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1st year teacher yells at substitute teacher for using the teacher's lounge, claims that substitute teachers aren't staff and don't count: 'I didn’t know what else to do, so I just walked away and went straight to the principals office'

Emmy Pratt

Cruel swimming coach mocks 16-year-old swimmer for being slow after 2 month break following his fathers passing: 'It’s a pity your dad couldn’t have [passed] a little later to save you from this practice'

Emmy Pratt

'A child shouldn't be taught to change themselves to make bullies happy': 10-year-old with African name wants to use an 'American name' to avoid teasing, mother and sister-in-law disagree about whether they should let him

JR Atkinson

'They all decided that my name, Ciarán, is too hard to pronounce': Irish teenager moves to the USA, classmates try to call him 'Connor' as his American name against his will

Emmy Pratt

Dad and his affair-partner wife try to take his 2 kids out of school for 3 weeks to go on a healing vacation because she found out she couldn't have children of her own: 'He said that school isn't more important than family.'

Emmy Pratt

Mom defends 13-year-old daughter in strongly worded email to terrible teacher: 'I'm sorry, but that is not a lesson I feel comfortable teaching my daughter'

Ben Weiss

Teacher forbids 17-year-old from talking about the weather, she gives him detention for a week: 'I have to write an essay about why what I said was wrong'

Ben Weiss

Mom helps 17-year-old second-semester senior play hooky, maliciously complying with school's bogus absence policy: 'It was a solid 5 months of my mom messing with this woman'

Ben Weiss

Clever mom challenges school dress code policy via malicious compliance, gets the original shirts phased out: 'Admin was furious'

Ben Weiss

Mom shows off critical email to her daughter's former teacher, provokes discourse on the parent-teacher relationship: 'I know a teacher that disrespected my child hates to see me coming'

Ally Perry

Controlling mom insists her 18-year-old son goes to a 5-year religious boarding school instead of college, cries when he tells her she can't control his life: 'I’ve sacrificed everything for you, and this is how you repay me?'

Emmy Pratt

3rd grader cries after his teacher gifts him a new pencil case and pencils, says he doesn't know how to be grateful for it: 'It's just that I already have pencils. Is this your whole gift?'

Emmy Pratt

25+ Planner Memes for Organizational Freaks Buying Yet Another Notebook

JR Atkinson

10+ Schoolkids whose teachers made mistakes and got parents involved: 'I got in trouble for picking up snow'

Remy Millisky

7th grader strikes deal with teacher after classmate does zero work on group project, sabotaging their school presentation: 'I got a 98% on the project, and [he] got a big, fat ZERO'

Ben Weiss

Unschooling mom enrolls 7-year-old son who's still in diapers in 1st grade, is convinced he'll be too smart for the class: 'She wants to email the teacher ideas because 1st grade curriculum is too simple'

Emmy Pratt