Student Writes Joke Essay About Flat Earth, School Takes It Seriously

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mattstaff
Dec 23, 2020 3:00 PM EST

Man this student sounds like they'd be a prime recruit for the Flat Earth movement. They wrote a joke essay about the earth being flat, and the school ended up taking it so seriously that it manifested in them implementing a whole bit about the earth actually being round, into the curriculum. I'd say mission accomplished in the way of the student playing a solid little prank. 

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    Text - r/tifu + Join u/Ausome_Face · 22h 1 E 1 TIFU by making my school think I'm a flat- Earther and causing an anti-flat-Earth program to be put into the freshman science curriculum M This actually happened two years ago, but the change to the curriculum came into effect yesterday. Two years ago when I was a sophomore in high school, I was assigned a persuasive essay on whatever topic I chose that had to include cited research for my honors English class. I decided it would be fun if I wrote m
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    Text - As many, if not all of you know, there is no short supply of flat-Earth videos so there was plenty of information to use. I ended up using the documentary "Behind The Curve" on netflix as my main source for my "research". When I had finally finished my essay and turned it it, my teacher said to me in-class "Ausome_Face, I had no idea that you were a flat-Earther." I giggled a little and quietly said "Yeah, I'm not." But the one thing about my teacher is that she is half-deaf from old age,
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    Text - Fast-forward to this year and my school has gotten rid of the Earth Science, Intro to Chemistry, and Intro to Physics classes which were all 1-semester long and combined them into a new, all-inclusive class called Freshman Science. I learned from both of my current science teachers and my younger brother, who is a freshman, that they are doing a small segment on why the Earth is not flat. All of them shared how they have to watch the documentary "Behind The Curve" and write about how thei
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    Text - This might all seem like a big coincidence to you right now, but yesterday my younger brother is talking about it to me and just drops "It's your fault we have to do this. Ms. Science teacher told all of us at the beginning of class because kids were complaining they had to watch it. She says it's because you wrote that essay for English and caused her and the school to think you are flat-Earther." That's when I remembered that she was on the school committee that determined what would be
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