Those are not great reasons for homeschooling your kids. You’d be surprised how many parents think childhood ends the second their kid starts school. They believe that education marks the beginning of the end of innocence and a stress-free life, and that parents should keep their kids at home, away from other kids, for as …
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Homeschool parents lie to their 15-year-old, telling her that public school costs money and is too expensive for them: ‘I dropped out of school in the 3rd grade.’
Some parents just don’t care about their children getting a good education. In some countries, the point of a high school education is not to ensure everyone gets the same basic knowledge, but to separate the academically inclined from the not-so-academically inclined and put both groups on paths better suited to their strengths and weaknesses. …
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Why Do Some Students Go Back to School on August 3rd, While Others Don’t Go Back Until After Labor Day?
Would you rather your kids have a 3-month summer break or a 1.5-month summer break? If you are a working parent without a partner who stays at home, summertime might be one of the most stressful times of the year for you. You have to spend an arm and a leg to keep your kid …
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27 Teacher Memes for Educators Enjoying Their Summer Vacation
Are you dreading going back to school? It’s not easy being a teacher. A lot of other professionals think teaching is easier than their jobs because they get summers off, but that couldn’t be further from the case. Most teachers do not get paid during the summer, so they take less money during the school …
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High School Cross-Country Team Captain Hosts Secret Practices Excluding His Slower Teammates: ‘Aren’t The Slower People The Ones Who Need More Practice Anyway?’
He does not sound like a very good captain! A lot of people choose not to participate in sports because they’re afraid of being bad at it. I know I never signed up for any sports in middle or high school because it was drilled into my head that I’m not athletic, and I thought …
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1st Year English Teacher Freaks Out After Discovering ‘Only’ 78.6% of his Students Passed the AP Literature Exam: ‘AP Lit had a pass rate of 73% this year. Why are you upset you did better than the global average?’
He is being way too hard on himself. Teachers have a difficult job for a multitude of reasons, one of which is that they are viewed as an extension of their students. If their students don’t care and do a bad job on their work, that must mean their teacher doesn’t care and does a …
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Mom Threatens to Stop Being Friends With 18-Year-Old Daughter if She Wears a Dress She Doesn’t Like to Her High School Graduation
Should a mom and daughter be ‘friends’ in the first place? If you’ve ever met a mom who is «best friends» with her daughter, you might’ve seen some red flags. They probably don’t have the boundaries a mom and daughter should. The mom might confide in her daughter about her relationship with her father, and …
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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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‘No white socks?’: School sends out wildly restrictive dress code leaving commenters confused
Have you ever attended somewhere with a super strict dress code? I have. I went to a school with a mandatory uniform when I was a kid, and I hated it more than almost anything else in the world. And so did the kid in this story, which was shared to the MildlyInfuriating subreddit. Everything …
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Teacher Proposed Canceling Graduation Because All of Her Students Graduate No Matter How Low Their Grades Are
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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