That is correct but it is also a trap. If you try to raise their kids (on top of not getting extra pay) you get yelled at for doing so. Double whammy! Yelled at either way, so just start the yelling yourself
It’s you, parents want to parents the children to warp them into mindless idiots. This has been all over the news so you can’t deny it. Then they act like toddlers when they lose that power….the power they should have never had.
One of mine used to go to school in her pyjamas. She has autism with some pretty bad sensory issues. It was written into her special Ed program to get her to wear something other than pjs. Sometimes there are reasons for this and sometimes it’s lazy parenting producing spoilt, entitled brats.
Parent asked me (rather, demanded) that I reschedule my surgery for summer because it was inconvenient to her child’s education. It was heart surgery, not a nose job or other elective surgery! The audacity. 😫
had a parent mad at the teacher I was subbing for because the teahcer went on vacation right before the end of the year and I wasn't giving her child the individualized attention the child had been getting. The teacher hadn't been back home to see his family in over two years.
@@TheMadameMims honestly on that one, there's no point in speaking to the substitute about it, but it's not a story that engenders sympathy for the teacher...with the facts available anyway. Maybe there was a wedding or something, but otherwise why duck out on the kids? 2 more weeks gonna kill you,
True enough; most of the time its the administrators (and the state rules) that screw things up. The only sad thing is how many teachers go along with it, or are afraid to speak up against it. Teachers' union cost me (and 120 others) my job in California.
"Admin made me do it" and then staring right into the camera "Of course they did" got me lol. They have been making admins sub in my district somedays I hope that means they can understand what we go through a little bit more lol
Why didn’t she just email it to both parents every week instead? 😂 then technically it would still satisfy the requirements without wasting paper that teachers pay for themselves.
@@time2livelife The documents probably included worksheets for the student to complete, to the parents probably would have complained about having to print it out themselves... It's not a good reason. But these are the nightmare parents.
Right before Covid hit my middle school officially hired a girl who is a good friend of mine. She was a teacher for 17 years before she was hired as assistant principal. We all thank God every day because she truly get it!
I’m not a teacher or a Mom. It popped up on my recommendations, but I liked her very much. However, I’ll probably watch again to feel good about my choice of career & not being a human parent (I have animals😂).
I studied for 6 years to become a teacher and counselor. I refused to work in that field after my student teaching gig. The stupidity of the parents AND the administrative staff boggled my mind. I was once told that I was required to clean up a child who shat himself, but I couldn’t hug him if he was crying. Ridiculous.
You are so right! I’ve been teaching for 23 years and the “rules” and expectations just keep getting stranger and stranger. In most cases when something happens we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t 😢
Absolutely agree with you on not touching the child especially when the child’s hand is down his pants! Man, imagine the legal trouble you would be in!
Agreed. Lol with middle schoolers, you don’t want to even get near them half the time due to their hygiene / after gym class….. as the higher ups always say, never touch a child. The most I would say (and even this is iffy) would be for grades K-2nd with morning / afternoon greetings such as handshake, high five, side hug, fist bump & so on. Again, even then be careful. Lol if I see any kid with his / her hands down their pants & someone tells me to move them, before they even finish that sentence I’ll be replying with a “Not in a million years”🤣
Yup! I had a teacher friend who got yelled at by a parent bc she was pregnant and thus the due date would interfere with her precious child's education. She requested the teacher move the due date to summer, and called the teacher inconsiderate for daring to become pregnant during the school year. Even going so far as to suggest termination to better align with the parent's schedule. Admin backed the parent up, and the teacher was verbally repremanded for the strain this her inconveniently timed pregnancy was going to put on the school, students, and parents. She came to my class crying bc she had been so happy after 2yrs of trying, but now felt so guilty for how this was going to impact the kids. It's absolutely insane, and I was furious at them for pulling that tired ol over used guilt trip that they ALWAYS use when the situation is just mildly inconvenient for admin. Seriously, scheduling a life or death surgery and it interferes with a school day? Admin is like, but the children's education will suffer!, Have that surgery during summer break? Admin is like, feel better! We support you 100%! Let us know if we can do anything! It's all about if they need to do something or not, not the actual teacher. My friend quit teaching after her baby was born. She used the maternity leave time to find another job where she makes 3x more AND has an actually supportive work environment!
You actually be shocked to know the amount of teachers that have had to step in between just to make sure that a child's needs are met. It's pretty f****** ridiculous LOL
@@petehenry7878 this may come as a shock to you but some children don't live in happy homes. And because teachers work for the state they are what's called a mandatory reporter. Mandatory reporters are required by law to step in if they notice cases of child neglect or abuse. You may not be a law-abiding citizen but that's not applicable in this situation. We also cannot have parents coming up to the school screaming and getting in fist fights in front of other people's children so yes sometimes grown-ass adults need to be put in their place and told no.
@@beastly.warner This may come as a shock to you sweetheart, but none of what you said matters. No one made anyone step in. People do that by choice and sometimes they get it wrong when they do. But hey I guess you're one of those people that thinks wrongly accusing someone is OK . I mean, WTF do you mean calling me a non "law-abiding citizen". No need for any proof in your ideal world is there.
@@petehenry7878 I'm going to go ahead and let your ignorance shine. I hope the best for you in this life and I hope you find what makes you happy. It's not my job to explain the law to you and it's not my job to explain the individual situations of children and their family Dynamics. At the end of the day it's none of your goddamn business
I had a guy ask me about guitar lessons for his kid. When I answered that I had a long waiting list and it might be a few months before there was space, he asked why my list was so long. "Because I'm good," I answered.
I used to work in a daycare and regularly had parents get upset because I didn't change their kid out of their pajamas (not my job) or do pretty hairstyles for the girls (also not my job, and I'm terrible at hair so it was either ponytail or pigtails) and I got told by the administration that it was in fact my job to make sure the kids "looked presentable" each day. Yeah no
@@jengentry06 it most definitely wasn't (I checked), but that entire establishment was so toxic and me standing up for myself was met with involving the board of directors. Needless to say, I quit and am so happy I left when I did.
