Teachers Reveal The Absolute Worst Parents They’ve Ever Had To Deal With

1. Talk about taking things a little too far.

Parent and child had a complaint about grading on a minor assignment. Parent emailed me, the principal, Board of Education, and Barack Obama. No reply from anyone, except the principal. – Dkl415

2. Oh you can’t be serious?!

One time a child peed all over the bathroom in the school. When we brought it up with the parent, they demanded to know why we didn’t teach them how to properly use the bathroom. – [deleted]

3. There is a difference between having high hopes for your child, and being plain delusional.

I was a swim teacher for six years, and the parents are just the worst. The ones that really got me were the parents who insisted that their child was an Olympian mer-god who needed to be moved up several class levels. Usually these kids looked like they were struggling through molten lead the second they left the shallow end. – Uglyhag

4. Gosh aren’t these teachers terrible…teaching kids how to read.

I had a 14-year-old student that was reading at a second grade level. I had him read aloud out of a 3rd grade literature book to me, in private, because he couldn’t be trusted to read it on his own and then we answered the questions together and he had to write out the answers. The whole time he would complain or just refuse to even do it.

His father called and complained to the vice principal that I had been too hard on his son and was “trying to fill his head with ideas.”

Sorry for trying to teach your kid how to read. – Ilovesmybacon

5. Who knew teachers had to deal with this rubbish?!

Historically our district had trouble getting parents to give consent to sex education for their children, so our district instituted a policy of “implied consent.” You know that big packet of papers that all the kids get on the first day of school? In it was one paper that pretty much said: “Your kid needs to take sex ed this year. If we don’t hear back from you, we take it that you’ve given us your consent.” I can’t recall a single situation where we’ve had a parent write us a note or call us after receiving this notification in the beginning of the year.

As a courtesy to the parents (I don’t have to do this, since we already notified the parents in the beginning of the year with that big packet), I tell the kids to let them know that we’re about to start sex ed. Usually this passes with no incidents.

Until this one year one of my favorite students came into class and had a mischievous smile on her face as she handed me a note from her father. In it, I was called a “pervert that shouldn’t be hanging around teenage girls” and how he’d “kick my [butt]if his daughter stayed in the classroom during that week. Part of me laughed because the choice of words sounded like a note that I’d confiscate from the students, but I admit that part of me was a bit concerned since this very imposing (and very large!) military man wanted to meet with this skinny young male teacher.

I ended up having a meeting with the father and the principal and received an apology and a firm handshake from him. It’s probably the only time I’ve ever been physically threatened by a parent. – Bigtcm

6. Boy and girl instruments…really?

I’m a band director.

Last week, we helped beginners select their instruments and hosted a band drive, for the parents to come buy the instruments. Uptight Mom came in with her son, who we had as playing trumpet, and was clearly upset. She said she didn’t want him playing an instrument “that loud” in her house, and then refused to listen when I discussed options for practicing with her.

He suggested the flute, and she immediately sniped back, “Absolutely not, that is a girl instrument!” I mentioned that many/most professional flutists are male and she responded, “You know, I’m old. You’re not going to change my mind. There are boy instruments and girl instruments.” Then she made the mistake of asking what instrument I played. I’m a percussionist. I’m a girl who plays a boy instrument.

Unfortunately, there are so many parents who bully their kids into playing an instrument they aren’t passionate about simply because of their gender. – Arisefairmoon

7. Who knew parents could be this cruel!

Two parents come to my mind. One, a mom with a 15-year-old daughter who wanted me as her teacher to deal with the emotional troubles the kid had because her mother had left her for half a year to “have a real life” with her lover, and set some limits because she “does what she wants and never obeys me”. The lady refused to see her responsibility in this issues, and refused to seek for therapy for her family.

Second terrible mother is one who spoke about her kid… just not the one who was in my class “because she really is a weird girl, so I don’t want to waste my time on her”… she only spoke about this girl’s sister, and when I made her speak about the girl in my class, she described a completely different kid. She refused to see who her daughter is, what she wants or her abilities.

Almost forgot the mom who kicked her child out of her home to focus in her younger child… because obviously the older one was a “lost cause.” – radgrid

8. Those poor little girls!

My sister-in-law is a pre-school teacher. She had these adorable little twin girls in her class. They were very sweet but came from a bad home environment. They had pretty long blonde hair but they were always getting head lice.

