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Teachers Share What Facts Students Told Them About Themselves That They Probably Wish They Hadn’t (30 Posts)
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Working as a teacher or a professor can be a wild ride. You get to eat pizza on Fridays at the cafeteria without any guilt. You actually get to enjoy your summers. And your students can shock you with the information that they share or boost your mood with the things they say.
Redditor Kriss0509 asked the teachers of Reddit what the weirdest things students have told them when asked to share facts about themselves, and their thread went viral. Their thread got more than 8.7k comments and 59k upvotes, and the stories they shared had us giggling like schoolkids.
Upvote the facts that you found to be the most memorable and, if you’re an educator, let all the other Pandas know what strange things your own students have shared with everyone over the years. And be sure to read on for what Kriss0509 told Bored Panda about their viral thread.
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#1
In my public speaking class at a community college we had to get up and do a speech about a experience that really changed our lives or an important memory and how it made us who we are. On the first day a guy who was a veteran volunteered to go first, he proceed to talk about the day he was captured and sexually assaulted by enemy solider and how he now goes around and helps other soldiers with the wounded warrior project. It was difficult for anybody to follow that, one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met.
glowworm2 5 years ago
Damn, that is one brave man to voluntarily disclose that information and also a hero for helping others.
Luthian 5 years ago
He is an amazing man, I wish we had a society where if people choose to talk about what they survived, it wasn't considered 'shameful or questioned'.
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Norah Reilly 5 years ago
God willing, his disclosure affords other abuse survivors to come forward and heal.
deanna woods 5 years ago
It's terrible that he had to go through that, but at least he used his pain to help others.
Russian Otaku 5 years ago
Damn sucks for those who had to come after that. Would be hard to top that
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#2
My first year, as an earnest and ideological teacher in a very rough underserved area, I got all the students in a circle on the first day to talk about what we’d done that summer. I pointed to a student who’d been engaged w me before class and said, “what did you do this summer that could inspire us?” His answer: “I did the last 2 months of a sentence for stealing a car.” Um. I hadn’t expected that. So I pointed to another student and said, “OK! That’s great! Let’s talk about what you did this summer!” That student said, “YES. I had such a good summer. I went to camp and...[laughing] lemme stop lying. I did the last 2 months of a sentence with that guy cause I stole that car w him.”
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Or they were joking all along, given a very 'green' teacher.
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#3
First day of Intro to Lit during my freshman year of college. When asked an interesting fact about myself, I said "I refuse to bungee jump." Slightly confused, my professor took the bait...my professor replied "That's sort of random. Why do you refuse to bungee jump? Is it a certain fear?" To which my reply was "To be honest with ya sir, a broken rubber brought me into this world, so I'm going to make damn sure one doesn't take me out of it!" Luckily, the professor was a chill guy. The entire class exploded with laughter and it was a good time
Redditor Kriss0509 told Bored Panda about what inspired them to create the successful thread in the first place. "I saw someone talk about the fact that this question is everywhere and how much they hate it, so I thought others would have good stories to share as well," they said.
We also wanted to get Kriss0509's opinion as to why students would share such private (and sometimes shocking) information about themselves. In the redditor's opinion, these students might share facts like this because they want to stand out and get attention. The redditor also suggested the simple idea that they share weird facts about themselves because they simply can't think of anything else "in the heat of the moment."
The redditor added that, in their opinion, it's best to leave some of the things that students shared with their teachers a mystery, as they're much, much too private to be shared openly with everyone.
#4
I teach middle school, This one still takes the cake. That his mom and dad have the same parents. I asked him to clarify because I didn't understand what he was saying and he said "I only have one set of grandparents, they had the same parents" I quickly moved to the next student so no one else would realize that this kid just told the class that his parents were siblings... I talked to him about it the next day in private and he said that he got it mixed up, his parents don't have the exact same parents, they shared a dad... I felt so much better when the mom called me to let me know her elderly step-father married her husband's elderly mother. still weird, but much better.
Tiger Pearl 5 years ago
The elderly step-father marrying the elderly mother isn’t weird at all. A late in life marriage and really no family history, or blood relation.
Sendé Vin 5 years ago
I thought the same thing, it's actually kinda cute they found love at a older age imo
Load More Replies... Cuddles 5 years ago
LOL Mine was that I had extra grandparents. We did this grandparents' day chart and I entered my maternal grandma (and her boyfriend), my maternal grandfather (and his new wife), my fraternal grandparents AND an extra set of grandparents. My mom had to explain that the last set of people were actually family friends who had become sort of adoptive grandparents to me and they weren't actually related to us. XD But I called them Grandma and Papaw so it was very confusing for me. LOL
Cuddles 5 years ago
Also I should have mentioned this was around Kindergarten/1st grade.
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Candace Fitzpatrick 5 years ago
So my cousin has been in a relationship with her girlfriend for about 10 years now. My aunt (her mother) and the girlfriends dad started getting really cozy about 3 years into their relationship. Now they are talking about marriage and on paper that would make my cousin and her gf stepsisters! I think it’s unfair since my cousin and her girlfriend were together first. They have been planning to get married. Weird situation
#5
During french class, A guy in my class said that he liked stabbing children. He meant that he fences but didn't know the exact translation for that.
postboredom 5 years ago
I am not ever getting on your bad side, that's for sure.
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Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
oh the challenges of learning other languages. Anyone who speaks more than one language will absolutely have embarrassing moments like this. :o I accidentally told my teacher to "f**k me", due to a slight mispronunciation.... I was 14. I only realised what I said, when I started dating someone who was a native speaker when I was in my 20's. "Mortified" is an understatement.
TheDragonPSA 5 years ago
He then eats their livers with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Faflflflflfafl
#6
We did one of those two truths-one lie bits. Girl stands up and says, "I've never been out of the country. I'm a twin. I love playing sports." I knew this girl beforehand and knew she didn't have a twin, so picked that one. Nope. She had a conjoined twin that died in utero and had to be surgically removed and she's now missing the last vertebrae on her spine. Showed us the scar and everything. Apparently the lie was the first one as she'd been to Mexico.
