What Was The Dumbest Assignment You Got In School? (r/AskReddit)
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"This sand represents how easily blown away my ability to care about this class is"
I don't even have any sand( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I don’t like sad it’s course its rough snd it gets everywhere
@@Alex-vg2ly glitter gets everywhere too
@@Alex-vg2ly agree
Don't say that word
As a teacher myself, it saddens me to be reminded that about 50%+ of what it takes to be a good teacher is being a decent person...and so many fail horribly at this.
You're one of the extremely rare teachers. I had a teacher like you in my previous school.
@BradynLee09 Sometimes, though, you have to be told that "too bad. There will be things in life you simply do not want to do. You do them because you have a greater goal to achieve and there are unpleasant things you have to do to get there. Buckle down, let's do this."
Well when you put an adult in charge of 20-30 kids, you know damn well they will abuse the fuck out of that power
@@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 Not guaranteed but I wouldn't bet against it either. That is unfortunately a good point.
@@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 every day I realize more that a lot of adults are just children with more power
Took an art class in middle school. "Still life" is a genre of art wherein the subject is an inanimate object, generally motionless. One day the art teacher was away sick and we had an African substitute teacher who knew nothing about art and barely spoke English; she told us we had to do a "still alive" drawing, and I was the only one that realized she misread that our assignment was "still life." So, while everyone was drawing fish and birds I was drawing a stool and table and she reprimanded me for not following the assignment, I just gave them googly eyes and got a 100.
The next day the art teacher was back in and reprimanded all of us for not following the "still life" assignment and drawing animals and shit. I was just so tired of it all that I didn't bother explaining what happened.
😆😂🤣xD
Well, that's what y'all deserve for being uppity in class! (Joke that can damn near include this entire comment section, including the replies)
that african teacher is a legend
@@bensoncheung2801 what
@@adelineemmerich5019 The class was punished when the teacher came back, OP was punished twice, and life moved on, with the teacher being none the wiser, even to OP's correctly panted still-life in favor of a class punishment.
“So, how is the water?”
“Well, I’ll give it a rating of *August 7, 2020.”*
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@@usedtissuepaper42 didn’t know, sorry
@@usedtissuepaper42 this is the internet bud
I don't get it.
@@chickenchomper69 true lol
Any time the teacher tried to force their politics into the assignments really ticked me off.
That's when you just keep turning in assignments about how awesome you think fascism is, if your lucky your school guidance councilor has very comfy seating .
I've never had this but I'd bullshit the assignment with answers appropriate to MY politics, and see what they think. I had an English professor for a few days who tried to forcer her politics on me... I switched out of the class.
I live in Scotland and we had a year - wide test about our opinions on boy on girl violence, imma still ticked off about that blatent sexism but idrc too much since it was a one off event but seriously they shouldn't impose their personal politics into a kids development unless necessary ( cough don't become a nazi and cough guns are bad )
I once got a "what do you think" question wrong. The question was something pertaining to why FDR didn't do something about civil rights and I said he was a racist and had ties to the KKK. Guess who got that wrong.
My 7th grade English teacher was forcing his right-wing beliefs into us, but I don’t really give a shit about politics especially since when you get too into politics you become an insufferable ass, so most of that went in through one ear, out the other.
When my uncle was in high school, he was given the assignment of making a stuffed mouse for sewing class. He didn’t do the assignment and borrowed his friend’s mouse to present to the teacher instead. The teacher didn’t notice, but gave my uncle a lower grade than his friend for the same damn mouse.
b r o
She noticed
ajzeg01
Wut. ig the teacher had favorites
why arent classes like this today?
our school is lucky to have a new technology program for engineering and stuff but im sure many schools dont and probably should have it
@@luigi8367 they are tho
5:36 I think my brain just came up with a 'puntastic' line for that essay. 'Attending the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting was a sobering experience.'
xD
Well, you're *not* all wet.
The first one had me staring at my own “book series” that’s basically fanfic I started in 8th grade that are at least 100 pages each that I did for fun
This is my absolute nightmare
Why do teacher insisted to put homework when students go for summer/winter vacation, and then get mad when 90% of the class doesn't do the damm homework
Summer reading was fun until they started picking the books for you. I tried in earnest to do the reading but struggled to find a regular rhythm to read as opposed to marathon reading sessions which rarely happened as the stories were dry and slow-moving. I became very familiar with both Cliff and Spark Notes (more accessible than audio books at the time). It wasn't until the beginning of my senior year of high school that found out everyone else in AP English didn't do the reading, well everyone but Kelly, who was really mad because she actually read all the books.
You mean yall dont get hw during holidays??
@@buildtherobots I've always wondered how a summer vacation homework assignment would work when the next year, you're going on to a higher grade level. Do the teachers from the higher grade check the homework? Or do they just not check it at all but assign it anyways.
@@lovelydolltime8006 the teachers in the school district that I grew up in would coordinate with each other so that they all knew what had been assigned. The students already knew what level of difficulty they were in the following term and they borrowed the books from the school library, which had a list of which books you're supposed to read based on which class you're in. It was a small school and the advantage of the small size meant that if a whole class isn't up to speed with a skill or other requirement, the current teacher could speak with the previous term teacher and have both professional accountability and a certain level of social accountability to each other. My high school was grades 9-12, had about 500 students, and 3 English teachers, but we still managed to have an honours class for grades 9 and 10 and one class each of AP English Literature and AP English Language.
I hate in general how much we overvalue old books.
Sure, blablabla, was a great writer blabla. Yeah, for his time, according to people for that time. But some old books are big pile of trash and were considered good only because no one knew how to write.
“Ah yes, I rate this water the seventh of August, 2010”
lol
too much water
my water is the 21st of may 2001
LOLLLLLLL
Ikr
student: disagrees with teacher
teacher: *you werent supposed to do that*
Teacher: teach us chapters 1 through 20
Exams and homework: chapter 21, which we should have gone over next week
:’-C
7.8/10 = *"the seventh of August 2010"*
tenth of October, would do it again! 😜
@@jamesslick4790 so 10.10/10?
thatNEET_ no literally just 10/10
Too much water
Wtf was the ai thinking
That's why I'm glad there's no school out here in the woods
Another Bigfoot sightings
Can I live with you?
