Teachers, What Is the Greatest Way a Student Has Misinterpreted One of Your Assignment? 

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The best such story has to be that of George Dantzig. He once was late to his math class in university, and transferred the two homework math problems that were written on the blackboard into his notes. After some weeks - both assignments were quite difficult - he turned in his homework and hoped for a good grade. The professor called him into his office and it turned out that those two math problems were not homework, but two *unsolved* problems that were the topic of the class. And George had just solved both of them, thinking that they were mere homework.

I live in Germany and we had that pretty old teacher with oldfashioned views about the world for German class. At some point he asked us to write an one page essay where we should describe cooking coffee. The disappointment on his face when he found out that we all were describing how we were pushing buttons on a coffee machine instead of us cooking up water and filtering coffee by hand was so obvious, we still felt bad after him telling us the mistake was on himself for his poor choice of a topic.

So I have one, but I was the student. This was the final project for my engineering class, and we had just finished up a unit on Arduino programming. Now I don’t like programming, and I’m not very good at it. The final project was to design something that would allow a solar panel to follow the sun to increase its energy output. In the assignment instructions it didn’t specify any particular method that we should use. We had just done a project where we programmed a small car to follow a light using a light sensor, so it was kind of implied that this was how we should approach the final project. Instead of that I designed a clockwork system that had the solar panel always face the sun, and would be accurate to within less than a single degree even on leap years. When I showed it to my teacher he asked, “what if the sun isn’t where you expect it to be?” To which I responded that the path of the sun is predictable, and has been predicted accurately for thousands of years by monuments like Stonehenge. If the sun wasn’t where it was expected to be, then the solar panels not being perfectly aligned was not the biggest concern at that moment, because it would mean that earth’s rotation or orbit had been significantly altered, which could easily lead to a mass extinction, if not the total collapse of all life on earth. I still had to redo the project with Arduino, but I got a ton of extra credit for my clockwork solution.

Using rhetoric to obscure lack of content is an amazing name

7:45 American here, I didn't either. Turns out the phrase is a much more high class saying too.

When i was eight we got the homework to write about something we like. I thought hard about it and came to the conclusion that i liked my mom. So i wrote about her. I wrote about everything i could remember or see. The huffs she made when the baby kicked, or she gowned when she had to get up, what she ate and how she ate it, the colors of her clothes including her underwear. How often she changed her clothing because she said it smelled. But my biggest mistake was to replace all other people she interacted with with "someone" because i should only write about her. So some of the sentences where like "She likes to hug someone but likes kissing someone else. Someone likes being kissed by her, and someone would like being touched by her more often." My quite old and very conservative teacher, that had given the assignment, told my dad that he has to come to a father-teacher meeting. My parents broke out in laughter sporadically later that week.

What happens in 5th period, stays in 5th period. LOVE IT!

The euthanasia mis understanding is more common than you expect. I had a sister who just got into college while I was in grade 10. She came to me and wanted me to pick a side to argue on her assignment on if euthanasia was a good or bad thing. I still being a kid and never heard the word before told her to obviously pick the side that it was good because it would be easier to write about thinking she said it was about the youth of Asia. Only later when she finished and came back with her 1st draft to get my feedback on it did I realize how horribly I misunderstood the question after I heard just the intro. I will give her props though, despite the challange it was to write about the harder choice to defend and the misunderstanding she still went through with submitting it and got an A for it.

When I was in Thailand during my elementary years, I had teachers instructed us students to draw a border 2 "inches" from the edge of the paper. The thing is, the word for "inches" in Thai is exactly the same word for "finger". Same spelling and pronunciation. I was still new to the Thai language so I thought my teachers wanted me to use my actual fingers to measure the distance of the border. Nobody ever corrected me on this for 4 years until I realize the inches the teacher meant was on the ruler and not my fingers. I got away with using my tiny fingers for measurement for 4 years and none of the teachers even noticed this.

