My grandpa taught middle school for 36 years, and he confiscated two toys that he still has to this day: a hockey puck that a kid was banging against his locker, and a second puck he pulled out when the first was taken away.
I remember kids in school would write notes inside of the paper football and to prevent the teacher from reading them, they used a little spy decoder wheel and wrote in code.
@Annette Bright Have you ever actually tried it though? I love them! It's addicting as hell but not mentally distracting and not as noisy as a spinner. I have 4....and i don't have kids. lol
Before even seeing this video, I said tech decks. Without a doubt, my favorite item. I only felt bad one time, when a kid I had taken it from came back after school and saw me building a ramp of textbooks.
as a student with adhd and stress problems the fidget spinner was like a helpful thing for about a month and then just caused me stress cause all the students would try distracting me with it for hours while i try to do whatever math work the teacher gave us. i just resorted to one of those fidget cubes cause they actually work better.
God yeah it's always annoyed me how fidget spinners were invented for neurodivergant kids like us then immediately appropriated by spoiled brats that just liked to make our lives harder by throwing them at eachother across the room and spinning them inside your ear drums.
When I was like 8 my teacher confiscated my gameboy and never gave it back. At the end of the year every year that school would do a little flea market of junk they wanted to get rid of or the teachers wanted to sell to raise money and that year guess where I found it at the end
My 2nd grade teacher took a Lego car I brought to show-and-tell. He said that I could get it back at the end of the day, he didn't want it rolling off the desk and shattering. I never got the little guy back...
When my kids were in mid high, the teacher would confiscate their cell phones and put them in her the antiquated metal desk. The other kids in the class with phones, spent all the class texting the phones so they vibrated endlessly!
Does anyone else have students who just bring weird stuff from home all the time? Like one day it was a huge 200 set of markers. The next day it was a bag of balloons. The next day it was like five pads of post it notes.
Man, how about those paper darts... That some how kids can manage to stick 30 of them in the ceiling during first period without getting caught, only to have somebody in 4th period point them out to me. I swear I spent 2 prep periods last year trying to get 1 of them to stick. Never could figure it out.
Lmao I did that over a decade ago when I was in elementary school. A Korean exchange student brought that trend to our class. Nice to know it's still going strong
I remember my friend's mom (who was friends with my mum too) getting him and me a tamagotchi "because if I have to look after one while he's at school, your mum should have to too". It was a dog. Also I remember playing pogs. Diablo's came after the yoyo craze in the UK. What a brilliant idea that was, give kids a toy which results in them gaining the ability to launch half a kilo of metal and plastic at 200mph in pretty much whichever direction you liked... Micromachines were another one. You'd race them down slopes for keepsies. That was just before pokemon took off I believe.
So many pop-its went into the June Box in the last few months of school. I had to bag and label them so I would know who to give them back to on the last day of school.
can someone please explain why we are supposed to hate them so much? I have 4 for myself and love them! I taught virtually this year and it was great for my students who had to sit and stare at a screen for hours.
I'm sorry, but I have to comment that pop-its weren't actually meant to be toys. They're a stim tool for the nerodivergent, they help us focus and curb damaging and annoying stimming. The problem is that nerotypicals see and use them as toys. As someone with ADHD, pop-its are my current go to stim tool. When I don't have it on me I tend to pick at my skin until it bleeds and tap or click pens non-stop until someone yells at me and I start crying because my brain is telling me everone hates me.
When I was in 7th grade, I had a teacher that looked much like Devin. My dad had bought me a calculator from Sears called an "Exactra 19." I went to the bathroom and discovered it missing upon return and asked where it was. The teacher told me he had confiscated it. My dad had to retrieve the calculator from the teacher and the teacher told my dad not to let me bring it back. Dad replied, "I am on the school board and at the end of the school year you will be fired," and he was. Great video!
