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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snk9045 3
I bet you those are the south people that are ignorant and highly intelligent. From a-f Spanish and English has the same letters. I'm pretty sure that boy had an F
Dilwann 27
I don't get how everyone goes 'I know someone who can't read cursive' or 'I know a preschooler who can'. How can you NOT read cursive? It's ordinary letters, with the top going more to the right. So if you can't read cursive, you can't read, it's simple as that.
Sillabub 15
Lowercase f's, r's, s's, and z's don't really look like printed letters. Also it might be confusing for people who've never seen it before, differentiating the loops and bumps. That's just what I'd imagine.
sulitak 27
This is where teachers should have the right to just say "no. its cursive." and have the admins back them... but we live in a "child is always right" society and thats messed up
fantasyworld 39
I know people older than me that don't know how to read or write cursive.
grajax 24
In my state, cursive stopped being taught so I never learned cursive. I can read it, it just takes forever, and I had to learn what I know myself. So, maybe this kid just never learned? It's not their fault.