'I don't know the sound a lemon makes': 35+ Students who had extra creative answers to their teacher's questions

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    Font - Teachers of Reddit, what's the funniest answer you've gotten from a student that technically wasn't wrong? [deleted] Teacher: "What do you think the biggest problem with the world is? 5th Grade Student: "Other people". Speechless. Lawsc
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    Font - Teachers of Reddit, what's the funniest answer you've gotten from a student that technically wasn't wrong?
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    Font - Hiciao My first grade class was learning the word powerful. Kids came up with examples of powerful things and people, like elephants and superman. Then one boy said, "babies are powerful because they can cry and get whatever they want."
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    Font - EmilyamI "Teacher, I need a pencil." "Where do the pencils live?" (I have a bucket of sharpened pencils for them to use.) "Pennsylvania?"
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    Font - KalElButthead I'm a teacher in Canada, told the kids to name me 5 US states and their row could go out for recess first. Boy raises his hand and says "Rattlesnake?" "What? Hah, oh snakes. No no, STATES. Name 5 states." Same kid "T-Bone?" "You're naming steaks? STATES. STAATES." Resource teacher was in the room and we were crying laughing.
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    Font - Famous1187 Phys. Ed teacher here - I always wear shorts teaching. Parent-teacher conferences roll around, grade 1 student comes up to me with her parents - "Mr. Famous1187, I've never seen you wear pants before". I've never responded quicker to a comment before in my life to clear that up.
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    Font - Whatsername868 Teaching English to middle schoolers in Korea, asked: "Ok, what's another way you can express surprise in English?" (after going over expressions like, "No way!", "Are you serious?" "Are you kidding me?") Kid yells from the very back of the room: "WHAT THE F !!?"
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    Font - [deleted] ESL teacher. I had my students do an activity where they had to give directions based off of a map and situations I had chosen. The final question was more complex, and one of my students wrote, "Way too difficult, take a cab."
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    Font - Hyper_Fujisawa I've taught English in Korea and Japan, and while maybe not that funny one student who wanted to say something like "afterwards" or "in the end" wrote "the after was here". I stopped for a moment and just stared off into space after reading that.
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    Font - OhFFSSeriously (On a 3rd grade Charlotte's Web quiz): Give 2 pieces of evidence that support this statement: "Charlotte was a good friend to Wilbur"" "She comforted him and she didn't let him become pork."
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    Font - Nettius2 Elementary school kid saw the answer key. He swore he came up with, "Answers may vary," all on his own.
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    Font - FeelThe_Byrne I asked a 3 year old what "love" was for a Valentine's Day card to his parents. His response: "Maybe love is what tornadoes need." We call him "the professor" because he teaches us new things every day.
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    Font - [deleted] "Why are you late?" "The bell went off before I got here."
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    Font - bobisbit This is intentional, but I teach a foreign language, and so when I introduce the word for "I don't know" I call on a student who typically gets answers wrong, and ask them to translate the word as if (s)he should know it. When the student inevitability responds, "I don't know" I tell them they're right and the look on their face is always priceless.
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    Font - babaoryan In a class that deals with electricity, I asked the students to name a good conductor. Leonard Bernstein
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    Font - Ninja Ducky9 Not the teacher but witnessed this in class: Sociology Prof: "Why do you conform?" Student: "It has always been my goal in life to blend in." Soc Prof: "No more questions for you."
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    Font - OmNomNational Not a teacher, but I remember something I did when I was in grade 2. The student teacher took us into a private room one by one for eye exams. I've never taken an eye exam before and it wasn't really explained to me what was happening. I was just sat down and asked to read the first line of the chart. Then the second. Then the third. By the time it came to the fourth line I was like "It's too small for me to read, one minute please", then I got up, walked over to the board a
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    Font - ValexDragon I teach English to Vietnamese kids. I asked what is the population of Vietnam? The kid quickly surveyed the room and said "More than 15" This guy is going places.
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    Font - adjer I asked 'when is a time you have used integrity?' He wrote down 'I wash my hands after going to the bathroom, even if no one is in there'.