In elementary school, a kid in my class got out a presentation by confusing an assignment on the Constitution with an assignment on constipation.

student thought a headshot photo was a photo of a person being shot. I laughed out loud. I failed as a teacher there

We were given a assignment to make an collage on Pleasure while on a trip to Amsterdam of all places. Quite a few pieces had to be pulled from show and tell.

One time, I asked “why do I need to know the Pythagorean theorem when I want to be on Broadway?” A kid in my class heard it as “why do I need to know the Pythagorean theorem when I want to be a boy?” He was very confused about me asking why I needed to know math to be a trans man. I’m not a trans man. I have never claimed to BE a trans man. That title is for my best friend. 😂😂😂😂😂

As a former ESL teacher. I was teaching a class of elementary school students basic objects. The subject for the day was "Class Room Objects." I went through the normal stuff, black board, eraser, chair, and then I held up a picture of a globe. The students started yelling out "Earth Ball" "Earth Map" "Earth Chizu" (Chizu sounds like cheese). But because of their pronunciations, I was hearing "A$& Ball" "A$& Map" and "A$& Cheese." I couldn't keep a straight face and had to laugh.

"Teachers, when did you explain an assignment so badly your students didn't understand?"

Story #17 ngl, I had to look this up because I never had to use this format, so I also that it was using 2 spaces between words

4:20 This feels like a reference to the movie Free bird where they go back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkey off the menu. Thats right, they go back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkey off the menu!

The big 🍆 shoutout reminded me of Monty Python's Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch. "My hovercraft is full of eels."

So far, there are a shocking amount of stories where the teacher is simply inaccurate or the wording of the question is wrong, but they blame the students. Just because someone does not think exactly like the teacher thinks, does not make the teacher automatically right, you know.

My partner and I moved in together in September a few years ago. We had no money, no skills, and very little equipment. With only two months until Thanksgiving, we simply had homemade pizza (premade crust) and pasta. Wasn't that great, but it was our first Thanksgiving together and we enjoyed it. We considered making that our tradition, but decided against it. So yes, at least two people have eaten pizza for Thanksgiving

The "Minus E" thing? She did what you asked, give her full marks lol

I was expecting the 100 lines of French to be "Omelette Du Fromage"

High school English teacher here. These were so damn relatable and funny that I nearly choked on my lunch. From experience, I'll just add that the students you have to watch out for are the really smart ones and the really stupid ones.

I had pizza for Thankgiving once. It led to me getting the awful pain I'd been having diagnosed and my gallbladder removed.

My dad was a high school maths and science teacher, and he retired before I hit high school. He did work as a lab tech there though got on well with who would be my high school chemistry teacher. I worked out one reason why in my first lesson, turns out that they both start the year with their year 10's by placing a beaker of clear liquid on the front counter, explaining its a beaker full of dihydrogen monoxide and asking who wanted to drink it. It amazed me how few people were willing to drink that beaker of water

damn my hemorrhoids sometimes convince me that i've got an arthritis type with em

It's not okay for a teacher to make a student a butt of the joke for a pronunciation error. Just correct her and don't attack her.

One time in 6th grade english we had to write about if we'd bring a toothbrush or (something else) if we were stranded on a desert island. I asked the teacher to specify if it was a desert or dessert island. we as a class decided to write about a dessert island

The Seattle Science teacher had my chest hurting with that story!!

Story #1 is when commitment to the bit is more important than anything, even academic achievement.

I think Sonic the hedgehog would be a good cell analogy.

7:10 as somebody from Peoria, Illinois I think that’s freaking hilarious

Man, the drawing a not cell thing was painful to listen to as a teacher. By the end of the first day of this it should be obvious that the girl was having difficulty with the metaphorical abstract thinking portion of the assignment and that an alternate assignment to test for the organelles knowledge would be more appropriate/useful for her.

"Thou shalt not take the lords name in vain" means you can't kill someone and say god made you do it. The crusades were taking the lord's name in vain.

