“I’m Somebody’s Grandma Now”: 32 Situations That Left School Teachers Stumped Right In The Classroom
Perhaps there is no place in this world where different generations collide with each other in numerous - and sometimes fruitless - attempts to get along... so, there is no place like school. Teachers complain about students who don’t care, and schoolchildren also do not remain in debt.
We took the idea for this collection of unexpected, ambiguous and sometimes downright embarrassing schoolers' remarks from this video of a school teacher, where she lists various phrases from her 8th graders that made her feel awkward and sometimes laugh. We've added examples from other teachers' videos - so check out this list of school wit from Bored Panda!
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A student got the answer right and yelled: "Yeah, I felt that one in my nuggets"
Chicken Joe says this almost word for word in the kids movie Surf's Up (loved that movie!!!!!).
Are you in therapy? You seem like the type
This kind of snark is learned from parents. No young child could come up with it on their own, or the child is now old enough to know exactly what they are saying. Not funny, not acceptable.
It says it’s from an 8th grade class so the students easily could come up with stuff much worse than that all by themselves
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The toilet paper in this school sucks. I just got dookie on my hand
thank you *chugs then chokes on the juice because i drank it too fast* im fi*cough*f-fine..at least i*cough-cough* have the mental image out on my head
Load More Replies...Let's start with the fact that kids and teenagers, in principle, sometimes cannot understand how caustic or funny their phrases addressed to adults actually sound. And why do these strange adults, upon hearing something completely harmless (at first glance), blush, giggle stupidly, or even lose the very ability to speak? Well, it was not for nothing that the ancients said that the truth speaks through the mouth of a baby...
How does it feel to be the only unmarried teacher in this school?
Children understand cruelty from a very early age. If this student was old enough to know if every other teacher was married and then to even ask, this was deliverate meanness. Not acceptable.
I remember we knew young, at least for the female teachers, who was married because of their title Ms. Miss, means unmarried. Mrs. means married. For male teachers, it came down to if they were wearing a ring or not.
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We were talking about tobacco advertisements and tactics that the tobacco companies use to draw teens in, or even young adults. And I took a shot in the dark and I said, "Hey, who's this celebrity?" Their response was ice spice. So, welcome to eighth grade health where Lucille Ball is ice spice.
Well, I was sitting here thinking to myself, "I don't remember there being a Spice Girl called Ice Spice".... I feel so old now XD
Well, back in the 1960s the school taught us all about d***s so we knew exactly what to look for and what it would do. It didn't stop anyone from using d***s, only made them experts. Today they are teaching tobacco.
I don't know why my brother's girlfriend has birth control, she ugly. Also, what is birth control?
'Birth Control' is the term most associated with women in the minds of Southern Politicians since the term 'Chattel' was removed from the majority of State Constitutions.
Secondly, a school is almost always an organization that is responsible, in addition to the actual acquisition of knowledge by children, also for their socialization. But if previously the socialization took place mainly in communication with peers, today a significant part of this process is taken over by Internet services (who said: “TikTok”?).
As a result, the average teen often receives a rather superficial understanding of this or that fact - and may misuse this knowledge when communicating with the teacher. And then, after numerous facepalms, teachers share these dialogues online (who said “TikTok”?). Well, the circle is closed...
Student gasps, "What is that black stuff on your eye? Are you okay? It was there the other day too." I was concerned so I went to look in the mirror. It was my eyeshadow
I've always thought eye shadow makes you look like you've been in a fight and got a shiner.
In art class, I'm teaching class and a kid gonna raise his hand and say, 'Teacher Robi, are you white, black or light skin?' I didn't know light skin was a race!
Awe man I really should stop clicking "black"under the race/ethnicity section on my applications then.
Load More Replies...It's a descriptor, and it's amazing the kid used it because that looks past demographics
I mean, ‘white’ and black’ is also a descriptor of appearance, not just race.
Load More Replies...On that note I remember the time I was talking to someone VERY new to dnd and I stupidly said "I don't really do mixing between different races" what I MEANT was "I generally don't allow homebrew races that are like elf with dragon because it leads to some unbalanced characters." the person unfortunately had never heard the word race used that way.
