A parent said, "You never let my child go to the treasure box!" I told her I didn't have one. She said all teachers have one. I told her I chose to invest my money in a Roth and a 403b instead of cheap trinkets that kids lose or break anyway. She hasn't spoken to me since. :)
You need a new career. While I agree on the uselessness of most of the trinkets you just come off as a shitty teacher. You could have informed her of whatever incentive/recognition program that you use instead of dismissing her legitimate question. When you have two elementary classes and one of them receives recognition while the other doesn’t the children notice. You’re so proud of yourself for cutting off the communication between parent and teacher. There is something wrong with you.
@@Supersquishyawesomeness This parent has been very dismissive and condescending when efforts were made to discuss poor attendance (50% absences) grades, and behaviors throughout the year. Our school does not even have a full-time admin to assist in addressing these issues. We went from 3 full-time admins to none. We have a part-time admin who is not invested in the school. The parent was told previously of recognition and incentives as well as consequences. She was also given a handout explaining recognition that she can refer to at any time. My diplomacy ran out. Other families are great. The only thing "wrong" with me is I continue to stay and try and work in a difficult situation. Don't worry though. I am walking out in May and never returning. By the way, my evals have been excellent for over 20 years.
@@Supersquishyawesomeness In all due respect, I don’t think she’s a bad teacher! How many parents offer to donate small trinkets for the class? The cost can become overwhelming when you have 25 students in a class. Offering incentives such as lunch with the teacher, 5 minutes of play at the end of the day, etc is beneficial as well. Why is it fair for teachers to spend hundreds, yes hundreds, of dollars out of their pocket to essentially get a student to work? If a decent report comes home, the parent should provide a treat! What do you think is a better solution? Please consider both sides before calling names. Just saying…stay blessed!
There are good teachers but they are few and far between these days. Coming to UA-cam or tiktok to complain about your job is just ignorant though. If you hate what the job entails, quit.
@@Supersquishyawesomeness There's good and bad about every job, and often the good outweighs the bad, but that doesn't mean people can't complain about things they don't like. It can be very therapeutic to vent. Also, these are things all teachers go through. It's good people share their experiences so that we can not only not feel alone in our struggle, but learn methods and strategies when those situations come up.
@@bandotaku there is a time and place and taking it to the Internet is unprofessional. Period. Like it or not they chose a profession that requires a certain level of social decorum. Complain to your husband.
My husband use to tell me I was wrong for giving our kids teachers wine as gifts, I was like sir do you see how they act at home, now he pays for the wine 😂😂😂😂
I just retired this year after 30+ years. People ask if it was because of “kids today” - I’m like “ nope, it’s the adults today”. Love this channel- had to laugh to often to do what we need to for our kiddos! ❤️
Absolutely. Retired 10+ years myselffor a myriad of reasons that had nothing to do with the children. Given more and more responsibilities, rules, duties, standards and assessments despite taking away nothing. Stress will kill us all. 😇😍😋
Retired at 20 years last year. Had a good laugh! Parents! Had one ask me to come back early from major surgery because her daughter missed me. Sweet but no.
A teacher at our school was told by a parent," If you don't buy my child's new shoes then I will have to! " We just stood in silence there was nothing to say.
After decades of living on welfare (80+ programs) parents don’t expect to pay for anything. Shoes are not covered by welfare so they expect YOU to pay for them. Welfare is evil.
A student was missing 90% of her task & it was 3 days bef the end of the semester. The student did no school work in class for the entire quarter despite emails, letters, texts, & calls home. So, mom wanted me to spend my holiday weekend helping her to catch up because she had social engagements during the 5 day school day. When I stated, No, I don't get paid to work on the weekends & I am spending that time with my family. The parent told me I'm suppose to work for free because her sister, who's a teacher, said it comes with the job, i.e., weekends & holidays. I said, I have no parents who work without getting paid. If they do, there's a name for that & it was outlawed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Thank you for your service. Good comeback too. I literally leaned forward to keep chuckling. It must be really hard to be a teacher today, with all the rules and worksheets. Y’all know what a parent needs to hear of their child and ya can’t even say. Ya get injured and ya can’t say outside of the school if ya wanna keep ur job. It ain’t right, but the system is too big for anyone to fight it. Most of us just leave it. It’s actually incredibly noble that so many teachers don’t leave.
Have you been to an inner city school? How about one so rural where your 22 kids shared 14 textbooks. I’ve taught at both. Entitled and clueless much? It shows. Shut your pie holes.
@@sophiabeatty3270 as a former teacher, the way I speak in my personal life is VASTLY different than how I would speak with my students. Regardless, children use slang and ebonics all the time and they are smart enough to realize the difference between that and conventional, formal grammar, on their own.
You've got to wonder about these parents - when they were schoolchildren, did their teachers make them potato lunches every day and sniff the bathroom after them? Why would it ever occur to them to make these bizarre requests?
Honestly, I think it's cause of most parents having their kids in daycare fron birth. The daycare teaches the kid everything. I paid alot of money every mth for my daughter's daycare when we both had to work and commute for 10-12 hrs/day in a big city area. They had to change her diapers, then help potty train her, they provided the healthy breakfast/lunch/snacks, outdoor time, added the preschool learning, everything was an add on from what we did with her at home. They asked for our input so they could keep her on similar routines while at the daycare. They did this for each child in every age group, and of course, there were several teachers/aides. I think however, parents fail to realize that school is not daycare. I no longer pay over $1,000/mth for that level of care bc my daughter goes to free public school. I think too many parents can't put 2 and 2 together LOL. I would never expect my child's teachers to do this stuff.
Legal & illegal substance abuse...You'd be utterly shocked by what kiddos tell us. So far I've caught a total of 12 of my MS & HS students selling various illegal & legal products on campus. One of the funniest was the $ store candy & snack backpack so mom cd spend her entire weekend shopping at the mall. True story... (1) It's illegal to sell any type of products on campus, safety issue (2) Where's the IRS when you need them? & (3) It's against child labor laws.
@@catara99 Great points. Also, teachers can't do this by state law. For example, kid gets a diaper rash & parental lawsuits to the district & state become rampid. Paras & nurses are however licensed to provide this service under special conditions & parental permission, IEP. Daycare workers aren't educated certified teachers, e.g., teacher college, BS, state certification & daycares are not schools, academies, nor learning centers. The states need to update the labels these marketing businesses use to confuse parents. Anyone can open a daycare business & call it a school, in most states. One of my teachers left the public schools & opened her own daycare, $47,500/yr vs. $120K/yr. You paid for a very expensive child care service to ensure that your child was school ready. Not all parents can afford high quality daycare.
As a teacher for 34 years, I have loved my profession, but one of my regrets is that I didn't save all the bizarre and hilarious notes I received from parents!
A girl told me that the dog ate her homework. Of course, I went on a riff about....huh!...Nowadays, please say the printer jammed, etc etc... Well, the poor girl had just immigrated and didn't understand our idioms, crazy sayings, etc. I got a note from the poor mother describing how the daughter had left the homework on the bed and the dog jumped up, etc etc. The dog REALLY ate her homework. Classic.😂
I think so many parents today think it is up to everyone else to raise their child. They make babysitters out of teachers. Teachers are there to teach. Yes little children have bathroom problems and teachers have to be mindful of that, but teachers are there to teach. My father always told me, you go to school to learn, you show respect for your teacher, and you do not disrupt class and interfere with the learning of others.
I teach at a daycare center and well doing things like potty training is part of my job I'm still there to teach you don't do it for them you help them understand how to do the process of using the bathroom properly so you're technically still teaching them. You're not doing it for them and that's the crux of this absurdity the parent expects the teacher to do everything for them instead of teach the child how to do it themselves!
