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I once had to write an essay on Shakespeare. Hamlet, it was, I think. Bored as I was with these glorified summaries, I decided to have some fun. So I invented a sixth act of Hamlet. Now, these old plays ALWAYS have only five acts. At most. There are some with three or just one, but six acts? Nope. I was sure the teacher would notice right away. Intended it as a joke, kinda. I even gave some invented quotes from that alleged sixth act. Tried to get the language as close to original as I could. And.... I must have done a great job. My dear English teacher, college-educated, with 20 years of teaching under her belt, DID NOT NOTICE and gave me full marks. I am still confused about this but did not want to embarrass her. So I never told her.
I spread a rumour around school years ago that one of the heads of year (also an art teacher) wasn't qualified at all. He'd just walked in off the street and found an empty classroom and started teaching. The head teacher at the time was a very meek and mild man so I told them the head was too scared to ask him to leave and as it turned out the guy was good at art. The teacher in question was really Scouse (from Liverpool) and a couple of kids asked him about it and he just replied "No comment". Years later most of the kids in school still believe this rumour.
In 10th grade, we had to research a historical figure and report with a written essay and a short presentation to the class. I was assigned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the late 18th century German author. I did the usual...wrote an informative essay and knew my research well enough to present and answer basic questions.
Then the teacher optimistically asks, "Did you read 'Faust?'" As if a 10th grade C student has been reading classical European allegory plays. "Yes," I answered confidently, having never seen or touched the text in my life.
I proceeded to summarize the play perfectly, answer the teacher's followup questions and describe the overall themes of Faust's struggle perfectly. The teacher was stunned and gave me an A+, blissfully unaware that I had learned everything I knew about classical literature from Wishbone, the educational children's show. You can catch the Faust episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QbS3JmKMgI
Children's shows although they're meant for kids actually have great information in them. Especially if it's an educational or animal show
I went to a small high school, my graduating class was around 50. Our band director was among the most popular teachers. He had a great sense of humor, and prided himself on never falling for pranks from any senior class. Cue my senior year. We only had 3 seniors in band that year (1 girl and 2 boys, I was the girl) and so we were convinced we could pull it off and set the record for most senior pranks pulled on said band director. On Homecoming night, after our half time performance, one of the guys and I huddled around the third guy and made a big deal of him being injured while he clutched his nose. I went running over to the director, urgently telling him that I’d accidentally hit the guy in the nose with my flag pole. He came bustling over to help, we surrounded him, and hosed him down with the three cans of shaving cream we’d kept hidden. It was a glorious moment. We ended up pranking him twice that year and as far as I know, the record still stands. Could have been three but my dad stopped our last one. 🙄
On a day when my teacher had a projector set up, we connected a Bluetooth controller to her PC that controlled the mouse. We were moving the mouse around like crazy and selecting random names on the class list. Thanks to the projector, the whole class could see it. Our teacher wasn't very tech-savvy, so she thought her computer was possessed.
Well, I broke my left arm and tricked my teacher that I was left-handed all along. I got to only read for a few months, was a great holiday from school work.
My teacher had known me for years and occasionally I play a funny prank on her. This year I put on a fake cast a pretended I was seriously hurt, the teacher actually fell for it and gave me good grades for about 2 weeks (she asked me questions about the lecture and used that as my grade). I didn't have to do anything and was allowed to go on my phone whenever, I eventually thought about telling her but I never did. Thanks Teach ;)
I once pranked a teacher on April fools day in fourth grade. I put a fake bug under her remote to the board. I didn’t know at the time, but she was actually really afraid of bugs. She jumped a few feet in the air. Later I told her it was me, and we shared a laugh. We joked about it for the next few years until she moved to another school.
Not my class, but I heard the Junior High band class got a sub and they all swapped each others instruments so they played horribly. I knew the sub they had, and she was a regular who got tormented a lot, and for good reason. She was mean and talked to us like kindergartners (we were nicer to other subs). Apparently the band class made her cry. Might've been a bit too far?
