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Fuck a science class, that motherfucker shouldn’t have been allowed near the school.

I'd surprisingly been thinking about this just a while ago. Definitely not the wrongest, but one of the weirdest things I have been taught was the theories of the origin of life. I remember being pretty confused by most of them (though the most accepted one made sense to me), but the one that said that life came from a meteorite from space was the one that tripped me up the most. AND WHERE DOES THE FREAKING LIFE THAT THE FREAKING METEORITE BROUGHT TO EARTH COME FROM?! It told me pretty much nothing.

I searched it up just to see if it really existed, and lo and behold, it is the seventh theory of the first result that I found which states exactly what I thought haha

I used the word poesy in a written assignment, as in the art of poetry. The teacher didn't recognize it as a real word and deducted points from my grade. She had a policy that we could correct and resubmit for half points, so I did that but didn't change the word, I just helpfully gave her the definition in a footnote.

Shocked, naive, innocent little me didn't not know what to think when she took that as an insult. I was only trying to help her, didn't she get that?!?

This was one of a handful of events when my sister started implying I might have a neurospicy brain. IDK, maybe, but I was just being accurate so I didn't really see that as anything I needes to address. I thought the overly-sensitive and factually incorrect teacher was the one who needed to self-reflect.

“You need to go to college to be successful or you’ll be flipping burgers!”

So said teachers, parents, career counselors, etc. and here we are, I beat school, and no jobs. Should’ve become an electrician.

I got a question right on an electronics quiz about finding the resistance in a curcuit (I have verified I was right).

My science teacher who didn't know how to do it in the first place and was just looking at the (incorrect) answer schedule said I was wrong. I just said "I don't think so but ok" even though I knew I was right as I did not want to argue. As she was walking away I explained to my friend why I was right, my teacher overheard me and came storming to the table saying:

"WHEN I SAY IM RIGHT I AM RIGHT! AND WHEN I SAY YOUR WRONG YOU ARE WRONG!"

At the top of her lungs.

I was just a kid so it put me off science for a bit tbh.

I remember a bunch of things in science class in middle school, because I was really into science and it bothered me that they oversimplified everything to the point of being straight up false. Like a definition of "animals" being "something with eyes and a mouth". I mentioned several examples of animals without eyes, like corals, but the teacher just exasperatedly said that they did have small mouths. Ok, but your definition said eyes and a mouth, not or.

I also remember a question in a test about astronomy being "what is the biggest object". I thought about it for a moment and then wrote "the universe"; which I'll maintain to this day, was right. But it was marked wrong. The expected answer was the sun. I talked about it to the teacher, because it wasn't like I pulled the existence of objects bigger than the sun from my personal knowledge only, we'd explicitly talked about bigger stars and galaxies. But the teacher said "It was implied 'biggest object in the solar system' ". Implied how? It definitely wasn't written. I still want my point back.

That "th" sounds like the letter "f". It doesn't but I'm nearly 40 and still can't pronounce it correctly.

That Columbus was a good person.

It doesn't matter if I'm a good person, if I don't believe in god, I'm going to hellll.

That the civil war was fought over states rights.

When I was 11, an entire class of students and the biology professor were adamant that snakes do not have skeletons. I knew for a fact this was false because I had seen one at the museum.

I had a teacher confidently tell the class that Mt. Everest didn’t border China (well Tibet really, but that’s a battle for another day). I will say she was able to concede she was mistaken. I had another teacher hit on me when I was in high school while I was alone with her in the copy room. I had always heard some salacious rumors about her, but I always assumed they were just idle gossip until that day. That was a different kind of wrong. And no, I didn’t take her up on the advance.

I’m assuming English isn’t your first language, so just as an FYI, wrongest isn’t a word. “Most false” is probably the best fit in this instance. Just one of those weird quirks of this bastard language.