The elementary school I work at just had to buy a watch (they’re calling it the ‘pee watch’) to remind a third grader to go to the bathroom periodically throughout the day. I guess he kept having accidents on the bus ride home. It pains me that the school had to use funds to pay for this watch. Why does nothing ever seem to be the parents’ responsibility? 🤷♀️
Nope. They expect the school to raise their kids. Then when they want to dole out consequences like a zero on an assignment they never turned in or suspension for fighting they are right up at the school yelling not my little johnny or have some crazy excuse for the kid. We need a standard curriculum and a standard code of conduct in schools. If the parents don't like it there are these things called private schools.
This sounds like he had a 504. I’m okay with this particular inciden, but if it’s not a medical issue the parents should have been made to provide the “ watch”. What’s wrong with an alarm instead?
I work in the after-school program, and one of the kids came home with a tick...so they asked us to check the kid for ticks before parents came to pick them up every day. To check for ticks properly requires a strip search...Nope, nope, nope.
Had a parent tell me her child had bugs in his butt that he got at school and wanted me to check all of the students. 1. NO 2. No one else had them 3. How do you know he had this ( checked at midnight with a flashlight 😳☹️)! Several NOs and a few days and she backed off.
On the other hand, if you don't want it to spread, would there be some sort of nurse who could help with it so other kids don't get infected & start an outbreak? That's not a teacher's job but I could see a school nurse might have to check 🤷🏼♀️
@@pixiebells Sounds like pinworms, which are fairly common and will spread through the entire school because they lay their eggs all around the anus, making the area itch. The kids scratch that itch, get the nearly microscopic eggs on their hand, don't wash their hands, and spread the eggs to all their friends until the entire school has them. There are medications to get rid of the worms. Yes, the school nurse, if they have one, should be in charge of education and treatment, but a *lot* of schools no longer have a school nurse, even part time.
The box of cake mix, and 2 eggs is my favorite one. What do they expect a teacher to do, wave a wand and bake it? The only ovens/stoves are in the cafeteria area.
@@ILGuy2012 yeah you could do that or when I was in elementary school in the 90s a couple of the rooms had real ovens/stoves built in as if it had been a home economics room previously. or parents who could would just bring a sheet of pizza and a Bakery cake to class on their kids birthday my parents did this for my younger brother and I back when parties in class were a lot more common than they are now a la in the 90s/2000s. there's a specific bakery that used to be in East Boston Called Peaches & Cream though the Pandemic drove it out of business at least for the East Boston Branch there's one in Chelsea
Seems like these parents think this is a Playschool and not an educational school. The overwhelming theme I’m getting is they think you’re a daycare worker and this is a daycare center that babysits their children while they’re at work. Not an educational facility. Or in other words, they have lost their damn minds!
Pretty much spot on. Parents want teachers to do everything to make their child a functioning, successful member of society while they scream, “Teachers are indoctrinating our children!!!”
I don't know who I feel worse for - the teachers that have to put up with these parents or the kids being raised by these idiots. (That being said - I love your channel!)
@@daisydukes8252 I think you're bringing up privileged brats. There was *nothing* in this video which could even be called unkind, let alone "torment". Get a grip!
Omg, I'm a single mom and my son is now a freshman in high school. These requests are INSANE! I wasn't sure what to expect, but I appreciate the teacher's commitment is alway to the children first, and never once made fun of the kids. (As an aside, I have food allergies and a commitment to feeding my son organic, healthy food. For years, I made every single breakfast & lunch my son had at school from scratch - like full, delicious meals, and occasionally brought homemade treats for the class when appropriate. I cannot FATHOM someone asking a teacher to COOK food for their kids!!!)
Exactly! If you have some sort of expectation or dietary lifestyle choice, sending it in with your kid makes so much more sense than asking the teacher to provide it! Like that's not part of their job. I genuinely don't understand those kinds of parents 😳 I'll never do that
"Tell me wh you left teaching without telling me why you left teaching." Seriously these parent requests are why teachers are leaving and cursing the schools they left behind. 🤣
Just to be fair, my senior year of high school, early one morning at school I began having serious abdominal pain. Not your " normal" period cramps mind you, I'm talking bent over at the waist trying to walk to next class. Finally a teacher sent me to the nurse. The nurse didn't even take my temp, she let me lay down for a few minutes and sent me back to class. I didn't go, I went and laid down in my friends car, at lunch time she came out and I begged her to take me home. A few hours later I was in emergency surgery having an appendectomy. The ER doctor YELLED at my mother for not bringing me in earlier, I was close to death. I came out of surgery with 31 staples ( they had to do exploratory first to even find out what was going on) and my mother who was a retired nurse came out of that with a purpose to get that school "nurse" fired. She never even alerted anyone that I was sick, no call home, no temp taken. She was really mean and implied I was faking. If I hadn't of my own initiative left the school with help I would have died at that school. Parents are the worst at times, yet not all teachers or school nurses etc should be in that career. So in conclusion, you could probably have just as many stories of teachers, school personal really not doing right. I like your humor.
I've always said I love working with kids, it's the parents I can't stand. I'm glad I watched this because I feel bad bothering the teacher trying to figure out solutions for my special needs kiddo so he doesn't disrupt the class, or is able to complete his work. It wouldn't even begin to occur to me to ask the teacher to bake a birthday cake, or pick out the right color of expo marker. Each parent should be required to sit in a classroom setting until they "get it" that their child isn't your only duty that day.
You kill me. I am a teacher. People who don't teach would not believe how real all those examples are. Thank you for the laugh...the sad, long, cynical laugh. Yes, more wine, please!
Wow! I had no idea what crazy parents y'all had to deal with! You couldn't pay me to be a teacher...I would never be able to hold my tongue! That must take sheer restraint!
Hoo-larious! I had to retire from teaching 6 yrs ago but this always brings me right back. Unfortunately, admin often backed up the parents when it came to their requests, unreasonable or not.
Not as bad as these, but I have a student whose mom asks for "special consideration" for her EVERY time there is a field trip and she isn't passing the required classes, or hasn't turned in the fees or forms by the due date (which is pretty much EVERY trip). I don't hear from her UNTIL the day before the trip, and then I get a long e-mail explaining all of the trials and tribulations her daughter has been going through, and that she really wants her to have this opportunity, etc. If I reply explaining the trip expectations, and all of my REMINDERS of that prior to, she just responds about how her daughter needs special consideration, and how it's not fair to her (no thought of all of the other kids with similar issues who HAVE taken care of their requirements).
I'm with you there. My kids did their homework everyday and they worked hard to pass the tests. They did everything their teachers ask them to do. And then the schools would throw in the curved grading. And I felt like I was teaching my children responsibility respect that they have to work hard and that there are consequences to our actions and choices. Then I felt like the school didn't follow up. The kids were passing who shouldn't have. Parents were letting their kids off the hook and not teaching them responsibility or Consequences for actions. I didn't feel like the teachers were to blame but that the school administration and School Board were to blame.
@@kristineilochi4615 YES, if they think some other kid is getting special treatment over their child, they are the 1st to complain, but then expect that THEIR child gets special treatment over others.
@@Emme333 Yeah, they tell us how we have to do these things, and sometimes it makes NO sense. Some schools will even tell teachers that students can't "earn" less than 50% on any assignment, even if they don't turn anything in.
Hey, so, my daughter is the center of my world and now I expect her to be the center of yours. Please hold your daughter in your belly longer so my kindergarten precious angel can get all her lessons in before the end of the school year. Thanks!
