I am a retired public school teacher. When COVID 19 put the nation in lockdown, my son sent me this meme: "Thousands of American parents are about to discover that the teacher may not have been the problem." There is a God, after all.
As a kg teacher in Saudi Arabia…i agree 100%. Yet these parents still found ways to blame us teachers for their kids not learning during online lessons🤣🤣
I teach kindergarten. About a month or two after school shut down, I had a parent ask me if I would be willing to babysit her kid and his sister so she and husband could have a date night....I had to find a polite way to say “Nope!!!!”
A parent complained to the principal because I “was giving her daughter body image issues because you told her to eat all your food (lunch) so she could get big and strong”. Child was in preschool
@@ThunderStruck15 yes, I believe this. Only eat until you are full instead of eat everything on your plate. I was very skinny n my mom always made me over eat. She cooked big meals n hot breakfasts. Lots of pancakes n waffles n oatmeal with salt n ilk n sorghum n French toast, n etc...and every Betty Crocker dinner that you could imagine. Soup n sandwiches for lunch. It’s just too much fir little girls to eat. We weren’t allowed to chew bubble gum n very seldom allowed sugar. I hated breakfast, lunch and dinner n so much food. My favorites were eating the Concord grapes, mulberries, strawberries n cherry tomatoes n raspberries from outside in the yard while playing n drinking water from the well hand pump. I also ate from the garden. And when I ate this stuff n was even less hungry, I got into more trouble. Ugh. My husband and I had mostly boys n they loved to eat, they weren’t like me when they were little. If they didn’t truly like something they only had to take two bites just in case one day they might like it. Unless they gagged, I couldn’t make them eat. They loved to eat so we knew it was legitimate if they gagged. Our daughter didn’t like anything especially if you told her what it was. She would eat n like it but if you told her what it was she no longer liked it. LOL She hated sauerkraut. I would rinse it real well for her, then fry it n put meat n spice it up, n she never could tell what it was n would eat it like crazy, but one day someone spilled the beans n told her, she would not eat it anymore. LOL But she liked to eat but just picky. My kids weren’t thin like I was. Except the oldest but he ended up being 6’2” I dont remember exactly, but maybe taller, but he is very tall but he loved to eat. :) I think there’s a problem with foods these days, they are premade n filled with things making children crave more food n they seem to be more lethargic n heavier than kids in my day.
@@ThunderStruck15 but if theres a pattern... a kid can say they're full but come back later in 10 minutes and say they're hungry. There are cultures where its an insult if you do not eat all your food. That goes for adults too.
My teachers in middle school regularly lost my essays and the only reason anyone ever belied me is that afther it happing twice I started taking photos of every essay and homework I wrote.
@@joyceobeys6818 the odd thing is only my essays turned up lost and the teachers didn't disliked me either (they were even biased towards me since I was regarded as a promissing kid). It jus happens that every 10 essays I turned in 1 would go missing. Somewhere along the line I started delivering both a digital and physical copy of my essays and afther that no more odd things happed.
Every year I have at least one student who claims I am losing their essay drafts. I don’t collect them, they keep them in a folder and only take them out for conferencing, but whatever. “Take a picture as soon as you complete it,” I say. Coincidentally, the photographed essay is always identical to one of his or her classmate’s essays.🤨. I also have students accuse me of losing their final drafts…on the Google drive.
@@karenbean271 Not my case. From the second time it happened and ahead I would deliver both copies (physically and digitally) simultaneously. They never lost it again (at least not both copies). My luck is just like that. Sometimes people are just beeing "clever" by trying to cheat, but some people are not.
A parent once stormed into my classroom accusing me of not liking her daughter and being jealous of her child because her daughter was sitting alone. She proceeded to tell me that her daughter was the smartest child in the entire school and I didn’t deserve to have her in my class. She continued to hurl other insults before I had the chance to explain that the children who normally sit with her daughter were getting their breakfast and would be joining her daughter momentarily 🤦🏽♀️
@@PsychGirlRaven I hate to tell you this, but campuses in a major SoCal school district didn't enforce state Ed Codes that required nonstudents and unauthorized people to sign in at t h e office...until a disgruntled estranged husband came on campus and shot his teacher soon-to-be-ex wife.
OMG, I have been here. I was in the meeting with our headmaster, our principal and the two parents of a six grade girl. She was failing math and science because she was never in class. Her mother took her out of school so she could go to ice-skating lessons, and get her hair and nails done. In this meeting her mother looked at me and said I was failing her daughter in these courses because I hated her. She said I was possessed by demons and she wanted to lay hands on me and have everyone in the room pray to free me from my hateful demons. I gave extra time and energy to this young lady because I knew her family life was stressful but her mother did not believe that and all she could say was that I hated her daughter and I was possessed. My jaw was on the floor and I was absolutely astounded.
I teach preschool. Once, on a hot day we let the kids paint their arms and legs while outside during a big water play day. (The playground was completely shaded with trees and sunshades) At the end of the day as I was leaving, a parent called the classroom. He was extremely mad that his daughter had a 3rd degree sunburn on her arms and legs. Apparently, while at McDonald's another patron noticed and asked about it. As he yelled at me I remembered the pink paint left a little stain on the skin, but washed off easily in warm soapy water. I tried to explain it was just paint and how the kids painted themselves during water play and it would wash off in the bathtub. He said "I'm not an idiot...it's not paint sunburns don't wash off! I'm calling my lawyer" The next day her mother dropped her off. I asked "How's everything? Did her sunburn wash off?" She laughed and apologized for her husband, but he never said anything about it when he picked up. 😏 I hope his lawyer told him he really was an idiot.
At least he was worried about her being abused, ive know some adults that would complain "kids arent being properly disciplined in school, a whak of a ruler will set them straight"
This reminds me of when I worked in daycare I was a center float. This particular day I was working in a preschool room. We had a mom who sent her kids in Sunday’s best clothes. We changed him into play clothes before we did this painting thing. Well with this type of paint we had the purple paint would stain. Well guess which paint this kiddo used. It was allllllll over and the worst thing is it that it took a couple of baths to get the stains off. Thankfully mom was fairly good natured but kid had to go see grandma with some faded purple spots all over.
I’ve been retired since 2004 and just watching makes me want to be back in the classroom but only if I can have the room across the hall from you! Keep up the great work!
I once had a parent ask me if I was going to pay for her daughters very expensive boutique clothing because the little girl had paint stains on her top from art class. I told her that I would let the art teacher know to put a smock on her daughter in the future and that she might want to save the expensive boutique clothing for the weekend 🤦🏽♀️
I think I would be upset that I wasn’t told that they would be doing art class to be sure n have them wear something old. I would be upset also. I always bought the kids nice clothing n there’s no reason for a parent to have to replace ruined clothes from irresponsible teachers....unless the parents had been told then it’s on the parents.
First year of college my intro to education teacher successfully convinced me not to become an elementary teacher with the stories she told about parents- I switched my major
We were on the 4th day of remote learning this year and a parent emailed the educational director for the state to complain that her first grade child wasn't learning how to read and that the school was failing him. She also did not reach out to speak with me.
Me: "Great news, _____'s reading has really improved and he is now at grade level! All of our hard work is paying off" Parent: "Oh no, it has nothing to do with school. It's because I've been giving him celery juice before he goes to bed"
Lady, all that’s doing is giving him good poops in the mornin. Unless he reads his poops like tea leaves you’re just a little too bat shit for my personal space bubble. (Seriously though... if you need help in this area try the celery juice method)
I teach ancient world history in sixth grade. My first year teaching during a parent teacher conference with all of the teachers I tried to discuss that their son was failing my class. The father looked at me and said, “What do you teach again? Oh social studies?! Well that’s not important, no one cares about social studies. It’s not like he will ever use that. That’s not a real class so it doesn’t matter, we told him not to bother with your class.” I said well ok he’s still failing for the year and just let the other teachers talk. Most importantly he was wearing an ironic truckers hat, denim overalls, a muscle shirt, a toothpick in his mouth, and carried about 75 lbs extra weight in his stomach alone.
A mother in of one of my first classes told me that her daughter (1st grade) wanted to adopt me because I was cuter than her sister. She then asked me if I had parents.
@mimi Yes, I was the little girl's teacher. I'm pretty small so a lot of the parents of my kids think I'm adorable, apparently. I taught Grade 6 once. Yeah, my kids were taller than me.
This is so relatable haha! I once had the reincarnation of Martin Luther King in my kindergarten class... Their Psychic attended the teacher/parent meetings in school to explain the other children, teachers and parents how to deal with this boy. For example: he was never told what to do, because he was wiser than all of us.