I gotta start reading profile names more
There is...
ScytheLord reverse card
I got that “invent something that’s never been invented before” crap assignment too, for MUSIC CLASS. Do you know how hard it is to invent a new instrument? I drew a blank at first. I got a plastic container, filled it partway with rice, put a hole on each side and threaded rope through the holes, with a large bead on either end. You can shake it or twirl it, is a thing. Well, my teacher said it already existed (with that little sad look), and I was like “uh, yeah, my other teacher said everything has already been invented, it’s just a matter of putting things together in different ways. All the instruments are invented. I can’t use metal or wood (imma kid, ok?) soooo... sorry?
I had a teacher assign a LONG textbook assignment (like read 4-5 chapters and do the end of chapter quizzes) on the LAST day of high school. Thing is, grades were already turned in. There was no actual motivation to do it. Most of my classes were movies or parties. I was flabbergasted at how many people actually followed her instructions. I doodled until the end of class, walked out without turning anything in, and never heard a word about it.
I was given a full self-reflection essay about my growth during an internship...
Except I couldn't use any "I" statements. That's right, I couldn't refer to myself when talking about my personal growth.
That's dumb
Why did they think a restriction like that was a good idea? If I was a bit more of a smart-@ss, I probably would write it referring to myself in third person the entire time. And with full name every time to make it super tedious. >;-}
I remember this one So You Want to be a Wizard book where the main characters are on an alien planet making friends with this giant scorpion-like alien and because she belonged to a hive, she referred to herself as “This one” and struggled with the concept of having her own identity.
I remember I had a history essay once, the teacher said you weren’t allowed to use the words “he”, “she”, “they” or “them”. You had to refer to the person as their name every single time you mentioned them. Then I got criticised by the teacher because my assignment “didn’t make any sense.”
It would literally be like; “Timmy didn’t know what he was doing, he hoped they’d find him soon.”
to
“Timmy didn’t know what Timmy was doing, Timmy hoped the people would find Timmy soon.”
Now you can talk like hulk and say me angry or me sleepy or sumn
I once had a teacher tell me to redo a report I had written because it was "too creative." I was taking biology online because my high school schedule hadn't allowed for the class in any other way. I was super bored with the class and that assignment was the first time I had some fun. The report had all of the facts in it, and was the required length. I told the teacher "no" when she told me to do it over, and then my mom told her the same thing. I got a B on the report. All because it was "too creative."
wth is too creative even suppose to mean?
I am deeply sorry for you having that teacher and confused why the teacher said that because creativity is everything in reports. @Casey Jewels Creativity is in school’s values. Teachers will say that you must write reports in new words and sit all sources of information without it sounding like the information you were told to source!¿!
WTF creativity should be encouraged not disapproved of, if it includes everything and doesn't go completely off the rails it is good, not bad! don't know what that teacher is normally like but if that is the way the teacher is normally she should be fired.
You’d think she’d realise that if no one likes in no one would read it.
@@catomatic3849 I agree in principle, but there are so many wrong ways to be creative in a science class and only a few right ways. It sounds like the instructor wanted to be diplomatic about a problem with the paper.
My experience: In social studies, we were soon starting ancient Rome. My teacher made us research the history of pretzels because apparently they originated from Rome. They didn't.
Edit: 6th grade btw
I thought it was well known that pretzels originated in the lower countries, they even have a dutch sounding name
So many cool things to research about Ancient Rome and your teacher chose pretzels
Jesus that’s bad
My 6th grade social studies final project didn't even have anything to social studies. It was literally just about thinking of ways to improve the school. A bunch of kids wrote about how disgusting the boys' bathroom is and the girls joked about how the girls' bathroom had a sofa in it (of course that wasn't true). Oh also it was a group project. The worst part is that these two girls got an A for their "swaggy scooters" idea. The scooters would make it easier to get around the school and they could "fly". So this entire time we were trying to come up with actual ideas while these girls just made up flying vehicles to make it easier to get around the school and got an easy A.
I had a history project in fourth grade where we all got a folder that our families had to fill out, the assignment was about family trees and family history. The frustrating part for a lot of kids is that this assignment is geared towards the stereotypical normal family. In my case, i didnt have access to my fathers side of the family cuz i was a one night stand and my mother didnt even know my fathers last name. At best my score would be a 50(failing) and the teacher didnt give a damn. I ended up with a 43, and not very many people passed that project.
Whats worse is that my younger siblings (different dad but again, no access to paternal side) also got the same project and it hasnt been changed since 7 yrs ago. And again, the teacher didnt listen to any complaints from the parents.
holy shit I'm so sorry-
It's nothing but fun and games 'til the human students are forced to laugh for two minutes straight.
If that happened today, there'd be a lot of joker laughs.
That one was a serious "what? the? hell?"
I'd tell my kid to just get up and leave. Power-play psycho, just like the teachers who refuse trips too the loo.
Yeah
This video really gets on my nerves
In 6th grade, we had a substitute teacher, this old guy well call Mr A.
He told us his family history and how every one of his family members had a tragic death, like he actual described the ways his family died.
And then he gave us a word search with the names of his dead family members and words relating to how they died.
Yeah, that didn’t go down well to a bunch of 12 year olds.
My current US History teacher constantly talks about himself and his family. He will tell us about how at other schools he changed kids lives and how he made them less shy so they could perform on stage (he also teaches theatre) Nobody likes him but he acts like he’s a hero.
@@emilyfrancis3933 College entrepreneurship class. The teacher was an entrepreneur himself, and very condescending. He kepts referring to "my paying customers" - I guess we were a charity? I finally raised my hand and said "We're paying customers too."
In English class in 7th grade, after reading "The Giver" we were told to write an epilogue about the book. In fact she put mine up on the View Sonic and voiced some criticisms and commented about how the main character was being out of character in one part. She was basically telling us to write a Giver fanfiction.
