Today, I received an email from an angry parent, demanding that I give his daughter an A on a project which I had given her a 0 on. The project was to pick an article related to science and to write an essay on it. Hers was a hoax article relating to Ebola patients rising from the dead. 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, I got an A+ on a writing assignment. My teacher asked me three times if I really did write this article myself, and didn't memorise an article from the Internet. FML
Today, a fifth grader gave me a note from his "father" excusing him from PE. It was riddled with spelling errors and shockingly poor grammar, so I rejected it as a blatant fake. Several hours later, I was informed by his very angry father that it wasn't actually fake. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
Today, I got a history project back that I worked very hard on. The teacher didn't bother to write any feedback, besides, "Did you even understand the assignment?" on the back. FML
Today, I got an F because I’m an idiot and wrote my essay on WW1 instead of WW2. I offered to resubmit a correct essay, but my mom stormed to school to demand it be changed to at least a B, because it was a good essay, even if it was on the wrong war. God, she’s impossible and embarrassing. FML
Today, I accused a student in my class of getting his dad to do his homework. It turns out that his dad died two years ago. FML
Today, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML
Today, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. FML
Today, I’m a high school teacher and I finally learned how to use the smartboard properly. I connected my laptop to demonstrate a lesson… and projected the last thing I had open: a half-written email complaining about how loud this exact class is. Thirty teenagers read it in silence. One kid raised his hand and said, “Fair.” FML
Today, my son came running in, saying he had a project due tomorrow. I asked when it was assigned; he said two weeks ago. I refused to help, saying that he failed to act responsibly and had to live with the consequences. Now he's throwing a tantrum and my wife is screaming at me. FML
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Indianboy9321 25
It's one thing to politely ask you to allow his daughter to redo the assigned work with a proper article, and it's another thing to "demand" a near-perfect score for nowhere near acceptable work...
SharnaaaBanana 22
It really amazes me how ignorant some people can be.
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bgorch01 11
Someone give this man an award.
kat2943 20
It's still an article on science. A hoax, but still under the subject you requested. Not her fault.
Ichiya 29
A hoax is not science related. It is idiotic imbeciles like you and this "scientific article" that makes people lose faith in science. Science is entirely fact based. In order to become accepted as science a hypothesis must be proposed. It is then studied and tested rigorously with the intent of disproving it. After several hundred test that all come to the same conclusion scientist deem it a scientific theory. This ebola zombie shit is barely a hypothesis. Infact it was never studied of observered carefully. Some uneducated dumbass who wanted to start panic purposefully shaded the truth to vaguely fit with his story. I would have slapped the stupid right out of you but Im afraid its contagious.
THEDARKLORDOFALL 17
There are articles about it. In all honesty depending on the quality of the essay it should receive a grade not a 0. Unless of the essay was absolute. Trash but not because of the article picked
Ichiya 29
The basis of the entire essay was a trash article. No matter how well written the essay was garbage.
hk1998 8
Well you could give her a little higher grade than a zero for some sort of effort? Its not like she didnt turn in an article, even if its a hoax.
Ichiya 29
Would have been better not to have turned in an essay.
AUSSTHEBOSS246 5
If most of you guys keep up with your current events this happened!! no joke... they have studies going on right now!
Ichiya 29
They never became zombies they were in comas. The article in question was a hoax.
GamerG0DDESS 29
Perhaps the article could have been used, but not in the way The child chose to do it. If the kid could base the essay on how scientific facts are lacking and give it that sort of insight, such a work can fit the criteria. The article is scientific in some matters if you look at the article in a unique form of light. It could be a incredible assignment if the child went as far as to show both the science involved and the lack there of. Science isn't all facts, there are theories as well. Theories are part if not a large sum of what science is. This hoax could be a theory, one just needs to prove the likely-hood or unlikely-hood of the scenario. Now, when turning the attention onto the mother, she is wrong in demanding her daughter get an "A." Instead, if I were the mother, I'd have my daughter prove her case as to why the essay should be accepted as a qualifying essay and why she should at least get a grading of her work even if written off a hoax (if she still gets a failing grade, she will need to redo the assignment for a lower grade or make up for it by doing well on other assignments).
Ichiya 29
Theories in science aren't guesses. Those are hypothesis. A theory is tested many times to try and disprove it. After 100s of experiments and observations it is made into a theory. If you don't understand science please don't ever try talking about it.
Necko55 4
I would have at least give. Him a C-. Thats pretty funny. Have a sense of humor.
Ichiya 29
Never joke about an education. There are too many idiots like you around as it is teachers used to teach now they prepare to tests then let them go. You earn passing grades they aren't handed to you.
mia_marie01 11
While I think it's terrible for a parent to demand you change a child's grade, I can't help but think that the student thought the article was real and that rather than giving her a 0, you should have evaluated the effort she put into the assignment. We all know that the idea of Ebola victims rising from the dead is silly but with all of the rumors and confusion going around about it I don't blame her for thinking it could be true. Overall, I'm sorry about the nasty parent but I would reevaluate the student's work.
sothisasshole 7
Partial credit for doing it at least
Ichiya 29
They didn't do it at all. Thats like me writing an essay on cheese and turning it into my music teacher instead of the essay on Beethoven I was asked for.
kd1213 12
What's wrong with that article