<p>“hahahahhaha. Did that actually happen?”</p>
<p>Yeah. It was middle school, though.</p>
<p>Oh yeah forgot one…</p>
<p>History class-9th grade:</p>
<p>“You mean people in the 1950’s actually saw in color?”</p>
<p>^
Lol, I think I asked my mother that when I was three or four.</p>
<p>When I was a sophomore, we were reading Tale of Two Cities in PAP English II and somebody says this isn’t even English. Then this girl says WAIT WE AREN’T READING ENGLISH? WHAT LANGUAGE IS THIS???</p>
<p>Another time
I want a baby</p>
<p>Another time we were discussing the Mayans in Spanish and the teacher asked how a girl knew so much and she said her friend went to Maya and told her all about it.</p>
<p>Another time out of the blue “I have a freckle on my foot”</p>
<p>Whenever a foreign country is mentioned this girl in one of my classes says she’s lived there. At other times she says she’s never been outside the state. I’m not sure what’s true.</p>
<p>We had to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in Film and Literature.</p>
<p>One girl was saying how she didn’t like it because different things happened in the movies… Anyway, one thing she said really stood out:
“They don’t even speak proper English!”
This is the same girl who would say, “I SEEN THAT MOVIE!” each time my teacher would ask if anyone has heard of a movie.</p>
<p>Needless to say, I banged my head against my desk. If you’re going to insult Harry Potter in front of me, at least make a valid point.</p>
<p>“Does dying your hair change your DNA?”
-a kid in my Bio class in 9th grade.</p>
<p>“Isn’t the Taj Mahal in the Middle East?”</p>
<p>“If you donate blood to someone, does that make you related to them since you have their DNA?”</p>
<p>This was me, last week. I feel like it’s a classic dumb question but I wanted to ask it anyway.</p>
<p>In a communism vs. capitalism debate (the capitalist side): “…So we’re not saying no hospitals, just no communism!”</p>
<p>Oh, and one time a freshman asked me what the Holocaust was…</p>
<p>This isn’t the exact quote, but in my freshman global history class this girl said something like “…wait. China isn’t a continent??” oh dear.</p>
<p>@Ach7DD Excellent examples. Kudos!</p>
<p>Social Studies, 8th grade.</p>
<p>Teacher: “Who can tell me what the communist country south of Florida is called?”
Girl in my class: “RUSSIA! DUH!”
Everyone else: <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>Teacher: Give an example of a developed country.
Kid: CHICAGO!
Teacher: A country.
Kid: OHHHHH. BEIJING!!
Other kid: Um, what country is Beijing IN?
Kid: OHHHH. JAPAN, DUH…
Everyone else: <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>9th grade social studies.</p>
<p>Someone in my honors World History class made some random comment about Lincoln’s assassination. One girl was like, “Woah. What? Lincoln was assassinated?” No one could believe that she really didn’t know that.</p>
<p>I go to a really small Christian school. My Algebra II teacher prays for the class at the beginning of every period. Her prayers are usually pretty hilarious and random.</p>
<p>One time she randomly told us about an article she read about kids in India being locked up in a basement and forced to make Christmas ornaments. She then proceeded to pray, “God, please let people in India value human life the way they value their cows.”</p>
<p>Even worse, one time she was taking prayer requests and a girl said to pray for her elderly grandmother who is in the hospital. My teacher responds, “That can be tough. I will pray for guidance for the doctors because they don’t always know what to do. My own grandmother was in a similar situation years ago and it was actually the treatment that killed her.” Not the most reassuring of words. I burst out laughing and couldn’t stop. So I tried to cover it up with coughing. Everyone knew I was just trying to cover up my laugh, except the teacher. She was just like, “Do your coughs always sound so weird?”</p>
<p>My Vietnamese friend while we were reading “How They Got Into Harvard” during math class in 8th grade, “Ugh I don’t want to read this book, there’s no Viet people in it.”</p>
<p>“while we were reading ‘How They Got Into Harvard’ during math class in 8th grade”</p>
<p>Oh my God, only on CC.</p>
<p>When doing a lab about titrations:
“Wait… so if NaOH and HCl have a neutralization reaction and become salt water, then can we drink this titration?” </p>
<p>To which my teacher replied:
“I don’t know. Why don’t you try it? Just don’t blame me if anything goes wrong.” </p>
<p>this was from last year.</p>
<p>Apparently some kid lost the skin on the tip of his thumb after screwing up in chemistry some year. He didn’t have a fingerprint anymore.</p>
<p>woah. yeah i heard that could happen.</p>