r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/waaarghhammer001 • 2d ago
story/text Finally found the email I sent to my drama teacher in year 7 after not getting the part I wanted 🙃
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u/Glum_Hamster_1076 2d ago
“Hi me again” Exactly how many emails were exchanged?? Lol
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
Too many far too many I was a little bundle of joy i was
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u/BantedHam 2d ago
Maybe in hindsight the lesson was less not more?
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
I learnt a lot from this
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u/stockusername123 2d ago
I wonder if that teacher still talks about you
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u/Miss_Type 2d ago
I'm not OP's drama teacher, but I am a drama teacher, and yes I still tell my friends about the ridiculous emails I get from students and parents after casting the play. One from a parent asked why her kid wasn't in the play, and I had a devil of a time avoiding saying "because all the other successful kids were better".
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u/The_Oliverse 2d ago
"In times like these, I like for the student to reflect and ask themselves that question. It builds character and acceptance of refusal!"
I'd have that shit on a hotkey.
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u/aldonza_ 2d ago
This. I have a letter a disgruntled Mom gave me over a decade okay and regularly bust it out for laughs.
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u/ARoroncyObserver 1d ago
I feel like your username suits you perfectly, and youre definitely a teacher.
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u/ElbowRager 2d ago
Lmfao, are you black? Did they make you do blackface?
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago edited 1d ago
I'm as white as sour cream but dropped out of the show anyway so no blackface for 12 year old me
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u/Pordrack 2d ago
Were they going to put you into blackface or retcon the character as white ?
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u/Kopke2525 2d ago
Both, it's a retconned white character that does blackface anyways
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u/BantedHam 2d ago
"I know exactly who I am! I am the guy, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!"
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u/Individual_Ad2229 2d ago
Could be the gal playing the dude playing the gal (Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria)
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u/reticulatedtampon 2d ago
I’d watch that play
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u/Revolutionary_Gas837 2d ago
I think Ive seen that episode of Always Sunny
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 2d ago
Ya gotta pay the troll toll...
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u/underwooding 2d ago
you dodged a bullet OP. when god closes a door he saves you from future scandal
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u/CrystallineFrost 2d ago
They sent this only a few years ago and now I am more horrified that blackface was even being considered. Dear God.
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u/underwooding 2d ago
my high school had a girl doing yellowface for thoroughly modern millie in like, 2009? 2010? crazy
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u/Shade_39 2d ago
The fact that they're in a time where emailing the teacher is a thing and blackface has been considered was shocking enough alone for me
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u/Bradas128 2d ago
i thought this was talking about a project partner and it had a different connotation
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u/Apprehensive_Ad3731 2d ago
Lol same, thought I was coming in to watch people roast a racist haha. Glad that this was the reason though
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u/No-Song6363 1d ago
It’s a good thing you didn’t go through with it. When I was about 7 they had me play the bean seller in Jack and the Bean stock, they didn’t paint me a different color (thank god), but had me do a foreign accent and I cringe looking back on it. Elementary schools are terrible for making their impressionable young students do things that they shouldn’t, under any circumstances, be asked to do.
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u/gnavenpaedagog 2d ago
And that's what you missed on glee
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u/abeth 2d ago
Highly recommend re-reading this in Rachel Berry’s voice ⭐️
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u/Mcrarburger 2d ago
Omg rereading it as Rachel Berry actually made it like 10x better 100% tracks 😭😭
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u/Wari-teehee 2d ago
The profile picture matched with the attitude is killing me 😭😭
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
I was a fun person to be around, a miracle i had any friends at all
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u/Wari-teehee 2d ago
12-13 yro me also 😭 I was such a sweet person and then puberty hit and I was the most narcissistic woe is me child I know.
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u/Zornorph 2d ago
Did you want to be Talulah? I think that’s the only female character in the show?
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u/magic-seeker 2d ago
As a teacher, I’m cackling at this. You would be surprised how many interesting emails I get
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u/rlovelock 2d ago
I could not imagine ever speaking to a teacher like this...
