What's the FUNNIEST SCHOOL PROJECT that got a teacher fired? #storytime #storytips #reddit #shorts — Transcript

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1. 0:00What's the funniest school project that
2. 0:01got a teacher fired? Every sixth grader
3. 0:02at our school dreaded Mr. Voss's Young
4. 0:04Founders project, and I was no different
5. 0:06until I turned mine into a trap. Here's
6. 0:07how it worked. Once a year, Mr. Voss
7. 0:09made us invent a business, pitch it, and
8. 0:10compete for a trophy at Innovation
9. 0:11Night, where the whole school packed the
10. 0:13gym and parents filmed everything. Mr.
11. 0:14Voss talked about it like it was the
12. 0:15Super Bowl, but something was off, and
13. 0:17I'd noticed it 2 years running. My older
14. 0:18brother won Young Founders in sixth
15. 0:19grade with an idea for an app that let
16. 0:21kids trade chores for allowance. He got
17. 0:22a plastic trophy, a photo in the
18. 0:23hallway, and that was it. Six months
19. 0:25later, my mom saw an article about a
20. 0:26local teacher inventor who'd won $10,000
21. 0:28at an adult startup competition. The
22. 0:29winning idea? An app that let kids trade
23. 0:31chores for allowance. The teacher
24. 0:32inventor was Mr. Voss. We couldn't prove
25. 0:34anything. My brother had pitched it out
26. 0:35loud in class. No paper, no record. It
27. 0:37was his word against a grown man holding
28. 0:38a check. So, Mr. Voss kept doing it
29. 0:39every year, fawning over the realistic
30. 0:41pitches, mocking the silly ones until
31. 0:42kids cried, then quietly walking off
32. 0:44with the best idea in the room. This
33. 0:45year, I decided to give him exactly what
34. 0:47he wanted. First, I made myself look
35. 0:48like a clown. When Mr. Voss asked what
36. 0:50my business was, I said, completely
37. 0:51straight-faced, "It's a company that
38. 0:52teaches short people math." The class
39. 0:54lost it. He pinched the bridge of his
40. 0:55nose and asked why short people
41. 0:56specifically. "They're closer to the
42. 0:57ground," I said, "so they're better at
43. 0:58counting change." Everyone howled. Mr.
44. 1:00Voss smirked and moved on. I was
45. 1:02harmless. Then, over 3 weeks, I
46. 1:04accidentally let a real idea slip.
47. 1:06During a work period, loud enough for
48. 1:07him to hear, I told my friend Theo about
49. 1:09the thing I'd actually been building at
50. 1:10home with my cousin, a phone app that
51. 1:11turned any homework worksheet into a
52. 1:12video game. You photograph the page, and
53. 1:14it builds a level where solving problems
54. 1:15clears obstacles. Mr. Voss suddenly took
55. 1:17a deep interest in my little app, asking
56. 1:18its name and how it worked for grading
57. 1:20purposes. So, I gave him everything. I
58. 1:21showed him the demo. I emailed him the
59. 1:22full pitch document for feedback. What
60. 1:24he didn't know was that I'd buried three
61. 1:25things inside that file. First, a fake
62. 1:27statistic no real person would ever
63. 1:28invent, that the app boosted scores by
64. 1:3041.7% in left-handed students. Second, a
65. 1:32line of white text at the bottom,
66. 1:33invisible unless highlighted, that read,
67. 1:35"Property of Room 6B, The Short People
68. 1:37Math Company." Third, the night before I
69. 1:38ever mentioned the app to him, I
70. 1:39registered the document and demo with a
71. 1:41free copyright timestamp service. Then,
72. 1:42I waited. 2 weeks before Innovation
73. 1:44Night, Mr. Voss pulled me aside and
74. 1:45gently let me down. My app was too
75. 1:46ambitious for the competition, he said.
76. 1:48He suggested I just present the short
77. 1:49people math joke since the class loved
78. 1:50it. I nodded sadly and agreed. He looked
79. 1:52thrilled. The night of the event, the
80. 1:53gym was packed. Parents, teachers, our
81. 1:55principal Mrs. Adler, even the reporter
82. 1:56who covered the school every year. Mr.
83. 1:58Voss took the stage first to share some
84. 1:59personal news. He clicked to a slide
85. 2:01announcing he just won first place at
86. 2:02the regional EdTech Founder Showcase,
87. 2:03$10,000 for an app that turns homework
88. 2:05worksheets into video games. The gym
89. 2:07applauded. My parents turned and looked
90. 2:08at me. I just smiled. When my turn came,
91. 2:10I walked up and said I'd rather show my
92. 2:11real project than the joke. I put my
93. 2:12copyright timestamp on the big screen,
94. 2:14dated 3 weeks before his win. Then I
95. 2:16pulled up his winning submission beside
96. 2:17my original document. Word for word,
97. 2:18they matched. Then I highlighted the
98. 2:20bottom of his file, and there it was,
99. 2:21glowing on the projector for 400 people,
100. 2:23property of room 6B, the short people
101. 2:25math company. He'd copied so lazily he
102. 2:27never even deleted it. The gym went dead
103. 2:28silent. Mrs. Adler stood up, but I
104. 2:30wasn't finished. One more thing, I said.
105. 2:31I clicked to his winning slide and read
106. 2:32his headline stat out loud, that the app
107. 2:34improved scores by 41.7% in left-handed
108. 2:37students. I turned to the crowd. I made
109. 2:38that number up in my bedroom. It means
110. 2:39nothing. He didn't just steal a kid's
111. 2:40project. He read my fake homework stat
112. 2:42to a room full of real judges and won
113. 2:44$10,000 with it. The reporter was
114. 2:45already writing. The dad in the third
115. 2:46row laughed so hard he had to sit down.
116. 2:48Mrs. Adler climbed the steps, took the
117. 2:49microphone out of Mr. Voss's frozen
118. 2:51hand, and said the words that ended his
119. 2:52career. Mr. Voss, step outside, now.