I had this bi polar 4th grade teacher in some ways left some scars in my life. Along with my other classmates. Yelling at us for no reasons, judging and insulting us on things we didn’t know... etc. I swear looking back on the things she did, would consider emotional and mental abuse on the kids because of her episodes.
But either way
I remember one day, my teacher came up with this weird, complicated project each student needs to do “for fun”.
1) Read a thick book 📖 with many chapters and finish the book.
2) Get a big empty cereal box at home and bring it to class to decorate it.The cereal box I brought from home3) Cover the whole cereal box with colored paper and draw on the box like the book cover you read.
4) On the side of the cereal you need to write a list of characters from the book. On the other side you need to write the storyline about the book.
5) Then on the back of the cereal box, you need to write down the book summary in your own words.
6) you need 1 whole week to get this project done.
Well, I guess you could know what happened next. None of the students finished the project (except for 2-3 students). That my teacher threw a huge fit about it. She yelled at the whole class about it. Because we didn’t take the empty boxes back to our parents unfinished.
What was the hardest assignment/project your elementary school teacher ever give you?
We had to detail exactly how we would spend a million dollars, only allowed to buy one house, two? Cars and the rest had to be individual items. (You couldn't say, I'd buy 750,000 cookies)
This was like 15 years ago so the internet wasn't like it is today. Also we had to do it on poster board so even online adds had to be printed and cut out. The vast majority was from catalogues and printed advertisements. Also, the dollar was considerably more valuable back then and there were a lot less rich people so prices were less outrageous.
It had to total EXACTLY 1,000,000. (not including sales tax.
It was way harder than we expected. Did a good job of teaching us how much a million dollars really is. I had a mansion and a private jet and it still took like a week to find enough laptops and fancy electronics to add up to the million dollars.
