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Washington Post
5 days ago
- Sport
- Washington Post
H.S. sports superlatives: Best season, comeback, playoff run and more
Another school year has come to an end, meaning it's time to break out the yearbooks and wish your classmates a great summer. To capture some of the best moments from the past 10 months of high school sports, we turned to a yearbook tradition: superlatives. No, we didn't choose a class clown. But here are 10 categories after an exciting year.
Daily Telegraph
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Telegraph
'Disgusting': Mum reveals her son was uninvited to a birthday party after a late RSVP
Don't miss out on the headlines from Parenting. Followed categories will be added to My News. A mum says her child has been left heartbroken after he was invited to a birthday party. Only to be uninvited. Sarah shared her story on TikTok, revealing she 'honestly cannot believe' she even had to make the video in the first place. 'Put a finger down if one of your children got invited to a party, you text one of the parents on the invitation,' she begins. 'Bearing in mind it was a couple of weeks later because I'm crap at texting people to thank them for the invite.' The mother slammed the behaviour as 'disgusting' after her son was uninvited to a classmate's birthday party. Image: TikTok/ momof_4our RELATED: I'm asking my kid's teachers to do unpaid party admin "The parent lied" She explained how excited her son had been about the party and getting to spend time with his classmates outside of school. Only, the mother hosting the party responded with a text Sarah hadn't anticipated. 'They respond and say the party has now been cancelled,' she recounted. But that doesn't appear to have been true. 'This said party took place yesterday. All of my child's friends were texting him saying, 'Why aren't you at the party?' 'How come you're not here?' 'We wanna see you,'' she explained. Sarah and her son were hit with a cruel realisation. The party had gone ahead. 'The parent lied. Lied and said the party was cancelled,' she said. 'Why invite my child to a party if you're gonna pretend it's not on anymore? I just don't understand.' Want to join the family? Sign up to our Kidspot newsletter for more stories like this. "This is on you." As a result, her son was left feeling excluded and confused. 'They all go to the same school. What did you think was going to happen? My child was actually really upset yesterday and I think it's disgusting behaviour,' Sarah shared. The comment section was divided. Some sided with the host parent, arguing Sarah should have responded and RSVP'd sooner. 'Should have replied earlier. It's so annoying when parents don't text back for numbers and parents have to pay according to numbers. They probably meant your invite is cancelled because you didn't reply,' one commenter suggested. Another agreed: 'You replied weeks late. Maybe they felt bad saying they can no longer come so just said it's cancelled.' 'To be honest this is on you. It's infuriating that parents do not respond for weeks," a third added. RELATED: A mum skipped the RSVP: what she did next was pure entitlement However, others were quick to call the move cruel. 'Vileeeeeee! I'd [have] turned up at the party,' one parent said. 'That's not fair, like your son was never going to find out. People just need to be open and honest,' a second pointed out. One commenter even suggested confronting the mum directly: 'I would have had to text the mum and ask why she lied. I wouldn't be able to help myself." Originally published as 'Disgusting': Mum reveals her son was uninvited to a birthday party after a late RSVP text
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Group of fifth grade girls accused of plotting the murder of their classmate at U.S. school
Watch A group of 10 and 11-year-old girls were arrested in Arizona after allegedly plotting to stage the murder of a classmate as a suicide at the school.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
I couldn't wait to take my husband's name. I was so sick of people getting mine wrong.
