Teachers of Reddit? What was the trashiest thing you've seen a parent do? I work at a school where

over 80% of our population lives under the poverty line. I keep a cabinet full of hygiene products for

kids to take. Deodorant, lotion, chapstick, hair gel, feminine hygiene products, shampoo,

conditioner, those kinds of things, in travel sizes. Being a teen is hard enough

without having to cope with hygiene problems due to a lack of funds at home. So one day the

entire thing is empty. Odd. I refill the cabinet and two days later, all of it's gone again.

I refill it with the last of my supplies and catch the kid in the act of sweeping everything

in his bag. I stop him and take him into the other room to talk to him. He'd told his mother about

the cabinet and she'd ordered him to bring her everything he could get. She was returning the

items to Walmart for store credit to buy cigarettes and beer. I told him to tell her the cabinet's

lock now. I bought a bike lock so it was not a lie.

It was sickening. Mother came to a school sports day swigging from a bottle of wine. We always

felt desperately sorry for her daughter because whenever she returned to school following a holiday

at home, this was boarding school, we had to wash all her clothes because they reeked

of cigarettes. And this poor little girl was easily the most unhappy child I've ever seen.

Woman I used to babysit for worked in a school as an assistant or something in Toronto.

She always told this story about how the class rabbit would go home with a new kid each week.

They kept trying to avoid giving one kid the bunny for the weekend because it was clear his

home life wasn't the best. But they finally caved and let him take the rabbit home. The parents

killed the rabbit and ate it. They killed the class bunny and fried it up for dinner. They weren't even ashamed

when they told the teacher what happened on Monday. Said they were out of groceries or something.

My mom's a teacher, and in order to talk to a parent about a child that was struggling due to the

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