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How to Make a Teacher Annoying
FOUND by Amanda
in University in Portland, Oregon
I found this outside one of the dorm buildings on my campus which houses a lot of international students.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
This attitude is, sadly enough, what's wrong with the world today.
This child should have to pick his own switch.
PS: Nice stoner/math ?
I find it "annoying" that they spend all their time in class trying to "annoy" the teacher that she never got a chance to teach them english.
is it me, or does "magnifying" this find actually make it smaller?
Whoa! now I have more respect for the students. I had no idea they were consciously trying. At least they're putting in some effort.
Magnify seems to make it smaller on my computer, too.
This makes me sad. And annoying. I wish I could have annoy my teaches like they do. Do be so dum an so smart. Sigh...
What? Only one find today?
How to make American teachers annoying? Does this mean that the teachers in their home country don't become annoying when students eat, sleep, talk on the phone, come late or fight? What country is that?
This makes me long for teachers to have more power and rights ...Maybe the strap is a bit much but they need somthing they have no power anymore it makes me sad. When I was young we didn't dare show such disrespect to a teacher and in if someone brought stuff into class like food or now a days a cell it would be taken away. If you slept in class or talked you were out end of story.
In fact my highschool science teacher had shot puts and random scary stuff he would throw in class or smash into your desk if you were being disrespectful. The old yard stick inches from your face or hands snaps on up from any daze. In all truth I paid more attention to the teachers I slightly feared and I respected them more ...heck I even think of them more fondly as I learned more.
How about, "How this student is so annoying."
Learn something, and maybe you'd know your grammar skills.
Very sad.
This reminds me of a poster set I had in the days I taught public school and so makes me wonder if it wasn't part of an assignment. The posters were kind of joke which appealed perfectly to middle school students. One poster was titled "How to Flunk". Beneath the title was a very long list of things students do all the time and then wonder why they are failing: "Never go to class on time." "Sigh loudly and announce 'This is boring' every few minutes." "Don't ever bring paper or pencil--let others spend their money on that kind of junk." etc. The opposite poster was "How to Pass" and read simply: "Show up. Do your work. Behave." I always enjoyed it when students who didn't get the joke would ask me why the one list was so longer than the other . . . .
@ looking: i just may have those posters made up for the fall!
this is a perfect find for may, when all teachers are fed all the way up with all the crap...
june's right around the corner.
Cheese, calm down, group! These are ob-vi-ous-ly notes for an in class "speech presentation" for an ESL (English as Second Language) class. Having prepped more than one student for their TOFL and Cambridge exams, I know that a three to five minute "speech" is part of it. The last 2 lines are 2 possible intros. But s/he'll get a better mark if s/he realises the word wanted is "annoyed" instead of annoying. Obviously the speech is supposed to be slightly comic, using the complaints the student has heard from the teacher during class.
I am not defending bad behaviour, but I do know that American-born students actually go to college classes in their PJs and slippers these days--something we would never have even considered when I was in college!
how to make your students annoyed:
1. take their cell phone. make long distance calls to companies that put you on hold. stay on hold.
2. take their notes. read aloud. mail home.
3. take their food. eat it while chewing loudly and proclaiming that it is wonderful.
4. decorate sleepers. take pictures. put in yearbook.
5. evesdrop on talkers. rephrase conversation in form of a question. "Now Bambi, Joe did *what* with a goat on prom night?"
6. lock the door. watch tardy students pine like puppies and beg to be let in.
7. when asked for extra credit, laugh hysterically and walk away.
, crumble paper during the entire class, eat your lunch and spill crumbs everywhere, have a drawing contest with your neighbor, ask every five minutes for a pass to the bathroom, pass gas, drop your books, fidget with your zipper, or just stretch and yawn a lot.
Hah! Wrye, I had a teacher who did all of those things to the letter. He would also throw sodium into water in such a way that it would bounce off of people's desks.
And the laughing hysterically? He did that a lot.
I had this pegged as a middle schooler until I read the caption... "dorm room." Now I am at a loss for words...
I am currently finishing up my first year of teaching. I see these things all the time, and no matter how strict I think I am, they keep puching the envelope with each coming day. The kids are nuts this time of year and I am still trying to finish my curriculum and review of end-of-grade testing. Middle school... *sigh*
@ looking and wrye... thanks for the inspiration.
Number one way to annoy your teacher:
Write your final thesis on how to annoy your teacher.
wrye --- I think you would be an excellent teacher! It I would have had your list at my disposal, perhaps I would have gone into education!
(Yeah, the 'magnify' thingy seems to make it smaller for me, too.)
Holy typos! "If" I would have had your list...
There are a lot more ways to annoy a teacher, believe me.
However, cell phones are the biggest thorn in a teachers side. You tube has a whole section of videos of teachers reactions to ringing cell phones in class. Pretty funny, especially when it turns out the be the teachers.
Wrye LOL!
I know I suggested it, but I like better having only one find per day. Comments are more involved.
