Summer is ending, school is back, and every student wants to crawl back into bed… Kids, we completely understand. We were children once before (no matter how long ago), and we still remember that bittersweet feeling of going back to class after an endless summer. It was fun to see all our friends again and …
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‘Don’t lose your streak!’: 20 Duolingo memes for learning languages and escaping notifications
Learning a new language can be an adventure… Especially if the green owl doesn’t let you go. Many of us have had that language-learning bug bite us at some point in our lives. Perhaps we read that learning a new language is good for our brains, or maybe we have family and friends living abroad, …
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Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don’t do it: ‘It’s 40% of the total grade.’
How much easier could they have made this assignment? There’s something so refreshing about a teacher or a college professor who is actually strict. They state upfront that they know that all of the emails about losing your childhood dog that are conveniently sent the week of midterms are phony, and they won’t capitulate to …
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Boss schedules student employee for 7 AM Monday shift, even though he knows she has class at that time: ‘I can only work the late shift on Monday.’
Campus jobs shouldn’t be allowed to schedule students during their classes. You would think that managers hiring college students would understand that their schooling is important to them, but that’s not always the case. For some college town jobs, the best-case scenario is that their employees drop out of school and start working for them …
Seguir leyendo Boss schedules student employee for 7 AM Monday shift, even though he knows she has class at that time: ‘I can only work the late shift on Monday.’
Mom fires grandma from babysitting 1-year-old twice a week after she secretly stops taking her to toddler art classes: ‘She describes it as chaos’
One thing about parenting that can come as a surprise is the difference in opinion on how to raise kids between parents and grandparents. Most involved moms and dads can acknowledge that times have changed since they were children, and that there are probably things that they want to do differently from their parents. Whether …
Seguir leyendo Mom fires grandma from babysitting 1-year-old twice a week after she secretly stops taking her to toddler art classes: ‘She describes it as chaos’
16-year-old informs his teachers that he is not required to do any of the schoolwork they assign him: ‘You can still give me the work if you choose, but it won’t get done.’
If he’s not required to do work, then she’s not required to pass him. We all went to school with one of those kids who did not do his schoolwork and tried to find a moral justification that made him sound smarter than everyone else. He’s refusing to do his homework because school is run …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old informs his teachers that he is not required to do any of the schoolwork they assign him: ‘You can still give me the work if you choose, but it won’t get done.’
Dance teacher refuses to let the only boy in class quit lessons after he claims he’s too busy to keep going, his dad stands up to teacher on his behalf: ‘We’re leaving’
There’s no point in keeping up with something that does not bring you joy. How many hobbies did you have when you were a kid? My mom loved to sign my sister and me up for all kinds of classes in our community center when we were young. I did ballet, chess, tennis, pottery, and …
Seguir leyendo Dance teacher refuses to let the only boy in class quit lessons after he claims he’s too busy to keep going, his dad stands up to teacher on his behalf: ‘We’re leaving’
New homeowner discovers he moved next door to former friend, refuses to move after she comes knocking on his door demanding he leave: ‘You don’t own the neighborhood’
When a friendship falls apart, the outcome can be life-changing. Sometimes, ending a friendship can be just as painful as a romantic breakup, if not more. The older you get, the harder it becomes to find friends who will stick around for long. And when you realise a friendship must come to an end, it …
Seguir leyendo New homeowner discovers he moved next door to former friend, refuses to move after she comes knocking on his door demanding he leave: ‘You don’t own the neighborhood’
Entitled high school student misses presentation deadline, gives ‘invoice’ to teacher petitioning for passing grade: ‘Emotional labor during class: 2 hours’
Some students learn nothing but audacity when they go to school. Try as they might, many teachers have no hope of getting through to some of the kids that are signed up for their classes. Once they have made up their minds that doing the work that is asked of them is optional, it can …
Seguir leyendo Entitled high school student misses presentation deadline, gives ‘invoice’ to teacher petitioning for passing grade: ‘Emotional labor during class: 2 hours’
‘Can we do 4?’: High school sophomore students complain to teacher asking them to write 5 complete sentences
It is a question that has been haunting many people who have observed the changes of the past couple of decades: are we getting dumber? Countless individuals have argued that the introduction of smartphones has fried our brains and their attention spans, and the spread of generative AI has only made this problem worse. No …
Seguir leyendo ‘Can we do 4?’: High school sophomore students complain to teacher asking them to write 5 complete sentences