Wednesday
Apr142010
The Teacher Tearjerker
April 14, 2010 Educators of the world, get those hankies out.
Because this...[dramatic pause]...is your story.
Yes, every year you need some good "louck" as you embark upon that harrowing journey:
Back "toschol."Here you will continue on for an indeterminate amount of time.
"4" more...years?Sure, let's go with that.
During this time, you will expand your students' cultural horizons:
Perhaps by "celabrating" the mythical continent of "Afraicia."You will "suport" your prep times:
(While grading the staff room cakes in your spare time.)And, of course, you will strive to instill a love of reading into your young charges:
Not to mention their "comunity."
Your students will turn 18.Yes, you've ushered another generation into adulthood!
"Yu dib it!!!"And your reward?
(One baker, two cakes, two different mistakes.)Now you can join with your students' families in saying...
"Happy Gracturations!"
yAEh!And if you're really lucky, one day a former student just might come back to visit, bearing cake:
A cake of "apprication."Aaron R., Marissa S., Alisha G., Kelly D., Amy S., Kim B., Rebecca N., Kasey, Stacey W., Anony M., Rebekah, & Amy S., have you thanked a teacher today?
Reader Comments (180)
Normally a lurker, I just had to comment on today's wrecks.
OMG...My sides hurt, and I'm still wiping the tears...holy cow...I can't breathe!
When I scrolled to the 'Back "toschol."' cake I quickly read it and my brain told me it said 'Black a-hole' and I am not sure which is worse.
I choked on my oatmeal about halfway through this post from laughing too hard. The journalist in me is crying.
Corie
The teacher(')s must be so proud.
as a former educator, this post warms my heart, or at least, it tried...
As a former teacher, I had to say YAEH to today's cakes; I appricate them very much.
the "Happy Gracturations!" had me laughing out loud.
Thanks
While I have no words (Afraicia???), my WV says it all: putww
PS, "thank yu Jonh" for the note about Saturday posts. Yu guys need all the suport and louck you can get.
Note to self...pee BEFORE reading Cake Wrecks!
One of your best posts ever! As a former teacher, it breaks my heart, but in a funny way....
It always drives me nutz when peaple cant spel.
AWESOMENESS at its finest! There's coffee coming out of my nose I was laughing so hard!
-Jenniffer
http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com
WV: poningl - A ningl without a lot of money.
LOL! My grandmother was the principal of a very small, gang-riddled high school for a year when I was a teen. She said her greatest accomplishment was that the death threats (by letter) she received at the end of the year had much better grammar than the ones at the beginning of the year! :)
Love today's wrecks!
These cakes are amazing! Or terrible. Not sure which word to use.
Nothing like a big crack and black roses to celebrate the "comunity" library.
Mainly, though, I'm curious as to what that nasty black box on the "toschol" cake is covering up.... :)
While "appricate" may not be a word, it's closer to "apricate" (which apparently is--thank you dictionary.com!) than "appreciate".
Apricate:
1690s, "to bask in the sun," from L. apricatus, pp. of apricari "to bask in the sun," from apricus "exposed" (to the sun); perhaps contracted from *apericus, from aperire "to open." Trans. sense is recorded from 1851.
Perhaps they are apricating to celebrate "school's out for summer; no more kid's"...
It's cakes like these that make me happy I never used my teacher certification. I'm so glad I stayed out of teaching if this is the result.
Yeah, um, wow. So did anybody else see a umm, well let's just say the sand castle on the 2nd "no more kids" cake looks a little like, gee, stylized people worshipping an idol, a very naughty idol.
Or maybe I should drink some more coffee because my eyes must be blurry.
Should we hold some sort of fundraiser to get a dictionary in to every bakery in the country? Because, wow...
wv- eatickp- If you eatickp, you will have to get your stomach pumped.
yes.... I am a teacher. This was my actual response.
*close eyes, take a deep breath, slowly shake head side to side.
So hilariously sad.....
