Oh, I have some classic stories like that...
- At the beginning of the semester in my HS physics class we somehow got on the subject of the moon. Some dumb kid raises his hand and asks "Is the moon a star?". He was completely serious. I was expecting the whole class to laugh at him when I heard half the class speak up and say "yeah, is it?". All of them were serious.
- In that same class we had this really naive, dumb girl. When we were talking about lightning and grounding, my teacher uses cars and how the occupants inside can't be harmed by a lightning strike as an example. Well, this girl raises her hand and asks "So is the reason the people inside the car can't be hurt because the car is traveling faster than the lightning?".
- In my AP stats class we had a stereotypical blonde girl. We read this example about how some British mathematician was captured and held prisoner by the Germans in WWII and flipped a coin something like 5,000 times to get an average while he was in prison. Well, this girl speaks up and says "You see, its stuff like this thats the reason why the British lost WWII".
- That same girl later went on to comment about how India's overpopulation problem was due to them having "too many Mexicans".
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