I called a parent because she didn’t show up for her son’s IEP meeting, so I was going over what was said at the meeting with her and she went on a tangent about how maybe learning disabilities were caused by not getting enough vegetables when they’re little... um, sure, maybe..?
I was tasked with the delightful job of calling all the parents who's kids weren't on their live sessions this year. I called a third grader's mother, and I kid you not, her response was this: "Is he needed? He's very busy today" When I told her it was class, she yelled at me and repeated the question. I'd love to know what was on his schedule that was more important than his education.
Another favorite of mine was the winter party for parents I had...parents come up to my room for a fun day with their children. They help them do an art project, they play a game, have a photo station, and a snack spot. The parent attended. Their child threw up 4 times. Once in her hands! 🤦🏼♀️ Then, when the party was over proceeded to ask me: Can her child stay at school the rest of the day. Mmm, no. I mean, he threw up in your hands lady! No. 😂😂😂
Thank the RUclips algorithm for letting me find your channel!!!❤️ I’m the class mother that whispers jokes to my sons teacher just to make her laugh. Her job is hard so she needs it. During remote learning I’d send her outrageous notes on the school app. She said it helped her through the school year. I may have to steal some of these😂
@@happycook6737 Perhaps I should have stated I RETURN her msgs with my own. I NEVER contact her first. I too, am a professional and respectful of others work environments. My vacation time from the hospital is divided between volunteering at the school and summer fun. I have a handicapped child and see how hard his teachers work bc I am involved. Something many parents aren’t. I’m glad you got your feelings off your chest but it simply doesn’t apply in this situation. Have a nice day.
@@happycook6737 We adopted a child with hearing impairment due to nerve damage. He continues to lose hearing and in a few years the devices won’t help. I’m quite familiar with the IEP program due to this. The school can’t get funding or Roger mics unless he’s in IEP. I do not envy you. Teaching is something I know I don’t have the patience for. We did remote learning for the past year and it just reaffirmed it for me. I have great respect for all teachers for without them our child would not thrive. Good luck this coming year!
@@KYAmy-Hick Thanks. I love all my students and am a fierce advocate for them. Gallaudet University in Washington, DC is the world's only liberal arts college for the deaf. They have fantastic outreach programs and are cutting edge in terms of practice, adaptive devices, etc. Might be worth looking at. Sorry everything is a fight to get equipment, etc. Federal government mandates but doesn't fully fund. My friend and her husband moved to DC metro so their hard of hearing son could benefit from Fairfax County Public Schools and being near Gallaudet. He lost hearing as he grew older too. I wanted to teach deaf but I'm not very visual and my sign skills stink. I did 2 semesters as a grad student at Gallaudet and then switched to another uni. Rochester Institute of Technology is also quite famous for excellent work with HI, HoH & Deaf. Forgot to say- If your son is getting grades of C or better, he will not qualify for IEP due to hearing loss because the proof is 1)The student has a disability AND 2) the disability negatively impacts their academic performance and ability to learn. The STUPID federal law says to the average level which is grade of C. My argument is always but what if the student has intellectual capacity to get an A but due to impairment/disability is getting Cs? The other thing that happens is I support students so comprehensively they get all A's. Well then, at their next 3 year eval they won't qualify for sped services because they are more than functional. 😡 However the reason the gap closed was due to intensive support. So they are dismissed from sped services. Then their grades plummet below C but they have to go through the whole identification process which takes loads of time. If we had a magic wand...
You are hilarious!!!! A parent once asked ME why HER child wasn't completing HOMEWORK. I responded that I didn't know because I don't live with her. She was soooo pissed!!!!
A parent called to complain that her daughter wasn't making any progress in class. I reminded her that we had discussed the fact that her daughter fell asleep in class every single day, for hours at a time. The parent shrugged it off and said that the girl stayed up all night getting snacks and that there was nothing she could do about it. Apparently she wanted me to teach her kid at night.
My friend was raised by her gay dad and his partner after her mom died. One of her classmates friends mother was surprised that she is not allowed to use drugs, smoke or shoplift. She said:"but if she lives with two gays how come they dont let her?" She was also shocked that my friend goes to church and her dad is not even Christian. Like halloooo Lady! He's still her parent!
As the mom was walking out after a conference about her child's behavior, she states, "I should have adopted dogs instead of having kids." What can I say? I agree. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
I had a parent ask me why I was screaming. I was raising my voice because all the kids where running around during dinner and they where sassing back to everything I said I also just had a parent get mad at me for calling her and telling her she needed to come to the school because her child was having an allergic reaction. She came to the school absolutely livid and told me it is impossible for her child to ever get sick so I was lying.
As a Girl Scout leader I had parents who wanted me to babysit their daughters after the Friday scout meeting until school on Monday. I said oh sure but that as a babysitter I charged $30 an hour. Her mouth about hit the floor. I squashed that movement. After that parent left I had one come up to me and say, “ That’s good, I’ll remember that the next time she asked me again.” I asked what she asked the last time and she said she couldn’t because she had to may drug deliveries that day and she never got asked again. I said you’re such a hoot. Well I hope she was.
I had a student with Allergic conjunctivitis. His parent called to yell at me because he had pink eye (also known as conjunctivitis which can be bacterial or viral) and why didn’t I tell them? Um, well, number 1: I’m not a doctor 2: I don’t know when he’s having his allergic conjunctivitis vs what everyone else calls conjunctivitis, that is pink eye. How would I know the difference? His eyes are always red?! 🤷🏼♀️ Shouldn’t a parent be checking for these things? 🤷🏼♀️
Clairvoyant Parent: “I know what will happen if you don’t pass my child.” Teacher: “I am too! And your child is gonna fail if they don’t study :). Let alone go far in life.”
I used to work at a high school as a secretary in the principal's office. We had one parent send her teenager to school, WITH AN ACTIVE CASE OF MEASLES, demanding we BABYSIT!!! The sick kid was sent straight back home. The Entitled Parent threatened to sue us! INSANE!!!!
On the first day of school, one little girl lined up with the rest of the class. As I prepared to close the classroom door, she stopped outside the classroom and started screaming. Loudly. Incessantly. Turns out, her parents wanted her in a class whose teacher reflected the language and ethnicity of that family and demanded she be moved as I was "mean" to their daughter. Mind you, it was the first day of school and classes hadn't even started yet. No room in any other class for her, though. I traded her off for the most unruly kid on a teammate's roster. It was a nightmare year for both of us. Gotta love SoCal!!!
I don't even have kids, or work at a school. But I was working for a theater as a Costume Designer and we had a few kids in the show and yeah, during rehearsal one of the kid's fathers came up to me and said I should really consider breast reduction so I would be taken seriously as a professional, and also not be a distraction around his kid. Pretty sure I'm not the one with the problem good sir....
I teach middle school and a 7th grader decided it was a good idea to bring a taser to school. She brought it in her backpack and I didn’t know she had it. She took it out and another kid took it from her and engaged it. Obviously, I took care of the situation but the mother of the kid who grabbed the taser demanded I talk to her while I was teaching another class that day. She asked me why I let kids pass around tasers in class. I calmly explained to her that we don’t let kids “pass around” tasers in class. 🤦🏼♀️ These parents believe everything their kids say.
A parent once told me that her fifth grader was having problems with constipation. She told me that I would need to go in and "check", every time he used the restroom, and let her know if he had been successful.
I used to tell parents that I promised not to believe everything their kids tell me about them, if they promise not to believe everything their kids say about me. It worked.
I had a parent complain to the school because I gave her 12 year old child ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ to read. She said I was “corrupting” the child’s “soul” because some of the characters in the book swear. My boss had my back - she pointed out that kids in the playground swear all the time. The mother then gave up complaining to us and instead sent a letter to the PUBLISHER of the book, asking them to stop printing it in a “child friendly cover”. Yikesarama.
