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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cristy91 33
@40, there are quite a few more than one case, or are you going to ignore West Africa? and the hype is that there is no known vaccine and the early symptoms are much the same as lesser diseases. Yeah, living in our western world means the chances are much less, but we should still concern ourselves with those at higher risks.
grtfuldeadlovr 27
Soorry but she did the assignment she should get some sort of grade for it.
maharb01 17
She did. . .a zero. Students aren't entitled to any grade, they have to earn them. So long as the OP was consistent across all the students, he should own his grading process. Most education, at the end of the day regardless of what you actually learn, is about becoming a critical thinker and learning how to find answers to your questions. In that vein, the student epically failed. Hopefully the grade is a wake-up call.
rocker_chick105 31
How about the fact that it's been in Africa for years, yet now everyone seems to care about a vaccine because it affects them...
smites 1
You didn't specify whether or not it had to be something factual, only related to science in one way or another. With Ebola currently on the forefront of most scientific conversation at present and assuming she analysed it scientifically it has been completed as required by the instructions and should be marked accordingly. If you want to avoid law suits and such then perhaps you should be a little more specific when setting assignments.
grtfuldeadlovr 27
Thank you :)
Ichiya 29
You are the parents that ruin the education system for students who actually follow the assignment and don't look for loopholes.
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Some people in this world should not be parents if they're that stupid.
Dekat121 24
Youre all being so judgemental, I remember back in highschool whenever a teacher gave me an assignment I always tried to go as way out there as possible while still following criteria, clearly the daughter did this, did exactly what was told of her but purposefuly picked a hoax article, as its still a theory. she did everything right the teacher shouldve atleast given her a passing grade.
Ichiya 29
So basically you looked for loopholes and laughed when the teacher was forced to accept it.
Thatguy334 7
She is being judgmental, because the student failed to follow the assignment: scientific article has nothing to do with zombies. Zombies have actually been scientifically disproven
thundermoo 16
I'd say it would depend on the age. We started writing essays in third grde. A third grader may not have known the article was a hoax. If the kid was old enough to know better, you should allow her to rewrite the assignment on an actual scientific study (since she at least tried and wrote an essay.)
King_Nero 15
42- there was some article of an "Ebola zombie" coming back from the dead with a picture of a World War Z zombie on it. As stupid as it sounded there were a lot of idiots who actually believed it was true.
KingTurnip 6
It may be a hoax, but she still did do a report, and if she showed some sort of way that is science related, it's not right for you to fail her. If she actually tried and related it to science and you still did that then your a terrible teacher.
iwadasn 33
She was assigned a science article and she picked a fiction piece. That means she did not do the assignment, so she deserves a 0. What if she had been assigned to write an essay about To Kill a Mockingbird and she wrote one about a Batman comic instead? Would he be a "terrible teacher" for failing her on that too?
NodakN8V 25
Way to much walking dead