Parents posting critiques of their kids’ teachers on Facebook and other social media

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former elementary Teacher here,

Big. Fat. No. Especially public school teachers.

1. It’s tacky.

2. It takes years for a public school teacher to become an amazing teacher. Years. Reviews are super subjective and do not take into account the circumstances that impact the teacher’s work environment.

3. Too easy for parents to target a teacher they don’t like (racial, gender, etc) and to make an attempt to professionally have the teacher’s online presence tarnished unfairly.

4. Preschool, Elementary, and middle are hard. Many parents don’t even realize the dimensions of parenting, let alone childhood. Some parents are in denial about their kids’ out of home behavior as well.

5. It’s tacky.

I agree, and I'm not a teacher.
If you think a teacher mistreats your child, complain to admins and deal with it, rather than sitting and bashing the person online to your 'friends'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are teachers so scared of. Do a good job and parents may complain but won't be able to point to anything.

If I'm watching my kids teacher abuse kids or clearly have not prepared on Zoom. Why can't i comment.

Yes, you can, and should comment - to the abusing teacher's supervisor! Not just shoot the crap online because you have nothing else to do. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are teachers so scared of. Do a good job and parents may complain but won't be able to point to anything.

If I'm watching my kids teacher abuse kids or clearly have not prepared on Zoom. Why can't i comment.

Yes, you can, and should comment - to the abusing teacher's supervisor! Not just shoot the crap online because you have nothing else to do. Ugh.

Please link to the thread where you go off on Yelp, HealthGrades, Avvo, Zillow, Angie's List, and all the other online review sites to give your post some more credibility. We wouldn't want people thinking you're just a teacher looking to avoid public accountability after all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

There’s a difference between having an opinion and slamming a teacher in public.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

There’s a difference between having an opinion and slamming a teacher in public.

It's sort of amazing to me that teachers seem to think they should be immune to criticism. Because they're special, or something. I really don't know what to make of it, except that it really makes me wonder what they do in classrooms when parents and administrators aren't watching.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Well, with that attitude I can tell why you'd get defensive at the idea of parents writing public reviews of your performance as a teacher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Wow, what a raging Beotch you are.

But I know how to take down teachers like you, and I've done it. ANd I've taken down administrators with them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Well, with that attitude I can tell why you'd get defensive at the idea of parents writing public reviews of your performance as a teacher.

The attitude that I will not allow myself to be walked all over? Yeah, you're right. I should allow parents to ruin my career because they blame teachers for the colossal mishandling of the pandemic at every level of government.
I am an excellent teacher. My ratings and scores speak for themselves. I love the kids and I love my job. Dealing with the (few) entitled parents that I've encountered is awful and I will not allow it to suck the passion for my job out of me, as it has to so many teachers. I've seen parents scream at teachers in the office, and that teacher leaving in tears. It is disgusting and embarrassing. By contrast, I have never once seen a teacher respond in kind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Wow, what a raging Beotch you are.

But I know how to take down teachers like you, and I've done it. ANd I've taken down administrators with them.

Okay crazy. See the other thread, "Why is there a teacher shortage?"
PP is the reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a big difference between:

Ms. Monica Bing at Radlin Middle School is just AWFUL! So shrill, always screaming at the kids, talks nonstop during tests and refusing to let the kids mute their laptops, etc.

and

My daughter's 3rd grade teacher is really making my DD hate school. I am scrambling to make things better but she's just awful.

Actually, both are toxic and unhelpful. Write to the teacher and principal.

+1 so trashy. If I saw either post from someone I knew, I’d seriously judge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess parents won’t mind if teacher’s post about young Larlo and his inability to behave during zoom class.

Go for it. It will be fun to watch you get torn limb from limb by the lynch mob.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Well, with that attitude I can tell why you'd get defensive at the idea of parents writing public reviews of your performance as a teacher.

The attitude that I will not allow myself to be walked all over? Yeah, you're right. I should allow parents to ruin my career because they blame teachers for the colossal mishandling of the pandemic at every level of government.
I am an excellent teacher. My ratings and scores speak for themselves. I love the kids and I love my job. Dealing with the (few) entitled parents that I've encountered is awful and I will not allow it to suck the passion for my job out of me, as it has to so many teachers. I've seen parents scream at teachers in the office, and that teacher leaving in tears. It is disgusting and embarrassing. By contrast, I have never once seen a teacher respond in kind.

Yeah, pretty much everything you've written suggests otherwise, on all counts.

Perhaps if you put as much effort into doing your job as you do defending yourself, you wouldn't get as many complaints about your performance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Well, with that attitude I can tell why you'd get defensive at the idea of parents writing public reviews of your performance as a teacher.

The attitude that I will not allow myself to be walked all over? Yeah, you're right. I should allow parents to ruin my career because they blame teachers for the colossal mishandling of the pandemic at every level of government.
I am an excellent teacher. My ratings and scores speak for themselves. I love the kids and I love my job. Dealing with the (few) entitled parents that I've encountered is awful and I will not allow it to suck the passion for my job out of me, as it has to so many teachers. I've seen parents scream at teachers in the office, and that teacher leaving in tears. It is disgusting and embarrassing. By contrast, I have never once seen a teacher respond in kind.

Yeah, pretty much everything you've written suggests otherwise, on all counts.

Perhaps if you put as much effort into doing your job as you do defending yourself, you wouldn't get as many complaints about your performance.

I never said I've gotten complaints about my performance. I've had crazy parents write me letters IN ALL CAPS about personal favors they demand I do for them.
Communicating the inappropriate things that parents say and do to the people I report to does not make me a bad teacher. You're welcome for the heads up and you can adjust your behavior accordingly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Well, with that attitude I can tell why you'd get defensive at the idea of parents writing public reviews of your performance as a teacher.

The attitude that I will not allow myself to be walked all over? Yeah, you're right. I should allow parents to ruin my career because they blame teachers for the colossal mishandling of the pandemic at every level of government.
I am an excellent teacher. My ratings and scores speak for themselves. I love the kids and I love my job. Dealing with the (few) entitled parents that I've encountered is awful and I will not allow it to suck the passion for my job out of me, as it has to so many teachers. I've seen parents scream at teachers in the office, and that teacher leaving in tears. It is disgusting and embarrassing. By contrast, I have never once seen a teacher respond in kind.

Yeah, pretty much everything you've written suggests otherwise, on all counts.

Perhaps if you put as much effort into doing your job as you do defending yourself, you wouldn't get as many complaints about your performance.

I never said I've gotten complaints about my performance. I've had crazy parents write me letters IN ALL CAPS about personal favors they demand I do for them.
Communicating the inappropriate things that parents say and do to the people I report to does not make me a bad teacher. You're welcome for the heads up and you can adjust your behavior accordingly.

I do appreciate the warning to watch out for the crazies. Bases on your posts, I suspect your mental and emotional instability is apparent to anyone after a brief interaction.