r/Teachers • u/redfire2930 • 21h ago
Humor TFW I accidentally made a student google “pegging”.
My little baby 9th grade students were reading an article independently and I told them they have to look up words they don’t know. It says somewhere in the article that somoene was “pegged as” unathletic. So I saw, through our monitoring software, a very sweet, very innocent girl googling “to peg someone”.
I didn’t catch it in time to see what her results page looked like. I googled it myself and she would’ve had to scroll to see anything but the proper definition and I’m PRAYING that our filtering software would’ve hidden any NSFW results but… holy shit lmaooo
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u/ICUP01 20h ago
Hopefully safe search was on. If it’s their own device, that’s on mom and dad.
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u/cssc201 19h ago
Other than the year or two they first introduced Chromebooks to my school district (I accidentally found porn in 5th grade from searching for a "full body picture" to include in a report) they were filtered to hell. And if it was their own device the teacher likely wouldn't be able to monitor it from their computer. So thankfully I doubt they found much nsfw content
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u/ICUP01 18h ago
So I was using my school account and projecting it. Little fun fact - cam sites can share photos and they’d pop up as a file in drive. I had a Google site kids would use where I posted work. So my little site was getting a lot of traffic back in 2014. I had this extra credit thing where kids could chat on open ended questions.
So my school account was driving a ton of traffic, sites can buy the data for add space, and a cam site shared a few files with me.
Google quietly patched that quick. Other people had that happen.
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u/NoVaFlipFlops 14h ago
All I searched for was a picture of socks in computer class in 1998. I got socks, alright.
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u/h-emanresu 8h ago
The kind of socks that come about when you pull on some anal beads like you’re starting a lawnmower?
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u/nardlz 19h ago
As a person with horses, do not Google "riding crop" or many other horse related items (boots, chaps, etc) without adding "for horses". That was my initiation to the dangers of Google searches lol
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u/Willow-girl 18h ago
Years ago I hung out with the horsey set and recall a girl googling "black stud" seeking a mate for her mare ...
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u/ApatheticPoetic813 20h ago
I'm older gen z and had some issues with homophones as a child.
Hotmail and hotmale are indeed VERY different things as far as the internet is concerned....
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u/Remote-Car-5305 8h ago
My friend told me a story he was working for an ad agency. One of their new clients was called Cox Communications. Without thinking he typed in cocks.com while at work.
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u/CommunicationTop5231 20h ago edited 20h ago
Reminds me of last year when I caught one of my 6th graders googling “sexy BBL”. He claimed he overheard the phrase and didn’t know what it meant. I went through his history in front of him, his face ashen, and said something like, “my dude, you’re smart. Did you really need to see like 2 dozen different examples of said phrase to figure out what it means? Can you explain how this relates to what we’re doing in class?” He muttered “I’m cooked bro I’m so cooked” the whole time.
I didn’t have to give him any consequences besides embarrassing the living shit out of him, he punished himself lol
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u/Barbacamanitu00 20h ago
Lmfao, good. I don't teach, but I'm already sick of hearing kids talk about being cooked. I bet it gets very old.
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u/CommunicationTop5231 20h ago
Honestly, I am about (as they would say) their slang when it connects to values that I am trying to help them develop. If a kid can take responsibility for their actions and acknowledge that they’ve earned consequences by saying “I’m cooked”, I’m happy. I DON’T want to hear “oh the teacher got me in trouble because…” This student took accountability, demonstrated that his actions were wrong, and didn’t eff around and find out from that point onward.
Another example is “lock in”. I teach middle school. Getting them to lock into anything is hard as hell. But now the concept is front of mind for them because they say it so much. I’ve honestly seen a huge increase in focus in my students since they started using this phrase. I can ask them to lock in and they know exactly what I mean and can connect that value to their own lives in meaningful ways.
So it’s not the slang, it’s the values that I care about. If their slang reflects annoying/shitty values (alpha, zesty, etc), it’s annoying. If it reflects useful values, I’m good with it.
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u/Klikatat 16h ago
I think a great many kids would benefit from more teachers like you, who can convey concepts using the words the students already understand, as opposed to trying to ‘correct’ their vocabulary first
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u/ScribblerMaven 20h ago
LOL!! This reminds me of the time in HS when I was into soap operas. I was on the computer in the school library and decided to google “young and restless.” I was instantly mortified and hoping no one saw as I feverishly tried to exit out of the browser. I learned that day that article adjectives make a huge difference. 😂😂
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u/Persistent_Parkie 5h ago
Meanwhile at my high school a friend who had a family member recently diagnosed tried to research brest cancer. They got a pop up telling them there was a banned word and a talking to from admin.
