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<p> </p><h2>While it&#39;s normal for parents to want to help their children succeed in school, doing all the work for them is definitely not an ideal method...</h2><p>There&#39;s always one kid who comes into class with pristine projects and posters that look like they were constructed by a professional miniature solar system designer specializing in fifth grade. Presentations with advanced video and sound editing for a third grade history project, posters with typed captions backed with glitter cursive and 3D examples, and elementary school book reports that go above and beyond the standard &quot;Hi! My name is Dylan and I&#39;m going to tell you about my favorite book&quot; are a red flag for teachers.</p><p>Helping kids with their schoolwork is very different from letting them play video games while you construct a 4-story building out of cake. In order for kids to learn they have to do the work themselves. So, when a recent<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jfqxk3/teachers_of_reddit_what_was_the_most_obvious_your/"> Reddit </a>user asked, &quot;Teachers of reddit, what was the most obvious, &quot;your parents clearly did the assignment&quot;? teachers were ready to share the projects that stuck out.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>I taught elementary art classes for a few years, and a lot of time would have crossover lessons with certain subjects. One year we had the second graders do a project for their unit on Native Americans, where they had to make dioramas of a type of Native American house of their choosing, and then write a little two paragraph essay on who lived in that style of house and why it was built that way.</p> <p>Most kids made Tipis or wigwams out of construction paper and birch bark and paper towel rolls. we had a few kids who were clearly getting help from their parents, but it was obvious the kid had input and done the essay. Standard stuff.</p> <p>Then we had a kid come in with, I sh*t you not, a completely accurate model of Cliff Palace, Colorado. It was stunning.</p> <p>Turns out, his dad was a sculptor, and his mom worked at our local museum, as a restoration expert. - fluxy2535</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>When the student came in crying while holding the project and when asked what happened she announced that she was frustrated that her mom did the whole project, it looked nothing like how she wanted it to, and wasn&#39;t allowed to really do anything on it.</p> <p>This wasn&#39;t the first assignment that came in from this student that was clearly done by the mum but the student finally had had enough of having her education taken from her. - LucJenson</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>Penmanship - no kidding, kid had the maid write it. - neoldguy</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>6th grade research project that ended in a 3 page paper. One kid turned in a 10 page paper. And it definitely wasn&#39;t a bad attempt at plagiarism. It kind of felt like the mom was missing her own academic years. - lennysrevenge</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>This discovery was a collaboration between me and another teacher</p> <p>The student in question submitted an assignment that showed no cohesion or ability to connect ideas (Told me about how to &lsquo;make&rsquo; detergent from kiwi fruit in 500 words, the task was a 1500 word assignment on a DNA extraction experiment) and then the same week submitted an A standard assignment to their psychology teacher with excellent flow, arguments and great conceptual synthesis. - Adonis0</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>English as a foreign language teacher here. During lockdown last year a student sent in a test that had much better work than he usually did. When I googled his words, sure enough, he had copied it by mashing the first part of sentences from one source to the second part of sentences from another source. It did at least make sense, but it was still not his work.</p> <p>When I confronted him about cheating he said &quot;I don&#39;t think I cheated, cause my mom helped me with it and she wouldn&#39;t cheat!&quot; - NonCaelo</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>12-year-old kid brings in a BEAUTIFUL galleon. All the other kids&rsquo; galleons look like they are cut out of styrofoam using a butter knife, or some kind of strange 50/50 amalgamation of cardboard and hot glue, and then there&rsquo;s this kid with a wooden galleon, complete with rigging, cloth sails, a stand...after talking to him I finally get him to admit that his parents had gone to a shop and ordered a custom-made ship. What the heck?!? - schoonerw</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a student hand in an assignment on google docs. Most was written by his dad. How did I know? His dad was logged in while writing it so it showed up on the edit history. The worst part is the dad is one of the assistant principals 😂 - elliotp1000</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Classmate of mine read out her homewrk to the class. Structural analysis of a small town in our area. She kept talking about the jufrastructure. Turns out her mom had witten the entire thing in cursive and the girl was unaware of the word infrastructure. - suddenefficiencydrop</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Middle school science project, kid came in with a crude internal combustion engine, having previously failed science three quarters in a row. - Emperor_Cartaglia</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m an ESL teacher, the homework was to draw the items that were written, to check understanding, and the class was full of 5 year olds. One kids work was completed with some perfectly drawn pictures, in the style of the textbook they used. I straight up asked the kid in their native language if they drew it, they said no and proceeded to do some shockingly bad tracing of the alphabet in class. - __guy</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Student couldn&rsquo;t explain one thing from his homework. - dryshampooforyou</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>His dad accidentally wrote his own name on the paper. I tortured the kid for a week by calling him by his dad&#39;s name. Ah good times. - Departure_Jaded</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>An essay the kid wrote about his dad being his hero. Went on to list all of the father&#39;s achievements, the stuff he did for his kid, and ending with &quot;my dad is super smart.&quot; - NicolasGirl</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>During quarantine, we have had to institute a no parents on the room with you who like you do schoolwork. The reason being a 16 year old girl and her mother would lie in bed together all class and the mother could be heard telling her daughter exactly what every answer was. I had the girl in previous years, and her homework was always leagues better than what she ever did in class, that explained a whole lot. - Ninajaraui666</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Pretty easy to tell in art class. One day the student can&#39;t draw a square properly and the next day he comes in with a perfectly rendered 3 dimensional still life with depth and shading. - silverplating</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 teachers share stories of how they busted parents for doing their kid's homework.