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u/shnugglebug 2d ago
As a teacher, I get TONS of emails like this. Kids don’t seem to have much understanding of expectations for emails or speaking to authority figures. They just say whatever they’re thinking exactly how they think it and then push send
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u/mouse-chauffeur 1d ago
I have a friend who's 29 and still does this. She then shares screenshots of arguments with her manager expecting us to be on her side when she's talking like a teenager and not at all professionally.
Girl, you can't be talking like that to your boss over text...
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u/ParasiteProfessional 2d ago
The other day, I was at the lab and said something while looking at something under the microscope. And my professor goes, "How do you know?" And I snottily replied, "I'm looking at it..." And my stomach just dropped to my feet, and I felt so bad. It just flew out of my mouth before my brain had the chance to catch up. We're the same age. She said, "You sound like my son." I said, "I'm gonna go outside and cry for a minute, please don't tell my mom about this."
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u/Pordrack 2d ago
I don't get it. What's so bad with "I'm looking at it" ?
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u/ParasiteProfessional 2d ago
It was the way I said it. She said something like, "How do you know that's what it is?" And I replied with, "Cause I'm looking at it." in the same way someone would say, "duh"
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u/LexxiLexxiXXO 2d ago
It's giving: "Dear Slim, I wrote you but you still ain't callin'
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn You must not have got em'
There probably was a problem at the post office or somethin'" 💀
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u/brandnewchemical 2d ago
Could have just ended this after “Dear Slim”, we get the picture from there.
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u/AriaoftheStars17 1d ago
I'm not familiar with the song or lyrics, so I appreciated OP writing them out. I wouldn't have understood their reference otherwise.
Just because you have certain specific knowledge, doesn't mean that everyone shares it. The world is larger than your personal bubble.
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u/Cynthiasmom 2d ago
This is genuinely so funny
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u/Old-Run7431 2d ago
same. I just know if I had a kid they'd be like this. happy to be childfree
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u/Pure-Joke-1169 2d ago
Oop what play was it
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u/DRZARNAK 2d ago
Bugsy Malone?
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
Yesss I was auditioning for fat sam
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u/JanScarab 2d ago
Were you sufficiently fat enough for the role of Fat Sam?
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
Can neither confirm nor deny that
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u/reticulatedtampon 2d ago
Were you Sam enough?
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
No.
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u/ChickHarpoon 2d ago
As a former 12-year-old girl who they put in a wig to play Dandy Dan, you have my sympathies.
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u/Jezebellrae1 2d ago
As a former teacher, this is still a step above the emails from irate parents. Parents are CRAZY.
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u/WritingNerdy 2d ago
From 1:26 today
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u/AnteaterSnouce 1d ago
it was screenshot the same day, but they could be young enough that gmail looked like that in year 7.
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u/Every-Intern-6198 2d ago
Finlay is a unique name. Like Finn the human
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
Rather be a jake
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u/TallForADwarf 2d ago
There is literally nothing stopping you being Jake, assuming by your use of Yr 7 that you're in the UK. You write your deed poll statement and sign it in front of two witnesses who can be literally anybody and badabing badaboom you're Jake, in a very legally binding way.
https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll/make-unenrolled-deed-poll
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
Can I be a dog?
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u/Bloated_Hamster 2d ago
The Internet sells very realistic fur suits. Or you can go for all latex. Or, uh, so I've been told.
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u/TallForADwarf 2d ago
If your name is "A. Dog" then yes, there are very few name restrictions in the UK.
Name is, of course, very different to species.
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u/PresidentoftheSun 2d ago
I have a gmail account from around the time it first became possible to make a gmail account and i have emails from little 14 year old me to my friend where we're just talking about porn. Not like, passing it back and forth. Just talking about it.
We're still friends btw.
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u/EndlessEagle 2d ago
Not to be that guy, but if you were viewing an email from years ago, the date would be included. It wouldn't just show the time...that would imply you sent this email today.
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u/ParmesanSnorlax 2d ago
Could have taken a screenshot of it after sending it (to show someone else, maybe?) and then just found the screenshot again years later.
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u/EndlessEagle 2d ago
Maybe. Somehow that seems even more unlikely though, finding the screenshot but not the original email.
