25+ Picky Parents Reveal the Wholesome Parenting Practices That Annoy Them

You don’t have to be a parent to realize that a lot of the people raising kids are — how do I put this politely? — a little eccentric in the ways they choose to do so. Countless therapists would go bankrupt if parents didn’t mess their children up, but plenty are also trying their …
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‘He’s below average and didn’t deserve it’: College Applicant Gets Rejected From Cornell With 4.6 GPA, Sparks Debate About Entitled Students

Every so often, I wish I could go back to being younger. It would be nice to approach certain situations with the value of hindsight. At the same time, one thing I am 1000% good at never, ever experiencing again is the crushing pressure of academia. All those exams and all that cramming just to …
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Fed Up Father Enrolls Child in Private School Behind Ex-Wife’s Back, Sparks Debate About Co-Parenting

Making joint decisions can be incredibly tough. Even the simplest of cases, like you and your roommate deciding what couch to get, can quickly spiral into an argument for the ages. Compromise is key, but it’s also one of the most difficult things we have to do as humans. Everybody wants their way, and it’s …
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35 Teacher Memes for the Exhausted Educators Eagerly Anticipating the Long Weekend

Teachers are the unsung heroes of education. They are warriors in the front lines of chalk dust and endless lesson plans. We’ve all been there, from the classic «Is this going to be on the test?» to the struggle of finding the perfect seating chart. Teachers are the true MVPs, and what better way to …
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Facts Redditors Were Taught in Grade School That Turned out to Be Utter Phooey

Information is ever-evolving. That’s why there are new editions of textbooks, up-to-date encyclopedias, and good folks working tirelessly to constantly update Wikipedia pages (I’m NOT looking at you, Wiki-vandals). We’re always learning new things, observing new phenomena, and doing new research. They used to teach that Pluto was a planet. I’m still salty about that …
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Little Girl Freaks Out After Being Forbidden From Riding a Pony, Mother Enables Her Bad Behavior

I have seen Gone With The Wind enough times to know that little girls riding ponies can have devastating consequences (Spoilers ahead for a movie from 1939). Imagine being Scarlett O’Hara, doing the long con of getting Rhett Butler to marry you after your first two husbands are killed in situations that were beyond your …
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Teacher Assigns Passive-Aggressive Crossword Puzzle After Student is Absent For One Day

There are many different ways for educators and school administrators to prevent truancy. The most crucial step is to meet with parents to figure out why a kid is repeatedly absent from class. The child or the parent might have health issues that the school doesn’t know about, or they might discover that a teen …
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Teachers Complain About All the Basic Knowledge That Pupils No Longer Have

Childhood is a vital time of life for many reasons, and perhaps the most important one is that it’s a time of learning things. We don’t just pop out the womb instinctively knowing every single thing that we’re supposed to do. Our first eighteen years are instrumental in setting us up for the practicalities of …
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32 ‘Facts’ That Used to be Taught in School that Have Since Been Debunked

Oh, the good ol’ education system – always keeping us on our toes, amirite? I mean, who can forget the days of learning cursive in grade school, and then suddenly, they’re like, «Nah, we’re done with that.» It makes you wonder how these kids these days even sign their names (wait, do they)? And it’s …
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Student Memes For High Schoolers Trying to Survive Monday

Ah, high school. It’s the worst time in a person’s life, and yet Hollywood wants to make the most movies about it. When you’re in it, you can’t even tell how bad it is. Your emotions are out of control, but no more out of control than they’ve been every year since the end of …
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