I'm in childcare I would say I'm happy to help "insert child's name here" after she/he goes down to for their nap (if they have one) or when she/he indicates they are ready to get dressed. Or if they are old enough not to nap I will just say I will let "insert name" know I am happy to assist them when they are ready to get dressed. If the parent decided or the child even decides to come to preschool in the pajamas then its up to them to indicate when they want to get dressed.
I had that "divorced parent" issue myself. Luckily, they were "rational" enough to agree to a joint email account that they BOTH had access to. I am soooo glad I no longer teach minors.
I have one to add…I had a parent request a meeting be held at 8pm at night during Thanksgiving vacation and then was told that I wasn’t a team player when I denied her request…gosh, I truly must be a bad teacher! NOT!
I can't believe admin made an overwhelmed teacher keep track of which parent the child was with, and send a copy...that is nuts. Is the material not yet on line? They need to learn to coparent...that is not the teacher's responsibility. Someone needs to advocate for these teachers...that admin failed.
Believe it. Admins are lackeys for parents. We had to give a student four sets of textbooks (mom, dad, two sets of grandparents) because none of them would communicate with each other. When we got a new student mid-year, and asked for one set of textbooks to be returned so the new kid could have them, the "set of four parenting adults" finally co-operated on something---complaining to the superintendent about the textbook return request. The super sided with them, and we had to copy textbooks chapter by chapter for the new kid. I quit the next year.
@@suziewhattley3917 I am a former, now retired, elementary school principal. 25 yrs! My roll was not only that of instructional leader but also to support teachers in the very challenging job that is teaching. I taught for 9 yrs before going into admin. The reason was a simple one for me. I could do better in supporting teachers and thus impacting some 800 students a year, than what I had experienced from my own administrators. My career was successful, challenging and rewarding. It pains me to read so much administration battering. Parents and superintendents put enormous pressure on building Principals. It's the skilled principal who will find ways to buffer this pressure from reaching the classroom teacher. Not easy but doable.
What, you mean to tell me that teachers can't control the sun and moon? I. Am. Shocked. I thought a teaching license made you GOD! Seriously, the stupid... it burns... like the sun. XD
I agree, y'all. My dad worked as a civilian contractor for the military, and my husband was an Army Reservist for a while. Stupid can absolutely reach that level and beyond! One of the sayings that went around the office was that if you make something "idiot proof" the Army would make a better idiot.
To every parent out there for whom such-and-such child-rearing responsibilities are "too much trouble for them": that excuse became invalid the day you or your spouse gave birth to your kids. You knew you had a paid day job to do five days per week eight hours per day BEFORE you or your spouse got pregnant. And you should have known well in advance that life was only going to get HARDER AND MORE INVOLVED BY REQUIREMENT after your offspring came along. Even the most angelic children in the world are tough to raise. Why? It's called PARENTING. Learn to deal with it today or else everybody in the whole entire world will be right up sh*t creek in the very near future!
I don''t have kids, however, gotta say listening to what teachers have to go through is the BEST birth control out there! Teachers DO NOT GET PAID ENOUGH!!
Or... Just don't be a crappy parent! Love the videos, but why do they make people not want children? Do they think that having children turns you like that?
Yes! I used to tell teens (if appropriate) - babysit- that’s the best birth control! To remind them- you want that continuous now? Take you time, be wise, live first!
First up - this woman is my favorite human. She’s fantastic. Second up - what is wrong with people? Sheesh, I thought my stories were bad. And folks wonder why there’s a teacher shortage. Shoot, I was gone after 2 years.
I had to teach a young girl (middle school) how to handle her period. The student's mother put plastic over the furniture at home and just let her bleed everywhere because she didn't believe her daughter was smart enough to handle it, so she never let her try. She tried to keep her daughter home every month during this period of time awell. I still worry about his girl.
Before I started teaching, I HAD NO IDEA that parents could be this crazy. Thankfully, the parents I work with are only ant-hill-level crazy, not the Mt Everest level crazy of some of the parents in this video. Dang.
I love ur videos. I was raised by a family of teachers and am now a long haul trucker. I cringe at the level of ignorance these people have. Sadly, that is because the parents of the parents either convinced these people that the world needed to conform to them rather than the real world shaping up the individual. I actually laugh on the outside and cry on the inside because so many people are acting exactly like their snotty children (remember Veruca Salt?) and cannot figure out why the world is upset with them!
I'm a speech language pathologist and yes, the things I have heard. Parents also tend to treat me like an action figure. They expect me to be available for updates all the time. But, what I handle is on a smaller scale, nothing but respect for all teachers.
Want to share a story about an extraordinary teacher in my son's life. He has ADHD and she has consistently gone out of her way to help him overcome it. I was working at a job that was a one hour commute and my (then) common-law husband didn't like waiting an extra 15 minutes to go to work while waiting for school to open. She made special arrangements for the school to let ONLY my son come to school half an hour early for almost 2 years. There's a special place in heaven for Mrs. G. Truly above and beyond the call of duty. We love and appreciate her more than words can express.
THESE ARE MY FAVORITE TYPE OF VIDEOS ON THIS CHANNEL!!! Please do more! You can't ever run out of material like this because parents these days are simply out. of. control. ❤
Omg thank you ! The amount of times of had parents drop their 3-4 year old children off in the wrong school uniform (they wear tracksuits Monday-Thursday and actually uniform on Friday) because they couldnt be bothered to put the correct uniform on and asked me to change them 😅. I've also had a mum tell me her daughter wouldnt listen to her and so when she got to school I (the teacher) would sort out her hair and put it every morning 😅 yeah cause I've got time for that lol xx
Haha, I’ve worked for the education system for over 22 years. Started from a one on one, teachers aide, the office staff than admin. Some parents are crazy and think you are the care taker when they are in school. I’m retired from education and I have many, many crazy stories. Some parents think after they pop the child out, the raising of the child is the responsibility of the school system.
