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)
AbbyLondon 2
Ok.. If it was the majority of the class that found his handwriting illegible then I would blame the teacher.. It was one student and the parents! FYL op
RedPillSucks 33
Stop teaching cursive and the children wont swear as much. *runs and hides from the sarcasm impaired*
tj4234 36
if you can't write neatly I suggest writing each individual letter out separately. It takes more time but it means it's readable. I do that because I'm dyslexic dysgraphic.
Raccoo 10
Either your hand writing is sloppy, or they are complete idiots of the English language.
HeroOfHyrule 0
Dumb alert.
MoogleSam 8
I honestly don't recommend continuing to write comments on assignments in cursive regardless of how easy it is for you to read and write because some people will always complain about being unable to read it because cursive, though it can look astounding when used neatly, can be very difficult to read if done messily. And if it is simply done in a manner where some letters look like other letters it can cause confusion. It isn't that I have a problem with cursive but I think you will just save yourself some grief if you write it in a different manner when marking assignments so that everyone can understand it, regardless of whether they know cursive or not.
tt563562 0
u probley suck at cursive........ my sisters in 2nd grade and i can reed her cursive
jre89 0
I bet she can spell better than you as well.
Immolate 11
The word you are looking for is most likely read, unless you truly do mean a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family that grows in water or on marshy ground
newburton13 26
I'll admit I have trouble reading cursive, but I have more than enough IQ points to recognize whether it's English or not.
zht 7
I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!!!!!!! Only my English teachers can read my cursive, even my best! It's probably just because nobody practices reading cursive anymore :(
PandaSpots 10
It's sad how you're a teacher and you can't even write correctly. It's 'I wrote in cursive'.