Miscellaneous: Today, the "Child Care and Development" class at my high school...

By Headache - 01/03/2013 13:20 - United States

Today, the "Child Care and Development" class at my high school assigned all 50 students to carry a fake baby around school all day for a week. I can't even read a page of my notes without hearing a robotic crying noise. Today is the first day. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/10/2010 06:47 - United States

Today, for my Teen Living class, all the students got a fake baby. In order to stop the baby from crying, you have to use the bracelet they provide. I lost the bracelet. I have the baby all weekend. FML

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Baby steps

By Anonymous - 24/08/2018 13:00

Today, my class got baby dolls for the week to teach us how to be good parents. After school, I went to the store with my mom with the baby doll. When I got home, I realized that I left the baby doll in a shopping cart. FML

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Field recordings

By Stress - 06/02/2020 14:00 - Hong Kong - Central District

Today, after our teacher had said this class would be very important and that we should take notes, instead of writing notes, I brought a recorder to class. After class, I listened to the recording, and all I could hear was muffled voices. FML

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By bubbles - 05/09/2009 23:02 - United Kingdom

Today, I worked my first day at a nursery. At nap time I spent about an hour trying to get all the kids to calm down and go to sleep. I'd finally got the last one to drop off, when my phone rang. Loudly. FML

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Late bloomers

By ihateparents - 21/07/2021 14:01

Today, I emailed out class requirements for the upcoming school year. I had to include, "No toys, no bottles, no pacifiers, and children must be fully potty trained in order to attend." At least 3 parents complained. I teach second grade, and none of them is special needs. FML

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School's out for summer, thank God!

By reluctant teacher - 15/06/2019 19:41 - United States - Clarksville

Today, I had 15 teenagers literally laugh in my face when I asked them to be quiet. I'm a student teaching in a high school, which is the culmination of 2 years of my life and $20,000, and I might in fact actually hate doing it. FML

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By irony - 25/02/2016 15:08 - United States - Louisville

Today, I have to attend a mandatory parenting class due to a false report filed against me with CPS. My son's school play is at the same time as today's class, and I'll have to miss it so I can learn how to be a "better mom". FML

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By sciencenat - 14/01/2016 06:36 - France - V?lizy-villacoublay

Today, as a natural science teacher, I was drawing a uterus on the class chalkboard. One of my students started messing around and being noisy, so I shouted, "Be quiet and check out my uterus!" FML

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By Anonymous - 10/05/2011 21:20 - United States

Today, our school got portable classrooms for the construction on our school. I had to take a dump really bad, and had to use the built in bathroom. As I was in there I heard laughing. Turns out, every sound you make is an entire broadcast to the class. FML

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By quickfingers100 - 01/06/2011 16:05 - United Kingdom

Today, I fell asleep in class. I'm the teacher. FML

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HowieDoIt 21

Friday 1 March 2013 16:10

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, anybody?

lissa_jade 22

Friday 1 March 2013 16:12

moral of the story: you only have this baby for a week and it's already driving you nuts. a real one you're stuck with for at least 18 years. DONT HAVE A BABY FOR A VERY VERY LONG TIME. (:

Comments

cmb8280 24

Friday 1 March 2013 20:13

No better birth control than carrying a robotic crying machine around for a week. Kudos to your teachers

spikekutter 9

Friday 1 March 2013 20:40

things like this really makes me want to get a sex change so then i can stay a hopeless romantic forever..

rebeccamj7 5

Friday 1 March 2013 20:49

I'd love that

lovecrazy12 14

Friday 1 March 2013 20:54

I got one back in high school, it was for the weekend. The battery of mine died the first night which was a good thing because my brother was ready to throw it out the window.

coolboy675 16

Friday 1 March 2013 21:02

THIS is an extreme case of baby voice. (flails arms around and cries like a baby)

alyspar2 5

Friday 1 March 2013 21:14

I just got mine today too! Kill me now.

Ray_of_midnight 22

Friday 1 March 2013 21:41

I never did the "carry an egg/sack of flour/fake baby" thing in high school. I didn't have to. All it took was a little bit of exposure to other peoples' screaming, rambunctious kids and that was enough to make me never want one of my own. I'm 47 and childfree, and happy that way. The only bad part is that I lost nearly all my friends when *they* became parents. A whole bunch of my friends got "baby rabies" in their mid 30-early 40s around 5-10 years ago. Now they no longer had time to socialize. See you when your kids turn 18 and get shipped off to college, I guess.

amisenho 11

Tuesday 8 October 2013 22:12

Agreed. I didn't have to take the class to know that kids are a bitch to raise and just not my cup of tea. What's ironic is that, at my school, the ones who took the class were the ones who ended up getting pregnant and having kids before finishing high school. I guess the class was just a preparation course for them. You'd think the number of teenage pregnancies and births would go down after taking the class, but perhaps the variables aren't that simple.