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Oh man these are great.  It makes me kind of wish I could grade tests too….

The McDonalds one is actually really offensive and rude, it’s basically instilling the idea into the student that they are in fact not smart enough to succeed in life. So the teacher is promoting the students’ lack of determination to actually try and achieve something. Shit method on the teacher’s part.

Everything else was amusing.

@ashleynicole - I completely agree. I had a sixth grade teacher who screamed at one of my classmates once that she better start practicing how to say “do you want fries with that?” if she didn’t get her stuff together. This was after the offense of forgetting to bring a folder home with flyers about school events, etc. Terrible teacher.

But everything else is great! Makes me want to switch from elementary/bilingual education to higher education (higher meaning middle/high school) just so I can sass my (equally sassy) students hahaha.

Haha. Well, after grading so many tests, I am sure these teachers appreciate  a break from the redundancy. XD

My teacher used to tell us that we will definitely be the first few people to die in the judgement day. =.=

No wonder the majority of parents are now opting to homeschool their children.

The McDonald’s one is the only one I didn’t find funny at all. Unless the kid just BSed all the work on the paper, then it looks like he/she tried to do well. And to write WRONG! in giant red letters, isn’t teaching the kid anything. I can’t believe that there are some teachers that find the joy in making kids upset.

Y’all know half of these are fake? Just for internet shock factor that teachers are heartless bitches? Yeah. It’s easy for some kid to grab a red marker and scribble shit.

LOL!

I found that my Latin teacher drew a dinosaur chomping on the cute little bunny I sketched when I got my test back.  I guess no extra points then..

And HEY! Does that teacher realize how hard it is to land a job at McDonald’s nowadays?

@ashleynicole - my thoughts exactly.

@ashleynicole - I actually liked that one, if I received that as a kid, I’d be telling myself that I don’t want to flip burgers for the rest of my life, so I need to do better, especially if it was from a teacher i respected.  It depends on the student and personality of the teacher.  I’d probably be a tough teacher if I was one.

My sophomore year of high school, we had to read In Cold Blood and one of the essay questions was “what happened in Alaska?” Well, I didn’t get that far so I wrote an entire page of what I thought logically would happen… It involved ice fishing, drunken story telling at the local bar, and the dialogue involving “whatever, man!” “Whatever YOU, man!”

My teacher wrote on my paper “ice fishing…?”

She also read it to the whole class and put it up on the board stating that we shouldn’t make up stories on essay questions.

@chicbananas@xanga - The majority? 

Hahhaha love it! I leave little notes for my students too when they try to draw pictures in hope that it will gain them points on a CHEMISTRY test. lol

@ashleynicole - it can also be a motivation too.

A friend of mine received almost the same comment from her 3rd grade teacher (along the line of, “Maybe you should look into working at McDonald’s”). It obviously is very offensive, especially to a young child. But my friend actually worked harder to prove the teacher wrong  

I used to draw stuff like that on my precalc tests because I was failing no matter what. He was not amused. I think I got like a 12% in the class, but I never bothered to look.

Other than that I think I actually have gotten a few points before for funny answers. Mostly on bonus questions. And I don’t think ever a drawing.

@PassionFruit06@xanga - I should say a vast, increasing number. [link]

Hilarious!

@luv_is_infinite@datingish - Even if it can wind up providing some motivation for someone, it’s not at all a route that should be taken by someone who is paid to help foster the minds of young people. Giving out application forms for a fast-food job just says that the teacher truly doesn’t care about the students who aren’t meeting his/her academic expectations. Giving a face-to-face comment to a student that is clearly meant to make them say “hey, wait a minute, that’s not fair, I can be so much better than that” is different, and perhaps that’s what your friend’s example was. Meaning that the teacher’s intentions were never to actually make the student think that she/he was stupid but that more effort was needed. Regardless, it’s a horrible method to use as there’s absolutely no way to predict how someone will respond to it. It would be much much better to actually talk to the students and parents and tell them what’s going on and that the child needs to work harder and then provide strategies or guidance. 

@xsimplepleasuresx@xanga - But like you said, it depends on the student and the teacher. Even if a teacher is well-liked and respected, such a message can never foster the same response from children. It’s extremely disrespectful, even if the child takes something positive from it. Since it’s something that can very easily be taken negatively by a lot of people, especially young kids who are struggling and maybe for more personal reasons, it’s an extremely risky thing to do. It’d be much better if they used humour or actually sat down with the kids (one of my HS bio teachers did the latter with failing students). Imagine if you were a parent of a 15-year-old who comes home with a test they failed, and you see that the teacher gave them a Burger King application. You might not think anything of it, but maybe your child would. Maybe it would cause him to think “my teacher is so right, screw school, I’ll never be good at it anyways.” I had a really tough time in grades 8 and 9 as a result of some personal and family problems and skipped a lot of days and did poorly in many classes. In my science class I had 0% because I didn’t hand anything in and we’d not yet done any tests. So instead of her giving me such a snide remark, she approached me and let me do all the assignments without deducting late marks. In high school when I wasn’t doing well in Biology my teacher talked to me about it to try and help me figure out how to get a better grade. Had I not had teachers like that, maybe I wouldn’t have been able to get a 3.5 GPA in these last two years at university. Maybe I wouldn’t have bothered to try in my hard classes. I’d much rather teachers follow the example of my previous teachers than that of the McDonald’s applications, since like I’ve already mentioned, there’s no way to predict how someone will react to that. Using clearly positive (even if it’s a rough awakening for the student) means of communicating your desire for the student to do better will far more likely yield positive results, and using something like the McDonalds application should only be tried when there’s a clear and mutually understood relationship between the child and teacher and that the teacher makes such remarks in a way that clearly demonstrates that they are not thinking less of the child but that they are trying to make the child see that they have more potential.