My chances of addressing a 'find' by writing something pithy, urbane, obscure yet relevant are cut in half when there is only one find.
This in addition to the fact that I am neither pithy, urbane, obscure nor relevant (well maybe obscure) puts me at a decided disadvantage.
Pray thee a second pick allow - oh masters of the found.
I know there should be at least one more find...I submitted mine 3 months ago!
i attended a few catholic/baptist? grade schools in C.A. and if we got out of line, we got freakin rapped on our knuckles.Or else we had to help with sweeping, etc. All us kids were pretty well behaved. But really I don't endorse lashings.
Maybe they expect to be able to take education for granted because they're at college and paying for it. That reminds me of how a buddhist sage would not mentor the student until he was sure of the student's willingness to learn.
I feel sorry for these kids who wrote this, but they're upstarts.hopefully they wised up somehow
Speak roughly to your little boy
And beat him when he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases.
I suggest going up to your overweight teacher and saying, "Eating something much?"
Coming late is not nearly as annoying as coming early.
I wonder what the motive was.. besides to annoying teachers.
To awareing students?
to revolutining school life?
hm..all of my teachers did a great job of being annoying already...even without the help of these innovative tips..
i guess they were just ahead of their time..
I still can't tell, does the author mean "how to make a teacher become annoying to you" or "or how to annoy a teacher?" Because it really could go either way, he may be doing all these things to humor himself and annoy the teacher or he may be doing them to push the envelope and see if the teacher will push back.
To those people saying that the enlarge button makes it appear smaller, you have to make sure that your browser window is maximised before clicking the enlarge button.
Clover, that is a very good point.
It is strange and funny how someone else (I thinnk - based on the handwriting - the "y"s) has made very unimpressive teacher-like corrections on that one paragraph! Very annoyinged.
Maybe, just maybe, this is a serious set of instructions. How? Well, if the stereotyped "American teacher" got hit with all these behaviors in one class period, he/she would go off on some red-faced rage -- totally leaving the lesson plan in the dust -- and that would be the acme of "annoying" to the well-mannered, serious student who wrote this up, having paid tuition for a full class period's teaching, and wanting to learn.
What? You don't think that ... [sorry, my cell just rang there. where was I? oh, yeah] ... think that [crunch, slurp, and burp] think that this could [oh, sorry, there's the bell; I know I'm a lot later commenting today than usual but I didn't think I was that late. Wanna make something of it? Huh?? What makes you such an expert???]
Oh, forget it. Now I'm both annoyed AND annoying.
Actually, Librarian, my students are pretty annoyed at my total lack of red-faced rage when they duplicate the behaviors on the list. In fact, my failure to provide an entertaining overreaction seems maddening to them at times. When they can't get me to lose my temper they lose theirs instead and call me utterly vile names. Then, with an utterly straight face, I say, "Now I'm crying. Inside." and point to my heart. Then I laugh out loud. Yup, I'm an annoying teacher!
Hey, Minc, don't despair. This is my Find; I submitted it about a year ago! And now here we all are.
I would like to thank the Academy.
p.s. Wrye, you are awesome.
p.p.s. I'm pretty sure it must have been an assignment for an ESL class, written by a foreign student.
I thought 5. said "come I ate."
Come late makes more sense
I would propose one minor tweak to Wry's list:
instead of eating the confiscated food, I squirt lotion on it and drop it into the trash. I've done it with unopened packages of candy and unopened bottles of soda. It makes them weep. Bwa ha ha ha!
Wow, I'm a teacher and it's spring and I was having a bummer of a day because all the kids seem to be doing all of these things, certainly making me feel very much annoying. It was great to read y'all's comments tonight. Ironcladhero.. you certainly are! Cheers and bravo! It just feels great to know I'm not alone! Annoying teachers, unite!
The comments by the teachers reminded me of my geography teacher, Mrs Martin, who had also taught my father, to whom I was born late in his life, so you can imagine how old Mrs M. was! She thought a really cutting insult to rambunctious 8th graders in a last-period class (just putting in time till the bell rings!) was to drawl, "Peeeeople...you're awfully *young.*" I suppose she meant immature. We knew we were young (duh!) so we just thought the remark was funny, as in stupid.
i teach english in south korea.
talking on the phone, to others, fighting, sleeping, and especially eating, are all completly normal.
@Amanda...thanks for the word. I didn't realize I was being impatient!
These tactics are fairly lame annoyances and would hardly faze a seasoned educator. I might suggest the following annoying behaviors to really get Teacher's dander up:
1. Smoke cigarettes in class, flick ashes on floor.
2. Enjoy oral sex during boring films.
3. Urinate in the wastebasket.
4. Insert ballpoint pen into pencil sharpener, grind 'til it spews.
5. Leave half-eaten egg salad sandwich in your desk on a Friday afternoon.
Bowie..I hear you loud and clear. We have a Korean exchange student staying with us who has no concept of being on time, as well as a few of these things. Eerily, the handwriting is also almost identical...