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See you next year.

Edit: Oh, you mean actually wrong.

"You'll enjoy ice skating, it's easy!" - the teacher who took our class to an ice rink... 😂

The moment I'm over the ice I become the human equivalent of a scruffed cat and people started pushing me around like I was a hockey puck and I was smiling pretending I was having fun but inside I was like

first day of a new school year "what are you doing in this class, didn't we made you fail last year?"

I had bad grades but mathematically good enough to pass just barely. She was the Computer Science teacher and I proved her wrong more than once in front of the class. So yeah, she had a grudge.

that super size me was a reputible documentary

Not very important but I remember it strangely well.

I was 8 years old. My teacher asked "What is one hundred times one hundred?"

I raised my hand and said "Ten thousand!"

"No, it's one thousand. Ten times ten is one hundred, and one hundred times one hundred is one thousand."

"But... It's ten thousand. Can I show you on a calculator?"

"No! Sit down, it's one thousand. I'm the teacher, I should know."

I later got a calculator and showed her and she didn't apologise.

Had a science teacher back in middle school that claimed to have a buddy that "designed" a way to make gas engines more efficient by running the gas line over the engine to warm it up before entering the engine. Said that GM bought the "design" with no patent, and hid it away so that it wouldn't get out. Problem is, that's not how BTUs work and GM would obviously know that. Also that's a good way to destroy your engine by misfiring.

It's not how big it is, it's how you use it.

Linux is created by RedHat

you gonna fail in life

We watched an educational movie from the 1950s by Frank Capra, which my 8th grade science teacher had liked as a kid. He admitted they were somewhat dated, but still basically accurate.

In it, the scientist explained that they still don't understand how chloroplasts transform sunlight into energy. The cartoon chloroplast hid what she was doing and said something like, "The Russians don't know either."

I was pretty blown away by a scientist admitting they didn't know something, at that age, but when I looked it up, I discovered that scientists had pretty much figured it out, but it's very complicated.

Clip if you're interested: https://archive.org/details/our_mr_sun around 36:09

Or yt: https://youtu.be/VEfomqnif34?t=36m09s

My 6th grade science teacher interrupted me while reading aloud after I correctly pronounced "tsunami". He goes "What's that?....tuh-soo-mee?". I said Yeah, he spends 10 seconds digesting it, and I continue reading aloud.

The next kid to read after me pronounced it tuh-soo-mee.

That x^0.5 is not the same as the square root of x