These are Bea’s Top 10 stupid things that her students have written in papers over the year. It’s hilarious and a little sad. Enjoy.
10. The age of disco was risky. The drugs and sex made people make poor choices in fashion as well as lifestyles.
9. Nuclear weapons cannot be enlightened economically. (the student did not comment on whether or not nuclear weapons could be enlightened spiritually)
8. Before the 1910s, criminals were pretty easy to catch. But then they started to get organized so they came up with “organized crime”.
7. Before Rosa Parks changed the whole wide world, she was a secretary for the NAACP.
6. The Disco scandal also brought out a revivalry between races.
5. Just because Blondie and other 80s female artists were women did not make it okay to call them, “you B-otches suck” and “you must be lesbians or whores”. (nothing like a solid direct quote)
4. Watergate was a scandal because no one would want it to happen again, especially Nixon.
3. The wish that the factor of the first idea was gone had seemed to vanish. (read as many times as you like, it will never make sense)
2. Hiroshima, also known as a mass suicide, was a surprise because Americans had been over the town all day and the Japanese weren’t scared of flying planes just landing ones (this is not a joke, she really wrote all of that).
1. Timothy McVeigh could have avoided all of the anger and bombing if he had, “trusted in the Lord with all his heart and leaned not on his own understanding”.
6 Comments, Comment or Ping
Wayne
I like number 3. It is right on the verge of making sense, but just doesn’t close the deal. I agree, hilarious but a little sad at the same time.
Jun 24th, 2009
Patti
Oh. Dear. Lord. I love this.
I’ve thought about keeping track of the scary, weird, and funny things I hear as a teacher and writing a book.
Tell Bea she can coauthor! haha
Jun 24th, 2009
wakebird
This is Bea and I just want to put out the disclaimer that these are highlights and not the norm. I have some students who are actually really very smart, but their research papers didn’t make me cry tears of laughter and some of down right depression.
I’ll try to start my list sooner next year we don’t miss any real gems.
Jun 24th, 2009
Cathy
I read number 3 over and over again trying to make it make sense. Then I gave up and moved onto the parenthetical statement, and laughed like crazy.
Jun 24th, 2009
Ben Harris
I did that in high school! It’s if you don’t know the answer you be as funny as possible and maybe get credit! Like one time in theology I didn’t know pauls journey at all and I knew my teacher liked Led Zeppelin so I wrote like all the lyrics to stairway to heaven and I got credit!!!….. The teacher was fired later that year…
Jun 25th, 2009
carmen
I thought they were just funny, endearing. my nurturing instincts flair
when I see stuff that intimates that children are stupid.
Now I know that you said what they Wrote was stupid but still.
What if they were looking at your blog? They might be you know. then
you would getting your wife in trouble.
Not that I am yelling at you.
I still love you.
Jun 30th, 2009
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