In my Sociology class, the teacher (who’s a funny teacher) made everyone do a 13 page, single spaced paper about their personalities and how they relate to the sociological theories and perspectives. So before going into the class (since it’s required at my school) I was dreading it. However, the year I had to take the class (junior) she got rid of it because too many kids were failing because of it. I praise that teacher and the class was fun too.
Is it just me, or does anyone else hate when teachers make you do a project for the unit instead of a test. I'd rather just have a regular pen and paper test.
tests are better since I can't procrastinate
epic gamer jazz playing stops
I hate tests because I always make careless errors
I haven't been in school in 40 years, But I was that guy who did better on the tests than the regular assignments, So yeah, Just give me a test!
I like project since I get to learn a bunch of fun facts researching
I had something different. All of the staff knew I was socially awkward and one had seen me dance freshmen year. Dance class was required at my school. The teacher who saw me dance was a retired Lt Col. He recommended that I stay in his class and take welding (both requires 4 years and takes up both "free" slots that dance falls in) to the staff. I avoided dance class for the full 4 years and got a chance to join ROTC later in life and a degree in welding. My social skills are far better and I'm more outgoing because I had to punish and delagate command in JROTC and I had the ability to go into trade thanks to him. He honestly knew what was better for me.
I remember I had a spelling quiz in 4th grade, but one time I got a 0% because even though the words were all spelled correctly it was because I made the first letter of the words capitalized and none of them were proper nouns. Later on I realized the spelling quizzes didn’t even matter towards your grade.
In my school there was a teacher that handed our a test and one of the questions were "if you were a slave owner how would you punish your slaves." ...yeah pretty f**ked up
Alternate title: Teacher's Who Got a Taste of Power and Abused It.
Teachers*
No apostrophe
Looks like free speech or an opinion isn't a thing in schools
Nope. Unless it’s the teachers talking.
What's horrifying is that my 12th grade government teacher admitted it. Glad I'm no longer enslaved to the government indoctrination camps colloquially known as public school.
Free Helicopter Rides for all Socialists of Roblox Lucky you. I still am. To see how awful school is, go to Google’s search bar, type school makes me and look at the search suggestions.
Ms_penguinee well I don't think this is the norm, or at least I went to amazing schools because in my experience especially in high school (UK high school not American) there is a lot of student interaction and criticisms are allowed as long as they aren't in the middle of a lesson, my school even had a student council called Barraza wich changed school policy from time to time and was elected.
@@catomatic3849 elections!? Omg that's so cool!
Seat belts are useless
Write a paper on my opinion
Me:
Seat belts are effective. My great uncle literally died in a car accident because his car didn’t have seat belts at the time. He would have survived if he had been wearing a seat belt. Don’t tell me seat belts are worthless.
@Galactic Ninja Sometimes, it's for the best. When was that test, anyhow? 1985? Was she smoking in class, too?
I had a math substitute is, like, eighth grade and instead of doing what the hell she was actually supposed to be doing, she went down a dark rabbit hole of parent abandonment and drugs, and anything that went with that topic.
This is bad enough to begin with, we were in EIGHTH GRADE for Christ sake, but it was even worse considering nearly half the class, me and my friends included, didn’t have parents with us do to overdose of drugs (hospitalized, death, or in jail because of it) or being taken away by CPS and were sensitive to that fact. Nearly all of us were in foster care at the time so we couldn’t exactly ask to go home either.
The sub saw my friend crying, and then gradually watched as the rest of our group in the back started tearing up one by one. Instead of stopping, she continued on about heroin and how bad it is for our society. I couldn’t even move, I was so in shock and in tears because I’ve lost everyone in my life to meth and heroin. We all had to step out and the principal didn’t do anything but tell us to go back to class and basically suck it up.
Teacher: or you can write about what is wrong about my rules.
4 kids: do that
Teacher: *T H A T S I N C A N N O T B E F O R G I V E N*
Now that I think about it school is a lot like religion. No wonder so many of them are Christian lmao
I am wondering if that was just a trap to screw kids didn’t like him over to be honest
So the teachers started their own Hundred Flowers Campaign. Interesting.
@@starvoltnexus3139 that was exactly what it was
That was stupid tbh, seeing how it abused the students trust. It also just teaches the students not to form opinions, or else you'll get punished for it :-/
Every morning we had really invasive starters. “What would your nickname be if it was the thing your parents scolded you for?”
“Who’s your favorite parent? Why?”
These were public as well. I never did them and I constantly got shit
Lt.Lettuce 1945 IKR THESE ARE SO ANNOYING AND I END UP JUST MAKING FREE WRITES THAT ARENT PERSONAL, OR ARE RANTS
I get a decent grade on it though
“What would your nickname be if it was the thing your parents scolded you for?”
Me: SuicideByDepression
(Is ThAT A GoOD EnOUGh AwnSER FoR Ya, TeAcH?)
Mine would be UselessMistakeofmyLife... Yeaaah my mom was toxic af. Jesus christ am I glad our schools don't ask such questions
Lol
Gosh I can imagine my teacher asking the nickname one and then making it about Jesus
Christian school
Third grade, we had to make up an instrument and how to change the pitch, speed and so on. I didn’t work on it until the recess before I had to present. I literally just took two napkins from the cafeteria, filled them with sand from the sandbox, taped them up and called them Sandrockas. I got like, a B on the project. My teacher totally knew what I was doing, but she liked me, so I got away with it
Saw that teacher a couple years ago at a craft store. Gave her a hug and said it was great to see her. Ms. Taylor, if by some miracle you read this, thanks for not calling me out on my Sandrocka bullshit.
My school had a mandatory class on computers that was out there in 90s (how to use search engine, don’t open random emails, that sort of stuff). Teacher from freshman year was an absolute Chad who retired that year. He literally flipped off the whole school and said fuck everyone on the way out. He also taught actually useful information like how to manage finances and how to find an apartment
Compare that to the replacement we got sophomore year
Teacher had us do a bunch of bullshit assignments on photoshop and Scratch. She had written instructions for each, but if your project was even slightly different from the teacher’s, you just failed; no matter how good it was. That class literally was just teaching us to follow directions (like every other class in the American education system.)
