AstronglywordedEmail
141482
2455
91
Please be a short one
Jul 11, 2018 9:23 AM
AstronglywordedEmail
141482
2455
91
raknor88
Then the teacher switches up the pattern half way through.
Toiletbrowser365
Had a classmate that wasn't following along and tried to be slick, "I can't pronounce that word".....teacher says you mean "The"?
BulkSausage
I burped in class in 1st grade. My teacher made me fake burp all of snack time as punishment. Best snack time ever.
MrDaMann
MRW I get the longest one
AdmJota
I would just try to quickly read the rest of the story myself, ignoring the others, since who wants to listen to a bunch of kids butcher it?
sexualcamel
And this is why teachers don’t do this anymore turns out kids don’t pay attention to the story only their portion
morvyd
And you get a short paragraph followed by the longest paragraph ever and the teacher makes you read both.
Tjockakinder
Oh yes. I used to stammer when I was younger and thinking the text beforehand made it just soooo much worse.
LatrineUsedToBeShitHouse
I'm with you. Those WEREN'T the days.
IAmAMammal
Ah yes, because what a good way to freak kids out instead of actually teaching them.
Impossibrew
I absolutely despised reading out loud while i was at school. I'm glad I'll never have to do that again.
StarmineRendezvous
Not me, they chose semi-randomly, and if you weren't staring at the book "following" then they chose you next, sometimes multiple times.
chillFlamingo
And then the kid in front of me goes to the toilet and I have to read his part instead. The struggle!
BaphometBarista
I never cared about reading out loud. Drawing shit on the board? Fuuuuuuuck thaaaaaat. I'll take a zero for the day.
blainetog
Ugg, I HATED reading in class. It was hard not to read ahead, and then the teacher always got mad at me when it was my turn and I was lost.
CrispyBLTandFries
Then getting the one line paragraph...
Desimanoos
I am from India and when I used to do this, I wasn't even aware of a place called US. umans are so similar!
LavaAxe
Best? Not even close.
VodkaReindeer
"LINE?" -Me, whenever the teacher asked me to read in English class.
LatrineUsedToBeShitHouse
I stuttered, so I did this, but it resulted in near crippling anxiety and eventually me taking 10 minutes to read a single paragraph. Sucked
gerdygerdygerdy
Reading out loud was hard but it was like 100 times easier than giving speeches. No matter how much I practiced I'd skip entire paragraphs
gerdygerdygerdy
And say my info out of order, all while shaking and making awkward movements.
HowComeThisUsernameIsntTakenAlready
Followed by rehersing 100 times in head only to panic when the kid right before you has to go to the bathroom.
Michealbay
God just copy pasted the tutorial
wingweaver415
This was one of the few times i was happy to be toward the end in alphabetical order.
DickDastardly404
I just used to read ahead while the thick kids were sounding out "p-o-t-a-t-o" so I was ready for any section.
DirtyChalupa6669
I always left to the bathroom when it was about to be my turn because I had just learned English and people made fun of my accent.
Grimmrog
thats why proper plannign was also prereading the 2 paragraphs before just in case
dirtyketchup
The real trick is in betting on whether or not the tiny paragraph counts as one, or if the teacher will have someone read an additional one.
XTrauXs
I always read the hypothetical paragraph i had to read and the previous two paragraphs just in case
timmy26
And than arguing with the teacher because you don’t want to read the one before
LatrineUsedToBeShitHouse
That kid that went to the bathroom had this all planned from the start.
OnionCutter
I was that kid and you're damn right I had that planned.
nothereforanything
The worst were the teachers who I would do this then get upset if you didn’t know what was going on before your turn. Sorry panic Attack
EmilyTheSupport
Grammar my boii
SergeantSalsa
If this is your best memory then your school years must've sucked bad
wickywickywildwildwest
beat me to it
imthatguyhere
My English teacher got up on all the desks and ran across them with his arms out imitating a bird from the lines he read... In High school.