I remember these! 😁❤️ Finger Bords, Pogs, Giga Pet, Pokemon, etc... I also remember that chokers were really popular fashion during the 90's! *Sigh*! Nostalgia! 😊
@@DevinSiebold I grew up in the 1960s. The only water pen I knew of back then was a lady with a disappearing swimsuit. More of a 4th-grade or 5th-grade item than a 1st-grade item.
@@craftlofer9974 A normal one??? What do you mean by water pen? Normally a water pen has a picture that changes when you turn it upside down. Thus the reference to a tiny boat and a lady in a swimsuit.
"Ironically enough, kids would not remember [to bring] a single pencil, but would have all the tools to repair a wheel and deck [of a miniature] skateboard assembly]." (2:48)
Some toys I remember that everyone had: Beyblades (and they’re still pretty popular). These weird spikey rubber balls filled with fluid that you could squeeze or bounce on an attached string ( probably a cheap dollar store toys). These things were eventually recalled because the fluid that leaked out was toxic (fun). Tamagotchis, Pokémon cards, Webkinz
I actually cut myself on a slap bracelet in grade 4, so that’s not a myth. After slapping it for a few days the end broke, and being the stupid kid ai was, I took the metal out and somehow got cut.
I used to confiscate those giga pets and then babysit them...lol....also kept every tiny pencil I found a kid using...i have a nice collection!! Now kids donate them to me.
i HATED that game!!!!!! As an unpopular, i would get made fun of for getting shack or they'd change H to be homeless when I played. But they would tease me as if that were my actual situation! As if the game were some sort of cosmic confirmation bias. Like see? We knew you'd get that, loser!
as a student, as much as I feel you for all the shit you go through, nothing excuses all the shit you stole from me as a kid. If you love something that much, GET YOUR OWN! Dont you think I would also care about seeing as I took to class and wanted to show all my friends? (I still havent forgotten that one time my first grade teacher took my light up buzz lightyear gun I got from disney land and proceeded to have the entire class lecture me about gun control. The gun didnt even shoot) Also, reading someone loves notes to the entire class is one of the most toxic things you can do as a teacher. A love note is meant for 2 people and THATS IT. Is it really the end of the world when 2 kids love each other sooooo much that they mentally cant stand not talking to each other? It's really none of your business
Rubik’s cubes, fake dog doo, fake puke, comic books, sports trading cards, comic books, chewing gum, laser-pointer key-chains, mini magnifying lenses, Cracker Jacks (both the snack and the prize inside). Also, one of the early scenes from A CHRISTMAS STORY shows the teacher confiscating sets of plastic monster teeth from the students and adding them to her drawer of contraband, which includes a wind-up set of chattering teeth.
Kevin Hart would love that Kevin Hart joke for 3 reasons. (1) it makes people think about him, so free publicity (2) it’s relatable for short people and those who love them (3) it’s funny. Good job.
I once lost my pencil case (with my favorite supplies) in it sophomore year of highschool and I've wanted it back ever since. I remember having it before my math class and then I remember it not being with me in math class so.. also, Pokemon cards are amazing :D
Oh my goodness, POGS…the Pokémon cards of the 90’s. What happened to Nickelodeon Gak? Popular toys that went directly into backpacks this past school year: poppers (i.e. permanent bubble wrap) and any type of slime.
I loved "playing" M*A*S*H...My first year teaching, for the school talent show the teacher did the "No Hokey Poke-man"--which the students loved---maybe the message was lost!
quick question, why do teachers force students to form groups when they know some students arent very social and would rather work by themselves? i actually skipped class because of it
Facts. teachers can actually get in trouble by taking certain things. dont believe me? look into the school system in nevada. teachers have been fired for taking things away from kids. i remember one day, i let my younger brother borrow my ipod and he was 18 mind you, going to a trade school..the teacher took the ipod away and i immediately went to the school and physically took it back. that was back in 2008 and since then, that school is very careful who they take things from..