The worst thing that happened was in time at the start of class she was furious for seeming no reason. Turns out her keyboard and mouse had gotten unplugged and she thought someone in the class had done it. It was no secret that everyone hated this teacher and she knew it. The problem was, it could have been someone from the class before as they walked out. She was screaming at the class demanding the guilty person come forward and admit in front of the class what they did. She was almost in tears at this point. When no one came forward, she orders us to sit silently and not use our phones while she pulled each student one by one into the hallway to ask if they unplugged the mouse. It got so bad that I offered to take one for the team and just admit to it so we could be done with this whole thing. She didn’t strictly enforce the no phones policy, so we basically got a free class so it wasn’t that bad. I sent an email to the principal to Compton about what happened and a bunch of other parents did the same. She apologized the next day. She was later fired at the end of the year apparently because she hit a student, but I think that was just a rumor. To this day, no one knows who unplugged the keyboard and mouse. I like to think she did it herself out of anger.
Spanish class.
English instructions.
Japanese poetry.
*yeah this seems legit, school is lit*
How the bloody hell
Does this even make sense, now?
Fuck this shit, I'm out.
I'll let the Japanese Poetry thing slide, since its style isn't restricted to specific languages.
@@cathl4953 doesn’t it need to be seven?
@@cathl4953 “make” has two syllables??
@@arse-chan7694 no
"Draw a flag and include your countries values"
"Draw a shield of your own families values"
This was for work this year. I am 27.
sounds cool actually. also what kind of a job is this?
@@yusuf_kizilkaya Care work, in a home for dementia patients, I understand the idea behind it, however I dont want to colour in a shield or flag.
the flag thing is noice tho
@@ashaler__ The word sorry written over a cup of tea doesnt look great in flag form
Platt agon you are right
I once had to make a board game on how a bill becomes a law. When we finished the teacher asked us to play our games without explaining how. No dice, no spinner, nothing.
When I was in fifth grade, we did a ten-week long project on a book we read with various assignments including a paper, a comic strip, and a powerpoint presentation, among other things. The teacher brilliantly planned for us to finish the project in the last week of the school year, so she had no time to grade them, and they were dropped from the grade books. All that work for nothing.
I hope the teacher felt as bad about that as you did. 🤦🏻♂️
I went to a small Christian private school, and I had to transcribe (copy word for word) the entire book of John, over the course of the year. It was hell. (pun intended)
KAITLYN COLLISON I go to a christian school as well and that sounds like it sucked
I go to a Christian school and somehow they turn everything into religion class. I shouldn’t be reading the Gospel of Luke in math class.
Emily Francis really I mean we have chapel and stuff but most classes aren’t brought into religion other then bible
Emily Francis YES! My homophobic 8th grade algebra teacher randomly started talking about how ashamed she was after seeing pride flags in stores at her trip to San Diego. I’m like what? Shouldn’t we be learning about parabolas and quadratic formulas and stuff like that?
GamerSkull I mean I exaggerated a little, but we do pray at the start of most classes and sometimes a teacher will randomly start talking about following in Jesus’ footsteps and how we can become better Christians.
The stupiest assignment I got in school?
Oh I know
*All of them*
@sven sven especially those community service ones.
YES This is the ONLY correct answer!
Hey hey hey, I see a relatable comment!
Scp fan 101 The real answer is schools suck ass
Just the best answer!
What annoys me is when you have to be creative on an assignment that isn’t really a project. I want to learn history, not color!
I remember a pretty stupid one where the class got split up into 4 person groups and each group had to bake something for a Christmas fundraiser they were doing. My group made a cake. Except that it was hard as a rock, while also crumbly and dry like sand if you somehow managed to chip a piece off, and it was almost certaintly inedible for any mortal kin. Still got sold for 5 euro or something like that. It probably killed someone, either as poison or as a blunt murder weapon.
Stupidest assignment I ever done was in fifth grade where our teacher assigned us to do a biography on our favorite author
It had to be 3 pgs
I did two pgs on Erin Hunter
She never even graded it or looked at it
illuso III something similar to that when I was in 6th grade is missed the day we were assigned partners for this 25 slide project you had to write the word, a sentence, definition, and something else, well I got to work alone, and I was struggling to Finnish it, she never even graded it
omg i remember warrior cats
OMG ERIN HUNTER WARRIOR CATS YES
Ambulance
Warrior cats so amazing haha 😂
I got an assignment where I was supposed to tell the class about who I was what I did over summer who my family was.
I told the teacher I wasn’t doing it because non of these people are my friends and they don’t need to know my personal life.
Just make shit up
@@pmc614 i did
7:37 For the people who don't understand the Toronto Maple Leafs are a Canadian hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) who don't make the Postseason (Play--offs) often but the the Maple Leaf team is pretty good at golfing too.
I could be wrong
Spot on!
The letter actually being sent thing reminds me of a thing that happened (though I knew a few times I had to write letters, I don't remember if they actually got sent). In 7th grade, our math teacher, during a section on probabilities, had us start looking at the newspaper and pick stocks. And every week we would look at it again and decide to buy, sell, trade, whatever, maybe switch to different stocks, or whatever. Well, about a month in, he comes in all mad. He goes on about how we aren't taking this seriously and we're just screwing around. Huh, weird, why is HE taking this so seriously? Well, turns out...he was really doing everything we all said, he'd bought shares of all the stocks we'd picked (and it wasn't like we picked as a class. We were 10 groups of 3), and then bought more, sold, or traded, based on what we decided each week. And, go figure, he'd lost a ton of money and now the school was pissed at him. This was his first year teaching at our school...and his last.
Ah yes, remember overdosing on water on August 7, 2010?
I heard you quite fancied magical blue axolotls
Not really because I was 5 years old at the time.
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Christina Magluilo same
@@theweirdo2005 so your are 13 or 14
*THE SEVENTH OF AUGUST 2010* : too much water
S T O L E N C O M M E N T
Bleach ゴ what?
