Dumbest Things Heard In School

[lukemdizzle]

science teacher: "therefor the farther you are away from the earth the less its gravity effects you. so where on earth would you weigh the least?"
me: "on top of Mt. everest"
random girl: "how the hell would you get on top of Mt. everest?"
me: "you'd climb it"
random girl: "you can climb Mt. everest?"
this happened my freshmen year of high school

same girl: "hey luke look at these pictures on my phone"
me: "its a ground hog; why do you have a ground hog"
girl: "I found this baby ground hog last night it fell out of its nest"
happened junior year

next one happened yesterday

same girl: "Luke i just failed a test I don't know what to do. Im never going to get into colage. what should I do?"
me: "well, you could sell your body"
her: "very funny luke what would I do if I was just a head"
(don't feel bad she's EXTREMELY rich)

she also thought Romania is in Hawaii, the sun and the moon were inside the earths atmosphere, the sun was smaller than the earth, and thought that dragons were real. (she is not mentally challenged, just a bimbo)

 

[MrTacticalNightmare]

"so Gandhi led the people of india on a kind of nonviolent revold protesting pecicefuly while they where beaten down by, and sometimes killed by, the English police. any questions?"
.....(they're reading the board)
.....(still reading..)
(readin')
....."ohmigod! no one got hurt did they?"

 

[RAAAAAR]

I've never been witness to any stupidity of a mentionable nature at my school, but:

"What's so bad about communism?"

*Epic face palm*

The first two are beyond retarded; would you care to explain this one?

I suppose this one is a little ambiguous.

One must only look at history to see that Communism doesn't work. Sure it looks good on paper but it just doesn't work in practice.

You can't pay a doctor the same thing as a guy sweeping the gravel off of train tracks and expect results.

Yet we can pay actors more than we pay teachers. Communism would work of those damn people would do as they're told!

Actors make other people a lot more money than they're paid

 

[Computer-Noob]

Art History in College.

Prof: ...plagiarism is bad...don't plagiarize....
Student: Can we paraphrase? If so, how do we site it?
Prof: If you wish report an extended quote by separating it out of the main body of a paragraph and indenting both sides, that would be helpful when reading you papers. You would site it normally.

I dropped the class that day.

By the way, the above is an example of paraphrasing.

Cite <---

Feel free to plagiarize a dictionary .

Hmm...I need to think about that..



Geography:

"Where's Russia?"

Wasn't Bush not able to locate 5 random US states presented to him? I seem to recall something of that nature transpiring.

I know the average person apparently can't name all 50 states. Which is kind of a shocker to me. I admit some are process of elimination but it seems like a simple thing to remember.

I could probably name like....30 off the top of my head, and im not even from the USA.

Kind of embarassing.

 

[SenorTico]

This wasn't really stupid. It was just more extremely aggravating for someone to bring it up which is why I find it "stupid." My first day of college back in 2007 I was taking Human Species at UCF which is a class on human evolution. A buddy of mine had the class with me and as we were walking to the class I told him if somebody in the class made it a point to tell the teacher they didn't believe in evolution and ask the professor to prove it to them I was going to flip. Sure enough, at the end of class when the the professor opened the floor for any questions about the course some guy up front asked "well, I don't see how evolution is possible. What can you say to prove it?" My friend quickly pulled me down as I was about to leap from all the way in the back of this auditorium classroom. The professor though was way more suave then I was and proceeded to give this dude a verbal back hand for everyone to hear.

 

[RootbeerJello]

"Santa is Jesus in disguise, right?"
"Computers aren't for computer games, they're for work!"
"Stairway to Heaven? THat sounds like a gay song."
"Can't you stop a hurricane by dropping bombs in it?"

And these two charming conversation.

Idiot Neighbor: You're a geek.
Me: I know.
Idiot Neighbor: Wow, you think you're so cool by saying you're a geek.

Annoying *****: I think you're gay.
Me: You think I like dudes?
Annoying *****: Yeah.
Me: I have a girlfriend.
Annoying *****: But I think you're really gay.
Me: Why?
Annoying *****: You're wearing a beanie!

 

[UnkeptBiscuit]

We were doing presentations for a group project we were given about the 4 main causes of World War 1 in History class today. One group's assignment was about 4 minutes long. Half of that was various members of the group showing pictures of giant cannons and mortars, accompanied by them saying things like, "Look at that massive shaft!" Their assigned cause was militarism. an entire half of their presentation was "Look at that massive Shaft!' comments. it's gonna be a good year in History, I can feel it.

