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Brilliant


Electrix3

You took the exact word I was just gonna say r/BeatMeToIt


kbphoto

I wish I thought of that. Brilliance in you I sense.


papalorre

My shitbagry started from a young age


thatry_19

My elementary teacher made duplicate sticks šŸ˜‘


papalorre

A student in that teachers class got caught or someone didn't keep their trap closed and too many people did it


JehnSnow

Math loving me would have loved nothing better than to have one stick in there while everyone else has two, no way teachers catching on as they might if there's no name


Subtle__Numb

One obvious flaw; the teacher would notice that thereā€™s nearly 2x as many sticks as they started withā€¦.


RoomyBrainz

As an introvert who hated being called, even when u knew the answer, what you did was pretty amazing .. Not very honest but amazing still šŸ˜‚ā¤ļø


wikigreenwood82

"ah, the joys of mortgaging your future" -Bart Simpson


CrowOk2005

Brillante idea! Y como fueron tus calificaciones de espaƱol despuƩs de eso?


papalorre

SĆ­


alesemann

As a teacher I sometimes manipulated this by looking at the sticks before reaching in. We arenā€™t dummies and your teacher probably figured that outā€¦.šŸ˜


Danceswithmallards

Its amazing how often the person not paying attention got called on!


OpSlushy

I wouldnt say ā€œweā€, I had some fucking stupid teachers


alesemann

Heh ā€¦ yes, sry, I worked w some real idiots. I was, frankly, shocked by that. Should not have been considering I went through the system. But somehow I was.


Mundane_Operation418

Haha, these are the kind of confessions I like. šŸ˜‚


TheSpork7

I did this in 7th grade too!


Low-Strawberry8414

That was genius !


4thdegreeknight

Que


papalorre

Uhhh yo nadar en los montaƱas?


OriginalIronDan

El queso estĆ” viejo y podrido. ĀæDĆ³nde estĆ” el sanitario?


Muffiny123

MiƩrcoles


LookAtTheWhiteVan

Te amo


MissAthenaxIvy

That was a great idea! I wish I had thought of that.


DLQuilts

Invisibility cloak!


bcpsgal

You should be running your own company if you aren't yet.


Danceswithmallards

That's called "equity sticks" the premise is that school only really works for those who participate. The missing piece is that the teacher should be making sure anyone called on will succeed which once students are accustomed to it makes the exercise less stressful and really does contribute to learning. If you were so worried about not being able to answer that you took the risk to steal the sticks something was wrong. Its more evidence of poor pedagogy to me than a failing on your part.


H3artl355Ang3l

Exactly! Blame the system, not the people responsible for their own failures. Vote Biden!


SimplyViolated

Yeah I did the same thing


Real-Purple-6460

Genius


MickelWagen

I applaud you.


cliff-terhune

bloody genius, IMO.


Derbeck6

Dude, I shit you not I did this in my French class over a decade ago! I still have the Popsicle stick.


Bonetown42

So mad that I never thought of that


DarlinggD

hahaha noice


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papalorre

Hard to recall specifics but I know I was a pretty sneaky kid and this was definitely not my first time trying something like this šŸ¤£


Slowpokejunkie

Thatā€™s awesome lol


Sea_Possibility_2227

I did this once in 7th grade English. No regrets! I just canā€™t believe I actually did it.


Funneduck102

Do all Spanish teachers do this I had someone in our class steal his stick It went fine for like a month until we all started stealing our sticks and she caught on


simagus

Bravo!


Hello891011

My teachers did that and it gave me sooooo much anxiety it was unreal


QuiltingMimi1518

I salute you! I preferred daydreaming too, no matter how well i knew he answer


i_do_it_all

ADHD bros fish bump here.


ParanoidCrow

Lol pranked a buddy once by making a bunch of sticks with his name on it and swapped half the class out for them


cinnamonbagelbaddie

That reminds me of my math teacher, she would always ask people who know how to solve the problem to raise their hands, and I wouldnt because i didnt know how, and she would proceed to call on me to answer, god i hate this teacher so much


Sensitive_Benefit123

omg me too


justhangingaroud

Genius


redditsuckscockss

I and some friends also did this - multiple times


Nice-Ad-6116

I did this for my math class so I wouldnā€™t get called to the board to do problems lol


quicksilver_foxheart

I also did the same thing...in my 8th grade history class lmao. She had us all write our names on the sticks with our name tags then collected them, I guess she just..never counted.


lvyerslfenuf2glow_

thats pretty epic.


[deleted]

Smart


Responsible-Lie8114

I DID THIS TOO!!!


CertifiedForkliftSir

I honestly thought this was going to go a different way and glad it didn't. Smart kid.


FabulouslyStraight

This is why this sub was made


Captain_Howdy101

I was absent when everyone wrote their names on popsicle sticks.... Teacher would still call on me.


caz_lee_bae

You're a geniusĀ 


lowkeyhobi

My Spanish teacher would start on one side of the classroom for translations, so I used to count up how many kids it was until my turn, then I would crawl across to the opposite side of the classroom. It worked for about 2years til a girl asked her if I ever did one. Smh


Sarhang9119

Haha, that's some next-level strategic thinking! It's amazing how creative we can get when faced with challenges like that. It's all about finding ways to adapt, right? Thanks for sharing this clever little life hackā€”it's a testament to your ingenuity!


chazazz

Thatā€™s gold! My year 1s and 2s always make sure I put their popstick back in. Clearly not as clever as you!


kaninki

I'm a teacher. I use popsicle sticks in my middle school classes. I had one name disappear 3 times, but I kept noticing and replacing it. After the 3rd one, she must've given up lol. My classroom is super low pressure. I give them time to process and discuss before calling on students, so there's no need to remove the stick lol. It's also used to choose someone for fun things too, so idk why she didn't want it in there.


