OT- What Teachers Really Want To Tell Parents

[The Giss]

This summer, I met a principal who was recently named as the administrator of the year in her state. She was loved and adored by all, but she told me she was leaving the profession.

I screamed, "You can't leave us," and she quite bluntly replied, "Look, if I get an offer to lead a school system of orphans, I will be all over it, but I just can't deal with parents anymore; they are killing us."

read the whole story at http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/06/living/teachers-want-to-tell-parents/index.html

[careless hal]

It's a tough part of the job, that is for sure.  You couldn't do this today but... I had a meeting in the associate principals office with a student I had suspended and his dad.  Now, I seldom sent students to the office or wrote them up, I figured I could handle them myself.  But, sometimes you have to do it. The dad starts out saying how all the teachers are picking on poor Georgie.  After about 3 minutes I had enough.  I got up and told him " You were an asshole when you went here and I see you haven't changed.  Now I understand why your son is like he is.  As I left  the room the associate's jaw was on his desk.   
Very unprofessional I know, but you just don't get paid enough to listen to crap like that.