We then resumed our discussion like nothing had ever happened.
Crosses the Line Twice: The security guard in this tale had his home in Kenya burn down not once, not twice, but three times by the age of 22 due to faulty wiring, so he learnt how to diagnose wiring in order to prevent it from happening again. Pity that when he was 23 it burnt down again, but this time due to a drunk driver in a truck, not bad wiring. Cue him doing a Screw This, I'm Outta Here and moving to the United States.
This teacher tries to get a "behavior problem" student to watch where he's going as he runs past the swing set. When the kid ends up doing so again and gets clocked by another kid on the swings, the teacher takes a "serves-you-right" mentality to the situation and leaves the kid to recover from the collision by himself. The comments were almost unanimously against the teacher for not helping the kid in case he had ended up actually hurt (not helped by the fact the kid was apparently limping for a while after getting up) and saying that the teacher should not be working with kids.
When this dorm student becomes the legal age to drink in the UK (18 years old), the first thing they do is go and buy wine to smuggle into the dorm. Turns out the wine they got is awful, so they go about using it in baking treats for their fellow dormmates because birthdays are coming around. They make a jelly cake for a friend that is a prefect and very focused on making sure the no-alcohol-rule gets followed, and said friend immediately tastes alcohol in the cake. The submitter quickly claims that there's no alcohol in there and then retreat with said cake in tow. While the submitter apparently thinks this is a funny story, the comments point out that, whether or not they meant well, they were still supplying alcohol to minors, as well as sneaking alcohol to people without their knowledge (which could be dangerous if someone had an intolerance to it).
When this student is tired of the "go around and tell us what you did over summer vacation" exercise on the first day of class, they lose their temper and proceed to describe in very unflattering terms what they thought all of their classmates did, in the process insulting pretty much the entire class (calling the popular girls shallow, the tough guys druggies, and the gamer kids lazy among other things). Instead of finding the story funny or impressive, everyone in the comments ripped the submitter apart for being an asshole and pointed out that the class's Stunned Silence at the end of the story was likely because they were shocked at his/her rudeness, not because they were impressed.
The male student in this story gave a female student — on whom he had a crush for some time — a ride, after his current girlfriend said it was fine. Everyone in class, and even the teacher, make him out to be a clueless boyfriend because obviously her saying fine meant that she wasn't fine with that idea, and that the student really ought to have known what she really meant. All of the comments point out that the fault lies with the girlfriend for playing mind games for no particular reason and not outright saying what she means, with some even calling the relationship abusive and suggesting the student break up with this girlfriend.
This student's family takes a trip to Disney World while school is in session, and the student is given a packet of work to do in order to stay on top of the work. When the teacher gives him a week of in-recess detention to finish the packet after he'd failed to complete it on the trip, he blames the teacher. The comments immediately pile on the submitter for not doing the assigned work, note that the teacher was kind enough to prepare the work packet, and point out the numerous points in which he could have done it.note It should be noted, however, that different schools have different policies regarding missed work, with many allowing extra time after the student returns. It's quite possible that the student and their parents assumed that the student would have an extra day or two to complete the schoolwork, rather than be expected to have all of it done when they return.
In this story, the submitter gets a new class scheduled fifteen minutes after another in a different part of their university's campus, and when they ask their professor about it, the professor says to just try to get there as soon as they are able. The first day of the new class arrives, and the submitter gets into a car accident that totals their car after going through a traffic signal on yellow because "[they] had time to get through it" and hitting a car turning on green, after which they blame the professor for not being more accommodating to the schedule change. Many comments sided with the professor over the submitter since the professor's hands were likely tied and him telling the submitter to just try to get there as soon as they could was probably the best thing he could tell them to do, and the submitter themselves was criticized for not using common sense on the road despite being in a hurry. As one commenter put it:
NAR User Reb: "try to get there as soon as you can" doesn't mean "drive dangerously because I expect you here no matter what", it means "well there's not much we can do about the delay so just do what you can and don't delay any further than that".
This story notes that the student in question (who is maliciously informing a bunch of first-graders that Santa isn't real) comes from a notoriously badly-behaved family and that she is the best-behaved of her siblings, which says a lot. The comments note that there's almost certainly dysfunction and/or abuse going on behind the scenes if all of them are acting out at school.
Karmic Overkill: This story features a principal who decides to pay for his daughter's extravagant wedding by withholding pay on his faculty for two whole months. The end result: He loses his job, his wife divorces him, and his daughter cuts all contact with him. Some readers admitted to feeling sorry for how thoroughly his entire life was destroyed by a single, albeit massive, lapse in judgment.
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: A program to help students learn English as a second language issues the unabridged version of Lord of the Flies to ten-year-olds. After all, it's aboutkids, so it must surely be for kids also, right? Fortunately, the submitter is able to convince the program director to not issue the book to any more preteens.
courtesy of a Star Wars geek teacher.