Teachers Expose Awful Parents (School Stories r/AskReddit)

teachers of Reddit who was the worst parent you've ever had to deal with I was teaching a sweet 13 year old girl who obviously couldn't see the board very well and needed glasses as she was falling behind in class I called her her mother this is in South London so imagine a Jade Goody voice her mum told me to frick often that I didn't need freaking glasses my mother didn't need frickin glasses so she doesn't need any frickin glasses and hung up in that situation you just feel for the girl but sight tests are free for Under 16's under NHS opticians surely she could at least have gotten a checked as a music teacher I had a mother of a student who would crash choir rehearsal for our Christmas concert and try to demonstrate how she had learned to sing her holy night when she had been a student not only was her pitch three cents short of a dollar but it took the principal and custodian to escort her out of the rehearsal room for their part the students thought it was a planned comedy it however was not pitch three cents short of a dollar I have never heard that phrase but I somehow know exactly what you mean I've been pretty lucky most of my parents have been cool supportive and laid-back I did however have one mum who stalked me heavily online not because she liked me but because she wanted to constantly talk about her daughter's supposed lack of progress she sent me friend requests repeatedly showed up at the school once while I was teaching to ask me why I didn't accept her request she somehow got my personal email and began emailing my personal email rather than my work email she also told her daughter to follow me home one day so she could stop by sometime thankfully the daughter told me about this in advance and she didn't do it it finally ended when the daughter was pulled from the school only after a lawsuit was filed declaring negligence on our part for meeting the students needs the daughter was a straight B student who didn't really act out too much and seemed to enjoy school I had a parent of a kindergartner tell me in all seriousness that she was told by their church prophet that my student was sent to led the world into salvation her little girl was the second coming of Christ gee no pressure here teach the Christ child to read plus she was one of the meanest children I ever taught not the worst but definitely up there with a stupidest currently dealing with a parent who thought I that I taught their kid about Jihad we had holidays around the world before our winter break each teacher took a holiday and explained it through activities videos music food etc I chose Diwali and decorated my room in lights had a fun writing coloring activity and a child-friendly video about the holiday the student then goes home and tells the parent that I was teaching about killing and about a religion that started with a J the parents questioned their child to the point of him crying I asked him about it and he said that they wouldn't let him leave it alone and he ended up crying for a while about it the parents said they knew it wasn't the Jewish religion so then it had to be G hard what jihad that's a religion and if it was a religion why would I be teaching that to my elementary classroom the best is that the parents cc'd my boss on the email without talking to me at all about it my boss usually faults on the side of his teachers so I'm not worried about that but I just couldn't believe the well-educated adult thought that jihad was a religion and she asked her husband and he agreed it had to be jihad as well if that is the mindset going in that child is home they have a lot to overcome beat her kid sent her back covered in bruises then through an absolute fit when we filed a CPS report we're mandatory reporters you Butthead my wife is the principal of an expensive Chinese daycare like really expensive every parent drives a BMW or better a three-year-old once ran away from the group during a field trip the teacher an incredibly mild woman caught a kid and asked him if he thought what he did was good or bad she didn't hit him she didn't even criticize him or make him go in timeout she just asked him if he thought it was a good thing to do the mother freaked out not because her child nearly went missing she was furious that any type of discipline whatsoever was administered my wife was on the phone with her until 2:00 a.m. while this woman screamed she has no right to tell my child what to do who does she think she is fortunately the woman became angry enough that she pulled her kid out a few days later but that teacher is now so terrified to discipline her students that her class is out of control my first teaching job I had a fifth grader who was the worst he would literally just stand up in the middle of class laugh like a madman and run out of my classroom he also did a few things in the bathroom that no sane child would ever do mostly involving fesses I was new so I asked around to see if this kid had a history of bad behavior all of his previous teachers said he was actually one of the better behaved kids and he was pretty smart no previous history of this kind of attitude or behavior whatsoever they were baffled we and by we I mean all the fifth grade teachers in the principal met with his parents four times in two months trying to determine the cause of all of this in the first three meetings his parents were cooperative but seemed a little slow they couldn't think of any reason why little Jamal will call him Jamal would act in such a way in the fourth meeting I said listen kids don't just flip a switch like this Jamal has zero history of disciplinary problems until this year can you think of anything that happened between fourth and fifth grade that might affect his psychological makeup they said Oh Jamal's uncle was found shot dead in our home this summer Jamal was the