TEACHERS: Share your most outrageous parent stories

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't write any here- surely the crazy parents of my students read this!

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[Anonymous]

I had a parent show up for a conference with a color coded binder, organized by year, with every paper her daughter had ever done in school...every paper (she was in 5th grade)! she had post-it noted the most recent assignments with questions, comments and suggestions. I was a first year teacher and completely freaked out! Another parent asked me if I knew what the average SAT score was for students accepted to UMD. I asked why since his child was in 5th grade....he replied, "just think what the scores will be by the time my son has to apply!"

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't write any here- surely the crazy parents of my students read this!

If you can't write here ... it's only because you never learned to write at all. Stop blaming your students and their parents. Go back to school and actually learn something in college this time. Then go to Ed. School and learn something about teaching methodology, but better yet do yourself and your students the biggest favor of all quit doing this job in which you clearly hate. Get a job at Starbucks and complain for the rest of your life about your how your awful students and their crazy parents drove you out of the profession you loved so dearly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't write any here- surely the crazy parents of my students read this!

If you can't write here ... it's only because you never learned to write at all. Stop blaming your students and their parents. Go back to school and actually learn something in college this time. Then go to Ed. School and learn something about teaching methodology, but better yet do yourself and your students the biggest favor of all quit doing this job in which you clearly hate. Get a job at Starbucks and complain for the rest of your life about your how your awful students and their crazy parents drove you out of the profession you loved so dearly.

Good lord woman!

You do know that every person on the face of the planet has stories about the crazies they encounter during their daily employment.

Teachers are no different.

She isn't criticizing her students. In fact, she probably loves them. That is why most teachers continue to teach, because of the students and in spite of the parents.

I guess the accusation of nutsy parent behavior hit a little too close to home for you...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't write any here- surely the crazy parents of my students read this!

If you can't write here ... it's only because you never learned to write at all. Stop blaming your students and their parents. Go back to school and actually learn something in college this time. Then go to Ed. School and learn something about teaching methodology, but better yet do yourself and your students the biggest favor of all quit doing this job in which you clearly hate. Get a job at Starbucks and complain for the rest of your life about your how your awful students and their crazy parents drove you out of the profession you loved so dearly.

Good lord woman!

You do know that every person on the face of the planet has stories about the crazies they encounter during their daily employment.

Teachers are no different.

She isn't criticizing her students. In fact, she probably loves them. That is why most teachers continue to teach, because of the students and in spite of the parents.

I guess the accusation of nutsy parent behavior hit a little too close to home for you...

I can't write any here either, not only because my students' crazy parents are probably reading, but also because I don't find it an entirely professional thing to do. That being said, get a grip, lady. Never learned to write at all? Go to "Ed. School"? Quit doing this job "in which" you clearly hate? (I guess you mean she hates while doing her profession?) What in the world are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Pp is nuts clearly!
I'm not a teacher but I have friends who are, one teaches at a very highly regarded local private with a lot of bigwig parents.
Apparently there at least, the dads are worse than the moms
One year a bunch of juniors had a blowjob party (umm no thanks, I would have to skip out on that one...) of course the parents were appalled that their snowflakes would have done that
One of the dads was a senior partner at a very big law firm, and every single year he would ream out the teachers, sometimes even standing up at back to school night and screaming at the teacher in front of everyone. The head of the school wouldn't stand up for the teachers and would allow this-which is why a good amount of the good teacher left over the past few years.
Not only would he yell at the teachers, he would get together with other parents and trash talk the teachers, then quote the other parents and some students to have a case against the teachers. He would come to them while they were alone, after yelling at them he would say things like "most of the parents are saying you are weak at this and this, and bad at this and that" then he would say things like "even the students have said you refuse to meet with them over bad grades on papers, etc"
Come to find out the people he Was quoting had never even said it! He was such an insane bully, he literally gutted the school of good teachers due to the problems he caused. I know of at least 4 teachers he did this to, they left in tears

[Anonymous]

I taught in a rural area in the middle of the country. One of my students was very bright, had excellent ACT scores, had great leadership skills and extracurriculars, and was very diligent with her schoolwork. We talked college one day (she was a junior) and I suggested she look at top tier schools, maybe one of the Ivies if any appealed to her. I thought she had a good chance on paper especially since she was coming from a school and area that was essentially not represented at all in any of the schools we were talking about.

Her parents were FURIOUS with me. As in yelled at me and told me that I was a horrible person for making their daughter think she was smart (yes, the Dad said this) and that the religious college not too far from home was plenty good for a girl who would really just be going to college to find a husband.