Flakbadger
Welcome to the American Education System!
onefaller
school was torture for me. i didn't fit in with the other students, and i didn't learn well the way they taught. i'm not a regurgitator.
ThatsSoFetchhh
onefaller
It hasn't been an easy row to hoe.
nerdywordy
This made me hate Romeo and Juliet for years because my classmates were so bad at it. (high sxhool)
clamdriver
Don't we all?
AGreaterDane
I'm sure there was some "goal" with making kids out loud, but I still firmly believe it's just the teacher being lazy.
theproofisinmypudding
I peaked in life when we were reading Shakespeare in HS and I read the line "My longsword, ho!"
BrokenAnimal
As a teacher: I randomize the order to prevent this.
AdrianMole
But do you make children read out loud? Some are so slow it's annoying to the others.
BrokenAnimal
Only after I am confident that they feel safe enough that they don't mind. It should not be considered embarassing to make a mistake.
BrokenAnimal
Waiting for others and waiting ones turn is a skill that children need to learn. Also; accepting that people are different and...
BrokenAnimal
...have different levels of different skills. We spend a lot of time talking about things like that every week.
AdrianMole
Good that there is a point behind it. Still I only remember the frustration caused by having to listen to kids not able to read.
verygoodartsi
we used to throw toilet paper and towels , wet ones, on the ceiling, AND pencils in the cardboard like ceiling, that was fun shit
gablestout
Mallardwiththeflu
I remember being annoyed on the kids who couldn't fucking read
mowo1980
I hated the ones who would ignore punctuation and stop in the middle of sentence to breathe. This was in junior high school. sMH.
RC8107
Yup... Backwater little shithole is where I went to school 5th grade to senior year. Dyslexic kids read better than "normal" ones.
Sulkie
This one girl drove me nuts because she always volunteered. She read fine, but her voice sounded like she had cotton in her mouth.
Valkyr1987
I always had trouble finding my paragraph because I was reading ahead while I was waiting, usually a couple pages ahead
VodkaReindeer
I used to do math homework for a couple of classes ahead...
Digsby
I remember being amazed at the kids who couldn't read. I always felt we were WAY too old for them to be struggling like they did.
howaboutnothankyouverymuch
Annoying when you're in foreign language class and the kid intentionally mispronounces a whole paragraph to be funny.
Digsby
Why you being downvoted?
howaboutnothankyouverymuch
¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯
b4N4N4ppl3
That was me. I was a newly esl transfered student and I used to be worried that kids would make fun of me. I eventually grew out of it
canyouthriveat35
Being able to read isn’t the problem. Getting nervous and trying to read out loud is. My nerves always got to me and developed a stutter.
howdy9157
That was me. Fuck you
Mallardwiththeflu
Fuck you for making me sit through your stumbling mumbling crap. Learn to read
textilelover
Being able to read well and being able to read confidently out loud in front of an audience are 2 different things.
howdy9157
I hope the flu kills your fucking ass.
Mallardwiththeflu
You write pretty well for someone who can't read
howdy9157
Lol jokes on you your wife types my imgur messages for me while your at work.
JHawke
At that age I could read significantly faster than most of my classmates, but I stumbled over words when I had to say them out loud.
socratesboytoy
Id always just read the damn chapter at my own speed and then have no clue where the rest of the class was. Teachers hated it.
ElbowdeepinElmo
Same issue here. Rhetorically retarded.
Nordalin
Being ahead of the class was the worst. Everyone waits for the slowest, yet no one is willing to give you something to do. 1/2
Nordalin
Instead, they just got angry that I was bored and unattentive... 2/2
Princessbubblecum
*aloud
JHawke
Nah, nothing wrong with out loud.
buttbrainbingo
lmao how do you know how fast other kids were reading in their heads?? Mr speed reader is also a mind reader???
JHawke
No, but if we had to read quietly I was always the first done, and consistently had the highest grades for understanding the text.
buttbrainbingo
when did you stop getting good grades?
JHawke
For reading? Never. Actually the only grades I had that for lack of a better word, degraded were gymnastics, Dutch, and math.