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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frisky7dingo 2
You didn't specify if it had to be a truthful article or not.... She could've written about Star Trek and you would still have to give her a good grade if it was written well...
Ichiya 29
No she wouldnlt have you are an idiot if you believe that.
basalt 4
ebolaaaaaaa this is am inside joke in my school hahah im 13 ???
askingandy 23
Did you explain to the girl why she got that grade so she doesn't make the mistake again? And she may not have been smart enough to realize it was fake, but she did do the assignment. If it looks like some effort was put in, it's the required length, and was turned in on time, give her some points. There's probably a few students who half-assed it and got a better grade.
Ichiya 29
No effort was put in if she couldn't even try to find a factual article about ebola.
askingandy 23
Did you explain to the girl why she got that grade so she doesn't make the mistake again? And she may not have been smart enough to realize it was fake, but she did do the assignment. If it looks like some effort was put in, it's the required length, and was turned in on time, give her some points. There's probably a few students who half-assed it and got a better grade. Excuse any multiples of this comment, the app is freezing and crashing.
crystian 7
They where not raising from the dead, they where in a comatose state and believed to be dead but In fact where not
SamanthaThe1st 23
Oh goody, THESE parents again.
razzledazzle21 23
How old is the child? Some children will believe anything they read, and I think giving her a zero was a little much. It's not like she did absolutely nothing.
Ichiya 29
Some adults do the same thing, but that doesn't mean we should coddle stupidity.
demonfacee 14
It kind of is related to science when you actually think about it.
Just_A_Tree 20
The supernatural fandom had their moment on this thread. Ebola is believed to be an ancient virus, not something that just suddenly mutated into what it is now. Ancient it may be, but people didn't have significant contact with it until the 1970's. It's a virus that is believed to have lasted for hundreds of years, mutating between species. So, no, there is not a vaccine. Vaccines aren't as simple as gather some dead cells and hope that it works. And with something that has been lurking in the shadows as long as Ebola has, a vaccine won't just pop up and make everyone smile again. And I hate to burst your bubble. But this is not the first time Ebola has been in the United States. Last time it was here, it was in a monkey storage warehouse that bought them from Africa and distributed them for many different purposes. Ebola swept through the warehouse, killing off monkeys. At one point, the military and USAMRID went in, did tests and then killed the monkeys (summary). This was kept quiet for the exact same reason as what's happening right now! People are going into far to much panic! When it was at the monkey house, one of the scientists looked out and realized there was a children's playground VERY close to the monkey house. It was a threat then, but nobody outside of the building caught it. And they discovered that the strain going through the monkey house was Ebola ZAIRE! The three strains are Marburg, Ebola Sudan, and Ebola Zaire (three sisters). Marburg's death ratio is 1/4. Ebola Sudan's death ratio is 1/2. Ebola Zaire's death ratio is 9/10. You are almost guaranteed death with Ebola Zaire, and if you live, you won't ever be the same. And you know why it didn't cause panic when it was here last time? Because they knew common people couldn't handle it! So they kept it quiet. Y'all are just proving them right.
The_Podfather 16
Whatever happened to the parent getting mad at the kid for their grades?