As I'm walking in, I have a cup of coffee. A student once said, "Okay, Teacher Robi, you come in like my grandma. I'm smelling like the fresh coffee." I'm somebody's grandma now.
An instance of where "like" makes even less sense than usual, and actually changes the meaning of the sentence. STOP IT PLEASE!
I'm pretty sure the "like" in "You come in like my grandma" was meant to be there.
Load More Replies...“In fact, each of us, any teacher with sufficiently extensive experience, has a similar selection of unexpected dialogues with students of different ages,” says Volodymyr Nemertsalov, a school principal and teacher from Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. “At the end of the day, we all understand where we are going when we choose to become teachers. And the feeling of awkwardness from some of the students’ remarks is actually part of our job.”
“By the way, as far as I know, some of my colleagues even published collections of similar quotes collected over years and decades of teaching work. After all, pedagogy is a serious thing, no one argues - but you should always give a chance to a piece of humor here.”
You don't want to know what I say about you behind your back or you'd quit your job
this student underestimates the level of trash teachers have to deal with
And the things they say about the kids in the staff room!
Load More Replies...How badly is a child raised that they feel entitled to deliver this kind of nastiness? On the other hand, some people are simply born rotten and eventually learn to develop a kind of veneer when they realize their behaviour gets them nowhere. Under it all, still the same trash, regardless of their age.
Wait, why would anyone care about what a disgruntled student said behind their backs?
It's hurtful. Teachers are still human. That's like telling any employee to "not care" about what a customer says behind their back - it still hurts to know that someone's talking about you behind your back.
Load More Replies..."you dont wanna know what all the teachers say about you in the staff room either"
I don't get why you write so much on my rough draft. I'm not reading all that brah, for real, for real
Didn't do so well on the rough draft, but was told I could make up some points if I went to the "writing center" at the college and have them give suggestions. I did, and rewrote the paper with the suggestions (after getting some of those point back.) submitted the final draft....... ..........and got an even worse grade than the rough draft was..... but that was okay, was doing ok otherwise, so bombing this grade was okay.
This is how some young people respond in a debate when you give them facts they can't refute. It's some new weird version of playing dumb to get out of the argument instead of just not responding or just accepting that they were wrong. Why would you want to act like you're too dumb to read three whole sentences? It's ridiculous.
Man is literally Words With Friends Tile (you’re awesome if you understand that reference)
[My students used] the classic "womp womp" when I was losing in a board game and my board game design class.
Well, we sincerely hope you will enjoy this collection of school wit, sarcasm and absurdities, so please feel free to scroll this list to the very end now, and mark the best stories for sure. And if you're also a teacher, or have ever worked at school, then we'd highly appreciate your own stories on these awkward and amusing moments in dialogues with schoolers!
You look like my grandpa's couch
My childhood dog had run away from home and hadn't returned. I was telling the class about it. Their response was "Womp womp"
I know young children often haven't developed empathy/sympathy yet, but that's brutal and mean :(
Ever since my sister started using “womp womp,” she has been excessively inconsiderate
Kid randomly says this to me: "Teacher Robi, why're you built like a water bottle?" A water bottle? I have no words.
Some potential context: Teacher Robi identifies as non-binary.
Sorry to nitpick, but it's better to say "Teacher Robi IS nonbinary". The phrase "identifies as" is mostly used by conservatives as microaggression, basically to convey "they think they are X, but they'rea actually not"
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This kid says to me, "Teacher Robi, I'm trying to be like you," and I'm like, like, "what?" And they say, "old." I'm 29. I ain't even 30 yet.
I think all younger children define people over 16 as “old” (edit: typo)
I know kids can say funny, foul, nonsensical stuff but the looks on their faces are priceless.
Miss C., your back is big
Well, their TikTok username is "Buttabella", soooo XD
Load More Replies...Dang, I’ve had kids tell me that, and I happen to be a Miss C.! Must be a Miss C. thing. If they ask me why I tell them the most idiotic reason I can think of at the time. :p
That kid glazed me at a D1 level. He was first round pick in the glazing draft
Explanation, please...do they teach kids to make or install windows?