This is the exact reason why I've never once given my stuff up. Usually it was books they would try to take from me. I got a PSP in like 2012 and started using that instead. By this point they knew I would rather just go home than give up my stuff. No I wasn't doing stuff when I was supposed to be doing classwork, didn't matter. In Elementary school I had a really cool blue ruler, it was flexible and probably really expensive at the time. The teacher handed out rulers to the class and since I'm poor or something I guess the ruler couldn't have been mine so she collected it, refusing to let me keep it. I stole it back at the end of the year though. Luckily I'm a sight smarter than any teacher I've had, which isn't saying much. I've had chemistry teachers who didn't know that the scientific notations on the periodic table were in Latin. One corrected me when I said clothing sizes were based on inches (Which they are in Canada, where we live). My math teacher thought Pythagoras' theorem was "A + B = C" and argued with a student about it. The lowest IQ score I've had was 115, 145 was the highest (Usually ~130 of course, never the same test twice). Believe me when I tell you that public teachers are actually morons. Not sure what it is that attracts authoritarians to be school teachers, perhaps it's a predatory mindset, hard to say.
@@rifwann Yeah, in my experience they're the tech teachers. Maybe that's a coincidence, maybe it's because to be good with tech you actually need a passion for knowledge
My teacher confiscated my newly bought jenga...that they just sold that very day at the school shop... I was so confused at the whole thing, i gave up arguing about it.. in that teacher's defence, she doesn't know about our school selling that so yeah.. never get them back
As a kid I collected pokemon for two reasons. And two reasons only. Reason 1: My name is ash. Same as the main character of the pokemon anime (cartoon?) Reason 2: Ash Ketchem brought shame upon the Ash name, and as an Ash, I was duty bound to regain the honor of the Ash name!!
It's bottle-flipping that gives me flashbacks. Hours of thud-clunk thud-clunk every few minutes
And water spillage everywhere
@@BumpDev once in school i kept throwing my water bottle against the wall and catching, after a while the lid loosened and it spilled all over me
My grandpa taught middle school for 36 years, and he confiscated two toys that he still has to this day: a hockey puck that a kid was banging against his locker, and a second puck he pulled out when the first was taken away.
I remember kids in school would write notes inside of the paper football and to prevent the teacher from reading them, they used a little spy decoder wheel and wrote in code.
Really? That's a lot of effort. None of my students would bother, they just talk all damn day. 🤦♀️🙄
Level up man!
Was this during the early 00’s spy toy craze? Ah… good times.
@@doubtful_seer lol called it. Late 90’s early 2000’s.
Guess that just shows how much things have changed. @@KatieCottingham
At my kid's school it's currently all about popits. It's like never ending rubber bubble wrap.
Ugh, yes!! The kids bring those everywhere with them.
Haaaaaaaaate
@Annette Bright Have you ever actually tried it though? I love them! It's addicting as hell but not mentally distracting and not as noisy as a spinner. I have 4....and i don't have kids. lol
Oh, thanks for mentioning this! I found one on the ground and wasn't sure what it was. I figured it was the new fidget spinner or a baby toy.
Thank you! I didn't know what they're called and they're everywhere (and I'm a British secondary teacher)
Would add one more - love notes, reading students' love notes is the closest to a love life I will ever get when working 40h daily!
LoL true
As long as you didn’t read them out loud to the whole class you aren’t a bad person, or a bad teacher. 😉
Are you ling ling but for teachers
@@akiyachef_5213 If you can teach slowly, you can teach quickly ;)
@@FernFlowerPower iNTeReStiNg!
Before even seeing this video, I said tech decks. Without a doubt, my favorite item. I only felt bad one time, when a kid I had taken it from came back after school and saw me building a ramp of textbooks.
Rubix cube
as a student with adhd and stress problems the fidget spinner was like a helpful thing for about a month and then just caused me stress cause all the students would try distracting me with it for hours while i try to do whatever math work the teacher gave us. i just resorted to one of those fidget cubes cause they actually work better.
