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)
bluebirdflyaway 6
well school only tests how well you can remember things not how smart you are.
x407demonx 7
He's probably autistic
nss22007 3
Hacker culture ftw
Garnetshaddow 30
I struggled a lot in school. I don't think I'm stupid. I think this sucks because he's obviously gifted with computers, and is not unintelligent. Somehow, the way the material is presented is difficult. He could also have a difficult time with exams. (My weakness was always papers.) I think if he were tested and there was a way found to present material in his learning style, he could thrive. Good luck to them.
CenturionK 3
Is your son Ferris Bueller?
cityofdragonfire 8
Grades do not validate intelligence!
kev1029 22
No, he just doesn't really care
supersquirel500 10
You don't have to be smart to hack, at my school you can easily open the teacher's network hard drive and change whatever you wish.
savemeSheehan 8
he is probably smart enough but just lazy or bored. I would think about seeing if the school has extra credit classes that would interest him. A lot of the time people who are very smart get bored in school because its not entertaining and they know they are smarter
Food2Abs 13
This kid sounds like my little brother. He is insanely smart but doesn't use it for what he should