r/AskReddit Teachers of Reddit, when meeting a parent explains everything about the student 

That teacher that helped that kid from Honduras got my respect. That's a very rare kind of individual nowadays.

I feel so bad for the kid from Honduras... Teachers some times are the last life line.

Not a teacher, but I'm studying to be one, and our lecturers often share stories from in the field. One of my lecturers had a student who was always late to school. His clothes were always filthy. His lunch consisted of a bag of chips and a soda. He never had his homework done, and he barely understood the material in class. The teacher contacted his guardian for a PTI, but she never showed. Then one day, the teacher ran into the student at the grocery store, and the student offered to introduce the teacher to his grandma (the guardian). Next isle over were the student's two younger siblings and his chronically ill grandmother. Turns out that the reason the student was usually so disorganized, dirty etc. was because he was the primary caregiver of the household. He spent all his time making sure his siblings and grandmother were taken care of, and he wasn't caring for himself the same way. My teacher essentially became a substitute parent after that: she had a couple of clean uniforms ready for him when he came into class, she packed 'too much food' in her own lunch and asked him to take the extras, she gave him as much affection and support as he would take. His grades didn't improve by much, since he was still focused on being a caregiver instead of being a student, but my teacher was satisfied with the fact that she knew she was making his life that little bit better with her actions.

This reaffirms my belief that some people just shouldn't have children. Get your own stuff figured out before you try and pass down your genetics.

For everyone commenting “this is why i wont ever have a child“ - the fact that you even think about how your personality/life decisions/problems can effect your future child, already means that youre much more qualified to become a parent than the people in this video. I understand that having a child isnt for everyone but please dont stay childless for the wrong reasons. The world needs more good parents like you!

I feel kind of bad for the parents who are afraid and scared to say no to their kid. But those entitled parents? Lemme just yeet them into the trash.

“As it turns out, the student’s uncle is most likely her father.” Hol up

Tbh, it's like that with most students and parents. The really nice children have really nice parents and the ones who act out normally have parents in a difficult situation that carries over to the child (e.g. divorce) or just have a nasty personality. Children are very much a product of their environment.

when i was in 1st grade, there was this kid in my class who got held back. he had slightly violent tendencies as had anger issues and was also kind of a bully. i was paired up with him cause i was known as the ‘good kid’ in my school since i was overly nice and stuff so teachers used me as a way to get through to the bad kids without my knowledge. so while we were working, we started to talk and i remember asking him why he was so mean to the other kids. he told me that he has to or his dad would hurt him. i told him to stand up to his dad but he said he was too scared to. don’t know what happened to him, but i really hope he’s okay now. Edit: i never met his dad btw, but from what he described about his dad, REALLY explained his behaviour.

The forgetful child and mom is a big mood.

My husband and I are really active in our children's education. My husband ended up having to work on meet the teacher night and didn't get to meet our oldest child's teacher. He had a day off the next week and I asked to set up a conference with the teacher so he could meet her. The teacher was confused when I asked for this thinking we had a problem, I told her no that my hubby wanted to meet her and ask questions about the curriculum himself. She was so shocked by this and told me that in the 10 years she had been a teacher no one had ever asked this before. We had our conference with her and she was so happy we had questions to help our kid do well, we even got some extra example worksheets so we can better help our kid with their work at home so we understood how it was suppose to be done. We would see her in the pick up line and talk to her all the time about how things were going. And even asked for another conference halfway through the year so we could get an idea of what the kids were going to be doing after the break. She told us that it was so refreshing to have proactive parents. This was the first time I ever realized that not every parent cared as much as we did about their child's education and it broke my heart. We're having our last conference with her Tuesday afternoon, I'm really going to miss this teacher, she's amazing and really cares about her students.

When my daughter was in first grade in a Utah school she came home with a letter saying that she needed to go for speach therapy. I told me wife that she sounded normal to me but if she needed it we would do it. Three years later I meet the speach therapist at parent teacher conference and introduce my self. The therapist said in shock" X has a New Jersey accent " since I have a strong New Jersey/Bronx accent my daughter picked it up .

