Overbearing parents can make school a miserable existence for teachers and students alike. Thankfully for these overworked kids, their helicopter parents have met their match with their history teacher. This teacher was pressured by the parents to assign more extra credit so their kids could have a greater chance at getting A+ final grades. After receiving enough pressure from the board and the administration, the teacher acquiesced but devised a plan to maliciously comply. She decided to give…

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Is this generation really the worst? In a now-viral story, a professor shared that while he usually tries to keep an open mind with his students as they're young and have limited life experience—but one particular conversation left him convinced that today's generation has officially hit a new low. But if we're being honest, every generation has its cringey moments. Gen Z may have influencers, but millennials had their MySpace profiles, and Boomers? Well, let's just say we all have our share...

Back-to-school season is among us, which means that we are officially dealing with the best and worst teachers among us. Look, as the child of a teacher, I have an immense amount of sympathy for most educators. However, in every industry, there are people who are straight-up trash at their jobs. You can find these individuals in business meetings, behind the front desk of a doctor's office, and in our classrooms. Unfortunately, there is no known cure for stopping some people from being bad at t…

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This dad had a hilarious way to help out his teenager, but the kiddo was awfully embarrassed by their dad's unorthodox methods ! When you're a teenager, you're bound to go through a phase where everything your parents do embarrasses you . They're singing while doing the dishes? Cringe! They're insisting on going to the store with you to get new clothing? OMG, no! Parents aren't even doing anything wrong, but their teenagers will be mortified regardless. Even so, this person's parents took their…

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This school had a brilliant plan for getting their students involved in sports teams : making it mandatory for every single kid. They probably thought it was an excellent idea. After all, you want kids to be active and moving around throughout the day… almost as if you could make a class for that. For some reason, this school decided that alongside gym class, all kids would have to join a sport . In my high school, maybe a third of the kids were in sports, and everyone else was in other clubs,…

Academia doesn't like liars, as one student found out the hard way. Colleges love to talk about how much they value original work: no cheating allowed! It's never been easier for students to lie about their work, letting computers write their papers for them. And a lot of those students get caught too, flunking their classes and sometimes having to drop out over that indiscretion. This student also lied to his professor, but it wasn't about a paper. Instead, this kid had gotten into that bad ha…

It sometimes happens in life that there's a discrepancy between your own abilities and what you imagine them to be. This overestimation can have wildly different repercussions, but sometimes, it just earns you a role in management. See, that unearned confidence seems to translate really well in interviews with people who have no idea that you don't know what you're talking about, meaning that the false bravado can land you a job you were never really cut out for. (Cue managers everywhere lookin…

In every high school, there are a handful of students who not only do the bare minimum when it comes to work, but they're also pretty lame when it comes to cheating. Look, no one is going to outright condone stealing someone's answers on a test, but if you're going to be the fool that does it, at least be less obvious about it. This Redditor figured out that his classmate had been stealing his answers for the past few exams and was starting to worry that his teacher would think that the wrong p…

How can students be expected to follow the rules when their teachers refuse to do the same? Learning should be a two-way street, am I right, folks? Here, we have a student who promptly submitted their assignment 13 minutes prior to the deadline, only to discover later on that he was given a late penalty on his final grade. After confronting the professor about what he assumed was an innocent grading mistake, the professor dug his heels into the ground and refused to budge. In fact, he claimed t…

Being the nerdy kid in school had its pros and cons. It usually meant that you were smart, and did well in school. You actually enjoyed reading books and had no problem doing homework or studying for tests. Yet being the nerdy kid also meant that you weren't all that popular, and we all know how mean kids can get when they see something they don't like. Luckily, popularity in school doesn't really get you that far in life, but being smart and actually succeeding in school does, and this petty r…

This is definitely crossing the line… and probably illegal, too. This poor employee works for a school district that was gearing up for summer break. Before they leave, all the teachers have the responsibility of submitting important paperwork before they take their annual leave. Well, when one coworker left the team high and dry, their entitled boss tried to get the Original Poster (OP) to finish the coworker's work. After refusing , saying that there simply wasn't enough time in the workday t…

Admittedly, this is probably the coolest way you could cheat on a test . It's certainly out of the ordinary! Students are endlessly inventive when it comes to their schoolwork. These days, kids are using the internet to guide them to the right answers and to write the perfect papers for them. But before that, they had to get creative with just a pen and paper. U/Sarcastic_Otter had a high school teacher back in the 1980s who was kind enough to let students bring a 3x5 notecard full of notes to…

Sometimes, the most rebellious folks in a school are the teachers. Here, we have one teacher who managed to successfully avoid a school tradition for over 30 years at the institution. That silly tradition involved a member of the faculty delivering a speech to the entire student body on significant historical dates. During said speech, the students were also forced to stand still in formation and in silence throughout the duration of the oration. This one teacher, whom the Redditor nicknamed Me…