My maiden name is Lee Kelly, and people used my names interchangeably. I was named after my maternal grandfather and given his last name as my middle name. When I got engaged, I was sure I'd be taking my future husband's name. "Kelly Lee!" chirped my 9th-grade algebra teacher during roll call, just as she had every day of the school year. But this time, a giggle rippled through the class. When Ms. Wade — a woman who brooked no nonsense — demanded to be let in on the joke, a classmate blurted out, "That's not her name!" My maiden name is Lee Kelly. I used to joke that I had two last names and two first names because people used my two names interchangeably. Since Lee is traditionally a man's name, and I am not a man, people would look at me, see my name, and automatically flip my name around. The male name was intentional. My parents named me after my maternal grandfather, who was sick when I was born and died when I was a year old. Carrying his name was an honor and a pain in my daily life. And I couldn't use my middle name to help bail me out. It was Pallardy, my grandfather's last name, giving me a full name that was all surnames. My family takes honorary naming very literally. So I was stuck being Kelly Lee. Kelly Lee could pop up anywhere — in school, mail, phone calls, or other interactions with strangers. Sometimes, I corrected the error. But a lot of the time, I didn't even bother. Even though the mistake drove me crazy, it didn't seem worth the energy to call out the other person. It got to the point that I responded to "Kelly" just as readily as I responded to "Lee." The only thing that would end my name duality was a legal name change. When my husband and I got engaged, I was 100% ready to take his name. I had no qualms about shedding my family identity. There were no feminist hesitations about the patriarchal expectation to subvert my identity for my husband's. I wasn't going to be Kelly Lee anymore. My husband's last name is O'Connell, and it was perfect. It wasn't weird or unattractive. When paired with my first name, it would have no unfortunate associations or sounds (think Lee Oswald or Lee Roy). And there was no way anyone would confuse it for a first name. I would never have to correct anyone about my name again. I would never be O'Connell Lee. In the 14 years I've been married, I haven't had to correct someone about my name once. I am always Lee, never Kelly. My ears don't prick up when I hear "Kelly" anymore, and I don't feel compelled to answer to any name besides my own. Strangely, I received a letter addressed to Kelley Lee O'Connell two years ago. When I took my husband's name, I followed the convention of making my maiden name my middle name, mostly so I had a female name somewhere in there. As soon as I saw that letter, I texted a photo to the high school friend who sat next to me in algebra, the one person who jokingly calls me Kelly Lee to this day. "She does exist!" I exclaimed. Weighed against all the problems in the world, having people get my name wrong is pretty insignificant. It was a minor irritation that never meaningfully impeded my day. What bothered me about it was that so many people were willing to initiate an interaction or a relationship with me based on an assumption of who I was or who they thought I should be. And that assumption was wrong. It would've been more refreshing and more generous to have them get curious about who I am, to explore whether my reality challenged their assumptions. Now that it's behind me, it's easy to consider my double name as a quirky blip from my past, compared to my present ease of always being Lee and never Kelly. People occasionally still assume I'm a man, so you can't win everything. Read the original article on Business Insider
Irish Times
04-06-2025
- General
- Irish Times
Leaving Cert diary: ‘My short story was story set in interwar Italy when communists and fascists battled it out'
For the past few months, I have been all about 'the zone'. The zone is a flow state that – if you're lucky – you get into when studying. It's a place where you think of nothing else but the task in front of you. You're barely conscious of anything going on around you, because you're so locked into what you're doing. Some of my classmates have different techniques, including one where they study intensely for 20 minutes and break for five. That doesn't work for me – I like to stay focused on one topic for longer. I find that it is more efficient and delivers better results. It's a space I have always been able to access, but I've only ever needed to be there for exams. READ MORE It's now been over two weeks since our graduation and final day of school and, since then, I've had little mental bandwidth to do anything much besides study. I've been putting in five or six hours a day, with the intensity ebbing and flowing. English paper one finally gave me a chance to put some of this to use. Funny thing about English paper one, though: it's not really a paper you can study for like other subjects. Instead, because the focus is on comprehension and writing, it is more of a skills test, and the only real way you can prepare is practice, read and plan. The paper itself was fairly standard, and there was nothing off the wall. Every year, the format is the same, with a choice of three comprehension questions based on a text, and a written section B where we have to respond to a particular prompt, like 'give a talk' or 'write a speech.' As for the personal writing, I always go for the short story, so I responded to the prompt about an ambitious but reckless character that causes a disaster, writing a story set in interwar Italy when communists and fascists battled it out. Most professional writers would do several drafts of a story to make it perfect. But, for English paper one, I have long since realised that the story doesn't have to be perfect. We have about ten minutes maximum to plan it, and less than an hour altogether to write it, so I focused on keeping the plot simple and not overly complicated, and focusing on key aspects like descriptive language and characterisation. The comprehensions were straightforward enough, while I also tackled a reflection about changing your mind and opinions on a topic. As for the rest of the exams, I got lucky with the spacing, as I have a four-day gap before chemistry, and then another seven-day-gap before applied maths, which is one of the final exams on the timetable. This will give me plenty of time to prepare. Then, just two days after I finally wrap up, I head to India on a family trip. I will barely have time to catch my breath. But, sure, I'll have plenty of time to sleep on the plane. Shreyash Shukla is a Leaving Cert student at Athlone Community College