I read the book for summer reading going into 10th grade (so 15 years old). It absolutely drove me insane with all the details. I got to the cow part and was ready to take the F
@@celticcheetah6371 A friend of mine has this book (she's a teacher), I read it and was about ready to beat the main character, his behavior was driving me nuts then my buddy was like "you dork, the kid is autistic." Whoops...ok...my bad. LOL
Our family are all against foul mouthed disgusting vulgarity n anyone who speaks barbaric should be sent home. That’s what is wrong with this world, the teachers don’t even know better or care. I’m fully against having children read or have to listen to vulgarity. The Bible teaches to control ourselves n not to allow any unwholesome speech or coarse jesting n joking to come out of our mouths. We fully believe this whole heartedly ...n we would be a parents that would stand against inappropriate and foul language also. We had honor roll children that also do not like the foul n vulgar speech to this day. Our children wrote the word blaspheme on papers n tests that were wrong headed thinking. And our grandchildren don’t like it either. They have people put a quarter in the inappropriate speech box if they say bad things, like calling someone the word “stupid n etc... It is a corruption of the souls of children and the adults. So sad. :(
I had a parent complain to my principal less then 2 weeks before the end of the school year, that I hadn't informed them that their child was doing so poorly in my class. The student had a B. I pulled out and sent a copy of all of the signed newsletters that I sent out weekly with a grade report attached, for that quarter. Yes, I sent home personalized newsletters weekly, for parents to sign, that included a personalized copy of the student's gradebook, what assignments they could still turn in and which assignments they could correct for additional points. All work was available online in case a student "forgot" their work at school. The parent in question verified that it was indeed her signature on the newsletters. I had been concerned that the student had someone else sign for the parent. But no, the signatures were genuine. The parent then stated that she signed them but never read them, so they shouldn't count. My Vice Principal took me into her office and privately said that she wasn't sure that (verified) written contacts counted. . .
I worked in a preschool classroom and had just clocked out for the day. When I went to my room for my stuff, I noticed a scuffle between 2 children. I alerted the teacher in the room and found out what happened. A child, K, had given the kids some necklaces from dramatic play. I said, “That was nice, K.” His mother was walking down the hallway and thought I said “Thanks to you, K” because I put the necklaces away. She put her son in the car, came back inside and confronted me in the hallway. She is at least 6 feet all and was wearing heels, I am 5 foot 3. She refused to listen to my explanation and kept screaming at me. I cried and finally admitted I said what she heard so she’d go away. There was another parent in the room when I was talking to the kids. Why would I be nasty to a child in front of a parent and another teacher? I avoided her for the rest of the year.
@@Freiya2011 Because I didn’t want to lose my job. This mother was a big time complainer. I don’t do well with confrontation. The next morning I went to the director and had my coworker back me up. Also, I lived 45 minutes away and just wanted to go home.
As a student I had a number of teachers tell me I was trash and a prison child. Maybe one or two teachers have actually given an f about me. Seeing these teachers on RUclips gives me hope for the world.
I mean, I kinda get where the mum with the kid having dreams was coming from - little kids often don't have the vocab to express problems they're having with adults, and even when they do, they sometimes worry they'll get in trouble if they're too direct about them. She might've assumed the 'dreams' were the girl's way of trying to convey that she was scared of her teacher. Now, if the girl were in middle or high school or something, then yeah, overprotective mum.
I worked as an aid in schools across our district and a kindergartener WITH A MUSTACHE would hit on me and tell me I looked nice, I smelled good, he liked my hair, invited me to swing with him at recess often, and eventually asked me to meet him at McDonald’s to play. He acted like a tiny grown man. But he was a kind boy. I think he was lacking maternal attention at home.
The most ridiculous I have heard: My daughter is extremely sensitive. Whenever she does something wrong, don’t punish her. It will traumatise her. Instead, accuse one of her classmates of the deed and punish him. It will teach her not to do that again.
My favorite was when I was working as a cashier in Toys R Us and this old man was going to buy a bike for his grandson. So he got the already assembled on off the the display because he didn't want to put it together himself. Our workers who put the bikes together get paid a commission and that bike on display cost more than the bike in the box. So he threw a fit and told the manager to take the bike apart and throw it in the box so he won't have to pay the assembly fee. But my manager told that it would not matter because he still will get charged even if they disassemble it. So the guy told his crying grandson that it was the store that ruined his birthday.
Middle school teacher here. Back to School Night. Male comes in my classroom and asks, “How is my wife doing in art?” 7th grader was married but was actually older since she flunked a grade.😂
I haven’t read your quotes yet because I just saw this, but I was middle and high school math and science teacher and I can’t even begin to tell people about the stuff parents say and want. It is mind blowing and exhausting.
103 degree day in the desert southwest. I get yelled at by a parent because I sent her child to the nurse for a t-shirt. The little boy had been sent to school that day in a black sweatshirt and black sweatpants. Her comment "Well these are new clothes from his 'uncle!'"
I had a parent start yelling during an ESE staffing meeting because we were explaining to her all of the studies and tests we did and weren't getting to the IEP fast enough. She was very upset that we didn't classify her son and stepson as having emotional behavioral disorders. Neither child had them, both were struggling because she sporadically gave them their ADHD meds and their bodies couldn't handle going on and off meds constantly.
My boss has told me to "make this right," via the guidance counselor. This was over a kid who did not even hand in over 120 points of assignments, and claimed that he did them. He didnt.
LOVE the quotes from Judge Judy! There was one case where a plaintiff was suing because a group pf teenagers had cut school, broke into her house while she was at work, and vandalized everything she owned! The parent of one of the defendants couldn't understand why the plaintiff couldn't just suck it up and get over it! Judge Judy told the Entitled Parent that she will be visiting her son in Big Boy Jail!
A parent of one of my 7th graders said: her daughter was worried about her poor grade on her maths test. Could I give her tutoring at lunchtimes because she (parent) didn’t have time....🤦🏻♀️ I politely said NO and set up some extra work for her on an online maths program... which the student never engaged with 🙄
The first wild classroom parent quote/request was from a father of a student. He shared that his son (a 7th grader) had a crush on me. The father then suggested that I go out on a date with him to show his son that he's "still got it." He also said that if it all worked out, his son would have built-in homework help for the rest of his life. Um, no thank you, sir.
@@patmccoy8758 No, the father was trying to get me to go out on a date with him (the father). I don't know why he thought that it was appropriate for the 40-something-year-old man to hit on his son's teacher during a TEAM teacher conference (5 other teachers were present to discuss his son's academics)...and I have no clue why he thought that a 21-year-old would be swooning after finding out that he wanted me to just be "homework help" down the line. Ridiculous!
I'm a figure skating teacher, I usually work with small children. Around the time I started working I was 17, there was a 4 or 5 year old who did not want to come on the ice with me and was balling her eyes out because her parents couldn't come with her. I still had a bunch of kids to teach and keep them from screaming at eachother, so I had no choice but to give her back to her parents and tell them she could just watch the class today. The mom then asked if her daughter could have one of the pushers (they're basically sliding walkers to help skate) for class, which I answered no because otherwise the kid would not really be learning. Later that day my boss received an angry email from the mother, all about how I was rude and cursing at her, and how a 13 year old should not be working with children and demanding I be fired. Yes, I do look younger for my age, but I was trying to be as polite as I could, and she was very nice until I refused to give her a pusher. Like, Lady, I don't make the rules
I'm not a teacher, but I was called into the principals office because my son made another child cry. We are not Christian and one of my son's classmates was evangelizing during recess and he told the story of Adam and Eve and when he was done my son politely raised his hand and asked the child, well who did Adam and Eve's children marry when they grew up? Because if they were the only family that is really gross. The kid became hysterical and I ended up in the principal's office telling this kids Mom my child wasn't wrong with his question or thoughts on her child's story. Teacher and principal almost exploded trying not to laugh at the situation 🤗😜😂
We took a 3-day trip and I had a parent who did not attend any meetings prior to the trip, but still wanted her daughter to go. During the trip, the student got her period. After the trip, I got called to the principal's office because the parent blamed me for the daughter getting her period and said that I should have provided her with sanitary Napkins and caused her undue stress because she smelled. I reminded the principal that we went over this in the meeting that the parent didn't attend, and the chaperones would have personal hygiene items. The principal said she then pulled up the meeting agenda and handed it to the mom who still wanted to argue why it was the school's fault 🤦🏽♀️.
During my first year of teaching a parent called and told me that I had ruined her 8th grade daughter's whole life. I talked to the principal about it and she said, to my dismay, "Well that could be true....... but it can't be her whole life because last year Miss Jones ruined her life. :-) A little back story is that during the school year the girl discovered that her older "sister" was really her mother. Yep, whatever I said was the big trauma.
I subbed for a few weeks in a class (7th grade). I discovered a self made 'shank' on one of the boys. It wasn't a very effective shank because it was made of a pencil, an arrow point and some loom bands, but nonetheless I gave him a stern talking to. I told his mother about it and made clear that this kind of stuff was not tolerated in school. I later overheard her saying to her son "I told you to only make these at home and not to take them to school!"
Years ago, my first graders were agog over new movie Beetle Juice. After a bit, I told them about the star, Betelgeuse. The next morning 4 parents were waiting at the door - to ask if it were really true!!!
I teach high school Spanish. My first year teaching was also the same year Señorita by Justin Timberlake came out. I was 22 years old, first back to school night. A parent (WITH HIS WIFE AT HIS SIDE) came up to me and shook my hand. He said “I can see why J likes Spanish so much.” As he looked me up and down. Then he started singing Señorita as he walked into my classroom. The wife just smiled. I wanted to shrivel away and take a shower.