This made me remember one test in elementary school (grades 1-3, when I was about 6-10 years old). One task was to look at a picture of a cat and write which way it was facing (left or right, let's presume that it was the latter). I confidetally wrote it was looking left, and when we recieved the graded test, I asked the teacher why I didn't get a point for that question, since the cat was looking left, from its perspecive...

Andy’s friend is a real one

I've been through something similar to story 18. In second grade, we had an assignment on the irregular feminines (my first language is french). I knew it was jument, but I was the only one. All the other students asked the study period lady (who was more of an anglophone) what it was. She didn't know either and tried to help the best that she could, but no one else knew what it was.

I've had pizza on Thanksgiving! I have avoidant restrictive food intake issues and so my family created a tradition called "Trashgiving", where we put a raccoon plushie as the centerpiece at our table and get pizza, chicken strips, and the like.

5:08 "Aw geez, they got enough kids there as it is."

I remember where a student was supposed to do a book report on something specific that had "Emperor" in the title, but accidentally did a repprt on Emperor's New Groove. Tjey got a C+ becaise the essay was really good.

OK, showing my age here but "use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content" is a quote from Animorphs.

A common issue I had and probably other students had were the assignments were we had to look over an other student’s assignment for whatever reason and I had trouble reading because I couldn’t understand the other students handwriting

At 11:55, I assume the word was the common shortening of "pussilanimous", which means "timid, cowardly, lacking in courage or conviction". I teach English language two different schools in Japan, one middle school and one high school. I've heard a story from one of the other teachers about a student who not only misunderstood what the assignment was, she had also misunderstood what she had misunderstood the assignment was, and as a result she wound up doing the assignment almost correctly, but was worried that she had done it wrong. It was a real-life case of "task failed successfully".

6:42 god, I wish that was how spanish was taught back at my high school. We were slapped with using Rosetta Stone and JFC it sucked. How TF was it award winning?! It just wants me to bark words with loose associations back at it, rather than teaching the structure. When I have a framework provided first, building the vocabulary works a lot cleaner, because then I can magically use context clues to learn words faster, because I know how I should be using them!

I had one of these in college. It was an English Literature class. The professor was very politically minded, and we disagreed on a lot of issues. (for the most part I kept my mouth shut as to not cause trouble) The final exam was to write an essay on a certain topic relating to one of a list of topics. All of which were very politically charged, especially at the time. I could see the ruse a mile away, this was one of those "write an opinion piece, and if I disagree with it, it's failed" I just barely managed to find a loophole where I could talk about one of these topics in a neutral and plainly factual way without it being a contentious thing. I got a good grade anyway, and a note saying that I missed the point, but the paper was well written so it's alright. Good sport. Try harder next time.

It was a class effort to turn this innocent assignment into dark or inappropriately hilarious. A scene had to be described what was going on, in Spanish. From the fisherman hiding body parts while fishing, and couples cheating. Lol

10:35 Curious to know when this was, bc that is literally a quote from a book I just read published in 1997. The narrating character was bullshiting an English paper an hour before it was due, and his friend suggested the title "Using Rhetoric to Obscure Lack of Content". He apparently got a B for it.

"Do pages three and four out of five. I know they aren't labeled, but just counting the pages would tell you which ones are which." Not necessarily. How can you know the pages weren't shuffled somehow (clerical error, kid reordering them while looking through them all, etc.)? If they're double-sided, which side do you start counting from?

i had a english teacher i could not stand in high school and we had to do reports on our free reading book, i love fansity, sci-fi and true crim books to this day and this teacher did not. I would read them for two reason 1, i loved them and 2 if i did the requirements of the paper the teacher could not give me a bad grade and had to read the paper.

Im from us and never heard of piyoria they shouldve said no one outside of the that said town had ever heard of it

So the teacher who wasn't reading the assignments reminds me of most of my son's teachers. At his school, the kids only had homework if they didn't finish work in class. My son would always have a ton of work. I didn't bother asking him what he did in class all day. I asked his teachers. None of them knew. Not one. I was told that they couldn't be bothered to check on the students during class. They do all their work on iPads. The teachers can remotely access each child's iPad. They don't even have to get up. My son had a couple of disabilities, but that was not a good enough reason for them to spot check him once in a while. I still don't know what he did at school last year. He just shrugged when I asked him, because disabilities.

