to ask about schoolwork mishaps? *lighthearted*

[BananasAreTheSourceOfEvil]

I accidentally set fire to my daughter's homework.

School sent her home with a project yesterday, due in today. Had to make the document look old, so we tea stained it, and this morning I was up at 5am trying to singe the edges to make it look authentic... except the bloody thing caught on fire and by the time I got it under the tap it was 1/3 gone.

We redid it but I still had to write a note to the teacher explaining that the reason it wasnt on the original form was because I accidentally set it on fire. Enclosed the original half-project as evidence of my stupidity.

Suppose 'my mother set my homework on fire' trumps 'the dog ate it'.

Anyone else have any other mishaps to cheer me up from feeling like a complete eejit?

Someone I went to school with came in with a half burnt maths worksheet. Apparently it had been on the kitchen surface and got wafted onto the hot hob. Either that or he burnt the questions he couldn’t do

Not as dramatic as fire but I once handed in some coursework which was absolutely covered in blue crayon scribbles, courtesy of my toddler sister.

We'd been trying to get across the message 'draw on paper, not on the walls' so I saw her logic and couldn't be annoyed with her.

haha you cant argue with that logic!

I handed in a paper (for grading) whcih the lecturer handed back to me afterwards, saying 'that was great, but why is the final page covered in pictures of My Little Pony?'.

Kids got to it before I put it in my bag. Little buggers.

I spilt a glass of red wine all over a pile of homework. Unfortunately I'm a teacher and had brought it home to mark it. Almost all of the parents were sympathetic to my apology.

Hahaha!

My daughter left the F out of SHIFT in her spellings test the other day, which made the TA who was marking it laugh out loud. She felt the need to share at pick up.

My daughter spent ages doing a project and when I laminated it the ink disappeared.
DH managed to scan it into his lap top and with some wizardry restore the writing and print it off again
Panicked for a bit though

We had to iron a bit of homework that DS had done a couple of weeks ago. Whilst it wasn't the best ever piece of artwork, it clearly wasn't a scrap of paper and why DH who never tidies anything up usually decided to screw it it and throw it away, I really don't know.

I'm a teacher and got my bag stolen on a train. It had a massive pile of coursework in there. I felt awful for the kids but thankfully most had typed it and just reprinted.

I used to regularly hand in home work that the cat had walked all over with muddy paws.

Dd had a nosebleed all over her homework once. She refused to redo it and handed it in like that!

My df used to doodle everywhere. He's a good artist, and we were used to finding things covered with an assortment of eyes, or trees or bicycles etc.
Dm was not impressed though to find a letter one of us had to return with a naked lady sketched with great detail.

When I was at school our new puppy genuinely chewed and ripped my homework. I made my mum write me a note and took the pieces in as proof as I thought the teacher would never believe me! I was still terrified of saying ‘my dog ate it’ ( I was a right teachers pet) but luckily he thought it was hilarious

These are funny. DS also had to make his homework look 'old'.

I was in hospital so DH googled it and decided on the microwave method (which I've never heard of). Poof! Whole thing gone.

DS was not best pleased at having to redo everything.

When I was an examiner I got sent a blood covered paper - pupil had had a nose bleed in the middle of the GCSE exam !

Puppy literally ate DD's homework - offered to bring in the evidence once it passed but teacher just gave another copy to be done!

I once sat up late on a Friday night marking mock exams so that I could get them out of the way before the Xmas holidays. When I finally finished I opened a beer to celebrate only it was really fizzy and exploded all over the exams on the kitchen table. They were fine once they'd dried out but I had to apologise to the kids for the beery smell. I'm sure they thought I'd marked them in the pub.

Not the homework itself but having done the make it old task before, I decided to try again on my own. The paper I used was different from the thick paper we used for the homework and caught fire much faster (luckily I was around 13 and doing it next to a sink). Also spilt melted sealing wax on my finger - you get a blister the colour of the wax...fortunately my mum supervised my actual crafty homework project who knows how much more would have gone wrong...

For anyone whose writing disappeared with heat, you might have been using a heat sensitive ink. Pop it in the freezer for a bit and it should reappear. Good for spy games too.

When I was 11 and just started secondary school, my best friend (who went to a different school) drew a large picture of a naked lady in black marker on the back of my English homework.

My Mum tried to cover it up by sticking A4 paper on the back.

I spotted my English teacher sitting in the teachers section at the side of assembly, holding it up to the light and having a good giggle with the music teacher as the image showed through.

The bag I was carrying my year 11s’ mock exams in split as I got out of the car, and they all landed in a muddy puddle. It was a school in a very upper middle class area and the parents were not happy

As a teacher I once got a pupil very apologetically telling me he’d left his homework in his dad’s van that morning and it was on its way to Amsterdam. The next day his dad emailed me a photo of said homework in a clog

well, good news update. Apparently the teacher nearly cried laughing at the note.

I am loving the stories though- and DD has another project due in on Friday.

FFS mothers are people not bloody magicians (but I will artsy craftsy the shit out of it and pretend I didnt make any effort).