God yeah it's always annoyed me how fidget spinners were invented for neurodivergant kids like us then immediately appropriated by spoiled brats that just liked to make our lives harder by throwing them at eachother across the room and spinning them inside your ear drums.
im autistic with adhd. Love the cubes, despise the noises they create.
I had my pencil sharpener confiscated and I'm still salty about it 30 years later. I hope you give the confiscated items back at some point.
When I was like 8 my teacher confiscated my gameboy and never gave it back. At the end of the year every year that school would do a little flea market of junk they wanted to get rid of or the teachers wanted to sell to raise money and that year guess where I found it at the end
My 2nd grade teacher took a Lego car I brought to show-and-tell. He said that I could get it back at the end of the day, he didn't want it rolling off the desk and shattering.
I never got the little guy back...
@@Foxingg A teacher would have to kill me before I'd give them my gameboy lol. Pokemon got banned at our school. Pretty hilarious.
An old pencil sharpener is so rare.. especially the big metal rotary one.. they can makes spear out of pencil..
@@TheCpadron19 indeed. i didn't have one, but if i did i'd fight the teacher that tried to steal it.
2:34 "Is this one shaped like a dead body?" 🤣 laughed so hard I nearly peed my pants.
When my kids were in mid high, the teacher would confiscate their cell phones and put them in her the antiquated metal desk. The other kids in the class with phones, spent all the class texting the phones so they vibrated endlessly!
Does anyone else have students who just bring weird stuff from home all the time? Like one day it was a huge 200 set of markers. The next day it was a bag of balloons. The next day it was like five pads of post it notes.
Of course i know them there me.
Sounds like you just confiscated your supplies for the year
@@pirateofthebeans_2393 Hello there
Dollar store😂
I used to bring dog toys on occasion.
Man, how about those paper darts... That some how kids can manage to stick 30 of them in the ceiling during first period without getting caught, only to have somebody in 4th period point them out to me. I swear I spent 2 prep periods last year trying to get 1 of them to stick. Never could figure it out.
Trick is to out a staple in the tip, once you have the straight staple in huck it up boom instant paper stuck in the ceiling.
In our school it was spit wads and sharpened pencils stuck in the ceiling tiles.
Silly bands! That’s my childhood and I’m a first year teacher.
My dad used paper footballs for physics demos in his high school class. Now my siblings have all sorts of annoying things pop tubs being the worse.
My eight grade science teacher did that too
My current favourite is the weird little snake toy that now lives in my desk drawer.
i hope you give that back because technically that is theft of personal property.
I really like the profile pic. Did you draw it yourself?
Lol, my school likes to take eraser shavings, and turn them into clay or something
Lmao I did that over a decade ago when I was in elementary school. A Korean exchange student brought that trend to our class. Nice to know it's still going strong
DID THIS DUDE REALLY JUST SAY POGS???????? BEST TEACHER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember my friend's mom (who was friends with my mum too) getting him and me a tamagotchi "because if I have to look after one while he's at school, your mum should have to too". It was a dog.
Also I remember playing pogs. Diablo's came after the yoyo craze in the UK. What a brilliant idea that was, give kids a toy which results in them gaining the ability to launch half a kilo of metal and plastic at 200mph in pretty much whichever direction you liked...
Micromachines were another one. You'd race them down slopes for keepsies. That was just before pokemon took off I believe.
Seriously, no mention of the damn pop-its that hit this year?
That's a toy whose maker will burn in hell.
So many pop-its went into the June Box in the last few months of school. I had to bag and label them so I would know who to give them back to on the last day of school.
I mean, they’re supposed to relieve stress, but IDK how. They don’t work. I’ve always preferred stress balls and plushes.
can someone please explain why we are supposed to hate them so much? I have 4 for myself and love them! I taught virtually this year and it was great for my students who had to sit and stare at a screen for hours.
@@calliemyersbuchanan6458 in person class… pop…pop…pop. I had one virtual kid and 120 in person. Pop…pop…pop. It was a serious distraction.
I'm sorry, but I have to comment that pop-its weren't actually meant to be toys. They're a stim tool for the nerodivergent, they help us focus and curb damaging and annoying stimming.
