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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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iAmPaul 49
That parent seems like one of the idiots that shouldn't have bred.
mnote 17
How DARE you not give that poor child an A? What do you mean they didn't do the assignment correctly? Obviously you didn't explain it right and my baby deserves to pass. I'm sorry OP... sometimes parents suck. I definitely don't miss that about teaching
jake238 9
I'm pretty sure that was an actual story tho
2i1337i2iscore 13
It was a story on the news. Mainly people thought the person was dead but he or she was in a coma. The rising from the dead was the perception of those onlookers. Being thought of as dead is a historical pastime- so much so that Edgar Allan Poe made sure he was buried with a bell above ground. He was terrified of being buried alive. Depending on the perspective of the article this could be a scientific article. Just depends.
dragonfire5665 8
Well, the article she wrote on was related to science in some form, but OP is in charge here so I'm not gonna argue about it.
iAmPaul 49
Pseudo-science is not science.
Ichiya 29
Psudo science is the reason many still distrust scientific discoveries.
MissHeartSihk 26
that's exactly what I was saying.
tantanpanda 26
#19, thank you. god, people think things like non sciences and pseudo sciences count as related to science. People rising from the dead from ebola definitely does not fall close to the realm of science.
pressingreset 13
Did she write a good essay? it would seem to me you asked for an essay about an article related to science. if you didnt say the article had to be true that YDI. even if you did, the assignment was about the essay and not the article.
mnote 17
There was probably some form of rubric or grading guidelines OP used and even if she did write a satisfactory essay, it could have not met the requirements.
Axel5238 29
It doesn't matter it isn't the assignment. A hoax article doesn't classify as science article and would generally have little actual science in it. It fails and the student got what she deserved.
poronator 3
@33 Why are you so certain it's a hoax?
stargirl_95 24
#67 because it is. Did you actually think that it was serious?
GlitterScribbles 9
Didn't specify it had to be true? What idiot would assume it's okay to write an essay about pseudoscience?
Ichiya 29
Any science related article MUST be based entirely on facts otherwise its the ramblings of psychos designed to terrorize gullible imbiciles like the student.
PimpNasty16 13
Not a hoax dumbass it's in South Africa? You're a teacher, do your teaearch
rizzkiyoshi 19
Read the WHOLE FML before you comment.
Imareth 10
So was she being graded on the merit of the article, or her actual essay? If you weren't clear at the beginning of the assignment, YDI and FHerL.
Ichiya 29
The article, no matter how well written, was based on absolutely no science and therefore did not meet the requirements. Assuming the student knew this was a hoax she deserved far less than 0 but sadly that is as low as a teacher can go.
Perfectly_Killer 14
Zombies don't exist. Period.
nitrog100 21
Actually, zombies have existed. They were used as slaves on plantations. I don't recall exactly which neurotoxin was used, but when carefully administered, it made highly suggestible, mindless drones out of previously healthy individuals. In a way, they were almost like lobotomites.
Psycho_Babydoll 26
Wow, break it to me gently!
xoxo_tsth 3
people had walked around for centuries in a trans state caused by disease and virus. the article she had written the paper on DID exsist. there was a verified first person newspaper read that was written in africa after the occurance of the strange inccodent. it seems life is crazier and more unpredictable than fiction. so stop beong so ignorant. your close minded
Chibi_Kitten 24
Helicopter parents, everyone's greatest annoyance.
tehaustiebear 34
I don't get what all the hype is about Ebola. There was one case, and it's less likely to spread than the common cold.