Thank you again for these. They never get old. I come home from a day of dealing with teenagers, and I love it when one of your videos is on. Makes me smile.
I had the school board tell me I had to prepare exams for an hour each in English, Maths, Science, Geography and preferably History .... mind you we are talking first graders here, most of them can not even read.
One of my friends teaches first grade, so I get a lot of "crazy parent" stories from her. Earlier this year, one boy's mother brought a bottle of Nix (head lice treatment) and told the teacher that she had to treat her son at school, since he could've only gotten them from someone in his class. Excuse me, WHAT?? 😲 No, we don't do that at school! How I wish my friend had been making this up...
LOL I’m a mother of 3; now in their 30’s. I would have never twisted my mouth to say/request the things these parents have asked, but I might have instituted the refrigerator box on a couple of them at home if I’d thought about it!
I’m not even a teacher but it someone walked up to me and told me to prep potatoes for their kid’s lunch or bake their kid a birthday cake, I would have asked where my paycheck from them was because I wouldn’t do that for free. And there had better be a 15% tip.
I once got an SMS from a kid's father just days before parent-teacher meeting. The problem was that the SMS wasn't for me but for his mistress and was a detailed description what he wanted to do to her. It was so graphic that there were some words that even I didn't even know the meaning of and had to ask a colleague...and I'm a science and sex-ed teacher.
The only thing I ever asked of my daughters teachers was if they could understand that she and I were leaving an abusive environment and were coming from homeschooling into the public arena for the fist time in years. She wasn't great at sitting still in class, she always had to insert her opinion, and the teachers said they repeatedly had to remind her that THEY were in fact the teacher, not her. Those things were my fault, because her learning time was always an open discussion between she and I. We focused on things like vocabulary, math ideas, basic math, and her character, we visited museums everywhere and I had planned to work on handwriting next year, but she wanted to go to public school now and I wanted her to get as much out of it as she could. She was always getting into trouble and being marked off for her handwriting. That wasn't her fault, it was mine. So, I went in and asked them to please send home some handwriting worksheets and we would work on them at home, and I asked them not to hold it against her that I hadn't focused on that area with her yet. That was the only meeting we had. I couldn't imagine the audacity of some of these requests.
These questions illustrate the reason I always say that schools aren't to blame for student's poor classroom performance. Parents who are so uninvolved in their children's lives that they can't be bothered to prepare lunches or bake birthday cakes or get their children to school on time...there's where the blame lies.
When my husband was in 2nd grade, his teacher brought in a refrigerator box for one kid to sit in. It had a little flap that could open to pass work in or out, but then the flap had to close the rest of the time. Kids were so traumatized from her attitude (she yelled a lot too) that some started having bathroom accidents. She got fired.
One year I built dividers out of cardboard between desks (NOT around them) to interrupt some eye lines between kids. I had one particular class that was like beta fish, if they could see each other they were gonna start fighting. But if I just built a cardboard wall I could sit them right next to each other, they could see me and the whole rest of the room but not each other, and class could continue peacefully. Boxing a kid in would have been way out of line though.
A parent once told me I had to accept her child’s exam question answer which was in feet, I calmly explained we live in a country that works in metric, 12 inches to a foot, 4 inches to 10 centre meters but I was happy to convert it and give half marks, at which point the parent said “what do you mean?! HER FOOT ISNT EVEN 12 INCHES”……….. kid had literally answered in her personal feet…….. righto
Message for teachers-you are not God. Don’t think parents will take your racism and arrogant attitudes. Taxpayers pay your salaries so you ARE PAID to be where you are with children belonging to other people.
That first one got me weak as well...😂...this is the school nurses office. They got cotton swabs, q-tips and band-aids...this is not General Hospital. 😅
Your videos make my day! I’m simply floored at the outrageous requests and demands from parents. That parent who refuses to bring their child to school on time because a tv show is more important???? The parent is teaching the child that you don’t have to be anywhere on time as long as you are doing something that you enjoy or basically “I don’t have to follow rules!” Don’t they have truant officers any more? Sounds like somebody should be having a little “chat” with the parent.
I teach in Canada. This year we had a parent ask if why we didn't get the maid to clean up his child when they had an accident. Actually thought our school had the funds to hire maids bless his heart. Took all we had not to laugh.
My son in high school was a straight A student. One year his English teacher was a BIG-time feminist. All the book requirements were about women. They would get into debates, like one time it was over a woman killing her baby, so all of her family survived the holocaust. I told him, well until you are in that situation, you don't know what you would do. He didn't listen, insulted her, and then started to receive C papers. He complained to me asked me to go to the school. I laughed and said hell no. The one person you never piss off is the English teacher because many of your grades are subjective. I told him you created this drama, I told him to stop arguing with her, if he just felt the need go after class. He said this is not fair. I laughed and said wait till you get in college. Not one of those professors is going to give a durn about you. Get ready. The happy ending and or sad is her sister died of brain cancer. She was absent for a few weeks. I guess when she returned, she thought she was ready but broke down crying in class. All the students were just sitting there, and my son stood up and hugged her and took her out of the class to the principle. I asked him why he did this when he hated her and he said, OMG, mom, I never could hate her THAT MUCH. He said it was so sad, I couldn't just sit there. After that they became friends and would have their debates after class. He said, she ended up being one of the best English teachers he ever had and learned a lot. He still didn't get A from her, but he said it was always deserving. He is now 26 and they are still friends on facebook.
My son and daughter in law are both teachers. One teaches elementary school and the other teaches high school. I hear some outrageous stories from them regarding parents. These are two hardworking teachers who everyday go to work to teach our children and they have to deal with parents with unreal expectations. One of my daughter in law’s student’s parents told my daughter in law to make sure she changed his diaper more often. Huh? This kid is 10.
Taught from 2001 to 2011 (7th grade). Many of these made me laugh, and yet after more than 10 years "out the game," some of these triggered me...apparently, I still have some healing to do! 🤣
OMG You are HILARIOUS!!!! I get so depressed reading all the shitty news every day, your channel provides the relief I need! You really elevate my mood :) I have so much respect for teachers, I don't know how you put up with these ridiculous parents!
In about 1995/96, my mom taught at this tiny private school in the middle of nowhere. Each class was mixed grades, and hers was 5th/6th. She created her own 'time out' booth with a desk surrounded by a PVC frame and brown paper. Oddly enough, several kids BEGGED to use it because they thought they'd focus better in there. That surprised her, still seems to now - but not as much as the fact that one kid thought the little rubber thing she used on her finger to separate papers was a dildo. The fact that that child knew the term dildo just had her FLOORED...
I need you to show this to my 7th grade child when they get to school. Then I need you to give them a compare and contrast assignments to help them realize how sane their parents are. Thank you. And please send the assignment home with them for me to sign.
I’m glad I teach high school! 🤣 However, a parent DID ask if I could grade her son’s assignment that was 2 months late!!! I reminded her of our school policy, which is 15 points deducted each day late. That would give him a negative whatever as his grade. 😒
2:20 in my town, there was a teacher who had a refrigerator box, with wallpaper inside and the top cut out, that she would place over the desk (and body) of any child whom she found distractable when they were distracted. She would sometimes leave it there until lunch/recess/the end of school, whichever came first. It was clearly considered a humiliating mark of shame, Because it had a very lasting effect on every person I later knew from that teacher's class who had this done to them. Worst of all, once it was over you, you couldn't see the board or hear anything that was being taught!! This was done from the late 70s through very early 90s though...and we know what Gen X childhoods were like...so I don't know a single person whose parents did anything about it. Most of them said their parents did not believe them.
