30 Funny Times Teachers Wondered ‘How Are My Students So Dumb?’
‘Are mermaids real?’
While teachers are usually aware of the hurdles they’ll face with students, there are times that even they’re taken by surprise. Like, the one university instructor whose student wrote a paper on witches, but spelled it “whiches” the entire time. The cherry on top was when this student cited a phone number in the footnotes as a source. You gotta wonder what was going on there.
Other educators of Reddit have remembered the times they were mystified by a student’s stupidity, including one who thought Pearl Harbor was the name of a person.