Let’s do a new “things parents have blamed teachers for “

[Theos]

I’ll start. ALL MENTAL HEALTH. Our fault.
all lost items - our fault.

All poor behaviour.

Wow this is so negative. My children have brilliant teachers and the school really works hard at fostering good relations between parents and teachers as they know this is the key to a harmonious school.

I don't think that this is particularly negative. It makes me laugh when someone says that "schools should teach about XYZ". Usually when XYZ is a life skill that parents can and should teach. What do you want taken out of the curriculum so this other thing can be covered.

I've heard of parents complaining to the school because children (their own and other people's) behaved badly at a party outside school. The parents didn't want to tell the children off so they want the teachers to do it.

Not teaching but Youth group. We had a complaint that we told a child off too much...

The parent just couldn't accept that their child misbehaved.

Children losing things at school is definitely the school's fault! Parents regularly complain about a lost coat, bag, phone etc. It's a secondary school as well.

Child leaving her coat on the bus

Reading posts such as this you can see why there is a 70% rise with regards to home schooling in the UK.
School has become a toxic environment.

No one has a thick kid any more
Or a badly behaved kid
Always the teacher's fault

Anxiety what ever that is

Supposedly embarassing a fourteen old student for telling him off when he arrived at a lesson late, without his exercise book and no homework completed. Reprimanding students for misbehaviour is apparently bad form and embarrassing.
I took offence when called a 'fucking cunt' for asking a student to stop talking. Apparently everyone says that (they don't) so why pick on their child?

Children smoking outside a supermarket 10 miles from the school.

An ex colleague of mine heard a child mutter ‘c*nt’ under his breath after she told him off. When she called him out on it he told her it was just his shoes squeaking 😂

@SummerWinds I'm currently attempting to help three children get back on track after they were taken out to be 'home schooled.' So many home schooled children end up back in school it's amazing.

God, I hope you're not a teacher. "Whatever that is"?!

I vividly remember our school secretary (primary) telling me about a phone call.

dd has lost her coat. Secretary apparently needs to find it.

sec: have you checked the lost property box?
mum: no
sec: what colour and make is the coat?
mum: black asda coat
(so basiclaly the same as 50% of the girls coats this year)
sec: is it named?
mum: no - I'm not spoiling her coat by writing her name on it.
sec: have you looked in her classroom, or looked round the school at all?
mum: no I'm too busy
sec: so, it is exactly the same as about 50 other coats in the school, you don't have a name in it, and you haven't checked the (pretty efficient) lost property box? And you don't want to look for it, but you want me to find it?
mum: £$%&&R%£$£

and then there was the warm spring day when I was helping in dd's year 1 class.

At the end of the day there was a big pile of school sweatshirts on the carpet. I started to give them out to kids to take home.

20+ sweatshirts.
only 1, yes ONE had a name in it.

19 parents at the door moaning at the teacher because their child didn't have their sweatshirt with them.

Worry.

Diagnosed anxiety is debilitating.
Yes everyone gets anxious sometimes, but clinical anxiety can impact so much of a person's life. Teachers are not to blame, but the overall education system may well play a part.

The fact that their Y3 child can't use cutlery. Completely our fault, apparently.

I take it you've never met a child with anxiety disorder if you think anxiety is just "worry".

This thatr is bringing your profession into disrepute, keep it for the (physical) staff room, if you have to.

Not teaching financial / life skills to teens

And, of course, the unnamed, unclaimed sweatshirts have always been 'stolen'... 🤦🏻‍♀️

Allowing their child to eat the same thing at lunch time that the parent had (unbeknownst to me) prepared for dinner that evening 😂😂😂🤦‍♀️. I had a REALLY aggressive father throw that one at me once. He even put a stroppy note in the book the next day. It was utterly bemusing. Teaching would be quite lovely if it weren’t for the parents!

Loads of kids now "have anxiety"

Some of them really do. Some of them are mixing up normal human emotions with a mental health disorder.

We are also to blame for buses being late, children not reaching their target grades (the kid in question being bone idle has nothing to do with it!), poor behaviour, kids being 'snowflakes', schools closing during COVID and about 90% of societies ills, if you believe the press 🤣

And some of us here parent children with anxiety disorder. And finding that teachers are snidey about "anxiety" and saying it's just worry is shitty for us and our kids, and brings the profession into disrepute.