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I travel from a agelong enactment of educators. Both my parents are teachers, two-thirds of my sisters followed suit, and erstwhile you propulsion successful aunts, uncles, and cousins, academia is fundamentally the household business. Which means I've heard much pupil excuses than I tin count. Some are truthful bold and detached from world that immoderate consciousness similar they're insisting there's a tornado extracurricular portion the snowfall is actively piling up.
In a previous post, teachers from Reddit shared the worst excuses they've received from their students. This time, we turned to the BuzzFeed Community...and yikes. The stories these students are spinning are genuinely astounding. So buckle up, due to the fact that immoderate of these are downright brutal. Take a look:
1. "They said they went connected a cruise to 'heal their sprained ankle.' The comic happening is, erstwhile I asked for a doctor's note, it said, 'Ensure 2 days of airy activity.'"
—Anonymous
2. "A pistillate pupil emailed maine to accidental she wouldn’t beryllium successful people since she was astatine the infirmary waiting for her boyfriend’s babe to beryllium born. She was evidently not pregnant."
—Anonymous
3. "I had a pupil email maine and said they wouldn't beryllium attending classes each week due to the fact that she went to a psychic and they said she would person a fatal car mishap earlier Sunday. She decided to enactment location successful bid to forestall it."
—Anonymous
4. "My person had a pupil who was ever late, and erstwhile she called him connected it, helium was aggravated due to the fact that 'only God tin power time.'"
5. "My champion person and I were successful the aforesaid people and had to archer our prof we could not beryllium capable to marque it to people arsenic our cars were portion of a transgression country probe and surrounded by constabulary tape. We lived successful an flat adjacent to a ample buying mall, and apparently, different nonmigratory was followed home, shot, and robbed successful our parking batch aft doing immoderate Christmas shopping. Needless to say, our prof did not judge america and was going to people it arsenic an unexcused absence, but we had a constabulary serviceman constitute a enactment including his nonstop telephone fig and badge number. The look connected our professor's look was priceless erstwhile we handed implicit that note. I ne'er heard astir however things turned retired for our mediocre neighbour though."
—Anonymous
6. "A pupil told maine she was successful hiding, on with her roommate, arsenic advised by the FBI. Turns retired it was true. The roommate's begetter had been kidnapped for ransom, and they were acrophobic his household mightiness beryllium successful danger, too. It was each successful the news."
—Anonymous
7. "I had a pupil skip the archetypal exam successful my people due to the fact that she was petting her cat, looked down, and saw it had a flea connected it and that 'traumatized' her truthful overmuch that she instantly enactment it successful her car and drove to the vet."
—Anonymous
8. "A pupil erstwhile told maine that helium had missed the last exam due to the fact that helium had to question to his hometown successful bid to instrumentality his 93-year-old grandma to the hospital. That would person been capable item for maine to assistance a constitution test, but helium proceeded to archer maine that she had breached her hep aft falling from the extortion portion attempting to rescue a litter of kittens successful the mediate of a storm, and the neighbors heard her screaming retired his name, and saying she wouldn't fto anyone but him instrumentality her to the hospital. He failed the people but managed to postgraduate arsenic a lawyer."
—Anonymous
9. "I erstwhile had a pupil amusement up with a aesculapian escort to instrumentality an exam due to the fact that she was rabid. She worked astatine the airbase carnal rescue and did not person attraction successful clip to forestall immoderate rabies symptoms. I was impressed that she did not usage this arsenic an excuse to miss the exam. However, I was beauteous tense until she had finished and near the country again!"
—Anonymous
10. "I had a genitor email maine to fto maine cognize that their lad was excessively sick to be the midterm. I replied that I could not sermon the pupil oregon their grade. Their reply was conscionable an attachment with an nonfiction astir a pupil astir dying of intoxicant poisoning astatine a Greek party. The pupil wasn't named, but I inferred it was their son. He was backmost a fewer weeks later, and I fto him bash a make-up exam. Even aft astir dying and missing a fewer weeks of class, helium ended up with a precocious B."
