Teachers, What Did A Parent Do That Made You Call CPS? (AskReddit)

teachers have read it what is the worst thing you've seen a parent do to their child that either made you want to or did make you call Child Protective Services couple years back I was running a preschool classroom in a low-income area had a kid who will constantly come in visibly dirty usually always had a dirty diaper was almost five so we had a theory that she never really got a bath or changed or anything changed her up before sending her home one day and I had my assistant draw a star on her diaper sure enough go to change her when she arrives the next morning and there's a star on her diaper she had been in the same soap diet before nearly 18 hours not a teacher but I was playing with some kids one time and one of them fell down because of the roots around this jawed tree she started crying immediately but not because of the injury but because her white shoes got scuffed a little brother hugged her illy tight and kept saying he tried to find a way to hide them when they got home so that mom didn't see them the girl said she was going to get beaten up again told my mom mom called the police never saw the kids again I've written about this before so I'm just going to copy / paste my answer because I'm not in the right medicine today to actually relive it through words about five years ago in my tenth grade English class one of the best students I've ever had the honor of teaching came to class horribly beaten up he was over an hour early and just slowly walked to his seat and sat there quietly I sat next to him begging him to tell me what happened he did but I wish he hadn't his dad found out that my student was gay and decided that no son 0fs would be or could be gay so he decided to beat the gayness out of him he beat him to a pulp two black eyes a broken nose broken ribs and numerous cuts and bruises when he was done beating him he ripped my students clothes off and put a meat cleaver on the table and made him watch gay porn naked in order to make sure that he wouldn't get a hard-on he told him if he got hard he would chop his penis off I didn't let him finish I didn't want to know what else he had endured I called the cops an ambulance was sent for my student they found the dad at work he was an elementary school teacher teaching his class like it was just another normal Monday it took everything I had to keep from going there and running that [ __ ] over with my car thankfully his mum wasn't as controlled as I was she tried ripping her husband's head off at the police station it literally took four cops to get her off of him she's about five feet to ninety to one hundred pounds he's about six feet to 250 lbs and she [ __ ] him up and after she walked out of that station she went home and burned every single one of his things in the fireplace glad to say my student made a full recovery he along with his mom and siblings spend all the holidays with us I will lead with I'm not a teacher however I have had to report to CPS a sweet fourteen-year-old joined a server rhyme in underscored I also happen to be a moderator and immediately we couldn't help but find her to be a refreshing change in company she's passionate about animals bright basically teaching herself as her mom is doing her best but still struggling and she's at home but the more she talked about her mom the more alarmed our mall team got she was jaundiced losing weight no matter what she ate had constant stomach pain and despite all those alarming symptoms her mum refused to even take her to a GP her mother would scream at her if she asked for help with school things she was severely stunted in education and she was regularly told she was useless and couldn't do anything the last straw was when she finally admitted there was physical abuse as we suspected including a chair being thrown at her head despite most of us being under 25 and struggling ourselves we refused to leave a kid unsupervised in that position after a long serious conversation about what the symptoms in her health could mean the escalation in physical abuse and the obvious assistance our mom needed I got the necessary information for the CPS report and filed it immediately in two days the agents arrived assess the situation and were able to get some sense into the mother the 14 year old is now getting help with school going to a specialist Children's Hospital and the mom is working to get her own issues under control with aid while CPS makes sure everything is going right sometimes the solution isn't remove the kid sometimes it's assist the parent abuse is always abuse but it isn't always intentional when it isn't intentional it often alarms the parent to realize what they've done as a child from that situation with loving but also abusive parents who didn't know better I have been determined to help others in that situation had a student beaten so badly he couldn't sit in his chair entire back was covered in lashes and Men gets the mom to come to the school and the cops are there waiting for her there rest her on the spot while taking another child an infant out of her arms to do so when they asked her why she did it her response was because he needed it she was so warped she couldn't even come up with an excuse so sad substitute here I had to call CPS when a middle schooler broke down when I told him I was sending him to the assistant principal's office for making inappropriate comments to classmates he begged me not to because he couldn't get in trouble with dad again I asked why because my spit a