Today, a fifth grader gave me a note from his "father" excusing him from PE. It was riddled with spelling errors and shockingly poor grammar, so I rejected it as a blatant fake. Several hours later, I was informed by his very angry father that it wasn't actually fake. FML
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Today, I was called by my son's school. They said he'd been forging my signature and comments in his reading book. He didn't forge them. I don't know what's worse: my handwriting looking like a 6 year-old's, or being too cowardly to admit it. He has a week of lunch detention, but I still have my dignity. FML
Today, I had a note to skip P.E. that my grandpa had written because my mom was busy. His handwriting is terrible, so they didn't believe that he'd written it. I'd twisted my ankle and I got to run another mile for "lying". FML
Today, I was a TA for a history class and the class was taking a test. About halfway through, I noticed one kid had a small piece of paper in his hand. I ran up the row, grabbed his test, and ripped it into four pieces. Then I took the note from him. It said "I believe in you, -Mom." FML
Today, I got sent to the principal's office because my Dad decided that instead of signing his name, he would sign, "Ms. Bigtits", because he wanted to make sure the teachers were paying attention to what their students handed in. FML
Today, I have been teaching my 5 year-old step-daughter how to read and write. She came bounding up to me with a piece of paper and said, "look what I did". It was a letter that said "My dad misses my real mommy, not you". FML
Today, I received two withdrawal grades in school for dropping the classes due to a kidney infection that kept me in the hospital. I wrote a petition to the dean asking to remove the grades. He replied to send a doctor's note. I did so, and he then said that I was faking and the note was forged. FML
Today, I accused a student in my class of getting his dad to do his homework. It turns out that his dad died two years ago. FML
Today, I passed my math test with flying colors. My dad thought I had cheated, so he emailed the school and told them that I had. They lowered my grade. FML
Today, I received an email from an angry parent, demanding that I give his daughter an A on a project which I had given her a 0 on. The project was to pick an article related to science and to write an essay on it. Hers was a hoax article relating to Ebola patients rising from the dead. FML
Today, I found out why my history grade is so low: the kid in front of me takes my homework, writes his name on it, and passes it off as his own. FML
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mrlawlor7777 26
@1, says the person who doesn't know the difference between of and 've.
Shrike 24
"Should of"? Jesus. That's like nails scraping across the English class' chalkboard.
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Comments (95)
beeferjay 34
fyl op, fyl
corky1992 33
Probably should have followed up on the note instead of just assuming. You know what assume means right? You definitely made an ass of yourself lol.
helsingmusique18 11
I find it funny everyone is saying that OP should have called the parent, what teacher did you have that actually called your parent to confirm a note? Never had it happen in my life. Besides if it looks like a fake, it usually is. The father's poor grammar and spelling is a viable reason for it to be fake, I cannot name a teacher I had that would have phoned up to check if it was accurate, they would have called bullshit and moved on. The OP made a mistake, but really the OP had a class to run and who makes a phone call to a parent unless absolutely necessary during class?
SPN_lover666 27
#39, that was your school. None of the schools I was in did that. They never checked with the parents to see if the doctors note or excuse was real.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
My school failed to check a note exactly once, and they learned to never make that mistake again because they made a girl participate in relay day and about ten minutes in she dropped because she couldn't breathe. Her mother had written the note and wasn't very strong at the English language and the girl was getting over a lung infection. Regardless of how well a teacher thinks their "bullshit detector" is working if a student is flat out telling you they have a medical issue and a note, they need to double check and not assume they are right.
tw124331 13
@66 I think if the OP was aware the child and/or parents had another primary language the teacher would have thought longer on calling a parent for confirmation. Let's have a little faith in the people teaching our kids. The post should be appreciated for its irony, and not providing the opportunity to bash teachers.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
The OP may not have ever met the student in questions parents prior to this issue. Sometimes you don't realize that a person's parents don't speak the language because the child does due to attending the public school system in the country. I give the OP the benefit of not knowing but as someone who also has a father with terrible handwriting and a grandfather who not only has bad handwriting but spells terribly and misuses words due to the way he was taught growing up, I'm still bothered by the assumption that the kid was faking and the lack of verification. The proper thing to do in the first place would have been to contact the kids parents even if it means sending the kid to the schools office to do so. That way if they are faking it, the parents are made aware of what they are trying to pull and if they aren't the OP doesn't wind up in this kind of situation.
daddysgirl243 21
Like father like son?
Arwen_Evenstar 37
YDI for being a PE teacher. Nobody likes you.
shittykittymeow 11
should've called the parent
worldclassrager 41
How does a fathers note compare to a doctors note?
PHP_fml 22
Here comes grama natzi explosion xD
Nysha 17
This happened to me once when I was a kid, because my Mum wrote the note in sparkly purple gel pen. If the teacher had known me at all, they'd have realised I wouldn't be caught dead writing with a sparkly purple gel pen at that point...
thedoctor999 11
I see notes like that from my daughter's teachers too sometimes. Scary!