PTC meeting, first grade: Teacher: I have nothing bad to say about your daughter. But! I am trying to teach her the correct colors of trees. Teacher shows beautiful paintings of a rainbow tree outside the classroom! Parents: Mom's reaction 🤭 she's kidding, right? hunnay? Dad's reaction 😬 don't think so...
I talked to a mom about her 7 yrs old kid, who had spent the last 3 lessons saying random bad words. They weren’t insults, they were more smt like “F*ck I don’t understand anything! “ or “l can’t find that f*cking pencil..”. His mom answered me “damn, I told him that he can say swear when he’s mad, but only at home, not in public! I’m sorry! M., apologize!”. Well..Uhm...
I have a tattoo on the back of my shoulder. At meet the teacher day, I was wearing a shirt that was scoop necked shirt and you could see the top edge of the tattoo. The parent wanted her child taken out of my class, because KG teachers shouldn't have tattoos... because this is a poor example to children. The parent had both arms sleeved in tattoos.
Former preschool teacher here still thinking about, "If I see one grain of sand on her at the end of the day, I'm sending you the cleaner's bill." She was not allowed to play and get dirty in the slightest. A separate outfit for eating "in case she gets messy." AND.... another parent, "If you take him overnight so I can go on a date, I'll get you drunk on Saturday night."
A parent told me ( Special Education Paraeducator) that I shouldn't take my student with Downs Syndrome into her childs General Education classroom because my student made her child sad and was a distraction to the others because my student had "special" " entitled " privileges the other kids didn't get. I said you mean accommodations. She then ranted about fairness until the principal intervened.
in 5th grade we had a breakfast the day before winter break and a parent told me i couldn't sit with my friend because she didn't like how she arranged her plate
After calling a parent in for a conference, her child had been bulling other kids, mom came in, zeroed in on her kid and started slapping and hitting her while yelling “ didn’t I tell you not to hit other children at schools?!!!
Of course areas of the country vary, but in my hometown, full time Walmart managers are making in the low $40s. My elementary school teacher friends are in the high 30’s/low 40’s. I’m glad to know that’s not a fair assessment in your area.
0:57 During a parents-teachers -students meeting a mom complained to me that I assigned so difficult math homework that even her son's tutor couldn't figure out. I answered to hire a more prepared tutor 😂
My co teacher (Pre-k) came to school the other day high. She was complaining about how tired she was with puffy eyes. I asked her if she was high. She said no of course not. As if she hasn't told me she smoked pot! Anyway! She then went outside and fell asleep on recess duty.!
There was this one time I spoke to a parent about their child's progess and how buying exercise books to practice would be a good idea. He looks at me and said "I don't have time for my child. Maybe google it for me and then let me know the book list". He said that in front of his child....🙄
@@DominicNJ73 preschool teachers are professionals too and absolutely deserve more than 8.00/hr. That’s ridiculous. Many preschool teachers I have met have degrees as well.
Student teaching fifth graders on a field trip to Gettysburg. Many parent chaperones allowed. The whole class was posing for a picture. One child just won’t stay still, I hear his classmate next to him tell him to cut it out a few times but he wasn’t stopping. So I said “(Name), can you try to stay still for just a minute?” Cue the student’s mom jumping down my throat before I could blink. “No he won’t! And all of us parents have had just enough of you.” By Monday, she had emailed the principal trying to get me fired from student teaching with only two weeks before I graduated and left. I wished I had told her that if her kid can’t stand still for thirty seconds, maybe he shouldn’t be in the picture.
and parents do NOT have enough respect for them. You know that i saw an interview sith scandanavian parents and they were all like, i would never question my child's teacher. They are professionals and I have ZERO training in teaching. They are the best people to handle this and so i would never interfer. WOW! what is wrong in america??
I taught gym at a preschool. A mom found out I was getting divorced. She said she wanted to leave her husband and we should get a place together. I declined. Our daughters were 4 and in class together. Her daughter walked up to mine and tried to show her something. My daughter buried her head in my leg. I told the little girl my daughter was being a little shy that day. The mom the demanded I be fired because my daughter was bullying hers. When she was told no, she asked if the grandma could come sit in my class to make sure my daughter or I didn’t do anything to her daughter.
Look.... I had a dream in 1st or 2nd grade that my teacher built a basement under the end of a playground slide where she trapped children until she was ready to eat them and then displayed their bones on the coat hooks in the hallway... no one pulled me out of the class
South Orange County, CA, elementary school. School secretary called Omar’s parents and asked why he hadn’t been in school the last couple of weeks (first day of school onward). Omar is 8 years old. The parents said that Omar had said that school didn’t start until some later date. Not true. School started two weeks ago. When will Omar be in school? On said later date because Omar said so.
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I am a retired public school teacher. When COVID 19 put the nation in lockdown, my son sent me this meme: "Thousands of American parents are about to discover that the teacher may not have been the problem." There is a God, after all.
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Amen!!!
You can say "millions". It's the same everywhere.
I don't think French parents were ready for what came to them (as we say in France : CHEH !)
As a kg teacher in Saudi Arabia…i agree 100%. Yet these parents still found ways to blame us teachers for their kids not learning during online lessons🤣🤣
And some will reaffirm that the teacher IS the problem.
“Are you calling my kid a liar?!”
“I ain’t calling them a truther!”
lol , hello 2,000s kid
I can't remember where this is from
@@CherryBlossomBlyue it from drake and josh, he just changed me to kid
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@@watermelonxa9429 Not a reference I am familiar with. Thank you for the context.
“My son told me he would stop hitting other kids if I had a girlfriend” and then he WINKED AT ME
I teach kindergarten. About a month or two after school shut down, I had a parent ask me if I would be willing to babysit her kid and his sister so she and husband could have a date night....I had to find a polite way to say “Nope!!!!”
LMAO people are so wild.
I wouldn’t have bothered to find a polite way to say no !
A parent complained to the principal because I “was giving her daughter body image issues because you told her to eat all your food (lunch) so she could get big and strong”. Child was in preschool
Talk about projection!
I mean... she’s not wrong. “Clean plate” mentality is not a good habit to form. You eat until you’re full, then stop.
O_o what ...omg...
@@ThunderStruck15 yes, I believe this. Only eat until you are full instead of eat everything on your plate.
I was very skinny n my mom always made me over eat.
She cooked big meals n hot breakfasts.
Lots of pancakes n waffles n oatmeal with salt n ilk n sorghum n French toast, n etc...and every Betty Crocker dinner that you could imagine. Soup n sandwiches for lunch. It’s just too much fir little girls to eat. We weren’t allowed to chew bubble gum n very seldom allowed sugar.
I hated breakfast, lunch and dinner n so much food.
My favorites were eating the Concord grapes, mulberries, strawberries n cherry tomatoes n raspberries from outside in the yard while playing n drinking water from the well hand pump. I also ate from the garden. And when I ate this stuff n was even less hungry, I got into more trouble. Ugh.
My husband and I had mostly boys n they loved to eat, they weren’t like me when they were little. If they didn’t truly like something they only had to take two bites just in case one day they might like it. Unless they gagged, I couldn’t make them eat. They loved to eat so we knew it was legitimate if they gagged.
Our daughter didn’t like anything especially if you told her what it was. She would eat n like it but if you told her what it was she no longer liked it. LOL
She hated sauerkraut. I would rinse it real well for her, then fry it n put meat n spice it up, n she never could tell what it was n would eat it like crazy, but one day someone spilled the beans n told her, she would not eat it anymore. LOL But she liked to eat but just picky.
My kids weren’t thin like I was. Except the oldest but he ended up being 6’2” I dont remember exactly, but maybe taller, but he is very tall but he loved to eat. :)
I think there’s a problem with foods these days, they are premade n filled with things making children crave more food n they seem to be more lethargic n heavier than kids in my day.
@@ThunderStruck15 but if theres a pattern... a kid can say they're full but come back later in 10 minutes and say they're hungry. There are cultures where its an insult if you do not eat all your food. That goes for adults too.
My teachers in middle school regularly lost my essays and the only reason anyone ever belied me is that afther it happing twice I started taking photos of every essay and homework I wrote.
Get a signed receipt for everything you turn in 😅
Wow, I’m so sorry, not all teachers are good. Some are actually very bad n should not be teachers at all.
@@joyceobeys6818 the odd thing is only my essays turned up lost and the teachers didn't disliked me either (they were even biased towards me since I was regarded as a promissing kid). It jus happens that every 10 essays I turned in 1 would go missing. Somewhere along the line I started delivering both a digital and physical copy of my essays and afther that no more odd things happed.
