Teachers, what was your "there's no hope for you" moment with a student?

[@brandonbombplays9304]

50% of these are "Wow what a moron" and the other 50% are "aw, poor kid"

[@jasongretencord3326]

The description of the Ugly Duckling turning into a butterfly is a poetic way to summarize the story.

[@Maskof_Infamy]

As someone on the spectrum, I have a little more depth to provide to several stories. I used to be low functioning but my parents were able to afford special therapists that would come over to my house to help me develop. At the time I was young, but I’m still able to remember what each of these ‘troubling behaviors’ felt like when I had them. The switch to a non preferred activity feels very jarring, transitions are hard for people on the spectrum these in particular felt very intense. If a neurotypical person had to suddenly stop something they enjoyed they would feel annoyed, but autistic people often let that feeling become all they can focus on. Meltdowns, especially anger felt completely out of my control. I’m noting saying that autistic people shouldn’t be held accountable for what they do during these moments but once you feel that type of anger you feel like you have to scream, throw things and say things you will regret. It’s sad to see that teachers can see these behaviors as signs of no hope. I did all these things and now I’m in my last year of high school with no problems. Autism doesn’t make someone disabled, it can be worked through.

[@kylojade]

I’m so glad someone else had this perspective as well. Some of these stories made me so sad because those kids aren’t hopeless at all they just need more help than what is being provided for them.

[@maggpiprime954]

15:08 What a vile thing to say about a child. Any adult, much less a teacher, who refers to a child like this should go to some kind of retreat, sabbatical, or therapy to regain perspective and basic respect. Wtf.

[@fieldofdandelions1508]

Yeah, that caught me by surprise too. The story itself is just fine (still deeply concerning) without the added insult.

[@onionbubs386]

I wanted to puke after hearing that. Who tf says that about a minor, especially one who has admitted to abusing drugs at a young age. That girl needs help, and instead the teacher just sexualizes her. I'm disgusted.

[@amandahayes4966]

Glad I’m not the only one horrified by a teacher thinking like that towards a high schooler.

[@oniemployee3437]

Idk, the teacher is allowed to think that and vocalise it in this setting. Just goes to show what for a bad impression she's left.

[@nekaduhh7478]

@@oniemployee3437she’s a minor to speak on a child that way is never ok no matter wat they think

[@darkstarr984]

If a kid can’t understand “a van” just draw the thing. That’s one of the easiest vehicles to convey!

[@onionbubs386]

The teacher in story 25 needs to be fired. What a disgusting thing to say about a child who is clearly being s3xually abused and drugged.

[@nickname3721]

Yeah, I thought the same thing when hearing that story. WTF teacher

[@basicdesign1]

@ 14:54, 4 ref

[@basicdesign1]

and teach' didn't actually say what it is said s/he thought, and what is said s/he thought is most likely (bar exceptions) not how it would have come out. What you do is called "making things up" or "feeding (on) delusions", technical term for it is "schizophrenia". Bunch of sick cuckoos discouraging good will.

[@toxicstrain7484]

Where did you get that from??

[@stealthbeastgaming]

​@@toxicstrain7484It's not a 100% sure thing of course, but not having boundaries about this sort of shit to this extreme degree almost always means sexual trauma. As for the drugs, the girl openly admitted to it. She doesn't just smoke pot with her friends on the weekend, or sneak booze from her parent's liquor cabinet, or some ordinary teenager shenanigans, she has sophisticated illegal connections of multiple different types of far less common drugs that sustains what she freely admits is a regular habit. She's probably living in a drug den getting fucked by her dad or something. It's not a happy thought, but there's not a lot of other simple ways of explaining her behavior.

[@TheAshypoo]

Story 48, I can understand the student. It's easier to concentrate when you're sitting comfortably over having half your focus be on making sure you're "sitting properly". And the fact that she laughed at falling is better than her screaming at the top of her lungs about how it's the teacher's fault she fell. If the chair was wobbly, it must have been like that for awhile. Either something could have put underneath to balance it, or the teacher could have swapped it out.

[@Thenetheriteknight]

6:44 I think this kid might have heard something about caterpillars metamorphosing into butterflies but he just remembered animal can turn into butterfly and so when he was thinking about an animal changing his brain concluded that it must be metamorphosis and decided that it must change into a butterfly it seems very strange that the animal he chose is the one famous for changing unless he knew that it changes

[@ghostprime11708]

Story 54: The girl might have been/is being abused at home. You should look into this.

