Today, I had to re-grade a student's assignments because neither he, nor his parents can read "Spanish." I'd written in cursive. 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, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, I had to make a poster for social studies. I decided to write "Nice ass" in hieroglyphics. Turns out my teacher can read hieroglyphics. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, I’m a middle-school teacher. Handing back graded essays, only to realize halfway through that I’d left my personal notes visible on the projector. One said, “Great kid, but talks like a podcast on 1.5x speed.” The student read it out loud before I could close the tab. FML
Today, I realized I am one of those people who has trouble reading their own handwriting. It looks like someone trying to write in cursive when they don't even have the slightest idea what cursive writing even is. I do know what it is. I'm just very, very rusty. FML
Today, my ten-year-old sister had to write out my job application because no one can read my terrible handwriting. 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
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tpike1296 11
Idiots should never reproduce -_-
Tdevonner 0
Haha apparently you write with a heavy accent lol
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Comments (170)
kewlone645 8
You should seriously learn to write better. Or become a doctor! :p
Metzler31 17
Or just write in print for stupid kids with stupid parents...
DocBastard 40
Hey, I resent that statement! Learning to write like a doctor is a long, painstaking process. You're not just BORN knowing how to chicken scratch indecipherably. It takes years of practice!
KMtheDrummer 6
Or like an English teacher... At least my English teachers writing is indecipherable.
Sebastian_NG 17
Sorry to say, but apparently writing like a doctot is a genetic trait, both my parents being doctors, I inherited their inability to write understandable letters. Seriously, if I probably try to do my 10 years old little cousin's homework, his teacher will tell him to stop making his little brother do his homework for him. Also, and I can't stress this enough, I will never, ever be a doctor.
smelly_turtle 2
25- or op could tell the parents it was a Spanish assignment, they obviously dont have the mental capacity to tell the difference
WaSiSimiLang 8
Ok, what's with the stereotype? I always write in cursive and everyone that sees it comments that I should become a doctor someday. How does that even make sense? Sheesh. Fyl op I know how you feel.
Forlorn420 9
35. I cant stress this enough. No one cares
deathpotato 11
The teacher is just too fancy for normal people.
Drigr 9
I'm just gonna stick to my hybrid-print-cursive. It's great for making sure the kid next to you isn't cheating off your test.
THExistentialist 13
you're right Doc. as the Medical Assistant, I have to learn to read that strange, alien/Arabic/kanji /Hebrew hybrid language you took the leisure of learning how to write in over the course of 6+ medical school years, in the course of two seconds. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CALL IN A PRESCRIPTION IF I CANT EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LETTERS AND NUMBERS?!?!?
Drigr 9
lol 84. "Umm... crap... does this say vicodin or viagra...? eenie meenie mieni moe.. Viagra it is!"
NurseHolly 3
After a while you develop a strange ability to translate the Alien/Arabic chicken scratch into English... Especially if you work with the same doctors. You don't know how you know what the order is... You just know!
Cad6 24
Now people start thinking cursive is Spanish...what the **** has this world come to.
Drigr 9
the world we live in has changed a lot. I remember when I was in the 34d or 4th grade, only about 10 years ago, we were forced to learn how to read and write cursive. The main reason was because by highschool, all written papers would be expected in cursive since it looks "more classy." Well by the time I hit middle school, and especially high school, things had changed so much that there were no such things as hand written final drafts, all of it was on the computer. And even a couple years after that by the time I graduated, half of our teachers were starting to turn to online methods of turning in our papers.
elidine 0
Either way, good times were had by all
wtvr 2
Ydi for bowing to the american education system and their uneducated victims.
tpike1296 11
Idiots should never reproduce -_-
hayyyyleyyyybaby_fml 14
amen
Suchagoonnn 4
They can reproduce as long as the parents are kept away. Everyone has the potential to be smart or dumb.
slick5880 22
Times like this, I seriously think we as a species are headed towards a future like the one portrayed in the movie Idiocracy.
tygerarmy 35
Electrolytes!
eyecon502 13
Well said!
MizzErikaHart 8
Would you like to try our EXTRA BIG ASS TACO?
ALpein 0
I did always feel like the beginning of that movie felt a bit foreshadowing towards our own future.
MDTeddy 13
This is why the younger generation fails. Girls getting pregant? I wouldn't want to be that child born cause she forgot to take it out and swallow.
THExistentialist 13
43, you're right! great way to prove yourself by leaving out a few commas in your comment! :D
Scruffy618 0
What if they produce a hot idiot? Bimbos have to come from somewhere.
RedPillSucks 33
@MizzErikaHart, I love ass tacos. How much for 2?
hatesfate 6
82- it's okay. I don't think you will have that problem anytime soon.
Tdevonner 0
Haha apparently you write with a heavy accent lol
hayyyyleyyyybaby_fml 14
In english baxter, you know i dont speak spanish
ClassyCommando 13
Wéll why the fùçk ñøt?
EmilyJoSmyth 4
Fail
The_Troller 14
Hey, don't talk about yourself like that.
tootsie17 0
oh wow
harrypotter955 19
So the kid gets an F and the parents do too?
ss_20_xx 14
Op shouldn't have gone through the trouble of re-grading the paper for morons.
AwkwardPartyBear 24
No, they should get an F-.
thisbitchlys 0
Either they're extremely stupid, or you have terrible handwriting.
dragonstrike94 8
Both?
K_kanaka 26
I'll go with they're extremely stupid.
biasedshooter 24
Or they just wrote in cursive(the worst writing form)
ashl123 19
Can you fail people just because they're idiots?? I think it's necessary here
asianchink 0
Try it in Spanish and cursive. See what they say.
guy24 9
Or just write it in print Spanish, saying this is Spanish! Then write it in English...
hzlzkgzkgzchxuxh 3
Sorry they don't read Chinese
asianchink 0
Sorry, they don't read German.
pinkcrayola 0
If your handwriting was so messy that they couldn't read it than ydi. But if it was neat and they were just stupid, fyl.
DayAndNite 8
I think the point of the FML was that OP's student and their parents couldn't read in cursive.
sadistmonkey 19
And pinkcrayola's point (which perhaps could have been worded better) is that there are two possibilities: that the OP has inherently illegible handwriting, or that the writing would be legible to any normal person but that the student and parents are stupid. Not being able to read illegible handwriting is not the same thing as not being able to read cursive. We haven't seen the OP's handwriting so how are we to judge which of those possibilities is correct?
runnamuk 6
This comment is missing the point. The problem isn't that the OP's handwriting was bad, it's that the parents and child confused it with Spanish. Spanish isn't just some indecipherable language; you can tell when something is in Spanish because it (gasp!) uses Spanish words. Looking at something and not being able to read it means the person who wrote it has terrible handwriting; looking at something you can't read and thinking that is must be Spanish means you're an idiot.
MizzErikaHart 8
I noticed the word indecipherable floating all around on this fml. Hopefully I'll b able to use that word in a sentence today
sadistmonkey 19
Or, they didn't confuse it with Spanish at all, but used "Spanish" as a metaphor for something that is indecipherable to them. Sort of like saying "it's all Greek to me".
THExistentialist 13
no, 48, the point was that the child and its parents thought the cursive was SPANISH.
guy24 9
88 it can go either way. But mainly what 48 said.
EyeCeYu 7
I never liked to write in cursive, but I atleast learned to read it! It's really not that hard to read. It just uses some curly lines and connects the letters.