Bleach ゴ upon further notice I didn’t see the comment before when I made it I didn’t mean to steal it it was a accident
The_Living_Speaker sorry your comment was under the sane so I just assumed
Bleach ゴ that’s understandable no apology necessary
A "science teacher" had us set up a piece of bread so it would get moldy, *beneath our beds* and plant some carrots, on the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! We were(suppossedly) going to keep a log of the growth and development of both projects until next school year.
Yeah... fuck no. I refused to have moldy bread in my room let alone beneath my bed. Growing carrots was just plain pointless. The worst thing wasn't me having to deal with that shit throughout the summer break it was my parents forcing me to follow through with that shit.
My parents gave me shit for refusing to grow mold and carrots and "defying the orders of a superior." They weren't even questioning the sheer stupidity of the project, nor the date it was assigned at, nor the longevity of the project *outside of school schedules. They quickly changed their tune when other parents phoned them to agree about how stupid the teacher was for assigning an equally stupid project that clearly had no point.
The teacher was fired the following year for unrelated reasons but fuck her, they should have fired her for that "project" alone.
I will *NEVER* forgive nor forget, my parents and the "teacher."
My favorite was the forced volunteering I had to do in high school and college. Nothing makes you appreciate giving your time like knowing you could be studying for another class but instead have to pick up trash at a local park so you don't fail a second class.
“ “ “ volunteer ” ” ”
I can understand why that one teacher who said students could write a letter to him was hated.
69th liek
Yeah, he can’t take constructive criticism, even when explicitly asking for it.
I have one that will top anything and everything any person on this video's feed or in that Reddit thread can come up with.
My assignment in the 4th grade: Go home, hug a tree and thank it for producing oxygen.
Yes. My teacher literally wanted us to do this. We had to thank a tree for doing what it does.
And yes, I did it. The homework basically was a parent's signature on a piece of paper asking if we did it. So, our parent had to sign to confirm we finished it.
i hope your teacher knew that the microorganisms produce way more oxygen than the trees, lmao
I was expecting worse lol.
I would tell the teacher to go apologize to a tree for all the oxygen she was wasting making dumb@ss assignments like that.
Omg bets homework ever. Take me to a forest and I'd gladly do that even with pictures for proof
Oh when I was in grade 4 we didn’t do a test at school so when it was break we did it nothing wrong with that right?
Well she made me do the test and it said at the top it was for a 7th grader and used words a 4th grader wouldn’t know (it was English I think)
For one of my classes in college, our teacher would grade the notes we took over the reading assignments. This was a Spanish culture class discussing music in the Spanish speaking world. We did a lot more reading about random nonsense than actually discussing music.
My friend had a permanent substitute for a year for ceramics and did like 2 weeks worth of art for the entire year and did essays/write rules for the year...
my language arts teacher in 7th grade. she was awful. we did this thing every thursday called “think outside the box thursday,” where there was a drawing of something like a cloud on the board but below it said “this is not a cloud.” stupid stuff like that.
one time, there was a drawing of a hand. everyone said it could be a turkey because it was almost thanksgiving and its a typical thing. then one kid said “it looks like a turkey.” and the teacher stared at him for two minutes straight without saying anything. we were all awkwardly sitting around trying to figure out why she was so upset. the teacher says “come out in the hallway with me. that was a very inappropriate thing for you to say.” the second they closed the door we all burst out laughing. not at the kid, but at the teachers ignorance.
later i asked him what she said to him in the hallway. he said “she told me i had the choice of either going back to class and behaving or going down to the office, but then she forced me to go to the office anyways.”
we all hated that teacher. she got fired at the end of the year though so it was all good.
Sounds like the teacher is a turkey lmao
Randomness Productions pretty much, yeah
Lol
How is a turkey inappropriate? Tf 😂
How the $#@&* is that inappropriate? xD
When i was in high school, my additional maths teacher told us to right him a letter asking how he can improve his way of teaching.
Im the student who sleeps in his class.every class.i love the subject and i love the teacher too.
During his first class...i fell asleep....and he woke me up and told me infront of the class to go out and wash myself and he took my book.
After months of same result...me sleeping in his class...the test came..result came out..i scored the highest...he never bothered ti wake me up unless we have exercises needed to be finished.😂
So when he told us to make a constructive comment...i wrote there "when im in class sleeping, your teachings usually will be in my dreams. But perhaps u can raise your voice when you teach...because its so dreamy..."
Next thing happen after i graduated...he brough microphone n mini speaker to classes.😂😂😂
That’s funny
@@hmok7015 I think it's sweet
u aa I don’t believe you
Samuel Villalobos ok then
Samuel Villalobos whatever
I'm in Web Design right now. We did an assignment where you looked up those top 10 new tech product videos and summarize the products we liked. We then proceeded to present the product we liked the most to the class. Last week we voted on which product was going to change the world the most, all of this for separate grades. We also had an assignment where we drew a photo-realistic cat, along with a cartoon reindeer. We are in week 4 of our 12-week class, and our teacher still hasn't taught us how to hyperlink two pages together.
…. I have no words for how stupid that is. What does that clueless teacher think any of that has to do with web design?
Bruh
Our Dutch teacher (I live in Belgium), who is a terrible teacher (which will become clear soon), asked us to write an essay about his teaching and what could be better, titled "What I think about it."
So, as he was a terrible teacher, I took my time to write a 6-page thing (A4 format), while everyone else had at most 2 pages. I told him (in a polite manner) everything I thought about his way of teaching. For example, "Please try to organize your online documents, it is extremely hard to find anything." (which he then called "pampering") or "Giving a clear explanation about an assignment could result in better grades from everyone because they understand what they have to do." (which he then said was "communication training")
Over the next few courses, I could notice him making references to my essay. It was obvious to me as I had written it, but everyone else didn't notice. He was making comments like "look, this is how I work" while he was doing something out of the ordinary for him (contradicting what I had written, thus "disproving" my point).
Then, we got it back. I got a 5/10. My Dutch was, grammatically and orthographically, flawless. An entire new page was appended on which he had written things like "that's what you think" (implying that because it was not what _he_ thought, it was wrong) "assumption" "subjective" (that page was filled with these). I compared to a classmate who had only praised the teacher, and he had gotten a 9/10.