[@angelacooper8973]

Definitely 👍🏿

[@jmcclain8237]

That first kid will be a politician.

[@pabblo1]

Or a lawyer, or really any profession, where lying is part of the job

[@Theobfool]

Or an actor!

[@brandonbombplays9304]

​@@Theobfool An optimist I see.

[@jeremylando40]

Basically Trump

[@Theobfool]

@@brandonbombplays9304 it’s not like it’s destiny though (for better or worse)

[@sarahheck9831]

A lot of these teenagers I think they are just f-ing with the teachers. Me and my friends would say all kinds of idiotic stuff to teachers cuz it was fun to see their faces. A lot of the older teachers would call us on it but the younger ones would always assume we were actually that stupid.

[@jenniferhart559]

as someone who was trying to escape an abusive home by getting good grades so I could go to college, this was so frustrating and soul crushing to have to wait for the class to get back to learning after classmates would f with the teachers

[@IsntChrome]

Me waiting to hear my teacher talk about me

[@cadcar13]

Some of these stories are so sad! Such a waste of potential! What a blessing it is to be raised in a safe loving home!

[@jesslauren8031]

Most of these infuriated me so much mostly because we won’t know what happened to those kids/students. Did they get karma, crushed by reality, doing better, failing in life, on the streets? At least the last one had a sort of follow up with the kid and made me feel better.

[@She_real-4-real]

To the poster of the 37:09 story, I have the opinion and belief that it is never too late to do something like what you are doing. Honestly, double majoring sounds like a lot of work, so kudos to you for putting in that effort. I’m talking about story 51 btw.

[@SuperPaperMarioMovieGuy]

20:04 Ok that's actually adorable

[@专业的Ozoneguy]

7:14 "On your feet, soldier. We are leaving!"

[@hamburger_eatspie]

49:14 I cannot stop chuckling at this it’s just so random and the voice you used too

[@NoctivagantDiurnal]

11:00 right in the middle of the lawwwrreeenccceee with the narrator raising his voice was interrupted by an ad

[@ball.jointed.darling]

i really enjoy this channels videos, having a real person read out the stories makes it a lot more impactful than a bland text to speech voice and the matching subtitles there instead of the entire story on the screen makes it a lot easier to keep up with the story

[@andrenightscustoms251]

I’m just going to say it’s the people that seem to not have any hope are the ones who need the most love and care

[@toch19]

That last story. It just... hit different.

[@wmdkitty]

Why TF are adults always so hung up on kids sitting "properly"? As long as they're paying attention, learning the material, and doing the work, _who cares how they sit?_

[@japanesejackalope]

They just don’t want kids being distracting that’s all it really comes down to. Like if a kid is tipping their chair back and crap of course they’re gonna fall at some point and cause a huge commotion. Now if it’s them just sitting backwards in their chair or something it’s whatever but I can empathize with them just wanting them to sit and learn it’s hard to teach when someone’s doing annoying stuff. I recall being in school and a kid did something similar and it took five minutes for the teacher to get the class back on track which is five minutes of teaching wasted because a kid was being dumb.

[@wmdkitty]

@@japanesejackalope Then the teacher can do what the adults have always told kids to do in regards to "distractions" -- IGNORE IT.

[@gnerkus]

​@@wmdkittyThen the kid fails a test because they weren't paying attention. Then their parent brings it up with the school who then blames the teacher for not ensuring their students were paying attention...

[@japanesejackalope]

@@wmdkitty You can’t just ignore it when there’s kids clearly focusing on what another student is doing. A teacher has to step in and get them to stop, otherwise students are missing on the lesson because their focus has completely shifted.

[@wmdkitty]

@@gnerkus It's the student's fault for not paying attention.