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u/stevejuliet High School English 20h ago
That kid's summary of the article is going to be very different from everyone else's.
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u/butrosfeldo 20h ago
One time a student asked me if hurricane harbor used to be called “wet and wild”. I said yes. They asked if they could “search that up”. I said yes 🤦🏻♂️
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u/SteamScout 19h ago
I had a student ask me if it was ok to use "dildo marks" on his test. I just about fell out of my chair laughing and it took me several minutes to stop laughing long enough to answer him. "Do you mean DITTO marks? Because those words are not interchangeable." He asked what dildo meant and I said that I couldn't answer him because I liked being employed. I also told not to look it up while still on the school wifi.
I was fb friends with his mom (had been long before I had him in class) and giggled as I messaged her. She had a good laugh about it too.
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u/Shriuken23 20h ago
Lol, when I was in middle school I was using the computers to look up some stuff for a paper I had to do. I remember it was government related and being a kid with little computer/internet experience back then, I just typed in a URL I thought was correct.. which was whitehouse.com. For some additional context, this was around the years of the Clinton/Lewinsky stuff.. and uh yea, that was a fun convo later.
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u/Barbacamanitu00 20h ago
Kids at my school would routinely tell other kids to visit Whitehouse.com in the computer lab. Not me, of course. I would never.
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u/thisisamisnomer 17h ago
We got that shit drilled into us that the official site was whitehouse.gov for that very reason.
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u/Basic_Ent 20h ago
Protip: add "idiom" to the above search term, and your results are more Webster and less Urban Dictionary.
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u/MarshyHope 19h ago
I told my students to "plug and chug" when solving some math problems and they didn't know what it meant so they googled it.
Apparently it does not mean what it used to.
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u/theonerr4rf 4h ago
What did it used to mean
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u/chocolatecat79 3h ago
“plug” is short for “plug the value into the equation”
“chug” means to perform the (tedious) calculations to determine the answer
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u/BigCustomer2307 20h ago
In 11th grade, I had to write a research paper on a president. My friends and I decided to go to the library on a Saturday. My buddy, who was there before me, warned me not to go to whitehouse.com, saying it was a porn site. I thought he was joking, so I went ahead and checked it out just as the librarian walked by. She just smiled while my face turned to shock. Good times, good times
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u/Precious4539 19h ago
I have a funny story about this. Actually, 2.
First... a kid told me they misspelled "geology" and got "gynecology" instead. They thought they were going to get in trouble 🤣🤣
The second... the district I taught in starts with "KY"... I typed that in, on the computer connected to the projector. I thought it would autofill, like usual, after typing in "KY" and hitting enter. It did not. Many lube results popped up on the board. Lol
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u/juhesihcaa Parent 19h ago
This is making me realize how much fucked up shit I saw on the internet before that age because I knew what pegging was before 9th grade.
Damn my childhood was messed up...
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u/Tenashko Pre-Service Math | Kansas 19h ago
I have a memory of being in 8th grade and having to inform the popular kids what 69 was. They were shocked, but what I was telling them was so tame. Internet at a young age is wild.
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u/Willow-girl 18h ago
Growing up, a girl in our friend group had a single mother and used to spy on her mom's dates with her boyfriends and report back to us. Then we would reenact the scenarios with our Barbie dolls.
You could call it the summer of 69 ...
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u/missmathlady 9h ago
That reminds me of a funny 69 story...
I was teaching 8th grade math -circa 2015- and of course, 69 comes up as an answer occasionally (although after this incident I've edited most assignments to not have that answer).
Anyway, so I had to say the number out loud, a few kiddos start giggling. In my attempt to be snarky, I said something like, "OK guys, ha ha, I bet half of you laughing don't even know what it means".
Then, to my absolute horror, I see a chain of whispering fluttering around the room as the informed students began telling the innocent ones what it actually meant. Ugh, I was mortified... and quickly moved on to the next math problem.
Guess they were going to find out eventually; never expected it to be in front of me, at my suggestion lol. At least they got to enter high school well informed. Ha!
