I had a parent send a frozen lunch with her son on a field trip to an aquarium. I had no idea until lunch in a grassy area next to the museum. The little boy brought me his lunch bag and told me, “My mom said to tell you to microwave this for 4 minutes.” I’d been teaching for 15 years and you just know when you’ve got parents like this in your class and come prepared.The opposite is true too, just told a friend in the next grade how lucky she is to get a certain kid. Her parents are the best! Cases of water when it’s hot in case kids forget theirs. Cleaning wipes monthly.Extra towels and amazingly, when she realized we were making things like rice crispy treats and soup in a crock pot in class as part of our lessons, she sent in grocery gift cards. Title 1 school, working class family, and honestly the best ever.
I worked at a Pre- K at the time when a mom sent an unopened pack of ramen in a tupperware container. He got a regular lunch from the cafeteria that day. Who would do that to their 4 year old?
All the schools in our district are title 1. I wish I could send stuff in more regularly than I do, but I'm a full-time student and my husband is a teacher, so we don't have the money to send a lot in. I do make sure to send in/supply more expensive stuff ($20-$50) towards the end of the school year. Last year I was able to find some great deals and supplied my daughter's teacher with a class set of paints and Play-Doh. Another year I'd buy the teacher ink cartridges anytime hers needed to be replaced. It's not much, but it's something.
we're a low-income family on food stamps in a very upper-income school district so when there's class parties i make sure to sign up for the FOOD requests. i can't be buying field day t-shirts and booster club memberships but if you need 4 dozen cookies for valentine's day, i gotchu fam
@@dietotaku you aren’t alone, and schools shouldn’t be asking for parents to spend lots of money. Kids can get free lunches for field trips, most families just don’t want too. I work in Los Angeles unified and my parents are low income to lower middle class income. I’m so lucky to be here because we provide free breakfast and lunch during the school year and any family with elementary age kids can pick up two meals for them all summer long to any child who wants it regardless of income.
Yes. They are rare. I was like that when my kids were in school. I would have given if I knew that they needed so much. If I were a teacher my parents and I would have an understanding
So I am a counselor and a student left his necklace on my desk that contained his fathers ashes. Well… the necklace was broken and fell over and the ashes were on my desk! I found myself trying to put them back in the necklace while saying “excuse me, excuse me…. I’m so sorry sir” to the ashes 🤦🏾♀️
@niagara6015 It's just salts and tiny calcium chips - totally sterile. Everything complex that could rot or have germs in it was totally burned away during cremation.
I had a parent call and yell at me for talking about Santa as though he’s not real. Btw, I teach high school. People think these videos are fake. They’re really not.
I handled Santa in a way to which few could object, the one year I taught middle school history. I gave a lesson about “Saint Nicholas” who was indeed a real person known for his generosity in giving gifts to children and the poor! Of course, a few parents were bent out of joint anyway. One said I’d spoiled it for her 6th grade son in his last year of believing in Santa Claus. Another two accused me of proselytizing for the Catholic Church. They disputed St. Nicholas had been real, insisted the Church had invented him along with Jesus Christ, Mary, and the Jews had invented Moses, Abraham, Noah, etc.!!!
@@mariekatherine5238 This is how my parents broke the news to us. They said Santa was a real guy, just not a fat guy in the North Pole with elves and flying reindeer. He gave gifts to people and helped a lot of people, so we honor him and the spirit of God's love by "being" him for Christmas, when we give gifts. In this way, Santa is real; he is just "us."
Had a parent ask me if I could drop her son off at the dentist 😮 had another ask if she could borrow a couple of dollars till payday 😲 had another ask me if I would pick her children up an hour earlier than usual the next morning because they needed to be at school an hour earlier to catch the bus for a field trip 😲😲 no ma’am YOU have to drive them there earlier ☹️ This is a yellow bus not a yellow cab and no I can’t float you a payday loan 🫤
I enjoyed working with my students, (mostly!), for 39 years, but clips like these make me SO very happy I’m now retired. My most sincere good wishes to all those still in teaching - you deserve plaudits, pay rises and power naps!
Ok, I have seriously asked my kids' teachers to keep something from them, though. But at this point, it's become a social experiment. I really want to know at what point he learns that ear worms are not real.
Actually....they were real but the myths have it wrong. It was the Elasmotherium sibiricum which died out about 350,000 years ago. They are often referred to as the Siberian Unicorn.
I would rather pretend that unicorns exist than accept some of the other requests!! Got 300 kids to care for in a lunch room and THAT one kid's mom wants us to microwave HIS lunch!!! THiNK, people, think!!
Oh, these requests are real! You'd be surprised what parents want teachers to do for THEIR kids! Sometimes, I think we should have another "kids learning from home" time, so parents remember how much they LOVED having all their children at home all day!😂😂😂😂
When I went to grad school for Social Work that was the same reason I didn’t want to specialize in Children and Families. I went in to Severe Mental Illness - much easier population to work with 😉
Loving the hair teacher talk vibe- y’all’s laughter is beyond infectious. Better take your kid on a cruise for summer so he can daydream that he’s there. 😅
I am 78 yrs old I spent my school years in Catholic schools staffed by nuns. I can just imagine their reactions if our parents came up with these requests! Thanks for the laughs, ladies.
The nuns who were my teachers in the 1950’s would have shut down these parents immediately! It wouldn’t have been a pretty sight! Frankly, I can’t imagine any parents daring to make such requests of them. Most of the nuns were good teachers, loving, if stern ladies who knew bs when they heard it and did not tolerate it, from anyone, students or their parents!
