teaching

Chinese aunt gets mistreated by nieces and nephews that don't care about her culture, she wants to teach them how to behave but doesn't know how to: 'We want to be a friendly resource to these kids.'

María Cetra

Friend calls 21-year-old teaching assistant unprofessional and lazy because she doesn't wear makeup to work: 'Our school prohibits students wearing makeup.'

Emmy Pratt

Employee refuses to help her new boss, whom she has trained, with something she's taught her how to do 3 times already: 'I'm sure you can figure that out. It's above my pay grade.'

Emmy Pratt

4th-grade teacher gives student 50% on a test, despite her getting 92% of the answers correct, because she used 'old math' her dad taught her

Emmy Pratt

High school teacher reveals the emails sent by concerned parents: 'The seating plan seems emotionally restrictive'

Ally Perry

Father gets into dispute with another mother at Christmas party, after catching her child stealing his daughter's snacks, instead of taking accountability, she accuses him of poor parenting: 'It isn’t teaching sharing, it’s teaching entitlement'

Emma Saven

'So, you will be our competitor?': Department chair cancels promised academic position for PhD student, student forced to relocate, later secures job at a competing program, tells department chair that he plans to recruit all his former students

Emma Saven

‘I can't thank those sweet cats enough for teaching me how kind cats can really be.’: American dog person leaves home for Europe to unknowingly become pawrent to two cat children and fall in love with the species they once feared

Laurent Shinar

College student gets even with 'smug' professor who refuses to give them class notes: 'I came up with my simple malicious compliance'

Remy Millisky

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

Homeschool mom brags about her 4-year-old not knowing her numbers and letters and her 8-year-old who can't read chapter books: 'So sick of this lazy hippie homeschooling mentality'

Emmy Pratt

17-year-old student steals his teacher's wedding ring, admin refuses to punish him because he has an Individualized Education Plan: 'He passed my class with a 12%. I bumped it up to 60%'

Emmy Pratt

19-year-old daughter is tired of being her non-English speaking parent's sole translator, refuses to keep carrying the load alone after her older brother returns from living abroad and is excused from helping: 'My parents act like he's the golden child'

Emma Saven

High strung mom asks tutor to teach her 3-year-old son math for 4 hours a week: 'How long does it usually take for him to get better?'

Emmy Pratt

20+ Teachers share their most unhinged Gen Alpha student stories that still keep them up at night: 'Several of them can't tell time... on a digital clock'

Isabella Penn

23-year-old niece tries to help homeschooled 13-year-old cousin who can't do his times tables, enrages aunt who thinks her teaching is just fine: 'Charlie needs to learn to be accountable to someone besides his mommy'

Emmy Pratt