one who discovered his body something that could have been brought to my attention yesterday I just got back from an internship at a German gymnasium high school directed towards kids who would normally go to college after this school was also a boarding school and one of the kids is a complete douche waffle he steals and drinks and bullies everyone else then plays dumb as if he didn't know what was up his mother is probably the biggest problem parent I had to deal with at the school but I was an intern so the real teachers had to deal with way worse I believe his mother ignores everything bad we told her about her kid he is a son who can do no wrong to her and he's too fragile to ride the train home so every other weekend on holidays she drives across Germany to pick him up he got caught stealing from three other kids that lived next door to him but his mom always gives some awful excuse like oh he's under so much pressure you will just blame him for everything meanwhile this kid is growing up to have no future because he refuses to participate in school and can't stop acting out there is probably a problem here that needs treatment but I am a college student and those teachers are way overworked as it is not a teacher but I had a friend who is a preschool teacher she had a kid that told her she hated seatbelts and won't wear it on the bus friend spoke to mother about it the mother said she screams and refuses to wear it in the car so she just gave up the mother was speeding to get to the hospital on a rainy day kid in the backseat jumping around she hit water and skidded into a tree and the child was ejected died on impact and you can't even say anything because then you're a heartless monster who doesn't understand their pain my father once had a parent pulled a gun on him during a parent-teacher conference eventually they got him to calm down and pull it away one of my favorite moments I walk into the school office to check my mailbox a parent of one of my students sees me and says very loudly almost screaming Oh finally look everyone I found a teacher do you realize that I left work early to come here after school to talk to my son's teachers about his report card and you are literally the only teacher I have found I went from classroom to classroom and everyone is gone do you know what time it is it's 3:45 p.m. school ended 15 minutes ago 15 minutes and you're the only teacher still here can you explain to me why everyone is gone can you explain to me why every teacher has left the building when school just got out I paused waiting to see if there was more when I realized he had finished I said all the teachers are in the library we are having a faculty meeting the look on his face was priceless he knew he was in the wrong but by that point he had committed so fiercely to his anger and righteousness that he couldn't just apologize so he said well that's just irresponsible and he walked out of the office I worked at a school for blind and visually impaired kids this woman had a daughter that was blind and mentally delayed but otherwise healthy they were referred to our school when the daughter was in her mid-teens her mother did so much for this girl that she considered completely helpless she was not little legs atrophied and she couldn't stand on her own we dealt with our share of nightmare parents off various stripes from the completely uninvolved - control freak who knew every bureaucratic trick to call to get what they wanted but this one the one that cared so much for her daughter that she crippled her even further is the one I think back to the most often it was a constant battle to get her to back off and let her daughter learn to be an independent person I had the parents of a Muslim student demand to me that their son be excused while my student teacher taught lessons to the class because she's a woman and no son of theirs would be taught by a woman I told them that's fine but he's still responsible for the materials he missed this would be every class over a three-week period they freaked out told me I was discriminating against them and went to the principal over my head who promptly told them that their son would be responsible for any material he missed my roommate is a preschool teacher she has a student in her class who is very very rambunctious and she has a pretty good line of communication with the boy's mother as she is not in denial about her son's behavioral issues she also has a girl in her class who is spoiled rotten used to getting everything she wants immediately one afternoon my roommate was waiting on parents to pick up the kids and she was chatting with the mother of rambunctious boy all of the sudden the mother of spoiled girl bursts into the room she starts yelling at rambunctious boy apparently he had pushed spoiled girl on the playground the day before spoiled girl didn't tell my roommate or the other teacher just her mum and she also told her mom that rambunctious boy didn't get punished since she didn't say anything to the teachers mum decides to take this out not on the teachers but on this four-year-old boy she screams at him not to touch her daughter and that there would be consequences and blah blah obviously rambunctious boy starts crying my roommate and the other mother are just in shock and spoiled girl and her mum turn and leave in a huff congratulations lady you just bullied a four-year-old into crying I really hope you feel good about yourself a parent created an extremely extensive treatise on how the traditional methods of grading should be scrapped they ended up emailing it to every staff member in the school they did not however ever address the fact that their child did not turn in a single homework assignment between December and June my wife's school was having a really hard time involving their parents and their kids homework the kids on average have poor test scores poor