[@simonebeaudelaire5059]

I tried to go back to teaching high school after many years at the community college. In my end-of-the-day English 2 (mostly 10th graders) class, while I was helping a student with disabilities to complete the assignment, a girl crept to the classroom window, which was open because the school's heater was a little overzealous and the room was blistering hot, and sprayed pepper spray out the window. It promptly blew back in, leaving the students on that side of the room coughing, eyes watering. Consequence for bringing a weapon to school? They talked to her about it. This girl was a nightmare. I worry about her. Especially when I found out from her half sister that her mother attempted to murder someone... and also faced no consequences. That whole family was messy and this girl just loved the drama. I'm back at community college now. The slight increase in pay was not worth my sanity.

[@BlacknessInTheLight]

For context, English isn't native language in my country but majority of people can speak it because we're taught English extensively in school. One year our English teacher shared a conversation she had had with a 14yo student: S: I don't need to learn English, I'm just going to play ice hockey for living T: Oh? And where are you going to play ice hockey then? S: NHL

[@eminempreg]

15:08 This dudes a teacher calling his student a "cum dumpster"? Im not trying to insinuate about them as a person but thats just gross. To talk about anyone that way let alone a teenaged girl??

[@Supwe]

I had 2 students, 17 yo, talking in class about how "any men is stronger than all women", but like they seriously believed they would win at anything against olympic female athletes. So I challenged one of them to arm wrestling. I won.

[@Willoshi]

As an American.. Tyneshia's lack of knowledge and just.. ignorance.. makes my heart and brain hurt.. oh. my. god... At least the kid yelling FRANCE seemed to know France was involved somehow in the Revolutionary War..

[@keirapatrick9401]

I am an American too but I lived over seas when most kids learned this stuff. However even I knew the basics. That was stuff we learned in kindergarten or first grade.

[@annetterobinson4358]

Story 60: That teacher is the reason so many students hate math.

[@RemixedYoshi]

As a 25 year old wannabe voice actor/ actor i do wish one day our tax dollars start going to the things America need like health care being free and medical centers and schooling basically why cant we be more like..Europe.. care for our own people first maybe let us even choose where we want out tax dollars insted of everything going to the military and other countries.

[@hewwowen1968]

In my senior year of high school I was in Chemistry Honors (junior/senior class, so 17-18 year olds for the most part), and this guy who called himself "Cracker" didn't know you could split an atom. CHEMISTRY. H O N O R S.

[@DemonicDamian2]

Beans 🫘

[@Totally_Descendants]

Can you imagine being a professor and getting an email from a student that they’re claiming is from their mom 🤣

[@dratah4615]

I in no way had a tough or bad upbringing. But I did go through a pretty bad divorce that forced me to move continents, have a parent that had not worked in years and had to restart their career for us, and I had to do everything I could to get scholarships for college because we couldn't afford it otherwise. But what I will say is that a tough situation does not dictate what you are allowed to get away with. If you just allow yourself to focus on what's best for you then you can achieve anything you want...like a bachelors on nearly full scholarship from athletics and academics, and an MBA while working full time and still playing sports daily.

[@mwalton9526]

Story 45: I don't think the teachers in this thread are making fun of the students for not knowing obvious thing.

[@xnateeverhartx]

Hearing some of these educators writing off children pre-high school is pretty disheartening. I know I said, thought, and did some stupid shit when I was younger. Isn't that what growing and maturing is all about?

[@t1me_breaker]

that story about the hoarder, that sounded like the punchline to a joke. BUGS

[@ciannolan9713]

A woman in my college doesn't know that different countries around the world can be in different time zones, she assumes that if it's midnight here it's midnight everywhere. Upon finding out about the existence of time zones she asked if that was because every country had it's own sun and moon. She knows the earth is round and she knows we orbit the sun, but she can't wrap her head around the concept of what that implies about time around the world. We've explained this concept to her multiple times now but she still doesn't understand. I hope that she's just really good at pretending to be an idiot, because no 25 year old should continue to have a blind spot this severe after it's been explained

[@gretedemirci4650]

I didn't skip on senior skip day either, but at my school, the rules were you could only skip one class, which kind of defeated the purpose. As a result though, I was one of only 2 students who showed up for my English class so my teacher had us helping put stuff on the walls. No point in actually teaching. Even my good friend in that class wasn't there but that was because she was completely absent that day which I knew because English wasn't the only class we had together that term.

[@willvanauger3273]

i used to work in a school that helped students that hadnt been successful in Mainstream education, some had special needs but most were school refusers. 9/10 of those kids would have no problems at all if their parents got their act together. Even now I am in mainstream I have a student whos mother just says "He cant do that" to everything and as her result her son struggles to read because she never helps him.

