Teachers, what's the Most PRETENTIOUS thing you've heard a Student say? - Reddit Podcast

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"Jesus was a carpenter. He knew his math." Aaaaaaaaamen!

One time, some girl in my class said something along the lines of: “I don’t have to go to the principals office because I actually have money!” The teacher was pissed. She got sent to detention anyway. I saw her a couple years ago and suprise suprise she’s a teacher. Turns out, her parents kicked her out when she turned 18. They were super rich and she got nothing out of it.

"I'm not influenced by anybody! The only art I like is my own!" Willing to bet this kid draws lackluster anime style crap

I had three piano students whose house I used to go to in a very affluent area. I now teach from a studio. Anyway. My all time FAVORITE excuse for not practicing was from an 8 y/o: “I think the cleaning lady must have thrown away my assignment sheet”

I share the desire to straight up just punt the child that said their opinion is fact.

Here's an amusing way to respond to the usual "Do you know who my parent is?" Question, Why did your other parent not tell you?

I was teaching college calculus. At the beginning of every semester, I spend a couple weeks reviewing prerequisite material. The very first day is spent on linear functions. Understanding linear functions is a basic prerequisite for any calculus - everything in calculus builds on top of them, and they're significantly simpler than anything else we cover. At the end of this first day, I had a student come up and ask me "When are we going to get to real Calculus? I'm very good at Calculus, but this linear function stuff is just confusing."

I put myself here, with an embarrassing story: I told my first grade teacher that I did not need to learn to read because I'd never read a book. At the time I was sure I'd never read a book.😅 Now I love reading and tested college level in writing and literature and my hobby is writing and reading books. All I can do is laugh at myself. LOL.

When I went from catholic to public school I ended up learning the same shit again the next year because the public school was a year behind the catholic school for math.

When I was an upperclassman in college, I saw a freshman studying for a midterm I had already taken from the same prof. I decided to be nice and started talking about prof’s class and mentioned that I had already taken that and asked how his studying was going thinking that I was being nice reaching out to the new kid on the block. His response was to ask me what I got on it and after I said that I got an A, he told me that it must have been an easy test. I was shocked and walked away. The program we were in had a 50% drop out rate after the first year. He actually got kicked out of the program.

Actually, the direct translation just says that Jesus' father was a man who worked with his hands. The original Hebrew text never specified exactly which profession the man had. Saying that he's a carpenter was an assumption that was made when the Bible was first translated from Hebrew.

It's students like this who are telling you that that one teacher is "evil," "really strict," or "just plain mean." Because the teacher in question won't put up with their entitled bullcrap.

This video made my day! It was nice hearing about pretentious students eat their words.

My old boss as well as my apprenticeship coordinator thought I was being incredibly pretentious by asking for an entire two-year course upfront so that I could "smash it out in a week". the coordinator gave it to me with a smug look on his face and clearly expected me to fall short. I did the entire course in one weekend without studying and received some of the highest scores on that course that year (didn't get the highest because I messed up one equation, simple human error). The coordinator accused me of cheating to which I responded with "Test me now". He flicked through the books and recited random questions which I answered correctly off the top of my head. After about 20 minutes of him trying to trip me up and failing I eventually let him know that I was a technical rep in this exact field for years and only needed the piece of paper to prove that I knew what I claimed to know. He called BS and said that I must have been cheating since he couldn't answer the questions as quickly and easily as me and I directed him to the back page which listed my name as one of the contributing authors. Of course, I knew the test without studying, I helped write the damn thing!

I go to a school in the middle of nowhere in Southern Arizona in a very poor education system where the bus rides go along bumpy roads and are usually hella long. Worst part being, my bus would be 10+ minutes late to every stop EXCEPT mine, which was even more hella annoying. I have anxiety, emotional and anger special needs alongside autism and I was put into a mainstream class, all because I was good at math, so every day in that class I would flip over and throw every single desk and complain about how the school was ruining my life. They put me in the special ed class and moved me to the special ed bus, and hired an autism counselor, which has helped me very much.

Classmate "Jobs that involve me—cleaning of any kind, waiting tables, delivering food, driving people, or any of those kinds of jobs—are all beneath me." The girl was about 18; this was our last year, and we could practically hear her yelling at one of our counsellors through the closed door. We were in VCAL (Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning; I'm from Australia), which focuses on 1. Getting an apprenticeship or traineeship 2. Further training at TAFE 3. Getting a job She wanted to make thousands of dollars by barely working. We joked that she was going to work in a gentleman's club or as a "high-class date." I don't know what happened after graduation.

Counter example. During my Master's I was struggling a bit with some erudite terminology so I went to the lady teaching me. She said ...don't worry about that, the people using it don't really understand it properly either. Perfectly based :). I got a Distinction, the highest category available in the UK, so I must have understood things better than I thought it was.

Thanks for actually using your voice, I can only sleep when I have ask Reddit on and this is amazing compared to that lifeless robot voice. Also glitches sometimes.

i'm not a teacher, but there's a kid in my class that i'm HOPING gets expelled, or at least suspended for a day. why? he's just generally annoying. what pretentious thing did he say? well, he claimed to be the "protagonist" of "this story" twice this year. yeah, i don't think you need to hear any more, but that was one of the reasons i stopped believing in true protagonists in the first place