Questions tagged [school]
For questions involving interpersonal situations arising at, or because of, school and education.
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How do I effectively challenge the teacher's bias without coming off as a jerk to the rest of the class?
In my situation, our school had us talk about racial justice and the teacher asked everybody to be respectful and have an open mind. He then presented a slideshow (Fairly sure it wasn’t made by him), ...
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What is the proper etiquette for when someone you're not very close with is dealing with a terminally ill family member?
I'm currently enrolled in graduate school. I've been having a lot of trouble getting in touch with my advisor recently. He finally responded with apologies that he has been dealing with a terminally ...
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Native english speaking project partner writes in broken english
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I'm doing my capstone course for an engineering diploma program
One of my partners is a native English speaker, but has severe issues in their writing
In conversation she is fine, but has an ...
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Difficult situation when doing homework after pressure to do tasks over Corona-Lock-Down
Long story short: For online lessons (because of the corona lockdown) I had to put pressure on my son to do his school tasks. Now the circumstances have relaxed. But we are stuck in the "pressure ...
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How to organise with other parents at school
Last March when the Covid-19 pandemic reached my country, at some schools the parents had organized and told the school as a group they were not letting their kids come in on Monday. This did not ...
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How to not look like showing off when presenting the best of me? [closed]
I'm writing an application to a summer school. The school will teach a range of topics and I admit that I may be over qualified for some. That means:
I may have more knowledge with other applicants
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How to avoid blaming a single person for issues submitting a group assignment?
I have a group assignment that is due soon. We are only allowed one submission per group (and further submissions, even before the deadline, will be penalized). This group assignment is worth a ...
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Friend is using me to do her (home)work, how can I tell her I want this to stop?
I am a middle school student and I like to think I am a smart person. Typically people ask me to help them figure out problems; but there is one person I am having some trouble with. She sits next to ...
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How do I stop my classmates from overusing class property?
My classmates simply love doodling on the whiteboard. Using our class markers. Not only do I find it useless and annoying (it often causes chaos with what they write) it uses up ink. Just a week after ...
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How do I get a classmate who is creepy to leave me alone? [closed]
My classmate and 'friend' is really starting to creep me out. It was obvious that he liked me and did weird stuff earlier this year, but I just shrugged it off. Now I’m starting to get creeped out. He ...
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How do I talk to someone I've had issues with before?
Last year a girl I go to school with found me annoying. She didn't have any grudges, it was just "I wouldn't choose to sit next to him." This year she doesn't find me annoying, and I have been tring ...
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How can I ask this girl out when she's giving me mixed signals (and other various obstacles)? [closed]
I'm going to try to make this short, but there's quite a bit of stuff to explain.
Background information:
Me: Male, 17, Junior
Her: Female, 17 (assumed), Junior
Situation:
So, this girl moved ...
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How do I deal with this kid who is really creeping me out in class? [closed]
For reference, I am a 17 y/o male in my Junior year of HS.
So there's a kid in my class, not sure the age but I know he's a Junior (looks like a Freshman though), let's call him Andrew. Andrew ...
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How to properly criticize a poor (scientific) work?
My question:
Are there ways to point out errors of somebody's scientific work without sounding harsh or as if I am discrediting that person?
A lot can be found about criticizing well and proper ...
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How to deal with a classmate that can't speak your language or understand the teacher?
Back in seventh grade I was the new kid: no friends and very nervous. The first day at school, so far, was going quite well. But then, when I chose my seat in Science, an even more nervous-looking kid ...
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How should I converse with a stranger [closed]
I am a male freshman in university, and don't have many friends as my modules are mostly taught in a flipped classroom fashion.
There is a module I'm taking right now and since I have been ...
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How do I tell students at a school I volunteer at to stop flirting with me?
Occasionally, I head out to volunteer to teach robotics programming at an all-girls school in my area. For context, I'm male and age 20, and the students are adolescent females in 7th and 8th grade (...
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How do I defuse a shouting fight about a bad test?
I have Chinese parents and the stereotype is 100% true in this case... I’ve recently gotten a bad score on a test, however I’m in double accelerated math. However, apparently that’s the standard for ...
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How do I avoid academically 'shaming' a fellow student/friend? [closed]
At school, my friend (let's call him Ivan) is quite intelligent. He's in enrichment classes, gets A to A+ grades and is very conscientious.
At the risk of sounding narcissistic, I am objectively one ...
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Is responding to an email ending with "I'll be in touch" considered pushy?
I've been trying to meet this professor to talk about whether or not he would like to help me further develop this software that I've released.
We've exchanged emails three times. The last one was ...
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How to encourage a child with autism to practice reading?
I'm asking on behalf of friends of mine who have a daughter who is diagnosed with "high functioning" autism. Let's call her Jane.
Jane went to a regular primary school but couldn't learn in this ...
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How can I deal with a rude classmate? [closed]
Today, I entered my new school (I'm in 9th grade) and, as you could guess, I had no friends, but there was some guys that were so good to explain me and stay with me. I really like staying with these ...
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How to stop my friend's insane phone addiction
So, let's name our main character Josh. Josh is a close friend of mine in highschool, we're both 14. Problem is Josh is very addicted to his phone. At first, Josh would use his phone after class a lot ...
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How can I decline to help my teacher with their personal IT problem?
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Note: Certain details have been changed for privacy's sake.
I am the go-to person for tech help for my friends (and enemies), family, and teachers. I have helped everyone I know with ...