Hans 5 years ago
I do not think this even is so uncommon, particularly the twin being completely absorbed...
Calypso poet 5 years ago
We did a 2 truths in a work lunch/meeting that had people from all different departments. My lie was I have never beat my husband at a round of golf. It was great because my husband worked at the same place but was not in the meeting so people were going up to him and giving him s**t for days!
Vanessa Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Management and Organizations at the NYU Stern School of Business, explained to Bored Panda that sharing very private information with others helps bond with them.
"Research finds that disclosure leads to liking, and the more intimate the disclosure, the more trusting and warm we see someone as being. Sharing very private information is a particularly intimate form of disclosure, which can make both parties feel closer to one another—both the person who has disclosed the private information, and the person listening," she said.
#7
I work with preschoolers (3-5 age group). One day we had the kids go around and tell us one thing that made them special. Most were pretty normal (I’m really good at drawing, I have two big sisters, etc). And then I get to this one little girl—super cute and sweet. Looks me dead in the eyes and goes “I have been around forever. I have seen the whole world and I know everything.” Dead serious. Super creepy. When I pressed her, she couldn’t really find the words to explain, but kept talking about how she “came from the sand”, and was frustrated that she couldn’t “say it better”. I didn’t use to believe in past lives, but now I’m not so sure
Shelby P 5 years ago (edited)
my daughter did weird things when she was a baby. She knew how to blow her nose at 6 months but then forgot later. She would ask me about the police while in her car seat in the car just when an unmarked police car drove by on the highway. One time at a restaurant she had a downright crying fit about not wanting to be killed, which was very creepy. All before the age of 4. I totally believe in past lives.
Bama Belle 5 years ago
This could have been a bald faced lie, but I remember reading an account of a man who's 3 year old daughter said something that left him shocked. He was bathing her and trying to teach her how to clean herself, including 'down there'. The little girl said something to the effect of, "Oh, no one scroofs me down there! They tried. They broke down my door and I died, but they didn't scroof me down there.".
CatWoman312 5 years ago (edited)
Some researchers suggest that we do live past lives but we forget about them by the time we’re around 5 or so
Full of Giggles 5 years ago
Wait. What do you mean by "get kids?" Should we start preparing an Amber Alert now?
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Yes, faced with unassailable evidence like this, who would still doubt reincarnation is possible? Well... sober people for one.
#8
Not a teacher but this happened when I was 17 at school camp during a "bonding exercise" Teacher: tell us two truths and one lie about yourself and we have to guess the lie! Weird kid: I play PlayStation, I like Doritos and I am an alcoholic The teacher: the lie is you are an alcoholic! Weird kid: got you, I play Xbox My god the look on the teachers face.
Norah Reilly 5 years ago
Try to imagine the courage that it took for that kid to do that. God bless!
I'm A Lazy Panda 5 years ago
Might not have been entirely courage, he might have been going for the shock factor. I work in a pediatric psych ward and the number of times a kid will come out with some shocking statement just to take in the faces of the people around them would stun you. (To clarify, these kids are well aware that if they have something they want to talk about, they're always welcome to ask to speak to their therapist. They're not supposed to talk about trauma in group settings because it could be triggering to the other kids. But often the words are out there before we can do anything about it.)
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#9
First grade- student told me that she like spending time with her dads “special friend” more than her mom because the special friend bought her things in exchange for not telling mom about her. Fast forward two months to parent teacher conferences and I’m sitting at the table knowing dad is cheating on mom and mom has no clue... and dad has no clue that I knew!
Bama Belle 5 years ago
I once saw one of those Investigation Discovery episodes about a kidnapped child. Dad lied about his whereabouts during the time frame the kid disappeared. Cops zeroed in on him, only to find out the man was with his mistress and lied to keep it a secret. Cops also found out he'd been taking the kid to the mistress' house. There was concern that since this man was a duplicitous liar, he might have killed his own child to keep his wife from finding out about the affair. He was ultimately cleared but not the slightest bit sorry for lying during the investigation to find his missing child. It was sickening.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
The dad was risking being exposed by telling the kid! I hope he got his karma.
Forty Seven Pandas 5 years ago
That's so messed up. Kid will understand one day what her dad was doing and how he made the kid help him hide the truth from mom
We also wanted to find out whether or not embarrassment is something that's 'taught' and why some students might not feel embarrassed sharing incredibly private information.
"As an emotion, embarrassment appears to be fairly universal—embarrassment is displayed across different cultures and age groups," Bohns said.
"However, the specific situations that cause someone to feel embarrassed are more culturally relative, i.e., they are 'taught' via cultural norms. So, what may be mortifying to one group (e.g., younger students) may not be as mortifying another group, and vice versa."
#10
A guy in my class introduced himself by telling us how he decided he wanted to study philosophy because one day he was really high peeing in the street and he saw a couple of people working and he wondered what they were doing. So he realized his passion was wondering.
He dropped out like 2 months later.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Or he started doubting the why of his calling and got stuck in a loop, not sure why to get up.
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#11
Student told me that there is a chapter dedicated to him in a dental surgery textbook because of a very rare disorder that he had as a child. I may still have that essay
Ellen Light 5 years ago
A young woman who worked for me told me that her permanent teeth were all baby-tooth-sized and had wide spaces between them. The dentist that treated her by covering each tooth with a fake larger one. She said that they had to be replaced every so often.
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
I wonder, do anybody like to have chapter dedicated to him in some medical book?
