If I didn't act more enthusiastic I wouldn't survive highschool.

HA!

That Pluto was a planet. =(

...I miss Pluto.

ChainsawEnima:
Cursive Righting for sure, they tried to convince us if we didn't learn to write in cursive we would wind up on the streets eating out of trash cans because all the schoolwork from that point on was supposably only supposed to have cursive.

Once I entered high school I was never asked to write in cursive ever again.

Assholes -.-

Yep, I was one of the last groups of kids in my state that had to go through this bullcrap. By the time I was in high school it was required in almost every class that any paper be typed. But holy crap did those elementary teachers go sick house on how awful your life would be if you couldn't write in cursive, it was like on the comparative scale of atrocity not being able to write cursive was right up there with torturing small animals for fun.

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Ygfi:

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snoopy7393:

Supreme Unleaded:
But yeah, my math teacher was trying to teach us Americans the metric system (keep in mind this is our 9th grade Algebra teacher), and she said that there was 100 mm in a meter and 10 cm in a mm. Really, 10 cetemeters that are each bigger than one Milameter fit in to one of them, that makes sence.

Fail, she got the whole class confused and simultaniusly the whole class said "I quit", and then we walked out right in front of her. It was HALARIUS.

HAH in Canada (the "way up there") the metric system is hilarous, i read your comment and then went to school. At school we learned about the imperial system. Our teacher said that if you wanted to know how big an inch was, use your big toe, if you want to know how big a foot is, use your foot. (she was dead serious)Keep in mind, however, that we are 14, our feet go as small as size 7. Someone threw a sock at her =P

Wow, only a size 7, here in America the 14 year olds foot is anywhere from a size 9 to a size 11. I'm a size 9 1/2, you know what they say about big feet...

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i was thinking big shoes... and then i was thinking good surface area and grip on the ground.

You, my friend, are the first 14 year old to not say big dick, and i commend you for that. Seriosly every single person in my grade will say big dick (except me, i just get others to say it).

Since I was 14, I've had to special order my shoes at a size 15. Every time I tell someone that, their mind instantly goes to...well, you know.

Julianking93:

Supreme Unleaded:

Ygfi:

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snoopy7393:

Supreme Unleaded:
But yeah, my math teacher was trying to teach us Americans the metric system (keep in mind this is our 9th grade Algebra teacher), and she said that there was 100 mm in a meter and 10 cm in a mm. Really, 10 cetemeters that are each bigger than one Milameter fit in to one of them, that makes sence.

Fail, she got the whole class confused and simultaniusly the whole class said "I quit", and then we walked out right in front of her. It was HALARIUS.

HAH in Canada (the "way up there") the metric system is hilarous, i read your comment and then went to school. At school we learned about the imperial system. Our teacher said that if you wanted to know how big an inch was, use your big toe, if you want to know how big a foot is, use your foot. (she was dead serious)Keep in mind, however, that we are 14, our feet go as small as size 7. Someone threw a sock at her =P

Wow, only a size 7, here in America the 14 year olds foot is anywhere from a size 9 to a size 11. I'm a size 9 1/2, you know what they say about big feet...

Spoiler: Click to View

i was thinking big shoes... and then i was thinking good surface area and grip on the ground.

You, my friend, are the first 14 year old to not say big dick, and i commend you for that. Seriosly every single person in my grade will say big dick (except me, i just get others to say it).

Since I was 14, I've had to special order my shoes at a size 15. Every time I tell someone that, their mind instantly goes to...well, you know.

order in shoes... why didn't i think of that! i just took what i got, and i got shoes that i didn't like that much at the time... 15s are bloody hard to find though, you're not wrong!

Teacher is always right.

Yeah, no.

No, in fact.

Is this only for academic classes? If not, I'm sure the top ten would all be things I learned in karate/kenpo/wushu/silat classes.

"david stop doodling aniamtions and start doing some math!you wont get far in life if you continue doin that"

whos laughing now doing computer arts and working as a trainee animator at a certain well known scottish dev ;)

Silva:

TriGGeR_HaPPy:
OT: Being taught (in about grade... 5 I think?) that the boiling point of water was 100 Degrees Fahrenheit.
Of course, a friend of mine and I quickly argued with him, he granted us the chance to quickly use the internet to find the answer to prove him right, to which my friend and I subsequently proved him wrong. ^_^
He was a good teacher otherwise though, so we didn't really hold it against him. O.o

Ahahaha, he mixed up Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Yea... He was absolutely adamant he was right too...

Luckily, he wasn't too bad. When we proved him wrong, he accepted it, and moved on...
Again, he was a good teacher...

