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<h2>Teachers are underpaid, overworked and have the patience of saints. </h2><p>They put up with a lot between misbehaving children and teenagers, overbearing parents, state curriculum requirements and standardized testing. They nurture future generations and oftentimes see children more than their own parents do. </p><p>A good teacher is a person you&#39;ll remember forever. I&#39;ll never forget the English teacher who moved my desk outside when I fell asleep during class...</p><p>Sometimes though, even the kindest, most caring, and understanding of teachers need to vent. When a recent<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cv9osb/teachers_of_reddit_what_was_your_how_are_my/"> Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;Teachers of Reddit, what was your &#39;how are my students this dumb?&#39; moment?&#39; teachers everywhere were ready to dish. Sorry kids, there actually is such a thing as a dumb question. </p><h2>1. Guess again, &quot;SnapesDrapes.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>Me: I&rsquo;m thinking of a fruit that is yellow and very sour! Student: Chickenpox!</p> </blockquote><h2>2. Yup! It matters! &quot;Happy_Birthday_2_Me.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>One of my 16 year old students asked, while starting a multiple choice test, if it mattered what letter he chose. I just stared at him. Sometimes there are no words. </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. Oh no! &quot;Mooshan.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Are mermaids real?&quot; followed shortly by &quot;I don&#39;t believe in dinosaurs.&quot;</p> <p>She was 16.</p> </blockquote><h2> 4. Yikes, &quot;CruzaSenpai.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>Once had a girl who thought there were people living on Venus, we just couldn&#39;t talk to them because they didn&#39;t have phones.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. It&#39;s a series of tubes! &quot;whateverreddit88.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>I have a poster on my wall that says something about not believing everything you read on the internet, and it attributes the quote to Abraham Lincoln. Student said, &ldquo;Wait, did they have internet back then?&rdquo; </p> </blockquote><h2>6. Geography is hard, &quot;itsahardnarclife.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>I asked my class of 5th graders what city they live in, and the first response was &ldquo;Texas&rdquo;. </p> </blockquote><h2>7. Dang, &quot;masterroadtripper.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>I teach swimming lessons and lifeguarding courses. During one, I was trying to teach them cpr and instead of showing them first, I told them to show me what they already knew about it.<br /> I then proceeded to observe 15 16-20 year olds do the weirdest shit to those poor training dolls. My favorite though was the kid who did a two foot jump onto the chest of the dummy. The dummy slid out from under his feet like a cartoon banana and he landed on his rear end on the pool deck. Good times </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. Classic, &quot;gunnyfreak.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>A classmate of mine in elementary school had this exchange with our teacher:</p> <p>&quot;What&#39;s the answer to this [multiple choice question with 3 choices]?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;A?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;no&quot;</p> <p>&quot;C?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;no&quot;</p> <p>&quot;I don&#39;t know.&quot;</p> <p> </p> </blockquote><h2>9. Oh man, &quot;smoothier.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>During a spelling test last year, I said a word three times and a student asked, &quot;Miss, how do you spell that?&quot; </p> </blockquote><h2>10. Oh no, &quot;TheRedMaiden.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>Three weeks into writing a research paper.</p> <p>&quot;Okay today we&#39;ll continue writing the body paragraphs of the essay.&quot;</p> <p>Student: &quot;What essay?&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2> 11. This is the winner, &quot;BlokAose.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>Not a teacher, but one freshman in my class took a rip of his vape and got caught by the substitute teacher. He tried to deny it by saying he could make vapor out of his mouth with nothing else.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Oh my god, &quot;NickDimOG.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m a student and in my physics the teacher was explaining how space is a big vacuum and one student was super confused and after asking some questions it eventually became clear he was thinking of a vacuum cleaner.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2> 13. WTF, &quot;fiednishspaghetti.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>Last year I was a TA for Gender Studies at a reasonably well ranked university in the US. I ask students to write a short story about how life for <em>humans</em> would be if we reproduced in a different way and how it would affect society. For example, we grow our babies in jars in the hospital, how would that affect society? I told them not to write anything they wouldn&rsquo;t want their old lady teaching team to read.</p> <p>I got four pages of explicit <em>spider</em> pornography.</p> </blockquote><h2>14. This is the ultimate, &quot;popololo1222.&quot; </h2><blockquote> <p>For women&rsquo;s history month, I had my students give presentations on famous women in history. One student got up and, dead serious, gave a presentation on &ldquo;Anne Franklin&rdquo; and said that &ldquo;the holocaust was a guy called Hitler.&rdquo; She had researched all of this. I still don&rsquo;t understand. </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 teachers share the moments they asked, 'how are my students this dumb?'

