Classroom Humor

Teachers across the U.S. have shared funny excuses they have received from parents and students. You too can share any funny excuses you have received from students and/or parents, email them to jresendez@teacherszine.com

It was the end of the school day, and I was tidying my room. I noticed the word "Prick" written on the whiteboard in a second grade handwriting. My mind went to work. Why in the world would someone write that? And how did they do it without my seeing them? Suddenly, I remembered... As the students were lining up for dismissal, I had two students who weren't following directions write their names on the board. Apparently Josh had written his name and his friend's name which was... Patrick.

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One of my students did not return his homework and brought in a note that read: "Please excuse Donte for not bringing in his homework. He was in a fatal car accident last night. If he feels better today, he will turn in his homework tomorrow." ******************************************************************

The pre-k teacher at my school was having trouble with students not knowing how to wipe their own bottoms. One parent gave her the excuse, "she can't do it because her arms are too short." ******************************************************************

"Please excuse Susie from doing her homework last night. She said she didn't want to."

I once had a mom tell me that the reason her daughter had been absent so many days (over a week) was because she (mom) had left the dad and had moved in with her brother in another part of town and couldn't remember how to get back!

I had a student who brought his assignment back with holes all in it from the hole puncher. I asked him why he didn't do his assignment and he said a caterpillar ate it. Thats why it was "holey."

How about the one I got a month or so ago: Student did not complete a homework assignment. This was the third incomplete assignment, so per school policy student was issued a detention. Parent came to me next morning and said "You know, I don't think Betty deserves the detention. The homework wasn't really incomplete. She did the assignment, but thought all her answers were wrong, so she erased all her work."

Last week, I had a child bring the entire homework packet back in unfinished. On each page of the homework packet there was an excuse. Most said, "Jill doesn't remember the story so we couldn't do this page." If mom would have read the directions herself, she would have realized that there was no story...everything they needed was right on the page.

I gave my students the assignment to write questions for a geography game (i.e. Name a state that shares a boundary with Utah). Student came in with the following: "California is the biggest state." Besides being wrong, it wasn't even in the form of a question. There was a note on it from mom saying "I told her it was wrong, but she insisted. Parent wrote, "Who am I to argue?" ....Ummm....You're the parent?

We are learning odd and evens in math. I had a parent send me a note saying that they could not help their student finish their math homework because they did not understand it. The example was number 55 and it had odd written next to it. They said that 55 was an even number and it confused them that it had odd next to it. They added, the book is obviously wrong :(

Note from parent: "Please excuse Bobby for not having his homework today, he didn't have a pencil at home." Note written in PENCIL.

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