ifax108

One day in my US History class:

Kid: (Raise hand)
Teacher: Yes?
Kid: I have kind of a dumb question, it's not really about history, but about geography...
Teacher: What is it?
Kid: Well, where do the people in, like Kansas swim?
Teacher: What? What are you trying to say?
Kid: Like you know how people in Massachusetts swim in the Atlantic Ocean, and people in California swim in the Pacific Ocean. Like, where do they swim in Kansas?
Kid 2: IN THE KANSAS OCEAN!

People were laughing for the next five minutes.

Also, another favorite (I wasn't there for this one, this one was in a 7th grade science class):
"What's a sandwich?"

Apparently the kid was trying to ask what a "sand-witch" was, if that's anything.

mwh015

my 10th grade biology class, a girl asked if ear wax could be eaten...

TickGrey

Teacher: Okay, clear your desks, it's time for a pop quiz!
Student: I tried to clear my desk but the bacteria just wouldn't leave!

ICancel

In human geography: "So like do they have to inject the milk into coconuts or what?"...favorite response: "Of couse, in the same way they inject it into cows"

smorgasbord

Kid 1: We have a quarter of an hour left --
Kid 2: 25 minutes, you guys!

anaychi

"You're good at ideas."

Ladydonni

On a topic of using research to take a side :

Teacher: can anyone think of a research question?
Girl : is the moon made out of cheese?

Shaking my head

NoNameNeil

8th grade English class, girl giving presentation on animal testing:
"Animals are people too"

Anberlin

Alg. 2 Class:

"If e is a number, then why doesn't it come out on Sesame Street?! I've seen EVERY episode and not once did e pop up!"

Aerospaced

11th grade, Calculus teacher puts the days notes on the board, the title being "L'Hospital's Rule"

Kid 1: "What's L 'derivative' Hospital?" (thought the apostrophe was a prime)
Kid 2: "A medical clinic, and the second derivative a doctor, right?"

tomenow

In sophomore English, someone mentioned Dexter. So, stemming from a description of Dexter dealing with his victims in rooms protected by plastic and questions about how he managed to accomplish everything in such a short period of time came a twenty-minute conversation about how to commit the perfect murder. Then a brilliant girl raised her hand.

"But, where does he get all the plastic??"

This coming from the same person who asked, "By punctual, you mean you add periods and stuff, right?"

SteelTrapMindset

I was in English class me and my friends were blowing a project off and then one of them asks, "Why do you have black people's skin and white people's hair?"

Keep in mind I'm neither Negroid or Mongloid, but in fact a Caucasian in terms of the 3 great races.

liddydonaghy

"Is West Virginia a state?"

ivybound1

The example question on some standardized test (I think it's AP exams) is about what Chicago is, and a girl in my room thought it was a state... She was so proud because she thought she had found a huge mistake made by the College Board.

tomenow

Freshman year, during a loud pep rally, a flute decided to play the pen*s game (where you take turns saying the word "pen*s" and get louder and louder until someone notices) with a senior snare drum who had the balls to shout it. So he does shout it, and she screams it. It just so happens that the room had gone silent because the national anthem had started playing. Everyone looks at her, and she sheepishly draws out the word and then joins in singing: "Pen...is...icular...larity? What so proudly we hailed..."