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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I try to get this thread back on track by sharing a parent story that we saw as parents? DC was in one of the elementary magnets. The kids all had to little dioramas about communities and social structures. So the kids all did Indian longhouses and the like; I think our DC did a clay diorama of cave men. But one little girl brought a sort of dollhouse room that was electrified and had black lights. During the part where the kids were supposed to present their dioramas, her dad stood up and explained about how he did the electrification and the black lights.[/quote]

Wow, that's a good one.  I can only imagine Dad received serious stink eye from the other parents.

From the college ranks:  My husband is a professor and he had a student email him the day before the scheduled final to say he needed to make up the final AFTER winter break because he was going on a "once in a lifetime ski trip" with his family.  DH told him a ski trip was not one of the valid excuses for missing the final and that he knew when the final was scheduled when he signed up for the class.  So student no shows the final then at the start of the spring semester sends an email saying he needed to make up the final because he was hospitalized with mono during the scheduled time.  DH said, no problem, just bring in the discharge papers/bill/Doctor's note verifying that and I'll let you sit a makeup exam.  No response from the student.  Student's mom shows up at the Dean's office (and no, she wasn't local, she drove/flew several hours)  livid about this and claims DH is discriminating against her asthmatic son by not allowing him to make up the final for health reasons.  My DH gets called over to the Dean's office to deal with irate mom.  He produced the email showing he'd happily allow the student to make up the test if he could document that he missed due to illness.  Mother gets all huffy and leaves.  She then returns that afternoon with a "doctor's note" scrawled on some plain printer paper saying that her son was hospitalized with an asthma attack.  Except the date is wrong.  And the student had claimed to be sick with mono.  And then the student worker in the Dean's office who overheard Mom's ranting and recognized the student as a classmate walks in and asks if she can show the Dean something.  That something was a bunch of pictures of student on the slopes with his mom and dad and brother posted on the evening of the final with captions like "awesome skiing today!"  Mom then screamed that she was going to sue all of them and left.  [/quote]

Thanks for the good laugh. The level of insanity on this one is quite spectacular! Though seldom are they as involved as that, I do get similar "incongruous accounts of events" on a regular basis as a teacher in my highly-regarded MCPS high school. [/quote]

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