[@omiai]

When I was in highschool, we were in a biology class. Now we are, by this point, all around the age of 16-17. And this boy puts his hand up and, dead seriously asks, 'sir, is a rock a plant or an animal?' the teacher and I both looked dumbfounded. Couldn't believe it. Then like 3 more kids were like 'yeah I always wondered that ...' I just...couldn't.

[@jaredbaker7230]

That kid in story 15...it's not his loss of he doesn't engage in school. The problem is kids like that take down the whole class. They make life hell for everyone and make fun of the kids who try. If you want to sit there and self destruct, fine. But you DO NOT have the right to take the opportunity to learn away from the kids around you!

[@DiamondKingStudios]

I had to deal with those classmates growing up. It wasn’t fun.

[@llamawalrushybrid]

45:30 Yeah seriously that's an insane reaction. You went to school for 4+ years to become a teacher but learning that "Everyone's different" is what kills the career? I liked this video a lot. The narrator's commentary was very on point. Some lighter topics next would be perfect, hah..

[@drakostheemeraldswordsman8691]

its always weird when you hear your own name in these

[@lightdragonlunadragnar9868]

Not a teacher but I do want to point out some things. 1-don’t get your students to confident on saying they will have an amazing job and life. because they will see their comfortable lifestyle as “there’s no hope I didn’t make it in life my teachers were wrong” they need to be reminded a comfortable lifestyle is an ok lifestyle. 2-athletes and gangster kids are the ones who are unlikely to make it in life. Spoiled and popular children are another story out of teacher’s hands. 3-don’t be the teacher that is hopeful and merciful for every young child that if growing up thinking they will make it in life and be an amazing person because you have brain wash yourself into thinking the bad kid did no wrong even if they bully and or hurt the other kid that’s only try to defend themselves. That’s how bullies don’t get reported, punish and the bully kid just accepts the bulling and convinces themselves that they deserve it. That’s why the anti-bullying systems in the schools are so backwards.

[@TheLyncher]

Bro.. if 45 bugged you so much change your selections

[@gnerkus]

For the views.

[@DirtyUncleSAL]

You know, the narrator just narrates the selected stories. He isn't the one picking them, and he isn't the one who put them in the order he read them in. If the narrators honest, sometimes emotionally charged response to a frustrating or irritating story bothers you so much, change your channel selections. 🤷‍♀️ And of course it's for the views.... It's a KZbin video. The content is made and uploaded to be seen and VIEWED

[@stealthbeastgaming]

Yeah, seriously. Shaming teachers for "dunking" on students in a thread about dunking on students, on a channel that is primarily about dunking on humans having dumb human moments rubbed me the wrong way too.

[@thewarriors208]

0:57 - 1:07 It's like they say in that Duck Hunt Horror Vr Game "Bad Dad Bad Kid"

[@RickyBBlessed]

The UK benefits system is cripling the potential of the youth. I went to college and knew kids outside of college who's only ambition was to go on benefits despite being given an opportunity at free education.

[@brianspencer6397]

From one of my fellow apprentice trainers..... Lecturer: "Who's your employer, lad?" Apprentice: "(Names company X)." Lecturer. "Well, by employing you, X is depriving a village somewhere of its idiot."

[@golfboy4886]

32:00 OP, YOU are the one who asked the question. Don’t be PO’d when you get the answers YOU asked for. 🙄

[@Koolkole27]

I like the cod as the background game play!

[@amirilan4435]

I know it is the opposite but. Was teaching in uni and was checking the exams. I was supposed to check a third and the other teachers a third each. One was... Well... Bad. I graded him 1/33 for one equation that was.... Somewhat in the correct place. After summing the test, he got...1/100... In my uni you can retake an exam, he did, and got it 4 times better!, was still the lowest test i graded. Fast forward a year later. He got 100/100 in first try. I wouldve given up, or aim for D- or something. But, He did not. He can go places.

[@Eli-yo9qq]

i am cheese-it christ

[@Eli-yo9qq]

RAWWWWW

[@deleyderismynamer]

???