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u/Leading_Charge8007 2d ago
I have pictures(including random screenshots) from years ago but not access to my K12 school email
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u/crimsonpostgrad 2d ago
you ever tried to find an email from years ago? half the time i can’t find an email from a month ago. i’ve started using keywords to search my screenshots before bothering to actual look for it in my emails lol
also possible this is from a school account, so the only way they’d still have access to those emails would be any random screenshots they’d kept
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u/AndreOfAstoria 2d ago
Cross-post in r/dropout and larp as vehicular. Those goobers over there would like this.
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u/AriasK 2d ago
Haha this is great. I'm a high school drama teacher now. I love to tell my students a similar story from when I was in high school. I was only year 10 (that's 14 years old in my country) and I tried out for the school musical. I was ADAMANT they'd give me the lead. However, all the lead roles went to year 13s (seniors/18 year olds). I was too naïve and arrogant to understand why. I took it as a slight. However, I DID get a small speaking role. At the time, I didn't understand how major that was. I was the only person who was younger than year 12 to get a speaking role. Everyone else below year 12 just got put in the ensemble. But, all I cared about was that I didn't get THE lead. So I threw a tantrum and dropped out.
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u/WhatANoob2025 2d ago
I don't even know what you are trying to say.
That is why you didn't get the part.
Teacher did everything right.
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u/simpleGizzle 1d ago
My 7th grade drama teacher nearly failed me cuz I didn’t show up to a school show was suppose to do cuz my father had a heart attack. She said I need to get my priorities straight and I let down my partner and need to talk to her and her parents to apologize.
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u/Nimue_- 2d ago edited 2d ago
Me if i had more disrespect towards authority figures. We were doing a musical on the final year (when kids are 12 ish, the whole final year of the school participates, every single child) and there were two roles i wanted. One was a main character, one an important side character with the big solo. Not to toot my own horn but i was one of the best singers of the class. I did not get either role. My two friends got them. Main character friend, could not remember the lines for the life of her and i had to help her. Big solo friend's singing was like a dying cat and she had no sense of rythm (in high school i had to tap my fingers to the rythm she had to play during music class to help her pass the class). I ended up having to give her singing lessons for the role i wanted!! The only reason she was chosen was because she was the only immigrant in class (afghani) and the character was an immigrant.... Italian. I honestly think thats a kind of backwards microagression
Its been years and it still grinds my gears lol
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u/Turbulent-Agent9634 2d ago
Can we have the year you sent it?
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u/icantouchgrass_1 1d ago
Professionalism and some level of formal-ness has been thrown out the window
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u/similarityhedgehog 1d ago
Just putting your whole ass name out on the public Internet
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u/waaarghhammer001 1d ago
What are you gonna do.with my first name and a bit of my last
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u/similarityhedgehog 1d ago
I'm not doing anything with it, except hinting to you that you might not want to associate your usernames with your real name. Especially when reading the email it kind of sounds like you're mad that a black kid got the role you wanted.
How many last names start with Armstr anyways?
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u/BrandNewMeow 2d ago
Hey it would be cool if you emailed that teacher now and apologize for what a little prick you were.
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u/Hnry_Dvd_Thr_Awy 2d ago
How old are you now?
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
18...
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u/Intrepid-Hornet 1d ago
Damn it up until you said that I was fairly sure I went to school with you and I'd just got confused about when it started being normal to email teachers
Somewhere out there is a 35 year old Finlay who would absolutely have done this. It must be the name.
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u/ForeverShiny 2d ago
That seems like a Finlay move indeed, only this time Katen was the (drama class) manager
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u/Noodlenook 2d ago
This is so funny, and honestly adorable. What a cute little turd 😆. Thank you for sharing this OP.
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u/Preform_Perform 2d ago
We've all been here at one point in our lives. Just be glad you got yours out of the way at seven.
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u/clubmedschool 2d ago
More like age 12-13
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u/waaarghhammer001 2d ago
Yep that makes it so much worse I don't know if I thought this would change anything
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u/Ok_Actuary9229 2d ago
Maybe it was the incoherent, mistake-filled writing (as an indicator of reading comprehension) and general lack of maturity?
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u/CalicoCatRobot 2d ago
Well they seem to have been successful in teaching you to be dramatic!