The next time he asked us to write this same thing, I full-on insulted him multiple times. I proved using his view on objectiveness that he was a bad teacher and proved him wrong using dictionary definitions. He got quite mad at me after that, but never called me out. And I got 7/10 on that one. I had also talked about how he had graded all the negative reviews worse than the positive ones (for which I had actually read all my classmates' essays and analyzed them, once again to make sure he couldn't claim it was "not true"). I also asked everyone in my year and as many older students as possible if they thought he was a bad teacher and wrote the 100% result in there.
Once he got over it, he was actually a little better.
Got a B on a film project, teacher edited my project, new grade was D-, I called bullshit and got an A for it after arguing my way to the principal.
At least you won! So many mean teachers get away with their crap.
Why did your teacher edit your project and then grade it as worse?
Essay in math
Not even about math
It was supposed to be an icebreaker but it’s not like we read it to the class
Still confused about this
How the fuck can u do an essay for maths?? That's liek on of the subjects that project or practically impossible
@@zeoceania2765 proving an equation or something
I really liked my middle school English teacher. We used this vocabulary book that taught us 15 new words every unit. She tried to come up with different creative ways to make us learn our words, most of them worked fine, one of them just felt like busy work. We had to make a collage of all of the words from newspapers, but putting the letters together. The thing is that normal newsprint is too small to try to cut into the articles themselves, so you had to hunt through headlines. A few times I used the crossword section to my advantage by writing out a word to put it straight on. This felt, so I only used it a few times. I now kind of wish I used that for an entire list, and finish the assignment in five minutes, just to make a point.
"I went to an abstinence-only school district", oh boy that story should be fun!
What's abstinence?
@@local.tiktoker9668 not having sex. Basically being a virgin till marriage
@@crazysniper65 Ooooookkkkaaaaaaayyyyyyyy I'm too young for thissss
I would have completely taken the piss out of the assignment
And if you don’t get married or can’t, you by this definition are an incel. What’s more funny, abstinence works counterproductively
I got one, we read romeo and Juliet, that's normal then we right argumentative essay on it half the class day it's a love story the other half tragedy, Shakespeare said it was a tragedy so we debate if the person who wrote the book knew what genre it was
Wait why can’t it be both ?
W.............T..................F
I hate that English teachers autistically screech about Shakespeare's stories are perfect and absolute masterpieces even though half of them have more plot holes than anything I can think of and have plots as boring as To Kill a Mockingbird (worst book I ever read) And I guarantee if it was written in modern English, we wouldn't be reading it because even people as dumb as school administrators would realize it is poorly written torture porn.
We shouldn’t even be reading Shakespeare. They’re fucking *stage plays*.
peacelovechocolate Elaborate?
Don’t you love it when you finish a project and are happy cause you have another five to focus and that is one less to worry about but then another project begins the SAME DAMN DAY from the same flipping teacher
Hey I know you
Sounds like my school
You fake
You fr made a fake justin y account?
5:33 - I actually had to do the same assignment for my Psychology of Addiction class and I have to say, it was an eye-opening experience and I can see why we were assigned the paper. At the meeting I attended, the head of the place was the only one who had time to speak but he was pretty eager to tell us about his experience and was very nice to me and my group of friends who were also in the class. He showed us the place (which was pretty small) and would explain what each thing meant (such as this chart with names and numbers next to their names which meant how long they had been sober) which was unprompted but very helpful for our assignments. So I have to disagree with the commenter. One thing that should be said is that this was an OPEN meeting, meaning anyone can come and those in the group are aware of that. There are CLOSED meetings for those who don't want their stories to be known and that's okay. Also, the head was used to people coming to do similar assignments so he was able to recognize how out of place we looked lol
"This dirt is crumbling . Like my sanity ."
That one over the letter to the teacher was pretty funny:
The teacher basically asked "do you think im stupid?" And only 3 responded with yes, even though they didnt mean the offense. Of course was angry.
But it was even more stupid of the teacher to passive aggresively say that to children and then get angry for the response.
Punishing the students for doing as they're told.
Especially if said criticism was constructive.
Pretty much all “assignments” and “homework” (hell most schoolwork in general) has been almost completely irrelevant to my life.
Can confirm. My best class grade-wise was an elective that was relevant to my life.
In a college health class, we were assigned to make a video on an important subject (ie. suicide, drug abuse, alcohol, etc.). My group was assigned drinking and driving. When it came time to present, we noticed that every other groups video was generally very serious. My group made a rap video. FML. Think we got a 100% tho.
Lyrics for the rap if you were curious:
Hey, kids!
Home alone?
Grab the alcohol, grab the phone.
Please wait (beep) for that dial tone!
Grab your friends,
Grab your peers,
And grab- hm- maybe like... 80 beers?!
But pretty soon
An empty keg
And the drunkards-
They begin to beg!
So I grab my keys,
I say "let's get more,
C'mon, I'll drive us to the store".
We were headed down the street about a quarter til five
Just a-movin' and a groovin' and a-skippin' all the stop signs
[Police man]: Dang those guys are off the rail!
Step on the pedal man- they're on our tail!
But I couldn't see out of the corner of my eye
The big red truck with the big red lights
I knew in that moment I was dead on sight
Goodbye, world. It's been tight!
My casket's cozy inside covered with fine linen
And unless you wanna end up dead, you should listen.
You think it's cool to drink and drive?
I thought it was too, but now I'm not alive (now he's not alive)
-- End
BRO THIS IS FIRE UNDERRATED AF
I wanna listen to the rap
Mine was to look at illustrations of people's body types and determine weather or not they needed to go on a diet in first grade. My mom posted it on Facebook and it went viral and went on the Utah news. Look it up.
A list of questions where the last says 'Disregard every question.'
I had something like this called the "Following Directions Test" on like the first day of 4th grade; the first instruction was "read all questions closely before you begin" and the last question said "ignore everything and turn this in blank with just your name"
@@zach.a.fields that sounds like an amazingly easy test and I wish I was given that in school lmao
@@zach.a.fields Yoo I got the same in 4th
SuntannedFish9 same
Those tests are hilarious. Some of the things they ask are so funny.
