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.

We had a parent ring the school office and scream at the office staff to get his ‘stupid fucking kids on the phone’ and tell him where the TV remote was. When they refused to pull them out of lessons he threatened to kill them.

Saving the teaching profession and raising well balanced children one sensible comment at a time. Thank you!

In Y5 my daughter was being bullied by a girl in her class. She was a bit ‘hard as nails’ so DD was terrified of her and spent most of her time in school trying to avoid her.
Anyhow, DD had been off sick on the Thursday and Friday due to a sickness bug. At school pick up on Monday her class teacher asks to have a word. Bully and her father had been into school and alleged that DD had pushed bully down the playground steps at home time on Friday and bullys father had witnessed it all. Bully had been upset all weekend about it apparently.
i asked was they sure it was Friday. Teacher confirmed it definitely happened on Friday and that she had spoken to DD and made her apologize. When I said that wasn’t possible as DD was at home ill she simply wouldn’t back down and kept repeating that it mustn’t happen again.
Totally bonkers situation.
I suspect the child had some issues as she made untrue allegations about the teacher not long after.

A parent who wrote to me thanking me for her daughter's end of year report, but saying that she didn't think I'd captured what a truly exceptional child her daughter was.

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Parent emailed that her daughter needed to have a toilet pass because her new eyelashes needed to be checked.

That was so common in one of my schools it had become mundane and I forgot to post it in this thread...

That would be me.
In case due to past trauma (my SEN son went missing on a school residential trip when he was 1 to 1).

"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."

Very Jilly Cooper!

We have banned students wearing those micro tube skirts, but have had a parent complain, because their daughter "likes to have her legs free".

The one that really stands out was when I was teaching Year 6. The Chair of Governors' daughter was in my class and the mum had decided she didn't like me.

It started when I had paired her daughter with a boy from (I think) Poland, which she and her mum took exception to. When I explained that it's a life skill to learn to work with a range of different people, I was told I was ridiculous and in real life she'd never have to work with anyone she didn't like. (The irony as the year went on and I was forced to be polite to the woman).

It got to a point where I could do nothing right and the mum would send in typed letters everyday about something else that had upset her and daughter.

The icing on the cake was the letter given to the Headteacher at the end of the year, saying that she believed "the teaching [daughter] has received this year has been poor" (even about 13 years later that is an exact quote) and that her good SATs results were absolutely nothing to do with me and were her daughter's own hard work.

She gave it to them 2 or 3 days before the end of the year. No time for me to defend myself. She'd never been in my classroom while I was teaching, so I'm not sure how she thought she knew what my teaching was like. She just decided to have the last word, after making me a more nervous person after her terms of letters.

I left the school that summer. What makes it worse was, she was a TA at another school so knew a bit was life was like for teachers. Yet she still chose to, instead of trying to resolve things with me, leverage her position of "power" as the CoG's wife, and make my working life pretty miserable. I still remember her but I'm sure she's forgotten me by now. Such is the way for a bully.

Was it tempting to reply "So what your daughter said about you screaming, shouting, beating her up and locking her in the cellar was true?"

The parent that sent me a 500 word email, citing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as to why I was in the wrong for making her son remove his hat in class for a test. Because we were forced to keep the windows open during Covid he would get a cold if he couldn't keep his hat on.

Her son was 19 at the time.
Her son's plan for the future was the join the army where he was confident that his 'special' skills and general toughness would mark him out as someone suited for special operations.

The parent that gleefully told me how they'd taught their child to cheat in tests.

The parents who believe that telling children off for using racist slurs in school is against their rights for free speech. Same parents are on a mission to stop their children being exposed to LGBT 'propaganda'.

The parent that accused me of lying that their son had threatened to hit me for asking him to pick up the rubbish he'd just dropped. "He'd never hit a woman". I was 34 weeks pregnant at the time.

what did you do? Sounds like a referral to social services/police?

Forgotten 2 more gems which I think i’ve mentioned on a similar thread a while ago - at the height of the tamagotchi phase years ago, I was given a child’s tamagotchi “ pet” in the morning and told I needed to check on it several times a time as it needed to be kept alive!
Re the swearing post I was shouted at one day by a parent of a 6 year old “ I don’t like him f swearing at me”. Obviously learning by example…

I agree with this it’s not something I would have thought of doing but i don’t see an issue with it. It’s just added security no big deal .

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Did you take it further? I'd email the teacher confirming what she had said, and asking for copies of any records made at the time. If she didn't respond acknowledging that she was wrong, I'd enter a formal complaint.

Who made you thread police?

I once kept a student for an hour after school because he had called another teacher a racial slur beginning with P. Home were given two days notice and didn’t reply, when I came to leave at the end of the day they had somehow driven into the staff car park, blocked me in and refused to move because they wanted me inconvenienced like their son had been. I was one of the last members of staff in school so didn’t know what to do so went back inside to ring for support, I mentioned it to a caretaker who was quite a large and intimidating looking man (not his personality at all though). He went out and very nicely asked them to move and they did. That evening the head received an email about the aggressive caretaker that threatened them for no reason and suggested the “n” be sacked (racial slur beginning with n).

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@jasdf he was already well known to police and social services so yes they dealt with it all!

Omg! Poor child.

I suspect, as it’s a thread about mental parents, and within the wider context of that poster’s post, it’s pointing out another failing by the parents.

Wow. That's awful. 😠

When I was in reception, one little girl' s mum used to stand outside on the pavement each morning playtime with a bowl of tinned fruit salad. Her daughter would run up to the railings, and her mum would feed her the fruit on a spoon through the railings!