There have been other times too, with various teachers, but nothing as bad as what other people have said here. :S

My Physics teacher told us global warming was real.
but to be fair after the lesson he said it was a load of crap and proved it to us.
its juts he had to teach it to us so we could pass the exams.
Can any one figre that out what is the poaint in teaching false things that the teachers disagree with

SirBryghtside:
That Germans started World War One.

The Germans didn't start the war, they just got the blame because they lost it.

Also, I'm not sure if this is related to education, as I don't remember a teacher telling me, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't come to the conclusion that being gay was illegal, and keep it for 12 years on my own.

My WW1 history isn't that good but I'm pretty sure it was Austro-Hungary started it when Serbia (I think) woundn't released their independance from them.

My RE class when all the teacher would do was give us half an hour discussion about life in general.

Mind you at least the textbook we used could take a few shots at itself. Example: Just because they were the pope doesn't mean they are perfect human beings, even Jesus sinned on one occasion and Peter fled because of fear.

Everything I have ever been taught in science up to and including this point. To make any education in science until you reach degree level make sense you have to be taught lies to sit on top of the truth, because in place of those lies is something they assume you are too uneducated to comprehend. This is however a fair assumption. If someone had tried to explain Oxydative Phosphorylation to me when I was 10 I'd have probably cried and wanted to play that monkey counting game we had on the old Apple PCs...

Oh yes and the great lie we are constantly bombarded with for years up until advanced voluntary education (college, university etc...). YOU ARE SPECIAL AND GIFTED AND CANT LOSE >.<

I went to school in South Africa. My 6th-grade maths teacher tried taught me that 1 is a prime number (and hell, I believed her!).

Also, when I was in my final year of school (grade 12), I took extracurricular maths classes (as did everyone - passing the year is difficult otherwise), and the woman who taught those classes (who was a freaking maths badass) wouldn't accept that 0.999... = 1.

AndyMcNoob:
My Physics teacher told us global warming was real.
but to be fair after the lesson he said it was a load of crap and proved it to us.
its juts he had to teach it to us so we could pass the exams.
Can any one figre that out what is the poaint in teaching false things that the teachers disagree with

Well my friend; he has broken the law. If he can prove something is false he is commiting a crime teaching it.

Religion was a compulsory unit at my Catholic high school. 'Nuff said.

Datalord:

Ygfi:

Datalord:

Ygfi:

Monkeyman8:
Communism is a totalitarian regime with a command economy, and has been shown not to work by the former USSR. This in a college class on government.

this is one of the most perpetuated lies i hear. i also hear so much crap about communism when people are talking about socialism, not to mention the abuse of the word anarchy.

OT: nuclear energy is completely safe....
i'm pritty sure radioactive waste, the defilement of landscape, nuclear reactions them selves, a few other things are completely harmless.

Nuclear energy IS safe, just not the level we have achieved yet, if we could obtain complete nuclear fission, we would be left with non-radioactive isotopes of elements, extracting all possible energy from actinides and lanthanides,

i'm pritty sure soaking up too many gamma rays will give you 'sunburn' at the very least. (cancer useually takes a while after exposure)

AAAAh, but the whole purpose of a nuclear reactor is to take the alpha, beta, gamma, and less common radioactive particles and use them to spin a magnet around a wire, if the reactor was perfected, the radiation escaping from it would be trivial compared to sunlight

I thought I'd get through the whole thing. Damn.

You need to study more. Nuclear reactors use radiated HEAT to make STEAM to turn turbines. They're just like coal plants except we get our heat from a different place. It's not like the Enterprise's warp core where we somehow harness the radiation itself to do our techno-magic.

wordsmith:
My mum would have been a 17 year old girl in those stalls, but she had her ticket nicked whilst she was on the train down there.

0.0 Christ, that's fateful. Makes you wonder if the guy who nicked her ticket survived..

Donkey_Kong:
The Sun were proper douches after Hillsborough. I'm a Liverpudlian myself and no one buys the Sun here these days, even after the Sun issued an formal apology.

Their reporting on the Hillsbourgh disaster is not the only reason to not buy the Sun, it really is a news paper for the mentally challenged, to put it lightly.

On topic now.
1)I think they exagerated the damage which certain drugs do you in PSE lesson.(for instance weed)
2)Being taught that there are only 3 states of matter

3)The amount of bias that went into our history lesson regarding the slave trade. It was more a lesson to instill white guilt rather than actual history. That has always annoyed me and i've hated political correctness since.

Edit: Disclaimer- I am not a druggie nor a racist lol

I went to a small primary school in my village (Sum total of about 30 students), and my headmistress was nuttier than squirrel faeces. Where do I start?

