This thread is great.

I felt this way numerous times growing up. Part of the test is being able to figure what the teacher was thinking when they wrote the question.

In 4th grade, I made 100s on every single one of my blind spelling tests except one. I thought the teacher said "cumin" but she said "human" and counted it wrong.

I teach sixth grade science.

I'd answer "rotate" for the OP and the ice cube/turkey question should get someone fired.

Edited for stupidity!

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I teach sixth grade science.

I'd answer "revolve" for the OP and the ice cube/turkey question should get someone fired.

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You at least feel ashamed that you would answer 'revolve', right? You a cutter? You might do some cuttin. Cut that stupid right outta ya.

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I teach sixth grade science.

I'd answer "revolve" for the OP and the ice cube/turkey question should get someone fired.

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You at least feel ashamed that you would answer 'revolve', right? You a cutter? You might do some cuttin. Cut that stupid right outta ya.

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I'm human.

The earth ages as it moves around the sun.

I had a 4th grade classroom teacher that got on a couple of guys in class and told them they had to do something. I don't recall specifics. Neither were troublemakers and one didn't hear or understand her the first time, so he asked: "what do you want me and Eddie to do?" The teacher came back and said she didn't want "me and Eddie" to do anything. He rephrased, "what do you want Eddie and ME to do?" (This, of course, is correct grammer). She did the same thing, insisting on the "he and I" language even when it doesn't apply.

Teachers aren't perfect, and many of them aren't particularly well educated.

My wife is not a classroom teacher but has been asked to teach, at various times, math, science, and history. Good grief, I feel sorry for those kids!

I fear the day I have kids and put them in school and run into teachers and tests like this.

Really sad to say this, but these issues are because the brightest minds of our country's workforce aren't becoming teachers or writing elementary school tests. The people that are educating our kids and writing their non-standardized tests are the ones you went to college with and thought, "THOSE people are going to be the future educators of America?"

You could replace "teacher" with "police officer" and be no less accurate.

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Mine was actually when I worked in a Lab as a young college intern. The process stated to mix the solution at (1/4)A and (3/4)B or a 1:4 ratio. I asked the lab manager which one it should of been since they weren't the same. We argued for an hour over this. I was so dumbfounded he couldn't realize that a 1:4 ration had 5 total parts therefore would be 1/5 A and 4/5 B. I tend not to buy those pharmaceutical drugs anymore.

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I sincerely hope you notified the FDA.

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Mine was actually when I worked in a Lab as a young college intern. The process stated to mix the solution at (1/4)A and (3/4)B or a 1:4 ratio. I asked the lab manager which one it should of been since they weren't the same. We argued for an hour over this. I was so dumbfounded he couldn't realize that a 1:4 ration had 5 total parts therefore would be 1/5 A and 4/5 B. I tend not to buy those pharmaceutical drugs anymore.

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This is a face palm if I have ever heard of one. This is one of the most basic teachings anyone that ever has anything to do with a lab learns from day one.

Like having a cop not know their Miranda rights or short order cook not knowing how to crack eggs.

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Mine was actually when I worked in a Lab as a young college intern. The process stated to mix the solution at (1/4)A and (3/4)B or a 1:4 ratio. I asked the lab manager which one it should of been since they weren't the same. We argued for an hour over this. I was so dumbfounded he couldn't realize that a 1:4 ration had 5 total parts therefore would be 1/5 A and 4/5 B. I tend not to buy those pharmaceutical drugs anymore.

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This is a face palm if I have ever heard of one. This is one of the most basic teachings anyone that ever has anything to do with a lab learns from day one.

Like having a cop not know their Miranda rights or short order cook not knowing how to crack eggs.

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LOL

I'm with you on the first one, but that second mistake is debatable at best.

When I was in second grade, we had an assignment where we had to draw a line on an object to divide it in half. On the square, I drew the line diagonally, and got it wrong. Apparently that pissed my father off pretty badly, and they had some words with the teacher.