The saddest part was that the parents really just didn't think the girl was smart. They thought their son was a genius who wasn't applying himself even though he was just a nice average kid and they wrote off the daughter's 4.0, 99th percentile test scores, SG positions, etc. lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't write any here- surely the crazy parents of my students read this!

If you can't write here ... it's only because you never learned to write at all. Stop blaming your students and their parents. Go back to school and actually learn something in college this time. Then go to Ed. School and learn something about teaching methodology, but better yet do yourself and your students the biggest favor of all quit doing this job in which you clearly hate. Get a job at Starbucks and complain for the rest of your life about your how your awful students and their crazy parents drove you out of the profession you loved so dearly.

Sounds like an outrageous parent to me!

[Anonymous]

And the PP sounds like an arrogant defensive dope to me. Professional Educators don't think of their students or their parents as crazy. No my teacher friend, they think of them as people with whom they work and interact as part of their profession. Apparently you believe anyone who may be outside of your cozy little clique is crazy.

But then again this exemplifies a problem with so many teachers today. They can't even begin to describe the people with whom they interact good or bad. They describe people as crazy, insane, outrageous, annoying, helicopters, or PITAs etc. Those are just insults not descriptions of the things that have upset your precious little fiefdoms.

You know what - you really are not anything special to me until you prove yourselves as such. Some of you are good and an awful lot of you are pure dullards. There are some great teachers who are truly altruistic and no matter how good they are they always strive to make their next lesson perfect. They don't hang out in the teachers lounge, they don't gossip because they don't want to be contaminated by the groupthink of the dullard teachers clique.

If you are a teacher PP, where do you think you fall? Are one one of the few truly altruistic teachers who burns the midnight oil grading and preparing future lessons or are you a former Teacher's Pet yourself who was mediocre college student who couldn't wait to get back in the classroom were you be the smarty-pants kid again.

Give the choice between being a parent who has lived a life rich with knowledge and experiences and that of a wet behind the ears kid who beats the students out the door at the end of the day.... Well, I admit it coming from you and your limited vocabulary and range of knowledge, I'll take your name for "Crazy" as a compliment.

Go back to school, learn something, expand your vocabulary, stop calling people names, take your school's stated goals seriously, stop gossiping about your students and their families.

Learn to use your words.

You're probably are not a bad person, but you've probably never stopped to self-examine the real reasons you chose to be a teacher. Do it now - do you want to be one of the greats - because if you do, it takes genuine altruism. At the moment you are acting like a teacher's lounge slug.

The choice is yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the PP sounds like an arrogant defensive dope to me. Professional Educators don't think of their students or their parents as crazy. No my teacher friend, they think of them as people with whom they work and interact as part of their profession. Apparently you believe anyone who may be outside of your cozy little clique is crazy.

But then again this exemplifies a problem with so many teachers today. They can't even begin to describe the people with whom they interact good or bad. They describe people as crazy, insane, outrageous, annoying, helicopters, or PITAs etc. Those are just insults not descriptions of the things that have upset your precious little fiefdoms.

You know what - you really are not anything special to me until you prove yourselves as such. Some of you are good and an awful lot of you are pure dullards. There are some great teachers who are truly altruistic and no matter how good they are they always strive to make their next lesson perfect. They don't hang out in the teachers lounge, they don't gossip because they don't want to be contaminated by the groupthink of the dullard teachers clique.

If you are a teacher PP, where do you think you fall? Are one one of the few truly altruistic teachers who burns the midnight oil grading and preparing future lessons or are you a former Teacher's Pet yourself who was mediocre college student who couldn't wait to get back in the classroom were you be the smarty-pants kid again.

Give the choice between being a parent who has lived a life rich with knowledge and experiences and that of a wet behind the ears kid who beats the students out the door at the end of the day.... Well, I admit it coming from you and your limited vocabulary and range of knowledge, I'll take your name for "Crazy" as a compliment.

Go back to school, learn something, expand your vocabulary, stop calling people names, take your school's stated goals seriously, stop gossiping about your students and their families.

Learn to use your words.

You're probably are not a bad person, but you've probably never stopped to self-examine the real reasons you chose to be a teacher. Do it now - do you want to be one of the greats - because if you do, it takes genuine altruism. At the moment you are acting like a teacher's lounge slug.

The choice is yours.

Nobody knows who you're talking to. You realize all/most of the previous posters are different people, right? I'd ignore you, but these walls of text are priceless!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the PP sounds like an arrogant defensive dope to me. Professional Educators don't think of their students or their parents as crazy. No my teacher friend, they think of them as people with whom they work and interact as part of their profession. Apparently you believe anyone who may be outside of your cozy little clique is crazy.

