30 Homework Excuses You Should Expect From Your Students This Year

When you’ve spent all morning planning in your head what you were going to do with your afternoon. The games you were going to play. The friends you were going to meet. The wrestling reruns you were going to watch.

Then, your teacher burst your bubble by dropping a load of homework for you to complete by tomorrow.

It was at that time you had to make an important decision: do you do it, or do you come up with an excuse?

When you give your students their homework you can see them battling with the same problem in their heads, can’t you? You can probably predict who’s going to be in the latter category as well.

Well, for those children who decided they wanted to come up with an excuse, these are some of the most creative, weird and wonderful reasons they’ve ever come up with.

Enjoy…

Well, it would be rude if the dog got to eat all of the homework, wouldn’t it?

Times must have gotten really hard for The Borrowers.

Accompanied with a long, slow, “Nooooooooooooo *breathes* ooooooooooooo!” scream as it’s drowned millimeter by millimeter.

Can you bring him in so I can write your grade on his stomach?

I’m not sure how Pythagoras Theorem calculations are going to help them get your Dad on a speeding ticket, though.

Yeah, and I’ve just sold my toddler’s finger painting to MoMA.

Yet, you seem like you had a good night’s sleep in that room, Jimmy? I’m starting to see the flaw in your story.

And they couldn’t have left you with a more believable excuse?

I don’t know whether to believe you, or be worried that your Dad is in the habit of sending his brother Lord of the Flies book reports.

A much more innocent approach than Britney Spears took, I guess.

I mean, he’s got a point…

But it’s summer. And you’ve got all of your other books.

How did everything else dry out for today, and not your homework?

I’ve been teaching you for a while now. I don’t feel like 48 hours is going to make that much of a difference to you, Sophie.

That’s funny, because I’ve come down with an awful case of, “Giving you a failing grade”.

His car comes with three settings: Low, Medium and Hurricane Katrina, apparently.

Forget the homework, how did you get and cure your cold in less than 48 hours?

Billy, paper doesn’t conduct electricity. That’s exactly what your homework was about.

But…but, your head is right here, in front of me. How did you think this one would work?

Does that mean I get to fail both of you now? Because that would really be a first for me.

I hope you were picketing for the, “Dealing with lame homework excuses” bonus I’ve been asking for.

While I appreciate the sentiment, you’ve just made it worse for when you bring your homework in tomorrow.

Teachers over the age of 40 may struggle with this one.

He must have been expecting a lot of Pokemon Go Trivia to come up on the quiz.

Hannah, you’re literally holding an iPhone. I can see the calculator app from here.

Great, now the Martians are going to think we all write with a backwards E.

I imagine it was about as effective as this excuse, Daniel.

Funnily enough, giving someone who missed their homework a passing grade is against mine.

I have a feeling they’d have survived, Kelly.

That’s a funny way to hold a pen.

Okay, now it’s over to you – what are some of your favourite excuses that a kid has come up with then they’ve not submitted their homework? Let me know in the comments.

And, remember, use my comebacks at your own risk.