TEACHERS: Share your most outrageous parent stories

[Anonymous]

The only thing typified by this thread is the depths to which many teachers have sunken. In the past teachers have been praised for their many years of hard work, selfless devotion, and low compensation related to other professions. We have all been fortunate enough to have know a few educators to whom these descriptions apply. Those individuals dutifully did their jobs over periods of many years without many complaints. They took the good with the bad. They taught, they coached, sponsored, counseled, and recommended their students with few complaints. During the summers they painted houses, did construction, and tutored to subsidize their meager incomes.

So these special people we hold in high esteem. Some of them have passed on and some of them continue to grace our classrooms today. They are amazing and altruistic human beings who have in some way improved the lives of every student they have taught. These teachers are the Hall of Famers of their profession.

Hall of Fame teachers give far more than they ever receive in return and they would never ridicule their students and their parents in the teachers lounge or in a public forum such as DCUM. Professional Teachers live by a code of professional ethics which prohibits them from ridiculing their students.

Hall of Fame Teachers have earned our enduring respect over many years of consistent kindness, excellence, and grace. Hall of Fame teachers don't ridicule their students in the teachers lounge. No far from it they teach them in the classroom and they don't make sarcastic fodder of them or their families on DCUM.

The choice is yours to make. Will you achieve greatness in the classroom or will you seek popularity in the Teacher's Lounge? The choice is yours to make. Think long and hard before you decide because you'll only be popular among the cool teachers lounge crowd as long as you continue coming up with bigger, better, juicier, and more salacious stories. BTW, most of your lounge-lizard BFFs won't even be teaching in another two years, so hitching your wagon to that dead horse crowd is a losing proposition right from the beginning.

Be one of the greats - make great sacrifices to your students and leave it all in the classroom, not in the teachers lounge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only thing typified by this thread is the depths to which many teachers have sunken. In the past teachers have been praised for their many years of hard work, selfless devotion, and low compensation related to other professions. We have all been fortunate enough to have know a few educators to whom these descriptions apply. Those individuals dutifully did their jobs over periods of many years without many complaints. They took the good with the bad. They taught, they coached, sponsored, counseled, and recommended their students with few complaints. During the summers they painted houses, did construction, and tutored to subsidize their meager incomes.

So these special people we hold in high esteem. Some of them have passed on and some of them continue to grace our classrooms today. They are amazing and altruistic human beings who have in some way improved the lives of every student they have taught. These teachers are the Hall of Famers of their profession.

Hall of Fame teachers give far more than they ever receive in return and they would never ridicule their students and their parents in the teachers lounge or in a public forum such as DCUM. Professional Teachers live by a code of professional ethics which prohibits them from ridiculing their students.

Hall of Fame Teachers have earned our enduring respect over many years of consistent kindness, excellence, and grace. Hall of Fame teachers don't ridicule their students in the teachers lounge. No far from it they teach them in the classroom and they don't make sarcastic fodder of them or their families on DCUM.

The choice is yours to make. Will you achieve greatness in the classroom or will you seek popularity in the Teacher's Lounge? The choice is yours to make. Think long and hard before you decide because you'll only be popular among the cool teachers lounge crowd as long as you continue coming up with bigger, better, juicier, and more salacious stories. BTW, most of your lounge-lizard BFFs won't even be teaching in another two years, so hitching your wagon to that dead horse crowd is a losing proposition right from the beginning.

Be one of the greats - make great sacrifices to your students and leave it all in the classroom, not in the teachers lounge.

We already told you. It's "teachers' lounge," plural possessive.

I'm another poster who's dying to know your back story. What do you do for a living? What is the story behind your massive paranoia concerning alleged gossip in the teachers' lounge, gossip that may just be in your own imagination? Why are you denying teachers their basic humanity? Why do you think these people live to serve you?

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher and I never go in the lounge. Also, it's generally called the "staff lounge." Since, you know, secretaries get to use it too. I guess I'm totally missing out on some awesome gossip!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and I never go in the lounge. Also, it's generally called the "staff lounge." Since, you know, secretaries get to use it too. I guess I'm totally missing out on some awesome gossip!

Because OP thinks that's all teachers do in the staff lounge. They don't, you know, simply relax or anything. Come to think of it, they have absolutely no right to relax! Did you read PP's posts? Those slackers don't deserve even 10 minutes of downtime!

[Anonymous]

^^^^ Ooops, not OP. Sorry, OP. I meant the crazy, anti-teacher thread hijacker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: the depths to which many teachers have sunken.

I'm just going to let this sentence hang out there on its own. It deserves a moment in the spotlight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: the depths to which many teachers have sunken.

I'm just going to let this sentence hang out there on its own. It deserves a moment in the spotlight.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: the depths to which many teachers have sunken.

I'm just going to let this sentence hang out there on its own. It deserves a moment in the spotlight.

+1

+2

Thanks for that. I needed the laugh.

[Anonymous]

Some parents ARE crazy.

Like these:
http://www.kctv5.com/story/20442116/kansas-native-secures-stalking-restraining-order-against-parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Actually, OP, I think the pp meant to say that "good" teachers don't think of their students or their parents as crazy. Only insecure and incompetent ones would even presume to have such a mindset. Which one are you?

I do think that poster from the wifi thread has found a new home. Sitting back - this should be fun!

On the surface it might seem that you're right, but that's only because both posters sock puppet themselves and are crazy. The differences are stylistic and grammatical. The wifi poster has really awful punctuation, with lots of ellipses that have too many or two few periods, frequent spaces between words and subsequent commas or periods, and worse. This thread-hijacker is a bad writer and has a weird problem with the phrase "teacher's (sic) lounge," but she seems a little more confident with basic rules of grammar.

YMMV.

[Anonymous]

^^^ too few periods

[Anonymous]

wow, bummer. I came here to read teachers' crazy parent stories. Such a drag to have the thread so derailed by loonies! But it shows me quite vividly the kind of animosity and lunacy teachers have to deal with. I'm going to go volunteer for my kids' teachers, and donate some cash to them for the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and I never go in the lounge. Also, it's generally called the "staff lounge." Since, you know, secretaries get to use it too. I guess I'm totally missing out on some awesome gossip!

Because OP thinks that's all teachers do in the staff lounge. They don't, you know, simply relax or anything. Come to think of it, they have absolutely no right to relax! Did you read PP's posts? Those slackers don't deserve even 10 minutes of downtime!

Pfft, whatever. I don't use the lounge because the fridge stinks. I usually just close the door to my classroom during lunch/recess, put a "testing" sign on the outside and take a nap! Sometimes I do it during specials, too. Or reading groups. Well, when my teammates and I aren't busy painting each others' nails while the kids watch a movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A parent sliced all 4 tires on our assistant principal's car.

PP, did they expel the student? Arrest the parent?

(You've probably stopped reading b/c of Conspiracy Theory Lady.) Oh well.

[Anonymous]

I know who the derail poster is! It's the same person who destroyed the thread on the approval of DCI, claiming that we were all horrible people for sending our kids to a school that not everyone could get into. But in the same lame, juvenile version of reverse psychology.

Jeff, what does it take to get a ban up in here??