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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

17-year-old releases chickens into his high school's hallways as a prank, asks mom to use a fake alibi so he wouldn't get in trouble: 'The prank resulted in some significant property damage, including broken windows'

Emmy Pratt

25+ Secret Santa recipients who wish they hadn't swapped presents: 'Bought someone $25 worth of chocolate... received a cabbage'

Remy Millisky

Parents stand up to school owner after beloved teacher gets fired without warning, owner refuses to supply reasonable explanation: ‘There were no toys on the shelves’

Bar Mor Hazut

'My friend wrote his [essay] about Paul Blart Mall Cop': 20+ Cringe-worthy college admissions essays by hopeful teens

Remy Millisky

School principal tries to enroll 6-year-old student into a different school because her parents bought a house that they're renovating in a different town: 'We are still living with our in-laws and it is well withing the school boundary'

Emmy Pratt

16-year-old gives candy to the 3 students who were listening to her in-class presentation, gets harassed for candy by the kids who were on their phones the whole time: 'The teacher told us we could give out candy'

Emmy Pratt

16-year-old student refuses to go to prom with entitled classmate, classmate's mom confronts her at school in front of everyone: ‘How dare you refuse my son?'

Bar Mor Hazut

Teacher misread the clock, causing student to rush and fail his midterm, he comes back with a vengeance on the final: 'I thought I only had 5 minutes left'

Ben Weiss

20+ Baffling college admissions essays from students: 'I wrote a 750-word admissions essay describing the smell of baked potatoes... I got in'

Remy Millisky