Every year I have at least one student who claims I am losing their essay drafts. I don’t collect them, they keep them in a folder and only take them out for conferencing, but whatever. “Take a picture as soon as you complete it,” I say. Coincidentally, the photographed essay is always identical to one of his or her classmate’s essays.🤨. I also have students accuse me of losing their final drafts…on the Google drive.
@@karenbean271 Not my case. From the second time it happened and ahead I would deliver both copies (physically and digitally) simultaneously. They never lost it again (at least not both copies). My luck is just like that. Sometimes people are just beeing "clever" by trying to cheat, but some people are not.
A parent once stormed into my classroom accusing me of not liking her daughter and being jealous of her child because her daughter was sitting alone. She proceeded to tell me that her daughter was the smartest child in the entire school and I didn’t deserve to have her in my class. She continued to hurl other insults before I had the chance to explain that the children who normally sit with her daughter were getting their breakfast and would be joining her daughter momentarily 🤦🏽♀️
HOW did she get on campus?!? Do you not have a closed campus? That would terrify me given the climate of schools!
@@PsychGirlRaven I hate to tell you this, but campuses in a major SoCal school district didn't enforce state Ed Codes that required nonstudents and unauthorized people to sign in at t h e office...until a disgruntled estranged husband came on campus and shot his teacher soon-to-be-ex wife.
OMG, I have been here. I was in the meeting with our headmaster, our principal and the two parents of a six grade girl. She was failing math and science because she was never in class. Her mother took her out of school so she could go to ice-skating lessons, and get her hair and nails done. In this meeting her mother looked at me and said I was failing her daughter in these courses because I hated her. She said I was possessed by demons and she wanted to lay hands on me and have everyone in the room pray to free me from my hateful demons. I gave extra time and energy to this young lady because I knew her family life was stressful but her mother did not believe that and all she could say was that I hated her daughter and I was possessed. My jaw was on the floor and I was absolutely astounded.
@@brandi66RN Sounds like demon-talk to me.
I teach preschool. Once, on a hot day we let the kids paint their arms and legs while outside during a big water play day. (The playground was completely shaded with trees and sunshades) At the end of the day as I was leaving, a parent called the classroom. He was extremely mad that his daughter had a 3rd degree sunburn on her arms and legs. Apparently, while at McDonald's another patron noticed and asked about it. As he yelled at me I remembered the pink paint left a little stain on the skin, but washed off easily in warm soapy water. I tried to explain it was just paint and how the kids painted themselves during water play and it would wash off in the bathtub. He said "I'm not an idiot...it's not paint sunburns don't wash off! I'm calling my lawyer" The next day her mother dropped her off. I asked "How's everything? Did her sunburn wash off?" She laughed and apologized for her husband, but he never said anything about it when he picked up. 😏 I hope his lawyer told him he really was an idiot.
I had the pink paint sunburn in my class too! 😂😂😂
I also got yelled at for it too! 😂
@@kp4636 Really? 😅 How funny. Temporary Pepto Bismol pink sunburns are actually quite beautiful. 😁
At least he was worried about her being abused, ive know some adults that would complain "kids arent being properly disciplined in school, a whak of a ruler will set them straight"
This reminds me of when I worked in daycare I was a center float. This particular day I was working in a preschool room. We had a mom who sent her kids in Sunday’s best clothes. We changed him into play clothes before we did this painting thing. Well with this type of paint we had the purple paint would stain. Well guess which paint this kiddo used. It was allllllll over and the worst thing is it that it took a couple of baths to get the stains off. Thankfully mom was fairly good natured but kid had to go see grandma with some faded purple spots all over.
I’ve been retired since 2004 and just watching makes me want to be back in the classroom but only if I can have the room across the hall from you! Keep up the great work!
I once had a parent ask me if I was going to pay for her daughters very expensive boutique clothing because the little girl had paint stains on her top from art class. I told her that I would let the art teacher know to put a smock on her daughter in the future and that she might want to save the expensive boutique clothing for the weekend 🤦🏽♀️
"If you don't want it ruined, don't send it to school. "
I think I would be upset that I wasn’t told that they would be doing art class to be sure n have them wear something old. I would be upset also. I always bought the kids nice clothing n there’s no reason for a parent to have to replace ruined clothes from irresponsible teachers....unless the parents had been told then it’s on the parents.
@@joyceobeys6818 Yep. You sound crazy. Go get your kid a uniform and how about home schooling. We would really appreciate that!
@@dirigible806 ah, the snark without being funny. The lack of accountability. And y’all wonder why everyone hates teachers.
@@mariawaugh-clayton7978 same for you
First year of college my intro to education teacher successfully convinced me not to become an elementary teacher with the stories she told about parents- I switched my major
That’s funny! LOL
We were on the 4th day of remote learning this year and a parent emailed the educational director for the state to complain that her first grade child wasn't learning how to read and that the school was failing him. She also did not reach out to speak with me.
Me: "Great news, _____'s reading has really improved and he is now at grade level! All of our hard work is paying off"
Parent: "Oh no, it has nothing to do with school. It's because I've been giving him celery juice before he goes to bed"
Lady, all that’s doing is giving him good poops in the mornin. Unless he reads his poops like tea leaves you’re just a little too bat shit for my personal space bubble.
(Seriously though... if you need help in this area try the celery juice method)
@@marleefrancis1576 😂 Good Lord, this comment made me and my wife laugh so hard! 😆
@@davidottley2739 This whole, little comment thread has made me smile. Thank you all for the good feels. It seems in such short supply nowadays.
Ooooh- Kay then! 👍🏻👍🏻
I teach ancient world history in sixth grade. My first year teaching during a parent teacher conference with all of the teachers I tried to discuss that their son was failing my class. The father looked at me and said, “What do you teach again? Oh social studies?! Well that’s not important, no one cares about social studies. It’s not like he will ever use that. That’s not a real class so it doesn’t matter, we told him not to bother with your class.” I said well ok he’s still failing for the year and just let the other teachers talk.
Most importantly he was wearing an ironic truckers hat, denim overalls, a muscle shirt, a toothpick in his mouth, and carried about 75 lbs extra weight in his stomach alone.
🤣🤣🤣
A mother in of one of my first classes told me that her daughter (1st grade) wanted to adopt me because I was cuter than her sister. She then asked me if I had parents.
This has to win! 😂
@mimi Yes, I was the little girl's teacher. I'm pretty small so a lot of the parents of my kids think I'm adorable, apparently. I taught Grade 6 once. Yeah, my kids were taller than me.
@@saheliray20 Ha ha, it was one of those serious WTF moments. I wasn't sure she was joking.
I had a young student shocked to learn I could drive. Your Mommy didn’t drive you?
@@marti220 Ha ha, that's funny! So many of the little ones I taught thought I lived at school because I was always there when they arrived and left.
This is so relatable haha!
I once had the reincarnation of Martin Luther King in my kindergarten class... Their Psychic attended the teacher/parent meetings in school to explain the other children, teachers and parents how to deal with this boy.
For example: he was never told what to do, because he was wiser than all of us.
Call child services immediately! 😖
Oh my gosh!
Wow, just wow.
I called a parent because she didn’t show up for her son’s IEP meeting, so I was going over what was said at the meeting with her and she went on a tangent about how maybe learning disabilities were caused by not getting enough vegetables when they’re little... um, sure, maybe..?
I was tasked with the delightful job of calling all the parents who's kids weren't on their live sessions this year. I called a third grader's mother, and I kid you not, her response was this: "Is he needed? He's very busy today"
When I told her it was class, she yelled at me and repeated the question. I'd love to know what was on his schedule that was more important than his education.
Big Fish Games??
Another favorite of mine was the winter party for parents I had...parents come up to my room for a fun day with their children. They help them do an art project, they play a game, have a photo station, and a snack spot. The parent attended. Their child threw up 4 times. Once in her hands! 🤦🏼♀️
Then, when the party was over proceeded to ask me: Can her child stay at school the rest of the day. Mmm, no. I mean, he threw up in your hands lady! No. 😂😂😂
Thank the RUclips algorithm for letting me find your channel!!!❤️
I’m the class mother that whispers jokes to my sons teacher just to make her laugh. Her job is hard so she needs it. During remote learning I’d send her outrageous notes on the school app. She said it helped her through the school year. I may have to steal some of these😂
@@happycook6737 Perhaps I should have stated I RETURN her msgs with my own. I NEVER contact her first. I too, am a professional and respectful of others work environments. My vacation time from the hospital is divided between volunteering at the school and summer fun. I have a handicapped child and see how hard his teachers work bc I am involved. Something many parents aren’t. I’m glad you got your feelings off your chest but it simply doesn’t apply in this situation.
