Today, my son was smart enough to hack the school's computers to change his midterm, but isn't smart enough to actually keep his grades up. FML
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Today, the mother of one of my students bitched me out about her son's poor grades. He lazes around all day, paying no attention and being a constant nuisance. But, she says it's not his fault, and demands that I give him better grades so he won't get "self-esteem" issues. 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
Today, I sold all of my son's games and gadgets because he got a horrible report card. It turned out that the school made some sort of a mistake and it wasn't his actual report card. He actually got great grades. I tried to apologize but he told me to fuck off. FML
Today, my mom found out that I’ve been faking my exam grades, turning my 30s to 80s and 40s to 90s on the paper exams. She got access to my online student portal and saw my real grades. I'm grounded for the rest of the school year. 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, our work computers are down so I've been trying to fix it via my home computer for 3 days. My 12-year-old son took one look at the screen, changed 2 settings on a drop down menu, and the problem was fixed. My 12-year-old is better at my job than I am. FML
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, a student turned in homework she copied off an online answer key. The wrong key. My students are too stupid to cheat right. FML
Today, I found out my son has been ditching his Zoom classes. He claims he couldn’t connect because of "technical difficulties." I can’t believe he seriously expected me to believe that. FML
Today, my wife refuses to admit our 13-year-old son has no chance in hell of getting into college. He never got more than an E or an F on his exams, routinely misspells his own name, can't remember our address and I just watched him spend 10 minutes looking for his lost hat which, by the way, was on his head. FML
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Top comments
Croooow 11
You might want to look into private school or advanced placement classes, or something along those lines. I'm sure this sounds presumptuous, and I'm sorry for that in advance, but it sounds like his current school situation isn't challenging him enough.
NiceGuysDoWin 21
I tend to agree with #1 on this one. I've known a lot of genius kids in my life. Most of them got horrible grades despite being smarter than anyone around them. A gifted program may be helpful in challenging your child and motivating them to do better.
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Comments (132)
urlit 13
I was actually the same way in high school. It's not so much not being smart enough to keep up grades as much as being too bored by the piece of shit we call the United States public school. Get him some harder classes or more specified classes.
Lexipants 21
Grades have next to nothing to do with intelligence or talent.
paolino_fml 18
Op remember this, school doesn't test smartness, it tests attentiveness. Your sone could be failing school but be the einstein of the 21st century!
hannahsophia 8
I'm gonna guess the thing bringing his grades down is homework completion. Lots of extremely intelligent kids get bad grades simply because they don't want to do the busy work they're given. They ace all the tests but never turn anything else in
iwadasn 33
Did you miss the part where he was changing the grade on his midterm? Obviously he isn't acing his tests.
danilynn6308 14
It's all motivation. Get him to not be so lazt
arockon 5
Im guessing he is smart enough if he can do that
Axel5238 29
Regardless, of whether or not he's intelligent and bored with courses he still changed his grades. I'd be surprised if the school doesn't expel him and possibly getting the police involved for trying and getting into the schools system.
oatmeal96 10
Tbh it's not that hard to hack school computers. In 7th grade my and my friends hacked our schools computers and made it so when anybody logged on the vid 2 girls 1 cup would play and you couldn't shut it off unless you physically unplugged the computer. Lol good times
DanielleD93 16
Well being lazy and being smart are different things
HomelessDonut 9
Intelligence and education are two very different things