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The grade is 2 out of 4. (50%)

I bought it like 2 days ago. How is it even possible to use it all up??

I'm a teacher, so my salary is crap already. My wife is a part time server/bartender. Last year our teacher's union negotiated to get us all a 3% salary raise. Hooray! We did it!

But...at the bottom of the e-mail they sent us all and buried in the new agreement that they had negotiated, there's also a 10% increase in our medical benefits. So I got my first paycheck of the school year and I'm making less than I did last year.

Just posting to vent. I absolutely love my job and I truly know it's what I was born to do, but this just isn't sustainable. I constantly get asked by my student's "why do you live in an apartment while we all live in houses?"

I'm just tired man...

Probably about 4 feet deep. Just annoying because it’s right in front of my house

EDIT: It’s not my road. I just live on it.

They're pretty much just cushions on the floor. I don't know any chronically ill person who would feel comfortable sitting there.

They say they specialise in understanding invisible illness

I don't have a long name but my teacher always shortens it, she doesn't do it with anyone else she'll be taking attendance, reading all the names from the list normally even if they're long or hard to pronunce and when she gets to me she always shortens it. Asked her respectfully to just call me by my name not shorten it but she refuses to. Is Sophia THAT hard to spell, I'm gonna lose it if I get called Sofi one more time

EDIT: Forgot to say it - I talked with her and asked why she shortens my name when I already made it clear I want to be called by my name not shortened version. She said she just prefers it that way 😐

Also, fair.

The title is basically TL;DR. I just graduated college and had my ceremony last sunday. As the time came to collect our diplomas they couldn’t find the ones from my field of study (a whole backstory there as well: basically they forgot about us.)

We were told on monday that our diplomas were accidentally sent to the wrong campus and that we’d be able to pick it up there… during office hours. My friend has class there so I asked her to go see if she could pick it up in my place. Well, that wouldn’t be any problem… if the diplomas were there. No sight of them anywhere.

My classmates and I are getting pretty frustrated at this point and send another email. Well lo and behold: yesterday I received an email saying my diploma ISN’T PRINTED OUT YET! That explains why they couldn’t find them. There weren’t any!

So yeah now I’m waiting for another update about my diploma. We also haven’t received it digitally or anything so we can’t provide it for job applications.

Love life!

ETA since there are a few recurring questions:

- I live in Belgium 🇧🇪

- I haven’t really heard of ‘final transcripts’. Our diploma is our official proof of completing our studies. Few companies look super closely at grades, the diploma is the proof that the student passed the course. There is a grade of distinction which represents our grades though, and it’s mentioned on our diploma: “Graduated with:
• passing grades
• distinction
• high distinction
• highest distinction and well-wishes from the school board”.

- There are companies who request a certain degree of education for a job. For example: a doctor will need an Academic Bachelor and a Master’s diploma to practice their job. A mechanic will need to have obtained a technical field high school degree. So many request proof of completion of your studies to verify that you are practically, probably financially , and legally qualified for the job.

- I’ve seen a couple comments saying companies could call the school to verify. It’s much easier to just request a pdf of your diploma during the application process, that way it’s immediately in your records as well. Plus, school desk employees don’t want to answer that many calls.

Thanks for all the replies and well-wishes! And good luck to those out there who were/ are in the same situation as me, just add it to the list of life obstacles we tackled. That’s how I’m trying to look at it right now. 😅🫶

UPDATE: I received another mail on Friday saying they will print them out ASAP and inform me when (and where) they will be available for pickup. My classmate called BS and sent a mail back on Saturday, putting our head of the program in cc.

Well, no word yet from our diplomas. But our head of the program has sent a mail as well tagging lots of people, practically demanding to know where the hell our diplomas are.

We haven’t received any response yet. I have filled in a power of attorney form which allows my friend to pick up my diploma in my place, in the case that our diplomas turn up on the other campus. So that’s that at least.

I’ll update once I hear more. Bye!

This exam is one of the most important exam for the student in Vietnam because it will determine which university you'll be accepted. English is one of the most vital subject in the world right now so it's in one of the subjects in yhe the entrance exam.

But the ridiculous thing here is that 12th graders are familiar with B1 and B2 vocabulary if they actually study, THESE ARE NOT THE REGULAR WORDS FOR A NORMAL STUDENTS. The test is long, 12th graders only have 50 MINUTES, full of C1 and C2 words, full of specialized terms that you only encounter if you're in the field. I've seen English teachers, English translators, students who got 8.5 IELTS ranting on internet because of how challenging this mock test actually is.

I also don't like how "no tip" is represented as a -1 in some bid to guilt trip me into something.

Update: I was sent an email that I never completed my purchase despite seeing a charge in my banking app and having a confirmation email. Then I went through all sorts of hoops trying to get to some form of customer service. It was only resolved after I called my bank to dispute the charges and all of a sudden my "missing" order was miraculously recovered and a set to appear in maybe two weeks. All around, not a good time.

It doesn’t rhyme like wtf

My 3rd graders class goes to the local library every fortnight. She is an avid reader and it is always her favorite day. She read the first inkheart novel during summer break. Her new teacher did not allow her to pick the second one because it is "above a 3rd grade reading level"... Out of spite she then picked 3 cardboard baby books without words, because "Miss teacher obviously thinks I am a baby" and told me she will "never take part in reading time in her school again".

I have to factory reset it just to get updates. iPad Air 5th gen.
More infuriating is that they didn’t stop selling 64Gb iPads until 2025

Walking up these stairs feels like a sobriety test. The height and depth change with every single step, making it impossible to get into a rhythm. The school apparently acknowledged the danger, put a single strip of yellow safety tape on the very first stair, and just gave up. Love it. 😌

All it would take to fix it is a stapler and a little audacity.