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)
Britt125 16
Sounds like it might be a social anxiety issue. She might not feel that she can say no to the speech (I don't know but I would imagine you could decline it if it made you too uncomfortable) but she might also be too afraid to give it. I know I'd never be able to give a speech like that if it was me, just talking in front of a class of like 30 was bad enough, nevermind a full graduating class and the loved ones attending to see the graduates.
Michaelgf 13
Couldn't she just not give a speech?
greatfirstdate 18
**** your life because she has social anxiety and she had to try in order to NOT have the highest grades in her entire senior class? You can just encourage her to go to you to talk about these sorts of issues and not complain on the internet about her. She sounds like a great kid, to be honest.
Nuclear101 4
Tell her that if she doesn't always gets A's, you'll kick her out of the house.
kelsorg 21
not every genius likes to speak in public.
alexa31g 10
I did that but my mom caught me in time. I just didn't want to write the speech.
Door_Productions 19
Poor you. Now your daughter won't get to do something she doesn't want to do. FYL indeed.
deemarie13 14
You might want to tell her that that can cost her several THOUSANDS of dollars in the val. Scholarship.
taysalot 2
#whitepeopleproblems
decwalsh4 5
that's awesome I hope she gives a great speech when she gets back on track haha