Are high school graduations really worth celebrating? In days of yore, it was more difficult to graduate from high school. Graduating from high school was seen as an actual academic achievement, rather than merely a ceremony that marks your transition from childhood to adulthood. You could argue that a high school diploma serves both purposes, …
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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 …
Seguir leyendo Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don’t do it: ‘It’s 40% of the total grade.’
16-year-old celebrates her passing grade with a boy in her class, enrages her 17-year-old boyfriend who gets straight As: ‘He’s never happy for me.’
She needs to dump this boyfriend because, clearly, he isn’t happy for her when she succeeds. He’s too self-centered to realize that other people have different goals from his.
Assistant principal bans teachers from failing kids, insists they give students A’s or B’s instead of F’s: ‘If they know the material but don’t turn in any work, then they should have an A or B in your class.’
When I was in high school, there were extremely generous late-work policies. You had three days to turn in late work, and if you didn’t turn it in after those days were up, you’d get a big fat zero. They would threaten zeros, but I knew nary a kid who actually got a zero if …
Seguir leyendo Assistant principal bans teachers from failing kids, insists they give students A’s or B’s instead of F’s: ‘If they know the material but don’t turn in any work, then they should have an A or B in your class.’
Lazy student refuses to participate in group project, cries to teacher when he gets an F: ‘[He] tried to blame us for him not participating’
We’ve all been in situations where one person in a group is not pulling their weight. This happens in every corner of life, whether it be someone at your job doing a lot more talking than working or at school where one of the kids expects every other kid in their group project to cover …
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Funny Reddit Thread Where People Discuss Hilarious Lessons Learned The Hard Way
Grown-ups are like toddlers in the sense that we try, we fail, we try again… except for the times when we most certainly don’t. Some instances, or lessons, are so clear that we don’t need to be told twice. Ignoring our bladders pleads to go to the bathroom during our favorite concert? Never again. Entering …
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Parent Accuses Teacher of ‘Threatening’ Their Child Because He Brought Up Summer School to Their Failing Student
When you’re a little kid, there’s nothing scarier than the possibility of attending summer school. That’s where you go when you’re a juvenile delinquent throughout the year and don’t finish your schoolwork. When a teacher brings up the dreaded idea of attending summer school, it’s usually a simple scare tactic to submit a class of …
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