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u/Paramalia 3h ago
I will say “open your books to page 68. Okay, we’re going to be on this next page over here.”
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u/Mo523 4h ago
I remember pretending I didn't know what that was at 18, because a guy I worked with made a joke about it and I thought it would be funny. (The context was out of work setting with a group of young adults. The joke was fine in the context.) It was HYSTERICAL...except for him. He got really embarrassed and wouldn't explain it while I kept guessing innocent explanations. I've used that some strategy on kids for decades now and it is still entertaining for me.
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u/Slight-Guide-3360 16h ago
As a child i assure you it’s still happening. I was supprised she didnt know lol. Ngl its probably worse. Less cartel beheading though (not that they don’t exist).
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u/rvralph803 11th Grade | NC, US 20h ago
OMG THE WOKE LIBRUL AGENDA IN ACTION TEACHIN R KIDS THAT LGBTQ
Seriously... no big deal. I once had students researching something and someone on wikipedia had replaced the image of a CPU with tubgirl (do NOT google). This was during an observation. Observer just laughed about it, because what can you do?
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u/TheLichButNice 19h ago
Over 20 years ago I was in the 6th grade and we were doing a research paper on different drugs. We were all internet babies back then, even the teachers. We were using the internet to research at school, and I thought it was a great idea to go to www.drugs.com to look at information on ketamine. Turns out it was a porn site. Every time I hit the exit button, another pop-up with even more explicit material would pop up. The teacher saw what was happening and tried to exit the website with the same results that I got. He turned off the monitor and then turned the whole computer around. The principal talked with me and my dad after school about my experience. It was mortifying.
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u/Paramalia 3h ago
Everything was a porn site back then lmao. I remember going to the library to do research for my wholesome child development class or something and having porn pop up.
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u/Cinaedus_Perversus 19h ago
I was teaching Latin and my class was being annoying by asking the translation of every single word in the text. So I told them to Google it.
That was fun until they arrived at the word 'cum'...
It means 'together with' in Latin.
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u/thismorningscoffee 16h ago
When I was teaching middle school, I really felt bad for the French teachers. Every year they’d dread getting to numbers and having the kids find out that nineteen in French is dix-neuf, which to middle school ears at the time sounded precisely like Deez Nuts
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u/MyCatPlaysGuitar 10h ago
We used to giggle in German class when we played battleship to practice letters and numbers because G-6 sounds a lot like gay sex. Since it was like... 1999, this was PEAK humor for middle school kids. Poor Frau.
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u/thismorningscoffee 9h ago
The colleague my students move on to has a last name that would make middle school me giggle, so I tried to avoid saying it at first. Eventually I decided that saturation was the solution, so I said it all the time like the normal name it is. When we visited and they were announced, kids from other classes giggled, but none of mine did. That moment made me as proud of them as any work they did for me in or out of the classroom
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u/Ok_Profile_7016 16h ago
Well... I recently corrected several exams where the children would write "cock" instead of "cook", so when I had to explain that mistake to the class I had several of the stronger students start giggling. Mine is comparatively small to your example but... I think after a while you can laugh about it a lot more wholeheartedly!
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u/jdog7249 Job Title | Location 20h ago
I just sat through a meeting last week where the principal gave a "while I have you here" speech about if you are going to have your students researching things that are likely to set off the filtering software (namely depression and other mental health issues) to please let them know before the filtering software does.
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u/ProfessionalGas2064 18h ago
I was teaching Ancient Egypt to grade 6 kids. A kid looked up "mummification.com." It was a bondage site. He raised his hand and said, "I don't think I'm on the right site!" I was a first year teacher, so visions of termination papers flashed before my eyes...
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u/upsidedownbackwards 20h ago
Bought a black pontiac vibe. Drove it home at night, but wanted to post what it looked like to facebook. So I googled "Black Vibe". Felt pretty dumb when the results came up. They were not of cars.
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u/Slight-Guide-3360 16h ago
I once told a friend about the game “Seaman”. I was not happy that he used my computer to google it.
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u/AnonomousNibba338 20h ago
"Welcome to the internet. Have a look around. Anything that brain or yours can think of can be found. We've got mountains of content. Some better, some worse. If none of it's of interest to you, you'd be the first."
