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
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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 was reading my students' Halloween stories I made them write for my creative writing class in high school. One of my students wrote about attacking me. She got my street address perfect and everything. FML
Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. 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 turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, my new creative writing teacher informed the class that we should consult him before writing anything "dark or disturbing." I only took the class because my therapist recommended that I join the class so I could freely express my darker thoughts without her help or a fear of being judged. FML
Today, the feedback my teacher wrote on my English assignment was so horrible that it took me half an hour and help from both my parents to decipher it. It turned out to be a scathing criticism of my "poor communication skills". I hate my teachers. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
Today, my teacher gave me a 0% on my personal narrative in my writing class. His only comment on the whole paper was, "Too long, didn't read." FML
Today, I got feedback on an essay I wrote, by my mum who is also a teacher. She said it was 'worse than most of her pupils'. She teaches 10-year-olds. I'm a 20-year-old student at university. FML
Today, I turned in an essay about a book I'd read over the summer. My teacher later called me to her desk and began to gush about how interesting the book sounded and asked to borrow my copy. The book I wrote about isn't real, and the main characters are named after my childhood pets. FML
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littlemonster94 15
Consider that validation that you indeed wrote a good horror story. Props to you, oh demented one!
HowieDoIt 21
I would exorcise your right to publication, otherwise this ghoul is in trouble
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Comments (77)
Alexis2742 31
Was it ghastly?
HowieDoIt 21
No I think it was Gengar.
Pleonasm 36
Yea, they were actually writing about the /Haunter/ House, not haunted house! Makes much more sense this way. Oh God, is that the Lavender Town theme song I hear in the distance...
SuperKnuckels 6
tell them they're idiots. if they've never read an H.P Lovecraft story/book and found your book disturbing, holy hell. Tell them to youtube DyE - Fantasy (based off of H.P Lovecraft)
fymother 13
Was it about the Vatican?
upyourzlolz 11
No. It was about a haunted house.
fymother 13
No duh, 81, it can still be about the Vatican
upyourzlolz 11
I'm well aware, good sir. But this is not the case. It's about a haunted house.
RocketNinjaFish 12
14- I hope not. That tune is creepy!
jarrettd 27
That's just how good it was.
GrimReefer66 29
What the hell does that have to do with this?
HowieDoIt 21
I would exorcise your right to publication, otherwise this ghoul is in trouble
stevenJB 25
If it was a scary story then it should've been gold according to her words
Enslaved 38
Stay gold, Ponyboy. . . stay gold.
katykilbs 1
Once I wrote a poem for a state competition also, and I was sent to the guidance counselor.
HowieDoIt 21
Was it a fan-fiction of Honey Boo Boo?
SakataGintoki 9
Please 10, don't give anyone any ideas,
lilhellian 27
18 I'm pretty sure it's to late by this point.. There will be fan-fiction of anything and everything..
ManInTheMachine 20
Too late, 18. I've already started my first draft. It's called Fifty Shades of Redneck.
ntd309 14
Haha 5, I got suspended from my college and reported to a "Threat Assessment Team" because my film prijects had guns in them (yet no violent scenes)! The nanny state is out of control. These days kids are getting suspended for shaping their poptarts into guns! True story by the way!!
ntd309 14
Haha 5, I got suspended from my college and reported to a "Threat Assessment Team" because my film prijects had guns in them (yet no violent scenes)! The nanny state is out of control. These days kids are getting suspended for shaping their poptarts into guns! True story by the way!!
Voij 16
"Haha 5, I got suspended from my college and reported to a "Threat Assessment Team" because my film prijects had guns in them (yet no violent scenes)! The nanny state is out of control. These days kids are getting suspended for shaping their poptarts into guns! True story by the way!!" - True story
lilhellian 27
Don't forget those violent kindergartners shooting up people with their Hello KItty bubble guns..
Jessj958 19
A second grader brought a grenade to my son's school a few weeks ago. It wasn't live, but no one knew that at first, so a bomb squad came to school and the students were on lockdown. It was really scary waiting for that phone call to let me know everyone was safe. But it was even scarier to think that the parents let their children have access to things like that and that they had no idea he brought it. It's one thing letting your kids do things like that in the privacy of their home, but it's another thing allowing it to happen at a public school.