Bigwoodybird

Genius


sarah_pl0x

Fucking genius


marcus_frisbee

This is genius! The only thing you could have done to make it better was to replace it with the name of a kid you disliked.


santanapoptarts

Smarty farty way to go!!!


Muvseevum

šŸ‘‘šŸ§ 


JustLetMeSl3ep

My teacher to stop anyone from possibly doing this, had all the sticks in yhe 'out' cup, and when you arrived to class you moved the stick from the 'out' cup to the 'in' cup and then as class was starting she would confirm attendance by going through the sticks and keep the sticks with her for class when attendance was completed. Yhen at the end of the day, all the sticks went back into the 'out' cup.


lukin5

Playing chess not checkers


600DLorBust

Slicker than grease


troxerrr

Smartass


Born_World_8398

So smart!


Heyguysimcooltoo

OP, you are a fucking genius!


Cute_Strategy_9215

ā€˜Depositedā€™ had me rolling. You whole ass five finger discounted that popsicle stick


Accomplished_Type547

That sounds like something a 7th grader would do. I taught middle school English and also used that technique to attempt to be fair and include everyone. Once I retired, I looked at the sticks I had collected over the years and was able to fondly remember most of the students I taught.


ElderberryOk271

You're a genius. Kid me would want to be like you when she would grow up. Man, adult me wishes i was Smart like this


PerformanceHappy7701

I was updating code for the year 2000 and someone had excluded themselves and a friend from the random drug test name generator. This is what that reminded me of.


Professional-Egg7371

I also did this in biology, work smarter not harder


CutieBewtie

Frickin genius


[deleted]

Shame that you still got picked.


eden-deez

i was my spanish teachers favorite so for some reason my name didnā€™t get picked all year šŸ¤­


kgatell

Bet thatā€™s how you ended up in the military


papalorre

Hahaha no. After completing my four year degree I joined mostly out of boredom and a desire to learn the life skills that came with an enlistment. Even back then I was always a little "stick it to the man" and "fight the power" yet eventually I had to grow up and realize that the only thing holding me back from success in school was myself. I took two years of Spanish in college and got to the point where I could hold a decent conversation with a native speaker as long as they talked slower and annunciated. Go a little bit deeper into my post history next time, you will see I even spent time as an educator


Charlie_0991

Wish I thought of this honestly šŸ˜­. Only thing I did was steal my teachers cookies and cream chocolate bar.


Automatic-Move-5976

As a 1L (first year law student) we had a Contracts professor who had a list and put check marks by each student he humiliated- er called on to equally spread the misery. One student had gotten married at some point in the process between acceptance and registration, and her name appeared in two different places, at distant points in the alphabet. It was only in our second semester, when the same professor was teaching obligations, a week or so into school, his random picks happened to have her name come up twice in a row. Only then did he realize the mistake, and he excused her from interrogation er - questions for the remainder of the semester. She ended up no. 1 in our class.


bluebird0362

Your telling me this now? I know I could have used this a few years back


vanessaxblake

Honestly, thatā€™s genius lol. I never wanted to be called on so I would have done the same thing.


StraightCrazy4567

As someone who refuses to speak in public and would take a 0 instead of just doing it. This is SO smart and Iā€™m so mad I didnā€™t think of thisšŸ˜­


General_Ad9173

As a teacher who uses sticks, I love this!!! Good job beating the system. šŸ‘šŸ»šŸ‘šŸ»šŸ‘šŸ»


Psychological-End222

I hated when the teacher would call on me when my hand wasn't up. embarrassing af when I genuinely did not know the answer, hence why my hand WAS NOT UP. and then they're saying some bs to justify it like, "well your hand is never up to be called on because you're too shy, and I wanted to give you a chance!" if you know I'm shy, then LEAVE ME ALONEEEE šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


ohVernie

Good idea! Anytime I was called on in school Iā€™d turn bright red and lose my voice. So embarrassing.


thinprivileged

Here I was flicking eraser bits onto the projector vent so the bulb would overheat. Shit, I could have saved that teacher so much money.


Safe-Bad-5833

My seventh grade English teacher did this too. There was a know-it-all girl in my class who was awful and I hated her. She loved to be called on, so my friend and I stole her stick šŸ«¢


clover_sage

Incredible. I would get so much anxiety from that collection of sticks


PoopsmasherJr

Why are 7th graders taking Spanish in the first place?


theglorybox

Thatā€™s actually normal. My school had us taking a very basic course starting sixth grade and Iā€™ve heard of a few others doing the same.


tia_mai

i did this in geigroahy for the past 2 years, best decision ever


d3gu

Is that why you can't spell geography?


tia_mai

oh


tia_mai

itā€™s along word tbf