For the teachers out there, what are some stories about horrible parents you've had to deal with?

I have a student who, while out on the playground, slapped another kid in the face.

He was obviously taken into the office where the student then claimed that the wind blew his hand

and that's what caused the slapping action.

But it wasn't actually him.

It was just the wind.

It was a nice, sunny, mildly, breezy day.

Not at all possible. The student was in the office for physical aggression towards another student,

and looking at a one day in school suspension, clearly not his first offense. The principal calls home

per the standard protocol in our district, and the parents believed

his story, so much so that the parents actually came in with a lawyer to meet with the principal,

and to get all the charges dropped. Despite two noon aides and a kid with a nice red mark on his

face, this student was sitting back in my classroom in the afternoon, getting off completely

for a blatant attack on another student.

I feel like all he learned from this experience is that he can do whatever he wants,

and his parents will let him get away with it to the best of their ability.

These parents actually dragged their lawyer into the principal's office.

Come on.

A student of mine, first grade, came to school every day without a

jacket. And when asked about it, he told me his jacket was too small and his family couldn't afford a

bigger one. When winter came around, I raided the closet in the front office for a donated jacket

for him. He lucked out, and there was a brand new jacket with matching hat and

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