" A computer science prep book had an instructional DVD . A student enjoin , ' That is so vintage . I love that . ' "
Teachers already have to put up with a lot: angry parents, unruly kids, and budget cuts, to name a few. So when their students accidentally make them feel ancient with an offhanded comment, it has to feel like a real gut punch.
So, weaskedthe teachers out there in theBuzzFeed Communityabout the moment a student made them think,Oh no, I’m old!And just as a warning, their stories might make YOU feel old, too.
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" I learn second grade , and I had to explicate what ' rerun ' means . They could not comprehend what I was saying . I even said , ' you’re able to DVR a show , ' and they did n’t know what a DVR was . This was about four years ago . I felt so old , and I ’m in my early thirty ! "
— anonymous
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" I was reading a record to my kindergartners , and one of them asked why some of the icon were disastrous and blank and not in vividness . I explained that a long , long sentence ago , they did n’t have colour exposure … only black and blanched . She enunciate , ' Oh , like in the ' 90s ? ' "
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" This was 25 days ago ; I was teach a university popular fiction course of study . Mind you , I was n’t quite 30 yet myself . A first - class uni student ask me , ' Where can I findclassic moviesfrom the ' 80s ? ' I feel a hole drop out from under me back then . That was it , the instant when I was officially OLD . "
— anonymous , age 53
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" I teach newcomer in mellow schooltime . I set off to feel old when I perplex my first stratum of freshmen who were carry AFTER 9/11 . Then I earn how people felt when they sing about the blackwash ofJFKor the landing on the moon , and I would say I was not hold . Ouch ! "
— anon. , 51 , Florida
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" A few years ago , there was a schooltime spirit day themed to the 2000s ( the week ’s theme was ' through the decades ' ) . Just the solar day theme alone made me feel ancient , but then a girl showed up to my class wear jeans under a spaghetti shoulder strap frock over a blank golf tee , with a skinny scarf emphasis . I literally laughed so hard I was bent over , and struggled to tell her how exact her outfit was .
When I recovered , I enjoin her , ' I do n’t worry what you Guy bring back , as long as it ’s not low - rise denim . ' She looked at me , broken , and said , ' Oh , I think they ’re precious ! ' clew a ranting from me about how low-down - wage hike jeans are TERRIBLE unless you have the skinniest stick figure , and even then you ’re always worried your whole butt is fall down out , you have to pull them up every meter you sit , every time you stand , every time you move . ' LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES ! ' I shouted , but apparently they did n’t . "
— anonymous , 31 , California
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" The first time one of my in high spirits shoal bookman told me I instruct their parent . "
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" I ’m a Snoopy fanatic and aggregator , and because of that , I ’m a fan of jazz . I ’d always act as wind medicine for my class . One day , the radio was on , and the Thomas Kid wanted to bed what we were listening to . When I explained it was jazz , they said it was boring and sounded like ' erstwhile people ’s music . ' Then they bespeak out I was honest-to-goodness than their mother , so I would be their grandma . I just about died and switched the station . "
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" They made fun of my slip - on Sketchers . "
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" I ’m a music instructor , and I was spiel a biz with my 3rd graders where they had to gauge the birdcall AND the creative person . I played a One Direction song ( ca n’t retrieve which one ) , and they were all so lost . I give them a hint and say , ' Guys , this radical is howHarry Stylesgot famous , ' and they all go , ' Huh ? ? ? ' I wanted to curl into a ball . "
— anonymous , 25 , Ohio
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" I had a educatee suddenly break away out singing , ' ai n’t no Trygve Lie , baby bye bye bye . ' I asked him how he know that song . He said , ' It ’s fromDeadpool [ & Wolverine ] . How do YOU have it away that birdcall ! ? ' I laughed and said that I saw NSYNC in concert when I was his age . He looked me deadened in the eyes and aver , ' Who ’s NSYNC ? ' "
— anon. , 38 , Delaware
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" I ran into one of my honest-to-god students in a grocery store one day . I taught him when he was nine , and he was now 25 . I involve how he was doing and chatted with him . He require me , ' You ’re still teaching ? ' I was only 50 years onetime . What the heck ? "
