Today, the boy I tutor failed his math test. As a result, the family fired me. The boy failed because he forgot to write his name at the top. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, I was copying an assignment from my friend and was feeling confident that I was gonna pass. I later found out I copied his name too, so the teacher failed us both. He won't talk to me now. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, I cheated on my math exam. I still failed. 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 got back my math test. Instead of taking the time to mark the mistakes, my professor just circled the bottom half of the page and wrote "OMG." FML
Today, my Spanish teacher told me that the reason the girl I'm tutoring hasn't contacted me yet is because she emailed the teacher saying she didn't like my name, therefore she didn't want me to be her tutor. FML
Today, in order to bump my grade up from total failure to the lowest possible passing grade, my training examiner eventually agreed to raise my score by one pity point for spelling my own name correctly on the exam paper, after I told him I had to pass the course or be fired from my job. FML
Today, my math teacher brought his laptop to tally up all our scores for our report card. He then displayed the results on a big screen in front of the whole class. The ones who failed were marked yellow. I was the only one marked yellow. FML
Today, while I was taking a test in class, there was a question that had everyone stumped. After what seemed like forever, the teacher finally noticed and said he'd typed the question wrong. I spent more than half the time I had to complete the test on a question that wasn't even written correctly. Yes, I failed. FML
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DontClickOnMe 28
That's ridiculous. Just tell his parents what happened.
Rei_Ayanami 18
That is pretty ridiculous, I hope that income wasn't too important.
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Comments (149)
Fairy31 6
To answer all of your questions, the boy does know how to write his name. He is a sophomore in high school. Second, the school has a policy where if you forget to write your name there is no credit. I have explained this to his parents, but they did not want to hear it. I'll find a new job soon. It's high in demand.
Rocker_chic_86 2
He's old enough to know to put his name on his paper. In my classroom, that's something we're still working on (6th grade) and with 200+ students I truly don't have time to play match the handwriting to the kid's test to play detective to figure out who's it is. And looking in the gradebook to see who's missing a score doesn't always work when you have multiple kids in each class forgetting their names. If you forget to write your name on your paper (and in my class that includes last name since I have enough kids with same first name/last initial) it gets stuck to the board but goes into the gradebook as a zero until they take responsibility for it and fix the problem.
fantasyworld 39
Hope you found another job.
rubyliu8420 7
Seriously?
RedCamaro10 0
It happens, you were hired to teach him math, not common sense.
ArentWeAll 4
It's safe to say their family qualities aren't brains.
ArentWeAll 4
Then they should have fired the English tutor instead!
KiddNYC1O 22
I hate when people take actions without investigating.
Nightsage 1
Can't fix stupid... I strongly believe they'll be calling you back after the student fails 2-3 more tests. I would then charge them more to make up for the lost money.
hateevryone 15
stupidity kills
lilpowers 3
Bitch of a teacher there, huh?
thebigbadwolf17 2
More proof that for most people 70% of school is a joke :/