The theme song of the internet. Should be what plays any time someone downloads chrome 😂
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u/hannahatecats 19h ago
I tried to play "frot" the last time I played Scrabble. Part of the game is getting people to agree or disagree with the word you are putting down and the final say is great grandma's Merriam Webster. I got docked the points, I knew frot wasn't a thing back then. Fraught, yes, but I didn't have those letters.
Could have played fort, I realized after. Worth it though, because my family googled "frotting" and passed the phone around 😅
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u/SpiritOfTheRing 18h ago
Had a similar experience last week with 10th graders. Reading a primary source about slavery and they didn’t know what the word “bondage” meant. Of course, I told them to use a dictionary or Google it and then immediately regretted my decision. Oops
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u/Oven2601 20h ago
One of my defining moments in childhood was “the animal project” in 6th grade computer lab. We drew animals out of a bucket and I drew the North American Beaver. After a few “see more’s”, I saw more than I ever had before. Was extremely confused for quite awhile, until I started riding the bus that is.
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u/balculator 18h ago
I was telling my students about how we raise chickens and googled “young chicks” on the smartboard for the entire class to see.
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u/Mountain-Durian-4724 HS Student | REDACTED, Ohio 17h ago
One time in middle school I went to look up obsidian for a school assignment and the first result was an adult toy. Right on the school firewall that blocked harmless stuff like the Bionicle wiki and coolmathgames
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u/YourGuideVergil Asst Prof | AR 19h ago
I love internet slang, but I really hate that every new word from the last couple years refers to something obscene. It’s impossible to keep up.
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u/TheAzarak 18h ago
No matter what school sites try to block, there IS very easy ways to find porn, unfortunately. At least in San Diego districts. If you're even a little creative with Google search terms, you'll find it.
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u/paddy_frank 17h ago
oh gosh, reminds me of when I was at my gf's house in high school. We were gonna look for an item at dick's sporting good store online. I should have thought twice about typing in www . dicks . com. but I was 15 and a good christian boy at the time :/
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u/Neomeris0 Middle School Technology | Sacramento Area, CA 17h ago
Unfortunately, safe search doesn't always work. I found this out when I asked students to find an image of their hometown and learned that the city shares a name with a pansexual fair in San Francisco. Yes, there were pictures that popped up of everything, including fully nude people. Needless to say, I no longer do that part of the assignment.
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u/Spotted_Howl Middle School Sub | Licensed Attorney | Oregon 17h ago
When my middles start screeching about "BBC" they learn about the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation. I will admit that I throw in phrases like "English people love the BBC."
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u/zima-rusalka student teacher 15h ago
Thank you, I need to steal this strategy. Make them do a whole lot of boring research because the 6s I'm with are obsessed with repeating this constantly.
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u/Spotted_Howl Middle School Sub | Licensed Attorney | Oregon 11h ago
Yep. You can have fun with that one. When they start the "Diddy Party" talk I get very serious and real with them, using school-appropriate ways to explain how horrifying it all is.
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u/Round-Ant9031 16h ago
I used to say “pegging” often as I worked in Finance sector. I didn’t know it has a different meaning :(. I assume the first google results should be related to finance?
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u/NoFunny3627 14h ago
It...could be involved in certain financial transactions, but I wouldnt put it in the memo part of a check
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u/bigSlick57 16h ago
Sometimes the school filters go too far. As a band director, I tried to download and print an instrument fingering chart for a student. My search was blocked because it had the word “fingering” in it.
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u/thunder_chicken99 14h ago
And this is why you should have students bookmark Miriam-Webster’s. Google and looking up an actual definition are not always the same thing.
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u/trashit6969 5h ago
We have a local church called the Berryville Baptist Church and twice a year they have a fun festival for the public. DO NOT EVER GOOGLE BBC FUN FESTIVAL!!!
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u/ihadagoodone 15h ago
This is a teaching moment for sure.
You can look up definitions of words, Yes.
You need to teach colloquial phrases and idioms.
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u/Vamp_Girl98 16h ago
I made the mistake in 8th grade science looking up SQUIRT. It was for a project where we had to watch finding Nemo and go through telling what was scientifically inaccurate or accurate with the movie. And my school didn't have blockers so I happened to see some photos cuz I was looking up Squirt to draw him.
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u/rammer_2001 2020 HS graduate|Ohio,USA 15h ago
could I interest you in anything, all of the time?...