Love you! One of my memorable moments as a Kinder teacher was a parent who informed me that since the school told her that Kinders need to be toilet trained she sent him without a diaper (his 1st day without). He was not a child with special needs. So could I please take him to the bathroom every half hour or so? Also he will need me to wipe/clean his bottom...and he would need to use a separate/solo bathroom so he wouldn't feel embarrassed. I always wonder when I get requests for 1:1 with their child, What Do You Think the Other 20 Children Will Be Doing While I'm alone with her child!??!
I totally get that , we had one situation at a day care that I was at where the child was in the process of being potty trained and all through the day at the beginning we would have the child go and try to use the toilet every X amount of hours. Which was going so well at day care and the child was doing so well . So one parent was on board and when the child was at their house they would do that however the other parent couldn’t be bothered to do it so when the child was at that parents house that parent would only use pull ups at all times cuz it was just easier overall to do that rather than taking the child to the bathroom every X number of hours if the child wasn’t going to go when you sat them down . So low and behold whenever that parent dropped off in the morning ( usually by 9 am ) the child was wearing a pull up still ( had been changed since they had woken up clearly ) and the parent would request ( more like require ) that we had the child in a pull up ready to go the minute they got to the Centre . Let’s just say the on board parent was just as ticked off and annoyed at the other parent as we were . ( funny part was the parent who wasn’t on board still seemed to get all baffled at why the child wasn’t potty trained yet and that it must have been due to what we were doing was bogus and that we clearly didn’t know what we were doing . 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I had a parent show up to our week away science camp demanding to see their kid (not thinking for a moment about how that could trigger MASSIVE homesickness, or how we're required to have a background check for everyone who comes on site). Turns out he only realized how guilty he felt about not spending more time with his kid when the child wasn't at home.
That last one, that was gold. It really sums up the absurdity of expectations placed on teachers. I like to believe that I have never made an unreasonable request. And, my wife and I seemed baffled at first when my oldest was having trouble in school and her teacher was mildly shaken to bring it up... But then, this puts it into perspective. The examples that you shared here are requests made in passive times, when there is no conflict. I could only imagine what it's like for you when there is a conflict.
I had one of those yesterday. but I didn't have time to help him because there was a new autistic child who idn't know the rules yet. This is in a pre-school and I am a substitute.
That solar eclipse parent must be the cousin of the one who asked that we make sure that it doesn't rain on the day of the field trip because her son's shoes are new and she didn't want any mud on them.
I worked in daycare for 8 years, and helping children learn personal hygiene routines, like proper hand washing, and wiping after using the toilet was actually something we did. But I guess daycare is different from preschool
That depends some preschool don't allow students who are not completely potty trained to enroll. In others they help with potty training but the expectation is that the parent will actually try to potty train at home. I've had parents who were not willing to help so their kids had a harder time being trained. They were always confused on why their child wasn't trained and would get upset 🙄.
@@Vbear-bn4wm Even a fully potty trained child still usually needs reminders for a lot of those personal hygiene behaviours, but I have also experienced the kids who were in nappies well past the age all the other kids in the room had toilet trained and mum/dak kept on saying 'we want to wait until he shows us he's ready' but the opportunity to show he was ready was just there's a potty in this room I guess the kid was supposed to just work it all out for himself and choose to take his nappy off and sit on the potty.
I'm a retired high school teacher (English, History, Arts & Humanities with 4 college degrees). As you all know, the problems students have in high school are different from middle school and elementary problems. I couldn't tell you about most of my teaching experiences because they would be censored, but I can tell you that one year I won the faculty award for "Most Subpoenaed Teacher in a Single Semester." I still miss teaching.
A parent once told me how distressing it was to get her kids ready for school each morning. I said dress them in their school clothes at night after their bath and let them sleep in them. Problem solved. She was so happy 😆
Love her... And somehow a little relieved I don't have kids, lest I end up sending some of those crazy requests myself... And while we're at it: could you please move the moon, so it does no longer shine in my bedroom? Damn...🤣😂
A college student once asked me, “How was I supposed to know that the sun is a major source of energy?!”, after having missed that question on a choose-4 multiple choice test of essential academic skills. If 14 years of world-class public schools hasn’t covered that, then it’s no surprise to me that the student failed a test of essential academic skills.
This is just so amazing to hear. I love this woman's responses. Thank God for her sense of humor. How else could she endure a school year. I would want her as a teacher for my children if I'd ever had any.
This needs to be longer! I’d watch hours of this. I was once a teacher but swapped to swim teaching. Much easier, a lot less hassle, and parents are generally lovely
We had one preschooler who was a thumbsucker- seeing as it was during pretty strict protocols and he would have to lower his mask to do this and then wash his hands after having them in his mouth, we were doing our best to discourage doing it at school (and it was working really well). His mom asked my boss if we would just let him do it whenever he wanted, and then pulled him out when my boss said no lol.
After 42 years in the public school system, ALL of those parent requests sounded plausible. The crap teachers are subjected to is never ending but makes for great comedy. Thanks for the laughs.😂😂😂
We had a parent send us a video and ask all of the middle school child's teachers to watch it. The video was literally a half hour of a camera focused on said child as he diligently filled line after line after line of paper with indecipherable writing, I guess to prove that we were (all) lying about the child's refusal to work at school. A half hour of my life I will never get back.
Why would you watch the whole thing? Was it not obvious after the first few minutes? Why not speed the video up or skip through. Some suffering others bring to us. Some we bring onto ourselves.
@@kissit012 Admin directive; these parents were "someone" in the community, constantly critical, not (yet?) open to hearing that their child, now in 8th grade, was a beautiful, wonderful child who simply did not have the mental capacity to earn a diploma, and admin always feared litigation. Even without merit, it would be costly.
