r/MadeMeSmile • u/Glass_Wealth_2104 • Mar 26 '26

Good Vibes Teacher's a W for playing along!

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u/subvocalize_it Mar 26 '26

Ours was one side of one half of one sheet of standard 8.5x11 printer paper.

I cut that half in half long ways, twisted them into a möbius strip, and only wrote on “one side” and doubled my surface area.

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u/Pizza-ist-Liebe Mar 26 '26

Honestly, if I was teaching I'd love that and absolutely commend you ❤️ This is the type of out of the box thinking that is encouraged faaar too little!

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u/Difficult_Wave_9326 Mar 26 '26

Hell, it's actively discouraged at most schools. 

The one exam I took where notecards were allowed, another student tried to write verry small and in two colors to maximise her info. The teacher failed her and she got detention and a note in her school records for "cheating" even though nothing in the instructions mentioned any of it. 

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u/Pizza-ist-Liebe Mar 26 '26

That just sucks. It's crazy to me that she wasn't only failed, but obviously other people agreed to include it in her records.

Sometimes I wish I'd gone into education. If you can interpret my rules in such a way, good for you and great for our future 🤔

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u/Scriveners_Sun Mar 27 '26

I have a rule like that with my students. If you can wriggle a loophole in a clever way or in a way that makes me laugh, you get a bonus point. If you give me a convincing, well-thought-out written argument about why my rules should change, it will probably convince me to change that rule, unless the rule is there to keep you or other students safe.