Lets address this as an assistant manager who employes high schoolers and people who came from this Era. I graduated HS in 2000. My teachers didn't play. Now we got these damn kids and young adults who don't know what the hell they are doing. I can train them but when I have a 17 year old who never has washed dishes in their life, YOU ARE CRIPPLING YOUR DAMN KIDS. MAKE THEM DO CHORES EARLY. MAKE THEM DO THEIR CLOTHES AND DISHES AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. I am a manager. I'm not their damn maid or their momma. I'm not their dating coach or therapist. I literally never give a damn except about my job. My job is to make them do theirs and train them when they start.
Thank you for speaking up! I'm a high school chemistry teacher, and when I ask my students to clean up their lab station and wash their glassware, they seem to have no concept of what that is. These kids are making our food, people! And allegedly washing their hands, not picking up dropped food, etc. Think about that when you eat out. And it all stems from no parenting.
@@coloraturaElise it really does and these kids I have really want jobs and need jobs to pay for prom, cars, graduation fees, basic life expenses. And most are almost embarrassed they don't know how to sweep or how to mop. They really don't know and these parents are crippling them from being adults who can take care of themselves. Make your kid dust and clean bathrooms!! Whoever is reading this, they can pull up a stool at 6 and help you wash non heavy and pointed dishes. They can fold rags, socks, towels even shirts. If they can work a damn phone and IPad they can learn this as well. STOP SENDING THEM TO TEACHERS AND JOBS TO RAISE THEM BECAUSE THATS NOT WHAT WE GET PAID FOR.
@@coloraturaElise I told all my kids' teachers on the meet and greet I'm trying my best. If you ever need to call me, call me and I'll come up there and take care of it. We work together and I'm here for you. Best believe I've sat in many a class next to my kid and made sure there was so issue and after that the kid in question never wanted me up there again. Whatever WE need to straighten out will be straight.
I literally had a parent bring in 2! cake mixes and tell me to make one for her child's school birthday treat and one for their birthday celebration at home!?!
Once had a parent loose her mind when she found out I have learning disabilities because I was "going to teach them to her daughter"... I was a student teacher at the time. It was my last straw and one of the huge reasons I got my degree but then never taught. Totally put me off teaching. Sad, because I was one of the few capable of seeing special education from both sides, and I got really good critiques from my supervising teacher for it but the problem was I was still so fresh with my own trauma and that parent yelling and screaming in my face about my worst fear (not being good enough at teaching because of my disability) just ended it for me. I got through my finals and never went into a classroom again.
Last year, a parent came into conferences and told me “You taught my daughter to subtract wrong” all in a huff. He then gave me a problem to solve at conferences and when I put the answer on there he told me it was wrong and demanded I check it with a calculator. When I did and showed him I was correct he said “I’ve been subtracting wrong my entire life.” 😂
Some places in the US have it, mostly union jobs, although not for as long as the European countries do it. The problem is that some parents think the pregnant teacher should delay taking that leave because it inconveniences their child.
A parent said, "You never let my child go to the treasure box!" I told her I didn't have one. She said all teachers have one. I told her I chose to invest my money in a Roth and a 403b instead of cheap trinkets that kids lose or break anyway. She hasn't spoken to me since. :)
Good🖤preserve your sanity!!
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You need a new career. While I agree on the uselessness of most of the trinkets you just come off as a shitty teacher. You could have informed her of whatever incentive/recognition program that you use instead of dismissing her legitimate question. When you have two elementary classes and one of them receives recognition while the other doesn’t the children notice. You’re so proud of yourself for cutting off the communication between parent and teacher. There is something wrong with you.
@@Supersquishyawesomeness This parent has been very dismissive and condescending when efforts were made to discuss poor attendance (50% absences) grades, and behaviors throughout the year. Our school does not even have a full-time admin to assist in addressing these issues. We went from 3 full-time admins to none. We have a part-time admin who is not invested in the school. The parent was told previously of recognition and incentives as well as consequences. She was also given a handout explaining recognition that she can refer to at any time. My diplomacy ran out. Other families are great. The only thing "wrong" with me is I continue to stay and try and work in a difficult situation. Don't worry though. I am walking out in May and never returning. By the way, my evals have been excellent for over 20 years.
@@Supersquishyawesomeness In all due respect, I don’t think she’s a bad teacher! How many parents offer to donate small trinkets for the class? The cost can become overwhelming when you have 25 students in a class. Offering incentives such as lunch with the teacher, 5 minutes of play at the end of the day, etc is beneficial as well. Why is it fair for teachers to spend hundreds, yes hundreds, of dollars out of their pocket to essentially get a student to work? If a decent report comes home, the parent should provide a treat! What do you think is a better solution? Please consider both sides before calling names. Just saying…stay blessed!
On behalf of normal parents everywhere. Thank you for all you do for our kids.
There are us sane parents….but I love hearing it…. I’m a daycare provider….soooo funny and relatable tho,isn’t ??? 😂😂😂😂
There are good teachers but they are few and far between these days. Coming to UA-cam or tiktok to complain about your job is just ignorant though. If you hate what the job entails, quit.
@@Supersquishyawesomeness There's good and bad about every job, and often the good outweighs the bad, but that doesn't mean people can't complain about things they don't like. It can be very therapeutic to vent. Also, these are things all teachers go through. It's good people share their experiences so that we can not only not feel alone in our struggle, but learn methods and strategies when those situations come up.
@@bandotaku there is a time and place and taking it to the Internet is unprofessional. Period. Like it or not they chose a profession that requires a certain level of social decorum. Complain to your husband.
@@Supersquishyawesomeness If they are off the clock, why does it matter if they are professional?
My husband use to tell me I was wrong for giving our kids teachers wine as gifts, I was like sir do you see how they act at home, now he pays for the wine 😂😂😂😂
Tell him you are the BEST teacher gifted of all time
Don't schools have no alcohol rule!!!!
Gold! That’s so hilarious. I’m betting you were very appreciated 😂
@@Froggyzz05 Guessing the teacher won't drink it at school
@@Froggyzz05 doesn’t mean they gave the teacher the gift at school!
"I try to say sane but, the devil be busy".
I love it.
I thought was "saved" she said lol
She did say she tried to stay 'saved'. But staying saved OT same is a battle. I felt that statement in my soul.
@@katrinab7657 Amen on either or. 😅
Best line ever!
I just retired this year after 30+ years. People ask if it was because of “kids today” - I’m like “ nope, it’s the adults today”.
Love this channel- had to laugh to often to do what we need to for our kiddos! ❤️
Yes, as a former educator, I can't agree with you more strongly.
I no longer will teach 6th grade because of the parents. I understand.
Absolutely. Retired 10+ years myselffor a myriad of reasons that had nothing to do with the children. Given more and more responsibilities, rules, duties, standards and assessments despite taking away nothing. Stress will kill us all. 😇😍😋
Retired at 20 years last year. Had a good laugh! Parents! Had one ask me to come back early from major surgery because her daughter missed me. Sweet but no.
I was just telling my friend this. People say things about "kids today" but it's the adults raising these brats!!! We need to do better
The maternity leave thing is extra insane since parents have, you know, already gone through the whole childbirth thing 99 per cent of the time.
Yes exactly 🤦🏻♀️
A teacher at our school was told by a parent," If you don't buy my child's new shoes then I will have to! " We just stood in silence there was nothing to say.
After decades of living on welfare (80+ programs) parents don’t expect to pay for anything. Shoes are not covered by welfare so they expect YOU to pay for them. Welfare is evil.
That parent is giving...🗑🗑🗑
Wtf
Wait a minute, I thought it was the parents' job to buy their kids' shoes?