I have. I needed to do my homework and then forgot it. I told her it was in my locker, and as expected she told me to wait 'till the pass was back. I have a notoriously bad memory. So the pass came back and then I didn't get it because 'I forgot.' Then it was delivered the next day, completed and when she asked where it was I just said I put it on her desk. I got away with it!
Though of another one. In our school we have a guy who coordinates STEAM (Science and technology events) I spread a rumor about him that he was a martial arts expert and could back flip of a school desk. The rumour spread like wildfire... The best bit about this one is some kids in the school will swear blind that their older brother, cousin etc. have seen him do it. 😂
Normally I'm not one for spreading rumors but I wouldn't mind having that rumor spread about me!
8th grade history teacher assigned a research project and gave us 5 weeks to work on it. I didn't do it, never even started it. Couple days after it was due he holds me after class to tell me he didn't receive my project. I have no idea what came over me, but I freaked out. I acted shocked and horrified, then complete despair. "But I turned it in, you don't have it. Where did it go, what happened?" I started balling my eyes out. He was convinced I turned in my project and he lost it. He offered to give me a B+, asking if I thought I that's what my worked deserved. Took some effort to stay in character, but I accepted his offer between sniffles and eye wipes. Later I even convinced my friends that they had seen me working on it-I told them years later and we had a good laugh.
Did this happen before computers? Why wouldn't the teacher just ask you to send it again?
1960's. I was sick and wanted to go to the bathroom
Teacher said NO!.Ipuked all OVER HER.🤮🤣
In high school, my friend and I decided to try and make our teacher itch by concentrating really hard on specific places, like the top of her head or her elbow. We were able to "successfully" make her scratch herself 3 times. Yes I know we did not have special powers; it was either just coincidence, or she subconsciously saw us looking at her elbow, which drew her attention to it, causing her to feel a sensation there, but it was much more interesting than whatever she was trying to teach.
Sort of...
In fourth grade we had a sub for a week (lucky us, she was the best one!) And she promised us Skittles on friday, so on that friday, we hid behind the bookshelves before she came in, and when she walked in, we all yelled
"SKITTLES!"
We Scared the crap out of her.
Ate an apple, stem included, to get out of something. Threw up, got sent home. Me: 1 School: 0
Oooh this one is fun.
So there was a really short teacher at my school, like 4’8”. So in 2nd grade me and my class, we’re bored, it’s a Montessori school so we could leave class unsuspected. Then someone is like, let’s spy on the teachers
Ugh it cut off. The kid who wanted to spy said “You, You do it Happi Doggi” I was tall for an 8 year old at 4’5”. I planned to get caught and rat out the kid, but it worked. For 10 whole minutes i was getting juicy gossip that became my social life. I then ran away when I saw the actual teacher approach. To this day NOT ONE TEACHER knew it was me.
I am. In half of these stories, at least, the teacher knew damn well what you were doing.
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In the mid early 80s I went to school in Ireland and I learnt to speak Irish. I was always good at this as I had an Irish speaking father to help me at home and my dad was always very hands on with my education and homework. One of the homework exercises we had to do in later years when I was 10 was to write the news in Irish and read it to the class. I took advantage of the fact that I was one of the few in my class with a video recorder and recorded an Nuacht which was the news in Irish that also had subtitles for the deaf. I would record this and copy the written subtitles off the TV playing and pausing as I wrote it down. I always got good grades for that.
I am. In half of these stories, at least, the teacher knew damn well what you were doing.
Load More Replies... In the mid early 80s I went to school in Ireland and I learnt to speak Irish. I was always good at this as I had an Irish speaking father to help me at home and my dad was always very hands on with my education and homework. One of the homework exercises we had to do in later years when I was 10 was to write the news in Irish and read it to the class. I took advantage of the fact that I was one of the few in my class with a video recorder and recorded an Nuacht which was the news in Irish that also had subtitles for the deaf. I would record this and copy the written subtitles off the TV playing and pausing as I wrote it down. I always got good grades for that.
