Some teachers go way too far, and today is no exception.

Buckle in, as in today's story time, the teacher calls a kid fat-phobic for not being fat himself.

Let's jump in.

So we're going to call the subscriber who submitted today's story, Kyle.

So anyways, right, Kyle was in the sixth grade, And in one of his classes, they had an assignment.

And this assignment was, pick something about your life that you are genuinely passionate about,

make a presentation, and present it to the class. The whole point of the presentation was to learn skills of public speaking.

I think this was like, I don't know if this was specifically

a public speaking class, is that almost seems a little bit too specific for sixth grade. But it was some

kind of class where they were either it was public speaking or they were going over a public speaking

unit. And the assignment said, you can choose whatever topic, as long as it's

appropriate, right, you can't be like, oh, these are my top 10 favorite. I can't say that. I can't

say that. I got kids watching, man. But as long as it was appropriate, there was no real,

the grading wasn't based on the content itself. It was really just trying to motivate kids to,

you know, have fun with this project and

learn how to speak in front of the class. I think this is a genius idea, and I really wish that

that was more like a focus in fifth, fourth, sixth grade, whatever. Because honestly, public

speaking and speaking in front of your classmates is going to be such a major part of high school

and college and potentially

what you do later on at work if you have to present to your, I don't know, your fellow people

who work at your company or whatever, right? So I think that's a really great idea. And Kyle,

the subscriber, was a big fan of the gym. So when you're in sixth grade, you can't really get to

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