I work in a primary school office. I try very hard to be polite and friendly to all parents and I find the school as a whole to be incredibly caring, much more so than I expected TBH, but there are some parents who make it incredible difficult to keep smiling!
There one woman, who has 2 DD in the school. Weds last week one of them had a headache. She told the teacher, but didn't really seem unwell, so the teacher told her to see how she was in a bit. When mum collected her, she was apparently terribly ill and mum was in the office next morning ranting about how DD had been left to "suffer" all day 
Next day the other DD had a trip in the playground. No visible damage, but lots of complaining about being in agony. After the girl's 3rd trip to the office I decided I'd call mum and see what she wanted to do. No answer on home phone (where I expected mum to be home with other sick DD!) so I left a message on mobile just saying that I couldn't see anything much wrong but that she was complaining of being in a lot of pain, did mum want to come and have a look? Mum took nearly 2 hours to call back and then decided not to come anyway. I wonder what she'd have done if I'd called about the headache?! Next day she paid both girl's dinner money entirely in coppers! 
AIBU?
To think that for some parents no school would ever get anything right?
forward · 25/02/2012 19:30
And breathe 
You are right. For some parents you will never be able to do the right thing, but for every one who is a PITA there are about thirty lovely parents you never get to meet because they don't feel the need to come in and moan about something :)
How much was the dinner money that was paid in coppers? 
When i read about the first girl I thought "Well maybe the girl was a bit more ill than the teacher had realised and was upset when her mum picked her up." but then when i read on about the other girl being in agony with no visible injury i thought.
I agree that it was unreasonable for the mum to behave so differently about her children's "suffering." She sounds U and YANBU
Not quite sure why i put in a lot of trouble twice, clearly trying to make a point!?
one of the mum's at ds school outdid herself with mentalness recently - she was furious at the school for letting her (infant school age) child get dirty as the school should have taken into account it was not her wash day - she had to change her schedule to wash his uniform. She was really pissed and thought they should have checked before letting him get dirty. I was PMSL as subtlely as possible
I do feel sorry for the teachers and associated staff who have to deal with her though.
Two lots of £1.80 MrsB. It did make us laugh in the office though - like she was making a point of being difficult, tho I appreciate it might just have been what cash she had in the house.
Yes, there are definitely some children better able to deal with discomfort pain than others and when you meet their parents you can usually see why 
Am a parent and a teacher and the vast, vast majority of parents are lovely and supportive. However there is always one or maybe two!
One complained that school didn't offer enough extra curricular activities, specifically the ones her dd was interested in [horse-riding] but complained to me, the HofY and then the Head vociferously about three extra curricular activities clashing with Brownies that term and what was the school thinking taking trip in January and February as it might snow and the pupils would be marooned! She was also caught by the Head of Art moving her dd's work so it would be displayed to better advantage.
Ah, well you see dd's school can't get anything right, it's a total shambles. It makes me appreciate ds's school all the more as it's completely wonderful!
So I'm not really hard to please, I just give credit where it's due.
Oh blimey OP, I've just re-read my post and it sounds like I'm saying your school isn't very good. 
I was just replying to the title of the thread really.
For gods sake?
Because the woman in question seems like the PITA type, likely to kick off, thats why.
Pfft. Libel.
TheArmadillo How unreasonable of the school not to phone each parent in turn to check when their wash day was so they could plan the best day for children to get paint on them. :o forward I pay my children's dinner money each half term so i was imagining the mum paying like £64 in coppers!
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I agree truffles, when I was a working mum an DS was in mainstream o complained every single week. Now I stay at home because I have to transport DS to special school and I haven't complained once. probably a lot to do with how rubbish his mainstream school was though 
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