Being in communication with your child’s teacher is a good thing, but some parents really cross the line by asking teachers for things that are way beyond their job description. Huff Post asked teachers to share the most memorable and bizarre requests and complaints they’ve received from parents. These are some of the ridiculous responses:
- “I had a parent email me and ask if their student could take an upcoming math test on a different day because they had a golf tee time scheduled during the test. The student wasn’t on a golf team, nor were they a junior professional, they just wanted an afternoon of golf!”
- “I had a note from a parent to ‘excuse her son from activities if the weather was over 63°’ because he didn’t like to sweat.”
- “Parent calls to inform me that their child swallowed a ring the night before and the doctor informed them that it was too far down to be of concern, however they needed to check the child’s bowel movements for the ring to make sure it passed through their system. I was asked to collect any poop and look at it to see if I could find the ring.”
- “We were asked to wash, dry, and change socks of a student each time we came into the classroom because the ‘sand irritates’ her feet.”
- “I once had a parent complain to admin that they liked last year’s teacher much better. I looped with them from 1st to 2nd.”
- “Mom wanted to put on the IEP that me (special ed teacher) and the occupational therapist would go to their house and teach their very capable autistic 4th grader how to shower more independently.”
- “I once had a parent accuse me of eating their kids lunch and claimed they had an audio recording of me doing it.”
- “Since my child sees a speech pathologist for the half hour after lunch, I’d appreciate it if you didn’t ‘teach anything new’ until he returns to the classroom.”
- “When I taught middle school, parent wanted me to make a 60% a ‘B’ because maybe that’s the best the student could do. I had to break it to her that I didn’t create the grading scale.”
Source: Huff Post