1. When you couldn’t even dream of skipping school, even if you were sick.
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Please now.
2. When everyone assumes you’re smart because your parents are academics.
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Okay…
3. When your parents’ students called them “Mrs.” or “Sir” in public.
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Ah, na wa.
4. When you had to leave the house as early as they did on weekdays.
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Especially if they worked in primary or secondary schools.
5. When people expected you to somehow want to be a teacher/lecture too.
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Are you alright in the head?
6. When their teacher friends tried to force you to be friends with their kids.
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LOL, no.
7. When you try to be lazy about your homework.
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Not even a little break?
8. When you felt even more pressure to get good grades, because education was always the most important thing in your family.
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Must. Not. Fail.
9. When you get a bad grade.
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I am homeless now.
10. And then you try to blame the bad grade on a teacher at school.
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They will not take that.
11. When your parents and your teachers bond over their professions.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472391313/nrgothu26uqj6begbiqu.png)
Stop!
12. After getting a B.Sc and you say you don’t want a Masters degree.
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God, please fix this child.
13. When you had to help them mark scripts.
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I didn’t sign up for this.
14. When you were always at various lessons because “learning never ends”.
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Kuku kill me.
15. Even now, you can’t go anywhere without someone recognizing your parent as their teacher/lecture.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472391382/xai13ixgjetgahyrfxlk.jpg)
Face your front abeg.