I remember that one time in the fourth grade, we were doing a scientific experiment in which we were supposed to take a clear plastic cup, stuff a wadded up paper towel in it, turn it upside down, and submerge it in water. Before that, however, we were supposed to write a hypothesis on what would happen.
My hypothesis (we worked in groups, but the people in my group went with my decision) was that the water would just barely contact the paper towel within the cup, and therefore the paper towel would soak up some water, gain a small amount of weight, and fall out of the cup and into the water because it could no longer hold itself up within the cup.
I was correct.
The outcome that was supposed to happen, was the paper towel staying inside the cup due to pressure.
We failed the assignment. When I confronted the teacher on our hypothesis actually being correct, despite the fact that it wasn't supposed to happen (physically speaking), she failed us regardless because it was still wrong, even though we were right...EVEN if it was a freak occurence that we just HAPPENED to predict.
Needless to say, the teacher was a bitch and wasn't very bright.
I also recall her talking bad about us in front of us, to other teachers.
Either way
Yep.