When I heard Peoria, I thought of Pretoria.

Omg! I live about 35 minutes from Peoria! 😂 I never thought I'd hear it referenced on a YT video! 😂

I'm from ILLINOIS and I've never heard "Will it play in Peoria?"

I always worked my ass off and so, was the best student in my Japanese class. I don't like to see others struggling so i help out where i can. Teacher sees this and asks if i wanted to help her out. Her beginning level japanese students were oddly numbered so her usual final test of pairs having a conversation about provided topics, wouldn't work. Of course i'm all to glad to help as i have the same sort of test but more advanced coming my way soon. I sit with this kid who, i honestly don't think so much as looked at his book the whole semester. He can barely string a sentence together. I felt so bad for him, trying to give him the easiest prompts i could...until he replies with "boku wa aoi pen desu." I am a blue pen. I was so stuned i almost broke out of japanese but still blurted out 'honma ni?!' Which is horrible slang that i had already been told off for using in class. But my teacher was laughing too hard to care. Poor guy probably was confusing wa for no so he thought he had said 'my blue pen'...he looked so confused. He didn't sign up for the next level corse....i hope his final test wasn't the reason....probably not but i still feel bad for my suprised slip and for my teacher laughing.

Ok, I already heard many videos of this kind that just disturbed me, but this? THIS WAS JUST SO FUNNY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ok, not everything is funny, but there are some that were so genuine and honest, such a good video

It's me! I am someone who's had pizza on thanksgiving. Put the turkey in the oven. There it sat for hours without the oven turned on.. Ordered pizza.

(Not real names) In kindergarden we has a super nice P.E. teacher. On our first day she introduced herself by pointing out her shirt and asking the class to guess her name. In unison the entire class goes "Chipmunk!", her shirt being a chipmunk eating an acorn. She looked at us dumbfounded before going "It's Mrs. Acorn." I'm guessing we were the first class where everyone got it wrong 😂

11:11 Ah, the good old "write lines" punishment! Happened to me in 2nd grade. Some kids in class were _very_ unruly, and the upset teacher who couldn't keep control decided to punish the _whole class_ with writing a whole page of text. Now my mother was a teacher and not happy with that action. But she still had me do the text... and so next day I handed in a full page, quoting the paragraph from the state's school regulation detailing that collective punishments were forbidden. Unfortunately, I don't remember my teacher's reaction to that. But I assume she was not amused.

We had an teacher in university, subject was antenna theory. Hard and not really related to much else. But then we found that he gave 3 tasks at the exam out of an pool of 9 the last +10 years so we just learned these 9. Test went well for all of us. Couple of years later friend was taking the same class, teacher died suddenly some months before exam, new teacher used different task and most failed

#10 is a literal villain origin story...

I had the same assignment my turkey was a ninja I think

Ok no but to be fair with story 7, did they mean the third and fourth PAGES, or the third and fourth SIDES, because I've had both be called pages with the only difference being the numbers on each one

One time we had to analyze a poem in English. I wrote a very nice essay about how it was about a kid who fell down the stairs. Turns out it was about a kid who was beaten by his mother. Long story short, I’m very bad at metaphors.

When I was first starting school (perhaps this was around 1st grade or so--whenever "spelling tests" started being a thing) I was asked to put the list of words in alphabetical order. The first word was "Camel" So naturally, my answer was "Acelm" Because I thought I was supposed to rearrange the letters in alphabetical order

Story #13 I would probably do the same except say everyone is invasive, as in humans are an invasive species.

Story #9 sounds like something you’d hear from Jeaney Collects.