Oh my goodness!! The audacity
A student was missing 90% of her task & it was 3 days bef the end of the semester.
The student did no school work in class for the entire quarter despite emails, letters, texts, & calls home.
So, mom wanted me to spend my holiday weekend helping her to catch up because she had social engagements during the 5 day school day.
When I stated, No, I don't get paid to work on the weekends & I am spending that time with my family.
The parent told me I'm suppose to work for free because her sister, who's a teacher, said it comes with the job, i.e., weekends & holidays.
I said, I have no parents who work without getting paid. If they do, there's a name for that & it was outlawed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Thank you for your service. Good comeback too. I literally leaned forward to keep chuckling.
It must be really hard to be a teacher today, with all the rules and worksheets. Y’all know what a parent needs to hear of their child and ya can’t even say. Ya get injured and ya can’t say outside of the school if ya wanna keep ur job. It ain’t right, but the system is too big for anyone to fight it. Most of us just leave it. It’s actually incredibly noble that so many teachers don’t leave.
Good for you! The entitlement of a lot of these parents knows no bounds!
That was the perfect response!!! 😂
I didn't even realize asking teachers to delay maternity leave was a thing, like people REALLY showing they don't see teachers as people.
Right? What do you want me to do- “hold on it’s been 9 months let me go ahead and wait another 5-6 …. 😒
So damn disrespectful.
There ain't even a working copy machine 😒 🙄 😑
Is this lady a real teacher........
Have you been to an inner city school? How about one so rural where your 22 kids shared 14 textbooks. I’ve taught at both. Entitled and clueless much? It shows. Shut your pie holes.
@@sophiabeatty3270 yup
When we said ain’t in elementary school we were corrected and quit saying it. Correct English is doomed.
@@sophiabeatty3270 as a former teacher, the way I speak in my personal life is VASTLY different than how I would speak with my students. Regardless, children use slang and ebonics all the time and they are smart enough to realize the difference between that and conventional, formal grammar, on their own.
You've got to wonder about these parents - when they were schoolchildren, did their teachers make them potato lunches every day and sniff the bathroom after them? Why would it ever occur to them to make these bizarre requests?
Honestly, I think it's cause of most parents having their kids in daycare fron birth. The daycare teaches the kid everything. I paid alot of money every mth for my daughter's daycare when we both had to work and commute for 10-12 hrs/day in a big city area. They had to change her diapers, then help potty train her, they provided the healthy breakfast/lunch/snacks, outdoor time, added the preschool learning, everything was an add on from what we did with her at home. They asked for our input so they could keep her on similar routines while at the daycare. They did this for each child in every age group, and of course, there were several teachers/aides. I think however, parents fail to realize that school is not daycare. I no longer pay over $1,000/mth for that level of care bc my daughter goes to free public school. I think too many parents can't put 2 and 2 together LOL. I would never expect my child's teachers to do this stuff.
Helicopter parents/ ones who don't want to prepare kids for school themselves
The potato one had to be from a country where teachers prepare food or something. Welcome to America.
Legal & illegal substance abuse...You'd be utterly shocked by what kiddos tell us.
So far I've caught a total of 12 of my MS & HS students selling various illegal & legal products on campus.
One of the funniest was the $ store candy & snack backpack so mom cd spend her entire weekend shopping at the mall. True story...
(1) It's illegal to sell any type of products on campus, safety issue (2) Where's the IRS when you need them? & (3) It's against child labor laws.
@@catara99 Great points. Also, teachers can't do this by state law. For example, kid gets a diaper rash & parental lawsuits to the district & state become rampid.
Paras & nurses are however licensed to provide this service under special conditions & parental permission, IEP.
Daycare workers aren't educated certified teachers, e.g., teacher college, BS, state certification & daycares are not schools, academies, nor learning centers.
The states need to update the labels these marketing businesses use to confuse parents.
Anyone can open a daycare business & call it a school, in most states.
One of my teachers left the public schools & opened her own daycare, $47,500/yr vs. $120K/yr.
You paid for a very expensive child care service to ensure that your child was school ready.
Not all parents can afford high quality daycare.
As a teacher for 34 years, I have loved my profession, but one of my regrets is that I didn't save all the bizarre and hilarious notes I received from parents!
A girl told me that the dog ate her homework. Of course, I went on a riff about....huh!...Nowadays, please say the printer jammed, etc etc... Well, the poor girl had just immigrated and didn't understand our idioms, crazy sayings, etc. I got a note from the poor mother describing how the daughter had left the homework on the bed and the dog jumped up, etc etc. The dog REALLY ate her homework. Classic.😂
I think so many parents today think it is up to everyone else to raise their child. They make babysitters out of teachers. Teachers are there to teach. Yes little children have bathroom problems and teachers have to be mindful of that, but teachers are there to teach. My father always told me, you go to school to learn, you show respect for your teacher, and you do not disrupt class and interfere with the learning of others.
I teach at a daycare center and well doing things like potty training is part of my job I'm still there to teach you don't do it for them you help them understand how to do the process of using the bathroom properly so you're technically still teaching them. You're not doing it for them and that's the crux of this absurdity the parent expects the teacher to do everything for them instead of teach the child how to do it themselves!
It takes a village, that was the beginning of this mess.
The elementary school I work at just had to buy a watch (they’re calling it the ‘pee watch’) to remind a third grader to go to the bathroom periodically throughout the day. I guess he kept having accidents on the bus ride home. It pains me that the school had to use funds to pay for this watch. Why does nothing ever seem to be the parents’ responsibility? 🤷♀️
Nope. They expect the school to raise their kids. Then when they want to dole out consequences like a zero on an assignment they never turned in or suspension for fighting they are right up at the school yelling not my little johnny or have some crazy excuse for the kid. We need a standard curriculum and a standard code of conduct in schools. If the parents don't like it there are these things called private schools.
@@cd4536 or homeschool
Exactly right, parents think schools should buy all school supplies, water filters, etc. Crazy!
This sounds like he had a 504.
I’m okay with this particular inciden, but if it’s not a medical issue the parents should have been made to provide the “ watch”. What’s wrong with an alarm instead?
@@PsychGirlRaven I’m not sure, but I think he has an IEP. Either way, I feel the parents should have purchased the watch. There’s always pull ups!
My daughter is a teacher. I made her a coffee mug that says “I teach for the fame and fortune “ 😂😂😂
I work in the after-school program, and one of the kids came home with a tick...so they asked us to check the kid for ticks before parents came to pick them up every day. To check for ticks properly requires a strip search...Nope, nope, nope.
That's outrageous! Shame on the parents!
Had a parent tell me her child had bugs in his butt that he got at school and wanted me to check all of the students. 1. NO 2. No one else had them 3. How do you know he had this ( checked at midnight with a flashlight 😳☹️)! Several NOs and a few days and she backed off.
How I would check: "Dorthy, do you have any tics? No? Great, I'll take your word on it! Next!"
On the other hand, if you don't want it to spread, would there be some sort of nurse who could help with it so other kids don't get infected & start an outbreak? That's not a teacher's job but I could see a school nurse might have to check 🤷🏼♀️
@@pixiebells Sounds like pinworms, which are fairly common and will spread through the entire school because they lay their eggs all around the anus, making the area itch. The kids scratch that itch, get the nearly microscopic eggs on their hand, don't wash their hands, and spread the eggs to all their friends until the entire school has them. There are medications to get rid of the worms. Yes, the school nurse, if they have one, should be in charge of education and treatment, but a *lot* of schools no longer have a school nurse, even part time.
This woman is PRICELESS> God bless you for your positive funny healthy attitude. You are an OSCAR winner!!!
