Ridiculous Things Said in Class

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Figured this would be a semi-interesting thread to document/share all the ridiculous things that some people say in class.</p>

<p>I guess I'll start! We're reading Catcher in the Rye in English right now, and the teacher asked us what occupation D.B. held. This girl thought he was a baker, because Holden's constantly saying how D.B. "has a lot of dough". She was in my bio class last year, too, and we started discussing Einstein, and she didn't know who he was. "Does Einstein mean you're really smart or something? I always hear people say 'Wow, you're the next Einstein' or 'Your brain is like Einstein's, you're so smart'." She's not trying to act stupid. She's actually being serious.</p>

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<p>This other girl asked the teacher if broken arms were contagious. We were in 7th grade, but still…</p>

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<p>I’ll post something that I ALMOST said in class.</p>

<p>AP US History, Sophomore year, my teacher asks “Why was the Cold War dubbed the Cold War?” - I raised my hand, totally prepared to actually say “Because the Soviet Union was cold.” Thank every single God who has even been worshipped my mankind that another student raised their hand and gave the correct answer because if he had called on me, and I said that, I don’t think I would’ve lived it down.</p>

<p>…I don’t know what was wrong with me that day. APUSH kind of messed up my common sense, lololol.</p>

<p>A girl in AP Biology last year asked if the Renaissance was a type of flower.</p>

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<p>Some girl in my freshmen history class thought that Asia and China were two different countries. Sigh.</p>

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<p>about the govt shut down: “will my cell phone still work?” LOL</p>

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<p>Okay so there was a ton in my comm lit class last year but I can’t remember. One in bio that a girl asked was “are trees warm blooded?”</p>

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<p>I asked my science teacher yesterday if Pigeons went to heaven (as a joke), and she believed me, and told me that she imagined they might.</p>

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<p>So many things have been said in my classes over the years…</p>

<p>Let’s see. Last year, one of my friends said someone in their English class thought that they raised the legitimate Titanic from the water for the movie. </p>

<p>This year, my math teacher told us how she wrote in this special secretarial short hand sometimes, and someone said, “Was that before the alphabet was around?” She was being serious.</p>

<p>Yesterday: “Why are we in school today if the government is shut down?” </p>

<p>Today: “What’s the ACT?” (They pronounced it like the word “act” (as in, acting.)</p>

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<p>Before our state standardized test on Social Studies, I heard a girl in the hallway say, “George Washington is the first president right, not George Bush?”</p>

<p>Later, when we were all done, one girl said that she thought the Consitution was written in 1854. </p>

<p>Another said that she didn’t know where the Great Lakes were, so she guessed.</p>

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<p>“I don’t like to go in Lake Erie because I’m afraid I’ll get bitten by a shark.”</p>

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<p>“Is the Renaissance a flower?” made me laugh. (:</p>

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<p>@catchinginfinity - Yeah, I think there was an image in the AP Biology textbook of a flower blossoming and underneath it, it said “Renaissance” and on top of the flower, it showed like blossoms of different fields of science and literature - it was supposed to be a metaphor, but the girl blurted out in class; “Wait, the Renaissance isn’t a type of flower?”</p>

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<p>I was quizzing the kid that sits next to me for our Con Law test and she didn’t know what day the Declaration of Independence was signed. I told her it was July 4th 1776 and she was adamant that there was “no way” because that’s a holiday…</p>

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<p>Kid 1: “Is Canada a country?”
Kid 2: “No, Canada is a province.”</p>

<p>I don’t know which one is worse.</p>

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<p>in my history class last year the majority of students thought Africa was a country.</p>

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<p>Kid sees the word “dachshund,” has no idea what it means, and pronounces it “da-shund.”</p>

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<p>But Canada is a country. I’m puzzled by your statement.</p>

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<p>“The French Revolution was the event with the biggest effect on Europe in 1920”
A freshman got Syria and Serbia confused.
“Does every object have a velocity?”</p>

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<p>Yes, and a 17-year-old ought to know it.</p>

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<p>Scarier yet is when I called a ticket agent for an airlines and was trying to book a ticket to Montana. The agent said they only fly within the US; I said it IS a state and the agent said, what state is Montana in? I gave up and called another airline, who was able to get me to Billings and Bozeman, MT, but it was pretty sad that the agent didn’t know that Montana was a state.</p>

<p>We often have problems with shipping to HI as well. Folks say they will only ship within the US. We say, fine, we live in HI. They backpedal and say, well, we mean the other states, not HI.</p>