—Anonymous
11. "The time earlier the exam, she said that her household was going connected abrogation and she didn’t deliberation determination would beryllium a trial the time before."
12. "My person emailed his Spanish prof saying helium couldn't travel into people due to the fact that helium had to cleanable up a pumpkin that had exploded successful his dorm. He was successful a triple dorm with 2 of our different friends, and 1 of the guys had brought backmost pumpkins to decorate their dorm during autumn break. But my person didn't truly similar it, truthful helium enactment it down his TV and promptly forgot astir it. One morning, they each woke up to a large popular and a disgusting smell. Turns retired the TV baked the pumpkin, causing it to rot and explode. Their dorm country ne'er truly mislaid that rotted pumpkin smell, adjacent by the extremity of the year."
—Anonymous
13. "He claimed helium couldn't beryllium portion of the people play accumulation due to the fact that helium would beryllium astatine a ceremonial for his precocious deceased uncle...three months successful advance. When I called his parent to stock my condolences connected the passing of her brother, she replied, 'He said WHAT?!?!?' The ma told maine to springiness her lad a zero, and helium didn't marque oculus interaction with maine for the remainder of the year."
—Anonymous
14. "A classmate of excavation successful assemblage emailed our prof saying she was retired for an exigency appendectomy. The prof gave her clip to marque it up and asked a mates of america who were friends with her however she was doing. We were shocked, considering that greeting she’d posted pictures of herself connected abrogation successful New York City."
—Anonymous
15. "As a TA, I had a pupil accidental they couldn’t marque an exam due to the fact that determination was a 'really mean moose' blocking her door. She attached a photo, and definite enough, the moose was lasting connected her beforehand structure looking precise mean indeed. I person besides been moose-trapped, truthful I fto it slide. You don't messiness with a moose."
—Anonymous
16. "I thatch chemistry to students who are majoring successful agriculture and related fields. One young woman called maine astatine location 1 greeting to accidental that she couldn’t travel to people that time due to the fact that her pig was having piglets — sixteen of them. What could I say? The pig was her carnal husbandry project! But cipher other has ever utilized that peculiar excuse since then."
—Anonymous
17. "I person been waiting connected this nonfiction my full beingness to yet get to archer this story. As a inferior successful precocious school, I was precocious connected a task and told my English teacher this excuse to explicate why. She gave maine an hold for the thought I enactment into it. I made it up connected the spot, but I'll ne'er hide it. I said, 'See, the happening is, I was kidnapped by abstraction aliens from the satellite Neptune and was being held hostage for 10,000 guinea pigs, but who has that galore guinea pigs? Anyway, portion my parents were gathering the ransom, they had to usage the cardboard I was utilizing for my task to container them up and commercialized with the aliens. Thankfully, my ma knows a guy, and it was each handled beauteous quickly, considering I made it to schoolhouse today. I conscionable haven't had the accidental to get to the store to get the replacement supplies. So, tin I get until the extremity of the week?' The full people and my teacher were cracking up. I was beauteous fashionable for astir a week."
18. "I had a pupil who had been arrested and was successful jail. He reached retired and asked if helium could person a constitution exam. I said yes. Then helium asked for bail wealth truthful helium could constitute it."
—Anonymous
19. "This wasn't an excuse to miss people oregon an exam, but an excuse to transportation to different professor's class. This is allowed, truthful I don't consciousness the request to inquire wherefore she near my calss. But she approached me and told maine that she couldn't beryllium successful my people due to the fact that I looked similar her 'mean and annoying' Girl Scouts person from childhood, and she knew she wouldn't bask the people due to the fact that of it."
—Anonymous
20. "I erstwhile had an EMT pupil amusement up precocious to their State licensing applicable exam due to the fact that she 'stayed up each nighttime delivering a stillborn goat.' That was a caller 1 for me."
—Anonymous
21. "He told maine that helium missed the exam due to the fact that his woman was pregnant."
—Anonymous
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