Today, my daughter admitted why her grades, which are usually straight A's, have been slipping the past few weeks. Turns out she has been deliberately failing tests to avoid becoming valedictorian, so she won't have to deliver a speech at graduation. 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, the mother of one of my students bitched me out about her son's poor grades. He lazes around all day, paying no attention and being a constant nuisance. But, she says it's not his fault, and demands that I give him better grades so he won't get "self-esteem" issues. FML
Today, my mom said if I don't get straight As in my classes this year, she'll get the school to hold me back until I do. I believe her. FML
Today, my son was smart enough to hack the school's computers to change his midterm, but isn't smart enough to actually keep his grades up. FML
Today, my little sister decided the best way to cheat on a test is to take someone else's test, scratch through their name in pencil, and write her name underneath. She starts high school next semester. FML
Today, I got my results on a recent, important midterm. During the exam, I'd noticed my instructor had accidentally left an answers page in the test packet, so being honest, I didn't look at them. It turns out she did it on purpose to help us pass. I failed. FML
Today, one of my fourth-graders came up to me and asked, "Can you please not put my test grades in the weekly folders? My mom likes to get mad when I get below a 90." FML
Today, my mom found out that I’ve been faking my exam grades, turning my 30s to 80s and 40s to 90s on the paper exams. She got access to my online student portal and saw my real grades. I'm grounded for the rest of the school year. FML
Today, I had to sneak out of work to get my daughter from her school. Apparently, she had thought that hurling a bowling ball down the stairs during the lunch hour rush would make her cool. In actual fact, it made her expelled. FML
Today, after a conference with my teacher who had previously accused me of not doing my homework, she finally discovered she'd been losing it all this time. I've been getting straight Fs for a month. FML
Today, I found out that my daughter has been making up horrible lies about her home life to impress some new friends. Since when is having two highly involved, loving parents with good careers and a nice home an embarrassment? FML
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Top comments
cjwayy 22
Sounds like she has social anxiety or something of the sort. Ask her why she's afraid of giving a speech maybe?
w_pony_4ever 15
hahaha that's a hard worker you've got there
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Comments (191)
EpicGuy70 13
She must really want to work at mcdonalds.
romex918 3
She could get extra scholarship money for being valedictorian. I got 500 extra dollars per semester when I graduated just for having the title. it helps a great deal with books.
mclovin22897 15
book smarts and street smarts!
lil_mars 1
More like **** HER life. Don't get upset just because you can't brag to your friends that your daughter is valedictorian. She might have serious anxiety over public speaking. Help her out.
siggy_mcsigx 22
I definitely sympathize. But on another note this is why I believe high schools should have more emphasis on public speaking and/or drama classes. Performing arts and Drama are a great way to gain confidence in front of people. In our English class, once every year we had to pick a poem and recite from memory in front of the class. We had Junior research seminar where we had to present a 5-month thesis project in front of a panel of judges. Then there was the (optional) poetry recital competition, which your teacher had to nominate your for, until you won school, until you went to win State. There was the Debating society. If you're in high school and want a degree/career in business, social science, law, teaching, coaching, communications, media, politics, foreign language, international studies, and want any semblance of leadership positions, go for ALL the public speaking practice you can! It's scary as f**k but builds confidence and speech skills which open doorways that a diploma alone doesn't. I'm not saying I'm great at it, I'm not particularly, though I'm working on it, but I'm an advocate for it being better represented in curricula.
Jayy_Dash23 9
**** your life? no **** HER life. The stress she has been going through.
iamthunder 4
Be a good Asian Father and beat the shit out of your daughter, hit her so hard she will open her eyes for the first time ever.
Axel5238 29
When I was in high school it was required that you be able to deliver a speech or presentation. Giving a speech to the entire graduating class is on a much larger scale, but letting her grades slip because of it is not the way. Those last few tests, quizzes and/or papers could sink her GPA especially if she is doing this for several classes.
QueenDeemaAH 2
I wish I could have the chance to say a speech. She needs to be confident
KingreX32 21
understandable. public speaking is scary.