I have many friends who went to Catholic school and they laugh at the very thought of these scenarios. Good luck with that! One guy told me his nuns and Christian Brothers took an entire school of working class inner city kids and sent 90% of them to college. That didn't happen with coddling, my friends.
They out here thinking we are there to do just EVERYTHING! Not just teach the curriculum, psych evaluations, counselling, event planning, personal organisation, safety and first aid, games director…
Sadly this is how teaching is now. Ridiculous parents looking for handouts. Here is an example. Lion's club did free vision screening.A 5th grader was found to need prescription glasses. Lion's Club gave a free voucher. Parent got the glasses. Kid lost the glasses. Parent screaming at me saying I should pay for new glasses for her child since Lion's Club only gives 1 free pair per year. My reply, "Sorry, I can't because no one gives me free eyeglasses for my child and I don't have any extra money. The mom had mani/Pedi, colored hair with extensions, was sucking down soda from a single serve bottle, designer handbag, latest iPhone, etc. Entitlement. NOT my responsibility to pay her bills! Of course there are a few nice, normal parents but sadly most are craZy, entitled jerks.
@@cheriecallettaatcomcast4590 True that! Rule #1 Smile and say only positive things. A child with raging ADHD who never sits, never does work, etc. will be described on the report card comments like this, "Miguel's continuous enthusiasm for exploring the world around him is refreshing. He seeks to learn by doing and enjoys PE class...." Every child must shine. Parents can't handle hearing the truth. One student scored in the 2nd percentile on a standardized math test. Parents get told, "Miguel scored higher than 2% of students in his grade level " The reality is really that 98% of students scored higher than Miguel but we aren't allowed to say the truth this way.
@@happycook6737 I liked the ones ( private school) who casually would tell us to provide several weeks/months of "the work" because they were taking the family on an overseas vacation in the middle of the school year. If you could replicate everything that's done or experienced in a school day/week/month, by providing worksheets to take on vacation...why are we even sending them to school at all? Just give them worksheets to "make up the work." There are millions of encounters, moments, brain synapses that fire in very different ways when they are IN school with their peers and mentors..you cannot just replicate that with worksheets and 'makeup work' which always means the student is sitting there by him/herself and not interacting. Those requests used to make me shake my head.
@cheriecallettaatcomcast4590 Then there are those parents who want to know why I can't sit with their child and reteach whatever she missed while she was on the 10-day vacation. I politely told the parent that the rest of the class already learned this material, and no, I can't give them "busy work" while I tutor their child one-on-one in the back of the room. I offered to email them links for each lesson so they can help their child catch up (God bless Khan Academy and Mr. J!). Her response? "But don't you have the same lunch period as my daughter?"
I absolutely love the hilarious BFF energy you two share! My kids are grown, but I never would have disrespected their excellent, hard working, over burdened, under paid teachers like the parents in those letters. Super grateful to all the teachers out there! 💜💜💜
The problem is that these parents totally miss the fact that there are other children in the group. It’s the same in daycare. One parent doesn’t like park time, or library visits, out door time in the sun and all the other children are expected to lose that activity as well. I brutally ended that behaviour by stating that the child in question must be able to participate in all nornal activities in order to be accepted. While special needs child need to have the activities tweaked, a healthy child needs to live within groups. We can put butter on your noodles but we are not going to leave tomato sauce on the lunch for the group.
I had a parent tell me to change my classroom decor/theme (unicorns and rainbows 🦄) because her son did not like it. Same women told me to put Purell in his mouth to make him stop sucking his thumb. This was only September 😅
oh that poor child. i was that kid still sucking my thumb in school and NOTHING my mom tried worked. because it's a self-soothing behavior! and the one thing she never tried was COMFORTING ME.
Omg that is crazy! My oldest son is 24 now but when he was in the 5th grade the little country school he went to had a head lice out break and these poor teachers were treated like they themselves put the lice in their kids heads . These parents get rude ! If we just could listen and do the steps to get rid of them we all do it together it'll work. One little girl came back to school every day with lice . They had to send her home. No one wants to start this again. A class of 24 little kids they all have lice . Poor teachers. That same year my son broke his leg in gym class. The lice wasn't bad for us because I just shaved his head .the broken leg was 8 weeks of crutches /wheelchair his teacher helped every day. Teachers are amazing! I hate ppl being rude and loud . To tell you to change your decor because her son doesn't like it is a big opportunity missed on her part to teach him that he doesn't always get his way and life is still ok. 😂
I hope y'all stand up for yourselves. I have twins and they brought home their school tablets from kindergarten. I sent an email to her saying I didn't want them to bring them home. Talked to my kids about not bringing them home too. I get an email back from her saying that was fine and she was even willing to "fall on the sword" for me and say she was the one not allowing it. I told her she didn't need to do that and they already know it's me telling them. It left me wondering if parents seriously expected and asked her to do that.
The way people baby their teenagers today is thoroughly disgusting to me. Keeping track of your kid's period for her?? Are you out of your mind??? If you are old enough to get your period, you're old enough to mark the days on your calendar! Good grief
You guys are the best….needed this good laugh! Retired elementary teacher here….had a parent ask if she could provide softer toilet paper for her daughter, “the paper in the girls’ bathroom was so rough on her bottom”…kept the Charim in her locker (along with delicious snacks that she ate while pooping). Needless to say, she “needed” to go often. Humor IS the key to remaining sane!!!! Go ladies Go!! And please keep it up!!!!
