aged about tenwe had to do long-term projects on transport in school. it was out only homework for an entire term - the long term between easter and the summer, like eleven weeks. at this point, this was the biggest piece of work any of us had ever done - to a ten year-old this was degree-standard. everyone else spent weeks and weeks on theirs, i never even started it.
when they had all been collected in, the teacher came up to me and said 'where was yours?'.
i told her 'you must have lost it'.
and that was the last that ever came of it. i was a right little git back then though, like once i stayed behind on a Friday, wrote a bunch of really bad stuff about the teacher on the board and put up the 'do not clean the board' sign. on monday i got the grilling of my life, but there was no proof (other than i was the only kid in the class who didn't get a school bus) so i got off scot free.
(when they had all been collected in, the teacher came up to me and said 'where was yours?'.
i told her 'you must have lost it'.
and that was the last that ever came of it. i was a right little git back then though, like once i stayed behind on a Friday, wrote a bunch of really bad stuff about the teacher on the board and put up the 'do not clean the board' sign. on monday i got the grilling of my life, but there was no proof (other than i was the only kid in the class who didn't get a school bus) so i got off scot free.
mikeisbrill,
Tue 25 Nov 2003, 12:42,
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i did a similar thing.In the second year we had to do a project on Shakespear. I was crap at doing projects, and could never be bothered, so i didn't do it, and didn't hand it in. When they got handed back my English teacher said she didn't have mine. She was very dappy, which i was counting on, and told her I handed it in with everyone else. She said she would look for it. the next lesson she said she couldn't find it anywhere, she was very sorry, gave me an A and a ladybird book about shakespeare. I later discovered from my mum (who worked with my teachers dad) that she had had the entire family searching the whole house for most of the weekend.
Ooops.
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 13:01,
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Ooops.
BiologyI never handed in this piece of biology work, and I couldn't understand why I wasn't getting hassle for it. I realised that the teacher was hassling the guy after me on the register, and I had a mark in her book but he didn't. He did a cracking project, which I got a great mark for, and he had to start again.
similar thingwith gcse history coursework.
entire class had spent a month writing a project on vietnam while me and a handful of others uh, 'never quite got around to it'. because they were submitted in a sort of staggered way, we claimed that we had given them in already... over a period of about three weeks our teacher became increasingly worried and paranoid that he had lost precious gcse coursework and ended up giving us a couple of extra weeks (off-record) to 're-do' it, so in total we had over a month longer than anyone else.
sorry mr harries...it was one of just many lies we told you :(
sorry
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Thu 27 Nov 2003, 13:00,
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entire class had spent a month writing a project on vietnam while me and a handful of others uh, 'never quite got around to it'. because they were submitted in a sort of staggered way, we claimed that we had given them in already... over a period of about three weeks our teacher became increasingly worried and paranoid that he had lost precious gcse coursework and ended up giving us a couple of extra weeks (off-record) to 're-do' it, so in total we had over a month longer than anyone else.
sorry mr harries...it was one of just many lies we told you :(
sorry
One of my favourite excusesat sixth form when I was questioned where my work was, was "I haven't done it."
I learnt it off a mate, who gave it after the teacher had questioned every kid in the class, and each had given some lame-ass excuse.
Funny thing is, it worked every time.
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Thu 27 Nov 2003, 19:16,
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I learnt it off a mate, who gave it after the teacher had questioned every kid in the class, and each had given some lame-ass excuse.
Funny thing is, it worked every time.