FML_Whale 18
A girl got expelled because her paper ripped and it was a "weapon."
docscientist 10
45- it has nothing to do with the 'nanny state' but rather the close proximity to other gun related violence/shootings that have occured at other schools. People have a tendency to react and overcompensate to gratuitous acts of violence where they become highly sensitive to whatever they can relate to the act. On the flipside, a state recently allows guns to be carried at schools by teachers. It doesn't require a lot of smarts to realize that's going to end poorly.
Soloman212 28
I actually think that allowing teachers, who are probably the people on campus LEAST likely to want to hurt children, to carry concealed arms on campuses is a step in the right direction.
docscientist 10
You realize most gun fatalities are accidental. And tell me where these teachers are going to stash their guns. Locked away where access is difficult if there is a crisis? On their hip while being surrounded by thirty students? How many competent people do you meet on a daily basis? Just use a little bit of thought about out how this is going to typically play out.
docscientist 10
Also are you suggesting the next time this happens and it happens to be on a campus with armed teachers the person isn't going to prepare for that by you know, upgrading with body armor, explosives, bigger guns for more wanton destruction. All you're doing is introducing an arms race. It's ******* ridiculous.
strangeite 4
We had an "ear-piercing gun" incident at my school
Brandonep 13
90- Are you seriously insinuating that when a 7 year old kid eats their poptart wrong and gets suspended for it, and then the school offers counseling for other students who were "traumatized" by the event that it doesn't scream nanny state to you? I keep hearing about crap like this and I honestly have no idea how you could rationally defend the school's actions. The "0 tolerance" policy is completely irrational.
Brandonep 13
101- How would a gun that is holstered go off and kill people? That is rather unlikely given that it would be pointed downward. Also do you not understand the concept of "CONCEALED carry"? Only teachers/faculty members who had their ccl would be carrying, not necessarily all faculty members would be armed, most probably wouldn't, you would have no idea if the teacher had a firearm on them because it would be CONCEALED. There is a reason mass shootings happen in gun free zones. James Holmes, for example, had multiple theaters showing the Batman movie near him at about the same time. Only one was a "gun free zone", he didn't go to the closest theater, he didn't go to the one with the most seating, he went tithe one that was a gun free zone. Also if someone is more likely to accidentally shoot someone (or themselves) with a gun as you imply, wouldn't the Gov't just arm criminals so they would accidentally shoot themselves?
docscientist 10
107- not once did I say I'm defending the schools actions. I dont know where you got that from what i said. Their decision is idiotic. However claiming that everything is because of this 'nannystate' and currently proposed solutions is oversimplifying a complex issue.
docscientist 10
118- I never said about it going off while concealed. My intent was to suggest that at any time that gun can be removed from his/her control control by students. I'm not implying that you're more likely to be wounded by accidental discharge, I'm telling you. It's a fact. You can look it up and figure out why on your own and why what you said in your last paragraph makes no sense. So you really think if there werent gun free zones he would've just given up? No, he would've prepared even more thoroughly and escalate in destruction.
klutz44 28
As a gun owner and an elementary school teacher, I think having teachers carry guns is a terrible idea. Having an armed police officer assigned to a school is a much better solution. Many schools in my area have had police officers in the past but unless the school is in a particularly bad neighborhood, they're among the first to go with budget cuts.
DracoSpirita 21
I think this thread is supposed to be about the FML, not a debate about gun ethics...
littlemonster94 15
Consider that validation that you indeed wrote a good horror story. Props to you, oh demented one!
BinaryGuy 22
Sounds like A+ work then! You could use that for your sales pitch :)
VannahJane 17
Those are the best ones!
heythere131630 9
Don't worry about it, all the best writers do.
Sandman366 6
Sounds like you're a very good writer. I'd call Poe disturbed for every line of his works, but he still was pretty good at what he did. Ignore your guidance counselor - write more.
Enslaved 38
I'm watching the TV series "The Following" staring Kevin Bacon and it has all these Poe quotes thought out the show. Creepy and amazing at the same time.(:
dr_snow_bear 29
Well just remember, this person wasn't smart enough to become anything but a guidance counselor.
Pleonasm 36
Nice work insulting all the guidance counselors out there.
stevenJB 25
Yea...the guidance councilor at my school makes a lot of money, manages both senior and junior classes and tons of other stuff. Stressful. Don't be a dick. It's a good job
DocBastard 40
Congratulations on winning the Most Judgmental Comment of the Day award. Huzzah.
stevenJB 25
Dick of the Day Award*