27 Teachers Admit the Most Ridiculous Things Students Have Said

by Irvi Torremoro

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One girl in an English class a few years ago (16-17 years old) didn’t know the word ‘crater’ or the existence of the Grand Canyon

21.

My mother runs a small farm with chickens and roosters (among other animals). So, I was volunteering in my daughter’s first grade class, and they were making words with the -ock spelling pattern, like sock, rock, etc. A kid made the word cock, and the teacher said that it was another name for a rooster. My daughter suddenly yelled, “Oooo, my grandmother has a cock!”

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I teach sex ed so I have a lot of stories. My favorite is still when a girl raised her hand, having elected not to put a card in the anonymous question bucket, to ask “can you get hemorrhoids from anal?” Thankfully there wasn’t immediate deafening laughter because most of them didn’t know what hemorrhoids are.

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Had a kid think Washington DC stood for “da capital “

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.