My mom taught middle school for a couple years, my dad taught college classes. I worked with kids as a teen in a summer program. It's because of parents like this that when my parents tried to talk to my own teachers about reasonable things, the teachers just started screaming. I had a parent once tell me, when I was 16 and it was my job to literally guide children from their drop-off cars to the door safely, that I, the teenager/day camp assistant, was not providing enough academic structure for her child in our summer program. Her child was 5, by the way.
I'm just howling with laughter listening to this. I just love how real you are, and some of the insanity of people that you are illuminating, how disconnected from life (reality) we've gotten. Bless you
My dad was always upset that the school wouldn’t send him emails. My parents were divorced since I was 3. My dad still had me on the weekends and holidays. The schools I went to treated him as a secondary parent (I think that is what it is called). When he picked me up from school sometimes the adults usually looked scared because I would run up and hug him. They thought I was running up and hugging a stranger. My dad handled all of my academics and tutoring me. My dad is the one who took me to almost all of my doctor and dentist appointments. …the school didn’t realize he was my biological father and didn’t know who he was. I have lots of “fun” stories too.
This is what happens when parents think we teachers are their personal employees because someone told them their “taxes pay your salary”. Umm… No. Here is $1, which is more than the amount of tax you pay for public schools. 🙄
Is it just me….or do a lot of parents not want to raise their own kids anymore? 🤷🏼♀️ 🤣
That's what I was thinking while watching the video.
That is correct but it is also a trap. If you try to raise their kids (on top of not getting extra pay) you get yelled at for doing so. Double whammy! Yelled at either way, so just start the yelling yourself
It’s you, parents want to parents the children to warp them into mindless idiots. This has been all over the news so you can’t deny it. Then they act like toddlers when they lose that power….the power they should have never had.
You can thank Hillary for that, and her BS of ‘it takes a village’ garbage.
I believe alot didn't want to be parents in the first place.
“I’m not gettin’ your daughter dressed for school cuz I can’t file your child on my taxes.” I’m laughing so hard. Good stuff!
How does that girl come to school, then? In her jammies?
That is the best response ever!
One of mine used to go to school in her pyjamas. She has autism with some pretty bad sensory issues. It was written into her special Ed program to get her to wear something other than pjs. Sometimes there are reasons for this and sometimes it’s lazy parenting producing spoilt, entitled brats.
@@aliciakerr7639 Even if it's written in her program it's still the PARENTS job to do so.
So true!
Parent asked me (rather, demanded) that I reschedule my surgery for summer because it was inconvenient to her child’s education. It was heart surgery, not a nose job or other elective surgery! The audacity. 😫
Unbelievable!
Had it been a cosmetic mole removal, she was still way over the line.
Thank you for your service.
Man, my hat goes off to educators/teachers!!
had a parent mad at the teacher I was subbing for because the teahcer went on vacation right before the end of the year and I wasn't giving her child the individualized attention the child had been getting. The teacher hadn't been back home to see his family in over two years.
@@TheMadameMims honestly on that one, there's no point in speaking to the substitute about it, but it's not a story that engenders sympathy for the teacher...with the facts available anyway. Maybe there was a wedding or something, but otherwise why duck out on the kids? 2 more weeks gonna kill you,
If a parent wants me to parent their child while I'm teaching, that's fine, but pay me that child support money and let me claim your kid on my taxes
It is good for other people to see the nonsense that teachers have to put up with.I am sick of teachers getting blamed for everything.
this
As a nurse, I sympathize…
they need to get blamed for a lot of shit they actually do - like teaching little children that boys arent boys and girls arent girls
me too
True enough; most of the time its the administrators (and the state rules) that screw things up.
The only sad thing is how many teachers go along with it, or are afraid to speak up against it. Teachers' union cost me (and 120 others) my job in California.
"Admin made me do it" and then staring right into the camera "Of course they did" got me lol. They have been making admins sub in my district somedays I hope that means they can understand what we go through a little bit more lol
Why didn’t she just email it to both parents every week instead? 😂 then technically it would still satisfy the requirements without wasting paper that teachers pay for themselves.
@@time2livelife The documents probably included worksheets for the student to complete, to the parents probably would have complained about having to print it out themselves... It's not a good reason. But these are the nightmare parents.
In our district, the superintendent subbed in classes....quite a few times actually.
Right before Covid hit my middle school officially hired a girl who is a good friend of mine. She was a teacher for 17 years before she was hired as assistant principal. We all thank God every day because she truly get it!
How about it isn’t her job to email it to anyone. That’s a parent problem not a teacher problem
Her facial expressions and reactions of shock, disbelief, dismay, and disgust are the best part of these videos. I love this lady! 🥰
My Sentiments exactly!
I’m not a school teacher. I watch these videos so I can feel better about myself as a mom.
As long as you see the ridiculousness and stupidity the requests, keep on watching mom! 😀
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I’m not a teacher or a Mom. It popped up on my recommendations, but I liked her very much. However, I’ll probably watch again to feel good about my choice of career & not being a human parent (I have animals😂).
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I studied for 6 years to become a teacher and counselor. I refused to work in that field after my student teaching gig. The stupidity of the parents AND the administrative staff boggled my mind. I was once told that I was required to clean up a child who shat himself, but I couldn’t hug him if he was crying. Ridiculous.
You are so right! I’ve been teaching for 23 years and the “rules” and expectations just keep getting stranger and stranger. In most cases when something happens we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t 😢
Absolutely agree with you on not touching the child especially when the child’s hand is down his pants! Man, imagine the legal trouble you would be in!
Admiral Akbar: IT'S A TRAP!
I would definitely be referring this one to the guidance counselor and maybe even cps.
@@steff9041 a counselor sure, but not CPS….
Is it cool to bend down
and whisper ,not in, but close to there ear, don't do that at school!!!!!?!!!
