Today, the mother of one of my students bitched me out about her son's poor grades. He lazes around all day, paying no attention and being a constant nuisance. But, she says it's not his fault, and demands that I give him better grades so he won't get "self-esteem" issues. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, just because my mum's friend's son got better grades than me, she's now treating me like shit. You know what lady? His mom is way better than you too! She didn't attempt to kill her child half a dozen times, and you don't see me complaining about it all day long. FML
Today, one of my fourth-graders came up to me and asked, "Can you please not put my test grades in the weekly folders? My mom likes to get mad when I get below a 90." FML
Today, I had to place a call home because a student was late every single day. The mom rudely replied, “Yeah well she doesn’t really like getting up in the mornings. Can’t you just wait and start class like 30 minutes later?” Now I have to have a conference with this spoiled brat and her mother. FML
Today, my son's "favorite" teacher went on a tirade criticizing my "awful" parenting. About two months ago, my son got her fired after he reported her to the principal for forcing him to miss out on lunch to finish a project. Apparently, that wasn't the first time she did something like that. FML
Today, my coworker was going on and on about how her son was nice and got good grades but that she needed to find him a therapist because he's too shy in class, and how she didn't want her friends to think badly of her. She's a counselor. I sat in silence for almost an hour, because all I could think was, "WTF? Poor kid." FML
Today, I was listening to my son's teacher gossip about students whilst in the grocery store. I was thrilled when she described my son as "A model student". However, she then went on to say, "Which is surprising considering that his parents are trailer trash." FML
Today, I was scolding my 8 year-old son because he was getting bad grades in school. I told him that he should get straight "A"s like his friend Ceejay. He told me that comparing him to Ceejay was unfair. When I asked why, he said, "Because his dad is actually smart." FML
Today, my son was smart enough to hack the school's computers to change his midterm, but isn't smart enough to actually keep his grades up. FML
Today, I got a lecture from my mother about how bad my stress has been, how I have to treat myself better and do something with my life. She still doesn't realize that most of the cause of my stress has been from her berating me about how stressed out I am. FML
Today, while discussing my grades with my mother, she told me that when she was my age she was dumb but hardworking, and my dad was lazy but very smart. She then added, "You managed to get the worst out of each of us." FML
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KBurns207 17
You ought to tell her better parenting will help him with his self esteem not lying so he can pass school
rachaelb07 6
Parents are the worst part of teaching.
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asparagus12 21
Parents are ridiculous. Ignorance and laziness breed ignorance and laziness. I feel for teacher this generation!
1dvs_bstd 41
Now you understand where the laziness stems from.
awkwardloveannie 28
or stupidity
magiczebra 9
Is the kid also an ignorant dumbass? If so, we all know where he got it from.
olpally 33
Tell her she needs to be a better parent.
theorist3 7
Oh gosh that would definitely get the teacher into trouble.
Hiimhaileypotter 53
In my Earth Science class, the teacher would have us watch scientific movies in class and write down facts about them - say, 10 facts each. Any more that we wrote down after that were extra credit. Well, a student's parent talked to the teacher about how she wasn't happy that her son was getting bad grades yet everyone else was getting extra credit (when her son didn't do his work, PERIOD, and a lot of us went above and beyond). So the principal talked to the teacher and made her stop doing it, saying giving extra credit to everyone somehow wasn't "fair" for the kids who didn't do it. Complete load of BS, if you ask me. I feel your pain, OP!
magiczebra 9
But the point of extra credit is to get credit for EXTRA work that wasn't necessary. Your teacher should've kept doing it, it's such bullshit to say its not fair for the kids who don't do it.
thatsucks4you 7
Wow...people suck! I would never do that for my kids. Do the work you're supposed to do instead of slacking off!
ThatSynicalGuy 10
Wow. My school is really good about this stuff, and the parents never complain. I had no idea that humanity had forgotten what EXTRA meant. Just for all of you who are confused, EXTRA means that you do EXTRA work. If you don't do the EXTRA work, the don't get the EXTRA f***ing CREDIT! I despair at the abyss of laziness, stupidity and infantile, babyish, tantrum-throwing mediocrity that humanity has fallen into. As you can see, this stuff just pisses me off.
fantasyworld 39
We did that too in Earth science, easy A.
alycion 39
Growing up I was taught that there were winners and losers and that I couldn't always win. That actually helped build me up as a better person, because I learned if I wanted something I had to work for it. I kept high grades and did well on my hobbies. If I failed a test even when I tried, my parents built my self esteem up with words of encouragement and showing me they were always proud as long as I did my best. This give trophies in sports just for showing up attitude is teaching far beyond sports. And to see it creep into learning is downright disgusting. Self esteem comes from trying, failing and then succeeding. Not from having things handed to you. You should be able to smack the parent of this child op. Hard enough to knock some sense into them.
queerdragon 20
When I was in elementary school, we used to have a school wide "Eagle Wars" where everyone took part in obstacles, brain teasers, and sports games. It was a week of pure awesome and the winners got medals and a pizza party. I won once the whole time I was in school. There was a girl in my class who's mom complained so much that they turned the Eagle Wars into a week off from school and no one got to have fun anymore. Had the mother just told her daughter, "sometimes you win and sometimes you lose" then 1000 kids would not have lost out on a good time. My mother never complained unless I was being treated unfairly or being bullied. It taught me, as I have grown, that sometimes you do things for the heck of it and do not expect a prize.
jw90 18
A good grade is only deserved when it's worked hard for.
dinagdotphoto 13
The main problem of today's education in 3 sentences. Thank you, OP.
BlesstheSilence 11
This is why I can't get into the education field. I would slap a bitch so fast! Yeah just give him grades that will get him far in life.
ninjuh_wingman 29
This is the reason that kids are getting stupider.
gabe222 25
Well yeah, it should be phrased "more stupid" and kids aren't getting 'stupid' they are just being stupid... Can't get more stupid if there was never intelligence to begin with.
awkwardloveannie 28
schools are getting so little funding making sure children are at the appropriate level is becoming above a teacher's pay grade. sound like OP is a great teacher though