Annie 1973 2 years ago
Oh and my canine teeth are up in my skull but instead of pointing down like they are supposed to those teeth are crossways. Every new dentist I see is always shocked when they see the xrays lol
Annie 1973 2 years ago
When my mother was pregnant with me she took antibiotics that they later found out they shouldn't be taken by pregnant women. For me it meant that from the moment my teeth started coming through they were brown and full of holes. When my adult teeth started coming they were exactly the same as my baby teeth, brown and full of holes. However my canine teeth never came down and I had to have fake teeth there bonded to the rest of my teeth on each side. All my back teeth up and down have been removed and I have 6 teeth on the top row and 6 on the bottom. Can't chew meat. I really want dentures but I can't afford to buy them. I really hate my teeth
#12
Not a teacher, but on the first day of 9th grade we had to form a circle and say one thing about ourselves that we thought was unique. When it was this dudes turn (lets call him mike) Mike stands up and says in a really serious tone goes '' My mom and dad grow weed'' His house got raided the next day and his dad got arrested smh
Jos Tiguidou 5 years ago
Which part is sad? I hope you mean that he got arrested for such a meaningless crime? Canada legalized weed and it didn't blow up the damn country lol This whole demonizing weed has to be one of the stupider things white people came up with to arrest minorities.
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Destiney Torres 5 years ago
I'm sorry about this and I know this is serious, but being a 9th grader myself I would have bursted out laughing.
Katinka Min 5 years ago
I know several people who grow their own weed. It's really not such a big deal. Weird that people get so upset about it but it's ok, to have massive amounts of hard liquoer at home.
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
So a family was broken-up because the adults decided to grow some plants in their yard. Makes a lot of sense. /s
The memorable facts that these students shared make it seem like they’re either very brave, don’t feel embarrassment the same way others do, or they don’t care about the consequences being this open might have.
Whatever the case might be, these students might just be on to something by being so honest. Sharing private information and opening up to others is a great way to bond and form strong relationships, according to researchers. What’s more, being honest like this can make you more likable.
However, showing embarrassment can be very powerful in social situations and help build emotional bonds, too. Bohns told Bored Panda during an earlier interview that embarrassment is very socially adaptive.
“Being embarrassed signals to other people that you care about what they think. And that actually draws people in to you. So, blushing, burying your head in your hands, laughing, acknowledging how embarrassing something was, are all totally healthy ways to react,” she said.
#13
I had my students ask what they wanted to be after they graduated. A girl who sat near the back and was a little more edgy was up next to answer, and she looked around and said “I want to be a mortician because living people are the worst to work with. The dead don’t talk back to you, they don’t demand things. I’m in control.” And nobody really spoke to her for the rest of the 15 week class, except me by default.
Victoria Jane Hay 5 years ago
My mother was getting ready to do some training with social workers and council staff, and was unpacking some toys they used on the course. Someone walking passed stopped to admire them (she has some good toys) and said something about wishing she got to use them. And then as she left said over her shoulder "But I work with the dead!" and was gone.
Saico Hipe 5 years ago
I would have become really good friends with that girl, and likely have asked her out
Candace Fitzpatrick 5 years ago
There’s a person for every job. Glad there are people like her!
#14
Not a teacher but the daughter of one. My dad had a student tell him during the fun fact question in detail about how his goldfishes died that morning and how he experimented on their corpses. He had pictures on his phone of the skin off and the intact skeleton next to it. He is a successful taxidermist now so silver linings I guess.
NMN 5 years ago
It can be a really good skill. Just depends if you use that for helping museums, universities and such or if you go serving trophy hunters that kill top predators and endangered animals (or in between)
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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago
Someone checked his basement lately for a different kind of ske!eton?
Berry Budgie 5 years ago
Am i the only person who’s parents always flushed their dead fish down the toilet?
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Not that different from pinning butterflies in boxes, or butchering lambs for chops.
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One guy: "I love rape. Sometimes I rape. Sometimes me and my friends like to get together and listen to rape." "Some of my favorite rapers include Tupac, Dr Dre, Eminem, Biggie... My favorite rape song is..." (English was not his first language... He had us in the first half, not gonna lie) (edited to add the continuation and make it clear everyone figured out what he meant once he started listed the famous "rapers")
Bama Belle 5 years ago
I work at a used auto dealership. We had this one awful customer (He would later go on to murder his wife's lover, despite the fact he, a 44 year old, had a 19 year old gf himself). Anyway, I texted a coworker to tell her we'd repo'd the guy's vehicle. I was autocorrected before I noticed it. The text read, "He knew he'd get raped if he didn't pay.".
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
Reminds me of the “South Park” episode when Jared from Subway says he has AIDS.
Jacob Babashoff 5 years ago
Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications. Rapist: Rape, murder, arson and rape. Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice. Rapist: I like rape. - Quoted from Blazing Saddles
However, there are certain things that you should avoid doing when you’re in an embarrassing situation. “The unhealthy way to react is to pretend you’re not embarrassed, that you didn’t make a mistake, or to get angry. Those things undo the positive effect that embarrassment typically has on other people by conveying insincerity and pushing people away rather than drawing them in.”
In short, if you open up to others and have the common sense to be embarrassed about things that are actually embarrassing, you might become one of the most likable people in your social circle. Honesty and genuine reactions trump fakeness.
#16
Someone in a class once told everyone about how his grandparents were arrested for keep a bunch of adopted children in cages. He said that he used to play with the kids when he was young, but he was too young to understand that the conditions they were in weren't normal. They kept kids in cages and locked in rooms for years before they were discovered and arrested. Yup. Fun fact.
Cuddles 5 years ago
Yes. They had a family that kept a bunch of kids prisoners and starved them so much that the girl who called for help looked 10 but was actually 17. ( https://allthatsinteresting.com/california-parents-david-louise-turpin ) There are other stories out there more horrible than that one. I'm sharing the one that has a relatively happy ending.
Load More Replies... Calypso poet 5 years ago
This happen in Ohio! I remember the case well. Horrible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_and_Sharen_Gravelle
#17
I'm a trainer at a bank, and I've learned some really interesting things about my colleagues doing icebreakers. One guy used to be in a pretty successful metal band. Another can solve a Rubik's cube in under 2 minutes (yes, I made him prove it). One woman was a professional pianist for a while, and another can read tarot cards. I'm seriously thinking of putting on an employee talent show
Kiss Army 5 years ago
My son can solve the Rubik's cube in under a minute and has to prove it regularly when people find out. The best was when we were checking into a hotel and they had one on the check in desk, I handed it to him and he solved it in under a minute (I believe he was around 13-14 at the time), the check in clerk was so amazed and impressed, she gave us a free room upgrade. She said the cube had been at the check in desk for years and nobody had ever solved it. When we were checking out, she called several coworkers over and had him show them because they didn't believe her when she told them.
