31 of the Wildest Excuses Students Gave Teachers for Missing Assignments

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31 of the Wildest Excuses Students Gave Teachers for Missing Assignments
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Homework sucks. It’s a universal truth. Even as adults, when we’re long divorced from our school days, having to do extra work at home inspires righteous rage. Possibly even for similar reasons, like a new video game or episode of TV you want to watch.

Slacking off with work assignments, though, is a high-risk endeavor. Blowing off homework, well, it isn’t great, but it’s also not going to leave you possibly homeless. It will, of course, require answering for your crimes after the fact, and that’s where a classic homework excuse is necessary. Teachers on Reddit shared some of the wildest excuses for absent homework, and a couple of these kids have futures in creative writing, if nothing else.

TrufflesDuVall . 5y ago A kid (high-school) claimed that he couldn't do his homework because his grandmother wouldn't give him back his textbook...which she had taken in retaliation for his theft of her wooden leg.
Longjumping_Highway7 . 5y ago The fifth time the same student said he lost his homework running from a dog that was chasing him on the way home.
insignificantnexus 5y ago Lately it's always I couldn't access the file, OR my personal favorite, the (student facing interface) was acting up like mhmmm okay but you have my e-mail, I have a no-questions- asked extension policy for every assignment, and I assigned this to you 5 days ago.
kindsoberfullydressd . 5y ago I've got the opposite story. A teacher lost my homework he marked as he left it in his shed and it got eaten by slugs. Не did show me the slug eaten paper, and gave me full marks for it so it wasn't all bad!
geoffraffe 5y ago Edited 5y ago One kid told me his pet parrot flew onto the fireplace and caught on fire. It then proceeded to fly around the sitting room and the dad tried to hit it with a frying pan because he was afraid the curtains would go up in flames if the parrot went close to them. The dad hit it onto the kitchen and then grabbed it and threw it under a tap because you have to throw a parrot under a tap if it's on fire. Не then said with all the drama he'd forgotten to
ledgerdemaine 5y ago Edited 5y ago The student claimed he put it in a room in his house. Не then forgot the room existed. Не was at a loss to explain where his homework was. Не was upset to think he must have imagined doing it. Не apologized to me. The next week to his amazement he 'found' the room, and more amazingly he found his homework. Не handed it in that week. Now this may seem like nonsense, but it turns out he had an operation to remove a tumor from his brain when he was ten. One of
the_angshu_man L 5y ago Edited 5y ago I did the homework the day you gave it to us (which is one week ago), except that I did in an old rough copy of mine and yesterday when I got back from school, dad sold all of our old stationaries for petty cash. I was so mad at my dad, I didn't do my homework to teach him a lesson. Could you please call home and tell him about this? I couldn't help but laugh xD
BlooooContra 5y ago Edited 5y ago Taught instrumental music down in South Texas, so I basically never game any sort of homework outside of practicing. 6th grade - gave the kiddos a super basic theory sheet to complete that was due back in two days since I had a dentist appointment the next day. When I'm collecting the sheets, a trombone kid tells me My grandma stole my homework in Mexico and wouldn't give it back. Turns out they were visiting his grandparents over the border outside Matamoros and his grandma really wanted something of his to hang on her refrigerator, so
tn_notahick 5y ago Not a teacher, but happened in my class. Student was constantly late to first period. Also hardly ever brought in his homework in. One day, teacher asked him why he was late and why no homework.. My sister burned down the house this morning Everyone laughed, the kid got up and left. Turns out, his sister did burn down the house. Left her curling iron on some paper or something.
not-read-gud . 5y ago Not a teacher. My little sister ate my homework in the first grade and no one believes me
PossiblyTruelnfo . 5y ago I ran out of pencil ink
Miletty 5y ago A friend of mine had a dog that tore her homework to pieces. Our teacher only spoke english, which is not our first language, and my friend didn't know how to say tear apart in english so she instead said my dog ate it. Не laughed and didn't belive her. We had never heard the cliché phrase before (I think it's an english thing) so it was all very confusing
ksiyoto . 5y ago I sent it by one of the major express companies, and they told me that the package had been opened and emptied. They checked their security cameras at their hub center, and found nothing. They are just as baffled as I am.
Jubjub0527 . 5 5y ago I get kids who tell me they were cutting class/came late/slept through/talked through directions so they didn't hear the assignment/know how to do it so they don't have to do it.
mizboring a 5y ago The new version of this is just uploading a blank document to the online drop box and playing dumb. Gee, professor, I'm not sure why that's blank. How weird! Isn't that weird? Well, here is my paper two days after the due date...