Agreed. Lol with middle schoolers, you don’t want to even get near them half the time due to their hygiene / after gym class….. as the higher ups always say, never touch a child. The most I would say (and even this is iffy) would be for grades K-2nd with morning / afternoon greetings such as handshake, high five, side hug, fist bump & so on. Again, even then be careful. Lol if I see any kid with his / her hands down their pants & someone tells me to move them, before they even finish that sentence I’ll be replying with a “Not in a million years”🤣
Yup! I had a teacher friend who got yelled at by a parent bc she was pregnant and thus the due date would interfere with her precious child's education. She requested the teacher move the due date to summer, and called the teacher inconsiderate for daring to become pregnant during the school year. Even going so far as to suggest termination to better align with the parent's schedule. Admin backed the parent up, and the teacher was verbally repremanded for the strain this her inconveniently timed pregnancy was going to put on the school, students, and parents.
She came to my class crying bc she had been so happy after 2yrs of trying, but now felt so guilty for how this was going to impact the kids.
It's absolutely insane, and I was furious at them for pulling that tired ol over used guilt trip that they ALWAYS use when the situation is just mildly inconvenient for admin. Seriously, scheduling a life or death surgery and it interferes with a school day? Admin is like, but the children's education will suffer!, Have that surgery during summer break? Admin is like, feel better! We support you 100%! Let us know if we can do anything!
It's all about if they need to do something or not, not the actual teacher.
My friend quit teaching after her baby was born. She used the maternity leave time to find another job where she makes 3x more AND has an actually supportive work environment!
Whoever that Mom is, is a Mom who has always been entitled
Please tell me ya'll reported that Admin for their insensitive and unprofessional reprimand.
The responsible aholes at the school should have their behavior outed as community deserves to know the kind of aholes that run their school.
Holy cow, good for her. That is just insane!
Move the solar eclipse!!! 😂😂😂 I'm dead. Some of these parents are not the brightest crayons in the box...
A lot of these apples drop straight down
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About the divorced childs homework, since when is it a teachers job to mediate parental conflict? That is insane.
You actually be shocked to know the amount of teachers that have had to step in between just to make sure that a child's needs are met. It's pretty f****** ridiculous LOL
@@beastly.warner "had to step in" and just who forced them to step in? Talk about F'ing ridiculous.
@@petehenry7878 this may come as a shock to you but some children don't live in happy homes. And because teachers work for the state they are what's called a mandatory reporter. Mandatory reporters are required by law to step in if they notice cases of child neglect or abuse. You may not be a law-abiding citizen but that's not applicable in this situation. We also cannot have parents coming up to the school screaming and getting in fist fights in front of other people's children so yes sometimes grown-ass adults need to be put in their place and told no.
@@beastly.warner This may come as a shock to you sweetheart, but none of what you said matters. No one made anyone step in. People do that by choice and sometimes they get it wrong when they do. But hey I guess you're one of those people that thinks wrongly accusing someone is OK . I mean, WTF do you mean calling me a non "law-abiding citizen". No need for any proof in your ideal world is there.
@@petehenry7878 I'm going to go ahead and let your ignorance shine. I hope the best for you in this life and I hope you find what makes you happy. It's not my job to explain the law to you and it's not my job to explain the individual situations of children and their family Dynamics. At the end of the day it's none of your goddamn business
I had a guy ask me about guitar lessons for his kid. When I answered that I had a long waiting list and it might be a few months before there was space, he asked why my list was so long. "Because I'm good," I answered.
I used to work in a daycare and regularly had parents get upset because I didn't change their kid out of their pajamas (not my job) or do pretty hairstyles for the girls (also not my job, and I'm terrible at hair so it was either ponytail or pigtails) and I got told by the administration that it was in fact my job to make sure the kids "looked presentable" each day. Yeah no
I would've asked to see my contract. Betting that specific wording wasn't in it. Man. Sorry you had to deal with that!
@@jengentry06 it most definitely wasn't (I checked), but that entire establishment was so toxic and me standing up for myself was met with involving the board of directors. Needless to say, I quit and am so happy I left when I did.
Wow!
I'm in childcare I would say I'm happy to help "insert child's name here" after she/he goes down to for their nap (if they have one) or when she/he indicates they are ready to get dressed. Or if they are old enough not to nap I will just say I will let "insert name" know I am happy to assist them when they are ready to get dressed. If the parent decided or the child even decides to come to preschool in the pajamas then its up to them to indicate when they want to get dressed.
Used to work at a daycare and two of our 2’s families requested we change their kids for gymnastics each night
that solar eclipse one...lol I would of suggested they rearrange for the parent to come back to school to learn how the solar system works...lol
😂 Agree with you on that!
I had that "divorced parent" issue myself. Luckily, they were "rational" enough to agree to a joint email account that they BOTH had access to. I am soooo glad I no longer teach minors.
Rearrange the stars? Somebody has quite the imagination. Bless those parents' hearts.
I have one to add…I had a parent request a meeting be held at 8pm at night during Thanksgiving vacation and then was told that I wasn’t a team player when I denied her request…gosh, I truly must be a bad teacher! NOT!
Same, only Mine was 5am. Smh!!!
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@@les4cs822 oh my god
Ummm.....Teachers do have their own families and lives OUTSIDE of school, so put some respect in the profession
If they paid me extra I might CONSIDER doing it. Imagine if their work told them to come in outside of office hours without pay. Ha!
These parents make me feel like I’m a brilliant 100% together parent 🤣
That’s why my sister who is an educational diagnostician is retiring! She’s done with the bs and I don’t blame her! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Bless her heart! I can’t imagine what that must be like these days!
At least she made it to retirement age.