[@Privatebean9183]

I rival you cheese it christ

[@Eli-yo9qq]

@@Privatebean9183 CHEEZ-it christ NOT cheese it christ HOW DARE YOU

[@Lyrebird.Rainwing]

​@@Eli-yo9qqyou said Cheese-it in your comment lmao

[@DiamondKingStudios]

40:19 Even back in the 1850s, they were basically third-party at most. Oh, the student wasn’t referring to the Know-Nothings.

[@HaiderDlion]

Please fix the audio its to low when i listening imy car. Beside that keep it up lads

[@basicdesign1]

45:20 "maths" (basic arithmetics): student "split the number vertically" so that "half a fifty (half of fifty?) equals five split zero, so one half is a zero". Was doing smthng else while listening to that, and I didn't understand it either, the way it was put. Got it only when seeing/visualizing the actual number 50. Need to integrate synesthesia to get it. They don't teach that in teaching schools. So there's no good reason why you should shame that dude/girl just because s/he faces that s/he "can't think like that and there's a whole group of students that s/he can never reach". Samely, 32:23, you: "if a kid doesn't know (some thing)... that's definitely not something that i think you should out on the internet, even though no naming". Yeah so do as i say don't do as i do (stories 19 or 23 for example, your pick). Bloody hell, stop your PC crap and grow up. Ah but of course you're only in it for the number of likes a.s.o. so it doesn't matter as long as ppl are dumb enough to not realize.

[@PurpleRanger12]

Tbh I was probably “that” student that my geography teacher thought was “dumb”. I have a lot of “dumb moments”, mostly to do with geography. Not really knowing how close US states are to each other, terrible with directions, and do not show me a map of the world and tell me where countries are cus I’ll probably get most of them wrong other than the big ones. I think geography was the only class I routinely got Bs in when I was an otherwise straight A student.

[@StLsalsagirl]

Ok, I'm done with this. I have had students for multiple grades and many will say they have never heard of something. I'm like I know you have seen this before b/c I taught it to you. They usually would laugh, and admit they did know. I can guarantee you that students have been taught continents and punctuation over multiple grades. Yes, it was my job to teach, but it is also the student's responsibility to learn. How much instructional time is wasted every year reviewing/ reteaching? I'm not talking about students with special needs. I'm talking about average kids who have parents that want to blame teachers rather than hold their children accountable for anything. Ie: student has average grades, parent complains I am grading too hard. I have my counterpart regrade a few papers just to double-check myself. The other teacher graded this particular student's paper 1/2 a point higher than I did. Note: the other teacher was the parent's cousin.

[@batt3ryac1d277]

i love you undersparked ❤

[@oniemployee3437]

That one intervention post halfway through is a bit odd. Like, on the one hand I agree that everybody has gaps in knowledge but on the other hand *there are things these kids should know by now!!* What kind of a 13 year old doesnt know what a continent is?! Also, lets also remember that these are people's THOUGHTS. Just because the teachers are dissapointed doesnt mean that the kids werent helped after these snapshots. Shit, who's to say all of these stories are real?

[@gnerkus]

It's Reddit: assume NONE of the stories are real.

[@lexyrias5132]

I'm so confused. In my country we only had essay questions in highschool exams. Except for math and stuff obviously, but those weren't multiple choice either.

[@crystalgentry9133]

Hi, I just found your channel today. I want to say thank you so much for making your videos. I love listening to you read have you ever considered reading audiobooks I ask this because I am totally blind and your voice sounds like you would do a great job reading a book. Hope to hear from you.

[@keirapatrick9401]

technically usa had french land that they got the Louisiana purchase from. But yeah. The war was with the English.

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

Strictly speaking, the USA got its independence in a complicated mess, where the colonies took the Louisiana territory (much bigger than the present state) from France, fought off the brits in an independence war, and threw the spanjards out of the new world

[@angelacooper8973]

One of the kids is being SA. Story 54

[@erenoz2910]

Look man if I was named Braighdaighnn or some shit like that, I would have trouble spelling my name too

[@jarfullofgravity]

31:15 oh shut up. Congrats. You won the reddit empathy competition. You’re such a saint.

[@janedownes8524]

Im a yr 4 in a primary school in Australia, I really want to pass peac and learn javacode

[@VenatorSpero]

32:30. If thats the point of view why did you make a video on it.

