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20+ Unpopular policies employees had to deal with at work: 'They banned staff from drinking coffee in front of students'

Ben Weiss

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1st year teacher yells at substitute teacher for using the teacher's lounge, claims that substitute teachers aren't staff and don't count: 'I didn’t know what else to do, so I just walked away and went straight to the principals office'

Emmy Pratt

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Cruel swimming coach mocks 16-year-old swimmer for being slow after 2 month break following his fathers passing: 'It’s a pity your dad couldn’t have [passed] a little later to save you from this practice'

Emmy Pratt

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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

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'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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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10+ Schoolkids whose teachers made mistakes and got parents involved: 'I got in trouble for picking up snow'

Remy Millisky

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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