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How to stop classmate from bullying me [closed]
I am Austrian, 17 years old. After that year, I have one last year left in my school.
I have one classmate who never liked me very much. Since this year’s christmas our relationship got even worse.
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How to tell my professor that I don't understand the class and that I want office hours?
It's been a while (about 2 weeks) since I stopped understanding anything in class and I am afraid to tell the professor about my situation because she may get upset with me (which is obviously a not ...
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How can I improve my teacher-student relationship with a professor that ignores me? [closed]
I am a university student, in my current group there are only 5 students (2 women and 3 men).
One of my teachers has been ignoring me since the course started (approximately 2 weeks ago), that is, he ...
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How to deal with depression privately and how to let my family know about it? [closed]
First of all, I come from India, from a place where depression is not at all recognized as a disease. I have never met or heard a person from my place even mention the word "depression"
Anyway, ...
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Etiquette question regarding conveying enthusiasm in email communications - used in academic settings
I have a friendly, close relationship with these professors - we are research collaborators and communicate daily. Our communication scope on emails is never personal, it's strictly about research ...
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How to ask for honest opinion of my teammates
I'm student from Polish university.
One of my projects require big team (10 students) and one of us is manager. This role was offered to me and I accepted it. I am responsible for assigning tasks to ...
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Get team member to participate in project
I am currently experiencing a very unpleasent situation. We are a group of 5, working on a software project for "professional school". We use Discord to organize us and to talk with each other. ...
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How can I tell a friend that their self-published book needs editing?
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An acquaintance of mine and his wife just self-published a very short book. Unfortunately, it has scores of grammatical mistakes on most pages. My friend and his wife have a great message ...
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How can I tell my parents I want to drop out of college?
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I am a 24 year old living with my parents. I'll soon be 25. I study at a local university/college. Lately (the past few years) it has not been going well. I am considering dropping out, ...
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How to tell friend I won’t go to school for weeks?
So I was cutting myself, but my parents found out and want to send me to a ‘special’ school for a few weeks to learn other ways to deal with stress. I am worried about what to tell my friends because ...
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How to deal with rude interruptions in a seminar? [closed]
The following situation has occurred several times with B (the same person, in the audience), A (a speaker, different from time to time), and C (the audience, mostly the same).
A is presenting some ...
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When should I tell others that I'm divorced/separated? [closed]
While at the moment I am technically still married, I have been separated from my ex for eight months or so, with divorce pending. In certain situations, I find myself unsure of when/if to tell ...
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Approach a friend's lack of sleep
A good friend of mine is working on a big project and lately he started doing all-nighters (actually, every day).
This project is big. It's a group project with ~35 people. This friend of mine is in ...
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How would one explain to a friend that even if they're accepted to a University, it's probably not a good idea to attend? [closed]
It's difficult to put into words without sounding mean or judgemental, but I honestly have no idea how else to put this. Just note that I only have the best intentions for everyone and wish for the ...
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How to deal with a super perfectionist classmate?
I am 17 years old.
There is a girl in my class, let's call her Anne, who is very stubborn. For her to be happy, everything has to be perfect. I have no problem with it, as long as it doesn't affect ...
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How do I tell the classmates I sat next to that I swapped seats?
In our science class at school we have allocated seats. I asked the teacher if I could change where I am because the people around me were distracting me. She said yes and now I’m moving to the back. ...
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How to tell my classmates that I don't want to sit in the back row
I'm currently attending a five-year school about Business and Media Design. I'm in my 4th year and I'm 17 years old.
In the last half year my classmates have become very annoying for me. Today it ...
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How to insist (and convince) on a course of action when you are not in a position of power
I help a young teenage boy learn English at a non-profit organization where I am a volunteer. The boy is considered at-risk youth as he's the child of immigrant parents and of low socioeconomic status....
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How should I handle the situation when I caught my student cheating in examination? [closed]
Backstory: I caught my school (private secondary) grade 9 student cheating in examination (third terminal). So, I took his copy and told him to go out but he didn't and kept standing in his seat ...
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How do I deal with someone who makes more of my disabilities than I do?
I am taking a class and the instructor knows I am hearing impaired. The only accommodation I need is to sit in the front and to the left of the classroom and I can do the rest on my own.
Between ...
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How to talk to my parents when they are the ones causing the problem?
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I am homeschooled and due to my location I have chosen to not participate in many face to face activities because I do not enjoy being around the people who live here. I am virtually cut ...
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How to handle a younger sibling being verbally bullied, with sometimes racist remarks, at school?
My younger sister tells me she's having trouble at her new middle school; one of these is that a boy, who tends to be the class clown and troublemaker, makes fun of her underbite. I told her to notify ...
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Should I lie to my friend if it inspires him to do something good? [closed]
Recently I was denied an application to work as a teacher's assistant for my school. My friend also applied, and he was denied too.
My friend calls me, and asks me if I got the role or not. Before I ...
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How to tell family members that they should not downplay your major?
My girlfriend is studying both math and Computer Science (CS) at the best university in Poland, which is literally the hardest way to get through university. The acceptance policy says that they only ...
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How to politely correct a teacher?
I'm a high-school student in the United States, and from time to time a teacher makes a mistake while writing on the board in front of the class. Usually, the mistakes are minor, such as forgotten ...
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How do I correct my daughter's teacher's grammar?
An email I received from my daughter's 2nd grade teacher has a grammatical error. The teacher wrote "your daughter can meet with Amy and I" where he should have written, "your daughter can meet with ...
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