intelligence low motivation etc common problems today so what they tried to do was start an after-school program where parents would come in and help their kids with their homework kinda defeats the purpose of homework but whatever none of the parents showed up not surprising I suppose here's where it gets interesting so they decided they were going to raffle off a hammer each after-school homework event amazingly parents started showing up I would have to drive with my wife every once in a while to walnut to buy a ham because the parents showed up for a 1 in 500 chance to win a ham they wouldn't come in for their kids but they'd come and for a freaking chance at ham blows my mind to this day my mom worked as a substitute teacher and subbed for a teacher for a few months while the normal teacher was on maternity while they were having a meeting with parents my mom who had about four months with the kids this is fourth-grade mind you to learn their names and a bit about them one parent who came in was flustered beet-red about their child having low scores low C's mid DS in most courses my mom had noticed that the child had not turned in much off her homework and while she got some back it was clearly in the parents handwriting and often with very very few mistakes specially in math which had been honestly what had been keeping her child's GPA in check because in class work was often riddled with mistakes and led her to believe the kid wasn't paying attention when my mom got to meet the parents who were flustered by the grade she brought up the difference between the writing and questioned if they were doing the work for her which would damage the child's education down the road my mom also brought this to the principal and he just let if offers the parents just writing for the lazy kid while she got yelled at a bit of spite ran over and the teacher was due to return in two months so my mom did what any evil genius would do she cut homework in half and made most of the work in class the child sees dropped a reason that these two F's which the parents returned even more upset at my mom intentionally failing the child rather than her trying to motivate the parents to helping their kid focus on class walk apparently it worked afterward when the principal shrugged saying it's a lesson plan and a lot of other students are arguably jealous of her lack of homework and the kid began to focus more in class when my mom checked in on the teacher around the end of the year when she subbed for another class the kid was rolling on high C's low B's and the parents handwriting had stopped I'm a teacher in Korea and Korean mothers are known for being super involved in their kids education and really over the top to the point where there are classes for kids like Mommy and Me type of thing where moms sit in class with the kids seemingly so they have first-hand experience in class to complain about the teachers accent appearance intellect attention per student one of my classes is only two students a boy and a girl and the boy always bullies the girl a few weeks ago he threw her water bottle in the trash and she was upset about it BV his mom called the school and started complaining about how the girl always bothers him and that she is affecting his learning and always starts any Tiff's they have in class which is totally not true he is 100% the instigator but pretty much because students pay our salaries as hagwons after-school programs private English schools get no funding from the Korean government us teachers just kind of have to sit there and take it I do private tutoring for the scions of privilege in Manhattan so I have a lot of crazy parents stories but the worst by far I was working with a Jewish family the parents were pretty standard-issue reformed Jews not particularly religious the son who was a high school junior was in the midst of exploring pretty serious ultra Orthodox Judaism he changed his name I forget what - I only met with his family once for reasons you'll see below his mother continued to call him his old name even though it made him visibly upset so I had been hired to work with him on the essay for the set which is kind of ridiculous in and of itself as it's a trivial part of the test but this family was rolling in money and didn't care at the time I worked for a pretty prominent test-prep company based out of Manhattan so I was using their materials I had previously actually run a big part of research and development for the company so I had been in charge of making the materials we were using and had written a fairly significant amount of the advice myself I sit down with the son and get ready to start to work with him the mom sits down at the table with us I quickly explained that I prefer to work one-on-one with the student and that I'd be happy to answer any questions she might have after the session is done she insists that I'm paying I want to learn to the poor kid just sighs so I start I'm explaining things every couple of minutes the mom interrupts and points to something in the book and says what about that sentence there why don't you read that at him I want you to say that to him I wrote that sentence mom what I'm giving now is more in-depth and nuanced than what is in the book this went on for the entire session with the mother trying to tell me what to do the son sighing and rolling his eyes and asking his mother to please leave and my trying to give this kid more information than is in the pages of a test prep manual and trying to get the mom to leave us alone and the end of the session the mother asked when we should share our next appointment I politely tell her that there will be no next appointment because I can't work with them what but you were wonderful and that was the first time but not the last time that's I fired a client

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Published: Mon Aug 19 2019