Kids: Today, while teaching my high school class about astronomy, I...

By Smart - 16/09/2011 14:42 - United States

Today, while teaching my high school class about astronomy, I showed them a picture of earth from space. One girl raised her hand, and asked me what the "white things" were. In other words, clouds. FML

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By bornfromhillbillies - 30/08/2015 03:02 - United States - Bourbonnais

Today, my mom saw a picture of the moon and asked me what "those big spots" were. She actually thought the craters were continents and tried correcting me when I told her what they were. Then I almost got into trouble for being disrespectful. FML

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By immature - 18/09/2014 19:20 - United Kingdom - Reading

Today, in astronomy class, a kid used Uranus in a hilarious innuendo. I was the only one who laughed. I also happen to be the teacher. FML

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By jdawn99 - 22/10/2013 14:24 - United States - Arkansas City

Today, as a science teacher, I did a science experiment in front of a class. One of my students asked me if it was "photoshopped." He was being serious. FML

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By Anonymous - 16/09/2010 06:04 - United States

Today, it was the first day of astronomy class and we all waited for the professor to enter the classroom. All of a sudden, someone turns the lights off, it's pitch black, and we hear the professor saying, "Greetings earthlings..." It's going to be a long semester. FML

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By isabellam0426 - 02/11/2016 02:55

Today, while teaching my history class, a girl asked me where North America was. She lives in North America. FML

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By lemonchips - 12/10/2015 21:28 - Norway

Today, in class I was teaching 6 year olds about the difference between short and tall, and I asked them how they could see that I was shorter than the other teacher. One of them raised their hand and said it was because I'm fatter. FML

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By baby, baby no - 09/11/2012 18:39 - United States - Ladys Island

Today, I stepped outside the house with my wife. She looked up at the sky and asked me in all seriousness if stars are man-made. FML

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By Anonymous - 05/12/2019 14:00

Today, I was teaching a high school calculus class. I wrote a complex formula on the board. As I wrote, students asked if they could take a picture of the board and circulate it. I said yes, and I was pleased as everybody seemed to be taking pictures. Soon, I realized why: my skirt was tucked into my underwear. Within a few minutes, every student in the school had an email with a picture of my ugliest pair of floral-printed panties. FML

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By Mouse - 17/10/2012 23:15

Today, my college class was talking about Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the edge of space down to earth. A boy suddenly put his head up and said in a serious tone, "I thought he jumped from the moon?" Several girls concurred. This is my generation. FML

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By Kidsthesedays - 09/11/2015 19:33 - United Kingdom - Saint Neots

Today, a kid came into the classroom I teach in to tell me there was "something" in the girls' toilets. "What kind of something", I asked? I was not expecting the answer "A period mural". FML

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Friday 16 September 2011 18:45

Not a real down to Earth person I see.

Bbhd05 0

Friday 16 September 2011 18:56

#8 not the clouds, the white things.

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xxxkittykatxxx 0

Friday 16 September 2011 20:20

I've heard a classmate ask who Babe Ruth was and at my new school a 12th grade English class didn't know that English was a Germanic language :l Maybe it's because I read Omg Facts daily...or that I was raised by my grandma as well as my mom, but I don't even like sports and I know who Babe is...

artemisrox98 10

Wednesday 28 September 2011 7:51

I've had people come up and ask me the difference between China and Japan, and why British people talk "funny". These are high school students. I feel for you and you, OP.

Btreasure 8

Friday 16 September 2011 20:26

Why F your life? She's the dumbass you have a job and a degree you can't blame yourself if she doesn't want to learn so it's more like FHL

MrsPegg 45

Friday 16 September 2011 21:00

I believe the point of this FML is that he actually has to teach this girl (of high school age) common knowledge. If she doesn't know what clouds are (from aerial view), then imagine his dismay when it comes to teaching more complex topics. FHisL because his paycheck and career depends on his ability to get his students to pass.

hunterspicer55 0

Friday 16 September 2011 20:38

Is she blonde? Lmao

perdix 29

Friday 16 September 2011 20:41

I was going to come down in "the kid is an idiot" camp, but I think the teacher is a pompous jackass. How many people have seen Earth from space? A few dozen. How would a normal perdon know what clouds look like from thst persoective? Maybe no one showed the poor kid that picture from space. No need to humiliate her and crush her curiosity. If everything in the picture was such common knowledge, why did you waste everyone's time showing it?

daybowbow 0

Friday 16 September 2011 21:20

I agree. The teacher gets paid to, well, teach. Can't assume everyone's seen earth via satellite imagery before.

rightsaidred 3

Friday 16 September 2011 21:44

Really? How many countless popular movies have shown footage of the world from space? You have to be living under a rock if you haven't seen images (even cgi ones) of the earth from space.

hookumsnivy 6

Friday 16 September 2011 21:54

I'd be amazed if the kid never saw a picture of the Earth from space - I can't even count how many times I've seen them. Tons of TV shows, movies, magazines, books, etc show images of the earth from space. Even cartoons. But yes, it is possible.