History Website / NotAlwaysLearning

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/humans-are-from-earth-idiots-are-from-mars/37373/ This grandfather]]:

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-sounds-like-the-opposite-of-a-problem/321659/ this story]], the submitter's roommate is rich enough to have had a maid do the cleaning at home. When asked to get cleaning supplies for their doom, the roommate has no idea what constitutes an adequate amount of cleaning supplies and goes way over budget.

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/who-doesnt-love-a-good-book-burning/210144/ These girls]] started a book-burning ''inside the bookstore'', forcing the store to be evacuated while the fire department was called, because their teacher wouldn't let them buy ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.

-->'''Son:''' "This has happened before. This was his last chance to be nice about it and not try to kill someone about something."

* HopelessWithTech: [[https://notalwaysright.com/email-fail-part-40/287539/ This (adult) student]] in a basic computing class tries addressing an email to the recipient's home address instead of their actual email address. When questioned about it, she seems to think that sending emails sends them to the postal service, who will in turn post the message to the recipient.
-->'''Submitter:''' "That's not what email is, ma'am."\\

* EducationMama: [[https://notalwaysright.com/therere-high-standards-and-then-theres-this/135304/ This mother]] takes it to a concerning extreme; she constantly berates her son, puts him through every tutorial possible, takes away his privileges at home, and calls him a dropout just because he got a B, and she thought that that was "teaching him that failure is okay." Oh, and the only reason he got a B and not an A is because of a quirk in the grading system that temporarily marked an incomplete project as a zero, which would have been remedied when the project was completed. Naturally she doesn't accept this, apparently under the impression that being anything less than a straight-A student is the same as flunking school.

* AnalogyBackfire: [[http://notalwaysright.com/that-lesson-bombed/ In this class]], the teacher tries to get across the meaning of a tragic World War II poem by comparing it to bombs falling on their school. Unfortunately for the teacher, bombs falling on their school is something the students ''want''.

* NeverMyFault: [[https://notalwaysright.com/calculus-versus-dumbledores-army/ This substitute teacher]] refuses to admit he messed up a high school class's calculus exam by entering the questions incorrectly into the computer with incorrect answers. This resulted in all of the students failing, when the answers the class wrote down were correct and they actually passed the exam. [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure The normal teacher]] [[AlwaysABiggerFish and the principal]] thankfully intervene and [[LaserGuidedKarma the substitute is fired]], while the students get their correct grades. Still not willing to take responsibility, he writes to the local newspaper and school board, accusing the students of cheating the exam by blackmailing the school and demanding their expulsion because [[InsaneTrollLogic according to him, students who are part of a study group leads to gang activity]].

* IncompetenceInc: [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-lesson-in-mismanagement/172445/ This school board]], which completely botches the closing of one school and the merging of its functions with another school.

* PlutoIsExpendable: The then-five-year-old submitter in [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-didnt-planet-this-way/37897/ this story]] is insistent that Pluto is too small to be a planet. A decade or so later, the IAU makes its decision to demote Pluto to dwarf planet status, prompting the submitter's mother to [[HilariousInHindsight laugh hysterically]] when she hears the news.

'''Submitter:''' ''<starts {{Corpsing}}>''

-->“You know what I think? I think all computers in the United States should be shipped to MARS! They are totally worthless. I don’t know how to log in to look at your directory. I only use phones.”

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/glad-you-caught-your-error-space-cadet/298324/ This teacher's aide]] accidentally marks part of the submitter's project incorrectly until they realize they miscounted the number of planets in UsefulNotes/TheSolarSystem]] and backtrack.

* ApatheticTeacher: [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-blood-alcohol-level-that-does-not-compute/139835/ This teacher]] finds that the equipment and curriculum in his IT class is functionally useless and [[TwoDecadesBehind woefully outdated]]. After a few feeble attempts, he gives up on teaching the class entirely, and tells his students to “do whatever you want; I still get paid.” Three months into the school year, he's started ''drinking in class'', which leaves him so inebriated he doesn't notice when bored students start throwing chairs around. The incident has him fired in seconds and dragged out by police as he was too drunk to stand. The IT class would subsequently be revamped with new staff and equipment.