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By Anonymous - 22/03/2012 05:13 - United States - Federal Way

Today, I had to re-grade a student's assignments because neither he, nor his parents can read "Spanish." I'd written in cursive. FML

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By leah_kascar - 22/08/2016 01:45 - United States - Hialeah

Today, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML

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Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone!

By Anonymous - 24/09/2021 13:58

Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML

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By TeachingSucks - 17/05/2023 11:00 - United States - Cabot

Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML

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By lrn2spel, teach - 12/12/2013 18:00 - United States - Mogadore

Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML

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By Amber - 28/05/2013 23:42 - United States - Oroville

Today, I had to make a poster for social studies. I decided to write "Nice ass" in hieroglyphics. Turns out my teacher can read hieroglyphics. FML

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By englishfail - 15/01/2010 17:39 - United States

Today, I was teaching a class and my student pointed out that I used the wrong "your" while writing on the board. FML

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Cursed cursive

By Cursive Curse - 06/12/2022 00:00

Today, I realized I am one of those people who has trouble reading their own handwriting. It looks like someone trying to write in cursive when they don't even have the slightest idea what cursive writing even is. I do know what it is. I'm just very, very rusty. FML

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By AbhorrentApplication - 28/04/2013 23:40 - United States - Reston

Today, my ten-year-old sister had to write out my job application because no one can read my terrible handwriting. FML

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Feedback

By fluent in two, unlike you - 25/03/2014 18:42 - Mexico

Today, the feedback my teacher wrote on my English assignment was so horrible that it took me half an hour and help from both my parents to decipher it. It turned out to be a scathing criticism of my "poor communication skills". I hate my teachers. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/03/2011 01:52 - United States

Today, I was telling my students that it's unnecessary to put arrows on the bottom of the page to tell me there's work on the back, I check it anyway. At the end of the day, at least 6 kids came up to me asking to change their grade because I forgot to grade the back. They hadn't put arrows. FML

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tpike1296 11

Thursday 22 March 2012 11:54

Idiots should never reproduce -_-

Tdevonner 0

Thursday 22 March 2012 11:55

Haha apparently you write with a heavy accent lol

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BobbieH 19

Thursday 22 March 2012 21:29

YDI! You're a teacher, you should know how poor your writing skills are. Try being clear in the first place and you won't be spending time doing things over again.

live2swim 5

Thursday 22 March 2012 21:45

That awkward moment when you're like, "Woah you can write Spanish in cursive."

xXRiah_GirlXx 9

Thursday 22 March 2012 22:15

Menos puntos -_-

boredfishing 0

Thursday 22 March 2012 22:35

Sadly racism is taught, the north won... Just thought some of the racist might find out 100 years later?

mialee34 4

Thursday 22 March 2012 22:44

One more fail for humanity...

pandapoof42 3

Friday 23 March 2012 0:01

so are you at least a spanish teacher?

stargirl19 2

Friday 23 March 2012 0:50

Wow.. Just wow.

Sabrewulf 8

Friday 23 March 2012 1:12

From my personal experience, apart from my mother, nobody else I know uses cursive. It's not that common nowadays. That includes my teachers.

ayelite 4

Friday 23 March 2012 3:11

People can be so stupid.

dckbtch 2

Friday 23 March 2012 3:21

And this is why I have very little faith in the future generations

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