Berry Budgie 5 years ago
Wow! I have a friend who can solve it in under 20 seconds and he also almost broke the record for fastest two by two. He is looking into being a professional. I cannot even solve a rubiks cube in two hours😂
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Andrew Duane 5 years ago
This reminds me of when I was back in college working in the computer center. My manager (we'll call him "John Smith") was a regular computer nerd kinda guy. One summer I saw the Tanglewood Summer Schedule for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, featuring John Smith as guest conductor. Turns out he had a degree in Conducting from Juilliard, he just did the computer thing to pay the bills.
Calypso poet 5 years ago
My husband worked with a woman who played in the WNBA and won a gold medal on the USA Olympic basketball team. Super nice lady and first time a woman has ever made me feel short!
IwiLLsTeaLyOuRsoUl 5 years ago
Um, my dad can solve a rubik's cube in 40 seconds...it just takes alot of practice.
#18
Hi. I'm Dorian and coming to uni is the only time I'm allowed out because I'm under house arrest for attempted murder. First year University student. First year.
Bama Belle 5 years ago
Recently had a customer, a total stranger, who told my boss within 5 minutes of meeting him that she was acquitted of trying to kill her husband. She admitted she did "...shoot him, but it was self-defense.".
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
Um, while that's pretty creepy, the background to the story would make a world of difference. Imagine these two scenarios: 1) attempted murder on the person who attacked/molested his sister or 2) attempted murder of a person he went on a first date with. Big difference between the two.
Pamela Blue 2 years ago
Maybe lying and it was his way of making sure he's left alone to study?
#19
I was an ESL teacher in Indonesia and a student once told me every morning she cleaned the sh*t on her bed. I asked her to clarify, worried she had a serious digestive issue. She answered: "I brush my teeth, wash face and clean bed sh*t." Bed sheet
Hans 5 years ago
Wow, where did these ** come from? Automatic censorship? Oh come on!
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Simon Murray 5 years ago
I once went on a bus trip while on holidays in Tunisia, the guide told us that when we got on the motorway she would give us some sh*ts, actually sheets with facts about the destination in Carthage
MauKini 5 years ago
Foreign languages can be very entertaining. While i was learning spanish i worked in a bar in Spain. I told every customer about me sweet conejo. I was talking about my pet bunny, so i thought. I didnt know that the word "conejo" does mean bunny but also has a different meaning: P***y . Since my spanish was not that great at that point i was mostly talking about his soft fur and how he loves carrots.. It took my spanish friends two weeks to tell me what i was actaully saying. They thought it was funny... On the plus side: I got the best tips...
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
I'll admit I pronounce Seat, Sheet, and S**t the same way. I am aware of it but no matter what I do or how much I practice it doesn't change.
Carolina Fernández González 5 years ago
OMG I bet I pronounce those words the same way. That's awful :'( :'( :(
Mark Kelly 5 years ago
Yeah, foreign people with accent pronounce English words in a funny way.
#20
I teach ESL and every lesson we start the class by sharing something good that happened to us over the last week or so. Needless to say, kids share the most random things ever. I have many weird stories because of that. We enforce a rule that they need to share good things so they don't start one upping each other over whose grandma had the worst death lol One day, a student said: "I was riding my bike over the weekend when I fell.", I could see where it was going but didn't have enough time to enforce the rule when he just spat out: "I fell over a wired fence and cut my neck, it just kept gushing blood, a lot of blood.". I reminded him that we were only sharing good news when he said: "It's good because I'm still alive.". I had a good laugh and agreed but the damage was done, every kid after him wanted to share about the most horrific injury they had or witnessed.
Chris 5 years ago
ESL has been in a couple of these... Is it English Sign Language? Or does it mean something else in America?
Mal 5 years ago
ESL is English as a Second Language. If talking about sign language in the US, it's ASL for American Sign Language.
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Cameron Gable 5 years ago (edited)
We got to upvote this and make people sad that they didn't see the great comment
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Had students (aged 11) sharing strategies for dealing with difficult emotions, one at a time in a big circle. One girl talked about digging her nails into her face whenever she was feeling stressed or anxious, and I had to explain to the class why self harm was not a good coping strategy.
Pamela24 5 years ago
Poor girl. But honestly - I've been doing that too, only on my thigh. Don't worry, guys - I have been going to therapy and it has helped. I feel for that little girl so much.
May-Lin Martinsen 5 years ago
I would bite my hand. My teeth are more blunt than my nails, so that way I didn't break the skin. It's been years since I've needed to do that. It does get better.
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⚞ Katniss Everdeen ⚟ 5 years ago
G... guys?? This isn't funny... BoredPanda, please maybe don't post this sort of thing? It truly isn't funny to people like me...
deanna woods 5 years ago
It's not funny to anyone who has had mental and emotional problems.
Load More Replies... Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
Digging nails into yourself doesn't leave any scars, so is actually a good strategy for someone who is trying to stop cutting. I hope the girl gets help to find a more productive way to deal with the tough times, that don't involve any pain.
Susan Reid Smith 5 years ago
Please get that girl some help. Self Harm is an indication of serious problems at home.
Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
Depending on how deep she’s digging her nails in I don’t know that this is a big deal. A lot of people will bite their lip or something like that.
#22
My friend is really quiet, he doesn’t really talk unless talked to. He’s really cool though and has some things he enjoys doing. Literally second year I knew him the teacher asked this and he said he’s a professional bowler with a 300 best, and I was like WHY HAVENT YOU TOLD ME THIS THATS AMAZING? I guess it just never came up. Haha! Knew him for a whole year and never knew that.