[@gnerkus]

0:54 awful moms... Right?!

[@breannahogeland-sg3kp]

To be fair a lot of kids these days probably don’t know how to spell their names because so many parents pick the most ridiculous names with horrible spelling

[@BloodangelsNightcore]

There's a reason why there's a subreddit for fucked up names x) r/tragedeigh if I recall correctly

[@jenniferhart559]

@@BloodangelsNightcore ...makes me want to get my reighfyl out... 🔫

[@GlobalWisdom-n1k]

is no one gonna talk about 4:00

[@TheAverageGamer1]

Hope to God I don't recognize any of these stories lol I was a little shit in hs

[@jamesTBurke]

#73 why does race matter with using the N word?

[@skellious]

The video loops/repeats a story or more half way through 32:44

[@stealthbeastgaming]

30:53 - WOW... I gotta say UnderSparked, including an irrelevant tirade in the thread where the poster goes on a "holier than thou" rant about how teachers cooperating with the thread's premise are somehow doing something wrong or contributing to some horrible divide in society by "dunking" on kids anonymously in the thread, and then having the AUDACITY to try to align yourself with this poster rubbed me the wrong way. What are you, just levitating above the rest of us? As if the central premise of your entire channel was contingent on something other than dunking on humans having dumb human moments. You're not better than anyone, certainly not the tired teachers sharing their stories and commiserating over unteachable/uncooperative students in that thread.

[@romecottrell6444]

This is a scary 😨 video 📹 and I am sorry that most of these children and their parents 😢 are just are like their children 😢.

[@Lyrebird.Rainwing]

You talk like my Grandma ngl lol. At least 4 emojis per message

[@romecottrell6444]

@@Lyrebird.Rainwing Thank you 😊 🙏.

[@Lyrebird.Rainwing]

@@romecottrell6444 That uh, wasn't a compliment, but you're welcome...???

[@Elizabeth-f7f]

I never had a student who was beyond hope.

[@CNinjaa]

"Average" can be a disturbingly low bar... 😬

[@spoingus69420]

15:08 bro what???

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

20:32 Story 36 Copying something he saw on a nature documentary survivalist show? Especially the catchphrase "Mmm, protein" ?

[@Theworldofoakley]

What show

[@CatInABaseballCap]

Your videos are longer than a few months ago…why?

[@DemonicDamian2]

Why not?

[@deleyderismynamer]

Why not?

[@pelman]

probably because people either put these vids on to sleep (thus giving them more watch time per video) or because people are just seeking out longer form reddit reading content; i know its the latter for me

[@darkstarr984]

@@pelmanI like longer reddit reading content because I listen to these while doing various tedious tasks

[@Dylan_x64]

LOL! In Story 45 this lady didn’t know a pony wasn’t a baby horse? I mean, fair enough I suppose. I don’t want to be snobby, but it still made me laugh the moment I heard it. I suppose she was “foaled” for several decades, eh? Okay, on a more serious note, I did notice throughout high school that a lot of kids didn’t capitalize “I.” Unfortunately, I was never in a position to help them with it, like in peer critique. There’s a big difference between helping someone and being a grammar snob. I try to help when appropriate.

[@Jinadaz]

Sad to see that even teacher nowadays thinks that “memorizing facts” is superior than intelligence, critical thinking or even attention 🤷 even before google came this is an obvious truth, now even ChatGPT has come and some od the EDUCATORS still has the mindsets of a cavemen😂

[@BlakeplaysFortnite]

I ironically, I just learned that Washington DC was the capital I did not know that. How did I not know that from when you said that

[@prince_sylex]

28:44 Story 42: I think that teacher git has some bias towards the Imperial system. Like, what's so hard to understand that 100 cm = 10dm = 1m = 000.1km Like Kilo means 1.000. I think someone has trouble jumping from one decimal to another...😂

[@davinke994]

It probably happened in the US most schools teach both imperial and metric but some only teach imperial, and if your in the US you use the imperial system a lot metric is still better though (except for Celsius, Kelvin and Fahrenheit are the goats of temperature)

[@Armando.2010]

Hi

[@eazy_gtag]

6 secs

[@TheJessicaWarner]

early !!

[@arcticgalaxy]

:0 fifth :D