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" I was sharing a storey about my ma in social class one daylight , and a scholarly person looked me straight in the eye and said , ' Your mother is still alive ? ' "
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" Middle school teacher here . A computer science prep book had an instructional DVD . A student said , ' That is so vintage . I sleep with that ! ' And when I part talking about how we would burn cadmium , I got the most mazed looks … worse than when I was teaching them maths lol . "
— anon. , 34
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" I teach sixth - course Social Studies in a center school . My pupil have had somefunny jokesabout how erstwhile they think I am , but here are some of the best ones :
We were talk about the Civil War , and I had them intent outfits that people would wear during that period . Someone asked if I could help with hers because ' I experience it and would know it better than her . '
Someone asked when we would learn about dinosaurs . I said never because that ’s a science topic . He then permit out a longsighted sigh . When I asked why , he said , ' I wanted to see the pic that you took when you see to it them ! '
Another bookman demand if schooltime buses existed ' back in the olden days . ' It made me feel like I was born in the Middle Ages ! "
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" I was teaching English in Korea in 2009 . The textbook had delineation of household items that students had to label from a word cant . A third - grader — so about 8 or 9 days old — say , ' Teacher , what is VCR ? ' I was 23 at the clip , but that question made me feel like a fossil . "
— anonymous , 39 , California
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" I was listen to the wireless in between classes . An Elton John song came on . I articulate , ' Hey , Elton John , ' to which one of my kids involve , ' Who ? ? ' "
— anonymous , 25 , California
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" My students had no idea Beyoncé was in Destiny ’s Child before her solo career . "
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" A Holy Writ problem refer an unlisted bit , and I had to stop and explain all about phone books and unlisted turn to my students . They were completely bowl over that you just had everyone ’s information in a Scripture sitting on your coffee board . "
— anon. , 40 , Virginia
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" One of my scholarly person said that they were put up in 2016 . I was confused for half a second base , thinking they would be a baby , and I feel so old when I realized , ' Right , that makes sense for a nine - year - old . ' "
— anonymous , Texas
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" I had a child in category ask , ' Who ’s Elvis ? ' "
— anonymous , 39 , Georgia
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" When I pop out teach in the ' 90s , I babble out about buying 45s . My student consider I was talk about guns . "
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" I instruct high schooltime junior and senior . One Clarence Day , partway through the school year , a student randomly pronounce that his mammy said she date me in high schooling . "
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" A few age ago I was teach a group of 3rd years ( around 15 years old ) . The topic was consumer subject field , and I used the phrase ' keeping up with the Joneses ' to explain how people often buy thing they do n’t need just to look more affluent to others . I comment the class was kinda looking at me funnily , and there was some whispering and giggling going on , so I asked what was up . One of the students replied , ' Ms , it ’s hold back up with the Kardashians . ' They had never take heed the keeping up with the Joneses acknowledgment before . "
— anonymous , Ireland
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" I am a first - grade teacher , and on occasion over the years , my young student would erroneously call me ' Mommy ' — now I am referred to as ' Grandma . ' "
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" It ’s fall out a few time . Students differentiate me I had their sibling , and I ca n’t even recall the class they graduated . Or the time when no one was responding to a question , and I started enjoin , ' Bueller .. ? ' And they looked at me like I had an arm growing out of my headspring . "
— anonymous , 40 , New Jersey
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" During free reading time , this kid was looking through a book about planes . There was a pic of one of the plane crashing into the Twin Towers on 9/11 . He asked me what was materialize in the depiction . I did the maths and realized that he had n’t even been bear when 9/11 occurred . "
— vivaluna0000
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" I was correct a scholar for their conduct , and they differentiate me that I was tolerate in the last century . I retorted that I was born in the last millennium , too , and what was their point ? "
— tritonequeen
