Teachers, what are the most bizarre reasons a student couldn't do their homework?

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[pingidjit]

I once had to tell my teacher that my cat ate my homework. Yes, really. I knew I wouldn't be believed since "My dog ate my homework" is like the #1 excuse. So, I brought in the chewed and torn up pieces with cat teeth marks in as proof. One of my cats, literally chewed up my homework, that one time. He never chewed up any papers before or afterwards again. It was such a bizarre moment.

[Lyrebird.Rainwing]

I once couldn't do my homework because my lizard used it as a toilet

[ExSharkV]

When I was 12 and in seventh grade I once used the excuse "I couldn't finish my homework because I broke two fingers on my dominant hand" and the witch of a teacher refused to believe me (I was a very clumsy kid and was always injuring myself) until I removed the thick compression/ace bandage from my hand and showed her my two grotesquely swollen and discoloured fingers. The teacher tried to tell me I should have gotten my homework done before breaking my fingers, as it had been a weekend homework assignment and I had sustained the injury on a Sunday and because of that she was going to give me a failing mark for that assignment. She also wouldn't let me go to the nurse so I could get my hand rebandaged.

[lijuanzhou]

My best excuse was: “You didn’t tell me to turn it in.”
So in 10th grade I participated in an engineering course for students and missed most of my art classes. The school excepted that and my art teacher was informed.
Toward the end of the year I got a very angry e-mail from my teacher, why I hadn’t turned the assignment. I wrote back saying, that I had no idea I was supposed to even do it, because I haven’t been in class for a few weeks and he had a strict “work can only be done in class”- rule. He gave me the weekend to finish my assignment, for which I didn’t even have the instructions, because we weren’t supposed to bring our art notes home.
Mom agreed, that it was ridiculous to make me do a monthslong assignment in one weekend and helped me by finding some of the images online, I printed and copied onto my drawing, and by writing the description and interpretation of the drawing, while I drew it.

I think I got the german equivalent of an “A” on it.

[sorcerousfang]

20:11 As a teacher who was bullied pretty terribly growing up, I want to say that I, at least, took that experience and became far more empathetic to the issues my own students have. What I do enjoy is being able to protect my bullied students in ways I never was, and it's pretty cathartic knowing my students who like to pick on others know I won't put up with that crap and don't like when I find out what's happening outside of my classroom.

I never let it affect how I grade them, but they did get detentions and phone calls home, and some of those parents had creative additions to those consequences.

As teachers, we have to remember that our students are still learning, and being a bully ourselves is never a solution. Be better people.

[xLucy_Hx]

A friend of mines father had a guide dog who geniunely ate his home work, the teacher knew the family and was aware that the dog ate just about anything so my friend was allowed another day to redo his home work.

Another one was a classmate asked the teacher if he could get in trouble for something he hadn't done, the teacher said "Of course not" the classmate then told him he hadn't done his home work. The teacher let him off for the sheer cheek of it, but warned us if we used it again we'd get detention.

[numberoneenemypeanut]

My test flew out the window when I was in 8th grade. My teacher didn't believe me until someone brought it back

[PatKilbourn]

I had a student who said his mom got taken to the ER so he left from there to come to school and his homework was at home. But he had done it. I told him to bring it in on Monday. The assignment was to give a description of a sporting event they had seen or been part of. He came in on Monday with a note from his Dad verifying that his story was true and that he had done the homework on time. I read the assignment then with a straight face told him it was an excellent description - of Sunday's football game.

[PatKilbourn]

A parent. I got a call from my son's 2nd grade teacher because he had not done his homework and lied about it. He said that the wind was so strong he had to hold on to the stair rail with both hands and the wind blew his bag away and everything in it blew away.
I explained that our house was being remodeled and the entrance was on the second floor with temporary stairs. The wind was high and we were at the end of a street that was a straight tunnel from the ocean. She laughed and gave him a new copy of the worksheet to do that night.

[princesspoppy]

I forgot my homework one time but I managed to find an old piece of homework that I also forgot to give on the spot
AND SHE TOOK IT AND GAVE ME A GOOD GRADE FOR IT

[MLG_Kitten]

When I was in grade 8 my younger cat decided that my homework was a toy and ripped it up.. I got detention after school for that. I didn't go to it tho. I went to the mall. My parents got the call and they just laughed at them 😂
The next time I had an excuse for unfinished work? My teacher purposely sabotaged my booklet by removing some papers. She lost her job because of me (she flipped out at me during my night school class because of my behavior 2 years prior) the email I sent to her via her board email was in regards to her lack of compassion and sympathy for her students, including her lack of attention to her students and basing her treatment on previous interactions and that she had no idea what goes on in her students lives, which gave her no right to treat me like that. It was her first year teaching. I was pissed because I have PTSD from an event that happened in the 2 years I was out of school. I had to walk home in -60°c (yes) without proper clothes (I had a jacket, hat, old winter boots and those hand warmer packets) I went through all that to be there and she still treated me like crap. Oh well. I'm 25 now, I'm gonna try and apply for my GED this fall and move tf out of this city

[rayraffiki]

My chinchilla ate the edge off my homework because I left it too close to his cage. I handed it in anyways

[fallonfireblade]

There was a pretty crazy sounding but legit reason I couldn't do my homework once. When I was in high school, my house was straight up in between woods and a beach, so we had a lot of wild animals show up in our yard and under our house. One day I got home from school and right next to the door I could very plainly see a SKUNK just chilling next to the front step. There wasn't another door I could go in through (the house was almost 100 years old at that point), so I was stuck just sitting there, waiting till it left so it wouldn't get scared and spray me. It was just walking around, chilling there for hours, and by the time it finally left I barely had time to eat dinner and go to bed because I had to get up at 5:00 AM to be ready for the bus to pick me up for school. I'll never forget going into class that day and explaining to my French teacher that I couldn't do my homework because a skunk had been guarding the door to the house and I was watching and waiting for it to leave. I was always an honest student though so thankfully he believed me, and he was also the only teacher I ever had who was actually understanding and sympathetic about my severe Generalized Anxiety Disorder. It was the only time I could ever see a teacher who CARED, and it meant the world to me. Mr. Haun was the best

[Cal]

Because I almost got kidnapped
Another time was when I almost died (quicksand was involved)

[AutoGamerZ_]

"My Old Uncle (Great Great Uncle) died" is *the* classic fake excuse for not being able to do your homework here in the Netherlands. You can imagine how well things went over when I missed homework due to traveling to his funeral.

[Sailorguardianluna]

7:54
I can believe these. Freshman year of high school, my late cat sat on/kneaded on a poster I made for English class. Sophmore year of college, I was taking French and left my homework on the couch while I did some dishes. One of the cats came along and chewed it lmao.

[frankhaugen]

I didn't do homework unless I wanted to, like reading books and writing short stories was great, I was upfront with my teachers that that was how it would be, and I got away with it, mostly because the teachers gave me homework I would want to do, sometimes I was the only one doing a specific task. Nobody cared, and it was just awesome

[DraganGrazic]

My homework, turned out to be a mimic, and it ate my dog.

[xxsoulpunkedxx]

5:52 I had a professor in college that required you to bring a pamphlet from the funeral in order for it to be an excused absence. Not quite a pic of the dead body but close enough

[wmdkitty]

My cat fell asleep on my math homework more than once. I wasn't going to make her move...