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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firedropp 4
Yeaa because were "just now" panicking, it's more like we're just now gaining information to understand why we need to panic. Also did we all just forget how it's starting in the US now, because our government "accidentally" let the patient get leave out of the hospital. Oh ya know, no need to panic even more it's just merely spreading around the globe.
mmyers 5
Very creative!! A - from me!
Ichiya 29
Not creative, stupid.
Boburk 6
I gotta agree...unless you gave them a grading rubric at the beginning saying that the wrong topic gets them a 0, she should have been marked down for the topic, but should not have gotten a 0. Afterall, what is more important, the choice of topic, or their ability to write an essay.
Ichiya 29
It was designed to assess their skills writing about a small focused topic and not straying from it. The student failed to stay within the criteria.
Smitty173 4
It isn't a hoax... It actually happened
luvmyfamof4 4
Please clarify OP, you are talking about two different grading scales with A and 0. Also, I would have given her credit for a portion of the assignment. She completed it. Besides, did you specify that the source of the article had to be reliable? She may have written and excellent paper.
Hiimhaileypotter 53
No, an A and a 0 are on the same grading scale... A zero is an F (a really, REALLY bad F). Also, I'm sure OP specified everything to the students. If it was an article supposed to have been based on real science and this was laid out in a rubric, OP definitely has the right to fail the student as she didn't do the assignment correctly.
ChristianH39 30
Ebola was first discovered in 1976. If it hasn't ended the world yet, it ain't going to. There are a lot of reasons why it's so devastating and spreads so easily in west Africa that don't much apply here in the US.
dahren 1
It isn't a hoax. The article she used talks about the government assuming that people were death to fast. Bodies along the road were being picked up to be burned and some 'bodies' started moving again, hence that they didn't check their pulse to see if they were actually already dead. The media called it 'zombies' but it's actually about people being left to die on the street without medical care.
ShadowlessSpear 21
But they're not zombies. Therefore the media article is, in fact, a hoax.
steftriv 18
Unless it came from the New England Journal of Medicine, fail her
b_free_8 9
At least she did the paper. The article may be a hoax but if the content of what she wrote is good, then at least give her some credit
xoxo_tsth 3
on a technicality you must grade it properly. you have to accept that there ARE scientific hypothesis on the issues related to it. have you read the newspaper?
Ichiya 29
Those "hypothesis" you talk about are so far on the fringes even the radicals in science call them crazy.
mansen 15
please explain the scientific hypothesis about a person being in a coma, with lowered metabolic rates that can cause resting breathing and heart rates to be hard to be easily detected by a quick check, can actually be a person who has died, and has been reanimated into 'life' as a zombie. And parasitic infection of the brain is not the same. It does not make a person a zombie even if said parasite can alter behaviour. That affects areas of the brain or neurotransmitters, and so on, that can be related to behaviour, motion and on and on. Lobotomies does not equate zombies either since that destroyed cognitive parts of the brain. The people in all examples were never dead, never came back to life and existed after with no vital signs, still rotting, yet somehow, still shuffling along. Fiction does not have a place in science.