Today, I got a call from an angry parent telling me that I'm teaching her son and the other children in the class "wrong philosophies". This was all because I explained to the class that Michigan is divided into two parts. FML
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Today, a parent of one of the students I teach called me to complain that I was teaching her child "lies" and "fairytales". I was teaching them about the Holocaust. FML
Today, I had a parent come in for a conference. When she stepped into my classroom, she immediately went on a rant about how I’m "woke indoctrinating" her child and threatened to homeschool her. She then stormed out. I had a rainbow chart of the colors and a poster of multicolored hands. I teach 1st grade. FML
Today, I was bitched out by my 17 year-old son's teacher. It seems the idiot teacher made the kids advocate for his own political beliefs in a presentation, and my son ended his speech saying, "And it remains my opinion that our instructor is cramping my motherfucking style." Instant suspension. FML
Today, I was once again berated by an idiotic parent. I’ve been called a filthy liberal, a groomer, and had my job threatened several times. All of this because I was teaching second graders about pronouns. You know, the part of English grammar that replaces a noun. Nothing political at all. FML
Today, I heard two of my students having a conversation. One asked what state Arizona was in, and the other replied Canada. I teach sixth grade social studies and they weren't joking. FML
Today, my teacher assigned us teams in a class debate. I landed on the team that had to argue the obviously wrong point of view. When I finished, my teacher told me and the entire class how much I disturbed her, and how I reminded her of Hitler and Napoleon. FML
Today, I had to listen to my classmate loudly argue a question she got wrong on a test for half an hour, repeating the same incorrect argument ad nauseam. She screamed at the rightfully exasperated teacher for being "biased" when he gave up, and started screaming again when I tried to explain it in a different way. FML
Today, I had to explain to my teacher that Czechoslovakia is no longer a country. She kicked me out of class when she found out I was right. FML
Today, I had to tell a parent about her son kicking a boy in his class. She blamed me for not watching him. I wasn't watching him because I was turned around to care for another boy he had hit right before that. FML
Today, I got chewed out by a parent for putting her kid underwater. I teach swim lessons. FML
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ahd94 21
Parents behave worse than their children far too often these days.
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Some people tend to apply a deeper, often dumber meaning to many things. And that's why many things are the way they are today.
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Comments (68)
eddeeezzyy 19
Does this parent also think that there's one big Dakota? Or one big Carolina? Or possibly even one big Virginia?
graceinsheepwear 34
Does this commenter think there are two states of Michigan?
eddeeezzyy 19
No. I meant to imply that I wouldn't be surprised if the same parent angrily complained to the teacher about her "philosophies" of explaining to her students that there's a North and South Dakota and Carolina, as well as a West Virginia and Virginia.
eddeeezzyy 19
Though, I do admit that my comment sounded as if I thought Michigan was divided into 2 separate states.
Goblin182 27
#18, when I first read that I thought you said one giant ******.
graceinsheepwear 34
****** is for lovers.
Sports_guy3 28
You mean that there are only 47 states now?! What happened? All I know is Carolina, Dakota, and Virginia.
JMichael 26
The stupidity burns worse than the fires of hell.
LanceGoodthrust 19
In my experience, stupidity doesn't burn... It pummels you with its icy cold tendrils until you feel pity, then apathy, followed by bitter hatred.
RedPillSucks 33
and more apathy.
AholeCop 11
According to Tim Allen voice overs, it's "Pure Michigan" not "Pure Michigans"
perdix 31
You are. The correct philosophy is that the Upper Peninsula doesn't exist, but parents scare children by threatening to send them there if they're bad where the mythical Yoopers will eat them.
graceinsheepwear 34
I like to eat them with Ypsilanti Sauce.
perdix 31
#27, after you kill them by Lansing them?
eternal_malaise 10
The whole "Upper Peninsula" story is just a scam to get Michigan to subsidize Wisconsin's rural areas.
Selke 16
And the little bastards are delicious. I've had people ask if we have running water and roads up here...
lylotrezor 20
How DARE you teach geography?
simsgirlgem 25
I go to the principle explain what you were teaching before this mom does and get's you fired
perdix 31
Detroit and The Rest of the State?
suri23 11
No, F that parent's child's life.
EvilLittleMan 23
Next thing you know this idiot of a parent will complain that you're not teaching New Mexico as a country.
djPanda 8
I hate it when the stupid parent terms the child stupid as we'll