“Unbelievable: 66 Outrageous Student Excuses That Sound Too Wild to Be True!”
The professors in both classes took my word at face value when I explained through text and email.
A snowstorm had just started, and was WAY worse than predicted. One student doesn’t show up, and 10 minutes later she calls me “Look out the window, and you should be able to see the highway… that car in the ditch? That’s me!” (She waves). “I slid off the road, and I’ve called for a tow, but they’ve just announced a towban until the storm is over, and I TRIED to get to the school, but the snow bank is too deep” (not the first snowstorm of the year!).
We ended up cancelling class early so people could have a chance to get home before the roads got any worse, anyways.
Not a teacher, but someone in one of my classes my junior year got to retake his exam because him and his dad got stranded when the dad was giving his son a helicopter flying lesson and they had to emergency land or something. The student was prone to skipping classes so they didn’t believe him until he called up his dad in the office, it was talked about by our school for a couple days.
Not a teacher but one kid was late for class because he had a “run in” with the F.B.I. Turns out his father was wanted and was found that morning so he had to walk to school because he could not drive. Teacher still marked him tardy.
TLDR: I told my professor someone got shot at a Home Depot so I might be late turning in my assignment. He didn’t believe me.
I was the student. I was taking college classes at night and was at my internship during the day. Sometime in the afternoon some guy shot a police officer? security guard? at the Home Depot that was smack dab between my campus and my office. The shooter then fled and there was a manhunt for him. A few offices and shopping centers went on lockdown but not mine.
It just so happened that that day we had an assignment due that had to be turned in with a print out before class started. If it wasn’t printed out then it was half points off, if it wasn’t in the stack right when the professor started class it was half points off. I emailed my professor and told him “there’s a shooter loose between me and campus, I might be late bc they’re closing some roads down so here’s an emailed copy of my assignment.” He tells me “I looked on Google maps and traffic seems normal I expect to see you in class on time.”
Ok I wasn’t gonna argue with my professor over email so I go to my HR lady and tell her “hey I know I normally leave an hour before class is it ok if I leave an hour and a half before so I can make it on time?” She says yes, all my little coworker friends are like I can’t believe you’re driving right through it and I’m like yeah and normally I pick up dinner before class but today I guess I’ll go without it.
With all the barricades and rerouted traffic I make it to class right on time and turn in my assignment, have a normal class but I’m a little hungry.
The NEXT TIME I go to class I sit down and my professor spots me and immediately zooms over and goes “when I got home after class my wife was watching the news and I saw the manhunt and helicopters and I’m sorry of course you wouldn’t have gotten any points off for emailing your assignment or being late”
Edit: I found the article!
Once had a student, probably around 12 year old, who had an exercise to hand in. Went something like this:
Student: I did my exercise but my sister took it and ripped it up.
Me: So you haven’t got it?
S: No, I did it again but this time she threw it in the fire.
Me: So you haven’t got it?
S: I have, I just wanted to explain why it was burnt around the edges!
In middle school my locker mate got cancer and when they cleaned out his stuff from our locker they took my library book.
So Mrs.cook I didnt lose my library book the cancer kid stole.
“A crocodile ate my homework” i live in darwin australia and some of the students went to a lake after school one of their bags were taken.
I was actually the one giving my guitar teacher the excuse: “My cat vomited on my homework!”
He had given me drill sheets and I had left them on top of my guitar case while I went to have a shower. My poor old cat, who had major GI issues, had a puking episode on said guitar case and the pages were ruined. So I called my teacher and told him I would need fresh copies at my next lesson and wouldn’t be as well practiced as I had planned. My guitar teacher absolutely died laughing.
I had a student tell me her parents kept the bodies of 6 dead hamsters in her freezer. I called her mom and she admitted to it – apparently they were waiting until the ground thawed to bury them.
Was absent due to being stranded on an island during CA wildfires – all means of transport back to the mainland were being used for more pressing matters. Eventually he (and the group he was with) was evacuated by a police plane (he was camping; group was rationing out their food).
Not a teacher, but the student. Studied musical theater in college and woke up one morning with intense pain on right side. Hobbled the half mile from dorm to my tap class. Started to feel really really bad and said I needed to go the medical center. Tap teacher said I can go once I teach a combo I choreographed to the class for a test grade-keep in mind this is a college course from a private college I’M paying money to attend- Medical center said my appendix was likely inflamed and was rushed to ER.
Also had a chorale concert that day where the course rule is if you don’t sing you fail. All of my classmates literally had to convince the music director that I wasn’t lying and was literally waiting in the hospital for surgery.
