What was the dumbest thing a teacher has ever said to you?

1. “I said put those papers in A-B-C order, not alphabetical order!”
   — spookyhookie


2. When I was in 3rd Grade my teacher told me to pick a book and write a book report on it. I chose "Amber Brown Goes Fourth," a book about a girl going into fourth grade. I would have gotten 100% on the report, but my teacher docked 1 point every time I used the title of the book because "Fourth" is not the correct spelling of the term "Forth" and refused to discuss the matter when i tried to explain that it was a play on words.
   — JestersKing


3. My geography teacher told the class Djibouti was pronounced "Dubai".
   — Former__Child






4. "99% of the matter in the universe is oxygen." He meant it, defended it, and continued to expect that answer on tests years later. High School science teacher.
   — syberghost


5. My 7th grade history teacher told me that Pearl Harbor was in Japan...
   — WhiteIcicle


6. "You don't look sick." My teacher to me when I had missed a few days of school due to my epilepsy.
   — DrWhoisOverRated






7. Sorry 8 year old Tanman1975. You got the test question, "what is an example of a liquid?" wrong. "What's wrong with lava?" "It doesn't fit in a cup."
   — tanman1975


8. "I marked you down because "Spectators" is not a word." I had to go to the library and grab a dictionary to get my marks back. This was in my senior year of highschool.
   — sw_ferrari


9. "The sun is not a star, a sun is a sun. A star is a star" The whole class laughs at me because they think the sun is not a star.
   — kasimir_ingram






10. "My husband is a hot-shot lawyer and we make enough money that I don't technically need to work, so I'm here by choice. That's why I'm a good teacher" She was easily my worst teacher in high school
    — batman42a


11. I have two scenarios that I will never forget and they both involved English teachers in middle school. In 6th grade, we were writing a short story. I wanted to write a story of a girl travelling from New Jersey to Arizona... because I had just done that... duh. Anyway, I write the story and say that the drive was about 2,000miles. My teacher proof reads it and tells me that I need to correct the mileage because she "didn't think there were even 2,000 miles in the world!" Oh. Okay. 7th or 8th grade, had to write a short story on the wolves that we had been tracking via some website. I wrote how my wolf met another and fell in love. Teacher proof reads and tells me to fix it because "animals don't have feelings" she then proceeded to lecture the class on this matter as well.
    — cat_lady21


12. Science class: going over group projects Teacher: " what did your volume measure out to?" Me: "3.0 mL" Teacher: angry " I told everyone to use decimal places! How hard is it to do what I tell you" Me: "... but I did, the measurement just happened to be exactly 3.0 mL" Teacher: " i dont believe you, there is only a 1 in 10 chance of that happening!" Me: "but.. it's a 1 in 10 chance of being any decimal"
    — Flynn_10