Multiplication of (say) 37x18 was taught as 3x1 + 3x8 + 7x1 + 7x8. In essence, confusing the FOIL method you use in multiplying brackets. This was my headmistress teaching here O.o
-The mistake was quickly realised by the only competent teacher around.

And the locals were surprised by the low grades (Average SATS levels of 3,3,4), and the fact that the school was closed.

Well most of our lessons are accurate I think... but some of our teachers are retarded.. One of my history teachers asked us how to spell marriage and tomorrow.... and our maths teacher can't spell extreme or lose...

English probably. All they teach is poetry and shit. But it seems kids these days speak some sort of alien language other then English.

Randomologist:
I went to a small primary school in my village (Sum total of about 30 students), and my headmistress was nuttier than squirrel faeces. Where do I start?

Multiplication of (say) 37x18 was taught as 3x1 + 3x8 + 7x1 + 7x8. In essence, confusing the FOIL method you use in multiplying brackets. This was my headmistress teaching here O.o
-The mistake was quickly realised by the only competent teacher around.

And the locals were surprised by the low grades (Average SATS levels of 3,3,4), and the fact that the school was closed.

*Blinks* .............

Dinosaurs died out 4 million years ago, from a flood. The Shroud of Turin is real. Conception doesn't require penetration. Jesus is the first and only zombie. . .so far.

Catholic school has the biggest whoppers.

thepj:

epsilon246:

-snipetysnipsnip-

[inyourface]

how about zerodivided by zero, by all logic that makes 1

[inyourface]

0/0=c
thus 0=0*c
thus 0=0
As c can be any real number 0/0 equals all real numbers.

thank you! the first person to explain it in a manner that a 13 year old boy going to a state school (admitedly a grammer school but still a state school) can understand!

Your welcome. This is why your calculator doesn't like you if you ask it to do this.

yeah, i noticed, that also explains why a friend of mine looked it up and found that out (failed at explaining it though) and proposed the theory that 0/0= gluestick

Though now that i think about it c can be a complex number but you don't need to know about those until a-level (or whatever your equivalent is)

1 + 1 = 2. This might me correct about 75% of the time, but one plus one can just as well equal three.

Aardvark Soup:
1 + 1 = 2. This might me correct about 75% of the time, but one plus one can just as well equal three.

It actually equals a window.

epsilon246:

Aardvark Soup:
1 + 1 = 2. This might me correct about 75% of the time, but one plus one can just as well equal three.

It actually equals a window.

Mind = BLOWN

GoldenCondor:
I can't wait for someone saying they regretted going to a Catholic School.

Our music teacher had us sing about Jolly Ol' Saint Nick... THEY LIED! HE'S NOT REAL!

I went to an episcopalian school. White supremacy FTW

i remember in a geography lesson a very long time ago, my teacher said that the theory that all the continents were once as one was preposterous.

My schools so far and my current college are all pretty good, so I was largely not misinformed. However drugs education... More recently they've been more honest with us but when I was younger it was just full of lies.

My primary school was a Church of England school, but wasn't all that religious. We had to sing hymns but that was pretty much it.

My WW1 history isn't that good but I'm pretty sure it was Austro-Hungary started it when Serbia (I think) woundn't released their independance from them.

I think only some of Serbia was under Austrian control, and some people there decided to assassinate the arch-duke.

However the alliance system and the aggressiveness and will to fight of many of the countries was more of a factor I believe.

Germany was forced to accept the 'War Guilt Clause' as part of the treaty of Versailles which blamed them alone for starting the war.

Douk:
If I didn't act more enthusiastic I wouldn't survive highschool.

HA!

Art lesson.

Teacher a randomly goes ''Cheer up, Jason. Why are you always so miserable?'

Most inaccurate thing an art teacher has ever told me, it's difficult to prove an art teacher wrong, some are in their own little world.

noobface:

epsilon246:

Aardvark Soup:
1 + 1 = 2. This might me correct about 75% of the time, but one plus one can just as well equal three.

It actually equals a window.

Mind = BLOWN

lol... should i be saying your welcome?

Religion

That the war of 1812 was a close battle, LOL most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. America totally owned them.

GoldenCondor:
I can't wait for someone saying they regretted going to a Catholic School.

I do. It went to hell instantly when the principal when from a nun to an outside person. -shudders-

pimppeter2:
x=6

but it can also equal 1 2 4 35 252 62 241 5426 73 33 5255 and every number you can think of

MATH IS A LIE

Algebra is retarded. I don't understand it further than expand and simplify. Which is kinda sad considering I'm 15 and am currently learning advanced algebra in math.

Kinda obvious that I get Fs (or Australian Es) in maths (but I get As in all my other classes!)