The problem is that nerotypicals see and use them as toys.
As someone with ADHD, pop-its are my current go to stim tool. When I don't have it on me I tend to pick at my skin until it bleeds and tap or click pens non-stop until someone yells at me and I start crying because my brain is telling me everone hates me.
Off the string yoyo tricks would blow this guys mind!
"Is this shaped like a dead body"? ☠🤣🤣🤣
Honestly, though, there were some silly bands you couldn’t figure out their shape no matter how hard you tried😂
When I was in 7th grade, I had a teacher that looked much like Devin. My dad had bought me a calculator from Sears called an "Exactra 19." I went to the bathroom and discovered it missing upon return and asked where it was. The teacher told me he had confiscated it. My dad had to retrieve the calculator from the teacher and the teacher told my dad not to let me bring it back. Dad replied, "I am on the school board and at the end of the school year you will be fired," and he was. Great video!
Can we talk about Slime? Good god.lol
...and the teacher who decided to show his kids how to make slime. A pox on his house. I had to lock up the white glue tighter than Fort Knox gold.
What's the appeal of slime? This might just be texture sensitivity, but I never understood to allure of sticky cold goo.
Thanks for the laughs! ☺️👍
Student pointing a laser light at others. Took it up immediately.
The comedic timing at the end haha brilliant
Love the content! Keep it coming, your videos are all great.
i don't know if this was ever confiscated but does anyone remember those swiss army knife pencil cases with the 8 billion pop-out compartments?
I remember these! 😁❤️
Finger Bords, Pogs, Giga Pet, Pokemon, etc...
I also remember that chokers were really popular fashion during the 90's! *Sigh*! Nostalgia! 😊
well now i know why my 1st grade teacher took my water pen for no reason
Did it have a tiny boat in it?
@@DevinSiebold I grew up in the 1960s. The only water pen I knew of back then was a lady with a disappearing swimsuit. More of a 4th-grade or 5th-grade item than a 1st-grade item.
@@DevinSiebold it was a normal one, they just took it because they didn't have one
@@craftlofer9974 A normal one??? What do you mean by water pen?
Normally a water pen has a picture that changes when you turn it upside down. Thus the reference to a tiny boat and a lady in a swimsuit.
@@LincolnRon its the thing they use to write on the whiteboard, not chalk the other one
that kevin heart joke was gold
There is no better way to be attentive than being aware.
"Back pain medicine"... Love it XD
As a teacher, the paper footballs were the biggest pain...lol. I'm retired now.....thank you, Lord!
Everything you showed I confiscated at one time or another!
Tech Decks take me back
I painted holographic glitter nail polish on my fidget spinner and I direct my phone's flash at it 😂
Noice!
"Ironically enough, kids would not remember [to bring] a single pencil, but would have all the tools to repair a wheel and deck [of a miniature] skateboard assembly]." (2:48)
Some toys I remember that everyone had: Beyblades (and they’re still pretty popular). These weird spikey rubber balls filled with fluid that you could squeeze or bounce on an attached string ( probably a cheap dollar store toys). These things were eventually recalled because the fluid that leaked out was toxic (fun). Tamagotchis, Pokémon cards, Webkinz
OH MY GOODNESS THE SILLY BANDS that awoke a deep memory 😂
I was a teacher and Pokémon cards was what I confiscated. It made life crazy in the classroom with all the trading.
Tech decks on any hard surface are the most annoying sound I can think of but I think that’s because my brother has them and it never ends
OMG I miss sillybands! Haven't seen them in forever!😂
I actually cut myself on a slap bracelet in grade 4, so that’s not a myth. After slapping it for a few days the end broke, and being the stupid kid ai was, I took the metal out and somehow got cut.
Thanks to this ill never be a yoyo pro
Some of the latest toys that could potentially join the drawer: Pop its (if not being used properly) any kind of putty, those Shopkins.