bookwithnowords 5y ago I taught math and science to a grade 7 class last year. The work a student handed in was not in their own handwriting so I called the parents. The dad admitted to doing the work for him because my sons going to be in the NHL, he doesn't need to do math and science in grade 7. This kid wasn't even the best player on his rep team.
wetmath000 5y ago A student told me she had a bad dream about her cousin taking her and her dog on a roadtrip in a ferrari? I never quite understood how having a dream about a ferrari roadtrip made someone not be able to complete work.
Dragon3221 5y ago Not a teacher here, but one of my classmates said that another classmate ate his Math homework. The sad part was, it was no excuse. It was the truth. | saw it with my own eyes. But the teacher obviously didn't beleve him.
. 5y ago this country has a couple long weekends, but the students want to get a couple more days off on top of it. so on like Tuesdays and Wednesdays before the holiday i start getting messages about people's dead grandmothers. it's never the grandfather. how many fucking grannies are dying out there? I am gonna starting asking for a picture of the body.
xMECHANICALENGINEER 5y ago Edited 5y ago So not my story but a good friend of mines. Не got hit by a car on his bicycle when he was 13. Broke a dozen bones and was in a wheelchair for 3 months, plates in wrists, the whole 9 yards. Fast forward 4 years we were seniors in highschool. Who else but the guy who hit him years ago was our history teacher Не didn't do a final report. His excuse 'I have a plate and 4 screws in my wrist from being hit by a car. I couldn't type for that
ElZarigueya O 5y ago I broke my back. As she walked towards my desk. I believe she was going to give a different excuse or at least mention a different body part but the panic overwhelmed her and she went with her back. Both sadly and hilariously I couldn't help but give her a are you dumb? face.
sallan23 ® 5y ago This is legit and too ridiculous to be a lie (This was from a parent at the Catholic high school where I taught at the time.) (paraphrasing because I can't find the original which I kept) Please excuse the late homework. Our pet cat defecated on it. And yes, defecated was the word they used.
clioundra1 5y ago Edited 5y ago Not a teacher but when I was in school my elderly geography teacher told us about a boy he went to school with. Не didn't do his homework one day and the his excuse was the sow gave birth last night Their teacher wouldn't hear it and caned him for not doing his homework. The next day the boys father came in in a rage to tell off the teacher. Turns out the boy was a farm kid and one of their pigs went into labour and had struggled to give birth that night
tokidokiartichoki 5y ago Piano teacher here. Had a young student say his mom went shopping so he couldn't practice. So his mom went shopping all week? Hmmm... Another time during a Zoom lesson, saw a students dog literally eating her homework! Was funny as heck and luckily already graded.
jellymanisme 5y ago I was a middle school science teacher. My cat ate about 12 different students homework the 1st time I took papers home to grade. I had no idea my cat loved paper so much, but I got up the next morning and the stack of papers was shredded. My students thought it was hilarious when I told them, I'm sorry, my cat ate your homework.
5y ago I went to the renn faire with a campus activities group at my college. It was the day before I had a creative writing assignment due but I was pretty close to done and we were supposed to be back by 7 pm. Plenty of time to finish! Or, you know, it would've been had our bus not gotten struck by lightning. We were about 2 hours from campus so the replacement showed up at 7 and we all got home after 9. I emailed the professor and asked if I could have an extension and thankfully
suddenthing 5y ago My son couldn't hand his homework in because... a duck flew into our kitchen, panicked and landed on the kitchen table. Despite her panic the duck spotted some rice crispies and started to eat them out of the bowl, splashing milk and cereal all over the homework. Then... the duck grabbed the homework page (I presume cause it was covered in cereal) and flew off with it. Not sure the teacher ever believed us.
neocondiment 5y ago Not a teacher anymore but I had a student tell me at the beginning of class, Mr. Neocondiment? I didn't finish my homework last night on account of five of my family members got blowed up when their house exploded... Also, my cousin got shot and killed. Did you hear about the shooting at X yesterday? That was my cousin. None of this happened, of course, which I confirmed by offering my sympathies to her mother when she came to pick her up. I mean, why did she kill the cousin, too? Leave some family members around,
nel190109 . 5y ago . Edited 5y ago Happened just a few days ago. Student told me that the work is too difficult for him to do. The work in question? Handwriting practice exercise.
h2farts . 5y ago A very recent one: I could not do the homework due 5 minutes ago because I'm emailing you to ask for an extension for the homework that was due Monday. (No reason given for the Monday homework, btw)
kr1spymuff1n 5y ago I did the homework but it didn't post because I did it on my phone Is there anyway I can turn it in? I know the deadline was 12pm but I thought that was at night. And they are college students.

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