I'm so glad I teach music! :)
The report card on the 'suport' cake makes me think that one was intentional.
My inner editor just curled up and died. A long, painful, hilarious death. We're doomed...
I'm an English teacher, and this makes me want to cry. Not tears of happiness or laughter as usual from this site. Oh, no. These are bitter tears of sorrow for the last, small shreds of Faith in Humanity that had remained in my soul. Those shreds just died.
I sincerely hope the wreckerators of these compositional catastrophes suffered ridiculous amounts of ridicule from those who picked up the cakes. (I also hope the cakes were free afterward, but that's a different issue altogether.)
The library cake reminds me of hunting in the original Oregon Trail. >.>
I think Legale is actually a small town near where my parents live. Did someone just up and buy the whole town, thus warranting the "Your Legale" cake?
For a second, I thought the one cake said "BACK 10 SCHOOL", which would be binary for BACK 2 SCHOOL. That would have made it pretty legendary in my book. but it was just a smudged "to". :(
Good lord....that was hilarious. Sad but hilarious!
I viewed this post as my students were taking a test. I laughed out loud! Thanks for the inspiration--Maybe we can have a good grammar/ spelling cake decorating contest?
Very funny! Oh, my. I'm just shaking my head. I just...I just...is it really possible???
Ok, and I love the grading of the one cake....sooooo funny!
Note to self: Steal Jen's idea of animal flash cards and add spelling cards. Laminate all cards so they can stick them on the cakes to copy from.
I just don't get it. Back in the day when I decorated cakes at the ice cream store, we had to go through actual training before we could even write Happy Birthday on a cake. Do bakeries just hire anyone who can breathe now?
As a homeschooling mom, I made this part of my son's English/Grammar assignment for the day! Sad, but very funny!
And this is why I want to teach college. So my cakes can come with longer, more obscure misspellings.
Oh, I am DYING of laughter over this guided tour of every teacher's nightmare!
One baker. Two different mistakes with an apostrophe. How "tragic". Yep, that's why you should pay attention in school, kids. You never know when you will "knead the knolege" being passed along to you!
That's "one baker, two cakes, THREE different mistakes."
Extra apostrophe, missing apostrophe, missing word.
BEST POST EVER! I love it! yAEh!!
WV: meatent - At least the cake didn't have any meatent.
My last name is Loucks, so when I saw the first one with its convenient space for the "S" I just thought it sounded rather condescending.
Also: gracturations is a wonderful word.
I'm reminded of a political sign we saw a few years back. The guy running for Sherrif would "appericate" your vote! Now we can't help ourselves, we often say appericate instead of appreciate. My husband let it slip the other day at work and had to explain!
http://agirlinherkitchen.blogspot.com
Oh my! As a future teacher, it will be my goal to teach the next generation of bakers about the English language.
Wow, this set of cakes made my day.
As a teacher, I was just laughing that Cake Wrecks is a more popular site on my school computer than my school's website.
Lewis and Clark could not spell, and they were keeping diaries for the President.
Maybe these wreckerators will become professional campers and diarists. :)
I'm still laughing...is that Nero I hear?
Mocking
Classic! One of the best posts yet! I love how you tell a story with the cake atrocities.
*sigh* Then those 18-year olds come enroll in my foreign-language class, and wonder why it's so hard.
I canNOT believe they found yet another way to "spell" congratulations.
Those are hysterical. I just subscribed, and I swear, it seems like every entry is funnier than the last.
...does the library cake say "Place of Library" in the top corner with the poo-bear??
Oh my goodness this is one of the most hilarious posts I've EVER seen!!!
Is it just me? or does the back toschol cookie look like 2 decorators had this conversation...
"dude, you spelled scholl wrong, there's only one L."
"dude, you're right, I'll just block out this extra L and make it look like a dicton....dictton...dicion.....a book."
My favorite part is that we're "celabrating Afraicia" in *American* history class.
Wow. These make me want to punch decorators way more than the cakes that are just ugly.
One of your best posts ever!