I forgot about tech decks! Some great memories!
4:23
That shit went from 0 to 100 really fucking quick
I spit out my coffee at the spinner one. My girlfriend is a teacher and I have heard those exact words!
I confiscated a lightsaber a couple years ago. It gave me the idea to use one as a pointer instead of the standard pointer with the hand.
me school's teachers would allow the children to play with ruby cubes until 3 months later unless they had issues
I used to confiscate those giga pets and then babysit them...lol....also kept every tiny pencil I found a kid using...i have a nice collection!! Now kids donate them to me.
OH MY GOSH!!! I forgot about MASH!
i HATED that game!!!!!! As an unpopular, i would get made fun of for getting shack or they'd change H to be homeless when I played. But they would tease me as if that were my actual situation! As if the game were some sort of cosmic confirmation bias. Like see? We knew you'd get that, loser!
Man, this is so relatable it hurts lololol.
We called the fortunate teller a coodie catcher lol
I used to sell tech decks that I made and made tons of money, but the teachers hated it.
as a student, as much as I feel you for all the shit you go through, nothing excuses all the shit you stole from me as a kid. If you love something that much, GET YOUR OWN! Dont you think I would also care about seeing as I took to class and wanted to show all my friends? (I still havent forgotten that one time my first grade teacher took my light up buzz lightyear gun I got from disney land and proceeded to have the entire class lecture me about gun control. The gun didnt even shoot) Also, reading someone loves notes to the entire class is one of the most toxic things you can do as a teacher. A love note is meant for 2 people and THATS IT. Is it really the end of the world when 2 kids love each other sooooo much that they mentally cant stand not talking to each other? It's really none of your business
My sister started a trend of Kats Kradle at my school once. Don't see how a price of strong is fun to confiscate though.
Plus Gag gum. Electric shock when you try to take the fake Wrigleys stick of gum from the fake box.
When I was in 3rd grade I brought in my DSi and when I got it back the teachers had taken selfies with the camera app.
I bet Devin returned all this stuff to Walmart.
Alas, you forgot spitballs (our poor, dear French teacher had to contend with us hellions!)
Rubik’s cubes, fake dog doo, fake puke, comic books, sports trading cards, comic books, chewing gum, laser-pointer key-chains, mini magnifying lenses, Cracker Jacks (both the snack and the prize inside).
Also, one of the early scenes from A CHRISTMAS STORY shows the teacher confiscating sets of plastic monster teeth from the students and adding them to her drawer of contraband, which includes a wind-up set of chattering teeth.
Kevin Hart would love that Kevin Hart joke for 3 reasons. (1) it makes people think about him, so free publicity (2) it’s relatable for short people and those who love them (3) it’s funny. Good job.
I once lost my pencil case (with my favorite supplies) in it sophomore year of highschool and I've wanted it back ever since. I remember having it before my math class and then I remember it not being with me in math class so..
also, Pokemon cards are amazing :D
I loved pogs as a kid!! I also had the tube.
I am one of the 8 that played LOL. Had a silver metal Michael Jordon slammer! LOL
Man, i wish i had teacher with the same sense of humor as you… “from Denmark”
Ok, you are a comedian…😂
Laughed like an sob at the MASH piece. Is that really still around?
Never saw that one but who remembers Charlie Charlie
Actually, I am at the point, if I take a students' toy, I usually lose it or forget to give it back to them altogether.
I got a hand skateboard this year and a blue bounce ball. So fun.🤣
I recognized them all from my childhood.
Yeah I remember all that stuff... growing up in the 90s...😎
Oh my goodness, POGS…the Pokémon cards of the 90’s. What happened to Nickelodeon Gak?
Popular toys that went directly into backpacks this past school year: poppers (i.e. permanent bubble wrap) and any type of slime.