census went off and he showed me the bruises and blood on his thighs and told me they went higher in a case EPs was already involved in I had an eighth grader with frequent pants-wetting incidents which is a massive red flag for sexual abuse I had a seven-year-old confessed suicidal thoughts to me I still think about him and hope he got help he cried and thanked me when I told him I had feelings like that at his age too I had a five-year-old wrapped me up in a bear hug and begged me to adopt him so he could have a mommy who loved him he'd known me for two hours and I told him I liked his drawing last week was my last week of teaching I will miss the kids terribly but not the mental burden of so many babies going through hell in a system that is set up to fail most of them from the start at one particular year where we had a bunch of students who had tear home lives roaches coming out of book bags dirty clothes etc one parent-teacher conference the parent was clearly on bills and kept talking about what a terrible child she had but the kid wasn't bad at all they just had low grades because they missed so much school that some of their house burned down and their brother was arrested for making child porn another set of parents came in that year with the toddler wearing only a diaper and they were all really dirty like they hadn't bathed in a week the child always looked clean at school though which made me think they cleaned up in the bathroom before school I don't know if this counts but I called the CPS for my sisters and I my sisters and I were regularly beaten for failing any tests we were sat at a desk and when we didn't answer a question right we were punched hair pulled face slammed into the desk and pinched our parents beat us really often and sometimes for no reason once I was sleeping when she told me to and I was scared course she was going one by one to each of my sisters to beat them and I heard the screaming get closer I got frantic and stopped cause the beating was inevitable she just started kicking when she pushed me to the floor the breaking point was when she tried to drown my sister in the bathtub I told my counselor who wrote down the report completely of everything I desperately asked to go into foster care months later about 6 to 7 months a woman came to talk to me they told me to go to the front and the receptionist whispered your caseworker is in the room to the right CPS interviewed me and her face was in shock she apologized for taking so long and said we go to those who can't speak for themselves first then she made one home visit my sisters were too scared to say anything and I told her please don't give up they're too scared to say anything because my parents are listening in the other room she nodded and left again months later I came home from a friend's and my mom said CPS gave her an entire copy of the report I gave to them I've never seen her more angry I thought she was bluffing and said no I didn't then she said the date time and what I said in the report I told my counselor and she said well I called CPS and they said they didn't do that so yeah the abuse just went on to this date my stomach curdled at the thought of why and how CPS could just do nothing just one home visit and gone father is a teacher a teacher in the school had two boys both in high school she had some mental issues and had to take a few weeks off the older child came in smelling horrible a few days in a row and a teacher pulled him aside and asked if everything was all right he said and I should you not backquote mom hasn't been around to give me a bath like it wasn't a big deal at all kid is 16 and his mother gives him baths like you would a three-year-old when they brought his brother 15 in to talk to him about his home life he confirmed this not four hours later CPS entered the home and removed them teacher is still employed did my first CPS report on a student this year she's a very emotional child and I noticed something was up immediately when she started acting out in class she opened up to me at recess one day saying that her parents fight all the time they scream and yell and hit each other and it makes her sad she said that one night dad was about to hit mom and she didn't want him to so she got in the way to stop him and he ended up hitting her in the mouth instead what's crazy is that a stories were so similar to what I went through as a kid my parents would always have these ugly fights where they would scream and throw things at each other and my mom would end up physically attacking my dad among other things like pull a knife out in front of us and threatened suicide it's crazy to look back and think that if I would have confided in my teacher or counselor about all of that they would have reported my parents to CPS I never thought that till my student confided in me about our own family issues I work in student support in a high school we frequently put in child protection reports the worst one was a 14 year old girl living with her baby sister mentally ill mom and violent that dad and mum get high on meth dad beats mum dad rapes go dad gets girl pregnant and punches her in the stomach until the baby dies Gill denies anything is happening at home because she thinks if she is removed she can't protect her baby sister anymore dad ended up in jail not as serious as other stories but my aunt works with a lot of immigrant children usually grade 1 to 3 and she said she had noticed a student being very tired every day and not doing any homework so the next time she met with the parents she