@ashleynicole - agree. Plus there shouldn’t be anything shameful in working there. It’s better than not having a job. It just leads to some people feeling too good for jobs like this.

These are funny

@ashleynicole - It can also be in a way to scare that person straight or motivating them to do better I don’t know *shrugs shoulders*

My second year of college, my teacher absolutely hated me. It was based off something silly, too. At the time I was really interested in working in the mental health field and another student said that I wanted to work on Shutter Island and torture  crazy people (which is not what I wanted!) to try and be funny on the first day of class. She thought he was serious and that’s what I wanted, and hated me allll year. She ever brought it up multiple times.
Anyways!
We had a paper and had two choices of a subject, one was something to do wtih theory, and the other one was something along the lines of comparing addictions to a line in Star Wars that Yoda said. Anyways, since she was a huge Star Wars fan I tried to impress her and wrote what I thought was a wonderful, indepth paper on how the dark side was like Addictions.. very alluring and blah blah blah and the light side is like the regular world.
… It was returned with a big red “NO” on the top of the page and a 0/10. No reasoning, just NO.

@ashleynicole - I agree. I think kids are sensitive and take to heart what their teachers say. The teacher should have been sensitive to to the child’s needs and responded in a caring way. The McDonald’s application could have been a self-fulfilling prophecy for the child. I think that was a rude gesture for the teacher to do. I hope the child did not take that literally and will do just fine in life.

@ashleynicole - If my 15 year old child came home from school with a failed test and a burger king application, I’d make them fill it out and turn it in.  All social activities would cease until they demonstrated they took their education seriously.  I have expectations for my future children, they are high but reasonable and easily achievable with hard work and determination.

Once, on my Calculus homework, I wrote, “How the fuck do I find f(x)?” planning to go back to that problem after I finished everything else. Of course I forgot to, and turned it in like that. It came back to me with a step-by-step explanation on red ink.

@ashleynicole - These are probably fake, but the “McDonald’s job” thing has been said to kids for decades.  Nobody was scarred by it, all my friends went off to four-year universities.  

a mcdonalds job is better than no job, if that really did happen then i would stab that teacher. just saying

@Gosalyn223@xanga - But like I’ve mentioned, it can be viewed differently by different people. And I highly doubt many parents would actually approve of that method from teachers. There are much smarter ways to get kids to actually care about their grades than to try and scare them into it when there’s absolutely no way of knowing how the students will respond. It can really only be done if there is a clear rapport between the two people and the teacher knows completely that other “appropriate” methods just did not work but that this type would for sure work for that individual. Even then it’s still risky.

@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - Just because something has been “done for decades” doesn’t mean that it’s appropriate to do, nor does it mean that it hasn’t had consequences. If you think that acting in such a way towards a child or young adult is fine, then that’s your choice, but I’d have to hope that the majority of individuals within teaching positions do not at all share your opinion on the matter.

@xsimplepleasuresx@xanga - I have expectations as well for my children. And having their teacher act in such a way that sends a message of not caring about my child’s educational success is not something that I want for my children. If you are fine with that, then let’s just hope that your children don’t have a different view point than yours. Personally, I’d sit down and talk to my child to figure out why they are having issues in school. I know that my issues in school were not at all due to not giving a fuck for the sake of not giving a fuck but because I was depressed and even suicidal. To simply be punished (which is actually the least effective means of shaping behaviour btw – positive or negative reinforcement are the ones that will work the best and with the least amount of negative reactions or side-effects for the individual in question) for doing poorly would surely have made me not want to actually try again as I started to get better. Even if I had not been depressed, simply being punished for my poor marks would not have at all solved the issue, it would have just made me resent my parents. 

But you know, different strokes and all.

@ashleynicole - I don’t believe it sends that message at all.  If the teacher didn’t care, they would assign the grade and do nothing else.  My parents instilled in me the simple concept that getting an education was not only one of the best things I could do for myself, but a responsibility as well. A belief I will instill in my children as well.  There was a time in my life when I was depressed too, but that was because of other’s actions, and I wasn’t willing to let them make me hurt myself by doing poorly in school.  To me, that is a matter of self-respect.  But you know, different strokes and all.