🤣🤣 the potatoes and the cake😂😂 NO! WTH is wrong with people?
I live in Europe and don’t even have kids but I love this channel. It’s universally hilarious!
My children are grown and absolutely love these also.
I would LOVE to hear stories from Europe! SURELY they have ridiculous parents, too! Don't they? Yeah, prolly not! 😄
@@celieneohara521 yes! Because fools exist everywhere!
Same
The best thing is this stuff really happens! I'm a retired middle and elementary public school teacher. Teachers have the best stories to tell.
Came for the stories, stayed for the presentation.
Same, Rosie. Same. 😀💜
You hit the nail on the head with that one
The hiss took me clean tf out 💀 3:31
🤣🤣🤣
Same 😂
Took me right out too!
The box of cake mix, and 2 eggs is my favorite one. What do they expect a teacher to do, wave a wand and bake it? The only ovens/stoves are in the cafeteria area.
If a parent is too busy the night before to make a birthday cake, how in the world do they think a teacher with 30 students have time to bake one?
Can't you bring in a portable oven to bake stuff in your classroom? LOL
Sure, lemme pop that cake in the microwave during my ten minutes of lunch.
@@ILGuy2012 yeah you could do that or when I was in elementary school in the 90s a couple of the rooms had real ovens/stoves built in as if it had been a home economics room previously. or parents who could would just bring a sheet of pizza and a Bakery cake to class on their kids birthday my parents did this for my younger brother and I back when parties in class were a lot more common than they are now a la in the 90s/2000s. there's a specific bakery that used to be in East Boston Called Peaches & Cream though the Pandemic drove it out of business at least for the East Boston Branch there's one in Chelsea
Or the home ec classroom.
Seems like these parents think this is a Playschool and not an educational school. The overwhelming theme I’m getting is they think you’re a daycare worker and this is a daycare center that babysits their children while they’re at work. Not an educational facility. Or in other words, they have lost their damn minds!
You'd wonder if the parents ever went to school themselves and if they did what did they do there? 😂
Pretty much spot on. Parents want teachers to do everything to make their child a functioning, successful member of society while they scream, “Teachers are indoctrinating our children!!!”
Thing is, most of those requests wouldn't even fly at a daycare!
Wow. My husband is a teacher and you have ALL my respect. This series is amazing. Love from Germany.
I’m 54 years old but I wish I could have had you as a teacher! Your responses got me on the floor, laughing. 😂❤️
I don't know who I feel worse for - the teachers that have to put up with these parents or the kids being raised by these idiots. (That being said - I love your channel!)
I’d say these teachers deserve whatever they get from those kids the parents don’t raise. The teachers are scum.
True
Defiantly the kids.. They are stuck with these idiot parents for life, not just a few months (or years if there is a failure or multiple children).
I would certainly not send a child into a public school to be tormented by “teachers” and their attitudes like this.
@@daisydukes8252 I think you're bringing up privileged brats. There was *nothing* in this video which could even be called unkind, let alone "torment". Get a grip!
Asking the teacher to make a cake and potatoes for a week, those got me 😂😂😂 as a preschool teacher I can relate to some of these crazy requests 😂
I laughed so hard there were tears coming out of my eyes!😂
Me too! 😂😂😂😂
Not Jesus on the main line!!🎵😅😂
You have a beautiful singing voice
Omg, I'm a single mom and my son is now a freshman in high school. These requests are INSANE! I wasn't sure what to expect, but I appreciate the teacher's commitment is alway to the children first, and never once made fun of the kids.
(As an aside, I have food allergies and a commitment to feeding my son organic, healthy food. For years, I made every single breakfast & lunch my son had at school from scratch - like full, delicious meals, and occasionally brought homemade treats for the class when appropriate. I cannot FATHOM someone asking a teacher to COOK food for their kids!!!)
Exactly! If you have some sort of expectation or dietary lifestyle choice, sending it in with your kid makes so much more sense than asking the teacher to provide it! Like that's not part of their job. I genuinely don't understand those kinds of parents 😳 I'll never do that
"Tell me wh you left teaching without telling me why you left teaching." Seriously these parent requests are why teachers are leaving and cursing the schools they left behind. 🤣
That hiss!!! Hahahaha!
Just to be fair, my senior year of high school, early one morning at school I began having serious abdominal pain. Not your " normal" period cramps mind you, I'm talking bent over at the waist trying to walk to next class. Finally a teacher sent me to the nurse. The nurse didn't even take my temp, she let me lay down for a few minutes and sent me back to class. I didn't go, I went and laid down in my friends car, at lunch time she came out and I begged her to take me home. A few hours later I was in emergency surgery having an appendectomy. The ER doctor YELLED at my mother for not bringing me in earlier, I was close to death. I came out of surgery with 31 staples ( they had to do exploratory first to even find out what was going on) and my mother who was a retired nurse came out of that with a purpose to get that school "nurse" fired. She never even alerted anyone that I was sick, no call home, no temp taken. She was really mean and implied I was faking. If I hadn't of my own initiative left the school with help I would have died at that school. Parents are the worst at times, yet not all teachers or school nurses etc should be in that career. So in conclusion, you could probably have just as many stories of teachers, school personal really not doing right. I like your humor.
I've always said I love working with kids, it's the parents I can't stand. I'm glad I watched this because I feel bad bothering the teacher trying to figure out solutions for my special needs kiddo so he doesn't disrupt the class, or is able to complete his work. It wouldn't even begin to occur to me to ask the teacher to bake a birthday cake, or pick out the right color of expo marker. Each parent should be required to sit in a classroom setting until they "get it" that their child isn't your only duty that day.
Hellz yeah! The parent would be pissed to miss work too! And have to take off just for their kid to behave badly … ohhh that would be a sight to see
The refrigerator box...😲🥺
I concur, des parentz cray cray.
You kill me. I am a teacher. People who don't teach would not believe how real all those examples are. Thank you for the laugh...the sad, long, cynical laugh. Yes, more wine, please!
Wow! I had no idea what crazy parents y'all had to deal with! You couldn't pay me to be a teacher...I would never be able to hold my tongue! That must take sheer restraint!
Hoo-larious! I had to retire from teaching 6 yrs ago but this always brings me right back. Unfortunately, admin often backed up the parents when it came to their requests, unreasonable or not.
And there's your problem (admin), right there!
These videos remind me why so many teachers belong to unions, lol.
@@theresa78201 NC doesn't have one...we used to always hear "let us know if anyone approaches you about a union." I "retired" after 10 years.
I wonder if a pregnant teacher ever said to one of these insane parents "didn't realize you were able negotiate a due date with your unborn child"
Not as bad as these, but I have a student whose mom asks for "special consideration" for her EVERY time there is a field trip and she isn't passing the required classes, or hasn't turned in the fees or forms by the due date (which is pretty much EVERY trip). I don't hear from her UNTIL the day before the trip, and then I get a long e-mail explaining all of the trials and tribulations her daughter has been going through, and that she really wants her to have this opportunity, etc. If I reply explaining the trip expectations, and all of my REMINDERS of that prior to, she just responds about how her daughter needs special consideration, and how it's not fair to her (no thought of all of the other kids with similar issues who HAVE taken care of their requirements).
I'm with you there. My kids did their homework everyday and they worked hard to pass the tests. They did everything their teachers ask them to do. And then the schools would throw in the curved grading. And I felt like I was teaching my children responsibility respect that they have to work hard and that there are consequences to our actions and choices. Then I felt like the school didn't follow up. The kids were passing who shouldn't have. Parents were letting their kids off the hook and not teaching them responsibility or Consequences for actions. I didn't feel like the teachers were to blame but that the school administration and School Board were to blame.
