"There are no stupid questions..."

What a load of BS that is...

Whoever said that phrase either a) doesn't know what they're talking about, or b) was lying to someone.

Today I had this one student who could not, simply COULD NOT, stop asking questions about every little thing, even something I had just explained twice... slowly. Also, she kept saying "I just don't understand what you're saying." I'm wondering, if she meant she couldn't hear me properly, or if she didn't understand what I was talking about. Even she didn't know.

I think she has some kind of learning disability, because I had her write out the names of the people in her family (spouse, children, siblings, parents...) When I look at her screen, I only see two children, and I know she had recently mentioned having three or four. I asked "You only have two children?" At first she says "Yea... Oh! wait." and types in another name. The she says "I forgot my daughter." I'm thinking "What kind of shit is that?" When she suddenly shouts out "Oh! And my son!" and types in another name!

Okay, whatever...

A little while later, she's getting frustrated doing something on her computer, and says "These computers don't work! Excuse me, Mr. Teacher, do ANY of these computers work properly?" (heavy on the sarcastic bite)

I asked what was wrong, she says "Why can't I open my resume on this computer?! These computers are cheap!"

I go over to help her open her resume. I look on the floppy, no resume. I look on the hard drive (sometimes they just save to "My Documents" instead of switching to the floppy drive), nothing. I asked if she saved the file. "Yeah, I'm not stupid. I know how to use a computer!" I open MS Word, look at the recent documents, I still don't see anything.

I ask if she's sure she saved it. She says "I never said it was here. It's on my computer at home." My head is about to explode at this point! I just look at her wondering if I can get the last five minutes of life back, when she says "What? I thought the internet connected all the computers in the world."

All I could do was stare into the abyss.

So, yes... not only do stupid questions exist, but so do stupid people.