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    Font - shaaannon08 Teaching grade 5. Students were fooling around during group work so I said sarcastically, "Do I need to stand here and watch you do your work?" to which the student responded even more sarcastically, "Well you don't have to stand, you can grab the chair and sit."
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    Font - BillyMumfrey I was teaching kindergarteners about needs vs wants. And I showed pictures of things and we talked about why it was or wasn't. After a picture of a puppy came up, everyone but one kid said "want", so I asked him to explain his answer. He just says "but what if you're blind?" Good answer. You win.
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    Font - scotthferris I worked in a special needs class for a year and there was the one kid with a textbook case of Asperger Syndrome. Very bright, very tough nut to crack. I tried to tell him a corny joke once and he was not having it. "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "He likely had business over there or was compelled by force." Well, ok. Easily my favorite memory of that class.
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    Font - electrifyyourlife As an EA, I gave a group of second graders a worksheet about main idea and detail. In the instructions, they were told to circle the main idea, and underline the details. One child returned the paper to me very promptly, having underlined the phrase "the main idea" and having circled "the details" in the instructions. Edit: She knew exactly what she was doing when she turned it in...she's a clever one. She did just fine when I asked her to complete the assignment as expe
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    Font - Broccoli Hotdish Me: "The quiz tomorrow will be on..." Student: "Paper!" Everyone laughed and I rephrased the question.
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    Font - BigScaryLizard Not a teacher but a friend of mine couldn't remember what country wasn't a part of the UK on a test so she put Mexico.
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    Font - 101311092015 Extra credit problem on a test that was very difficult. Like crazy difficult. Involved many steps and probably had to do with finding out the rate of oxygen consumption of reptiles. I hadn't made the answer key yet. Very few students tried ANY of the extra credit problems and one answered all of them but for that last one they just put "I don't want to do this problem" Neither did I. Gave them the point.
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    Font - Jennchow I know I'm late, but maybe whoever reads this will appreciate it. Not a teacher, but I was helping my [at the time] four year old son with homework. It was a picture of a cow and he was supposed to draw spots on it. So I told him "Draw 17 spots on the Cow." I came back a few minutes later and he had written the number 17 several times and put circles around each. I definitely kept it.
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    Font - Frivolouscake In grade 9 English we were studying The Hobbit. Our bonus question for the test was "What word does Gollum never say?" The answer of course was "I" but one kid put down "pumpernickel" and the teacher was like... f. You're right. Have a mark.
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    Font - mermaid27 I was reading through my evaluations at the end of the semester, and the last question was "Do you have any further comments?" One of my students wrote "My favorite band is the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
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    Font - Naxtea Note: Pre-Pre-K Asking one of the children which one of the stickers as a reward for going potty, She wanted a strawberry sticker which we had just run out of. "Sorry, but how does a Lemon Sticker sound?" Another Child spoke up from the back looking terribly worried, "Mr.N I don't know the sound a lemon makes."
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    Font - superwholock17 I was teaching a 4th grade lesson about different types of text structure. I asked students what in the text specifically told them it was a specific structure (I was hoping for them to pick out specific text evidence). One student looked me dead in the eyes and said, "the words." I mean it was a true answer just not what I was looking for.
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    Font - maroonmallard I was doing my student teaching, and there was a boy that got his recess taken away and I was the one supposed to be punishing him. His problem was that he talked and talked and talked. So I ask him "what could we do to help you focus better?" He thinks for a solid minute and replies "ice cream" couldn't help but laugh.
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    Font - seasonalcrazy Subtraction problem in elementary school. The question asked, "what is the difference between these two numbers?" And then gave 2 5- digit numbers. Student wrote, "they're different numbers. This three is different and that five."
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    Font - CoyoteTango89 When I was a pre k teacher, My son told a little boy in his kindergarten class that his bandaid was a b sticker. To this day I have no idea where or whom he heard that from but I laughed so hard I cried. To this day I carry around special sparkly cupcake Band-Aids for adults and call them b stickers.
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    Font - + [deleted] Teacher: "What do you think the biggest problem with the world is? 5th Grade Student: "Other people". Speechless.
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    Font - lookunder_thebed Q: How many people died during WW2? A: at least 7.

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