#23
Had an in-depth conversation with an almost-6-year-old about being a secret werewolf hunter at night. Student described how they track and often makes friends with werewolves. Also demonstrated a stunning amount of knowledge about the moon, haha! (For folks worried about the vibrant lying, this is very typical for young students and one of their relational avenues for assessing adult reactions....and imaginative story telling is an important developmental trajectory. At certain points children start telling stories that they themselves know aren't true, which can be super annoying, and is also a wonderful window into a particularly complex part of cognitive development.)
lara 5 years ago
It's called having an imagination. The more vibrant the imagination the more intelligent. Children like this have a high curiosity level and they explore everything. If your child has a great imagination and loves to explore, you are very fortunate. Read books to them that are considered "advanced." Don't dumb them down. My mom read a chapter of the Wizard of Oz every night when I was in the second grade, and other books. I was reading at a "9th" grade level in the 3rd grade and had a college vocabulary as a junior in high school.
deanna woods 5 years ago
I don't think anyone should be worried that this child is lying. This just shows that this kid has a very vivid imagination.
#24
My dad clogged the toilet this morning and that’s why I’m feeling frustrated’ -5 year old child. I will say the question was “how are you doing this morning?” But I could barely keep from laughing out loud!
Michael Wheeler 5 years ago
Had an Oled 4k 55inch TV ready to be delivered and installed providing I cleared the space on the front room for the delivery men to install it. I couldn't, because the wife clogged the toilet an hour before. It took 6 months and a house move before I could finally watch a movie on it.
#25
That he has been to juvie multiple times and is currently on probation. Then he pulled up his pants enough that everyone could see his ankle monitor. That was...something.
#26
I work at a nature center as an informal teacher. Once I had a student, about 6 or 7 years old, while referring to an action figure he found in the room, say "I used to have one of those, but then my house burnt down." While talking about the zodiac, when we got to Cancer the crab, another student announced "I had cancer for 2 years!"
Joe Dunn 5 years ago
I totally get this (as a zodiac Cancer myself). When I was young I absolutely believed that I was going to grow up and die of Cancer. I didn't really understand what being a Cancer meant until my early to mid teens.
Calypso poet 5 years ago
You are a Docent, not an informal teacher. Take pride in what you do! Some of the docents at zoos are just amazing! One told us about koala babies that were born not announced to the public yet☺️
#27
A student once told my wife that her daddy had a special device that he had to blow into to start his truck.
#28
I am not a teacher but this guy in my class named Shane has this medical condition that causes him to grow tons of hair at an early age. Full beard in middle school. He would say “I’m Shane and I’m Very Hairy.”
CatWoman312 5 years ago
I suppose the silver lining is he most likely can buy cigarettes and or alcohol before he’s 21lol
Heather W 5 years ago
I had the same experience because I had Boobs at 11 XD
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JacPot 5 years ago
I don't have a medical condition, but I was growing a full beard at age 12. I hated being called "mister" by the younger kids. They thought that because I had a beard, I was an adult and they would come to me because someone was picking on them or didn't want to give their toys back. And other people were always scared of me for having a beard at such a young age, apparently it made me look mean and unapproachable.
Lynda Gutierrez 5 years ago
Am I the only one old enough to have the song Hair (from the play Hair) pop into their head? She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, Don't know It's not for lack of bread, like the Grateful Dead Darlin', give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer Here, baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees . . .
#29
I’m a student but a kid in my class said that he loves chicken nuggets then sat down and didn’t say anything to anyone else for a month. I have so much admiration yet confusion for him
Orillion 5 years ago
Because he likes chicken nuggets or because he didn't say anything more?
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#30
Not a teacher, but I was a helper in a middle school classroom. A young girl, who seemed uninterested, said, with no hesitation, that she can chug an entire bottle of beer. She got expelled later that year for keeping drugs in her locker.
Hans 5 years ago
Expelling sounds like a reasonable way to help a young person with troubles, for which most likely peers and/or parents are to be blamed while she would really need support.
Russian Otaku 5 years ago
Murica cause f**k support when you can encourage bad behavior instead
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#31
“My arm is F**KED y’all” in the deepest southern drawl and proceeded to wildly swing his “f**ked” up arm around. He was 12, had Erb’s palsy and also got detention that day. He might be one of my fav students
#32
"You will think less of me if you google me."
#33
“I know a lot about medieval torture equipment.”
#34
During an introductory activity for my new class, a boy, aged 9, got up and said 'My dog has to wear a cone on its head because dad had his bollocks cut off!'
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
That's one good explanation about what have had happened, you must agree 🤣
CatWoman312 5 years ago
So when you hear an English person yell bollocks they’re basically saying balls?
#35
I had a student tell me that sometimes his dad got drunk and asked his mom for things; as I was starting to tell him he didn’t need to elaborate any further, he continued with “like soup and he yells it like ‘soooooooooup’” it took every bit of restraint to not laugh. It’s been years and years since that happened but I still laugh when I think about it
#36
Taught elementary school the past few years. One kid told me he was a dragon when he was born but changed into a human as he got older. He was absolutely convinced and couldn’t be persuaded.
Ms LaDonna 5 years ago
I absolutely remember thinking "Oh NO! now I'm stuck in this body!" I was about 4 years old.
Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago
Aren't we all? And most of us turn into a weasel when we reach adulthood.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Absolutely as convincing at the one higher up saying they're reincarnated.
i-be-viben 5 years ago
my parents are freaked out that i knew how to climb at 4 yrs so they think i was reincarnated
#37
Coach (at the time) not a teacher so slightly different relationship. End of year 7 UK school, aged 12. The question was slightly different, you had to say something that had changed about yourself over the past year. One boy stands up and simply says ...... pubes.
#38
"I have two thumbs on this hand" "I am raising cockroaches in my closet to sell to the reptile shop"
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
When you have an extra thumb, you have to take advantage of it. I won't answer any more questions. :P
Load More Replies... NMN 5 years ago
When/if I have kids, they'll be able to say similar. Right now we have roaches, mealworms, superworms and waxworms as feeders. Also, several ppl in my family have an extra piece of bone somewhere (not visible, but what a pain), not an extra thumb, but extra rib, extra vertebrae...
