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.

Perhaps we should be fat-shaming the parents of then. They are the ones who have provided the huge quantities of food and shovelled it into their kids.

Maybe we should just stop trying to shame people - live and let live!

At one SEN school, a young mum came in one morning at 11am screaming and having a melt down. English wasn't her first language and her husband had gone abroad for a family funeral she had been left effectively to parent alone. We could see she was absolutely distraught and in her very limited English she was insisting she take her children home immediately.
We found someone to translate and pieced together she thought she had been watching a news channel but it was a film about the apocalypse and she was panicking to try to take her children home so they could all die together. Batshit but one of the saddest experiences, poor woman.

Reminds me of a couple of a mother in an Army school who came to Parents' Evening with her son and I had to tell that that their son could be very aggressive to other children, using unacceptable language. She quickly slapped the boy across his head and said 'You little fucking bleeder, you've been told not to fight, you'll get leathering from your fucking Dad when we get home'. I managed to catch the Head's attention and he took her away 'for a chat'.

I dont like schools never have and will aviod going past them if i can
And teachers still put me on edge.

Included because it's another example of the mother's bonkers behaviour. She allowed a photograph of her child to be taken and published. The child's appearance, specifically his weight, made him easily identifiable.

Someone once saw a couple of pupils trying to break into an unoccupied area of the school during a school production and he took a few photos, he was not in the same part of the building but could see across through windows. When the parents were called in to see the Head about the attempted break in, being shown the photos, one of them called the teacher who'd taken them a pervert and he was going to the papers about teachers taking photos of children without parental consent. He wanted a public apology and substantial damages.

I'm surprised I'm not on here because I don't always agree with all teachers at all times.

My kids head telling me I had a reputation for being aggressive the very first time I met him. When I asked him where he had heard this and could he back up such a bold opening line..... because I had asked for a SAR after asking ten times nicely.

The senco putting a cpoms entry for ME because I couldn't go to a unplanned meeting that after noon for a chat ( thank you subject access request for the SAR!) I hope it was flagged up to MASH for the most serious safeguarding reasons. "Mum busy during school hours" start Child protection asap. I was just factual and not rude when I told her I was busy.

She would say differently I'm sure. Wonder how she would feel being called into her dc school with two hours notice "yes sure I was just sitting waiting on the remote chance school would call me for unplanned, ad hoc non emergency meeting"

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

One mother said she was going down to th'office in town to report me. I said Oh, I'm going that way, would you like a lift?
The sad thing is that on this thread I've seen nothing that surprises me, one can usually see where a child gets their personality flaws form.

In other news another parent was shouting on the school site that he he would "hit you if you don't shut the fuck up" to a bunch of eight year olds. I doubt the ht was bold enough to call him aggressive. Far better to reserve that for a woman who dares asks for child's data.

Just this half term, so in two weeks I have had several parents who have started shouting in reception demanding a meeting with the headteacher because their child has:

• been called names by other children while playing Call of Duty with them over the weekend.
• been harassed by unknown people their child has added to snapchat.
• their child not being allowed on the school trip after using homophobic language towards their peers.
• repeatedly told us the school is a disgrace because we sanction against racial/discriminatory language but continue to send all their off spring to us.
• threatened to break our legs if we “call the social again”.

Never a dull moment…poor kids

Thanks, this made me laugh. Good on you to have sent that dad off mortified.

Loads but some of the ones that stick in my mind - A parent who told me that her son ‘might be a bit quiet today’ because she’d shagged be neighbour, her husband had found out and put the neighbour in intensive care! Another mother shouting at me on the yard when I mentioned that her son hadn’t brought his book bag in for a few weeks. She screamed at me ‘I’ve got 5 bloody men on the go, when the fuck do you think I have time to listen to him read?’ Another parent I called to discuss her son’s behaviour and she interrupted me to ask me if I was white. I confirmed that I was and she said ‘I’ve told my son that if a white teacher tells him off then that’s racism and he has to ignore it’ Then she told me how she’d been banned from all of his previous schools for falsely accusing the teachers of racism but that was because they had all been racist for not agreeing with her.

Once when I told a parent that her son had been swearing and hitting she said ‘Oh I can’t be having that shit! I don’t know where the fuck he gets that from, must be his dad! Don’t worry love I’ll give the old cunt a slap when I get home’

On the unhinged teachers front, there was the PE teacher who insisted my daughter carry on despite having injured her foot. It turned out the foot was fractured and her action had exacerbated the injury. She never had the grace to apologise.

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On the unhinged teachers front, there was the PE teacher who insisted my daughter carry on despite having injured her foot. It turned out the foot was fractured and her action had exacerbated the injury. She never had the grace to apologise.

Or the PE teacher who made my 12-year old run cross country when he had asthma...he finished last, puffing on his inhaler every 5 minutes, was made to do two extra circuits of the rugby fields as punishment. He collapsed, blue, voided bowels and bladder, bluelighted to hospital and lucky to survive. Apparently just telling the teacher that he had asthma wasn't enough ...he had to prove it.

Im not a teacher, but I was 😵‍💫 at many of the mums at all girls private prep.

At pick up people all chatted a bit and the chidlren ran about on the grass.

One mum asked that any boys siblings coming onto site stay in the car as their girls didn't like them being there. Insane

Most unhinged parent ever was a trainee teacher.
Her claims were many, but a short version is that her son (definitely less than average) was a genius and none of us appreciated that. She was livid when he was added to a group having extra help with reading and she raised the roof to have him removed from the group.
She also insisted that her daughter (reasonably average) was the brightest child ever and that we were deliberately holding her back so that the other children would look better by comparison.
People started refusing to talk to her on parents evenings.

That is crazy and weird.

come to think of it why did mumsnet remove the laughing reaction??

Hmm.... one of 'those' parents?

Probably too ambiguous.

I think some of us are all just 'those people'.

This thread is funny. Often the ones about batshit teachers are sad or angry. Its the power imbalance that makes the difference.

A long time ago my son went on a school trip to France (age 12). His best friend fell asleep on the coach and no-one noticed when they got off. The friend woke up alone in the middle of the night in a coach park somewhere in Paris.
If they'd been invented I reckon his mum would have used an airtag after that.

@FanofLeavesi bet that was some people I know. Dd was in the same class as their child. They do this on every trip and they follow their dd every where she goes. I took her and a few others to an arcade about 30 mins away and the parents parked up outside the whole time. They would sit outside peoples houses when she was on a play date and they got hotels near school residentials every time.

There’s a fun y /scary one about teachers from70/80/90’s knocking about