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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CuriousYel1ow 13
School problems won't be problems as soon as Ebola gets here
kittymisfit 13
I imagine the ability to recognize actual science was a big part of the assignment. Something a lot of people apparently have difficulty doing. *smh*
sousaphonist 14
Did she agree with the article's position? If so, then she deserved the 0. On the other hand, if she tried to argue it's falsehood, then she deserved SOME kind of credit.
Bl4nk3t 2
so what your saying is: as long as you do EXACTLY what i say, you'll do well. ANY creative deviance will result in failure. Welcome to the American teaching system. crush out all differences, everyone must fit into this straight line. Was the essay well written? That's what should matter. not the fact that she got creative. if it was full of "likes" and "umm's" okay fine, but if you failed her simply on the fact of the article she chose the it's YDI. Start teaching individuality, not forcing people into a single mold.
Ichiya 29
The student could have chosen any of the thousands of actual science related articles but they purposely chose a known hoax she was being a smartass.
mansen 15
If the assignment was to write a piece of fiction or assess a piece of fiction, go for it. Be creative. But to foster critical thinking skills, to help a person develop skills in assessing if something is valid, how to look to see if it is true, and not to fall prey to the many many idiotic conspiracy theory circles that rely on those very lack of skills, then yes, these things have to be taught. It is not crushing out individuality, it is helping create people who are less likely to be duped by every dumb thing they see, read and hear. Being able to properly assess a science article in the news is one of those things that being wildly creative was not asked for for the assignment. If she took that article and came up with verified, sound research to show why it was a hoax, was not valid, and not possible, then fine, it would have been a good essay. But if she just took it and wrote about how people were talking about zombies from ebola victims, then no. She failed.
kaitlin_leann 9
Did you say when giving your assignment that it had to be a real article?
False_Stupidity 42
Sure its related to science.... science fiction that is.
whoredom 21
You didn't have to give a 0. I think partial credit would have been fine since she still did some work.
ArkNon 6
Is the family religious? It's possible they might actually believe in divine healing which may not be science related, but could explain where they're coming from.
ZorroRooster 19
Proof that idiocy is genetic
howsthisforaname 34
Yeah but it's fun to pretend. Have you read the zombie survival guide? It's actually a very good disaster survival guide.