I am currently taking Introduction to Python, my mom signed me up to learn on weekends cause my mom doesn’t want me like regular teenagers who waste time on weekends; basically, it’s coding and computer science. It’s a fairly moderately difficult course, and I only started getting better after Christmas.

So basically last week my teacher wasn’t in the classroom because she was helping with administrative stuff. This was last Tuesday when I did the assignment, which was building a chatbot. The substitute teacher played the wrong video. He played the advanced computer science video, so some directions I could’ve gotten weren’t given. We tried to tell him but he didn’t listen.

Fast forward to yesterday, I did the assignment and turned it in. I took around 10-15 minutes on it, which is quick for me, but I’d been practising my coding in my spare time.

So yesterday, the teacher brings up that if we cheated we’d get a zero. I found it weird that she even thought to bring this up seeing as my class and I are good kids (as in none of us talk back) I shrugged it off.

Then, I go to check my grade for it and see I got a 0. I’m like “wtf?” and start panicking. My friend who did an assignment similar to mine got a 20/20. So then I start panicking and then proceed to have a panic attack. My friend manages to calm me down, and I go to the teacher.

I ask her about it, and she was like “Your answer was exactly like the answer key. How?” And I’m like “I don’t know, I just did what the assignment told me to do.” She then accuses me of cheating, saying that I probably looked up the answers online. Which no, I didn’t. I have since checked my search history and found nothing relating to it. She says that I only took 10-15 minutes when I “couldn’t even do a variable and took 30 minutes to do that previously”. Which is untrue. Yes, I struggled with coding, but I’ve gotten better at it through practice.

After having no luck with her, I just take the L. I go home and tell my grandma, and she is beyond pissed that I would be accused of cheating. She offered to go to the school, but I told her no. She told me I need to stand up for myself.

Should I go back with my grandma? I don’t want to make her mad at me, but I also don’t like being accused of cheating when I really didn’t. I love coding, and I genuinely have been practising.

I’ll preface this by saying that I am a widower with 2 kids. I recently got back to work and since I work nightshifts, I had to get the kids a babysitter (they’re at school during the day and my sister stays with them) I was able to find a babysitter with the help of a co-worker and things have been going pretty well except for a few days ago.

The babysitter called me while I was at work to tell me that my 9-year-old daughter broke her glasses, I got home, heard both sides of the story and came to the conclusion that it was in fact an accident.

But the babysitter said my daughter broke them intentionally after she refused to let her outside late in the evening. I asked my 11-year-old daughter and she said the babysitter’s story is accurate but since she and her sister have always had a bad relationship, I figured she lied to set her sister up.

My 9 year old daughter cried and said she didn’t mean it and it was an accident. I apologized to the babysitter for the misunderstanding but she insisted there was no misunderstanding and then asked me to pay her for a pair of new glasses. I was taken aback by her request and told her I thought we talked this out and rolled it out as an accident but she insisted it wasn’t an accident.

I apologized but refused and said it was unfair to expect me to pay, especially since she didn’t pay attention to keeping her glasses safe regardless of whether it was an accident or not.

The babysitter argued with me then started crying swearing that my daughter broke them to get back at her. My 11-year-old daughter sided with her but my 9 year old said she is only siding with the babysitter for her own benefits.

The girls started fighting and I ended up telling the babysitter to leave. she got my co-worker involved and she said I should take responsibility and pay the babysitter for new glasses since she can not afford them being a broke uni student and in need of glasses. I apologized but refused to pay, my co-worker got upset and shamed me for condoning my younger daughter’s actions and treating the babysitter poorly when she’s the victim in this situation.

It’s been days and the babysitter is still wanting me to pay for new glasses but I feel like she’s trying to use the fact that I’m in dire need of help and is hoping to get extra money out of my pocket.