I loved "playing" M*A*S*H...My first year teaching, for the school talent show the teacher did the "No Hokey Poke-man"--which the students loved---maybe the message was lost!
if u pay 3 grand for a wheel bearing u r getting ripped off!
unless you drive a lambo
I played and collected pogs and ended up with hundreds of them. I don't really know why I loved them so much. Haha
Guess I missed out. All I ever played with were rocks and erasers. Pretending the eraser was a dump truck. Times have changed.
I remember allllllll of these things!!
As a teacher’s kid (my dad the teacher would give me toys if the kid’s parents didn’t come get them) I can say this is true
My teacher used to do an "auction" (class paper money) at the end of the year with the unclaimed stuff, that's how I got my first tamagotchi.
Its just the fact he bought a Pokémon shirt for that skit😂😂😂
I was in middle school when Silly Bands were a thing and I still don't understand them
Paper claws
one kid cut himself on the metal from a slap bracelet in elementary school- it was very bloody :)
You sound like a teacher that wouldn't give the stuff back.
I have mini curling ball that has a bearing ball. It rolls so smoothly!
quick question, why do teachers force students to form groups when they know some students arent very social and would rather work by themselves? i actually skipped class because of it
to try to get students to be more social, it's a very important life skill, and being able to work with people is also an important life skill.
@@bryan0x05 who told you that? there are hundreds of jobs where you dont need to socialize.
My Shiba Inu savings took this personally.
I did most of these... I was a Tech Deck dealer. Axe and Monster was my bread and butter. Now I'm 25 and have no job.
Me tooo lpl
Rubik’s Cubes and Slime were big ones at my school… Slime got so bad a kid started selling it and made 2 grand!
Facts. teachers can actually get in trouble by taking certain things. dont believe me? look into the school system in nevada. teachers have been fired for taking things away from kids.
i remember one day, i let my younger brother borrow my ipod and he was 18 mind you, going to a trade school..the teacher took the ipod away and i immediately went to the school and physically took it back. that was back in 2008 and since then, that school is very careful who they take things from..
This is the exact reason why I've never once given my stuff up. Usually it was books they would try to take from me. I got a PSP in like 2012 and started using that instead. By this point they knew I would rather just go home than give up my stuff. No I wasn't doing stuff when I was supposed to be doing classwork, didn't matter.
In Elementary school I had a really cool blue ruler, it was flexible and probably really expensive at the time. The teacher handed out rulers to the class and since I'm poor or something I guess the ruler couldn't have been mine so she collected it, refusing to let me keep it. I stole it back at the end of the year though.
Luckily I'm a sight smarter than any teacher I've had, which isn't saying much. I've had chemistry teachers who didn't know that the scientific notations on the periodic table were in Latin. One corrected me when I said clothing sizes were based on inches (Which they are in Canada, where we live). My math teacher thought Pythagoras' theorem was "A + B = C" and argued with a student about it. The lowest IQ score I've had was 115, 145 was the highest (Usually ~130 of course, never the same test twice). Believe me when I tell you that public teachers are actually morons. Not sure what it is that attracts authoritarians to be school teachers, perhaps it's a predatory mindset, hard to say.
Most teacher are morons.. yeah.. i met only 1 or 2 admirable out of every 1 school..
@@rifwann Yeah, in my experience they're the tech teachers. Maybe that's a coincidence, maybe it's because to be good with tech you actually need a passion for knowledge
To be the very best like no one ever was
Add in the Rubix cube
YES. Love the Lebron James comment
My teacher confiscated my newly bought jenga...that they just sold that very day at the school shop... I was so confused at the whole thing, i gave up arguing about it.. in that teacher's defence, she doesn't know about our school selling that so yeah.. never get them back
I don't even know how many Yu-Gi-Oh cards I had confiscated like twenty years ago...
As a kid I collected pokemon for two reasons. And two reasons only.
Reason 1: My name is ash. Same as the main character of the pokemon anime (cartoon?)
Reason 2: Ash Ketchem brought shame upon the Ash name, and as an Ash, I was duty bound to regain the honor of the Ash name!!
When teachers take away your GBA that you took to school, yes they are playing around on your pokemon save file