school

Homeschooled 15-year-old does math at a 5th-grade level, mom refuses to put her in public school, no matter how much she begs: 'I have NO IDEA WHAT TO DO!'

Emmy Pratt

'Can we do 4?': High school sophomore students complain to teacher asking them to write 5 complete sentences

Ally Perry

8th-grade troublemaker picks on 7th-grade girl for dressing alternatively and calls her a witch, so she leans into the accusation and scares him out of his mind: ‘[He] stared at me horrified’

Lana DeGaetano

17-year-old refuses to wake up his lazy 15-year-old brother in the mornings, causing him to miss school, demands parents find another way: ‘I’m tired of having to wake him up’

Bar Mor Hazut

High school teenager gets even with administrators who tried to prevent them from going to college: 'The principal and vice principal call to talk. I wasn't interested'

Remy Millisky

12-year-old boy's school librarian refuses to give him ‘The Hunger Games’ book because it's above his reading level, so his father buys him the series box set: ‘It broke my son's heart’

Lana DeGaetano

Substitute teacher sends kid to the principal's office for tapping her foot, her 30 classmates get even by doing the same thing until their teacher apologizes: 'Middle School is not for the weak'

Ben Weiss

Student secretly reports cheating to teacher, after group of boys in her Spanish class shared exam paper in advance, later criticized by classmate who claims they “needed to pass,” forcing her to rethink her actions: 'Should I have let karma do its job?'

Emma Saven

Mom of high school and preschool student considers leaving 17-year-old behind when doing school pick up: 'I have to leave my house 4 times a day'

Ally Perry

Parents defend taking their kids out of school for family vacations: 'Booking flights 4 days later to match their school's vacation was going to cost me $7,000 more'

Emmy Pratt

'I'm not punishing my kid for doing something hilarious': Teen gets in trouble for outsmarting school's IT director and hacking the firewall, mom applauds her son's intelligence

Elna McHilderson

Mom demands ex-husband pay for her stepson's hockey lessons along with their own son, ex-husband refuses to spend money on someone else's kid: 'She accused me of buying my son's love'

Bar Mor Hazut

Former homeschooler begs parents not to homeschool their kids: 'If you think you'll be a good teacher, you're wrong'

Remy Millisky

19-year-old college student refuses to change her major from Fine Arts to Computer Science despite her parents' insistence: 'If I don’t change my major by next semester, they’ll cut off their financial support.'

Emmy Pratt

Stay-at-home dad refuses to homeschool his 6-year-old daughter because she's failing 1st grade math, despite his wife's insistence: 'I want her to have a “normal” childhood'

Emmy Pratt

Mom leaves 9-year-old daughter's friend at school despite promising her dad she'd take her home, dad refuses to drive the daughter anywhere ever again: ‘She had to walk home while it was pouring rain’

Bar Mor Hazut