Not so much a project...
Way back when I was a young nipper (12/13ish), my best friend and I were pretty much the smart kids in class. We didn't have to try particularly hard, and we'd get by (of course, this plan of action lead to A-level resits, but that's another story).

We turned up for a Geography lesson one day, only to be informed of an impending test on everything we had learned that term. Obviously, we had received prior warning, but me and my friend hadn't been paying attention, and so were shitting ourselves. Now, we weren't shitting ourselves at the thought of another botched test, more that the teacher was the worst kind of teacher. Everyone had one, the one who shouts and screams like a academic banshee...

The test was 100 questions, one of them being which motorway links London with the industrial South Wales? And others of that ilk. I guessed that one, and quite a few others...

A week later, we go back for the results, and the teacher announces to the class

"Well done on the test everybody, I was very pleased with the results. There are two people I am very happy with, Laura and Charlie got 100%, congratulations!"

*Round of applause*

"There are also two people I am no so happy about, James and Huw. You sit around in class, every week, laughing and joking, and not paying attention, and then you get 100% in the test, how do you think that makes everyone who works hard feel?"

*Shock*

So, we got told off for getting 100% in a test? (We didn't cheat, we weren't sat next to each other). How on Earth can anyone get told off for doing perfectly? Surely it just means we are too capable, rather than deserving a telling off?

To this very day, me and my friend are still bitter about this.

Damn you, Ms. Chapman, damn you to hell!
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 18 Aug 2009, 9:56, 3 replies)

I remember a similar thing in A level physics
by virtue of being good at physics I got an A in the first module, one of two in our class who did. Nick, the other guy, was the apple of the teacher's eye and could do no wrong. He was a smart guy, and he worked hard too. Our teacher, Dr Felch as we called her, laid the praise on him thick. I was slightly surprised* to find I got an A as I had done no work prior to the exam so had a satisfied smile on my face. Felch turned from Nick and said to me, in a cold voice "I hope you don't think this means you don't have to do any work"

It may have been wise to think through my retort of "well, I didn't do any for this one...."

*When told my grade by my maths teacher, who has in charge of exams, I think my words were "Fuck me!"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 10:24, closed)

GCSE Physics
We were going through a practice paper, and the teacher informed us that there was one section of the exam that nobody got full marks in.

She then noticed me not writing anything down, and when she asked why, I told her that I had got that entire section correct. Which was something of a miracle given that I was easily the dumbest kid in the class (the rest of my class went on to becomes doctors and vets, I'm doing human biology as a mature student).
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Tue 18 Aug 2009, 13:34, closed)

A reply.
" ....how do you think that makes everyone who works hard feel?"

Inferior, Miss. And justifiably so.
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 18:08, closed)