Teacher Makes Students Give Her Their Shoe if they Want to Borrow a Pencil From Her to Ensure She Gets Her Pencils Back

That’s one way to stink up the classroom!  I don’t think it should be a teacher’s job to have an endless supply of pencils for their students. A lot of parents think that because public schools are run by the state, the state should be providing their kids with school supplies, but that’s simply not …
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Teacher Records Student’s Disrespectful Behavior After School Administration Refuses to Believe That They’re Misbehaving

Was she wrong for doing what the school administration implied she should do? Working with kids means you have to watch what you say far more than most other professionals. If you tell your coworker something off-color about your personal life, there’s a good chance that they will think, «Wow, that was kind of weird,» …
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School District Forces Teacher to Pass Senior Student Who Has Missed 49 out of 83 Classes and Earned Zeros on Most Quizzes

Why should he get to graduate when he never came to class?  Schools have a major incentive to pass their students, even when they don’t deserve to pass and matriculate to the next grade. They don’t want their school’s graduation rate to be low. If only 60% of high school seniors graduate, the school looks …
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Employee quiet quits at his cushy $100K office job for 3.5 years before his managers noticed: ‘They say that I’m not making any progress in my career.’

He’s going to get «quiet fired» if he keeps this up for much longer. You might be living under a rock if you’ve never heard of «quiet quitting» in the year of our lord 2026. If you’ve never heard of it, you’ve most certainly done it in some work or school situation. Quiet quitting is …
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Administrative job paying $17 an hour requires applicants to have a minimum 700 credit score to be hired: ‘What does my credit score have to do with checking emails and updating spreadsheets?’

That’s a pretty high standard for a job paying that little. We’re judged by numbers our whole life. We’re judged by how old we are, how much money we make, the number on the scale, and the number of zeros at the end of our bank account. But one number can determine whether we can …
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UPDATE: ‘Not my problem anymore’: Woman cuts off her 39-year-old man-child ex-husband, removing herself as admin from his insurance, leaving him with higher payments and the weight of adult responsibilities

There’s a strict difference between a trophy wife and a stay-at-home mom. While a trophy sits around and gathers dust in the house, a stay-at-home mom is the household’s full-time personal assistant, a super mom, and a multitasking homemaker. There’s a lot that goes into keeping a family afloat, too–just on the clerical side, you …
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‘My dad told me to put ‘freeloader»: Parents and family members reveal funny responses they have filled out on forms for kids

One of the many things that nobody warns you about when you become a parent is the sheer amount of admin it involves. When you bring a whole new person into the world, various institutions feel like they need to know all about it — and that doesn’t stop after birth, either. Whether at the …
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