Have a nice day.
@@happycook6737 We adopted a child with hearing impairment due to nerve damage. He continues to lose hearing and in a few years the devices won’t help. I’m quite familiar with the IEP program due to this. The school can’t get funding or Roger mics unless he’s in IEP. I do not envy you. Teaching is something I know I don’t have the patience for. We did remote learning for the past year and it just reaffirmed it for me. I have great respect for all teachers for without them our child would not thrive.
Good luck this coming year!
@@KYAmy-Hick Thanks. I love all my students and am a fierce advocate for them. Gallaudet University in Washington, DC is the world's only liberal arts college for the deaf. They have fantastic outreach programs and are cutting edge in terms of practice, adaptive devices, etc. Might be worth looking at. Sorry everything is a fight to get equipment, etc. Federal government mandates but doesn't fully fund. My friend and her husband moved to DC metro so their hard of hearing son could benefit from Fairfax County Public Schools and being near Gallaudet. He lost hearing as he grew older too. I wanted to teach deaf but I'm not very visual and my sign skills stink. I did 2 semesters as a grad student at Gallaudet and then switched to another uni. Rochester Institute of Technology is also quite famous for excellent work with HI, HoH & Deaf. Forgot to say- If your son is getting grades of C or better, he will not qualify for IEP due to hearing loss because the proof is 1)The student has a disability AND 2) the disability negatively impacts their academic performance and ability to learn. The STUPID federal law says to the average level which is grade of C. My argument is always but what if the student has intellectual capacity to get an A but due to impairment/disability is getting Cs? The other thing that happens is I support students so comprehensively they get all A's. Well then, at their next 3 year eval they won't qualify for sped services because they are more than functional. 😡 However the reason the gap closed was due to intensive support. So they are dismissed from sped services. Then their grades plummet below C but they have to go through the whole identification process which takes loads of time. If we had a magic wand...
You are hilarious!!!! A parent once asked ME why HER child wasn't completing HOMEWORK. I responded that I didn't know because I don't live with her. She was soooo pissed!!!!
I had a parent tell me to stop teaching her child to read because “ he’s not gonna be smarter than me”
A parent called to complain that her daughter wasn't making any progress in class. I reminded her that we had discussed the fact that her daughter fell asleep in class every single day, for hours at a time. The parent shrugged it off and said that the girl stayed up all night getting snacks and that there was nothing she could do about it. Apparently she wanted me to teach her kid at night.
Mom was upset that we didnt tell her that the kids shoes were too tight . This came from left field we neither put on his shoes and he never tolds us
"I don't want my son to take tap dance, he might become a gay" yup a parent said that. I just looked at her and said "what?!"
My friend was raised by her gay dad and his partner after her mom died. One of her classmates friends mother was surprised that she is not allowed to use drugs, smoke or shoplift. She said:"but if she lives with two gays how come they dont let her?" She was also shocked that my friend goes to church and her dad is not even Christian. Like halloooo Lady! He's still her parent!
As the mom was walking out after a conference about her child's behavior, she states, "I should have adopted dogs instead of having kids."
What can I say? I agree. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
Omg, I would totally agree with this. I am an elementary teacher and also happily childfree!
I had a parent ask me why I was screaming. I was raising my voice because all the kids where running around during dinner and they where sassing back to everything I said
I also just had a parent get mad at me for calling her and telling her she needed to come to the school because her child was having an allergic reaction. She came to the school absolutely livid and told me it is impossible for her child to ever get sick so I was lying.
My class sizes were tiny so I only had to deal with one insane parent but she made up for the rest.
Bad apples...
As a Girl Scout leader I had parents who wanted me to babysit their daughters after the Friday scout meeting until school on Monday. I said oh sure but that as a babysitter I charged $30 an hour. Her mouth about hit the floor. I squashed that movement. After that parent left I had one come up to me and say, “ That’s good, I’ll remember that the next time she asked me again.” I asked what she asked the last time and she said she couldn’t because she had to may drug deliveries that day and she never got asked again. I said you’re such a hoot. Well I hope she was.
I had a student with Allergic conjunctivitis. His parent called to yell at me because he had pink eye (also known as conjunctivitis which can be bacterial or viral) and why didn’t I tell them? Um, well, number 1: I’m not a doctor
2: I don’t know when he’s having his allergic conjunctivitis vs what everyone else calls conjunctivitis, that is pink eye.
How would I know the difference? His eyes are always red?! 🤷🏼♀️
Shouldn’t a parent be checking for these things? 🤷🏼♀️
Clairvoyant Parent: “I know what will happen if you don’t pass my child.”
Teacher: “I am too! And your child is gonna fail if they don’t study :). Let alone go far in life.”
That was my thought-I can see that child's future...
That is the only acceptable comeback to that nonsense! 👏👏👏
This was so funny! You are hilarious! Thank you for the relatable humor! I love funny teacher stories! Lol
Makes me feel like I’m not alone! 🤦🏼♀️🤣
I used to work at a high school as a secretary in the principal's office. We had one parent send her teenager to school, WITH AN ACTIVE CASE OF MEASLES, demanding we BABYSIT!!! The sick kid was sent straight back home. The Entitled Parent threatened to sue us! INSANE!!!!
I would be looking for ways to get her in some legal hot water for endangering other students and staff! Ridiculous!
Oh, and the mom who insisted we stop our class curriculum and hold her daughter when she pooped because she needed the "moral supprt."
I'm sorry... ~hold~ her?! 😲
Ugh! H*** No! That's crazy!
On the first day of school, one little girl lined up with the rest of the class. As I prepared to close the classroom door, she stopped outside the classroom and started screaming. Loudly. Incessantly. Turns out, her parents wanted her in a class whose teacher reflected the language and ethnicity of that family and demanded she be moved as I was "mean" to their daughter. Mind you, it was the first day of school and classes hadn't even started yet. No room in any other class for her, though. I traded her off for the most unruly kid on a teammate's roster. It was a nightmare year for both of us. Gotta love SoCal!!!
I don't even have kids, or work at a school. But I was working for a theater as a Costume Designer and we had a few kids in the show and yeah, during rehearsal one of the kid's fathers came up to me and said I should really consider breast reduction so I would be taken seriously as a professional, and also not be a distraction around his kid. Pretty sure I'm not the one with the problem good sir....
Child social services needs to be present during all parent / teacher meetings now.
Identify the parents who need parenting lessons.
I teach middle school and a 7th grader decided it was a good idea to bring a taser to school. She brought it in her backpack and I didn’t know she had it. She took it out and another kid took it from her and engaged it. Obviously, I took care of the situation but the mother of the kid who grabbed the taser demanded I talk to her while I was teaching another class that day. She asked me why I let kids pass around tasers in class. I calmly explained to her that we don’t let kids “pass around” tasers in class. 🤦🏼♀️ These parents believe everything their kids say.
A parent once told me that her fifth grader was having problems with constipation. She told me that I would need to go in and "check", every time he used the restroom, and let her know if he had been successful.
I used to tell parents that I promised not to believe everything their kids tell me about them, if they promise not to believe everything their kids say about me. It worked.
I'll remember that one for ghe next parent-teacher conference!😂👍
My principal said that exact phrase every year at opening night to all the parents...
@@sarahmarie8701 sadly parents tend to forget....
I personally, fell in love with you Joe. I do. I really do.
Same
And me 😍
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I had a parent complain to the school because I gave her 12 year old child ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ to read. She said I was “corrupting” the child’s “soul” because some of the characters in the book swear. My boss had my back - she pointed out that kids in the playground swear all the time. The mother then gave up complaining to us and instead sent a letter to the PUBLISHER of the book, asking them to stop printing it in a “child friendly cover”. Yikesarama.
I read the book for summer reading going into 10th grade (so 15 years old). It absolutely drove me insane with all the details. I got to the cow part and was ready to take the F
@@anaisabelpais7389 ha I think the writer did that on purpose to give readers an idea of what having autism is like.
@@celticcheetah6371 A friend of mine has this book (she's a teacher), I read it and was about ready to beat the main character, his behavior was driving me nuts then my buddy was like "you dork, the kid is autistic." Whoops...ok...my bad. LOL
Our family are all against foul mouthed disgusting vulgarity n anyone who speaks barbaric should be sent home. That’s what is wrong with this world, the teachers don’t even know better or care.
I’m fully against having children read or have to listen to vulgarity.
The Bible teaches to control ourselves n not to allow any unwholesome speech or coarse jesting n joking to come out of our mouths.
We fully believe this whole heartedly
...n we would be a parents that would stand against inappropriate and foul language also.
