Tutoring Company Forbids Students From Drinking Water Because ‘They’ve Had Spills’

When you’re a kid, you always have arbitrary rules thrust upon you for stupid reasons. In elementary school, we were only allowed to wear hats on Fridays, which as a hat girl, I found ridiculous. How is wearing a hat any more distracting than not wearing a hat? I would understand if hats were banned …
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Teacher Memes To Enjoy Over Thanksgiving Break

Teachers deserve so much more respect than they get, and I am partly to blame for this. When I was in high school, I wasn’t blatantly rude to my teachers, but I did not give the educators in my life the respect they probably deserved. For instance, I called every single one of my teachers …
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Creepy Teacher Tries To Make Student Change His Halloween Costume, Mom Stands Up To Her

There is nothing more humiliating in school than getting dress coded. I still remember being dress-coded by a teacher I once thought was my friend: the middle school theatre teacher. I soon learned that he was nothing of the sort. He made me change from simple black leggings into sweatpants from the 90s (it was …
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Student Turns Off Zoom Camera To Breastfeed, Gets Revenge When Professor Berates Her

Being a new mom is enough of a struggle without all the normal stresses of life stacked on top, but they happen nonetheless. In an ideal world, anyone who had had to push a whole baby out of them and then devote most of their time to keeping it alive wouldn’t have to deal with …
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Weird And Cursed Duolingo Sentences That Definitely Aren’t Vacation Friendly

Every day, countless well meaning individuals download the Duolingo app in a hopeful attempt to engage in self-betterment, and maybe annoy their friends with some newfound foreign vocabulary. Every day, these same people realize that the Duolingo owl is their new nemesis, destined to haunt their phones until they switch off their notifications (or give …
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Student Despairs At Entertaining English Final Presentation

There is no pressure in the world as uniquely terrifying as education-related stress. Every exam and assignment is a reminder that you’re meant to be investing in your future, and even worse, that you’re preparing yourself for getting a job someday.  Most of us have flunked something in school at some point, and it often …
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Professor Discovers That Students Made A Bingo Card For His Seminars

One of the few delights of mainstream education is getting to know the quirks of those that teach you. Everyone has had the occasional professor that is known through their strange habits or favorite sayings. Doing some teacher-based people watching can liven up even the dullest of lessons, and more educators have been on the …
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College Student Reveals Revolting Trash Pile Up In University Apartment

It’s an unfortunate reality that any place which hosts large numbers of eighteen to nineteen year olds is going to become very gross very quickly. It’s amazing what basic household skills people fail to learn when they leave home, and coupled with the freedoms that come from going to college, things can get nastier than …
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