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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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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)
pizzapoop 1
He's clearly got talent. You should look into ways he can use that as a career
JimNM 8
"Hacking" school systems in not as you would put as 'genius'. Yes your son is very smart individual, however from experience the school thinks they only know what they are taught at school. They should change to a higher quality security system, as it is even free. Furthermore, depending on his age, my money is on him actually doing well and saying he 'hacked' it for attention, or as a quiet threat to any siblings. I remember I just got good grades one time and did not even intent to, I did not study, hand in some assignments or do much homework. If your son did do it, as I feel as a 15 year old I am obligated to say, Like a boss!
Chibitalia180 6
How much you wanna bet that the password was "admin"?
Octosauce 8
Oh. My. God. Real life Ferris Beuller (I think that's how it's spelled lol).
Demonyx 6
If they're smart enough to hack into the school's system it's likely that they're too lazy or distracted to put in the effort of doing homework which makes up a huge part of grades and a tiny part of learning
CODPoseidon 6
sounds like something I'd do o.o
phazetryhard 10
Grades don't show intelligence. I don't care or try in school and still get A's and was the only student ever in my school to get recommended to skip a honors class and go straight to AP
daemonsparta 16
grades aren't about smart, it's work ethic. your sob had shitty work ethic
Nonexistentguy 7
Schools don't grade children on how smart they are, they are graded on memorizing useless facts
fantasyworld 39
Grades don't show intelligence. They are about how well you memorize something.