Kids: Today, on my first day of being a trainee teacher in a classroom,...

By KillMeNow - 18/10/2011 16:08 - United Kingdom

Today, on my first day of being a trainee teacher in a classroom, I told a boy to stop using that stupid accent or else I'll give him a detention. Turns out he just moved here from Romania. FML

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By Frenchgirl - 16/09/2011 01:42 - United States

Today, it was my first day at school in the United States. Being from France, my French accent is really strong. After being made fun of all day, I met someone from Montreal. I was so excited and said, "Parlez-vous Français?" And his response? "HUH?!" FML

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By NoJob - 24/09/2016 06:41 - United Kingdom - Middlesbrough

Today, I had my first interview. Everything was going well until I made him repeat his name numerous times, as I couldn't understand what he was saying due to his thick accent. FML

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Some people don't belong in education

By Panagiotis - 01/10/2022 18:01 - United States

Today, we had a substitute teacher. She was taking attendance and had trouble pronouncing my last name. When I corrected her, I heard her mutter under her breath about, “Goddamn Mexican immigrants…” I’m from Greek ancestry, born in the USA. FML

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By meh - 18/01/2012 05:21 - Canada

Today, my teacher, who's Irish, called me insensitive and stupid for imitating her accent. I'm Filipino and my parents immigrated to Ireland where I was born, and then we moved to Canada when I was 14. Her response to my explanation? "Bullshit." FML

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By kdubz23 - 17/02/2014 22:41 - United States - Pittsburgh

Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML

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You can talk, mate

By Anonymous - 30/07/2019 12:07 - United Kingdom - Bristol

Today, a customer asked me if I was English, because I was struggling to understand what he was saying. I said yes. He then called me a liar, and said I must be "one of them Polish immigrants." Oh, and he also had a thick Scottish accent. FML

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By teacher - 07/09/2014 21:05 - United States - Apo

Today, I started my first teaching job ever. As I was teaching, another teacher interrupted my class about 5 times because she thought it was her class. Not only did she ruin my confidence, her behavior caused my students to laugh at me. FML

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Get out

By hackshack - 08/06/2012 19:45 - Brazil - Porto Alegre

Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML

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C'est la langue de l'amour!

By Anonymous - 19/10/2017 05:00

Today, my French teacher set up a role-play scenario to act out in front of the class. During one of my lines, I mispronounced a phrase and called my teacher sexy. FML

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By Anonymous - 30/08/2012 18:33 - United States - Auburn

Today, I had to explain to my teacher that Czechoslovakia is no longer a country. She kicked me out of class when she found out I was right. FML

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Tuesday 18 October 2011 22:07

Way to be a jerk, OP.

raphanne_fml 33

Tuesday 18 October 2011 22:07

Poor kid...

Comments

mspeacock 6

Wednesday 19 October 2011 21:37

Wouldn't his name suggest he was a foreigner? Romania.. Come on. As an educator myself I think you screwed up on a professional level.

ajjucool 0

Wednesday 19 October 2011 21:50

you are a racist!!!

yeah_notworthit 4

Wednesday 19 October 2011 21:57

You shouldn't be giving detention to a kid who is playing an accent anyways. Seriously. WTF? Romanian accents are amazing (: not stupid. Way to fail.

Alycidon 1

Wednesday 19 October 2011 22:19

This is why I cannot converse with an English person. Sooner or later they're going to utter a racist remark. **** you OP, YDI.

Daralea 21

Wednesday 19 October 2011 22:32

Kind of like the remark you just uttered?

Alycidon 1

Wednesday 19 October 2011 22:40

#214 I ain't anti-English, I just don't like to talk to some English people because I know most of them are racist...

ThePedestrians 0

Wednesday 19 October 2011 22:19

*cough* ******* asshole *cough*

monkeyCanDoMYJob 7

Wednesday 19 October 2011 22:41

You would give a kid detention just because you think he was faking an accent? I hate to see what kind of punishment you would give if the kid did something else like skip class or something

that_nerdy_sock 3

Wednesday 19 October 2011 22:57

Haha!!! I'm romainian!!! Of course...I can actually speak English :)

JiggyBoo123 11

Wednesday 19 October 2011 23:24

There are these two Mexican kids in my Micro class who pretend to have British accents for days at a time, so if the kid didn't LOOK Russian, how was OP supposed to know they WERE? They coulda been white-looking kids making fun of Russians. OP had no way of knowing without asking or finding out. Besides, I'm sure if anybody in that classroom had a sense of humor, they would have forgiven OP and moved on. :3