asked them if he is getting enough sleep or what he does at home the parents tell my arms that they make him help in the kitchen of their restaurant every evening after school and they usually get home at around 1 a.m. my aunt was very angry and tried explaining that he can't be working at such a young age and until so late because he had schoolwork to do and it was affecting his grades aren't also reported it to the principal that I have no idea if it got to the point of calling CPS about it had a friend in high school whose mom refused to buy her toiletries / clothes / food she had to work and pay for it all herself and also wouldn't pay for her school lunches the friend had two little brothers who were spoiled heavily and the mom wore two giant buttons of the boys on her clothes everywhere but treated the friend like the plague I visited her house once which was fairly new and the counters were covered in old dishes and there was pet fesses everywhere they had three large dogs and multiple cats all indoor pets thankfully our school got involved and she got emancipated from them at 17 she kept in contact with her dad who was mostly under the mom's thumb but never did anything bad to ward her I'm friends with some teachers one family literally lived in a cave they did periodic welfare checks but the kids were fed cleaned and clothed well enough and they were sheltered so that was that as I understand the parents have never been found to be on drugs or anything they were just so poor that they lived in a [ __ ] cave this is in rural Appalachia in the US which even my husband who does home health always has at least one patient with dirt floors half caved in roofs not me but my mom this kid was acting up at school mostly congestion stuff and when his parents found out they would lock him in a closet and literally slide trays of food under a slot in the door it was like the kid was in prison you might think were severe timeout but this kid missed school for three days because he was in the closet it gets worse he told his teachers why he was gone so they called DCFS to handle the situation the parents find out and buy a tarantula you know where this is going they let the tarantula bite the kid and send him off to school with a big ass spider bite on his hand I saw him a couple weeks later and the nurse had wrapped it in gauze because of how bad it had gotten one of my preschoolers parents sent him in the same socks over and over and he had so much ear wax and hung that it smelt I told my boss and went out to buy him some socks since we were playing with water I just acted like he accidentally got his socks wet and put another pair on him and sent them both home you bet your bottom dollar he was wearing the same socks I just gave him the next day I was the one who discovered the abuse I had a student who was strangely very violent irritable and loud he was very difficult and the other kids were afraid of him because he was a bully and would beat them up one day I moved to take him to timeout after an incident like this occurred again it was a daily thing well as soon as I stood up and started walking to him suddenly he throws up his arms in that cost position if you've ever been hit as a kid you know the pose I was obviously confused and worried i sat him down and asked him what he was talking about and he is just bawling screaming mommy don't hit me please don't hurt me over and over I lifted up his sleeves and there were bruises all over his arms technically I'm still a student teacher only so I wasn't allowed in the room during the investigation I did hear from a colleague that he was in fact removed from the home and the mother had been beating him by law if a teacher thinks they need to call CPS they call CPS every time anything happens they are supposed to make that call it's a part of being what's called a mandatory reporter a person in direct childcare has an immediate responsibility for the child and you can call to impartial information from the community helps cases move forward to towards a good solution and it's always anonymous toll-free even save the number for your state in your phone it might save a kid's life here's a case where CPS was called for a ridiculous reason a friend of ours was having trouble with her 13 year old daughter she threw a hissy fit about what clothes she was going to wear to school from a closet fall and missed the school bus as a punishment the mom told her she wasn't going to drive her she'd have to walk because the girl was 10 minutes tardy she got called into the principal's office and went through the whole story it turns out the family lives just over one mile from the school and it was just below 40 degrees that day bingo this violates some district's policy against children walking to school in a cold environment CPS gets cold and the mom gets a home visit what a crock of shite not a teacher but had CPS called on my ex-husband and me I'd shown his daughters a bunch of weird al' videos over the weekend and there's a line in headline news parody of mm-mm mm-mm mm-mm mm-mm by crash test dummies that talks about Lorena Bobbitt once there was this guy who slash made his wife so mad one night / that she cut off his weiner I didn't think it connected at all it wasn't acted out for God's sake so the eldest five goes to school and tells her teacher her dad showed her a movie where a guy's wiener got cut off it was fine but I swear I never imagined Weird Al being the cause of a CPS visit

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Published: Fri Oct 18 2019