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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

‘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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘[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

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

Ely Bulnes

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

Emmy Pratt

'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

26-year-old legal guardian steals school-issued laptop from her 15-year-old ward, refuses to give it back: 'She tried to call me and pressure me into giving her partner the password and ID'

Emmy Pratt

Why ChatGPT Traffic Drops Dramatically When Students Go on Break

John Summers