Had to look it up. "On TikTok, 'glazing' is when you overhype and over-compliment someone to the point where it's really annoying and cringeworthy. It's comparable to being “kiss-a*s” and “suck-up.” Urban Dictionary says 'glazing' is when you're “sucking up to someone.” "
Load More Replies...The entire list is things schools kids say to teachers.
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"Teacher Robi, why you look like you just walked out of a rainbow?" I don't even remember what I was wearing. But I'm sure it was colorful.
I WOULD TAKE THAT AS A COMPLIMENT AND RUN (I love colour but at the same time half my wardrobe is black/grey/navy)
Miss C., your edges ain't bald, it's just your temples.
The kids are gonna say to me, "Teacher Robi, can we oil your scalp?" Like, that's such an odd thing for you to say while I'm teaching. And then they say, "Yeah, because it looks dry."
You're giving single core
So, ‘core’ (as in single core when used in this posts context) is a word that can be slapped onto the end of any other word to make it a clothing style/aesthetic. For example, weirdcore, kidcore, anglecore, and grungecore. It’s the way people act and dress. So in this post, singlecore would be saying the teacher dressed and acted like someone who’s single :)
Load More Replies...I try to keep up with the hip new memespeak of kids these days, but "single core" is beyond me XD Like, your computer only has a single-core CPU...?
Your pants look like trash bags sewn together. Haha. Trash bag pants
Why're the kids gonna ask me to tell my girlfriend to make them a wig? Middle school, sixth grade. Talking about some "Can you tell your girlfriend to make me a wig?" What? No.
Miss C., can you please move your big-a*s shoes.
Now that the opps are gone we can yap
reminds me of that story online where people were sharing test answers when the teacher walked out and she was hiding in the ceiling above them
Miss C., where are you going for spring break? You're not grown.
"Miss C., you Bluetooth me." That is what they say when our cycles link together.
Do women of all ages have to register their cycles now, too?
Stop putting viruses on my Chromebook
Those are called, "administrator controls". bro was just salty he couldn't play cool math games
Coolmathgames is the jam, though. Left school not all too long ago and still play it. Some good games on there to get your mind off of things.
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There's my outfit. Why'd a kid go and tell me that my sneakers look like Nintendo Switch? And then took it a step further and was like, "And you don't even match. Red and blue doesn't go with gray and black."
I thought my outfit was cute. I was a little bit shocked. So I say to her, I'm like, "Who do you think you are talking to? Pipe down." You know what her response was? She gonna say, "Who do you think you are to have a girlfriend who looks better than you?" You just gotta laugh at these kids.
That's odd, I wouldn't have cared less about the outfit comment, but the girlfriend comment is disrespectful. Best to depersonalise it and ask what they think would happen if they said it to someone in the schoolyard or on the street, where the other person could react physically.
Miss C., when are you taking all of us to get ice cream? And it'll be on you.
CashApp me so that I can buy a new wig.
I was playing Chinese whispers with 3 graders. I started with 'I love cats'. The next round ended with me hearing 'Are you gay'.
I had to look that up didn't know it was the same as telephone
Load More Replies...Teacher Robi is non-binary, so they are not "miss Robi" :)
Load More Replies..."32 Situations That Left School Teachers Stumped Right In The Classroom" - I don't see any claim that this list is funny in the title and even the description says "caustic or funny" indicating no requirement that they be funny, so not sure why you feel the need to keep saying that.
Load More Replies...I was playing Chinese whispers with 3 graders. I started with 'I love cats'. The next round ended with me hearing 'Are you gay'.
I had to look that up didn't know it was the same as telephone
Load More Replies...Teacher Robi is non-binary, so they are not "miss Robi" :)
Load More Replies..."32 Situations That Left School Teachers Stumped Right In The Classroom" - I don't see any claim that this list is funny in the title and even the description says "caustic or funny" indicating no requirement that they be funny, so not sure why you feel the need to keep saying that.
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