Teachers are underpaid, overworked and have the patience of saints. They put up with a lot between misbehaving children and teenagers, overbearing parents, state curriculum requirements and standardized testing. They nurture future generations and oftentimes see children more than their own parents do. A good teacher is a person you&#39;ll remember forever. I&#39;ll never forget the English teacher who moved my desk outside when I fell asleep during class...Sometimes though, even the kindest, most caring, and understanding of teachers need to vent. When a recent Reddit user asked, &quot;Teachers of Reddit, what was your &#39;how are my students this dumb?&#39; moment?&#39; teachers everywhere were ready to dish. Sorry kids, there actually is such a thing as a dumb question. 1. Guess again, &quot;SnapesDrapes.&quot;  Me: I&rsquo;m thinking of a fruit that is yellow and very sour! Student: Chickenpox! 2. Yup! It matters! &quot;Happy_Birthday_2_Me.&quot; One of my 16 year old students asked, while starting a multiple choice test, if it mattered what letter he chose. I just stared at him. Sometimes there are no words.  3. Oh no! &quot;Mooshan.&quot;  &quot;Are mermaids real?&quot; followed shortly by &quot;I don&#39;t believe in dinosaurs.&quot; She was 16.  4. Yikes, &quot;CruzaSenpai.&quot;  Once had a girl who thought there were people living on Venus, we just couldn&#39;t talk to them because they didn&#39;t have phones. 5. It&#39;s a series of tubes! &quot;whateverreddit88.&quot;  I have a poster on my wall that says something about not believing everything you read on the internet, and it attributes the quote to Abraham Lincoln. Student said, &ldquo;Wait, did they have internet back then?&rdquo;  6. Geography is hard, &quot;itsahardnarclife.&quot;  I asked my class of 5th graders what city they live in, and the first response was &ldquo;Texas&rdquo;.  7. Dang, &quot;masterroadtripper.&quot;  I teach swimming lessons and lifeguarding courses. During one, I was trying to teach them cpr and instead of showing them first, I told them to show me what they already knew about it. I then proceeded to observe 15 16-20 year olds do the weirdest shit to those poor training dolls. My favorite though was the kid who did a two foot jump onto the chest of the dummy. The dummy slid out from under his feet like a cartoon banana and he landed on his rear end on the pool deck. Good times  8. Classic, &quot;gunnyfreak.&quot;  A classmate of mine in elementary school had this exchange with our teacher: &quot;What&#39;s the answer to this [multiple choice question with 3 choices]?&quot; &quot;A?&quot; &quot;no&quot; &quot;C?&quot; &quot;no&quot; &quot;I don&#39;t know.&quot;   9. Oh man, &quot;smoothier.&quot;  During a spelling test last year, I said a word three times and a student asked, &quot;Miss, how do you spell that?&quot;  10. Oh no, &quot;TheRedMaiden.&quot;  Three weeks into writing a research paper. &quot;Okay today we&#39;ll continue writing the body paragraphs of the essay.&quot; Student: &quot;What essay?&quot;  11. This is the winner, &quot;BlokAose.&quot;  Not a teacher, but one freshman in my class took a rip of his vape and got caught by the substitute teacher. He tried to deny it by saying he could make vapor out of his mouth with nothing else. 12. Oh my god, &quot;NickDimOG.&quot;  I&#39;m a student and in my physics the teacher was explaining how space is a big vacuum and one student was super confused and after asking some questions it eventually became clear he was thinking of a vacuum cleaner.  13. WTF, &quot;fiednishspaghetti.&quot;  Last year I was a TA for Gender Studies at a reasonably well ranked university in the US. I ask students to write a short story about how life for humans would be if we reproduced in a different way and how it would affect society. For example, we grow our babies in jars in the hospital, how would that affect society? I told them not to write anything they wouldn&rsquo;t want their old lady teaching team to read. I got four pages of explicit spider pornography. 14. This is the ultimate, &quot;popololo1222.&quot;  For women&rsquo;s history month, I had my students give presentations on famous women in history. One student got up and, dead serious, gave a presentation on &ldquo;Anne Franklin&rdquo; and said that &ldquo;the holocaust was a guy called Hitler.&rdquo; She had researched all of this. I still don&rsquo;t understand.  

Teachers are underpaid, overworked and have the patience of saints.   They put up with a lot between misbehaving children and teenagers, overbearing parents, state curriculum requirements and standardized testing. They nurture future...

14 teachers share the moments they asked, 'how are my students this dumb?'

Teachers are underpaid, overworked and have the patience of saints.

1. Guess again, "SnapesDrapes."

2. Yup! It matters! "Happy_Birthday_2_Me."