I am daily flabberghasted by parents. A parent yelled at me because SHE was breaking the law and didn't want to be told about it. She thought the law didn't apply to her and when she started yelling at me, I finally yelled right back. She went into the office and reported me to the principal. He told her she was lucky I didn't just call the police and have her written a ticket. She was parked in a bus zone and I had another bus coming. She just wanted to pick up her daughter in the office. I told her she needed to park in the parking lot and come to the office. She started yelling that she was already there and wanted to pick up her daughter. I told her she had to move the SUV because another bus was on the way in. She started yelling and I yelled "Just get in your truck and move it."
I didn't get in trouble but I shouldn't have yelled. However, with the bus engines running, it was the only way to be heard when she wouldn't listen to me. By the way, the bus pulled in as she was pulling out.
What is wrong with people? There is a teacher in our district who doesn't want to raise her own son. She wants the school to be held responsible for her son because she doesn't have time to raise him. We are suppose to make sure he does his work in class so he doesn't have homework. We are suppose to give him a uniform if he comes to school in regular clothes, we are suppose to discipline him when he is naughty. I am suppose to catch him when he ditches after-school and tries to get on the bus and go home to an empty house. It is the school's fault if he gets in trouble because he ditched after-school, went home, and didn't do any homework because we should have made sure he did it at school. What about assigned homework? Well, he doesn't have to do that because it isn't real work, it is just busy work.
Since you, as a teacher, spend more time with the child than the parent, is it not right that we take the lead roll as parent? Heck no! I am a teacher. I have already raised my own children. I don't want to raise theirs. I want the parents to be responsible for their own children. We teach them to brush their teeth, not to use drugs, manners, character, and who knows what all else. Isn't it time that parents were the parents?