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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SleevelessD 6
#56 is right. Ill find the article if you guys want
jamnglamgirlie 17
Re: No.
SoulReaper8858 2
As an educator myself, I almost have to side with the student. while it was a hoax article, the student A. did the work and B. stayed within the realm of science. Personally, I would have given her a C and told her she could bring it up to a b if she wrote another article. now, depending where you're at in the quarter, you're making it difficult for this student to pass.
SunTzu2 9
Yes, I totally agree with you
Ichiya 29
She didn't do the work at all. She may have wrote a wonderful agruement on the validity of a hoax article but never once did I see it metion her turning in an essay on a scientific article. Its the same as me writing a movie review about a book and hoping the teacher will pass me. Just like a book isn't the same as a movie a hoax article isn't the same as a scientific article.
Ichiya 29
Plus the teacher doesn't have to guarantee the students pass. Students must work and complete assignments following the criteria given in order to earn the right to pass. Your reasoning is what is responsible for letting students with a 5th grade education graduate from highschool.
SkullduggeryCain 11
This is actually real. But they weren't exactly rising from the dead.
kwiggle 3
You never said the article OR the essay had to be scientifically correct... :O
SunTzu2 9
So what do you teach, English or physics? In both cases I find you're wrong because her work should be rated and not the topic. Science, science fiction it's all possible. Look a little at history and things that have happened and changed in the last two hundred years
Ichiya 29
Look at the second word in Science fiction for me. It clearly states it is not true. I can tell you have a second grader's understanding of true science. Let me educate you, in order to become a Scientific theory a hypothesis must be tested hundreds of times by various people and have the same outcome. Until then its just guess work. Take it from a chemistry major ebola zombies doesn't even constitute a hypothesis let alone a theory so no article about it is science in any form.
mansen 15
One doesn't have to teach to actually understand what science actually is. Or what the difference between science and science fiction is. One can actually pay attention in their basic science classes. Or be in higher education for a section of science too. Where it is drilled into us what a scientific hypothesis is, a scientific theory is, how real research is set up, what to look at and for in research articles. Also that yes, science does change with time, with technology that allows better use, understanding, manipulations, closer look at many many things. But, before anything becomes rigorously set as yes this is it, it has to be tested (and they test to try to disprove it not prove it) hundreds of times by many different people, to get the same consistent results. Science fiction is whatever your mind can make up and put onto paper, does not need any testing. See the difference??
pike1346 3
Teaching is rough and parents are asshats. In today's world their kids are always right. When this changed, I don't know.
SunTzu2 9
May I add that all science starts out as speculative too. You need to read up yourself, NDE for example, CDC in the US has emergency response guidelines for a possible zombie apocalypse. (Center for disease control) Don't be so narrow minded in future
Nymeria_fml 25
Well, to be fair, the CDC started the zombie thing as a joke. They say in their website it was tongue-in-cheek. Then they saw they could use that theme to reach all kinds of people to prepare them for hazards. It's right there on their website, "you need to read up yourself".
Ichiya 29
But it doesn't become accepted as science until it is proven and so your argument is invalid.
mansen 15
please please please tell me that you do realize that the zombie preparedness part on the CDC is all tongue in cheek and was in part due to the huge popularity of zombies in pop culture. If you do not realize that, it is not our narrow mindedness we have to worry about, it is just what you believe to be real science.
ShadowOpsV4 13
They still do the assignment you should have atleast given them some points you asshole
TedNg 8
stupidity breeds stupidity.