Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after turning in a paper that I worked really hard on, I got it back with a grade of 0. In the feedback section, my professor wrote: “In all my 37 years of teaching, this is by far the worst essay I have ever read.” FML
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
Today, I got a writing assignment back. After meeting with my professor specially after class and meticulously combing through every word of that paper, I got a low D. Turns out, he graded me down on every suggestion of his that I took. FML
Today, I asked my classmate to look over my essay. His comments were longer than the essay itself. FML
Today, my teacher gave me a 0% on my personal narrative in my writing class. His only comment on the whole paper was, "Too long, didn't read." FML
Today, I got feedback on an essay I wrote, by my mum who is also a teacher. She said it was 'worse than most of her pupils'. She teaches 10-year-olds. I'm a 20-year-old student at university. FML
Today, I tried really hard for once on an assignment. I was told it was my worst work yet and that I may as well have turned nothing in at all. FML
Today, I received a terrible grade for an essay I worked really hard on. I had two friends, one being an English major, check it over. However, apparently I "clearly didn't use spellcheck" on this essay just like the last one I submitted to her. FML
Today, I lost a grade on an essay, because according to my teacher, I put much more detail into my analytical essay than I should have. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
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TrippingOnAcid 29
Logic.
Jellybellybeanz 22
Talk to him and see if maybe you can get the grade changed or something. That's not fair at all
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TrippingOnAcid 29
Logic.
tigerisabelle 31
Teacher logic.
TheCanucklehead 22
Bad Teacher Logic.
JustinKirby 20
Some teachers are just out to get you, I had some bad experiences with teachers before.
vango_fml 7
Maybe the paper was grammatically flawless but the arguments were poor or unsoundly based? The teacher's still a fart-nugget, but at least this would make more sense than the teacher having an evil twin.
Blackhawk706 23
Logic must always be lacking in any form of institutional facility for it to be a valid facility.
AninOnin 24
It could also have been that he didn't actually read the essay the first time, or thought it was someone else's?
panicsdisaster 17
you can write stupid things well..
incoherentrmblr 22
illogic.
nattlecakes 19
If the teacher thought it was someone else's and have OP a bad grade for the same essay it would be favoritism. Which translates to asshole teacher
GreatGeak 8
I had a teacher like that. read over the essay 3 times before I turned it in and he found that much more to grade it a B. he found things nevet pointed out in any of the other 1 on 1 sessions we had.
crymore007 11
Idk at my university sometimes older students (assistants) grade the essays/tests.
Jellybellybeanz 22
Talk to him and see if maybe you can get the grade changed or something. That's not fair at all
ohcheriecherie 20
yeah, what the hell. remind him of what he said before, OP
addictedtosorrow 12
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Well I mean you can't get a grade changed for him or her grading a paper.
holliepong 8
Maybe next time your teacher will say that it's well-written again
antonia789 17
Teachers.. At least some..
8born8 18
Comments... At least some.... Why does it feel like something is amiss here?
clumsycarolyn 17
Tell him that his face is the worst thing you've ever seen.. Jk don't really say that you should try talking to him about it
rick1 8
He had a change in heart I guess! Maybe he was just having a bad day when he graded it.
chinaski7628 32
I admit to having done this before-- a student gives you a paper to read before it's due, you glance over it, it looks good and seems to meet the requirements. Then after everyone turns in their essays, you start reading other ones which turn out to be sparkling with insight and engaging writing, and the original one looks... turdish in comparison. It's still a dick move on the teacher's part. It's one of the reasons I rarely read student essays early, or if I do, I only will tell the student what needs to be added, fixed or changed to meet the requirements of the assignment. I won't tell them what grade it might get or how good it is.
Allornone 35
your username- are you a buk fan, 22? if so, you have good taste in words.
8born8 18
22, hence why I don't necessarily agree with comparing one student's work to another. Where student A may have an excellent vernacular, communicative and structured writing style, student B may have a more detail/subject laden, yet eloquently simple style of writing. I think each piece of work should be judged on the merits of the student, their understanding of the subject matter and marked accordingly by what was written by them. Of course, there is a place for constructive criticism and comments from teacher to individual on how to improve the substance and quality of their writing for future production of outstanding pieces of prose.
isuckwithnames 22
My Brit lit teacher grades paper anonymously. She tells everyone to write down their student id number, or any number if they are paranoid, on a sheet of paper and has a student hold onto it.
mchmelev1993 10
Is he bipolar?
pandalover69 26
You don't actually know what bi-polar is do you?
billiejoe7 10
Wow and these are the people that are supposed to prepare us for life?
ian3866 12
Maybe that's the point he is trying to make...If so a different action would've been better to teach that
yuzuru_fml 12
technically , he taught him that life isn't fair
billiejoe7 10
Yeah I was thinking that, you're right.
nialls_girl 13
Well bosses can be like that. So in a way that is teaching him a lesson.
breakinlegs 19
Let's not ask the teacher to look over your work again, maybe an older sibling or parent?
BoltTheSuperdog 22
Or an English tutor? If OP is in college, they might have a "Writing Center" that can help with editing papers.
feven 32
Either he's really mean or he's bipolar to the max.
TunaFireStarter 16
What would being bipolar have to do with anything?
ChelzTheWolfGirl 29
Do you even know what bi-polar is?
feven 32
You're really irritable one day, and the next you're really happy. I thought the disorder makes you change your mind a lot.
8born8 18
How can someone be bipolar to the max?
ciitruskiwi 9
You should really look it up. It isn't just that.
oddities 20
#84, no. That's not how bipolar disorder works. It's not a "one day happy, next day sad" thing or a "I can't make up my mind" thing. It's a disorder that causes your emotions to change quickly, without your control. It's also a serious disorder and shouldn't be used the way you're using it.
happyforever 15
troll teacher alert.