Frustrated Teachers Share The Most Infuriating Parents They've Had To Deal With

"Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society."—GloZell

Teaching is a difficult profession that is vastly underrated for its importance in society. Besides dealing with a classroom full of other people that they must care for, teachers also have to deal with the parents of those people.

While many parents can be good and kind, some make the lives of teachers even tougher than it already is, which leads to a lot of problems. Here are some of the worst stories about terrible parents, as told by the teachers of Reddit.


37. Audition Games

Held auditions for a singing role that various students were interested in. Held it at lunch when no club events were scheduled, and the note that students could email me if they'd prefer another time. No emails, no shows.

We needed someone to fill the role, so I just gave it to a great student of mine. Good natural talent, and reliable. She was sick all week leading up to auditions and proved it with a doctor's note.

I still had her "audition" upon return, but she was the only person who auditioned, so she got the role. Had three parents email me about why special snowflake wasn't considered. They all got the same response. If you want a role, audition for it.

Two of them were actually okay with that. Their kids made it out like I had ignored all other auditions to give the advantage to this sick girl.

But the third was terrible.

Kept hounding me about how it's unfair her brat didn't have the opportunity to audition (not true), how her child was a better singer than the one I had chosen (admittedly true, but she couldn't show up to mandatory classes on time, I'm not trusting her with rehearsals), and the usual bad teacher crap.

She booed this poor girl on performance day as well, the cow.

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36. My Child Is An Angel

I used to teach this little boy who was so disruptive—he would shout and pinch the other children in the class—and when I complained to his parents they said that he was a little angel at home and were shocked that I was saying that their boy was disruptive.

They even said they thought I had the wrong child's parents in!

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35. Nasty Mothers

I'm not a teacher, but when I was in elementary school I was a rather fat and unpopular kid.

On one occasion I had a mother on a field trip look me up and down and turn to a group of kids who often made fun of me and tell them something that made them laugh.

On a second occasion, I had a mother prevent me from going to a classmates' birthday party that most of my 4th-grade class went to only to find out later that she made fun of me as being a pig at the party from other classmates.

I mean I get that I was the fat unpopular kid, but shouldn't those mothers have been acting their age? They were in their thirties and forties.

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34. Failing The Cousin of The Cousin of The Cousin Of The Prince

I was working in Saudi Arabia about eight years ago and I had one kid who was the cousin of someone who was the cousin's cousin of the Prince of Saudi Arabia.

He came the first day and signed up for the class and I never saw him again, in fact, I actually removed him from the attendance.

At the end of the course, he showed up to collect his diploma.

I told him he wasn't getting one because he didn't attend a single class.

He stormed out of the class calling me names the entire way. A few hours later this guy shows up with half of Saudi Arabia, His mother, father, uncles, aunts, brothers, the whole damn family.

I was called into the office by the dean and spent the next 30 minutes being screamed at by my boss, half the staff, and his belligerent family. Didn't I know who he was? How DARE I not give him what he asked for!!

I was docked a month's pay and I ended up quitting two months later.

Oh, and he graduated the class. With honors of course.

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