education

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'

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Stay-at-home dad refuses to homeschool his 6-year-old daughter because she's failing 1st grade math, despite his wife's insistence: 'I want her to have a “normal” childhood'

Emmy Pratt

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Former straight-A student boasts about working a trade instead of going to college: 'I've been in the trades for 40 years, don't fall for the hype'

Ally Perry

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28-year-old refuses to pay for their 14 and 15-year-old step siblings' education, spends their savings on their bio siblings tuition instead as promised: 'Dad accused me of “punishing” his wife’s kids'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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ettiquette, body language, tenant, education, landlord, bad landlord, bad landlords, creepy, weirdo, weird, apartment, apartments, entitled people, entitled, Reddit

Creepy landlord schools 19-year-old female tenant on etiquette and body language against her will: 'Bro, you’re not my father, you’re not my teacher, you’re just my landlord.'

Emmy Pratt

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'No screens, 6AM wakeup, bus ride, the whole nine yards': Homeschool kid begs mom to let him try public school, she insists they do 'trial day' at home

Ally Perry

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22-year-old Ivy League graduates lie about dropping out of college to start their tech startup: 'They’re bragging about how they didn’t need college to succeed and influencing younger kids to drop out of school.'

Emmy Pratt

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$teens, school, reading, teenagers, work, addition, niece, educational, percentages, homeschool, education, Reddit, math, illiterate, schooling, young adult$

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

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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

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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

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'Do not homeschool your kids. You are NOT up to it.': Former homeschoolers share why they think parents should not homeschool their kids

Emmy Pratt

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family drama, school, elementary school, kids, wife, private school, parenting, husband, ex wife, family, education, ex husband, Parenting Fail, son, children, parents

Dad asks ex-wife to unenroll their 10-year-old son from private school because he can't afford to send his 8 and 10-year-old stepchildren to private school: 'I won't deny my kids good things because they can't afford for her children.'

Emmy Pratt

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$unschooling, twitter, school, Twitter Thread, literacy, parenting, educational, homeschooling, homeschool, education, math, illiterate, Parenting Fail, parents, Parenting FAILS$