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7th grader melts down over English teacher making him read a book of his choice and write an essay every month: 'This is Honors English in 2025'

Emmy Pratt

‘You can't make me play’: Disrespectful high school band teacher uses teen student's medical absence as a chance to lecture class on ‘selfish band members’, then pettily tries to force the teen to stay in the class, but the teen fights fire with fire

Lana DeGaetano

School forces teachers to pay $30 for soda machine, birthday parties, and greeting cards: 'I don't drink soda and they forgot my birthday the first week of school.'

Emmy Pratt

Young boy Lopez surprises everyone and brings his hungry dog 'Pequeña' to school so she can get a free meal, teacher agrees and shows the power compassion can have on students: 'And from that moment on, everything changed'

Blake Seidel

'Here's a Lunchable and a Pop-Tart and good luck': 25 Back-to-school memes for parents dreading waking their kids up early

JR Atkinson

Concerned mother refuses to financially support her daughter's acting aspirations in Los Angeles for a year, despite paying for her other children's college expenses: ‘We agreed to support our kids through college’

Lana DeGaetano

18-year-old homeschool graduate can't sound out words or do basic addition: 'She couldn't calculate 50% of $30. She couldn't count to 30 at her fast-food job.'

Emmy Pratt

Parents refuse to financially support 18-year-old daughter while she peruses acting in LA for a year: 'We agreed to support our kids through college, which she is choosing not to attend'

Emmy Pratt

24 Memes of Cats Coping with Back-to-School Catastrophes

Sarah Brown

Mother refuses to give ex-boyfriend's new kids her 15-year-old son's school supplies, ex-boyfriend then tries to play the ‘family’ card: ‘It's not my job to buy these other kids supplies’

Lana DeGaetano

‘[I] feel better now knowing that our son can stand up for himself’: 6-year-old gets wholesome revenge against class tormentor with a bag of goodies and ingenuity

Elna McHilderson

Coworker convinces clueless new boss to give her a fellow teacher's job because it pays $1.5k more, can't handle it: 'She's getting my 1.5K stipend now, but I no longer have to deal with extra meetings, extra parent phone calls, miscommunication, etc.'

Brad Dickson

'That's tacky': Parents request guests at their 8-year-old daughter's birthday party give cash instead of presents

Emmy Pratt

‘He was humiliated in front of other kids just so they could “make an example of him”’: Step-parent considers confronting school administration after they wrongfully ‘punish’ their 13-year-old stepson for asking a question

Lana DeGaetano

20 Parenting Posts That Perfectly Capture the Transition Between Summer Chaos and the Back to School Routines

Ely Bulnes

'It gets hot and sweaty, I don't like it':Teenager removes the ladder from top bunk bed to stop scared 5-year-old niece from crawling into her bed nightly, after her 24-year-old sister moves back into family home and forces them to share a room

Emma Saven