to school the next day, and I told her I was going to, and she couldn't stop me.

Turns out she couldn't. Well, she could, but the school would lose a lot of money. Win, Ron.

Apologies if that seems cocky, but it was deserved; you weren't there, so you wouldn't understand. It really was a terrible school.

 

[meatloaf231]

I forgot about my history teacher.

Junior year in high school, I had a hilarious, fun, and awesome history teacher. Thing is, she was incredibly incompetent at doing any real grading. Every test was a bubble sheet, etc. Our class realized about two weeks in that she never really read our notes/outlines of the chapter.

After that, we just handed in the exact same set of notes with the new chapter's title instead of the old one's. Either she never noticed, or she never cared.

EDIT:

As someone who knows a lot of teachers, all of you are going to hell.

Oh don't be like that. She wasn't a great teacher, but we did end up learning things. We just... never really got tested on them that well.

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

In Newspaper class, the Assistant Principal wrote the News staff a letter manifesto labeling how all of our work needed way too much editting, and we should really work on our drafts before sending them out to be edited.

It was crude, quickly written, and failed to observe that most of her editing was for content, not grammar. She berated us for our work, and instead failed to realize most of her edits were in favor of being censored journalism instead of publish journalism.

So I red pen'd her letter, graded it, and sent it back. After modifying it extensively to have no negative opinions on the school paper (which was retribution for doing the same to our story about students being bullied by the football team). She never found out who did it, but was notably lighter on edits for the rest of the year.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Well, I haven't done it, but someone in my math class pulled one of

Spoiler: these

the other day.

Classic.

I don't need to mock it, the teachers I had did that all by themselves. It's been a while since I was at school, but there was a teacher called Mr Wilson, Mr Wilson was not exactly a lucky man, they stopped caning (in our country) the year after he finished school.
Apparently (I wasn't there) he was asked if he was caned very often back when he was a boy and replied "Ah yes... Mr Cane and my ass have met on multiple occasions." There was also a Maths teacher at the school called Mr Cane. Many laughs were had.

 

[werepossum]

I made either the teachers or the subject look stupid in class continuously. When I made the subject look stupid, it was an interesting conversation. When I made the teachers look stupid, I was suspended. It got to the point where the superintendent thretaned to expell me if I didn't tone it down. I asked her if she was expellng me because I was smarter than she was or if I didn't bring the ACT score of the school enough (I single-handedly brought it up a whole point). She told me not to come to school the next day, and I told her I was going to, and she couldn't stop me.

Turns out she couldn't. Well, she could, but the school would lose a lot of money. Win, Ron.

Apologies if that seems cocky, but it was deserved; you weren't there, so you wouldn't understand. It really was a terrible school.

That is the coolest story ever. What was your score? I scored 30 in '78, one of the two highest in the school's 8-year history (which is sad, considering that's about 2,000 students) and they wouldn't tell us who scored higher. I was invited to join an honors program at a nearby university and was put up in a hotel to tour the campus for a couple of days, and there met several people whose LOWEST score was 34 out of 36. Truly amazing.

I also scored high enough on the PSAT that I qualified for an automatic full scholarship, but the principal left the paperwork setting on his desk for months until it was too late (I had to take the SAT within a set time and score at least 90% to make sure I hadn't cheated.) Since Tennessee universities required the ACT instead I hadn't taken the SAT, so I lost a guaranteed full scholarship unless I stayed out of college for another year, re-took the PSAT, then took the SAT. For those who are still students in primary school, the moral of THAT story is to stay on your teachers' and principals' good sides, else they can and will screw you over.

 

[Pseudonym2]

I've had a lot of bad teachers.

My favorite was the one who went crazy and tried to kill her husband.
Another was one who wrote that I was a "worthless loser with a hope of anything" on progress report and read it aloud to my patents. (I had just scored in the 98% percentile in the state test)

The only teacher I really got to humiliate was my fourth grade teacher who didn't know any math.

"This math problem is really hard. It well take a few days to do it."
"Any questions? Yes?"
"12"
"What?"
"The answer is 12"

This happened at least two or three time times during the year.

 

[werepossum]

I've had a lot of bad teachers.

My favorite was the one who went crazy and tried to kill her husband.
Another was one who wrote that I was a "worthless loser with a hope of anything" on progress report and read it aloud to my patents. (I had just scored in the 98% percentile in the state test)

The only teacher I really got to humiliate was my fourth grade teacher who didn't know any math.

"This math problem is really hard. It well take a few days to do it."
"Any questions? Yes?"
"12"
"What?"
"The answer is 12"

This happened at least two or three time times during the year.

That also is a cool story.

I'm beginning to think I have some residual antipathy toward teachers. I shouldn't be enjoying these stories so much.

 

[TomNook]

i go 2 publick skool i amz teh smrtest evr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[the protaginist]

I learned more in two years on the internet and and from the discovery channel than I did in five years of high school. How fucked is that.

I learned more about physics from Mythbusters then all my science classes combined.

i've corrected my math teacher a couple times about - and + integers. apparently she didn't have her coffee and wrote

-10
+10
=20

 

[Larmo]

My story is one of irony, in 7th grade i had a English teacher who's only corriculam was the the same essay questions phrased differently but similar to the one on the standardized test at the end of the year, after about 5 weeks of this i had no problem doing them and began reading books in class, my ENGLISH teacher became very incensed at this and began taking them away from me and lowering my grade, I would ask her why and shy would reply "your disrupting class"?????. I never knew how I was doing this and in my firm belief because i could read and understand books better than her she disliked me. When the end of the year test came i passed it with flying colors but because of my low class grade i was held back into the lower level English class for 8th grade, and that teacher was shocked that i was there when she took a look at my answers.

My sister is a wonderful artist and draws impulsively. When she was in 10th grade she came home one day from school very upset. I asked why and she replied that she had taken a standerdised testand finished early so she drew on the back cover page. Both sides were blank and she drew a perfect portrat of Ed Elric from Full Metal Alchamest. The teacher said she couldn't take it because it was part of the test booklet.
She never fully recovered from that day...