Thread: Another nasty parent!!!!

...and you know what, SGH...

Nobody helps the kids when you have exchanges like that.

I'm having a fairly stressful year, with the fussiest, most hard-to-please parents I've dealt with in decades. It's to the point where I am seriously considering a request for transfer just to get away from their kind.

It's grown so bad that my rapport with the kids is suffering and that hasn't happened in recent memory. Some of these parents bad mouth me to one another and in front of their kids, I am sure.

I'm really uncomfortable right now.

I am seriously considering a request for transfer just to get away from their kind

If you find this place, tell us. But this Shangri-la, in my opinion, does not exist.

Names are tricky anyway. . . there are so many different names, step-parents, foster parents, grandparents . . . who can keep it straight?

I had to call a parent last week, and I procrastinated for two days before finally calling. The only reason that I didn't REALLY hate to do it is because I went to school with the parent I was calling. Still, not an easy job.

For the past two years, we've been asked to call the parents of EVERY student to invite them to parent conferences. We each called our first period class. Some of us were physically ill from the thought of it. Also we were supposed to call from HOME. . . some don't even live in town, and I didn't really want my home phone number showing up on caller ID boxes all over town. I ended up calling from SCHOOL during my planning time. . . talked to a lot of answering machines, but got the job done. I only got two irate parents. . . one "I work nights and try to sleep during the day" and one "If there are problems, you need to take care of them there."

Who would have thought there'd be two with the same last name. I've talked with people on the phone thinking it was the parent since I called the number they gave me. After my speech I have been informed they are the babysitter, grandma, etc.
I guess we need to say who we are and that we are so and so's teacher, then ask if you are so and so's mother before we go any farther.
Parents can truly ruin a good year.

For some parents, it's a potentially painful task to focus on the child's shortcomings. It's much easier to complain about the teacher. Then the responsibility is taken off the parent and child and placed on somebody else's shoulders. Avoiding responsibility is the goal of both the parent and child.

Regarding the "Mrs. Smith" mistake, how rude of the lady who answered the phone to sit there and let you tell her this information without setting you straight. It was an honest mistake, but now the child's parent can spend her time and energy on being mad at you instead of working on the real problem.

At my school, it is common for two parents with different last names to have several children, all with OTHER different last names. There are families with four or five children where everybody in the house has a different last name. Talk about confusing.

While I agree that nowhere will we find a place totally free of this kind of problem, some places tend to have it to a greater degree than others. :roll:

Hey Bill, we're going to have a couple of openings.

Of course, you would have to move halfway across the country

LOL!!! I'm flattered, Mary, but no thanks!!!