By Anonymous - 06/09/2013 20:36

Today, the mother of one of my students bitched me out about her son's poor grades. He lazes around all day, paying no attention and being a constant nuisance. But, she says it's not his fault, and demands that I give him better grades so he won't get "self-esteem" issues. FML
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KBurns207 17

You ought to tell her better parenting will help him with his self esteem not lying so he can pass school

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rachaelb07 6

Parents are the worst part of teaching.

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asparagus12 21

Parents are ridiculous. Ignorance and laziness breed ignorance and laziness. I feel for teacher this generation!

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magiczebra 9

Is the kid also an ignorant dumbass? If so, we all know where he got it from.

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olpally 32

Tell her she needs to be a better parent.

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theorist3 7

Oh gosh that would definitely get the teacher into trouble.

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Hiimhaileypotter 52

In my Earth Science class, the teacher would have us watch scientific movies in class and write down facts about them - say, 10 facts each. Any more that we wrote down after that were extra credit. Well, a student's parent talked to the teacher about how she wasn't happy that her son was getting bad grades yet everyone else was getting extra credit (when her son didn't do his work, PERIOD, and a lot of us went above and beyond). So the principal talked to the teacher and made her stop doing it, saying giving extra credit to everyone somehow wasn't "fair" for the kids who didn't do it. Complete load of BS, if you ask me. I feel your pain, OP!

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magiczebra 9

But the point of extra credit is to get credit for EXTRA work that wasn't necessary. Your teacher should've kept doing it, it's such bullshit to say its not fair for the kids who don't do it.

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thatsucks4you 7

Wow...people suck! I would never do that for my kids. Do the work you're supposed to do instead of slacking off!

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ThatSynicalGuy 10

Wow. My school is really good about this stuff, and the parents never complain. I had no idea that humanity had forgotten what EXTRA meant. Just for all of you who are confused, EXTRA means that you do EXTRA work. If you don't do the EXTRA work, the don't get the EXTRA f***ing CREDIT! I despair at the abyss of laziness, stupidity and infantile, babyish, tantrum-throwing mediocrity that humanity has fallen into. As you can see, this stuff just pisses me off.

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fantasyworld 37

We did that too in Earth science, easy A.

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alycion 38

Growing up I was taught that there were winners and losers and that I couldn't always win. That actually helped build me up as a better person, because I learned if I wanted something I had to work for it. I kept high grades and did well on my hobbies. If I failed a test even when I tried, my parents built my self esteem up with words of encouragement and showing me they were always proud as long as I did my best. This give trophies in sports just for showing up attitude is teaching far beyond sports. And to see it creep into learning is downright disgusting. Self esteem comes from trying, failing and then succeeding. Not from having things handed to you. You should be able to smack the parent of this child op. Hard enough to knock some sense into them.

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queerdragon 20

When I was in elementary school, we used to have a school wide "Eagle Wars" where everyone took part in obstacles, brain teasers, and sports games. It was a week of pure awesome and the winners got medals and a pizza party. I won once the whole time I was in school. There was a girl in my class who's mom complained so much that they turned the Eagle Wars into a week off from school and no one got to have fun anymore. Had the mother just told her daughter, "sometimes you win and sometimes you lose" then 1000 kids would not have lost out on a good time. My mother never complained unless I was being treated unfairly or being bullied. It taught me, as I have grown, that sometimes you do things for the heck of it and do not expect a prize.

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jw90 18

A good grade is only deserved when it's worked hard for.

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dinagdotphoto 13

The main problem of today's education in 3 sentences. Thank you, OP.

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BlesstheSilence 11

This is why I can't get into the education field. I would slap a bitch so fast! Yeah just give him grades that will get him far in life.

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ninjuh_wingman 29

This is the reason that kids are getting stupider.

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gabe222 25

Well yeah, it should be phrased "more stupid" and kids aren't getting 'stupid' they are just being stupid... Can't get more stupid if there was never intelligence to begin with.

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awkwardloveannie 28

schools are getting so little funding making sure children are at the appropriate level is becoming above a teacher's pay grade. sound like OP is a great teacher though

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