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)
fsomelife 26
Poor kid..let her know you're okay with her refusing to speak. They can't force her to, and neither can they take away the fact that her grades are the highest. Just let her know you're okay with her choice.
KakarikoHero 1
I have done similar things. She will probably do that forever. try to be less than perfect to stay out of the spotlight. Nobody wants to be to curve breaker. being valedictorian can also cause her to be socially outcasted.
weveallbeenthere 30
if she's acting like that she does not deserve it.
badluckbryin 8
At my school it's a choice. Maybe its the same for y'all but you don't know yet?
topdezfan 5
Well that's stupid
AnonymousAlpaca1 18
I was valedictorian of my graduating class and, while I was elated to receive the title, I was terrified to give the speech. Social anxiety couple with my hatred of being in the spotlight almost put me in the same position. But my family was so proud of me. Relatives I hadn't seen in year came to visit for graduation and they even pulled money together to buy me a class ring. So I got up there, said my speech, messed up, made a joke of it, and got the audience to laugh about it with me.
Dordanni 10
I'm a straight A student. I didn't fail on purpose, I just opted out of walking at graduation. (2013) I deem a high school diploma a "participation award" since its nothing special. Everyone has to go through school. Plus, opting out didn't drop my grades, nor did it change the status of enrollment of my top choice college. (And I'm opting out of my college walk as well (2015), since I've applied for grad school, it seems silly to walk a stage for a minor accomplishment when I have grad school to go) so no matter her reasoning, she could just opt out instead of sacrificing her GPA (which helps with scholarships)
Britt125 16
Not really. At least where I am you are allowed to drop school after you turn 16 (by your choice, sooner if your parents authorize it) and many people don't graduate high school; not everybody has good enough grades to graduate and not everybody chooses to stay in high school. It isn't a participation award, especially if you're, in the case of OP's daughter, valedictorian. It is actually an accomplishment that many people don't achieve. I mean it's up to you to walk the stage or not, everybody should be able to make that choice, I just really disagree with a high school diploma being a participation award. I do agree that she could just opt out of walking the stage or giving the speech and not drop her grades, but she might not feel she can do that either. If her family's really excited she might not feel she can just say no and let them down.
irocksox2014 13
I don't blame her. I'm terrible at putting my thoughts into words.
kelsishank 2
That's what I'm doing!! I make sure I get B's at some point or another.
kissmeImawkward 17
Dear OP..tell your daughter not to worry :) I delivered the speech at my graduation and ,although my class teacher had to convince me, because I was certain that I couldn't do it, I wrote my speech, delivered it on the stage and it was the most amazing and beautiful moment of my entire high school, apparently I had the best speech, made my teachers cry and my parents proud of me.So please convince your daughter not to give up cause she won't regret it :)