fellow teachers of Reddit, what experience have you had with dumb parents? I substituted in a high school

for five months to finish off the year for a teacher who was on maternity leave. So I had a student,

high school senior, who never did any homework, accounted for 35% of the total grade. I would

constantly send emails to the parents who always responded that they

deal with it. Spoke with the parents at conferences and kept the admin in the loop. One week before finals,

I sent the notice home that she needed to get a 97 on the final to pass the class and get the credits

she needed for graduation. And I even gave her one more chance to turn in past homework for 50% credit.

Fast forward to the final, she barely gets a passing grade and therefore can't get the credits,

can't graduate, can't enlist in the Air Force like she had intended. The parents come into the office

of the school screaming at everyone that they had no clue it would come to this.

When we all sat down in the office with the guidance counselor, principal, department head, and myself,

I reviewed the several notices with them, explained that she had multiple opportunities to gain credit, etc.,

but refused to do anything. Turns out, the wife was hiding the emails and information

from her husband and wanted her daughter to fail so she wouldn't join the Air Force and move away

from home. Last I heard from the situation, they're not together, the daughter is working at Lowe's,

never finished high school, and has two kids and multiple arrests for selling drugs.

There's a reason I didn't want to pursue teaching as a career after that.

We had a parent instigated investigation into bullying,

formal complaint, restorative meetings, etc.,

because her son was on the playground after school,

and one of the older children wanted to get past him and said,

excuse me, little one. She said that by not using his name, the older child didn't know it,

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