I love these because I have a special friend who makes requests such as these. For example, she told her sons teacher that it was ok for him to wear his noise canceling headphones during class. She told her daughters teacher that her daughter needed a certificate at the end of the day saying something positive she did during school. This special friend has 5 kids, and she smothers them. She says they are autistic but her husband, who has a doctorate in education, says there is nothing wrong she is just a helicopter mom. He's a principal of the alternative school. He said that's where he expects his kids to end up.
You ladies are a mess. So hilarious. 🤣 I just don't get these parents with their ridiculous requests.😮 So outrageous. They must be from a different planet. Lord help them ( and you ladies too to get through these situations). Bless their hearts.
Our kindergarten dismissal gate keeps getting locked, and a few parents have said they're in a hurry and have asked if we can just throw their child over the fence. They ask with a straight face and are being completely serious. I'm like, absolutely, let me just yeet your child over the fence so I can be on the news.
My grandmother was a teacher, eventually had her own school. This is hilarious. Obviously parent orientation is needed. Children are not respecting the profession because parents are not respecting the profession and seem to lack actual parenting skills. OMG, I'm going to get a coffee and watch it again.
I was a slightly older college student and had to get a no contact through the school for a man I had two classes with who would NOT LEAVE ME ALONE. His parents were calling and emailing the professors and student conduct just YELLING at them to make me drop it 😭 Like y’all are asking that your GROWN son have permission to keep disturbing my peace
@@AprilCMango I had a parent (I was a film professor at a university) call and tell me that my tests were too hard and that her son and his girlfriend needed to be able to talk and share answers during the exam. Otherwise we wouldn't get a good grade. I also had one demand that I not show Alfred Hitchcock films in an Alfred Hitchcock class because the parents didn't like his films.
I've taught elementary school AND college. Fortunately, in college, our students are legal adults and we just forward their parents' nonsense to the Dean. Keep it up, and it's harassment. On the other hand, I had a few homeschool students in my college classes whose parents sent me brownies ❤- they couldn't have been more appreciative. Go figure.
Former bus driver here and my parents could come up with some crazy stuff. But there was a parent that would call me on the bad days and ask me if we were having school. I told her that she would find out before I did cause parents got notified before bus drivers in my town.
You two are hilarious. I worked in healthcare and a clients family wanted me to come to work on Thanksgiving in order to drive mother to their home and back for the holiday. I explained that I was the biller and wasn’t authorized to drive the facility van
You two are a hoot 😂! Unfortunately, some parents are clueless and not in touch with reality. Many years ago, I had a Kindergarten student who never handed in homework and never finished any of the readers I sent home for him to read. One morning early on in the school year, his mother came into the class 🙄and rudely interrupted the first lesson of the day to ask me about something. Because I had a class full of Kindergarten students waiting, I quickly mentioned to her that I had sent a hard copy of the information home with her child earlier that week in his homework folder, as well as detailed information in my weekly email.She claimed that her little darling said he never got homework and this was the first she’d heard of it. Again, I referred her to the weekly email that I sent out that outlined what we would be covered in each subject, as well as all homework information. She said she was busy and hadn’t had time to read the information.She was irate and told me that she wanted a DAILY report sent to her about her child’s progress. Oh, hang on…you don’t have time to read my weekly email, but I must now send a daily report! You have got to be joking right? Let’s not even mention the fact that she thought it was okay to interrupt my lesson with her ‘urgent, quick’ question and totally disregarded the fact that I said I wasn’t able to talk then because my students were waiting. As for chocolate fountains in a Kindergarten class, let’s not even go there🤣!!!! Sending regards from Australia🌺
@@ccubito The ‘homework’ given in Kindergarten (here in Australia, the average age is 5-6 year olds) was basically consolidation, for example, revising a few sight words that we learned during the week and mainly reading at their own level. All designed to take no more than a few minutes! This was a requirement of my school.
Lmao! Oh please Lord let there be a special place in heaven for all our wonderful teachers! Their treasure must be great in heaven! Thank you ladies for approaching the craziness of your job with laughter! Love y'all!
Teacher friend told me, she taught at a charter school, that the weekend before school started a group of moms came in during the weekend and completely changed her room. Decor, reading area, bulletin board, her desk accessories, everything! When confronted they stated they knew better that she did what her class needed (over ten years teaching that grade level). Luckily they hadn’t thrown anything away, boxed up everything nicely which was useful since they had to redo the room back to the original layout and had to attend a meeting of respecting boundaries. Excuse was all the kids had been in private school the year before, charter schools don’t charge tuition, and previous teachers welcomed their input and they should be grateful for all their experience. Not one of them had ever taught…..just room moms and etc. Thing is I knew some of the moms, I looked over at her and said you do knew they are going to be like this all year, yep they had suggestions all year long………would bring items for crafts, holidays etc, that weren’t planned. Planned field trips that weren’t scheduled, we didn’t think you would mind. I watched from a distance it was something to watch. I was so thankful I never taught k to 12.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS!!! Don't get me STARTED!!! "We pay, we call the shots AND assign the grades!! And the grades had BETTER BE ALL A's!!" or we'll get you fired... charming...
Years ago, my Mom taught home economics. One of my peers was going to France for half the year. My Mom gave her the assignment of writing a report about French food and dietary habits. Her parents thanked her for being the only teacher who gave her an assignment that dovetailed with her experience. Yes, this was a lot easier with junior high home ec than a lot of other subjects, but 'Janice" was an exceptional student in an ordinary school. If she'd only attended half the year, she'd still have pulled all As.
More commentary that's absolute gold! 😅😅😅 I've never been a teacher, but I was a party entertainer for years, so it's kinda close. I love this channel.