#39
Not a teacher but I just did a first aid course. During introductions, say your name and one fact about yourself, dude says proudly he once had over 300k of UNpaid parking tickets.
lara 5 years ago
I so do not think so. 300000 tickets in, what, ten years? 30000 in a year, that's a little over 84 a day. Probably he stole tickets off other people's windshields.
Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen 5 years ago
Probably $300k in debt not 300k tickets
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#40
I tried to make conversation with a 6th-grade boy who didn't have any friends in my class. I asked him what music he listens to and he said "mukbang soundscapes". If you don't know, mukbang is when people eat a ridiculous amount of food in one setting.
#41
"I've had my hand up a sheep's bum" shocked me slightly. Child of a farming family, helping with lambing season......
Linus Nilsson 5 years ago
Yes, it would. You would not want to risk getting bacteria in the womb unless you absolutely have to. You can to a surprising lot from the "bum"
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Even though I'm a professor, nothing that's ever been revealed by this question has ever been as awkward or uncomfortable as an occasion that happened when I was still a student. This was when I was in my MFA program for creative writing. If you've never been in an arts program before it probably won't surprise you to learn that they can attract some weird personalities. It was the first day of a fiction workshop and the professor decided that he wanted us to all share something interesting about ourselves and for some reason one girl, Ashley, decided that this would be a good opportunity for her to tell us about her long history of drug abuse and the equally long period of mental psychosis she went through as a result of it. She didn't do this as a quick answer either but as a long drawn out list of every single drug she had ever experimented with followed by a catalogue of every single delusion she suffered as a result (the only one I can remember now is that at one point she became convinced she was a millionaire and her family was hiding her money from her). All of this was delivered in a monotone monologue with her eyes glazed over that lasted at least five minutes, which was met at the end with a long, awkward silence before the professor said "well that was definitely something interesting" and moved on to the next person.
lara 5 years ago
I met a woman, at the hospital, I had a friend who was having surgery, and this woman was very well dressed, very polite and we got to talking and she said she used to be a drug addict. Wow. Then she said to me "I was NOT a victim. I was a willing participant, and until I realized that there was no way I could gain control over my life." I never forgot that.
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#43
I’m a teacher from the UK, form tutor to a Year 7 class (11 year olds) To get to know each other on the first day I had them take it in turns to say their name, which primary school they’ve come from and an interesting fact, like favourite food or colour. We get to the last kid in the class, his fact is that he has 6 fingers on one hand. Coolest kid ever.
Sophia Graubart 5 years ago
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You have killed my father. Prepare to die.
#44
I was in one of the first small required classes for my teaching degree and everyone in the class was studying to teach. It was day 2 or 3 and we were doing a get to know you activity where we share something about ourself. I don’t remember the exact question but it had something to do with what you regret/ take back. A guy came in late (when almost everyone has answers the question) and the professor asked him the questions and he thought for a moment and said “I regret letting my friend talking me into dropping acid”. The class was silent for a good 20 seconds until the professor said maybe next time we only share things that are legal. I hadn’t seen him in any other teacher classes since. Still laugh about it to this day
#45
I remember one kid used it as an opportunity to explain that he believed in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
#46
Not me but my brother. He told the teacher "Last night my family ate beaver for dinner." (I was much older and had left home by then.) The class laughed, the teacher accused him of lying, the principal was brought into this and my mother had to go in for a meeting. She chewed them up one side and down the other because we had a cousin who was a trapper and he had sent a batch of beaver thighs for the family to enjoy. Altho' my brother was telling the truth, he told me later that he did say that for the effect (disrupting the class).
Karin Lange 5 years ago
Seriously? That is something where the parents have to go to a meeting with the principal? That is ridicolous. The teacher should handle this and that`s it.
Fish Boden 5 years ago
What sort of school/teacher/principal turns such a small thing into such a cluster-f**k? Jerks.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
The fact that the brother said it just to disrupt the class wasn't a giveaway that it's a daily occurrence? Now with some innuendo thrown in?
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#47
It wasn’t weird, but actually cute and funny. I was teaching fifth grade and this kid, white as paper, goes my name is _____, but you can call me Lebron. He had an obsession with Lebron James and I did in fact call him Lebron whenever I wanted to get his attention. Great kid.
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
Why it matters if he is white as paper, or red as lobster, or pink as Pink Panther, or black as night or whatever. Why is it strange if one white boy is obsessed with Lebron, or one black girl with Pocahontas?
ravn 5 years ago
I took as meaning extremely nervous/frightened. That how I am in these kinds of exercises.
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I said my dad steal cars. It was something my parents always told us growing up as a joke. The teacher just laughed and said "that's nice"
Berry Budgie 5 years ago
Thats not very responsible of the teacher. I understand it was a joke in this case but what if it was true? I would have looked into it if i were her
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Teachers hear a lot. Only the things that endanger the child need to be reported. Kids misconstrue so much that police would constantly be erroneously raiding houses.
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Omg not a teacher, but the student... Introducing ourselves around our grade 10 social studies class, and my intro goes: “Hi, I’m Catbomb4, I’m blah blah blah and I really really like trees. Like I swear I have a tree fetish” ... The teacher gives me a wtf look and goes “okay...” and quickly moves on. I confused “fetish” with the word “obsession”.... still weird, but holy smokes I did not mean to say I’m sexually attracted to trees.
#50
Maybe not weird, but one I will always remember the boy who wrote "I like chewing bubble gum and drinking out of a water bottle." I also had another boy who said "I always say I'm tired even when I'm not."
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Imagine the teacher, sitting in a classroom in a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere just sighing at this lack of interesting responses.
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
Good strategy this one with saying always you're tired, must say. Especially when you know your wife will ask you soon to do something 😉
#51
Sadly in a Sex Education class, a 12 year old was very worried about having ETS, AIDS and HIV. "My parents have been using drugs and have shared many siryngs, even when my mum was pregnant with me so I don't know if I have it or not" So sad. So shocking for us, the teachers and the kids in the class.
