Teacher Finally Gives Up On His Students' Lies And Tells Them "I Don't Care"

A teacher thought he had heard every excuse in the book, until one student pushed the pattern too far. What started as a few late assignments and missed deadlines turned into a bigger problem, especially when the same story kept changing.

In this case, the student, Krissy, had been turning in work late all year and kept blaming different personal tragedies for it. When a pop quiz and another missed assignment brought everything to a head, the teacher finally stopped playing along and asked for her parents to get involved.

Now the whole situation is out in the open, and the teacher is done pretending not to notice. Read on.

A person creates a throwaway account because he is a teacher.

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Teacher at a Catholic school vents on Reddit.

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The circumstances under which there is no penalty when the student turns in a late assignment.

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So Krissy, the always-late student, had been turning in her assignments late all year.

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All these various excuses or maybe the real reasons why she had been doing all her assignments and submitting them late.

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And this time, a best friend's grandma passed away, so she could not finish her assignments on time.

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Now she openly accepted that she was going to fail the pop quiz and asked the teacher to conduct it again next week, especially for her.

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Finally, the teacher has had enough and warned Krissy that this had become a habit and that it is not fair to the other students.

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This also hits close to the chronically late roommate who keeps missing payments, and the rent-sharing fight.

But now Krissy starts crying, and a teacher cannot see their student cry, so he requests her to bring her parents in for a discussion.

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And now she pulls her "mental health card," saying people of the older generation don't understand the struggles of this generation.

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No, you are NTA because you let her go every time until you had enough.

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Well, it can be both reasons, but in this case, it seems more like the student is lying because every time she had an excuse.

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You did the right thing by calling her mother and finding out why Krissy had been submitting all her assignments late.

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It seems like after her uncle's passing, she found it convenient to submit her assignments late, and from then on, she made it a habit.

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Yes, you would have sounded a little rude, but anyone in that situation would have done the same or worse.

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The only reason she didn't want her parents to get involved is that she knew she had been lying all this while, and it would expose her trap.

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She may be overwhelmed with her life and may have an underlying problem or may have anxiety.

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If she didn't want to do her homework or had anxiety or any other issue, she could have openly spoken to the teacher about it instead of lying.

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This is what the actual truth is!

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As a teacher, you did the right thing by not giving in to her manipulative tactics; otherwise, it would have caused her a lot of problems in the future.

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This teacher seems to be really good and does care a lot about the well-being of his students. The fact that he understood the initial excuses of the student until it crossed the limit of his tolerance says a lot about the teacher.

Share this story with all your friends and family and tell them that students must never lie to their teachers and always be truthful. Always encourage the students to finish their assignments on time.

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