@@AielHeart Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it's not there. Except for money in a checking account. If you can't find that, it's just not there. :-)
Next time someone wants to talk about unicorns, you can talk about real unicorns: Indian Rhinoceros, Narwhal, Rhinoceros Beetle, Marlin, Giant Siberian Rhinoceros, Hawk Moth Caterpillar, Horned Screamer, Cassowary, Rhinoceros Auklet, Horned Guan.
Although I'm not a teacher, I can relate to grandpa being in a vacuum. Many, many years ago when I was in my early 20s and still lived at home, my grandmother moved in with us. She, of course, brought my grandfather's ashes in an urn. Right after she moved in, my mother noticed a dark stain on the carpet in grandma's bedroom. She was so mad. We were trying to figure out what it was when I had a thought.....OMG, I think that's grandpa! I then noticed that whatever she spilled on the carpet was spilled all the way down the stairs. Yes, grandma spilled some of grandpa's ashes on the carpet and on every stair. And, yes, we got out the vacuum and sucked him up. At this point in time, my grandfather had been gone for a really long time so this was actually a comical situation. When I tried to explain all of this to my father and sister I couldn't stop laughing. I finally got out "grandpa's in the vacuum". So, yeah, sometimes this can happen.
My ridiculous parent request to his homeroom teacher: Can you tell me how many students and adults are in J's advisory because he's telling me 6 kids and 3 adults and I can't imagine that's what it actually is. I'd like to send in brownies for Valentine's Day. Response from teacher: There are 18 students and 3 adults. I think he missed a few! (I teach in the same district about a block away and I know we don't have classrooms with 6 students and 3 adults!!)
I had a parent send a frozen lunch with her son on a field trip to an aquarium. I had no idea until lunch in a grassy area next to the museum. The little boy brought me his lunch bag and told me, “My mom said to tell you to microwave this for 4 minutes.” I’d been teaching for 15 years and you just know when you’ve got parents like this in your class and come prepared.The opposite is true too, just told a friend in the next grade how lucky she is to get a certain kid. Her parents are the best! Cases of water when it’s hot in case kids forget theirs. Cleaning wipes monthly.Extra towels and amazingly, when she realized we were making things like rice crispy treats and soup in a crock pot in class as part of our lessons, she sent in grocery gift cards. Title 1 school, working class family, and honestly the best ever.
I worked at a Pre- K at the time when a mom sent an unopened pack of ramen in a tupperware container. He got a regular lunch from the cafeteria that day. Who would do that to their 4 year old?
All the schools in our district are title 1. I wish I could send stuff in more regularly than I do, but I'm a full-time student and my husband is a teacher, so we don't have the money to send a lot in. I do make sure to send in/supply more expensive stuff ($20-$50) towards the end of the school year. Last year I was able to find some great deals and supplied my daughter's teacher with a class set of paints and Play-Doh. Another year I'd buy the teacher ink cartridges anytime hers needed to be replaced. It's not much, but it's something.
we're a low-income family on food stamps in a very upper-income school district so when there's class parties i make sure to sign up for the FOOD requests. i can't be buying field day t-shirts and booster club memberships but if you need 4 dozen cookies for valentine's day, i gotchu fam
@@dietotaku you aren’t alone, and schools shouldn’t be asking for parents to spend lots of money. Kids can get free lunches for field trips, most families just don’t want too. I work in Los Angeles unified and my parents are low income to lower middle class income. I’m so lucky to be here because we provide free breakfast and lunch during the school year and any family with elementary age kids can pick up two meals for them all summer long to any child who wants it regardless of income.
Yes. They are rare. I was like that when my kids were in school. I would have given if I knew that they needed so much. If I were a teacher my parents and I would have an understanding
Retired teacher here….I’m freee, I’m freeeeee. I’m off with the unicorns, skipping toward a chocolate fountains for adults only…..😂
Right on, sister! We are done with entitled emails!
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SAME! I cannot take one more year of clueless administration and entitled parents. Most of the kids are great though.
@@composing-chaos Agree 100%! When I retired, I missed the kids. Administration, a hell no.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Enjoy!
So I am a counselor and a student left his necklace on my desk that contained his fathers ashes. Well… the necklace was broken and fell over and the ashes were on my desk!
I found myself trying to put them back in the necklace while saying “excuse me, excuse me…. I’m so sorry sir” to the ashes 🤦🏾♀️
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That's sweet though ❤
You are a brave person. I would not have touched those ashes and I would have thrown out everything the ashes touched, including the desk.
@niagara6015 It's just salts and tiny calcium chips - totally sterile. Everything complex that could rot or have germs in it was totally burned away during cremation.
Ok, that would have been my last day on the job smh
I had a parent call and yell at me for talking about Santa as though he’s not real. Btw, I teach high school. People think these videos are fake. They’re really not.
The child hadn't figured it out for themselves...?
You should have kept your yap shut
I handled Santa in a way to which few could object, the one year I taught middle school history. I gave a lesson about “Saint Nicholas” who was indeed a real person known for his generosity in giving gifts to children and the poor! Of course, a few parents were bent out of joint anyway. One said I’d spoiled it for her 6th grade son in his last year of believing in Santa Claus. Another two accused me of proselytizing for the Catholic Church. They disputed St. Nicholas had been real, insisted the Church had invented him along with Jesus Christ, Mary, and the Jews had invented Moses, Abraham, Noah, etc.!!!
@@JaneAustenAteMyCatI bet he pretended to believe in Santa Claus so his parents wouldn't be disappointed!