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
This is really very sad! How can some people be so irresponsible about their unborn children, or at least after they become parents
#52
Okay so I had Psychology back in the spring semester before covid hit and I sat next to a girl who I was good friends with from highschool. Professor asks her for a fun fact and she said “I like to watch people get cut open.” She obviously said it for effect, but she cleared it up by saying she liked watching videos of people getting plastic surgery because it’s “satisfying” to watch.
#53
i don't ask for a fun fact, but on the first day i always ask, "what's your most recent obsession?" (low-stakes, building affinity networks, etc. etc.) in my first semester, a student said "air." as in oxygen.
S. 5 years ago
These sort of situations makes me socialyy anxious, so I guess I would've said the same thing too. 😌
Bama Belle 5 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. I was not shy or anxious but I didn't like being put on the spot like that. I would draw a blank and inevitably say something stupid.
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
OMG me too. I am so obsessed with air, I will die without it.
#54
Not a teacher, but a few years ago on the first day of school this kid in one of my classes casually answered, “I have a restraining order on my dad!”
#55
I had a friend in college that felt like she never had a good fun fact to share, so she memorized all of the US state birds so she could say that she knew them all as her fun fact. She was expecting someone to not believe her and quiz her on one, but when she actually shared the fact in class no one did so she memorized them for nothing.
#56
Someone said they liked licking thier toes
Number 5 5 years ago
My siblings does that, and whenever I or others confront them about it, they totally denie it
Load More Replies... Norah Reilly 5 years ago
Can't imagine why or, more importantly, having the requisite flexibility anymore.
#57
Not a teacher, but a guy in a handful of my high school classes used to always say he met Ron Jeremy if the class was doing two truths and a lie. He wasn’t lying, and would always show the class the picture they took together.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
I now realize I've known him as ...actor... since forever, but never seen any evidence of it. He's always been kind of a C-list celebrity based on that, so he occasionally shows up in a chat show or a small tv cameo. Weird. The 70s were weird.
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#58
Kid in my kindergarten class said "My peepee fell off at Disneyland" I didn't ask any follow up questions
#59
“I have 17 piercings, but only 6 are readily visible”
#60
On the first day of 6th grade in my math class the teacher was having every student introduce themself and tell him if they went by a nickname. This one kid requests to be called "The Surgeon General" in a confusing attempt at humor. He thought it was pretty funny, we all laughed at how weird it was, but there was no actual thought put into the "joke" as he was just being random. But the teacher remembered this, and whenever the kid acted out in class the teacher would refer to him as "Mr. Surgeon General" when reprimanding him, much to the kid's embarrassment lol
#61
a student, not a teacher, but once we were going around a circle during percussion camp in the front ensemble and my teacher goes “hello everyone, my name is ____ and I have sh*t my pants as an adult.” Definitely one of the weirder ones I’ve heard.
#62
My son told his 7th grade teacher that he had a Sasquatch uncle. The teacher was doubtful until my wife wrote the teacher a note scolding the teacher for not believing and backing up my son's story. In retrospect, it's likely the teacher just humored everyone while thinking my wife was a lunatic
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
I wonder if he was saying Saskatchewan, as in the Canadian province.
#63
Obligatory, not a teacher. First year college, a guy shared with the class that he hated dogs... we were Veterinary students. 1 year later he dropped out, and 3 years later I dropped out too.
#64
In the context of having students introduce themselves one-by-one to a new boy in a small high school class, a girl said her parents got her a nose job and a boob job.
Ms LaDonna 5 years ago
Poor kid, her parents letting her KNOW she's not good enough from the get go.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Just because her parents got it for her doesn't mean she hadn't been relentlessly begging for those things forever, despite them telling her she didn't need them. It's not usually the parents who initiate cosmetic surgery.
Load More Replies... CamlikesCookies 5 years ago
The girl had plastic surgery because of her parents.
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I’m not a teacher, but this may qualify. As a freshman in college, this kid named Brenton told our class his name was “Brent5on, but the 5 is silent”. He was a weird cat. I mean do you man, but it was the most awkward silence from the lecture and professor I have ever witnessed
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
This is the weirdest thing happened to you at college? Feel sorry for you my friend
#66
When i was in my first year at university my Law and Society professor made each student get up, say his/her name and tell why they picked Law School, well, a guy got up, said his name and the professor interrupted him by asking "Anon, are you related to x?" The guy "Yes professor, he is my grandfather" then the professor got excited and started talking about what great of a guy X is and that he haven't heard of him in years. Then the professor asked how he was, anon replied "He is dead sir" The whole class was trying to hold the laughter, it pretty much broke the class that First day
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
Do I miss something here? I can't understand what's funny if professor don't know some grandfather, whom he used to know, has died.
#67
In my history class someone said, "I like to start fires."
#68
I'm not a teacher but back when I was sixteen I was kicked out of class for answering "I set my balls on fire and swing them around for people's entertainment" even though the rest of my class confirmed it was true. I still do it sometimes
#69
Not a teacher, but first day of high school when we did introductions one of the popular girls said “Hi i’m Maisie, and I’m trash... wait no! IM FAN-TRASH!!!” And then proceeded to explain that she read smutty fanfics to every and any of the teacher that asked what “fan-trash” is.... we were 11! (British High school)
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
When I first started senior school in the uk, a girl in my class stood up and said my name is Stacey and I'm Clairvoyant...quick as a flash the girl sat next to me (my now best friend) said make up your mind I thought you said your name was Stacey!?...the class irrupted and poor Stacey never lived it down!
#70
I think his name was carter he stood up and said ( this is college by the way ) "one time i had sex with a girl in the bathroom. He was expelled.
#71
That she was a public pooper. I still remember her first and last name so good job freshman from 8 years ago.
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
?? What does the mean? She liked to use public bathrooms? She like to poop herself in public? So many possibilities. All of them troubling...