But then again this exemplifies a problem with so many teachers today. They can't even begin to describe the people with whom they interact good or bad. They describe people as crazy, insane, outrageous, annoying, helicopters, or PITAs etc. Those are just insults not descriptions of the things that have upset your precious little fiefdoms.

You know what - you really are not anything special to me until you prove yourselves as such. Some of you are good and an awful lot of you are pure dullards. There are some great teachers who are truly altruistic and no matter how good they are they always strive to make their next lesson perfect. They don't hang out in the teachers lounge, they don't gossip because they don't want to be contaminated by the groupthink of the dullard teachers clique.

If you are a teacher PP, where do you think you fall? Are one one of the few truly altruistic teachers who burns the midnight oil grading and preparing future lessons or are you a former Teacher's Pet yourself who was mediocre college student who couldn't wait to get back in the classroom were you be the smarty-pants kid again.

Give the choice between being a parent who has lived a life rich with knowledge and experiences and that of a wet behind the ears kid who beats the students out the door at the end of the day.... Well, I admit it coming from you and your limited vocabulary and range of knowledge, I'll take your name for "Crazy" as a compliment.

Go back to school, learn something, expand your vocabulary, stop calling people names, take your school's stated goals seriously, stop gossiping about your students and their families.

Learn to use your words.

You're probably are not a bad person, but you've probably never stopped to self-examine the real reasons you chose to be a teacher. Do it now - do you want to be one of the greats - because if you do, it takes genuine altruism. At the moment you are acting like a teacher's lounge slug.

The choice is yours.

Are you the wifi lady from politics & prose?

[Anonymous]

Crazy parent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the PP sounds like an arrogant defensive dope to me. Professional Educators don't think of their students or their parents as crazy. No my teacher friend, they think of them as people with whom they work and interact as part of their profession. Apparently you believe anyone who may be outside of your cozy little clique is crazy.

But then again this exemplifies a problem with so many teachers today. They can't even begin to describe the people with whom they interact good or bad. They describe people as crazy, insane, outrageous, annoying, helicopters, or PITAs etc. Those are just insults not descriptions of the things that have upset your precious little fiefdoms.

You know what - you really are not anything special to me until you prove yourselves as such. Some of you are good and an awful lot of you are pure dullards. There are some great teachers who are truly altruistic and no matter how good they are they always strive to make their next lesson perfect. They don't hang out in the teachers lounge, they don't gossip because they don't want to be contaminated by the groupthink of the dullard teachers clique.

If you are a teacher PP, where do you think you fall? Are one one of the few truly altruistic teachers who burns the midnight oil grading and preparing future lessons or are you a former Teacher's Pet yourself who was mediocre college student who couldn't wait to get back in the classroom were you be the smarty-pants kid again.

Give the choice between being a parent who has lived a life rich with knowledge and experiences and that of a wet behind the ears kid who beats the students out the door at the end of the day.... Well, I admit it coming from you and your limited vocabulary and range of knowledge, I'll take your name for "Crazy" as a compliment.

Go back to school, learn something, expand your vocabulary, stop calling people names, take your school's stated goals seriously, stop gossiping about your students and their families.

Learn to use your words.

You're probably are not a bad person, but you've probably never stopped to self-examine the real reasons you chose to be a teacher. Do it now - do you want to be one of the greats - because if you do, it takes genuine altruism. At the moment you are acting like a teacher's lounge slug.

The choice is yours.

Did you skip your meds today?? This was a funny, vent thread that you have just totally taken in a CRAZY direction. What is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I taught in a rural area in the middle of the country. One of my students was very bright, had excellent ACT scores, had great leadership skills and extracurriculars, and was very diligent with her schoolwork. We talked college one day (she was a junior) and I suggested she look at top tier schools, maybe one of the Ivies if any appealed to her. I thought she had a good chance on paper especially since she was coming from a school and area that was essentially not represented at all in any of the schools we were talking about.

Her parents were FURIOUS with me.

Not defending the parents in any way. But I also wouldn't have been happy with you. I can't afford Ivies for my kids and, in most circumstances, I don't think it is wise to go into tens or even hundreds of thousand dollars of debt to go to an Ivy League school. Ability to get in really isn't the only criteria for deciding to apply to a school.

It's wonderful that you were encouraging to this girl, but when you are talking to kids about things their parents will likely be paying for, you really need to be sure the parents are on board.