Dude, Those were some awesome stories

Once my re teacher told us to explain the story of the Exodus in atleast 4 paragraphs I did 4 pages cuz I felt like it and asked my teacher hey did you say 4 paragraphs or 4 pages? I got candy =33

I’m IN the US but not Illinois and I’ve never heard that word or saying either

"For people outside of the US-" You say that as if I, a US citizen, would have ever heard of that phrase before. I haven't. Despite being very well read. Clearly, that phrase is one that went out of commision since the teacher heard it. Doesn't help that "Pioria" is not a _notable_ town in the US (kind of the point for the phrase, but still), AND sounds foreign as hell. If it's not a capital or their home, very few cities register in most people's heads.

8:45 He did even worse than it sounds, since he was marking transplants from Europe as native.

Final wtiting prompt from my English teacher in 8th Grade. "Write about the happiest day of your life." My immediate question? Past, present or future? Teacher: Just write the assignment. Ok.... "The happiest day of my life is when "teacher" retires from teaching."

The student in #8 must have a pretty grim idea of the youth in Asia.

Yay Hungary was mentioned 🎉🎉🎉

Writhing a short story without the letter e is actually hard to do

#8 to be fair, I have an audio processing disorder and make mistakes like this a lot.

Some of these are kinda funny. Some are, frankly, just the teacher not doing their job (the kid with the random drawings of stuff? I'm willing to bet anything that she just didn’t know what an "organelle" is, the teacher didn't explain it to her, and therefore she wasn't able to come up with an analogy for them). Some are also just straight-up fiction. As a linguist who is certified to teach English at the highest form of schooling in Germany, I can guarantee you that nobody translates "When is your birthday" as "what happy day" accidentally *seven times.* Especially not an 18 y/o from a country that teaches English from age 10. The wording used to describe the test is also bullshit. What language test comes with one question that just goes "translate this one sentence that you learnt literally on day one"? Right. None. Translation in general isn't really a part of language tests anyway (unless you want to talk vocabulary tests specifically). And you think someone would fail to translate the same sentence seven times in a row? Lol, yeah, SOMEONE is definitely cirminally stupkd, but it ain't the girl from the story. Because she's made up 😂

drivers ed my teacher gave the class an assignment even my parents misinterpreted it so was I at fault or was the teacher

Story 10. Hey im also hungarian, szia!

Last year we ate a pizza on Thanksgiving because it was just me and my mom and we both didn't feel like cooking so we just slapped that frozen digornos in the oven and ate the whole thing between the two of us lol

I didn’t misinterpret the assignment I followed exactly what the teacher said and took the opportunity to mess with him as he was checking notes. It was an environmental science class and we were asked to list three causes of overfishing. I listed master baiting as one of them. Teacher: Dude really? Me: *trying not to crack up* Yes! Teacher: *chuckles* Okay that’s actually pretty funny just don’t say it out loud.

Ive had pizza on thanksgiving

Not exactly being literal more oversight So us history teacher as part of the “roaring 20s” unit has a speakeasy themed class Brings a prop gun Being high schoolers several people take pictures of it and post them online He makes an emergency announcement later that day asking people who did this to remove said pictures

8:45 If that kid is in Europe, he's correct.

I'm an American and have never heard of Peoria...

I would have failed number 8 aswell

For story 8 I believe the girl was so uncomfortable with the actual subject that she instead went with the only other similar pronunciation. seriously euthanasia is not really a good idea for anyone not even high school. college and I mean graduate studies is the best place to start mentioning that if you're not in a medical field itself. I applaud the girls stones for not trying to cover such an uncomfortable subject seriously why was that even a choice?!

Question, what's the background game? Nanosaur 3?

The Brave one really isn't wrong. After all that word the kid used was the shortened version of the roman word for coward until it attached itself to women's anatomy.

15:40 "You're fired."

Wait.... What is double spacing?

Ppl in special education could of misunderstood with us best to tell us in a sentence and clarify the meaning or we will not understand

HEY! i live in Peoria! What are the odds?!

The game in the background looks like if doom was in the source engine

Peoria Arizona

What was the guy in story 10 wanted for?

0:49 what game is this

Story #15 Gosh I hope they used comic sans XD