 

[Hokutan]

Well this wasn't at school but at camp

Counsellor: just told us a story on how he got stabbed
Stupid Kid: Did you die?
Other kids:laughing
Me: Der

 

[the_dancy_vagrant]

Today in Civics.


Question: How would you solve in illegal immigration problem?


Kid in class: Bomb Mexico.

Nothing against Americans here (I myself being one) but it seems like the majority of schoolkids here use "Bomb the holy shit out of them!" as the #1 answer to all of the issues facing the world.

Just an observation.

Yeah, being an American as well, I agree, but I doubt it's much different anywhere else.

Plus, they're kids. They'll likely grow out of that.

You have much more faith in the progression of their insights and opinions than I do.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Hmmm some of the stuff I realy hear every day is pretty dumb sounding, but none come to mind right this minute...

EDIT: last semester me and my friend almost convinced this girl that she doesn't own a cell phone, and that it was "all in her head"

Today in Civics.


Question: How would you solve in illegal immigration problem?


Kid in class: Bomb Mexico.

Nothing against Americans here (I myself being one) but it seems like the majority of schoolkids here use "Bomb the holy shit out of them!" as the #1 answer to all of the issues facing the world. Whether they are kidding, or not, I shall never know.

Just an observation.

"There isn't a problem in the world that can't be solved by tanks"

Note: I am Canadian and am not a dumbass

 

[TheFacelessOne]

We were doing presentations for a group project we were given about the 4 main causes of World War 1 in History class today. One group's assignment was about 4 minutes long. Half of that was various members of the group showing pictures of giant cannons and mortars, accompanied by them saying things like, "Look at that massive shaft!" Their assigned cause was militarism. an entire half of their presentation was "Look at that massive Shaft!' comments. it's gonna be a good year in History, I can feel it.

Group projects...never liked them.

Though, that sounds like they didn't do their job very well. Maybe just slapped something on a poster board and called it a day.

 

[Apathetic Flamingo]

During Philosophy.

"I believe that only bad people have bad things happen to them. Because God would never hurt anyone good."

Of course the first question was if she felt that millions of Jews were evil people. She said "Obviously if bad things happened to them."

Yeah. People wonder why I get a bit uppity about blind faith.

"Wait, what's that one name of the country.. oh yeah, America!"
No joke. I heard this today in my AP Human Geography class.
Want to know the saddest part? We're a college level class >_>

As far as I'm aware all AP classes are college level classes. But yeah. I heard similar stuff in AP.

One of my favorites was during AP Government. "What is the second amendment?" "Though Shalt Not Kill."

I think I shit a little when that was the response by a good third of the class. I don't really remember because the sheer stupid caused me to black out cognitively.

I think I did when I READ that!!

 

[Akai Shizuku]

"Communism is evil, there's no freedom, blah blah blah...DEMOCRACY!! YAY FOR US LIVING IN A FREE DEMOCRACY!!! WOOO!"

Tools.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Well, not stupid, but misphrased by me:
"Sorry if I'm a little out of it today, I had a couple of shots in the morning"
Tetanus vaccine in the left arm, meningitis vaccine in the right.

 

[quack35]

Today in Civics.


Question: How would you solve in illegal immigration problem?


Kid in class: Bomb Mexico.

Nothing against Americans here (I myself being one) but it seems like the majority of schoolkids here use "Bomb the holy shit out of them!" as the #1 answer to all of the issues facing the world. Whether they are kidding, or not, I shall never know.

Just an observation.

They're usually kidding. Don't worry about it.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I got into an argument with a girl once because she didn't believe me that Russia was bigger than China. She looked at the world map and still put up a fight for another couple minutes.

 

[paragon1]

I recall one person in Government class saying, in all seriousness, "I think President Bush is doing a good job." The year was 2006.

 

[skywalkerlion]

I recall one person in Government class saying, in all seriousness, "I think President Bush is doing a good job." The year was 2006.

Meh, everyone's entitled to their own opinions.

 

[captainwillies]

What do you mean Africa's not a country?

meh. getting semantics wrong isn't to bad.

@topic

i actually have a reverse story. in i think the 5th grade my teacher asked the class "who leonardo da vinci was?" I put my hand up and said "a scienctist"(of course he has been known for other things BUT) everyone and i mean everyone in the class burst out laughing becasue they either thought i was joking or stupid. the laughter lasted about 4 seconds before the teacher shouted "CORRECT!"

heh that shut everybody up for the rest of the day