I can't believe admin made an overwhelmed teacher keep track of which parent the child was with, and send a copy...that is nuts. Is the material not yet on line? They need to learn to coparent...that is not the teacher's responsibility. Someone needs to advocate for these teachers...that admin failed.
and after you sent it they are not going to read it and every few weeks they ask you to fill out the same thing over and over
My x and I had joint custody of our kids. We were responsible for informing each other of all school related matters.
Believe it. Admins are lackeys for parents. We had to give a student four sets of textbooks (mom, dad, two sets of grandparents) because none of them would communicate with each other. When we got a new student mid-year, and asked for one set of textbooks to be returned so the new kid could have them, the "set of four parenting adults" finally co-operated on something---complaining to the superintendent about the textbook return request. The super sided with them, and we had to copy textbooks chapter by chapter for the new kid. I quit the next year.
@@suziewhattley3917 I am a former, now retired, elementary school principal. 25 yrs! My roll was not only that of instructional leader but also to support teachers in the very challenging job that is teaching. I taught for 9 yrs before going into admin. The reason was a simple one for me. I could do better in supporting teachers and thus impacting some 800 students a year, than what I had experienced from my own administrators. My career was successful, challenging and rewarding. It pains me to read so much administration battering. Parents and superintendents put enormous pressure on building Principals. It's the skilled principal who will find ways to buffer this pressure from reaching the classroom teacher. Not easy but doable.
@@gache52 If there were more principals like you we wouldn't be losing teachers in record numbers. I bet your school was a joyful place!
What, you mean to tell me that teachers can't control the sun and moon? I. Am. Shocked. I thought a teaching license made you GOD! Seriously, the stupid... it burns... like the sun. XD
I really don’t believe that one. Stupidity can’t reach that level
@@arletbode4847 Oh yes it can, does, and, yes, WILL! This was just one example. There are millions of others. And I'm not fooling!
I agree, y'all. My dad worked as a civilian contractor for the military, and my husband was an Army Reservist for a while. Stupid can absolutely reach that level and beyond! One of the sayings that went around the office was that if you make something "idiot proof" the Army would make a better idiot.
If being a teacher made the teacher God, teachers would be paid at least the salaries of basketball stars.
To every parent out there for whom such-and-such child-rearing responsibilities are "too much trouble for them": that excuse became invalid the day you or your spouse gave birth to your kids. You knew you had a paid day job to do five days per week eight hours per day BEFORE you or your spouse got pregnant. And you should have known well in advance that life was only going to get HARDER AND MORE INVOLVED BY REQUIREMENT after your offspring came along. Even the most angelic children in the world are tough to raise. Why? It's called PARENTING. Learn to deal with it today or else everybody in the whole entire world will be right up sh*t creek in the very near future!
👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 BRAVO!!! Very well said’ exactly!
THIS!!!! 😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Some of these people weren't meant to be parents.....sad
Indeed
I think that ship has already sailed.
I don''t have kids, however, gotta say listening to what teachers have to go through is the BEST birth control out there! Teachers DO NOT GET PAID ENOUGH!!
A friend of mine teaches high school. One day the group of hellians asked her if she had kids. Her reply? "Are you kidding? You are my birth control."
Or... Just don't be a crappy parent! Love the videos, but why do they make people not want children? Do they think that having children turns you like that?
Yes! I used to tell teens (if appropriate) - babysit- that’s the best birth control! To remind them- you want that continuous now? Take you time, be wise, live first!
First up - this woman is my favorite human. She’s fantastic.
Second up - what is wrong with people? Sheesh, I thought my stories were bad. And folks wonder why there’s a teacher shortage. Shoot, I was gone after 2 years.
“Some of y’all live in the land of make believe!” Hahahaha 😂🤣 These stories really make my day. I’m not the only teacher that deals with foolery.
While you are rearranging the eclipse, please make Pluto big enough as well, so it can be a planet!
I had to teach a young girl (middle school) how to handle her period. The student's mother put plastic over the furniture at home and just let her bleed everywhere because she didn't believe her daughter was smart enough to handle it, so she never let her try. She tried to keep her daughter home every month during this period of time awell.
I still worry about his girl.
Poor girl... That is definitely cause for worry. 😔
Before I started teaching, I HAD NO IDEA that parents could be this crazy. Thankfully, the parents I work with are only ant-hill-level crazy, not the Mt Everest level crazy of some of the parents in this video. Dang.
Where did you get the idea that Anita Hill was crazy
It’s a new day filled with darkness over the average American family dynamic!
....just make sure the ants aren't the red ones that sting/bite!!
There’s a reason there’s a teacher shortage. Schools are a microcosm of all of society’s problems and teachers are expected to fix them all.
These parents are on CRAAAAAAACK🤣🤣🤣🤦🏽♀️
I love ur videos. I was raised by a family of teachers and am now a long haul trucker. I cringe at the level of ignorance these people have. Sadly, that is because the parents of the parents either convinced these people that the world needed to conform to them rather than the real world shaping up the individual. I actually laugh on the outside and cry on the inside because so many people are acting exactly like their snotty children (remember Veruca Salt?) and cannot figure out why the world is upset with them!
I'm a speech language pathologist and yes, the things I have heard. Parents also tend to treat me like an action figure. They expect me to be available for updates all the time. But, what I handle is on a smaller scale, nothing but respect for all teachers.
Want to share a story about an extraordinary teacher in my son's life. He has ADHD and she has consistently gone out of her way to help him overcome it. I was working at a job that was a one hour commute and my (then) common-law husband didn't like waiting an extra 15 minutes to go to work while waiting for school to open. She made special arrangements for the school to let ONLY my son come to school half an hour early for almost 2 years. There's a special place in heaven for Mrs. G. Truly above and beyond the call of duty. We love and appreciate her more than words can express.
The solar eclipse one… that’s parents in a nutshell. 💯
As a parent with school aged children, I am absolutely appalled 😳
Are you appalled about other parents making insane demands, or about the fact that a teacher refuses to fulfill those ridiculous demands from clients?
