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School Forces Teachers to Work At McDonald’s to Raise Money for the School: 'What a respected profession.'

Emmy Pratt

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Professor bans coffee from his 8 AM class, much to the dismay of his student who works nights and only gets 5 hours of sleep: 'How do I survive mornings without it?'

Emmy Pratt

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Woman refuses to babysit after sister auctions off 4 hours of her time without permission for $210 at school fundraiser: ‘She literally auctioned me off as part of the package’

Cata Holmes

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First-year teacher lands last-minute job as an NYC elementary school gym teacher one month before the new semester, instantly regrets it: ‘I'm responsible for 2 classes in the gym at once, including 2 special education classes together…’

Elna McHilderson

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Teachers manage to beat the system when district admin tries to install a time clock and control their work hours til the last minute

Giuliana Tiscioni

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'We don't get paid enoigh for this': Teacher stories of unhinged students bringing in weird and unexpected school materials

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Specialist Teacher "sneaky quits," vanishes before the next school term after 10 years in their role when micromanaging new Director revokes their health insurance—they move 2000 miles before Director notices their 120-day absence: 'I just didn’t show up'

Brad Dickson

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6-year-veteran teacher adapts lesson plans for their students' benefit, quits when a supervisor reprimands them for it in front of the entire 60-student class: 'My boss then starts berating me and saying the students aren't appreciative of what we do'

Brad Dickson

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Mother refuses to make the kids ride the bus to school and prefers for them to be taken by their dad, he refuses, as the bus is free and gas isn't: 'If she doesn't want to wake them up, then she will be the one to take them to school'

María Cetra

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Free-thinker proposes middle schools should abandon academics, teaching students trades full-time: 'They don’t wanna sit in the classroom, and I don’t think they should.'

Emmy Pratt

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Professor had special rules about formatting in essays and expected every student to follow them, one student complied, but it wasn’t what he expected: ‘By the next essay, the formatting section of the syllabus had basically doubled in length.’

María Cetra

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College student forces professor to give them full credit for a blank essay after using professor's formatting rules against him: ‘I hadn't broken a single rule’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Fully remote childless boss demands hybrid employee RTO full-time, despite having a child she needs to pick up from school early: 'That’s your problem to figure out. Your child doesn’t work for the company, you do.'

Emmy Pratt

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Teacher refuses to change student's B- grade after mom brings in elaborate at-home science project, offers extra credit instead: 'That clearly wasn't the point of the task'

Cata Holmes

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University admin demands students change classes without giving them a valid reason, they involve the professor, who stands up to the admin: ‘She was basically lying’

Bar Mor Hazut

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The Nostalgic ‘Book It’ Program is Back Doing Its Work to Improve Childhood Literacy Once Again with a Personal Pan Pizza

Remy Millisky

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