Like “Melancholy” or “Pterodactyl”?

Student: What's “Nostradamus”? It that just some random, made-up word or something?

Rock Bridge High School
Columbia, Missouri

Overheard by: Kelsey

Posted on October 26, 2020
Default, Missouri, Names, Questions, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Students, Words

In Other Words, It's Like Being Molested

Happy teacher: Welcome to creative writing class. This class is like us taking a hot bath. Together. With candles.

Harpeth Hall School
Nashville, Tennessee

Posted on October 7, 2020
Default, Education, Health & Hygiene, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Teachers, Tennessee, Weirdness

Yes

Student: I bet half of the kids are still going to show up at the computer room.
Teacher: You think half of them will, or half of them won’t?

East Meadow Drive
Palo Alto, California

Posted on September 21, 2020
California, Questions, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Students, Stupidity, Teachers, Words

Guess Somebody Wants to Go to College

Teacher to chatty class: Everyone, quiet, we have to go over this!
(class continues chatting)
Guy in the back: I will kill you all.
(class falls silent)

High School
Chesapeake, Virginia

Posted on September 7, 2020
Education, Offers and requests, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Teachers, Threats, Thugs, Virginia

What Apple?

Girlfriend: You’re still tying your shoes with bunny ears?
Boyfriend: The other way is really hard!
Girlfriend: It’s so easy!
Boyfriend: Look, I have to do the bunny ears. I can’t tie my shoes the other way. It’s like, the bunny goes around the tree 50 billion times, then hides in its hole, comes out and the mongoose chases it… Then the rabbit eats the apple!

High school
Hamburg, New York

Posted on August 20, 2020
Couples, New York, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Stupidity

I'm Still Not Having Your Baby, Curtis

Large black male student to tiny white female student: Stretch marks are awesome! They make you look like a tiger! (makes tiger claw gesture) Raaar!

High School
Lincoln Park, Michigan

Overheard by: The teacher

Posted on July 4, 2020
Animals, Black people, Compare and contrast, Fat people, Health & Hygiene, Michigan, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Students, Whiteys

Can't Answer. Crashing.

Skinny boy at the back of the classroom: I had a Pop-Tart for breakfast!
Teacher, horrified: Why? Oh my god, why?!

Middle School
North Carolina

Posted on June 13, 2020
Food, Gripes, North Carolina, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Skinny people, Teachers

The More Absurd It Is, the Better. Like Christianity

Gym teacher, during stretches: If you do it this way, it makes it easier and also more challenging.

Henry Wise Wood High School
Calgary
Canadia

Posted on June 4, 2020
Advice, Canadia, Compare and contrast, Default, Education, Guys, Idiots, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Stupidity, Teachers, Words

Which Explains Our 1980's Haircuts

Sophomore #1: I mean, I don't really keep up with current events that much.
Sophomore #2: You need watch the news. Seriously. It's the twentieth century.

High School
Kentucky

Overheard by: Oh, high school

Posted on March 31, 2020
Advice, Girls, Kentucky, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Stupidity, Time Management

That's What You Said Outside That Jonas Brothers Concert!

Girl to friend, after unsuccessfully trying to open locked front doors: Maybe they'll let us in if we bang hard enough.

High School
San Francisco, California

Posted on March 29, 2020
Advice, Friends, Girls, San Francisco, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Weirdness

School [Elem., Middle, & High]