THESE ARE MY FAVORITE TYPE OF VIDEOS ON THIS CHANNEL!!! Please do more! You can't ever run out of material like this because parents these days are simply out. of. control. ❤
It's also unfortunate that we don't run out of material like this.
This woman is literally curing my cancer! Bless you! 🎗🤣😍🥰🤩😆😂 😺
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Be blessed!
My only complaint is that I can’t push the like button 100 times! You are too funny. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for voicing our concerns!
Omg thank you ! The amount of times of had parents drop their 3-4 year old children off in the wrong school uniform (they wear tracksuits Monday-Thursday and actually uniform on Friday) because they couldnt be bothered to put the correct uniform on and asked me to change them 😅.
I've also had a mum tell me her daughter wouldnt listen to her and so when she got to school I (the teacher) would sort out her hair and put it every morning 😅 yeah cause I've got time for that lol xx
Of course you do! She's your only student, right? 🙄🤦♀️
Haha, I’ve worked for the education system for over 22 years. Started from a one on one, teachers aide, the office staff than admin. Some parents are crazy and think you are the care taker when they are in school. I’m retired from education and I have many, many crazy stories. Some parents think after they pop the child out, the raising of the child is the responsibility of the school system.
Love you! One of my memorable moments as a Kinder teacher was a parent who informed me that since the school told her that Kinders need to be toilet trained she sent him without a diaper (his 1st day without). He was not a child with special needs. So could I please take him to the bathroom every half hour or so? Also he will need me to wipe/clean his bottom...and he would need to use a separate/solo bathroom so he wouldn't feel embarrassed. I always wonder when I get requests for 1:1 with their child, What Do You Think the Other 20 Children Will Be Doing While I'm alone with her child!??!
Hello, parent? "Toilet-trained", not toilet training.
I totally get that , we had one situation at a day care that I was at where the child was in the process of being potty trained and all through the day at the beginning we would have the child go and try to use the toilet every X amount of hours. Which was going so well at day care and the child was doing so well . So one parent was on board and when the child was at their house they would do that however the other parent couldn’t be bothered to do it so when the child was at that parents house that parent would only use pull ups at all times cuz it was just easier overall to do that rather than taking the child to the bathroom every X number of hours if the child wasn’t going to go when you sat them down . So low and behold whenever that parent dropped off in the morning ( usually by 9 am ) the child was wearing a pull up still ( had been changed since they had woken up clearly ) and the parent would request ( more like require ) that we had the child in a pull up ready to go the minute they got to the Centre . Let’s just say the on board parent was just as ticked off and annoyed at the other parent as we were . ( funny part was the parent who wasn’t on board still seemed to get all baffled at why the child wasn’t potty trained yet and that it must have been due to what we were doing was bogus and that we clearly didn’t know what we were doing . 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
His first day without?!?! And no special needs?! Oh my gosh
I had a parent show up to our week away science camp demanding to see their kid (not thinking for a moment about how that could trigger MASSIVE homesickness, or how we're required to have a background check for everyone who comes on site). Turns out he only realized how guilty he felt about not spending more time with his kid when the child wasn't at home.
The Wiz “it’s a set up” reference was funny
You go woman! Keep your videos coming for the delinquent parents that don't have enough common sense to deal with their kiddos.
“It’s a set up it’s a set up”🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Deceased🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
That last one, that was gold. It really sums up the absurdity of expectations placed on teachers.
I like to believe that I have never made an unreasonable request. And, my wife and I seemed baffled at first when my oldest was having trouble in school and her teacher was mildly shaken to bring it up... But then, this puts it into perspective. The examples that you shared here are requests made in passive times, when there is no conflict. I could only imagine what it's like for you when there is a conflict.
Bahahaha! Move the solar eclipse. Gold! Crazy parent request GOLD!
Lol. A teacher decided to stop telling kids their shoes were on backwards….
I had one of those yesterday. but I didn't have time to help him because there was a new autistic child who idn't know the rules yet. This is in a pre-school and I am a substitute.
These need to be broken down into first place and honorable mention. Awesome vid!
That solar eclipse parent must be the cousin of the one who asked that we make sure that it doesn't rain on the day of the field trip because her son's shoes are new and she didn't want any mud on them.
I worked in daycare for 8 years, and helping children learn personal hygiene routines, like proper hand washing, and wiping after using the toilet was actually something we did. But I guess daycare is different from preschool
That depends some preschool don't allow students who are not completely potty trained to enroll. In others they help with potty training but the expectation is that the parent will actually try to potty train at home. I've had parents who were not willing to help so their kids had a harder time being trained. They were always confused on why their child wasn't trained and would get upset 🙄.
@@Vbear-bn4wm Even a fully potty trained child still usually needs reminders for a lot of those personal hygiene behaviours, but I have also experienced the kids who were in nappies well past the age all the other kids in the room had toilet trained and mum/dak kept on saying 'we want to wait until he shows us he's ready' but the opportunity to show he was ready was just there's a potty in this room I guess the kid was supposed to just work it all out for himself and choose to take his nappy off and sit on the potty.
Daycare and preschool have differences :)
That was my job at daycare. I took all 6 of my cuties to the bathroom and helped them to the potty and put new pull ups on everybody’s bum
@@ElizabethJones-pv3sj OML THIS
OMG, this has me crying 😂😂😂
These people are NUTS! But the solar eclipse one had me rolling!
I'm a retired high school teacher (English, History, Arts & Humanities with 4 college degrees). As you all know, the problems students have in high school are different from middle school and elementary problems. I couldn't tell you about most of my teaching experiences because they would be censored, but I can tell you that one year I won the faculty award for "Most Subpoenaed Teacher in a Single Semester." I still miss teaching.
Thanks for the humor! I am fed up with parents and I see myself walking from my job in education. They want teachers and schools to do EVERYTHING!!!