Yep, I've had parents like these that make up excuses and think their kids need to be exceptions to the rules but want to talk about "fairness." 🙄
@@kristineilochi4615 YES, if they think some other kid is getting special treatment over their child, they are the 1st to complain, but then expect that THEIR child gets special treatment over others.
@@Emme333 Yeah, they tell us how we have to do these things, and sometimes it makes NO sense. Some schools will even tell teachers that students can't "earn" less than 50% on any assignment, even if they don't turn anything in.
Hey, so, my daughter is the center of my world and now I expect her to be the center of yours. Please hold your daughter in your belly longer so my kindergarten precious angel can get all her lessons in before the end of the school year. Thanks!
Thank you again for these. They never get old. I come home from a day of dealing with teenagers, and I love it when one of your videos is on. Makes me smile.
Laughter is the best medicine and I love your delivery.. you say what we all think! 😂😂😂😂
I had the school board tell me I had to prepare exams for an hour each in English, Maths, Science, Geography and preferably History .... mind you we are talking first graders here, most of them can not even read.
You ma’am, are too funny 😂 love, LOVE your comebacks
She really is great, isn't she? Love for Brianna! 💜💜💜💜💜
One of my friends teaches first grade, so I get a lot of "crazy parent" stories from her. Earlier this year, one boy's mother brought a bottle of Nix (head lice treatment) and told the teacher that she had to treat her son at school, since he could've only gotten them from someone in his class. Excuse me, WHAT?? 😲 No, we don't do that at school! How I wish my friend had been making this up...
OMG!!! All I can say is “bless their hearts” no wander these kids are the way they are.. HILARIOUS!!!
I would love to be a teacher's aide for this teacher! 🤣🤣🤣
GIRL...YOUR TOO FUNNY. LOVE IT. SCHOOL SHOULD PLAY THIS ON A LOOP FOR THE PARENTS.
LOL I’m a mother of 3; now in their 30’s. I would have never twisted my mouth to say/request the things these parents have asked, but I might have instituted the refrigerator box on a couple of them at home if I’d thought about it!
I’m not even a teacher but it someone walked up to me and told me to prep potatoes for their kid’s lunch or bake their kid a birthday cake, I would have asked where my paycheck from them was because I wouldn’t do that for free. And there had better be a 15% tip.
Wish we could tell off parents!
@@happycook6737 Teachers should be allowed a parent roast on their last day if they quit. 😂
@@sassyghost_8 OMG THIS IS THE BEST IDEA 💡 EVER!
@@happycook6737 allowed? That's part of the problem. The teacher need to stand up for themselves period.
Don’t do it. They’ll give you a lecture on how their taxes pay your paycheck and act like the own you now. Yup, it happened.
I once got an SMS from a kid's father just days before parent-teacher meeting. The problem was that the SMS wasn't for me but for his mistress and was a detailed description what he wanted to do to her. It was so graphic that there were some words that even I didn't even know the meaning of and had to ask a colleague...and I'm a science and sex-ed teacher.
So true! No working copy machine!
The only thing I ever asked of my daughters teachers was if they could understand that she and I were leaving an abusive environment and were coming from homeschooling into the public arena for the fist time in years. She wasn't great at sitting still in class, she always had to insert her opinion, and the teachers said they repeatedly had to remind her that THEY were in fact the teacher, not her. Those things were my fault, because her learning time was always an open discussion between she and I. We focused on things like vocabulary, math ideas, basic math, and her character, we visited museums everywhere and I had planned to work on handwriting next year, but she wanted to go to public school now and I wanted her to get as much out of it as she could. She was always getting into trouble and being marked off for her handwriting. That wasn't her fault, it was mine. So, I went in and asked them to please send home some handwriting worksheets and we would work on them at home, and I asked them not to hold it against her that I hadn't focused on that area with her yet. That was the only meeting we had. I couldn't imagine the audacity of some of these requests.
You are so much fun! Would have loved for my kids to have had you for a teacher!
These questions illustrate the reason I always say that schools aren't to blame for student's poor classroom performance. Parents who are so uninvolved in their children's lives that they can't be bothered to prepare lunches or bake birthday cakes or get their children to school on time...there's where the blame lies.
Working in retail my whole life and hearing this makes me just want to be unemployed. Stupidity is truly universal 🙄
When my husband was in 2nd grade, his teacher brought in a refrigerator box for one kid to sit in. It had a little flap that could open to pass work in or out, but then the flap had to close the rest of the time. Kids were so traumatized from her attitude (she yelled a lot too) that some started having bathroom accidents. She got fired.
One year I built dividers out of cardboard between desks (NOT around them) to interrupt some eye lines between kids. I had one particular class that was like beta fish, if they could see each other they were gonna start fighting. But if I just built a cardboard wall I could sit them right next to each other, they could see me and the whole rest of the room but not each other, and class could continue peacefully. Boxing a kid in would have been way out of line though.
I love these!! 😂
The audacity!!
A parent once told me I had to accept her child’s exam question answer which was in feet, I calmly explained we live in a country that works in metric, 12 inches to a foot, 4 inches to 10 centre meters but I was happy to convert it and give half marks, at which point the parent said “what do you mean?! HER FOOT ISNT EVEN 12 INCHES”……….. kid had literally answered in her personal feet…….. righto
PSA for parents... YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR KIDS ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD, AND ATTENDANCE! DO NOT MAKE THE TEACHER YOUR UNPAID BABYSITTERS!
Message for teachers-you are not God. Don’t think parents will take your racism and arrogant attitudes. Taxpayers pay your salaries so you ARE PAID to be where you are with children belonging to other people.
That first one got me weak as well...😂...this is the school nurses office. They got cotton swabs, q-tips and band-aids...this is not General Hospital. 😅
Great news for that Gilligan island one, they got a device now that can record TV shows so you can watch them later. 😋
Your videos make my day! I’m simply floored at the outrageous requests and demands from parents. That parent who refuses to bring their child to school on time because a tv show is more important???? The parent is teaching the child that you don’t have to be anywhere on time as long as you are doing something that you enjoy or basically “I don’t have to follow rules!” Don’t they have truant officers any more? Sounds like somebody should be having a little “chat” with the parent.
I teach in Canada. This year we had a parent ask if why we didn't get the maid to clean up his child when they had an accident. Actually thought our school had the funds to hire maids bless his heart. Took all we had not to laugh.
My son in high school was a straight A student. One year his English teacher was a BIG-time feminist. All the book requirements were about women. They would get into debates, like one time it was over a woman killing her baby, so all of her family survived the holocaust. I told him, well until you are in that situation, you don't know what you would do. He didn't listen, insulted her, and then started to receive C papers. He complained to me asked me to go to the school. I laughed and said hell no. The one person you never piss off is the English teacher because many of your grades are subjective. I told him you created this drama, I told him to stop arguing with her, if he just felt the need go after class. He said this is not fair. I laughed and said wait till you get in college. Not one of those professors is going to give a durn about you. Get ready. The happy ending and or sad is her sister died of brain cancer. She was absent for a few weeks. I guess when she returned, she thought she was ready but broke down crying in class. All the students were just sitting there, and my son stood up and hugged her and took her out of the class to the principle. I asked him why he did this when he hated her and he said, OMG, mom, I never could hate her THAT MUCH. He said it was so sad, I couldn't just sit there. After that they became friends and would have their debates after class. He said, she ended up being one of the best English teachers he ever had and learned a lot. He still didn't get A from her, but he said it was always deserving. He is now 26 and they are still friends on facebook.