When dumbest thing my teachers ever said is that you couldn’t use the bathroom and that you should have gone in lunch 75% of people WE DIDNT HAVE TO GO IN LUNCH
We have that rule for only one class because you have to go through another class to get to the bathroom or you could go down the teacher stairs but you could get suspended for that.
Also do they just expect 100+ kids to use the bathrooms at the same time
Got transferred from a good school to a "less performing" one. Got assigned a book to write reports on for 2 months while the class caught up. I refused. Got detention. I moved during this time. My new school (just the one I'd been transferred out of) was told I had detentions to serve until I did the work. Principal said, "Nah."
My 2nd grade teacher was absolutely amazing and she really helped me through some tough times that year, but I'll never forget when she gave us the assignment of licking a lollipop repeatedly and writing down how many licks it took to get to the center. We legit had to write how many licks we'd taken after every lick for at least 20 minutes until she ended the activity after no one got to the center of their lollipops.
So how will any of these assignments teach you how to get a job, pay your taxes, or how to critically think? Oh wait this is school not a place of learning.
Thank you for saying that. Too bad I can't heart a comment if it's not my video.
The point of the thread and video is that these were the dumbest and most pointless assignments people were given.
Because the American education system is literally designed to mold people into obedient factory workers. That’s not an analogy either, that’s a fact. They punished creativity, critical thinking, and opinions because those ideas don’t agree with factory jobs. I currently work a factory job and it is literal hell; but that’s a story for a different thread. All I can say is that instead of spending 700 billion dollars to build some more tanks that are just gonna sit there and go unused, maybe spend those tax payer dollars on a reform of the duration system? Just a thought.
english classes have such a hard-on for shakespeare- solid semester every year in hs- but civics spent literally a week on tax forms- maybe 3 hours total for my secondary ed career... and don't get me started on math
@@NewPaulActs17 Yeah, there seems to be a thing about teaching personal finance... Required course at my high school, but the entire thing's dedicated to an exit presentation/portfolio, with cram sessions of actual material here and there (there was also a 'business foundations' class, but most of that was touch-typing and learning Microsoft programs via workbook projects). So, I decided to take an online college-level finance course...Which turned out to be listening to David Ramsey video lectures, filling out copy-paste video worksheets on said lectures, and tests that were literally the chapter quizzes (again on said lectures) regurgitated. So that was helpful :P
“When did humans seperate from chimpanzees?”
“True”
Edit: Wow, my first time above 10 likes, thanks guys
@@simonelastname5182 because the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
it has over 60 likes now
This one year I took an English literature class and at the beginning of the school year we had a vote on whether we could do a year-long scrapbook project or a provincial exam (which would have lasted around 3 hours) at the end of the year. I wanted the exam but the vote was in favor of the scrapbook. I eventually got it done (the night before it was due, no less; I stayed up past my usual bedtime to finish it) but I don't know if all of the students finished theirs. It would have been much better if the choice was individual or if we were all just given an exam instead of a long-term project like that.
In when I was in UNIVERSITY, my acting class was asked to write an analysis of the play "The Crucible" and we were given a skelleten of questions to write about as prompts.
I went SO IN DEPTH and did so much work, I was so nit-picky about everything, the metaphors, figures of speach, social & historical content, the biblical references etc. I had written over 7,000 words on this analysis and I was very excited to show my lecturer my work. It was a weekend project and i think they were only expecting about 500 words.
Roll on class day and my group of friends either hadn't done it, or not written much/missed out questions/ only done a page worth of writing, I was like huehuehue teacher's pet strikes again!
We get to class and the lecturer doesn't even mention the homework, doesn't ask us what answers we got, doesn't say anything, not even acknowledged I cant even I worked so hard on this because i was extremely undervalued as an intelligent person, I was gonna show them all, I was gonna-
If that last one about the laughing wasn’t an excuse to smoke weed, I don’t know what it.
I once had to do a summer reading project within two weeks. I had just moved to the area from another country (I'm American, but moved to Ireland, then back to America), got into a High School and was told to read a book and do all this project stuff. This was about a week before school started.
The book was annoying, and it annoys me to this day I had to do that project.
Did you like Ireland?
@@zeoceania2765 Oh it was lovely. Great public transportation, great people, great places to see.
What was the book
@@wolffoxnation3660 I forget the name but it was about a guy who abandoned everything to become a drifter and eventually died in the Alaskan wilderness due to poor survival techniques.
Once in seventh grade, my PE teacher gave us a worksheet that basically said to record 4 plays from a professional football game. I hated the assignment.
Another time, also seventh grade, this time in drama class. We were just told to print out the lyrics to whatever song you wanted. We didn’t even do anything with them and it took less than 5 minutes.
I had an English teacher in middle school that insisted we submit two copies of each of our essays to her. One copy had to be typed, and the other had to be handwritten. For "book reports" she made us write a summary FOR EVERY PAGE IN THE BOOK, in addition to doing a whole other ton of mindless menial shit. These "book reports" had the same two copy rule. The only reason she did this was because she was psychotic. She did a lot of other things as well. She once gave me a detention for accidentally dropping a piece of paper. I literally had a nervous breakdown because she made every day at school and every night of homework a living hell. I had to drop out of middle school and switch to home schooling temporarily because I couldn't handle her shit anymore. I had another teacher in high school who had a policy that if you had a single missing assignment in his class it was an automatic fail. It didn't matter if you were a perfect A student otherwise, if you missed a single stupid busywork assignment BOOM! Automatic F for the whole semester. Also psychotic. I had another teacher in high school who was absolutely cryptic and pretty much wanted us to guess what her rules or criteria for assignments were. She refused to explain herself or what our instructions were if anyone tried to ask for clarification. I poured my heart and soul into writing essays for her class only to get Fs because I couldn't magically read her mind to know what she wanted. She also gave us her interpretations of various famous poems as if her interpretations were word of god objective truth and would immediately shoot down any differing opinions by students as objectively wrong. She also made us read her shitty poetry a lot too. She was also psychotic.
