Teachers, what's the funniest thing to come out of one of your students' mouths?

My first grade class was learning the word powerful.

Kids came up with examples of powerful things and people, like elephants and Superman.

Then one boy said,

Babies are powerful because they can cry and get whatever they want.

Teacher, I need a pencil.

Where do the pencils live?

I have a bucket of sharpened pencils for them to use.

Pennsylvania?

I'm a teacher in Canada, told the kids to name me five US states, and their rogue could go out

for recess first.

A boy raised his hand and said,

Rattlesnake? What? Oh, snakes. No, states. Name five states. Uh, T-bone? You're

naming stakes. States. States. States. Resource teacher was in the room and we were

crying, laughing. Gas, liquid, solid, plasma, Bose-Einstein

condensate. In seventh grade on a test, the question was, why do some people see technology

as positive and others see the same technology as a problem? And a kid simply put,

Because some people are Amish? I remember in year three we had to answer a logic question about why there might be uneven amounts of shoes at the door.

I'd recently watched Titanic for the first time, so decided to write,

One person might be a one-legged working girl.

It helped that my mum was a parent helper that day.

I'm a white guy teaching ESL in Asia.

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