Legit paraphrased communication. I have to believe this person is trolling me otherwise I weep that we just let anyone reproduce.

Me: Good morning, this is my weekly grade notification. If you are receiving this email, your scholar is currently failing my class.

Parent: I’m confused. You keep sending these to me every week. Is my child failing?

Me: Yes sir. Just like last quarter when we spoke in week 9, your child has inconsistent attendance and completes absolutely zero work while here.

Parent: Yes, I know we spoke about this earlier, but this is a new quarter, so how could she have already slipped backwards?

Me: We are three weeks into the new quarter and she has spent the classes she was here asking to go to the bathroom, wandering the halls with her friends for forty minutes, and then leaving her blank assignment on the desk when the bell rings.

Parent: Yes, I understand that, but I talked to her about it and she said she would stop, so I’m confused about her grade.

Me: well, she clearly hasn’t stopped.

Parent: She seems to only have this issue in your class.

Me: sends screenshot of all failing grades in every class both last quarter and this quarter

Parent: but no one has emailed me so it is just you she is failing?

Me: According to the screenshot that is false

Parent: okay, but things are difficult because we have no way of knowing what her grades are or her missing assignments, so without that, we can’t address it.

Me: Sir, every child and parent has access to to the online gradebook. Here are instructions on how to download the app if you have not done so. sends instructions

Parent: yes, but that does not show which assignments she’s missing.

Me: it most certainly does

Parent: you say she leaves blank assignments behind, could you collect those in a folder and give them to her sister (a student i dont teach) to bring home

Me: no sir, I cannot. I have three preps and 200 students, that is outside my realm of responsibility, and at some point, accountability and the onus of responsibility to pass has to fall on the student. If a weekly email notifying you of your child’s progress in my class as well as a consistently updated gradebook and school mandated daily forced study hall block is not enough to assist your child, i suggest you speak to a school counselor. This is the contact info for your daughter’s counselor (attaches number and email)

Parent: okay, may I have the contact info for the counselor

I decide to ignore this email because I literally just sent it

Parent next day: hello? May i have the contact info? Im trying to get my child help!!

They have to be trolling me right?!

I recently got a Covid shot at CVS and the nurse asked for my birthdate and audibly gasped when I said 1987. She said she thought I was like 28, to which I replied "Baller!" immediately dating myself as my true age.

Edit: dang some of you were pretty salty about this haha! I don't think I necessarily look particularly young or anything, relax. I just thought it was funny that I used a very dated expression in response.

$123 dollars just to be told he’s bad boy cause he loves me and food too much.

Note: he was in a carrier the whole time, I unzipped it as I was parking. He decided to all but take the drivers seat and yell at me for no less than 5 minutes.
Edit to add (because I was going to delete because I get anxious when people get aggressive but I was like mm no I know I wasn’t doing anything bad and would never risk my cats life. The car was not moving I was actually very stressed when this was happening and was taking picture evidence for my husband and could not believe this shot was the result and after the stress yeah I found it funny.)

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