Top Ten Best Excuses for Not Doing Homework

Ever wandered into school and then went into a panic attack when you realized that you'd forgotten your homework?

Well, here's a list of explanations to give to your teacher, so stay calm.

The Top Ten

  1. My dog ate it

    This is a common excuse. My teachers never take excuses, but some of them do work hopefully!

    This one is a classic that I'm sure many students and teachers have heard before.

    Teachers didn't even believe this when my parents were at school.

  2. I left it at home

    I used this excuse all the time in my 8th grade physics class, mostly because I was too lazy to do my homework and could care less about the assignment. It still didn't stop me from getting homework notes, though.

    I've used this plenty of times and most teachers let it slide, as long as you bring in the homework the next day.

    A classic. I use this often and then spend the rest of the day working on those assignments.

  3. You asked me to do it, you didn't tell me to do it, so I thought it was optional

    I like this one. It is good and I think this might work sometimes...

    I love loopholes, so I love this excuse.

  4. I didn't have time

    Yeah, dude, I was at my grandfather's funeral. Homework can't possibly be better than that.

    Sorry, I was too busy getting lost in my closet and searching for Narnia.

    Most of the time, I genuinely don't have time.

  5. I spent the afternoon playing with my cat

    11/10. Honest, plus cats are important.

  6. I saved it on Google Drive and the school computer blocked it

    This would be a good one to use as long as the teacher doesn't make you prove it. It also shows how many stupid things the school computer blocks. I'm looking at you, iBoss. This has even happened to me when I was trying to do homework on Google Drive and it was blocked because of "prohibited email-based content." I ended up having to do my homework on my desktop computer at home.

    This is really bad and it's not funny. This happened to some kid in my school and he was upset. Whenever something like this happened in my school, kids would get rebellious.

  7. I put it in a shredder

    That one's not so good. Your teacher's just going to say that you need to be more responsible.

    I wanted to shred paper, but it turned out it was actually my homework.

  8. I left it at school

    Pretty underrated. You could just say, "I left my maths folder at school and now I can't find it." This actually happened to me once so the teacher just let it slide.

  9. We had a family meeting

  10. It offended me

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  11. ?

    Poseidon broke into my house and stole it while repeatedly beating me with a washing machine

    So real. This has happened to me so many times.

  12. ?

    I forgot it.

    13. The Contenders

  13. I had an accident, so I was rushed to the hospital

  14. It was so cold at my house that the ink in all the pens became a bose-einstein condensate, making it impossible to write with them

    When they ask "Well why did you not die from the intense cold?" just say that your house time-traveled to the inevitable heat death of the universe for a vacation while you went to the store.

  15. I ran out of toilet paper

  16. My computer got a virus

  17. Some bullies stole it

    They did. But I was asked to be punished for not saying it.

    Then they would ask who the bullies were.

  18. Didn't you feel the earthquake?

  19. I did it on the computer and the printer broke

    Not a good one. What if the teacher says you could have printed it at school?

    You could save it on a USB drive and go to a relative's house or the library and print it out there.

  20. You only told me to do it, not to bring it to school, so I left it at my house

  21. I accidentally mailed it to my grandparents

    5/10. Most people probably have enough common sense not to do this.

  22. We were starving at home, and the homework was the only source of nutrition available

    We might have been starving, family, but I had the next best thing - a delicious sheet of compressed tree with a side of black ink.

    "Ah yes, I'll make a homework sandwich..."

  23. I played video games all day

  24. I thought it was an important document of yours that I had by pure accident, so I mailed it back to you

  25. My house burnt down, along with the homework

  26. You assigned homework?

    This one isn't the best since the teacher will say that you need to pay more attention, but it's still good.

    I did this before! But I really thought this because I didn't get homework. And I was at school!

    Haha! I said this and she asked "you didn't know?"...and that's it!

  27. I became a ninja

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