By chinaski7628 - 24/09/2013 22:00 - United States - Glendale

Today, I sent a student to the dean for trying to smoke pot in my class. His mother called to complain that I publicly humiliated her son. FML
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chinaski7628 32

This is my FML and I never realized it got published until I came across it under the random section. I thought I'd fill in the details because I think about this kid a lot. The student in question was on probation from two previous drug charges. He was a mess-- always drunk or high and everything he did was a cry for help (tagging, fighting, truancy). I'd had a meeting with his mother once already about him failing my class due to poor attendance. She accused me of lying (even though he told her he always ditched my class). He even admitted to me that he picked my class to smoke in because he wanted to get caught and he knew I would turn him in. It actually wasn't this incident that got him expelled-- a week or so later he punched his probation officer and after that I have no idea what happened to him. I don't totally blame him-- he was only 15, after all. And it was hard to see beyond the drugs and bad decisions, but he had brains and was a good artist-- he had potential. If he had had a better mother maybe he might have had a chance. Her denial damaged him considerably. I don't mind the troubled and damaged kids, but it's the parents who made them that way I have no patience for and that make my job difficult. This actually happened three years ago, so I can only hope he's pulled himself together. I know many people that have had similar rough starts to life and have made it out ok.

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badluckalex 23

I love teachers like you.

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Welshite 39

He'll be more than publicly humiliated when he's suspended for drug use on school property.

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lily_marleen 20

I originally went to college to get a teaching degree, but I kept hearing stories like this and I figured I could not deal with the parents. People need to learn responsibility and consequences.

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chinaski7628 32

Don't let the parents deter you. They are, admittedly, one of the most frustrating parts of teaching, but the kids really do make it all worth it. Sometimes it's a struggle with them and sometimes you don't win the struggle, but if your hearts in it, it's worth it. It's not an easy job, but I can't really see myself doing anything else.

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kumarina 35

I hate those mamas boy, if he get a girl pregnant would she said the the did it on porpouse and says is a gold digger?

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worldclassrager 39

Usually weed is bought at schools...never smoked...and usually the products are not allowed since usually only seniors in high school are allowed...you did the right thing OP...

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Ari1337 15

Seniors in your school are allowed to smoke? Where do you even live?

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ChiefRager 8

Probably not in America. Probably homeschooled. Haha

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mirrorfrost 11

You checked to make sure he has a prescription first, right?

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andy1500726 19

#37 its like the "principal" of a university.

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DanielleinDC 33

Sounds like the parents of the 300 little scumbags who trashed a former NFL player's house suing him because he had the gall to expose what they did--even though the little creeps were Tweeting and Instagramming just how much damage they did. The kid deserves to be humiliated for doing something so stupid, and the only right thing for a parent to say in this case is, "What the hell were you thinking?" to her idiot offpsring.

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blackonblight 32

When he and his friends try to rob a bank will Mommy call NBC to yell at them for publicly humiliating him by covering his sad hostage situation on the news?

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TrinityNevada 11

My late mother was a college professor (English). She once had a student bring her mother in with her to a conference because she "didn't come to college to be corrupted" and she felt my mother was stepping on her values. The problem? A poem they were studying had the phrase "down, bitch" in it. Unfortunately, the girl was allowed to use another poem. As for students who smell like weed, my mom simply called security on them. But the kid actually tried to spark up a joint IN class? Not in his car or behind a dumpster or something? Wow, talk about bold and stupid.

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Axel5238 29

Damn kids. probably one of those kids that thinks it's ok to drive high. I hate stoners.

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