It's all [insert victim of choice here]'s fault.

Dad wins "Lack of Personal Responsibility" award. Too bad he didn't win the Darwin Award first.

Victorian Steven Weybury

( prefers to be called V-dubya )

/ or asshat is fine too

The school should sue this dad, for providing the children with genes that made them obvious idiots. They had to probably waste a LOT of time on these farktards over the years.

He's the moron for paying almost half a million dollars to send his kids to school.

Public school may not be the best, but it damn sure costs a lot less than that.

they have the NFL in Australia?

/ wants lack of creativity runner up

I guess he never asked to see their homework.

/$400,000.00

A father whose twin sons flunked their final exams is demanding an elite private school THEY repay up to $400,000 in fees.

Epic FAIL thread in 3..2..1..

In a defence filed with the court, lawyers for Brighton Grammar said the school had provided special assistance to the boys throughout their schooling.

The boys were also given extra language and maths classes and speech therapy in primary school years, according to the school.

FAIL!

I can kind of see where the father is coming from. The school shouldn't have let the kids keep advancing, but that would have just cost him more $. So it seems the school actually made things cheaper by spitting the idiots out after 13 years instead of constantly holding them back.

Father's pampered snowflakes probably sit around every free moment playing video games, instead of studying. And probaby spend all day in class, sending text messages on their expensive cell phones that Daddy bought them.

I blame:

What were the kids' grades in years 9, 10 & 11 - Straight A's or low D's?

If it is the former then I think something else is going on here and if it is the latter then these kids would have failed final exams at any school.

Surely there were signs something was wrong long before theses exams. If only, I don't know, the freakin' parents took some interest in the progress of there crotchfruit.

Nice to see Australian lawyers are trying to keep up with their American counterparts. Stupid lawsuits suck.

Tuition is paid for the school to teach the boys; that does not by any means guarantee that the boys will learn! A little parental responsibility is in order here; did dad check his sons homework or did he let them let them play video games after school?

I know this story is from Limeyland, not here, but IIRC you can be pretty goddamn braindead and still complete K-12 (worked for me!) At least 50% of students must've looked as retarded as these two precious snowflakes. If the schoolss are expected to hold some sort of academic Intervention for every kid who's "struggling" and quite obviously just doesn't give a damn, well then that's most of the school. These two runts probably didn't stand out too much from the rest of the idiotic pack.

You want your kids to not suck, you gotta help them yourself. Nobody knows how stupid a kid is more than his/her parents (or failing that, the kid's P.O.) The school's got nine million precious little snowflakes and can't give the attention to yours that you can. Go to the school and say, "my spawn are absolute 'tards! Please treat them accordingly!"

It's all Ned Kelly's fault!!

If they only had a dog to hug they would all be perfect. I blame the fact they don't have a dog or cat for their failure.

im_fkn_kreg

That, sir, is full of awesome. Somehow I think my old math prof would have gotten a great kick out of that.

im_fkn_kreg: Cute, but you fail utterly at symbolic logic.

/ ~p => q, therefore ~q => p
// => is not the same as =
/// can prove 1=2 in about three different ways
//// don't farking divide by zero, people
// the universe depends on it

Does it say they flunked their school year anywhere?
It sounds like they took the classes and flunked the standardized tests. If they got good grades, but the school didn't cover the advertised curricula, he may have a point. Maybe.

Road Rash: Tuition is paid for the school to teach the boys; that does not by any means guarantee that the boys will learn! A little parental responsibility is in order here; did dad check his sons homework or did he let them let them play video games after school?

Now, now, let's not rush to conclusions. It's always possible the school is just a bunch of money-grabbing lazy asses who didn't do nearly everything they could with these twins.

The fact remains, though, that suing the school for tuition is asinine in every possible way. I mean, how could the father have not noticed the kids were failing classes before twelfth grade? What kind of dumbass takes thirteen years (kindergarten included) to notice how badly his twins are doing? farkhead hotshot law firm partner should've taken a greater interest in their educational careers long before this.

My mum and dad paid for me to get a private school education, and I bombed miserably (this was not due to a lack of intelligence - more laziness, mixed with new found love of alcohol, pot and penith).

I got a gigantic smack around the head and arse, which is what these two junior douchebags require, not daddy suing the school.

/funny thing is, career wise I'm more successful than those that made it to Uni and graduated.

festygrrl: /funny thing is, career wise I'm more successful than those that made it to Uni and graduated.

Well, let's face it, these probably help:

For shame, farkers, FAILing on a FAIL thread...
Could someone else kick this off?

/how do YOU know the beaver died???

festygrrl: My mum and dad paid for me to get a private school education, and I bombed miserably (this was not due to a lack of intelligence - more laziness, mixed with new found love of alcohol, pot and penith).

I got a gigantic smack around the head and arse, which is what these two junior douchebags require, not daddy suing the school.

/funny thing is, career wise I'm more successful than those that made it to Uni and graduated.

How much do you charge?

/that was mean
/can't help it, I AM mean
/misanthropic, misogynistic, malcontent

Ummm..wow? Thanks, I needed that for my final.

Farkin' Uke: For shame, farkers, FAILing on a FAIL thread...
Could someone else kick this off?