 While it&#39;s normal for parents to want to help their children succeed in school, doing all the work for them is definitely not an ideal method...There&#39;s always one kid who comes into class with pristine projects and posters that look like they were constructed by a professional miniature solar system designer specializing in fifth grade. Presentations with advanced video and sound editing for a third grade history project, posters with typed captions backed with glitter cursive and 3D examples, and elementary school book reports that go above and beyond the standard &quot;Hi! My name is Dylan and I&#39;m going to tell you about my favorite book&quot; are a red flag for teachers.Helping kids with their schoolwork is very different from letting them play video games while you construct a 4-story building out of cake. In order for kids to learn they have to do the work themselves. So, when a recent Reddit user asked, &quot;Teachers of reddit, what was the most obvious, &quot;your parents clearly did the assignment&quot;? teachers were ready to share the projects that stuck out.1. I taught elementary art classes for a few years, and a lot of time would have crossover lessons with certain subjects. One year we had the second graders do a project for their unit on Native Americans, where they had to make dioramas of a type of Native American house of their choosing, and then write a little two paragraph essay on who lived in that style of house and why it was built that way. Most kids made Tipis or wigwams out of construction paper and birch bark and paper towel rolls. we had a few kids who were clearly getting help from their parents, but it was obvious the kid had input and done the essay. Standard stuff. Then we had a kid come in with, I sh*t you not, a completely accurate model of Cliff Palace, Colorado. It was stunning. Turns out, his dad was a sculptor, and his mom worked at our local museum, as a restoration expert. - fluxy2535 2. When the student came in crying while holding the project and when asked what happened she announced that she was frustrated that her mom did the whole project, it looked nothing like how she wanted it to, and wasn&#39;t allowed to really do anything on it. This wasn&#39;t the first assignment that came in from this student that was clearly done by the mum but the student finally had had enough of having her education taken from her. - LucJenson 3. Penmanship - no kidding, kid had the maid write it. - neoldguy 4. 6th grade research project that ended in a 3 page paper. One kid turned in a 10 page paper. And it definitely wasn&#39;t a bad attempt at plagiarism. It kind of felt like the mom was missing her own academic years. - lennysrevenge 5. This discovery was a collaboration between me and another teacher The student in question submitted an assignment that showed no cohesion or ability to connect ideas (Told me about how to &lsquo;make&rsquo; detergent from kiwi fruit in 500 words, the task was a 1500 word assignment on a DNA extraction experiment) and then the same week submitted an A standard assignment to their psychology teacher with excellent flow, arguments and great conceptual synthesis. - Adonis0 6. English as a foreign language teacher here. During lockdown last year a student sent in a test that had much better work than he usually did. When I googled his words, sure enough, he had copied it by mashing the first part of sentences from one source to the second part of sentences from another source. It did at least make sense, but it was still not his work. When I confronted him about cheating he said &quot;I don&#39;t think I cheated, cause my mom helped me with it and she wouldn&#39;t cheat!&quot; - NonCaelo 7. 12-year-old kid brings in a BEAUTIFUL galleon. All the other kids&rsquo; galleons look like they are cut out of styrofoam using a butter knife, or some kind of strange 50/50 amalgamation of cardboard and hot glue, and then there&rsquo;s this kid with a wooden galleon, complete with rigging, cloth sails, a stand...after talking to him I finally get him to admit that his parents had gone to a shop and ordered a custom-made ship. What the heck?!? - schoonerw 8. I had a student hand in an assignment on google docs. Most was written by his dad. How did I know? His dad was logged in while writing it so it showed up on the edit history. The worst part is the dad is one of the assistant principals 😂 - elliotp1000 9. Classmate of mine read out her homewrk to the class. Structural analysis of a small town in our area. She kept talking about the jufrastructure. Turns out her mom had witten the entire thing in cursive and the girl was unaware of the word infrastructure. - suddenefficiencydrop 10. Middle school science project, kid came in with a crude internal combustion engine, having previously failed science three quarters in a row. - Emperor_Cartaglia 11. I&#39;m an ESL teacher, the homework was to draw the items that were written, to check understanding, and the class was full of 5 year olds. One kids work was completed with some perfectly drawn pictures, in the style of the textbook they used. I straight up asked the kid in their native language if they drew it, they said no and proceeded to do some shockingly bad tracing of the alphabet in class. - __guy 12. Student couldn&rsquo;t explain one thing from his homework. - dryshampooforyou 13. His dad accidentally wrote his own name on the paper. I tortured the kid for a week by calling him by his dad&#39;s name. Ah good times. - Departure_Jaded 14. An essay the kid wrote about his dad being his hero. Went on to list all of the father&#39;s achievements, the stuff he did for his kid, and ending with &quot;my dad is super smart.&quot; - NicolasGirl 15. During quarantine, we have had to institute a no parents on the room with you who like you do schoolwork. The reason being a 16 year old girl and her mother would lie in bed together all class and the mother could be heard telling her daughter exactly what every answer was. I had the girl in previous years, and her homework was always leagues better than what she ever did in class, that explained a whole lot. - Ninajaraui666 16. Pretty easy to tell in art class. One day the student can&#39;t draw a square properly and the next day he comes in with a perfectly rendered 3 dimensional still life with depth and shading. - silverplating 

While it&#39;s normal for parents to want to help their children succeed in school, doing all the work for them is definitely not an ideal method...  There&#39;s always one kid who comes into class with pristine projects and posters that...