The entire American public education system can go fuck itself.
We had a “whole class health lesson” in gym. We watched Wall-E. There was no discussion afterward or anything. Not complaining, but our gym teachers are pretty lazy and will find any excuse to just watch a movie.
Lucky!
I'd rather wtacg wall-e 3 times than do PE. I'm not a athletic person at all. And football is my worst enemy, if I try to kick the ball one direction it'll go the opposite.
Anything that asked me "What are your plans in 10 years" or anything similar.
I'm sorry.
I'm here to learn things not try and predict the future or tell you my life ambitions.
i’ve got one year left of high school so i might try that next year lol
Exactly like mind your own business
I know right?
It's not their bloody business what I wish to do with my life.
@@AeronHale Right! Like I may well change my mind 10,000 times between now and the time I graduate, so leave your big prodding nose out of my personal life, thank you!
Because you know they're not going to attempt to understand it and build on what you say.
In 7th grade science, we had to grow flowers and would be graded at the end of the month. Turns out my seeds were bad, so nothing grew, and I failed the assignment. After that, I never trusted another person/living thing for help for a grade the next 5 years.
The first one-I would have KILLED for that assignment! I loved writing even as a child. Even if grading wasn't equal writing a story for a class would have been amazing.
My PE teacher got mad that I didn't want to participate (Because it's both physically and mentally exhausting for me) so she made me write an essay on why exercise is good for you, I instead wrote an essay on why it's bad for you
She never made me participate again after that
Nice lol
In third grade I had to write 100 sentences saying “I will respect my kumu while they are talking and will not disrupt them” or something like that. It took me around 1 1/2 to 2 hours to write 33 sentences.
Just kinda here Kumu? Is that a term from some other language? Never heard of it before.
In sixth grade, my health class required everyone to sign a vow of abstinence until marriage. I transferred shortly after bc I moved, and pretty much forgot about it until I found it helping my folks move last year. I don't know why the school even bothered with it since I guarantee 90% broke the "vow" before hs graduation
15:09 to those who didn't know: The One Ring in Tolkien's lore is literally the device of devil, causes addicition to itself and pushes people to doing bad things and must be destroyed in LOTR to win the war with Dark Lord.
*writes 50 pages of "Dirty Potter hentai" fanfic*
I will start a civil war to get that hentai back
They are probably keeping it
Honestly, If I have to do a written assignment I’m gonna write fanfic and actually try to hand it in since it’s technically my story with other characters
Sophomore year if highschool my AP US history teacher was amazing, decided to have us do a very hands on project on the jfk assassination, specifically the magic bullet and physically demonstrating it. The problem arose when the approved objects included super balls. Super balls move nothing like bullets, magic or otherwise. The result was 23 serious college prep students running around throwing super balls and arguing if it had the force to obliterate a skull, there was also an officially nominated kid to play Jackie who was obscenely good at catching the uhm... debris. Public schools ftw!
Worst was hands down the story about the teacher who assigned the class to come up with ways slavery was a good thing, there was no saving that.
☹
Yeah, I hope that never got out. People could have sued over things like that
@@thebestcentaur it was back in the days when no one ever questioned the actions of honor, gifted ap teachers. Especially with kids learning online it's pretty much impossible for my kids teacher to do anything without me immediately knowing
In English class, we were given a worksheet where we had to list down some of the Dewey System subjects - the numbers were there, we just had to identify the subject for that number. Then we had to find those words in a word-search. Our school's library had this set up but no one thought to go to the library during break to figure it out. It was honestly an extremely difficult assignment because even my local library and Wikipedia didn't help me. I spent many stressful hours at the weekend researching to the point where my mum had to come and help me and somehow I was able to complete the worksheet. At this point, I was not bothered if I got a couple of them wrong, I was fine as long as I had completed the sheet.
On the due date, the teacher asked us to put our hands up if we had completed the homework. I raise my hand up, the entire class was deathly silent. The teacher asked again and was met with more silence. Then she yells out "ONE PERSON?!". I looked around the whole room and discovered that I was the only student to complete and hand in the homework. The others tried to explain that the work was impossible and didn't seem to question how I managed to do it. I was quite stunned because even the students who were always on time with homework didn't get it done. It was very unlike them. The teacher lectured the entire class and made us do a few lessons on why English lessons are important. I got rewarded six merit stamps (usually two or four for completion and handing the work in on time but I got an extra two for being the only student to hand in said homework). I was sent to lunch early and the rest were punished into going to the school library and looking at the Dewey System there.
Worst assignment but it had a satisfying result!
Sometimes they would just give up word searches, graded word searches. When I was younger I really wasn’t good at them, I just wasn’t that good at spotting words and as an ADHD kid I didn’t have the patience. My mom would do them for me because she thought it was stupid to do a puzzle for a grade, like you don’t learn anything. You just find words. She’s really good at word searches.
"The seventh of August 2010 - Too much water"
in my college chemistry lab, i had to watch frozen water heat up from 0 degrees C to 100 degrees C for about 2 hours and record the temperature every minute. how is that chemistry?
that one actually records phase change, but if it took 2 hours the teacher is doing something wrong, in my chemistry class we used Bunsen burners to heat the ice and it took about 30 min.
Because of the stress chemicals in your brain lol.
@@randomnessproductions4212 😂😂😂
Wow, I remember that when I learned times table, our teacher gave us a sheet of 0x0. Every question was “0x0”
My AP calculus teacher’s favorite assignment to give out was Sudoku. His other favorite assignment was having us watch an episode of Numbers and solve the equation of the episode we just watched.
I like Sudoku, but the ones he assigned us were near impossible. I got smart. I had a Sudoku game for my Gameboy Advance that had where you could make your own sudoku. I simply inputted the sudoku there and let the game solve it for me. I did make sure it looked like I had worked out what number went where of course. Teacher never figured out my little secret, even after catching me playing said game during lunch. I said I was just sharpening my skills.
In AP calculus? Seriously? Even if they were super difficult? Also, nice thinking on your part.