31.
Teaching ESL in Taiwan I joked with a young student and told him I was hungry. Not knowing I speak Chinese he responded with “chi da-bien!” Which translates to eat sh*t.
Soklam
32.
A boy who couldn’t seem to keep his hands to himself. He would occasionally punch other boys in the arm, flick girls in the head, and eventually I had to deal with one of the other boys in class raising his hand to inform me that this particular student was grabbing his ‘chili pepper’. (Chili pepper/고추 is a Korean euphemism for penis.) The troublemaker was eventually kicked out but not before his mother came to complain that her son was an angel and I was obviously making everything up.
woeful_haichi
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I once had a student come into class with supposed “tonsillitis” and I told him that if that’s the case, he should be home because it’s hella contagious. Kid told me that it was the “non-contagious” version of tonsillitis and that he was fine to be in school because he would be getting surgery for it.
Next Parent Teacher meeting I asked his mum while kid was sitting next to her and she just shook her head and sighed heavily.
Also the same kid who would put on a fake british accent when asked to read aloud because he wanted to “Use his normal voice” because he lived in the UK for a year.
This was 7th grade.
JuneBugRulez
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The one that plagiarized a paper so badly it matched 100% to a plagiarism catching software, didn’t respond to an email where I told them they got a zero on the assignment and how serious this was, and then had the audacity to send me a separate email asking for extra credit that had already been awarded to those that earned it. My head was spinning after that one
nadimishka
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A fifth grade girl joined my class and on her very first day – after everyone else had left – walked up to me and slid a folded-up piece of paper across my desk.
“Teacher, this is my phone number. Call me any time.”
woeful_haichi