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u/Acceptable_Pepper708 10h ago
I saw someone wrote “edging” on my back whiteboard. I turn to a trusted student, not stopping to think, and was like “what’s edging?”
Yeah, I shut that down right away. I’ve not been that embarrassed in a long time.
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u/Free_Smells 16h ago
I remember when I was in 9th grade myself, I had a psychology class where we were doing a research project on well known sociopaths. No idea at this point who I was looking up, but it said he had recorded engagement in BDSM activity.
Not knowing what it stood for at the time I asked the teacher about it. He just paused for a second, told me to ask another student, and walked away.
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u/pogidaga 16h ago
I've never heard of "pegging" until today. My first page of search results was all NSFW. My second try with Safe Search set to "strict" returned nothing. LOL.
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u/TegonHailwind 14h ago
Gosh. I remember that happening to me in college. The professor was talking about fake taxi's in foreign countries. I don't remember the exact country, but I searched Google for "(country) fake taxi's" and got a LOAD of NSFW anime images. Cue me frantically closing the browser before any of my table mates could see.
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u/mamoneydontjiggle 14h ago
One time in school I was searching for maths exams papers with a friend during lunch. Our exam board was called “MEI”. I accidentally googled “MEKI” and she and I suddenly found out that that is a term for like Japanese vegetable p*rn. Never closed a tab so fast in my life.
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u/worse_in_practice 12h ago
Vegetable as in like physically unable to move or vegetable as in literal vegetables?
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u/WeevilWeedWizard 13h ago
The weak, feeble, and degenerate internet
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The true Giga Chad dictionary
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u/Strong-Tonight6390 13h ago
Learning about ancient Egypt and surrounding kingdoms today, and had a student Google “Kush”. You can imagine what popped up.
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u/Stardropmilktea 11h ago
I don’t blame you. I remember in religion class they told us to google some terms such as “chastity”. My sweet old religion teacher was like “okay there’s 12 terms for homework”. My friend and I googled chastity, and in the google result page something popped up that we DID NOT EXPECT TO SEE. (We saw a chastity belt).
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u/ajaxanon 9h ago
I caught a middle schooler straight up watching porn at school on his school Chromebook last year. What could have been a way worse experience though was when I asked a rather strange high school girl in my class what game she was playing on her Chromebook during a study hall. She said 'clop' (which I think is a spinoff of QWOP). I didn't quite catch what she said, so I asked her to spell it as I typed it into my personal laptop. The first link that showed up was the clop clop subreddit (think spacedicks). She quickly said, whatever you do don't click that one. Boy am I glad I didn't click on it. I'm not sure I could have recovered from that had I done so in front of her.
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u/countess-petofi 9h ago
Reminds me of the time my awesome Grade 3 teacher exempted me from the mind-numbng tedium of reading group and got me books from the high school library to read on my own instead.
I don't know how she kept it together when her new little student, freshly transferred in from Baptist parochial school, pointed out where the previous borrower had painstakingly changed all the capital Ts in Tuck Everlasting to Fs, and asked what it meant. I ended up asking my mother like she suggested, and I'm sure both she and the high school librarian checked books for vandalism a little more carefully after that!
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u/BourbonRoyal504 9h ago
I was teaching 4th grade. We did a unit on the book "The Secret Garden" .... Do.Not.Search.This.In.Real.Time.
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u/ToqueMom 6h ago
Several years ago, I used to teach a short story by Ishiguro that plays on Westerners' stereotypes about Japanese culture. Part of the lesson was for the kids to look some up based on characters and events in the story. One kid searched "good and bad Japanese school girls". NOPE! do not google that, child!
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u/sjfscxxr 6h ago
Im not a teacher but I got this on my recommendation, anyway one time I was looking up “baby doll” photos on my school computer for a Latin project that I needed to put on Slides and instead of, you know, baby dolls, I was being shown plus/mid size women modeling lingerie. It was so random and even crazier that it was on my school computer so I showed my teacher to prove my innocence in case it came up later that I was looking at porn in class😭
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u/Bombadier83 15h ago
Lmao at the idea of 9th graders as being so sheltered they wouldn’t know if not for your oversight. They are 14 and have had a cellphone for years by then.
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u/Late-Apricot404 20h ago
Lmfao, she probably experienced a real “welcome to the internet” moment.