Ahhh. My printer being out of ink was responsible for so many late homeworks...

Mr.Sherwood, this report seems remarkably similar to one handed in my Mr.Haines yesterday. I think there may be some plagiarism going on here...

My brother's a teacher & when he gets the "Printer ran out of toner" excuse he responds with "Well, why didn't you email me your homework?".

It devoured my paper.....

those kids are obviously preparing for careers in politics...

There can't be many people left who have been fleeced by the "you'll have to send it back to France" warranty.

Good grief... I used the same excuses over fifteen years ago and didn't get away with it *then*.

I found that you got a little less hassle if you just said " I haven't done it".

Paris - cos she didn't like homework either.

"Sue Cooke, Assistant Headteacher at Wallington County Grammar School, Surrey, said: 'We are definitely wising up to their tech trickery.'"

So, you're telling me that it took a while for teachers to "wise up" to a kid lying about his dog eating his work? C'mon. The only thing that's changed is the crappy excuse. A broken computer is no better than a poorly trained pup.

Maybe teachers are dumber/lazier/more gullible than they used to be?

they could just hand in some gibberish file and claim they were a Mac or Linux user thus getting the rest of the world to excuse them.

"the file is corrupt"

"i forgot to save it as word 03 format"

"i have a mac"

"my printer is broke"

"i forgot my memory pen"

"i lost my memory pen playing football"

"i forgot my network password so couldn't print it"

my personal favourite is keeping a corrupt publisher file on the memory pen and just handing it in, then when i next have that subject the teacher will say he cant open the file and you can hand in the real thing.