Kids try to fool teachers with high-tech excuses

[aussiewannabe]

http://www.beloblog.com/KHOU_weirdworld ... -with.html

[Steve M]

I had about 11 grandmothers funerals to attend, and 40 dogs eat my homework, a couple of fires and floods. Don't know how I got through school with so much trauma in my background.

[machineman9]

I just quietly laugh when people say "The internet is broken".

If that happened, I reckon the whole world would be in a panic let alone the kid with missing homework.

[ozzy72]

Once many moons ago I had a kid try and tell me his dog had eaten his homework. Alas his parents are friends of mine and I happen to know they don't own a dog. A heck of a lot of "bonus" homework later he learnt that lying to teachers is dumb

[a1]

My friends use the "My computer crashed", or "My computer had a virus and it doesn't work". I really get annoyed when I know a good deal about computers and they think that really something like that would happen.

[Hagar]

The kids of today don't know they're born. Computers hadn't been invented in my day so everything was written out by hand. No copying & pasting then.

My regular excuse was that I'd left my homework at home. It worked more often than not.

[Wii]

I had a friend that his dog (weiird dog...) ate his entire math textbook

He didn't say how the teacher reacted but

At my school, if we forget to do our homework, we have to mail it to the teacher and we will still get credit.

[Brando14100]

My friends use the "My computer crashed", or "My computer had a virus and it doesn't work". I really get annoyed when I know a good deal about computers and they think that really something like that would happen.

My classmates too. "My printer is broken." My High School (Smaller 9th grade building, not 10,11, and 12 grade building which may have more. My Middle school last year had about ten computer labs and three libraries full of computers and printers.) has two computer labs and a library full of computers. All of which are conneced to fully functioning internet annd printers. I just don't see how they think those excuses are gonna' work.

8-)

[T1MT1M]

you guys would have no idea how often these excuses work (crashed computers, errant printers and failed Internet connections). But usually if one teacher doesn't take one (printer does not work or ran out of paper) they say why didn't you send it to school or put it on a pen drive? you then say that my ISP is down and i dont have a pen drive  :D . but now that im in year 11 if i dont have my homework excuses mean nothing lol. If my teachers knew that i knew a lot about computers then they did and that i could not have a broken printer because i seriously have no idea how to break it or how someone could break a printer then i would have been in a lot of trouble  :). But I was "trustworthy" enough to not have that happen  8-).

[ozzy72]

The printer one tended to fail with us as we used to complain loudly in the staffroom about somebody not doing their homework and some other teacher would pipe up about getting theirs from the same individual!
I had a number of students try copying straight off the net and getting zeros and a request that their parents come in and were then shown their childs "work" (often including the URL on the bottom of each page) and being told their child was failing the year. That quickly stopped that nonsense. It cracks me up that children think teachers are dumb

[BFMF]

I had a number of students try copying straight off the net and getting zeros and a request that their parents come in and were then shown their childs "work" (often including the URL on the bottom of each page) and being told their child was failing the year. That quickly stopped that nonsense. It cracks me up that children think teachers are dumb

wow, he didn't make any effort to disguise that did he....

[T1MT1M]

lol it seems to be a little different with my teachers. the fact that i know more about computers than my computer teacher and every other teacher. So in my case, yeah they are pretty dumb  :D . Public schools FTW lol.