One day they came to school both crawling with lice, so the teachers had no choice but to call the father to come take them home and treat the lice. The father got angry, tried to argue that it was the school’s responsibility, but the teachers held firm. So the father came to school and took the little girls home. Twenty minutes later he returned, having shaved both the little girls’ beautiful hair right off, and left them there for the remainder of the school day. – StrangeFarulf

9. Wow, she should probably take this up with Apple.

My mom teaches second grade. The school she teaches at uses MacBooks and iPads rather than windows devices. Actual e-mail she forwarded to me:

“Dear Mrs. *******, I’m sending a WINDOWS laptop that I personally configured to school with my daughter. I will not have my daughter being taught to use an Apple product. I work for a major computer technician company, and I can personally attest to the fact that everything Apple makes is pure garbage. You’re hurting the students more than helping them, as every major company uses Windows software. I am also going to be filing a complaint with the school board. I know this is not your fault personally, but I know there is something you could do to stop it.” – calebPH

10.*facepalm*

I had a mother complain that I didn’t give enough homework, even though I was giving her kid, after a special request, extra homework. The kid in question, however, never did any of his homework. – [deleted]

11. This mom is a straight up psycho.

I once had a parent accuse me of inappropriately touching her son because he stole an origami book from my class. He admitted stealing the book. However, his mother could not come to terms with her son’s behavior. She repeatedly shouted, “My son is not a thief!”

The next day I get a phone call from my administrator. She tells me that the mother came in to report inappropriate touching of her son. Specifically, caressing his hands, head, and body at my desk in front of the whole class. Obviously, this was untrue. I asked the admin to get a statement from the child. Thankfully, his mother hadn’t corrupted him. The student wrote that I had never touched him. – HeWhoSmeltIt

12. What a wonderful responsible parent…NOT.

My high school theater director once worked with one of his students to get him to stop smoking weed and then the mother came up to the school all pissed off. She said he didn’t have the right to tell him to stop because if her son stopped, she wouldn’t know where to get her weed anymore.- Bostonlbi

13. This is heartbreaking.

Ok, not a teacher here but I tutor young kids at a centre in a rich suburb. I want you to picture these pushy parents, and then collate them in one spot. BAM. You have my place of work. Now every week I would tutor this child, lets call him Colin, Colin was a good kid, sometimes a bit slow at doing work but we got through it.

About 2 hours after every session his mum would call and complain. Telling us he had not done enough work or then the next week call and say we had overworked him and that he was overtired when he returned.

This all accumulated to the mother wanting to pull him out and on his last session, the owner had a chat to Colin and asked him if he liked it at tutoring, he responded that he loved it and it was the best part of his week.

I’ll never forget his sad little face as he left. – Parttimebeliver

14. Wow… every school needs a teacher like this.

I had a ‘pray-away-the-gay’ pair of parents who thought that the school was ‘teaching their child to be gay’ because some of our teachers were homosexual. They also thought I was deeply religious (because they wanted to believe it) and therefore ‘on their side’. Wrong on both counts. They jumped to the conclusion after I said that I thought it was important that parents instil a strong moral code in their children. I left off that their bullshit beliefs do not make a strong moral code.

Their son talked to me about ‘alternative’ sexuality; I told him that he was a great kid, and was on track to becoming a great adult, and that who he fell in love with was his business and only his. He wisely did not share his feelings/ideas with his parents. – OfLittleHelp

15. Talk about living out your dreams through your child.

For a while I worked as a horseback riding instructor teaching beginning lessons. Our students were usually aged 6-10. While the nervous parents could be annoying (but understandable), the worst were the parents that were reliving old riding careers through their children.

One woman rode competitively when she was growing up and insisted that her seven year old son rode as well. He didn’t enjoy riding much and whispered to me that he would rather play baseball. He was also incredibly allergic to horses – his eyes would swell up, his nose would run, and he was miserable. After a few lessons and realizing the problem, we told the woman that we weren’t willing to make her child so uncomfortable. – Honeynut11

16. Someone hasn’t realised it’s the 21st century.

I used to be an assistant teacher at a daycare. I am a guy. This one parent made it very clear that this was not a man’s workplace. She would give gifts at the end of the year and would give me things like handbag holders and lipstick with a smirk on her face (she wrote my name on them and made it clear it was no mistake). I didn’t give a crap either way. – FruitJuicante

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