A parent once told me how distressing it was to get her kids ready for school each morning. I said dress them in their school clothes at night after their bath and let them sleep in them. Problem solved. She was so happy 😆
Bless our teachers with support, not more troubles than they already have.
I am not even a teacher and this stressed me out. I have a new found respect for teachers after watching these videos.
Love her... And somehow a little relieved I don't have kids, lest I end up sending some of those crazy requests myself... And while we're at it: could you please move the moon, so it does no longer shine in my bedroom? Damn...🤣😂
the solar eclipse one tho
I just found this channel and your facial expressions alone have me cracking up. I will say your sarcasm is BRILLIANT LOL
A college student once asked me, “How was I supposed to know that the sun is a major source of energy?!”, after having missed that question on a choose-4 multiple choice test of essential academic skills. If 14 years of world-class public schools hasn’t covered that, then it’s no surprise to me that the student failed a test of essential academic skills.
This is just so amazing to hear. I love this woman's responses. Thank God for her sense of humor. How else could she endure a school year. I would want her as a teacher for my children if I'd ever had any.
This needs to be longer! I’d watch hours of this. I was once a teacher but swapped to swim teaching. Much easier, a lot less hassle, and parents are generally lovely
If I'm having a lousy day, I just tune into these vids. This gal is stupendous.
“Episode of ER, Greys “ LOL
We had one preschooler who was a thumbsucker- seeing as it was during pretty strict protocols and he would have to lower his mask to do this and then wash his hands after having them in his mouth, we were doing our best to discourage doing it at school (and it was working really well). His mom asked my boss if we would just let him do it whenever he wanted, and then pulled him out when my boss said no lol.
Okay! why are people having kids if they're just trying to make other people parent them??!! Stop!!
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I love all of these so much, but there's just something special about the entitlement of the last one
If you were a comedienne, I would try my hardest to get tickets. Your answers and your facial expressions are to die for. Can't stop laughing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your laugh is infectious!😄
this makes me feel bad for elementary teachers
Hysterical! I am not even a teacher, but I can only imagine. My kids are all grown and I wouldn’t have even dreamed of any of these!
Thank you. You are brilliant 😂 I love your commentary. These parents are unhinged, plain and simple 👍
I knew part 4! I love these videos. It makes me feel part of a great group. The group that deals with so much cray-cray crazy.😂
As a parent, this is hilarious, but at the same time absurd!!! 😅🤣😅🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I thought I was a less-than-perfect parent until I started watching these videos! I was Fine! 😂😂😂Doubled Over laughing...🤯😆
After 42 years in the public school system, ALL of those parent requests sounded plausible. The crap teachers are subjected to is never ending but makes for great comedy. Thanks for the laughs.😂😂😂
this is too hilarious! Just loved it!
It's a trap! 😂😂
Your delivery is just perfect!😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣 Like I said if you can't cry about it anymore, you just left to laugh about it 🤣🤣🤣
And this is why i stopped teaching. But then again, some of the stuff i went through was hilarious.
We had a parent send us a video and ask all of the middle school child's teachers to watch it. The video was literally a half hour of a camera focused on said child as he diligently filled line after line after line of paper with indecipherable writing, I guess to prove that we were (all) lying about the child's refusal to work at school. A half hour of my life I will never get back.
Did you have popcorn to eat?
Why would you watch the whole thing? Was it not obvious after the first few minutes? Why not speed the video up or skip through. Some suffering others bring to us. Some we bring onto ourselves.
@@kissit012 Admin directive; these parents were "someone" in the community, constantly critical, not (yet?) open to hearing that their child, now in 8th grade, was a beautiful, wonderful child who simply did not have the mental capacity to earn a diploma, and admin always feared litigation. Even without merit, it would be costly.
But if you had sent him a video of his kid misbehaving, you would probably lose your job. The gall of that a*hole.
I just watch you for the first time and I haven’t laughed this hard in a very long time! Thank you.
You’re so funny! You make these stories 100% better! Thank you!
She is hilarious 😂🤣
My mom taught middle school for a couple years, my dad taught college classes. I worked with kids as a teen in a summer program. It's because of parents like this that when my parents tried to talk to my own teachers about reasonable things, the teachers just started screaming. I had a parent once tell me, when I was 16 and it was my job to literally guide children from their drop-off cars to the door safely, that I, the teenager/day camp assistant, was not providing enough academic structure for her child in our summer program. Her child was 5, by the way.
Hilarious... thank you and all the teachers for your hard work!
That last one made me fall out of my chair laughing. I guess she thinks teachers are Thanos and just snap to change the day of an eclipse.
can you please make a part 5 of this?
Oh, I’m sure she has enough material to make many, many more parts of this series! 😩
This series just reminds me of how crazy ‘some’ Americans are 😒… it’s the Audacity 🤣😂
Ohh I don’t think it’s just in America.
I'm just howling with laughter listening to this. I just love how real you are, and some of the insanity of people that you are illuminating, how disconnected from life (reality) we've gotten. Bless you
My dad was always upset that the school wouldn’t send him emails. My parents were divorced since I was 3. My dad still had me on the weekends and holidays. The schools I went to treated him as a secondary parent (I think that is what it is called). When he picked me up from school sometimes the adults usually looked scared because I would run up and hug him. They thought I was running up and hugging a stranger. My dad handled all of my academics and tutoring me. My dad is the one who took me to almost all of my doctor and dentist appointments. …the school didn’t realize he was my biological father and didn’t know who he was. I have lots of “fun” stories too.
Be grateful that you don’t have Marjorie Taylor Greene as a student’s parent! 😱
Oh my God. I can just imagine what her poor teachers went through.
This is what happens when parents think we teachers are their personal employees because someone told them their “taxes pay your salary”.
Umm… No. Here is $1, which is more than the amount of tax you pay for public schools. 🙄
YOU are the best ! So funny the way you present the parents requests! The funniest please do not change.
she's a joy. thank you, thank you