5.6.20 In Honor of TAW, Funniest thing a teacher ever said or did, that made you say WHAAAAT? by Allison Persad https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks Happy Virtual Learning! en-us 2020-05-06 01:03:00 UTC 2020-05-06 14:46:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f60d.png Any time a teacher gave a pop quiz. apmichael https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554453671 2020-05-06 11:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554453671 Looking back at it now, it's funny but in 3rd grade it was SCARY. evangelia1 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554513622 My 3rd grade teacher at PS 79, Ms. Adler, found out I was scared of porcelain dolls and clowns. SO YOU KNOW WHAT SHE DID?! She brought in a porcelain doll clown and sat it on my desk for the whole day and made me readjust the position so that means I had to touch it. Now I think about it and I'm like HOW did my mom not complain to the principal?! Ah, the 90's.]]> 2020-05-06 12:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554513622 I had a very eccentric French teacher, Madame Avary, who used to be a lawyer in France. She had 0 filter. I think my fave was her "alternative lockdown plan." In the case of an ACTUAL lockdown, she wanted us all to take off our shoes to throw at the intruder, and while we would do that, she planned on pulling out a DIY ladder made from bedsheets that she kept in her closet (so we could escape) diana133 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554514271 Looking back, this feels a little not OK, but hilarious nonetheless.]]> 2020-05-06 12:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554514271 My 10th grade history teacher was pregnant and walked into class late one day saying that she was sorry but that she had just come from the restroom where she had pooped and puked at the same time. greg71 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554516165 WHAAAAAAAAT? ]]> 2020-05-06 12:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554516165 I've got nothing! michelle523 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554519060 2020-05-06 12:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554519060 I remember the day my global history told us the world was going to end in 2012 because of the Mayan calendar.  He said, "Well, I will have lived a full life, but it sucks for all of you!"  I hated New Years Eve until we made it to 2013. caitlinmc1 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554520632 2020-05-06 12:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554520632 My Earth science teacher... michellec16 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554525238 used to say everyday "imagine all the pink fuzzy little bunnies hopping through the forest". He would usually hop while saying it. I can't remember it's reason but I still remember him, the phrase, and the memory of his hopping between lab desks! I've also been picturing the same exact "pink fuzzy bunny" in my mind for nearly 20 years now 🤷  ]]> 2020-05-06 12:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554525238 All my teachers for a point in time .... because I was ESL. I couldn’t understand them! https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554526714 - Yana]]> 2020-05-06 12:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554526714 Good Morning!!! judyannacan https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554527507 2020-05-06 12:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554527507 My US History teacher, when he was frustrated with us, would pull at his own hair while making a "BAGHKLH" noise. sylvia19 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554530774 2020-05-06 12:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554530774 Nothing comes to mind... but happy hump day! KatherineTansey https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554531169 2020-05-06 12:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554531169 My HS biology teacher was from France with a thick accent; any bio terms he'd say made us all go whattt? but thinking back, I know he did it purposely to keep us engaged in the class. marina0601 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554533157 2020-05-06 12:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554533157 My physics teacher, alexandra136 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554534433 he would call us criminallies. I was always so confused lol]]> 2020-05-06 12:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554534433 Mr Rhodes james1212 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554535087 He always called people random names like Koobla Khan, flipper and communists. ]]> 2020-05-06 12:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554535087 When I first came to NYC, I had a teacher in the ESL school. He was a retired DOE teacher. His name was Frank Harrison, and when we all got into an elevator, he would say "Let me be frank with you". lcox81 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554539677 2020-05-06 12:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554539677 I can't think of anything too hilarious, but my APUSH teacher used to always call me a traitor since the "Tories" were the British (we were in the Revolutionary War unit) tori7 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554545974 2020-05-06 12:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554545974 I remember some of the hilarious extents my junior high Spanish teacher went to help us learn words. She was so animated, we thought she was nuts, but I still remember plenty! scott130 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554550783 2020-05-06 12:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554550783 I had an English teacher who would turn his office chair around and ride it through the classroom- referring to it as his "chariot." caitlindrama https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554551060 2020-05-06 12:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554551060 Once I had a teacher who phonetically read my name as "Gonzway" or "Gaahnzweh." gayathritywls https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554557159
There were several other mispronunciations by teachers including those who knew me for years and had a polite jokey corrections but this one was special. You learn a lot about teachers' growth mindset when you have a non-western name.]]> 2020-05-06 12:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554557159 meryem4 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554559331 We were in 5th grade and Ms. Steinberger said “s-h-i-t the tv” instead of “ shut the tv”. Being that we were all innocent back in the day, everyone went 😱]]> 2020-05-06 12:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554559331 Mr. Steinberg made us write the grade we got last year on our Delaney cards the first day of school (in the same type of class) and said, most people pretty much stay where they are in life. principal492 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554560989 Would've struggled with mastery. ]]> 2020-05-06 12:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554560989 I can’t think of anything, but good morning! evaluna1 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554570508 2020-05-06 12:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554570508 I had a professor in college who translated the word "thermocline" in Filipino language. His translation got stuck in my head up to now. Tomas_Gonzales https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554570746 2020-05-06 12:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554570746 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554574134 temp: Good morning. ]]> 2020-05-06 12:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554574134 Thinking back this makes me say WHAAT... JackieShendler https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554578739 Sophomore year of h.s. went on school sponsored ski trip to PA.  