Love your story!!
I love your story too! Great son!
My son and daughter in law are both teachers. One teaches elementary school and the other teaches high school. I hear some outrageous stories from them regarding parents. These are two hardworking teachers who everyday go to work to teach our children and they have to deal with parents with unreal expectations. One of my daughter in law’s student’s parents told my daughter in law to make sure she changed his diaper more often. Huh? This kid is 10.
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My first time seeing this channel. You're hilarious and have a beautiful singing voice!
Teachers have a tough job! Stay blessed❤️
Me too! First time here and thought the same about her voice!
Taught from 2001 to 2011 (7th grade). Many of these made me laugh, and yet after more than 10 years "out the game," some of these triggered me...apparently, I still have some healing to do! 🤣
2:10 Parents shouldn't ask for people to delay/not take maternity or paternity leave. That's just ridiculous! Although, I love this channel!!
One would think that as these are PARENTS, they would know how having a baby works! 😆 No, you don't get to pick a time for the baby to be born.
@@lizajane2971 agreed 1,000%
OMG You are HILARIOUS!!!! I get so depressed reading all the shitty news every day, your channel provides the relief I need! You really elevate my mood :) I have so much respect for teachers, I don't know how you put up with these ridiculous parents!
All your videos just make me feel like the worlds best parent!!! These people be crazy and shouldn’t have children!!!!
Chewing, tobacco?! That poor child. 😂😂😂
In about 1995/96, my mom taught at this tiny private school in the middle of nowhere. Each class was mixed grades, and hers was 5th/6th. She created her own 'time out' booth with a desk surrounded by a PVC frame and brown paper. Oddly enough, several kids BEGGED to use it because they thought they'd focus better in there. That surprised her, still seems to now - but not as much as the fact that one kid thought the little rubber thing she used on her finger to separate papers was a dildo. The fact that that child knew the term dildo just had her FLOORED...
Your expressions! They help so much. And, "this is something you never ask a teacher..... ". Good, we need that list. Very funny, thanks.
This is just to darn funny. I haven laughed this hard in a minute
As a former teacher, I couldn’t stop laughing. You are hilarious, seriously, your delivery and comments are pure gold.
I need you to show this to my 7th grade child when they get to school. Then I need you to give them a compare and contrast assignments to help them realize how sane their parents are. Thank you. And please send the assignment home with them for me to sign.
I’m glad I teach high school! 🤣 However, a parent DID ask if I could grade her son’s assignment that was 2 months late!!! I reminded her of our school policy, which is 15 points deducted each day late. That would give him a negative whatever as his grade. 😒
Honestly this video just gave me LIFE. Thank you so much for making me laugh after such a dark and depressing week. You are the BEST. 💗
I’m laughing so hard that I’m crying! I had almost every one of these. Instead of a uterus, however, it was a placenta! LOL!!!
The potatoes one sent me to the floor 😂😂😂
2:20 in my town, there was a teacher who had a refrigerator box, with wallpaper inside and the top cut out, that she would place over the desk (and body) of any child whom she found distractable when they were distracted. She would sometimes leave it there until lunch/recess/the end of school, whichever came first. It was clearly considered a humiliating mark of shame,
Because it had a very lasting effect on every person I later knew from that teacher's class who had this done to them.
Worst of all, once it was over you, you couldn't see the board or hear anything that was being taught!!
This was done from the late 70s through very early 90s though...and we know what Gen X childhoods were like...so I don't know a single person whose parents did anything about it. Most of them said their parents did not believe them.
4:43 that “BUSY” got me
"This is why my wine cabinet is full" Hahahahahaha!!!
LMAO This is why we drink!🤣
I can't even bake myself a birthday cake
Laughter for a teacher is best medicine! Thanks!
A solid half of these stories make me feel like those people should never have been made parents. Those poor kids.
Parents, please stop asking teachers to check on your child's poop habits...!!! And I'm a mom, not a teacher.
Laughing my head off - ‘cause I’m retired and don’t have to deal with those parents anymore.
And we homeschool so I don’t have to deal with the anti white racist teachers anymore.
i'm sorry but the way she said "this is why we drink" has me dead
the sass makes me so happy
He’s a lying thief!! Lol 😂😂
Lets address this as an assistant manager who employes high schoolers and people who came from this Era. I graduated HS in 2000. My teachers didn't play. Now we got these damn kids and young adults who don't know what the hell they are doing. I can train them but when I have a 17 year old who never has washed dishes in their life, YOU ARE CRIPPLING YOUR DAMN KIDS. MAKE THEM DO CHORES EARLY. MAKE THEM DO THEIR CLOTHES AND DISHES AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. I am a manager. I'm not their damn maid or their momma. I'm not their dating coach or therapist. I literally never give a damn except about my job. My job is to make them do theirs and train them when they start.
Thank you for speaking up! I'm a high school chemistry teacher, and when I ask my students to clean up their lab station and wash their glassware, they seem to have no concept of what that is. These kids are making our food, people! And allegedly washing their hands, not picking up dropped food, etc. Think about that when you eat out. And it all stems from no parenting.
@@coloraturaElise it really does and these kids I have really want jobs and need jobs to pay for prom, cars, graduation fees, basic life expenses. And most are almost embarrassed they don't know how to sweep or how to mop. They really don't know and these parents are crippling them from being adults who can take care of themselves. Make your kid dust and clean bathrooms!! Whoever is reading this, they can pull up a stool at 6 and help you wash non heavy and pointed dishes. They can fold rags, socks, towels even shirts. If they can work a damn phone and IPad they can learn this as well. STOP SENDING THEM TO TEACHERS AND JOBS TO RAISE THEM BECAUSE THATS NOT WHAT WE GET PAID FOR.
@@coloraturaElise I told all my kids' teachers on the meet and greet I'm trying my best. If you ever need to call me, call me and I'll come up there and take care of it. We work together and I'm here for you. Best believe I've sat in many a class next to my kid and made sure there was so issue and after that the kid in question never wanted me up there again. Whatever WE need to straighten out will be straight.
I literally had a parent bring in 2! cake mixes and tell me to make one for her child's school birthday treat and one for their birthday celebration at home!?!
Ha!! Wow...
What? Y'all better be making this up. 😂😂😂 I don't remember my parents doing sh*t like this...EVER.
What???? Just....I don't....why....I literally cannot form a coherent thought about this. Why the cake for at home?????
And people wonder why teachers are quitting in droves 🤦♀️
Walmart sells pre made cakes and cupcakes. WTF.
Once had a parent loose her mind when she found out I have learning disabilities because I was "going to teach them to her daughter"... I was a student teacher at the time. It was my last straw and one of the huge reasons I got my degree but then never taught. Totally put me off teaching. Sad, because I was one of the few capable of seeing special education from both sides, and I got really good critiques from my supervising teacher for it but the problem was I was still so fresh with my own trauma and that parent yelling and screaming in my face about my worst fear (not being good enough at teaching because of my disability) just ended it for me. I got through my finals and never went into a classroom again.
Last year, a parent came into conferences and told me “You taught my daughter to subtract wrong” all in a huff. He then gave me a problem to solve at conferences and when I put the answer on there he told me it was wrong and demanded I check it with a calculator. When I did and showed him I was correct he said “I’ve been subtracting wrong my entire life.” 😂
In Europe you have paid maternity leave.
Some places in the US have it, mostly union jobs, although not for as long as the European countries do it. The problem is that some parents think the pregnant teacher should delay taking that leave because it inconveniences their child.
Several states in the US have paid maternity or family leave: CA, NY, NJ etc
I ❤watching this channel and her reactions. She’s so funny!!!!