We had honor roll children that also do not like the foul n vulgar speech to this day. Our children wrote the word blaspheme on papers n tests that were wrong headed thinking. And our grandchildren don’t like it either.
They have people put a quarter in the inappropriate speech box if they say bad things, like calling someone the word “stupid n etc...
It is a corruption of the souls of children and the adults. So sad. :(
@@joyceobeys6818 Nobody fucking cares, Joyce.
I had a parent complain to my principal less then 2 weeks before the end of the school year, that I hadn't informed them that their child was doing so poorly in my class. The student had a B. I pulled out and sent a copy of all of the signed newsletters that I sent out weekly with a grade report attached, for that quarter. Yes, I sent home personalized newsletters weekly, for parents to sign, that included a personalized copy of the student's gradebook, what assignments they could still turn in and which assignments they could correct for additional points. All work was available online in case a student "forgot" their work at school.
The parent in question verified that it was indeed her signature on the newsletters. I had been concerned that the student had someone else sign for the parent. But no, the signatures were genuine. The parent then stated that she signed them but never read them, so they shouldn't count.
My Vice Principal took me into her office and privately said that she wasn't sure that (verified) written contacts counted. . .
I worked in a preschool classroom and had just clocked out for the day. When I went to my room for my stuff, I noticed a scuffle between 2 children. I alerted the teacher in the room and found out what happened. A child, K, had given the kids some necklaces from dramatic play. I said, “That was nice, K.” His mother was walking down the hallway and thought I said “Thanks to you, K” because I put the necklaces away. She put her son in the car, came back inside and confronted me in the hallway. She is at least 6 feet all and was wearing heels, I am 5 foot 3. She refused to listen to my explanation and kept screaming at me. I cried and finally admitted I said what she heard so she’d go away. There was another parent in the room when I was talking to the kids. Why would I be nasty to a child in front of a parent and another teacher? I avoided her for the rest of the year.
Why admit sth you didn't do? I would have walked away and left her screaming at the walls.
@@Freiya2011 Because I didn’t want to lose my job. This mother was a big time complainer. I don’t do well with confrontation. The next morning I went to the director and had my coworker back me up. Also, I lived 45 minutes away and just wanted to go home.
@@Pirategirl4nightwish who does do well with confrontation....
I'm glad you got back-up. This kind of parents suck. Immensely!
As a student I had a number of teachers tell me I was trash and a prison child. Maybe one or two teachers have actually given an f about me. Seeing these teachers on RUclips gives me hope for the world.
Nobody, really absolutely nobody should be held accountable for his or her parents! They were wrong to do so! I am sorry!
I mean, I kinda get where the mum with the kid having dreams was coming from - little kids often don't have the vocab to express problems they're having with adults, and even when they do, they sometimes worry they'll get in trouble if they're too direct about them. She might've assumed the 'dreams' were the girl's way of trying to convey that she was scared of her teacher. Now, if the girl were in middle or high school or something, then yeah, overprotective mum.
I worked as an aid in schools across our district and a kindergartener WITH A MUSTACHE would hit on me and tell me I looked nice, I smelled good, he liked my hair, invited me to swing with him at recess often, and eventually asked me to meet him at McDonald’s to play. He acted like a tiny grown man. But he was a kind boy. I think he was lacking maternal attention at home.
Sounds like a hormonal issue.
Had a parent tell me her son was a free spirit and needed his own rules to follow.
Yikes!! No woder why students disrespect authority at times.
The most ridiculous I have heard:
My daughter is extremely sensitive. Whenever she does something wrong, don’t punish her. It will traumatise her. Instead, accuse one of her classmates of the deed and punish him. It will teach her not to do that again.
I definitely don't want to know how that's going to impact her adult life
See also: Whipping Boy. 🤦🏻♀️😂
The Royal Family used to have a similar system; it was called "The Whipping Boy". Heaven forbid that the Crown Prince gets a spanking!
Omg. Do they kick the dog when she misbehaves too?
Do you want a Karen? Because this is how one creates a Karen.
My favorite was when I was working as a cashier in Toys R Us and this old man was going to buy a bike for his grandson. So he got the already assembled on off the the display because he didn't want to put it together himself. Our workers who put the bikes together get paid a commission and that bike on display cost more than the bike in the box. So he threw a fit and told the manager to take the bike apart and throw it in the box so he won't have to pay the assembly fee. But my manager told that it would not matter because he still will get charged even if they disassemble it. So the guy told his crying grandson that it was the store that ruined his birthday.
Middle school teacher here.
Back to School Night. Male comes in my classroom and asks, “How is my wife doing in art?” 7th grader was married but was actually older since she flunked a grade.😂
I haven’t read your quotes yet because I just saw this, but I was middle and high school math and science teacher and I can’t even begin to tell people about the stuff parents say and want. It is mind blowing and exhausting.
103 degree day in the desert southwest. I get yelled at by a parent because I sent her child to the nurse for a t-shirt. The little boy had been sent to school that day in a black sweatshirt and black sweatpants. Her comment "Well these are new clothes from his 'uncle!'"
I had a parent start yelling during an ESE staffing meeting because we were explaining to her all of the studies and tests we did and weren't getting to the IEP fast enough. She was very upset that we didn't classify her son and stepson as having emotional behavioral disorders. Neither child had them, both were struggling because she sporadically gave them their ADHD meds and their bodies couldn't handle going on and off meds constantly.
WHAAAT??? And the kids were allowed to stay with that parent???🤯😳
At the school where I used to work, the administrators would have contacted CPS ASAP about that!
I've just found your RUclips channel and I'm OBSESSED with it!! 🤣 Best channel EVER, I'm identifying so much with everything!!! Lol
My boss has told me to "make this right," via the guidance counselor. This was over a kid who did not even hand in over 120 points of assignments, and claimed that he did them. He didnt.
Here's my fave: "I just got out of prison. I like to fight." This was the mother.
I love your videos! They remind me why I quit the teaching. I think I talked to at least half of those parents.
You crack me up! I want to hear you read and comment on more crazy things people say. Blessings!
Judge Judy is right: you should have to pass a test before they allow you to become a parent. (she was being sarcastic...)
LOVE the quotes from Judge Judy! There was one case where a plaintiff was suing because a group pf teenagers had cut school, broke into her house while she was at work, and vandalized everything she owned! The parent of one of the defendants couldn't understand why the plaintiff couldn't just suck it up and get over it! Judge Judy told the Entitled Parent that she will be visiting her son in Big Boy Jail!
A parent of one of my 7th graders said: her daughter was worried about her poor grade on her maths test. Could I give her tutoring at lunchtimes because she (parent) didn’t have time....🤦🏻♀️ I politely said NO and set up some extra work for her on an online maths program... which the student never engaged with 🙄
You are correct. No other profession gives up their lunchtime!
The first wild classroom parent quote/request was from a father of a student. He shared that his son (a 7th grader) had a crush on me. The father then suggested that I go out on a date with him to show his son that he's "still got it." He also said that if it all worked out, his son would have built-in homework help for the rest of his life. Um, no thank you, sir.
WHAT?!?! This father was trying to pimp you out to his son?!?
@@patmccoy8758 No, the father was trying to get me to go out on a date with him (the father). I don't know why he thought that it was appropriate for the 40-something-year-old man to hit on his son's teacher during a TEAM teacher conference (5 other teachers were present to discuss his son's academics)...and I have no clue why he thought that a 21-year-old would be swooning after finding out that he wanted me to just be "homework help" down the line. Ridiculous!
I love the "community service" question.. Like um... why do you need to do community service... Do I need to call a judge and talk to him/her lol.
I'm a figure skating teacher, I usually work with small children. Around the time I started working I was 17, there was a 4 or 5 year old who did not want to come on the ice with me and was balling her eyes out because her parents couldn't come with her. I still had a bunch of kids to teach and keep them from screaming at eachother, so I had no choice but to give her back to her parents and tell them she could just watch the class today. The mom then asked if her daughter could have one of the pushers (they're basically sliding walkers to help skate) for class, which I answered no because otherwise the kid would not really be learning. Later that day my boss received an angry email from the mother, all about how I was rude and cursing at her, and how a 13 year old should not be working with children and demanding I be fired.
Yes, I do look younger for my age, but I was trying to be as polite as I could, and she was very nice until I refused to give her a pusher.
Like, Lady, I don't make the rules
I'm a teacher and I can so believe these comments. I guess parents are the same all over the world. I'm from Northern Ireland.
