Why are 15-year-olds asking the kinds of questions that 5-year-olds used to ask? 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 …
Seguir leyendo 10th-grade student asks his teacher why he has to capitalize his last name: ‘He hadn’t capitalized any proper nouns. He insisted his paper didn’t need fixing and was perfect.’
Categoría:immature high schoolers
17-year-old student constantly insults his 26-year-old English teacher’s intelligence: ‘I’m not sure how to write an essay that’s simple enough for you.’
We all went to school with some know-it-all kids who thought they were smarter than everyone there, including the teacher. I have empathy for kids who are genuinely advanced and don’t have the opportunity to take AP classes or other challenging coursework. If a kid is actually extremely bored and unchallenged by school, it can …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old student constantly insults his 26-year-old English teacher’s intelligence: ‘I’m not sure how to write an essay that’s simple enough for you.’
18-year-old high schooler refuses to walk at graduation, have a graduation party, attend a graduation dinner, or go on a graduation trip: ‘As you can imagine, no one is on my side’
Graduations can be hit or miss. There’s something beautiful about the end of an era being marked by a big celebration where you don a funny hat. It gives a sense of completion to all of the years you spent slaving away on your degree. My graduations were hit and miss. I liked my high …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old high schooler refuses to walk at graduation, have a graduation party, attend a graduation dinner, or go on a graduation trip: ‘As you can imagine, no one is on my side’
‘They all decided that my name, Ciarán, is too hard to pronounce’: Irish teenager moves to the USA, classmates try to call him ‘Connor’ as his American name against his will
Most nicknames are bequeathed onto the nicknamed by others. They are not the ones who typically come up with their nicknames, nor are said nicknames natural and fitting from the word go. When I was in middle school, I bequeathed one of my best friends with the nickname «Beef.» Why she still talks to me …
Seguir leyendo ‘They all decided that my name, Ciarán, is too hard to pronounce’: Irish teenager moves to the USA, classmates try to call him ‘Connor’ as his American name against his will
17-year-old releases chickens into his high school’s hallways as a prank, asks mom to use a fake alibi so he wouldn’t get in trouble: ‘The prank resulted in some significant property damage, including broken windows’
Senior pranks are often celebrated as a fun way for teenagers to release some harmless steam. They will blow up hundreds of balloons and fill the hallways with them or tie some cans and a «Just Married» sign to the cars of two infamous teachers. My high school was extremely against senior pranks of any …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old releases chickens into his high school’s hallways as a prank, asks mom to use a fake alibi so he wouldn’t get in trouble: ‘The prank resulted in some significant property damage, including broken windows’
16-year-old gives candy to the 3 students who were listening to her in-class presentation, gets harassed for candy by the kids who were on their phones the whole time: ‘The teacher told us we could give out candy’
There’s something so uniquely humiliating about giving a class presentation in high school. If you’re underprepared, you look like an idiot and get a lousy grade. If you’re overprepared, you seem like a high-strung overachiever. You have to strike this perfect balance of being both knowledgeable and unattached to the material, which is incredibly difficult …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old gives candy to the 3 students who were listening to her in-class presentation, gets harassed for candy by the kids who were on their phones the whole time: ‘The teacher told us we could give out candy’
9th grade class boycotts the state Algebra exam required for graduation, responds with apathy when teachers threaten to call their parents: ‘I don’t care’
I do not envy the burdens that teachers bear. Getting an apathetic group to start caring is exceedingly tricky, and that seems to be the situation many modern teachers are in. According to r/Teachers, modern K-12 students do not care about doing a good job, parents perpetually blame the teachers for their kids’ failures, and …
Seguir leyendo 9th grade class boycotts the state Algebra exam required for graduation, responds with apathy when teachers threaten to call their parents: ‘I don’t care’
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 …
Seguir leyendo 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’
Mom Doesn’t Force Her Popular Daughter To Include Her Lonely Younger Sister, Dad Gets Angry At Her Parenting Decision
High school is one of the most challenging periods of your life, especially socially. I tried my darndest to make and keep friends when I was 13-18, but it was not easy, even in my class of 700+ kids. I was never so desperate I had to eat lunch in the toilet stall, but one …
Seguir leyendo Mom Doesn’t Force Her Popular Daughter To Include Her Lonely Younger Sister, Dad Gets Angry At Her Parenting Decision
Post Grads Discuss The Types of Students They Were
What kind of student were you in high school and college? When we talk about different types of students, we tend to only focus on two ends of the Bell Curve, both of which I wouldn’t say I liked when I was in school. The first type is the overachiever. Don’t get me wrong, I …
Seguir leyendo Post Grads Discuss The Types of Students They Were