@@mariekatherine5238 This is how my parents broke the news to us. They said Santa was a real guy, just not a fat guy in the North Pole with elves and flying reindeer. He gave gifts to people and helped a lot of people, so we honor him and the spirit of God's love by "being" him for Christmas, when we give gifts. In this way, Santa is real; he is just "us."
Omg. The energy you two put off is contagious. I couldn't stop smiling! 😂
School bus driver here, had parent ask if I could chase her son and catch him so he’d get on the bus!! NOPE
Just tell her : here’s a solution, get here before I do .
@@rogersepedaGreat response. 😂
@@TheIdeabaker 😂
Had a parent ask me if I could drop her son off at the dentist 😮 had another ask if she could borrow a couple of dollars till payday 😲 had another ask me if I would pick her children up an hour earlier than usual the next morning because they needed to be at school an hour earlier to catch the bus for a field trip 😲😲 no ma’am YOU have to drive them there earlier ☹️ This is a yellow bus not a yellow cab and no I can’t float you a payday loan 🫤
@@sunlite-jy6xy sounds like a bunch of parents can’t parent .
I enjoyed working with my students, (mostly!), for 39 years, but clips like these make me SO very happy I’m now retired.
My most sincere good wishes to all those still in teaching - you deserve plaudits, pay rises and power naps!
I love Grandpa's in the vacuum.
I literally screamed when you said the girl who believes in unicorns was in high school! No way! These were the best yet!
Ok, I have seriously asked my kids' teachers to keep something from them, though. But at this point, it's become a social experiment. I really want to know at what point he learns that ear worms are not real.
@@denverfamily1751 I had to explain to a child that ear worms are not real worms growing in his ear.
Actually....they were real but the myths have it wrong. It was the Elasmotherium sibiricum which died out about 350,000 years ago. They are often referred to as the Siberian Unicorn.
I would rather pretend that unicorns exist than accept some of the other requests!! Got 300 kids to care for in a lunch room and THAT one kid's mom wants us to microwave HIS lunch!!! THiNK, people, think!!
I swear the unicorn student was an ex student of mine. She throughly believed in unicorns, I believe until high school.
You two crack me up...the quick one liners paired with that laugh, oh man so funny xx
y'all Funny as hell!!😂😂😂
I think I would like to work around you two. You both sound like you would be the life of the party🎉
I was a teacher for over 30 years. These made me laugh til I cried.❤
Oh, these requests are real! You'd be surprised what parents want teachers to do for THEIR kids! Sometimes, I think we should have another "kids learning from home" time, so parents remember how much they LOVED having all their children at home all day!😂😂😂😂
A lot of our parents were still awful and unreasonable during that time.
As a teacher I have always said 'the kids are fine, it's the parents who are the problem'.
When I went to grad school for Social Work that was the same reason I didn’t want to specialize in Children and Families. I went in to Severe Mental Illness - much easier population to work with 😉
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We ALL say that, except Administration ties for being pains in the asses.
“The day is still young”! 😂😂😂
So like No!!!! Do your job Parents!!!!
Oh no he spilled the ashes!! Oh GOD it’s in the chocolate fountain!!!
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"I don't have to crush her dreams because she's already in the real world and that will crush her dreams" 🤣😂🤣😁😂
Loving the hair teacher talk vibe- y’all’s laughter is beyond infectious. Better take your kid on a cruise for summer so he can daydream that he’s there. 😅
You two are so funny! I couldn't stop laughing!
Operating a hot curling iron during this was a questionable idea at best. 😅
But funny 🤣
And doing hair in the dining room-
I am 78 yrs old I spent my school years in Catholic schools staffed by nuns. I can just imagine their reactions if our parents came up with these requests! Thanks for the laughs, ladies.
The nuns who were my teachers in the 1950’s would have shut down these parents immediately! It wouldn’t have been a pretty sight! Frankly, I can’t imagine any parents daring to make such requests of them. Most of the nuns were good teachers, loving, if stern ladies who knew bs when they heard it and did not tolerate it, from anyone, students or their parents!
I have many friends who went to Catholic school and they laugh at the very thought of these scenarios. Good luck with that! One guy told me his nuns and Christian Brothers took an entire school of working class inner city kids and sent 90% of them to college. That didn't happen with coddling, my friends.
We need more of you too together!!!
*you two
These will NEVER get old! I could watch these every day!
“Do you think you could pluck my daughter’s eyebrows?” 🤣. Ma’am, have you ever heard of a BEAUTY SALON?
They out here thinking we are there to do just EVERYTHING! Not just teach the curriculum, psych evaluations, counselling, event planning, personal organisation, safety and first aid, games director…
OMG, there cannot be 13 of these! This was the funniest thing I've seen or heard in QUITE a while. Ladies. You are hilarious.
God bless you real teachers. In all the yrs I talked to my son's teachers they never told me these stories. 😂
they don't want to get fired, Ma'am!! LOL
Sadly this is how teaching is now. Ridiculous parents looking for handouts. Here is an example. Lion's club did free vision screening.A 5th grader was found to need prescription glasses. Lion's Club gave a free voucher. Parent got the glasses. Kid lost the glasses. Parent screaming at me saying I should pay for new glasses for her child since Lion's Club only gives 1 free pair per year. My reply, "Sorry, I can't because no one gives me free eyeglasses for my child and I don't have any extra money. The mom had mani/Pedi, colored hair with extensions, was sucking down soda from a single serve bottle, designer handbag, latest iPhone, etc. Entitlement. NOT my responsibility to pay her bills! Of course there are a few nice, normal parents but sadly most are craZy, entitled jerks.
