Harsh instructor teaches kid not-so-valuable lesson in organization

Always listen to your teacher.
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Brian Koerber
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Teachers are one of the most important influencers in a person's life. They teach us valuable information that will stick with us for or lifetime.

They can also be a total pain in the ass.

In today's episode of Kids being funny or adults lying for fake Internet points Redditor Tru_Fakt shares a photo of his friend's math homework, which was perfect except for one thing: a poorly placed staple. 


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Now, sure, if you're a teacher and you need to grade a bunch of papers, having a sloppily placed staple makes it a bit more difficult, and nobody needs that. 

It's only one point, and maybe they're trying to teach this student discipline and organization. But we can't help but feel for this student, considering staples are archaic tools in desperate need of a reboot. 

So the moral of the story is to listen to your teacher, graduate and then invent a newer, more efficient stapler so this never happens again. 

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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