When we got there the chaperones/teachers in charge said see you in 3 days!  Not a teacher in sight until we saw them getting back on the bus headed back to school.]]> 2020-05-06 12:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554578739 Alan Trevithick devin16 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554579173 I've had many classes with funny teachers, but Alan was far and away the least appreciated. I took several soft science courses and found anthropology interesting; I first met him in "The Anthropology of Taboo". When no one was paying attention following a particularly technical or lengthy explanation, Alan would say things like "We have not only socially evolved for speech, but biological selected for more robust speech organs. It was two things coming together in just the right way. I often think of it as starting a circus: you have the monkeys, you have the unicycles, why not?" After class we would swap abnormal psych cases until the conversation inevitably devolved into who hated Nixon more. Alan always won with his show stopper: "Blast it - I was alive to see the man!"]]> 2020-05-06 12:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554579173 My 4th grade teacher peed his pants infront of the class cause no one came to cover the class, and he quoted billy Madison. CatherineGarro https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554579672

]]> 2020-05-06 12:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554579672 I really can't think of anything...Good Morning, though! jonathan262 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554581663 2020-05-06 12:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554581663 My teacher once left out fake answer keys to our U.S. history unit exam (on purpose) and some kids took it (not me of course) and filled out each answer on the test to match the fake answer key - therefore he knew who took the answer key and cheated because they got a 0 because all the answers were wrong on the answer key. They failed the exam for being "dishonest when no one is looking" lindsay67 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554586393 2020-05-06 12:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554586393 My Latin teacher wanted to show us that Latin is not a dead language by having us act out all stories we read in class. At some point we reenacted Caesar's death. She was caesar and all students had to stab her to "death" with toy knifes. andy136 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554589595 2020-05-06 12:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554589595 My Inorganic Chemistry teacher would say, "I should see a light bulb lit in your eye!" ani15 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554590202 2020-05-06 12:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554590202 Math teacher in 8th grade, solving an equation on the board and the answer was "4q," and he goes, "please don't tell your parents that I said that." michael536 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554597215 Me and my table mate were the only ones who laughed]]> 2020-05-06 12:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554597215 Teacher lid a cigarette in class to make.a point (alfina) https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554604959 2020-05-06 12:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554604959 Every morning in 8th grade Mrs. Coppola would tell us not to speak to her until she had her coffee. She would walk in and it was like we were walking on egg shells until she took her first few sips. She was old and had a raspy smoker voice.. it was evident that she hated being there lol I vividly remember her forcing us to memorize the Preamble... she was always angry and it was traumatizing having to recite it to the whole class alexa66 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554613575 2020-05-06 12:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554613575 My 3rd grade teacher was also a "hamster breeder"(?) on the side and somehow we all convinced our families to let us get hamsters from her. So of course I begged my mom and she gave in. allisongaia https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554615109 2020-05-06 12:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554615109 Key and Peele's Substitute Teacher Spoof always cracks me up! gabrielle32 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554621382 2020-05-06 12:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554621382 ashley135 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554625979 To demonstrate the mitochondria, my middle school science teacher, Ms. Castro, jumped on the back lab bench and started jumping up down saying it’s the power house lots of energy! Oh, how I miss her! Also, my bio 104 professor, Professor Lents, decides to yell “ok, stop, exam is over!” The whole class looked up shocked, he continued to laugh and say, just kidding, you still have time to finish your exam - he said we would now perform better on the exam since we now all have adrenaline. He was also great. I guess all my bio teachers were funny, hahah.]]> 2020-05-06 12:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554625979 emily239 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554630749 My HS french teacher thought we would learn vocab better by doing an action with each new word - every time we said envelope we also had to pretend like we were licking an envelope... we were in HS, this didn't go well.]]> 2020-05-06 12:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554630749 My Physics teacher was super quirky and we all loved her so much. I can't recall a specific thing, but every day in class with her was so fun. grace65 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554631129
My Global History teachers was very theatrical and she loved to say the "Bourbons" in a very emphatic way that has always stuck with me.

And like Annie, my 7th grade Science teacher made sure I never forgot the mitochondria :). ]]> 2020-05-06 12:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554631129 My High School World Religions Teacher franchesca2 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554633646 He would sometimes start off class with meditation where we had to sit quietly in our seats with our eyes closed and listen to soothing music. He would then walk around with a Tibetan Singing Bowl and ding it right next to random people's ears. He took it very seriously, but as a person who doesn't do well with suspense, it made me very nervous.]]> 2020-05-06 12:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554633646 Good Morning tanya65 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554638408 2020-05-06 13:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554638408 My chemistry teacher accidentally doused herself with the chemical shower and flooded the classroom. randi8 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554645601 2020-05-06 13:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554645601 Good morning xenia4 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554761839 2020-05-06 13:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554761839 HS Shop Teacher norman16 https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554962015 Would speak in Cookie Monster's voice every time a student gave him candy]]> 2020-05-06 14:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/principal492/fqt0c6x1d4zphaks/wish/554962015