/how do YOU know the beaver died???

will this do?

This sounds perfectly reasonable.
A lawyers son doesnt get properly educated so lawyer should get a refund.
Any client of this lawyer, who has ever been convicted of a crime or had a judgement against them in court, should get their money back from him too.
/right?
//you mean 'best defence' is worth money even if 'best education' isnt?

Oh Noes, my kidz are ideeotts now give meh bak mah mun-knee.

my boobs made it into a thread

/that made me smile
//alot

Made me smile too, festygirl.

Former 6th-grade teacher here. Haven't been since June '98, thankfully.

A woman on the school board was the parent of a mischevious, lazy child in my class. He rarely did anything constructive. When I brought it up more than twice, she told me to leave her alone; she can't handle the pressure; he's still mourning his dad's death from 1st grade (he was also the HS principal in that district..........). It also must be my fault since I'm a brand new teacher......

I gave him a gift and passed him in my science class with a D- at the year's end. Three weeks into summer vacation, I get an irate phone call, replete with swearing, threats for my job, etc., "How could you do this?!"

Moral of the story? Don't ever be a teacher unless you're straight from the set of Dead Poets' Society yourself.

/Filling vending machines now for perpetually the same pay as a 3rd year teacher...Very Happily

festygrrl: my boobs made it into a thread

Um...How're you doin'??

:-)

Wrong_Intentions: I know this story is from Limeyland, not here, but IIRC you can be pretty goddamn braindead and still complete K-12 (worked for me!) At least 50% of students must've looked as retarded as these two precious snowflakes. If the schoolss are expected to hold some sort of academic Intervention for every kid who's "struggling" and quite obviously just doesn't give a damn, well then that's most of the school. These two runts probably didn't stand out too much from the rest of the idiotic pack.

You want your kids to not suck, you gotta help them yourself. Nobody knows how stupid a kid is more than his/her parents (or failing that, the kid's P.O.) The school's got nine million precious little snowflakes and can't give the attention to yours that you can. Go to the school and say, "my spawn are absolute 'tards! Please treat them accordingly!"


Actually, it is Australia, I am somewhat ashamed to admit. But our douchebags are truly more douchebaggy than anyone else's!!!!

He is a lawyer though, and I think that crosses international borders.

/ am a parent, has left one of my offspring be kept back for a year after she decided homework wasn't her priority.
// she has decided it is this year!
/// did the twins learn what knifey spoony was???

I had a few classmates in college who just assumed that taking the class meant that you'd pass it. Reguardless of how much studying the classmate did, how well or badly you did on the tests, or even if you showed up to class or not. They just assumed that once you paid the money, you'd get credit, and if you weren't passing then the teacher was your personally biatch until you passed or they just passed you.

Well, for those classmates, and the family in TFA, I have the following:

Luneward: im_fkn_kreg

That, sir, is full of awesome. Somehow I think my old math prof would have gotten a great kick out of that.

He'd probably say something along the lines of "You can't divide by zero, therefore that proof is invalid."

If you are semantically treating "No" as a negative (which is implied by how it is factored out), it would look like this.

-study = fail
study = -fail

-study + study = fail + -fail
study(-1 + 1) = fail (1 + -1)

In canceling out, the picture omitted the fact that canceling out involves division.

[since (-1 + 1) = (1 + -1) they can be used interchangeably.]

cancelling out:

study(-1 + 1) / (-1 + 1) = fail(1 + -1) / (-1 + 1)

-1 + 1 is 0 and you can't divide by 0.


what this proof does prove is that

study(0) = fail(0)
0=0

and it doesn't go any further than that.

Wishes he studied more

Scifientologist: Dad wins "Lack of Personal Responsibility" award. Too bad he didn't win the Darwin Award first.

Seriously =(

As good as the school might be, it ain't Hogwarts and they can't magically remove that extra chromosome that you've gifted your sprats, Dad.

Give the twins a shiny new box of crayons as a school leaving gift and wish them well with their new careers in the exciting field of medical test subject.

I came in to say something about personal responsability... but he has a point, paying big $ to send your kids to a private school and that private school should live up to the main reason parents send their kids to them. To get a better edjumacation, not fail.

festygrrl: my boobs made it into a thread

/that made me smile
//alot

epic I'd say, epic boobs.
niiiiccceeee.

;)

Shakespeare was right. If only to improve the gene pool.

vegasj: I came in to say something about personal responsability... but he has a point, paying big $ to send your kids to a private school and that private school should live up to the main reason parents send their kids to them. To get a better edjumacation, not fail.

What if it was the children's fault they failed?

The_Bouncer:
What if it was the children's fault they failed?

asswhoop'ns for all.

im_fkn_kreg

What's cool is that you can show that somewhat depends on a divide by zero error.

-study = fail
study = -fail

-study + study = fail - fail
(-1 + 1)study = (1 - 1)fail
0*study = 0*fail

math: fail! :D

vegasj: The_Bouncer:
What if it was the children's fault they failed?

asswhoop'ns for all.

I like the cut of your jib sir.

/I wonder what a $400,000 asswhoopin would feel like?

Was he not keeping up with his kids' grades? Maybe someone should sue him for being a shiatty dad.