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'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

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 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

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

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

Woman Bans Sister's Boyfriend from Christmas Dinner After He Makes Jokes About Her Elementary School Teacher Husband: 'He's just an overpaid babysitter'

Ely Bulnes

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

Teacher calls her 41-year-old retired husband a loser because he spends all day playing video games: 'I make $125k/yr in income off my liquid assets. I just want to chill after working a stressful job for 15 years'

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 Flunks 14-year-old For Not Putting His Name on His Test, Parents Get Involved When They Hear About it, Causing School Catastrophe

Briana Viser

Teacher gets back at micromanaging principal by drowning him in nonsensical paperwork until he finally quits: 'I sent him 20 page lesson plans'

Ben Weiss