Teachers - tell me about your unhinged parent experiences.

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Purely for entertainment purposes , of course.

Inspired by the thread about the teacher who got an email from a kids mum because the staff didn’t buy her daughter flowers after the school show…what other unhinged, entitled or downright crazy things have parents moaned about at your school?

Parents are fucking lunatics at times, so I hope you all have WhatsApp groups with your colleagues to laugh at them in your spare time.

Me too!!!!!

They were in their rucksacks, which they had on them constantly, and which the teachers were checking they had with them every time they got on and off the coach. It was to track the children, not their bags.

Was she called Amanda by any chance?

Very Italian! My family are always very concerned about chills and cold air - you dress for the month not the weather! God forbid you have wet hair and they’re traumatised by my toddler running around outside with bare feet.

Our school playground had a tarmac area for playing football, a grassy field where the children could play in dry weather, and a quiet area with low walls and benches for the kids who wanted some quieter time.
One "spirited" little boy climbed onto a bench seat then, before we could stop him, up onto the back of the bench, hurled himself off and grazed his knees on landing. After a few tears and a hug, we cleaned his knees and told him not to do that again and why it wasn't a good idea.
Next day his mother was up at the school demanding all the walls and benches be removed as they were too dangerous.

I had another one tell me off for the fact their child had learnt the word twat. She said he used proper swear words at home like shit and fuck and therefore could only have learnt the word twat at school and could I please re consider who he sits next to as they are obviously a bad influence.

I cant decide whether this makes me want to laugh or cry. A bit of both probably.

A parent who wouldn’t agree to his son going on a trip to a mosque and cathedral. He told me he was ‘very high up in the EDF’, and his son (year 2, and with additional needs) was a target for radicalisation.

Eventually, he decided it was ok, but told his son he’d be following him all day, so he wasn’t to talk to anyone. The poor kid spent the day looking behind him.

The child over ate so was fat

A parent coming to a governors meeting about excluding his kid who was so pissed he could hardly stand up, he spent the next half hour kissing and stroking his dd’s hair and explaining how beautiful she was.
waiting after an evening theatre trip, one Year 8 girl was not collected. Contacted the parents who said she could just walk to the pub to meet them - 2 miles away.

The parent who threatened to kick my head in as her daughter was being bullied at school. The daughter was actually the bully and it was easy to see where she got it from.

God this sounds awful!! Not just the assaults but the complete lack of support!!!
I take it you are no longer in the teaching profession and are doing something safer like cage fighting?

I know of a family who do this. They have even stayed in the same resort as an overseas school trip that one of their older dc was on. As it was in term time, other younger dc were taken out of school to go along.

Year 6 residential, posh international school: the parents - some of whom had connections/shares in the hotel - collectively got the hotel to employ a 'waiter' whose role was to sneakily photograph the kids at breakfast & in the evening for the mums' WhatsApp. The whistle was quietly blown by a couple of relatively sane mums. School head harrumphed accordingly. WhatsApp group re-named by grumpy stalker mums to 'Y6 snitches get stitches' .

Can we stop fat shaming children please
not their fault

When I was new to teaching I gave a Year 8 child a lunchtime detention to come in and complete the homework she hadn’t done at home that week. At break time the child’s mother came in ugly crying about her daughter getting a detention….

Year 11 residential, everyone rocks up at the airport. One student is aghast to discover that his mum, dad, & 4 little sisters have business class seats to the same European destination. They have a seat for him, too.

Student tells his parents to fuck off & strops off to join his mates in Economy. Mum offers me the vacant seat in business.

Was tempted .

No wonder there is a teacher retention crisis…

A TA I knew was confronted aggressively by a mother (and child minder) who was apoplectic that her son had been made to wear ‘skanky’ trunks from lost property when the class went swimming and he’d forgotten his.

She expected that the TA should’ve left the children in the changing room to give her a ‘quick bell’ as she only lived down the road and could’ve brought his ‘Ted Bakers’.

Year 9 student vandalised classroom and was caught on CCTV .
Student initially denied it until confronted with cc TV with a really clear view of him doing the act and some really good close ups of his face. He was even still wearing the same tracky bottoms,hoodie and trainers
Parent (Dad) brought in and shown the video . Dad watched it, apologised for his son and then asked to speak with son outside. Came back in and then the PAIR of them totally denied the identity of the culprit in the face of all the evidence!

I'm a primary school TA and once had a parent insist that either I was moved to a different class or her daughter was, because she was a Christian and was "not having some pagan witch putting ideas of the occult into her head". Her entire basis for this was that I wear lots of floaty tie-dye skirts/dresses, and have waist length hair.

One of our Y1s kept talking about his cock. "Miss, when I went for a wee my cock hurt", or "Miss, I just got hit in the cock with the football". We asked him not to use that word, and he insisted his dad said that's what he called it, and that if anyone had a problem with it they could talk to him. Class teacher raised it with dad at pick up, and was told that his son would be continuing to use that word because willy was for babies, and only 'poofters' call it a penis...

My ds competes for team GB sometimes.

When they attend competitions we are told in advance the hotel and told not to book to stay at the same place if we are travelling to watch them compete.

I don’t go and watch but posts like these are making me realise why they say it!

I cant imagine having a week off from parenting and then deliberately being in the same hotel 🫣😂

On the flip side when ds went to his residential I met him off the coach with a huge hamper of teas/ coffees and cakes and biscuits for the teachers to dole out as they wished. I work as pastoral support in an all through school and cannot imagine what possesses staff to volunteer to run a residential with a bunch of pre tweens! 🤣

Not to me! (retired headteacher)

In my first year of teaching I had a year 7 class (middle school) and one morning during a lesson, a very drunk father staggered into the classroom effing and blinding at me that he was going to "put your fucking lights out you bitch".

It transpired that this was aimed at the previous teacher but Dad hadn't caught up with the change of school year!

Since then, I've been sworn at, threatened with violence, threatened with the press, the police and OfSTED.

However, I must add that 99% of parents throughout my career have been kind, generous, caring, supportive and fun to do events/trips with.

Holy shit

Haha I had a really ‘rough/tough as nails’ girl ask very loudly, ‘Are you having a baby or are you just getting fat, Miss?’ She turned very protective when I confirmed I was indeed pregnant (softie at heart I guess)

Tell me you are one of 'those' parents without stating it explicitly 😉