@@cheriecallettaatcomcast4590 True that! Rule #1 Smile and say only positive things. A child with raging ADHD who never sits, never does work, etc. will be described on the report card comments like this, "Miguel's continuous enthusiasm for exploring the world around him is refreshing. He seeks to learn by doing and enjoys PE class...." Every child must shine. Parents can't handle hearing the truth. One student scored in the 2nd percentile on a standardized math test. Parents get told, "Miguel scored higher than 2% of students in his grade level " The reality is really that 98% of students scored higher than Miguel but we aren't allowed to say the truth this way.
@@happycook6737 I liked the ones ( private school) who casually would tell us to provide several weeks/months of "the work" because they were taking the family on an overseas vacation in the middle of the school year. If you could replicate everything that's done or experienced in a school day/week/month, by providing worksheets to take on vacation...why are we even sending them to school at all? Just give them worksheets to "make up the work." There are millions of encounters, moments, brain synapses that fire in very different ways when they are IN school with their peers and mentors..you cannot just replicate that with worksheets and 'makeup work' which always means the student is sitting there by him/herself and not interacting. Those requests used to make me shake my head.
@cheriecallettaatcomcast4590 Then there are those parents who want to know why I can't sit with their child and reteach whatever she missed while she was on the 10-day vacation.
I politely told the parent that the rest of the class already learned this material, and no, I can't give them "busy work" while I tutor their child one-on-one in the back of the room. I offered to email them links for each lesson so they can help their child catch up (God bless Khan Academy and Mr. J!).
Her response? "But don't you have the same lunch period as my daughter?"
Your bestie has the BEST LAUGH! I was laughing off the stories, but her laugh made it hard for me to not LMAO!
You two are great together!!! I was peeing my pants!! Almost had to call the janitor 😂
I absolutely love the hilarious BFF energy you two share! My kids are grown, but I never would have disrespected their excellent, hard working, over burdened, under paid teachers like the parents in those letters. Super grateful to all the teachers out there! 💜💜💜
The problem is that these parents totally miss the fact that there are other children in the group. It’s the same in daycare. One parent doesn’t like park time, or library visits, out door time in the sun and all the other children are expected to lose that activity as well. I brutally ended that behaviour by stating that the child in question must be able to participate in all nornal activities in order to be accepted. While special needs child need to have the activities tweaked, a healthy child needs to live within groups. We can put butter on your noodles but we are not going to leave tomato sauce on the lunch for the group.
The requests are funny enough, but your friendship makes it even better. ❤
You are both hilarious! And you named the video correctly- RIDICULOUS! Parent Requests! Blessings on you both for the work that you do with the kids!
This duo have such chemistry
If a high-schooler believes in unicorns... it's safe to say her dreams have already been crushed and sent through the wood chipper! Ijs 🤷🏽♀️ 😮 😂
Can I be your friend? I’m not even a teacher… you just crack me up!
"I'm gonna have to disassociate." I think that says it all. Y'all are so funny.
I had a parent tell me to change my classroom decor/theme (unicorns and rainbows 🦄) because her son did not like it. Same women told me to put Purell in his mouth to make him stop sucking his thumb. This was only September 😅
Yikes!
oh that poor child. i was that kid still sucking my thumb in school and NOTHING my mom tried worked. because it's a self-soothing behavior! and the one thing she never tried was COMFORTING ME.
Omg that is crazy! My oldest son is 24 now but when he was in the 5th grade the little country school he went to had a head lice out break and these poor teachers were treated like they themselves put the lice in their kids heads . These parents get rude ! If we just could listen and do the steps to get rid of them we all do it together it'll work. One little girl came back to school every day with lice . They had to send her home. No one wants to start this again. A class of 24 little kids they all have lice . Poor teachers. That same year my son broke his leg in gym class. The lice wasn't bad for us because I just shaved his head .the broken leg was 8 weeks of crutches /wheelchair his teacher helped every day. Teachers are amazing! I hate ppl being rude and loud . To tell you to change your decor because her son doesn't like it is a big opportunity missed on her part to teach him that he doesn't always get his way and life is still ok. 😂
What?! Hand Sanitizer in his mouth...
I love Bree’s comebacks/teaponses😂
I loved the “bugger off”
I cried a hard listening to this. Just a nurse in school. Mad respect for y’all!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Seeing you laugh together throughout thr video made my day.❤
When I tell you I have not laughed this hard in a WHILE!! My whole block heard me 🤣 these parents are insane!
I hope y'all stand up for yourselves.
I have twins and they brought home their school tablets from kindergarten. I sent an email to her saying I didn't want them to bring them home. Talked to my kids about not bringing them home too. I get an email back from her saying that was fine and she was even willing to "fall on the sword" for me and say she was the one not allowing it. I told her she didn't need to do that and they already know it's me telling them. It left me wondering if parents seriously expected and asked her to do that.
I laughed with you ladies all the way through this...while shaking my head!
You two make my heart happy.
thank you for loving our kids enough to keep teaching and just let those parents fade into the background!
“The day is still young”-love y’all!
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The way people baby their teenagers today is thoroughly disgusting to me. Keeping track of your kid's period for her?? Are you out of your mind??? If you are old enough to get your period, you're old enough to mark the days on your calendar! Good grief
You guys are the best….needed this good laugh! Retired elementary teacher here….had a parent ask if she could provide softer toilet paper for her daughter, “the paper in the girls’ bathroom was so rough on her bottom”…kept the Charim in her locker (along with delicious snacks that she ate while pooping). Needless to say, she “needed” to go often. Humor IS the key to remaining sane!!!! Go ladies Go!! And please keep it up!!!!