I'm not a teacher, but I was called into the principals office because my son made another child cry. We are not Christian and one of my son's classmates was evangelizing during recess and he told the story of Adam and Eve and when he was done my son politely raised his hand and asked the child, well who did Adam and Eve's children marry when they grew up? Because if they were the only family that is really gross. The kid became hysterical and I ended up in the principal's office telling this kids Mom my child wasn't wrong with his question or thoughts on her child's story.
Teacher and principal almost exploded trying not to laugh at the situation 🤗😜😂
We took a 3-day trip and I had a parent who did not attend any meetings prior to the trip, but still wanted her daughter to go. During the trip, the student got her period. After the trip, I got called to the principal's office because the parent blamed me for the daughter getting her period and said that I should have provided her with sanitary Napkins and caused her undue stress because she smelled. I reminded the principal that we went over this in the meeting that the parent didn't attend, and the chaperones would have personal hygiene items. The principal said she then pulled up the meeting agenda and handed it to the mom who still wanted to argue why it was the school's fault 🤦🏽♀️.
During my first year of teaching a parent called and told me that I had ruined her 8th grade daughter's whole life. I talked to the principal about it and she said, to my dismay, "Well that could be true....... but it can't be her whole life because last year Miss Jones ruined her life. :-) A little back story is that during the school year the girl discovered that her older "sister" was really her mother. Yep, whatever I said was the big trauma.
I subbed for a few weeks in a class (7th grade). I discovered a self made 'shank' on one of the boys. It wasn't a very effective shank because it was made of a pencil, an arrow point and some loom bands, but nonetheless I gave him a stern talking to. I told his mother about it and made clear that this kind of stuff was not tolerated in school. I later overheard her saying to her son "I told you to only make these at home and not to take them to school!"
Years ago, my first graders were agog over new movie Beetle Juice. After a bit, I told them about the star, Betelgeuse. The next morning 4 parents were waiting at the door - to ask if it were really true!!!
@Joe Dombrowski, you are HILARIOUS! Your commentary about each comment was a RIOT!
You definitely have a new fan in me.
I teach high school Spanish. My first year teaching was also the same year Señorita by Justin Timberlake came out. I was 22 years old, first back to school night. A parent (WITH HIS WIFE AT HIS SIDE) came up to me and shook my hand. He said “I can see why J likes Spanish so much.” As he looked me up and down. Then he started singing Señorita as he walked into my classroom. The wife just smiled. I wanted to shrivel away and take a shower.
PTC meeting, first grade:
Teacher: I have nothing bad to say about your daughter. But! I am trying to teach her the correct colors of trees. Teacher shows beautiful paintings of a rainbow tree outside the classroom!
Parents: Mom's reaction 🤭 she's kidding, right? hunnay?
Dad's reaction 😬 don't think so...
This is one of those videos where I feel we need a wider range of responses. "Like" just does not cover it.
Mother sent food allergy note that her child can’t eat lobster. Did she think I was going to serve a lovely bisque while we read Of Mice and Men?
Since when does a school serve lobster?!?
You are SOOOOOOO RIGTH, Kids don’t say the truth always, I have that clear since I started teaching 🙁 (but most parents think they do 🤣🤣🤣)
Love his parents!!!! And their comments:)
I talked to a mom about her 7 yrs old kid, who had spent the last 3 lessons saying random bad words. They weren’t insults, they were more smt like “F*ck I don’t understand anything! “ or “l can’t find that f*cking pencil..”.
His mom answered me “damn, I told him that he can say swear when he’s mad, but only at home, not in public! I’m sorry! M., apologize!”.
Well..Uhm...
"Thats not the crazy part" oh wait lemme get my wine
I have a tattoo on the back of my shoulder. At meet the teacher day, I was wearing a shirt that was scoop necked shirt and you could see the top edge of the tattoo. The parent wanted her child taken out of my class, because KG teachers shouldn't have tattoos... because this is a poor example to children. The parent had both arms sleeved in tattoos.
WOW!!!!! Double Standard Much?!?
Former preschool teacher here still thinking about, "If I see one grain of sand on her at the end of the day, I'm sending you the cleaner's bill." She was not allowed to play and get dirty in the slightest. A separate outfit for eating "in case she gets messy." AND.... another parent, "If you take him overnight so I can go on a date, I'll get you drunk on Saturday night."
A parent told me ( Special Education Paraeducator) that I shouldn't take my student with Downs Syndrome into her childs General Education classroom because my student made her child sad and was a distraction to the others because my student had "special" " entitled " privileges the other kids didn't get. I said you mean accommodations. She then ranted about fairness until the principal intervened.
in 5th grade we had a breakfast the day before winter break and a parent told me i couldn't sit with my friend because she didn't like how she arranged her plate
After calling a parent in for a conference, her child had been bulling other kids, mom came in, zeroed in on her kid and started slapping and hitting her while yelling “ didn’t I tell you not to hit other children at schools?!!!
Well.... better than hitting the kids bullied by her bully!😉 (happened at my school!)
I've been a room parent for many years... this made me good about myself ( room parenting wise anyway 😉)
ngl, Joe, you are rising up to be my favorite youtuber
And this for less than a Wal-mart manager’s salary. And we wonder why people aren’t going into teaching or leaving the profession in under 5 years. 🙄
Of course areas of the country vary, but in my hometown, full time Walmart managers are making in the low $40s. My elementary school teacher friends are in the high 30’s/low 40’s. I’m glad to know that’s not a fair assessment in your area.
0:57 During a parents-teachers -students meeting a mom complained to me that I assigned so difficult math homework that even her son's tutor couldn't figure out.
I answered to hire a more prepared tutor 😂
My co teacher (Pre-k) came to school the other day high. She was complaining about how tired she was with puffy eyes. I asked her if she was high. She said no of course not. As if she hasn't told me she smoked pot! Anyway! She then went outside and fell asleep on recess duty.!
There was this one time I spoke to a parent about their child's progess and how buying exercise books to practice would be a good idea. He looks at me and said "I don't have time for my child. Maybe google it for me and then let me know the book list". He said that in front of his child....🙄
Some people should -for the sake of the children - better NOT have children!
the fact that he used to teach at my school during 2018-2019 🤠
Wait, you’re home is absolutely beautiful. That’s amazing.
The daycare teachers in New Orleans get paid 8.00/hr. I could never afford this 😂
He's a professional teacher, teaches elementary school, so he gets paid a little more then $8 an hour.
@@DominicNJ73 preschool teachers are professionals too and absolutely deserve more than 8.00/hr. That’s ridiculous. Many preschool teachers I have met have degrees as well.
Student teaching fifth graders on a field trip to Gettysburg. Many parent chaperones allowed. The whole class was posing for a picture. One child just won’t stay still, I hear his classmate next to him tell him to cut it out a few times but he wasn’t stopping. So I said “(Name), can you try to stay still for just a minute?”
Cue the student’s mom jumping down my throat before I could blink. “No he won’t! And all of us parents have had just enough of you.” By Monday, she had emailed the principal trying to get me fired from student teaching with only two weeks before I graduated and left.
I wished I had told her that if her kid can’t stand still for thirty seconds, maybe he shouldn’t be in the picture.
Was she successful or did you have the luck of having a principal who took your side?
Wow! I am sorry for the disrespect the parent gave you. If the parents disrespect any authority, it explains the child's behavior.
Teachers do not get paid enough
and parents do NOT have enough respect for them. You know that i saw an interview sith scandanavian parents and they were all like, i would never question my child's teacher. They are professionals and I have ZERO training in teaching. They are the best people to handle this and so i would never interfer. WOW! what is wrong in america??
Teachers deserve COMBAT PAY!
I love these.
I taught gym at a preschool. A mom found out I was getting divorced. She said she wanted to leave her husband and we should get a place together. I declined. Our daughters were 4 and in class together. Her daughter walked up to mine and tried to show her something. My daughter buried her head in my leg. I told the little girl my daughter was being a little shy that day. The mom the demanded I be fired because my daughter was bullying hers. When she was told no, she asked if the grandma could come sit in my class to make sure my daughter or I didn’t do anything to her daughter.
Love your hoodie
Hahahahaha oh my God!!! Hahahahaha my favorite I'd the kid drinking decaf, join me at my desk and well talk about the ladies. Hahahahaha you kill me!!
Look.... I had a dream in 1st or 2nd grade that my teacher built a basement under the end of a playground slide where she trapped children until she was ready to eat them and then displayed their bones on the coat hooks in the hallway... no one pulled me out of the class
Intense dream 😬 poor kid!
South Orange County, CA, elementary school. School secretary called Omar’s parents and asked why he hadn’t been in school the last couple of weeks (first day of school onward). Omar is 8 years old. The parents said that Omar had said that school didn’t start until some later date. Not true. School started two weeks ago. When will Omar be in school? On said later date because Omar said so.