Mimi777 5 years ago
Possibly wear a diaper and poop herself while out in public.. possibly likes to squat and poop in random public places.. we will never know the true story of public pooper girl.
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Not me, and not a fun fact, but teacher/student story related. A close friend was doing an activity where the teacher had everyone anonymously write down some traumatic event or something that happened to them. My friend couldn't think of one, so he made one up, little did he know the teacher randomly selected some to read out loud in front of the class, and his was chosen. He had written "when I was 9 I was forced to rape my neighbors cat" the class went dead silent. The teacher was speechless. My friend nearly had an aneurysm trying to hold in the laughter.
#73
Along the same avenue After an winter half term the teacher asked "how was your break?" My class was silent for some glorious seconds when it was my turn and I said "well my granddad died and my dad got married" yes in that order. My teacher asked my mum if it was true at parents evening a few days later. Sorry Mr. Moore
#74
that when he wiped in the bathroom this morning, there was blood on the toilet paper. lol
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Lola 5 years ago
I was teaching first grade at the time. One of the little boys was going around and telling his classmates that he had something very dangerous in his backpack. Now if you’re a teacher, you know that’s never good news. As I’m checking his backpack, I was terrified that something was going to jump out at me. Instead, I found a big bag of weed. The principal took it away and the little boy kept crying and screaming about how his dad was going to kill him because he loved that stuff. That was the most uncomfortable parent, teacher, principal meeting I ever had.
John Louis 5 years ago
A lot of these are not funny if you think about it. Sadly many of these statements are tragic or represent mental illness.
Patti Vance 5 years ago
#9: grandson once told a teacher that his dad had a bong in the house which led to counselor contacting us. apparently he had seen one in a 'don't do drugs' presentation. after some investigation discovered that they had a red vase in the window that looked just like the bong in the presentation. provided info on this, everyone had a laugh but it was shocking to see how something so innocent caused panic at home, school, etc..
Out of chocolate 5 years ago
I was teaching third grade Sunday school when we got to the subject of adultery. Usually I would explain that adultery is “when two people who are married act like they aren’t” and usually that’s enough for them. I introduced the topic and before we could even get into it, one kid raised his hand and said “my mom did that!”
Bunnies are better!! 5 years ago
One time I was babysitting and the baby was crying(separation anxiety?) and his preschool aged sister was trying to help me calm him down. At first it was "How about you let me help you change his diaper? (Haha nope whenever I let her near the changing table she'd paint the bedroom with ointments and lotions) Then it was "oh how bout you give us cookies and let us watch tv?(Haha nice try) Then she said "my parents hit him and then the crying stops" Her parents are the nicest people ever and I have no idea where that came from, nonetheless fourteen year old me was very concerned.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Could very easily been the child's view of their parents burping the baby. Some pats look hard but do the trick for gassy babies.
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i-be-viben 5 years ago
i onetime said i jumped off a waterfall true but it was 20 ft from the water
Holly Allen 5 years ago
1st/2nd grade teacher at a Christian School here. Student was leading the morning prayer and asked God to help his mom because she drinks a lot of alcohol. 😳 I know his mom and didn't say a word to her because I knew she would've been mortified! 😂
Bruce Robb 5 years ago
"The memorable facts that these students shared make it seem like they’re either very brave, don’t feel embarrassment the same way others do, or they don’t care about the consequences being this open might have." Or they may just not have enough life experience to know what should or shouldn't be shared. When Art Linkletter had the kids' segment on his show, one of the things he loved to ask the kids was, "What did your parents tell you not to say?"
Lola 5 years ago
I was teaching first grade at the time. One of the little boys was going around and telling his classmates that he had something very dangerous in his backpack. Now if you’re a teacher, you know that’s never good news. As I’m checking his backpack, I was terrified that something was going to jump out at me. Instead, I found a big bag of weed. The principal took it away and the little boy kept crying and screaming about how his dad was going to kill him because he loved that stuff. That was the most uncomfortable parent, teacher, principal meeting I ever had.
John Louis 5 years ago
A lot of these are not funny if you think about it. Sadly many of these statements are tragic or represent mental illness.
Patti Vance 5 years ago
#9: grandson once told a teacher that his dad had a bong in the house which led to counselor contacting us. apparently he had seen one in a 'don't do drugs' presentation. after some investigation discovered that they had a red vase in the window that looked just like the bong in the presentation. provided info on this, everyone had a laugh but it was shocking to see how something so innocent caused panic at home, school, etc..
Out of chocolate 5 years ago
I was teaching third grade Sunday school when we got to the subject of adultery. Usually I would explain that adultery is “when two people who are married act like they aren’t” and usually that’s enough for them. I introduced the topic and before we could even get into it, one kid raised his hand and said “my mom did that!”
Bunnies are better!! 5 years ago
One time I was babysitting and the baby was crying(separation anxiety?) and his preschool aged sister was trying to help me calm him down. At first it was "How about you let me help you change his diaper? (Haha nope whenever I let her near the changing table she'd paint the bedroom with ointments and lotions) Then it was "oh how bout you give us cookies and let us watch tv?(Haha nice try) Then she said "my parents hit him and then the crying stops" Her parents are the nicest people ever and I have no idea where that came from, nonetheless fourteen year old me was very concerned.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Could very easily been the child's view of their parents burping the baby. Some pats look hard but do the trick for gassy babies.
Load More Replies... i-be-viben 5 years ago
i onetime said i jumped off a waterfall true but it was 20 ft from the water
Holly Allen 5 years ago
1st/2nd grade teacher at a Christian School here. Student was leading the morning prayer and asked God to help his mom because she drinks a lot of alcohol. 😳 I know his mom and didn't say a word to her because I knew she would've been mortified! 😂
Bruce Robb 5 years ago
"The memorable facts that these students shared make it seem like they’re either very brave, don’t feel embarrassment the same way others do, or they don’t care about the consequences being this open might have." Or they may just not have enough life experience to know what should or shouldn't be shared. When Art Linkletter had the kids' segment on his show, one of the things he loved to ask the kids was, "What did your parents tell you not to say?"
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