Man, I teach secondary in Australia and I thought some of the parents at my school were pushing their luck. This is INSANE.
In the pit of my soul, I hope at least half are fake and testing the water. But then I remember that humanity is generally a disappointing species. 😭
As a teacher…can confirm
Understand now gen z are having kids
Nope, they're not.
@@sidious187 😞
I love these because I have a special friend who makes requests such as these. For example, she told her sons teacher that it was ok for him to wear his noise canceling headphones during class. She told her daughters teacher that her daughter needed a certificate at the end of the day saying something positive she did during school.
This special friend has 5 kids, and she smothers them. She says they are autistic but her husband, who has a doctorate in education, says there is nothing wrong she is just a helicopter mom. He's a principal of the alternative school. He said that's where he expects his kids to end up.
You girls are having too much fun
You ladies are a mess. So hilarious. 🤣 I just don't get these parents with their ridiculous requests.😮 So outrageous. They must be from a different planet. Lord help them ( and you ladies too to get through these situations). Bless their hearts.
Our kindergarten dismissal gate keeps getting locked, and a few parents have said they're in a hurry and have asked if we can just throw their child over the fence. They ask with a straight face and are being completely serious. I'm like, absolutely, let me just yeet your child over the fence so I can be on the news.
Love you ladies and thank you for teaching
Y'all are too, too funny! I can't wait to tell all my teacher friends and relatives about you.
I appreciate how entertaining and full of beautiful friendship, joy and laughter this video was.
As a perant omg I feel sorry for the teacher's it takes a strong and brave person to teach our kids . Respect
My grandmother was a teacher, eventually had her own school. This is hilarious. Obviously parent orientation is needed. Children are not respecting the profession because parents are not respecting the profession and seem to lack actual parenting skills. OMG, I'm going to get a coffee and watch it again.
Trust me, some of these requests happen in college!!
I was a slightly older college student and had to get a no contact through the school for a man I had two classes with who would NOT LEAVE ME ALONE. His parents were calling and emailing the professors and student conduct just YELLING at them to make me drop it 😭 Like y’all are asking that your GROWN son have permission to keep disturbing my peace
@@AprilCMango I had a parent (I was a film professor at a university) call and tell me that my tests were too hard and that her son and his girlfriend needed to be able to talk and share answers during the exam. Otherwise we wouldn't get a good grade. I also had one demand that I not show Alfred Hitchcock films in an Alfred Hitchcock class because the parents didn't like his films.
What !!? 😂
I've taught elementary school AND college. Fortunately, in college, our students are legal adults and we just forward their parents' nonsense to the Dean. Keep it up, and it's harassment. On the other hand, I had a few homeschool students in my college classes whose parents sent me brownies ❤- they couldn't have been more appreciative. Go figure.
@@AprilCMango Been there. Straight to the Dean, my friend. Then to the law ASAP. Adult world, adult consequences.
Former bus driver here and my parents could come up with some crazy stuff. But there was a parent that would call me on the bad days and ask me if we were having school. I told her that she would find out before I did cause parents got notified before bus drivers in my town.
Y’all are hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. I have laughed so hard 😅
Thanks for the laughs and smiles. The two of you are hilarious. Blessings
Jaw hurts, so funny!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These videos are always funny, but you two together was hysterical! 😂
Can’t even finish because these are so outrageous! Had my fill as a teacher. What you all have to deal with is too much entitlement.
You two are awesome together! I laughed so hard! 🤩😂
The unicorn one had me, lol.
You guys are hilarious and those parents are unbelievable.
When I was an infant teacher I had a mom ask me to measure her child’s teeth every hour to track her teething progress
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These parents are lazy and ridiculous.
These parents sound like they need parenting themselves. Lol
Like how old are these parents? 18 and straight out of high school? 😂😂
You two are hilarious. I worked in healthcare and a clients family wanted me to come to work on Thanksgiving in order to drive mother to their home and back for the holiday. I explained that I was the biller and wasn’t authorized to drive the facility van
You two are a hoot 😂! Unfortunately, some parents are clueless and not in touch with reality. Many years ago, I had a Kindergarten student who never handed in homework and never finished any of the readers I sent home for him to read. One morning early on in the school year, his mother came into the class 🙄and rudely interrupted the first lesson of the day to ask me about something. Because I had a class full of Kindergarten students waiting, I quickly mentioned to her that I had sent a hard copy of the information home with her child earlier that week in his homework folder, as well as detailed information in my weekly email.She claimed that her little darling said he never got homework and this was the first she’d heard of it. Again, I referred her to the weekly email that I sent out that outlined what we would be covered in each subject, as well as all homework information. She said she was busy and hadn’t had time to read the information.She was irate and told me that she wanted a DAILY report sent to her about her child’s progress. Oh, hang on…you don’t have time to read my weekly email, but I must now send a daily report! You have got to be joking right? Let’s not even mention the fact that she thought it was okay to interrupt my lesson with her ‘urgent, quick’ question and totally disregarded the fact that I said I wasn’t able to talk then because my students were waiting. As for chocolate fountains in a Kindergarten class, let’s not even go there🤣!!!! Sending regards from Australia🌺
Why on earth are kindergarteners getting homework? Yes, I am a retired teacher (over 30 years in classroom). A full day in school is enough.
@@ccubito The ‘homework’ given in Kindergarten (here in Australia, the average age is 5-6 year olds) was basically consolidation, for example, revising a few sight words that we learned during the week and mainly reading at their own level. All designed to take no more than a few minutes! This was a requirement of my school.
