Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is The Moment When You Realized, ‘My Teacher Is An Idiot?’” And 30 Folks Delivered

2nd grade teacher had our class naming the hottest things we could think of. A few kids already said the most obvious, like "sun" and "fire" so the third thing I could think of off the top of my head was "lava". Turns out lava isn't real, then the teacher had the whole class laugh at me for it. Made me feel stupid as hell for years until I learned that lava is real, and my teacher was a d**k.

My biology teacher in high school asked me a question regarding something she was talking about, the answer of which was projected onto the whiteboard with an overhead projector. I looked at the whiteboard, and she placed her left hand over the part that had the answer so as to conceal it. I told her that the text was still projected onto her hand and that I could see it. She was visibly upset, and then she proceeded to place her right hand on top of her left hand. I bursted out with laughter, she kicked me out and called my parents.

My Algebra teacher had us take 10% off a number to find 90%, then to undo it she said take 10% of the 90% and add it back in. That is not how math works. I called her on it and she told me I was mistaken in front of the whole class. After class she admitted I was right but didn't want to confuse everyone else. Lady, doing simple math wrong is what confused everyone else.

Teacher asked what is the language spoken most in the world. I replied Mandarin, he said that's an orange and the correct answer is Spanish.

I was around 5 or 6 years old and drawing pink trees. They were supposed to magnolias: obviously I was too young to remember the name but I did know them from the annual blossom viewing my family did each year, and my neighbours had one in their front garden as well. My teacher looked past and said, "there's no such thing as pink trees." I tried to explain that there are, "even my neighbours have one", etc. but she cut me off and told me to stop lying. I'm still kind of mad about that lol

I had a teacher who told us alligators never attack people because they are vegetarians.

Not my teacher, but my daughter's teacher.

In Science class, they were discussing the scenario of a Skittle dropped into water. Pointing out the red cloud coming from the candy, he asked the class what was happening to the coating in that context.

Student said, "It's dissolving."

He argued, "No, it's going away."

My wife and I were in a birthing prep class...we're both in the medical field, but didn't advertise it to the teacher. She was actively advising parents not to have their babies vaccinated against Hep B as newborns because she thought you get Hep B exclusively from eating contaminated foods, and couldn't see why newborns would need such a thing.

It's one thing to be wrong, and it's another to be wrong and advising a room full of first-time parents with your ignorance.

When I was being bullied almost every day and cried to her for help. She shrugged it off and ignored me.

So i settled it myself with violence by punching the bully square in the eye. He left me alone ever since.

"Violence is never the answer" they said :go to a teacher" they said.

HA

She thought dolphins were fish.

No amount of arguing by third grade me was enough to convince her otherwise.

"They live in the ocean, they're fish."

In 2nd grade when she spelled February wrong (as "Febuary") on the board and I went up to her desk to inform her and she explained to me how she was right and I was wrong. This was the beginning of my realization that most people are stupid.

I had a teacher argue with me that "sate" isn't a word. I had to pull out a dictionary to prove them wrong.

Later on I had to do the same thing with die being the singular of dice.

When she wrote “amateur code” on my first project in C++ class. No s**t it’s amateur it was my first program lol.

Teacher doing basic 10 year old anatomy: “can anyone tell me what this is?”

Me, whose family’s fav show was House: “the trachea?”

Teacher: “no, this is called the wind pipe”

I remember the time my 4th grade teacher tried educating us on what makes an animal. One of the criterion she came up with was all animals have brains.

I asked, “What about jellyfish? They don’t have brains.”

To which she replied, “Well then they aren’t alive, are they?”

I had a teacher who gave a lecture he had already given, word for word. He asked a question which I answered correctly. He asked how I got the answer and I said "I wrote it down the last time you gave this lecture"

I had a substitute ask me to stop reading and "pay attention" while the rest of the class ran roughshod over them--jumping on chairs, throwing things, talking over them. But no, I was the problem for pulling out a book from my bag and reading quietly, waiting for the teacher to regain control of the class.

"WWII was started when Hawaii bombed California" -My 9th grade english teacher

Gave me an F for plagiarism, I didn’t steal anything and she refused to show me her proof because this was high school and I wrote at a “University level” her words… she stated she didn’t need to show me the proof when I requested it.

After a substitute chemistry teacher heated a test tube over a Bunsen burner:

While securing it in a test tube holder, he absent-mindedly handed the red hot test tube to a student standing nearest to his demonstration.

The boy, trusting that "it must be okay," got his hand badly burned and, of course, the glass test tube shattered on the floor.