I applause all the things that you guys do
Omg, y'all are hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing. 😂😂 Continue please.😁
Its safer to assume its never chocolate. It. Is. Never. Chocolate. 💩
I'm 68. I had wanted to be a teacher since I was 6 or 7. So HAPPY to retire from teacing 2 years ago.
I nearly lost it on the unicorn one. The girl's in high school and her mom asked the teacher to PRETEND unicorns exist!?
You all have me in stitches here 😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao! Oh please Lord let there be a special place in heaven for all our wonderful teachers! Their treasure must be great in heaven! Thank you ladies for approaching the craziness of your job with laughter! Love y'all!
I wish I had a bestie at work, like you two!!
You two have always been my favorite teachers to watch!
These requests made me scream out loud every time I heard them. I kept accidentally scaring my husband 😂
Its the wheeze laughing for me. 💀
I just LOVE YOU!!! I'm not a teacher, but I TOTALLY get this! LOL!
😂. I think this style for Ridiculous Requests would be hilarious. 2 teachers reacting just seems more hilarious.😂😂
Teacher friend told me, she taught at a charter school, that the weekend before school started a group of moms came in during the weekend and completely changed her room. Decor, reading area, bulletin board, her desk accessories, everything! When confronted they stated they knew better that she did what her class needed (over ten years teaching that grade level). Luckily they hadn’t thrown anything away, boxed up everything nicely which was useful since they had to redo the room back to the original layout and had to attend a meeting of respecting boundaries. Excuse was all the kids had been in private school the year before, charter schools don’t charge tuition, and previous teachers welcomed their input and they should be grateful for all their experience. Not one of them had ever taught…..just room moms and etc.
Thing is I knew some of the moms, I looked over at her and said you do knew they are going to be like this all year, yep they had suggestions all year long………would bring items for crafts, holidays etc, that weren’t planned. Planned field trips that weren’t scheduled, we didn’t think you would mind.
I watched from a distance it was something to watch. I was so thankful I never taught k to 12.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS!!! Don't get me STARTED!!! "We pay, we call the shots AND assign the grades!! And the grades had BETTER BE ALL A's!!" or we'll get you fired... charming...
Those moms are the ones who will decorate their kids' dorm rooms at college, too, I bet.
Australian here, hearing “bugger off” in an American accent was the highlight of my day.
Years ago, my Mom taught home economics. One of my peers was going to France for half the year. My Mom gave her the assignment of writing a report about French food and dietary habits. Her parents thanked her for being the only teacher who gave her an assignment that dovetailed with her experience. Yes, this was a lot easier with junior high home ec than a lot of other subjects, but 'Janice" was an exceptional student in an ordinary school. If she'd only attended half the year, she'd still have pulled all As.
This made my day. Couldn't stop laughing. You two are hilarious!
More commentary that's absolute gold! 😅😅😅 I've never been a teacher, but I was a party entertainer for years, so it's kinda close. I love this channel.
Retired teacher here. Kindergarten teachers absolutely go straight to heaven (no, I'm not one).
Seriously had a parent ask me to accept unicorns since there is no proof they don’t exist
It's impossible to prove the non-existence of something, isn't it?
XD this actually came up in one of my college science classes. The professor is the one who brought it up
@@AielHeart Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it's not there. Except for money in a checking account. If you can't find that, it's just not there. :-)
someone should be a friend enough to the mom and child to let them know it's fine to believe in unicorns but keep it to yourself. lol
Next time someone wants to talk about unicorns, you can talk about real unicorns: Indian Rhinoceros, Narwhal, Rhinoceros Beetle, Marlin, Giant Siberian Rhinoceros, Hawk Moth Caterpillar, Horned Screamer, Cassowary, Rhinoceros Auklet, Horned Guan.
What a treat to see you two together!
I love you too. You had so much fun that you absolutely had me rolling on the floor.
This video gets a thumbs up. It is sad that those requests are probably real, but funny as heck how both of you react to them.
I love having you two do this together. So funny!
Agreed! 100% they need to it like this from now on. So hilarious!
Yes, loved the two of them laughing together, felt like I was in the room with them.
Wow these ladies are a hoot! Thanx for the lmfao today.
The two of you together. 🤣❤
Although I'm not a teacher, I can relate to grandpa being in a vacuum. Many, many years ago when I was in my early 20s and still lived at home, my grandmother moved in with us. She, of course, brought my grandfather's ashes in an urn. Right after she moved in, my mother noticed a dark stain on the carpet in grandma's bedroom. She was so mad. We were trying to figure out what it was when I had a thought.....OMG, I think that's grandpa! I then noticed that whatever she spilled on the carpet was spilled all the way down the stairs. Yes, grandma spilled some of grandpa's ashes on the carpet and on every stair. And, yes, we got out the vacuum and sucked him up. At this point in time, my grandfather had been gone for a really long time so this was actually a comical situation. When I tried to explain all of this to my father and sister I couldn't stop laughing. I finally got out "grandpa's in the vacuum". So, yeah, sometimes this can happen.
My ridiculous parent request to his homeroom teacher: Can you tell me how many students and adults are in J's advisory because he's telling me 6 kids and 3 adults and I can't imagine that's what it actually is. I'd like to send in brownies for Valentine's Day. Response from teacher: There are 18 students and 3 adults. I think he missed a few! (I teach in the same district about a block away and I know we don't have classrooms with 6 students and 3 adults!!)
A classroom for students who are medically fragile and who have multiple disabilities could easily be a class of six students and three adults.
Yall are having to much fun 😂