My friend is a teacher and told me this story: Lemme set the scene... 10th grade student, 3/4 through the school year, transfer student, often missing 2-4 days of school because of what he called were setbacks with his family. His teachers went easy on him but I never understood why but went easy on him with work. When during after school hours he was caught in the cafeteria stealing food from the ovens (Kept the bread warm and soft) and fridge, when he got caught he bolted leaving everything he had with him. He came back 3 days later and when asked about why he was stealing he started bawling and I mean BAWLING his eyes out. We went out side the building (in front of a door of course) and he told me why... Turns out his family had abused when he was young and wanted to run but wasn't allowed to leave his room, he was kept under constant surveillance by his parents (Tracker on his phone etc.) And they used him as a slave. 2 years ago they had died leaving enough money for him to finish school but not enough for food and had to make a choice... It also turned out the house was not left to him in their will but his uncle, he was just as bad as his parents and decided to run away leaving his most essential belongings such as his phone and spare cloths which his uncle sold when he was still living there... The kid was living homeless with no one to trust but himself and had to steal. He never stole money he never robbed anybody he just stole food to survive and was stealing leftover bread for the past 2 years. He never told this to anyone else. I told this story to every teacher and they ALL immediately helped him study gave him food and clothes and even money when they had cash on them and he would always refuse them thinking he was just leeching and just being a nuisance to everybody around him. That pushed us to help him more than ever and the principal set up the entire school to celebrate his birthday, I'm talking the Freshman, the Seniors, the Staff, EVERYONE. The school was decorated from left to right for him and he cried thanking all of us for giving the best they could to him and was emotionally healed after that I think. He ended up graduating as one of the top students and went off to do college. From what I've heard he has finished college, has a house, a girlfriend, and a dog (pug). I feel so proud of him... This story has been told from the perspective of not me but my friend

Not a teacher. Not even a paraprofessional or anything (though I'm the daughter of a Para and my gosh the stories I could tell). I was getting volunteer hours in for college by working at my old school, helping teachers for events and stuff. I was taking tickets for the winter band concert (which my ex had been a part of when we attended high school, but his younger brother is in now). I remember my ex being clingy, and always in need of someone to cheer him on for anything. I'd never met his parents (broke up because of abuse from cousins hurled at me, for him using me for art, and because we just didn't click, but still). Well, I take the tickets of these people, and I see my ex. They're his parents. He says hi to me (we'd kinda stayed friends after the breakup since we mainly just felt we weren't right for each other), and before I can say anything, his mom just looks at me and goes "So this is Hetagirl?" I start to say yes, but stammer. Never heard anyone scoff before, but my gosh she acted like a Karen. Dad butts in. "How could your grades be lower than this retard?" Apparently a nervous stammer makes you retarded these days. Ex didn't even look up at them, and I heard them telling him how better his brother was as they went in. The poor guy just looked miserable as his parents went on with the whole retard thing. My GPA was 1 point away from making me Salutatorian of our class. They've been shitting on their son, comparing him to other students and downplaying his worth to the point he never pursued anything, and downplayed other students in the process. If he'd been told to try and be better than me, perhaps his grades would've at least gone to C level, but he always had D's and F's without fail, while I was a mostly straight A student. No wonder he needed me to validate him all the time. He didn't have anyone else.

9:34 This person didnt just use "1 and 2" or "one and two" They said '1 and two' Why, _why?_

i’m not a teacher, i’m actually in high school lol but my friend always got on my nerves cause she was so hard on everyone, and a perfectionist, and always got mad at you if you messed up on the tiniest thing and then i met her parents and it all made sense. they were like her but 10x worse, and would pretty much punish her if she wasn’t this way and was nicer

How did the kid from Honduras get into the States? He just... walked in

The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. Many years ago I taught at a high school in a middle to upper middle class area which had a decidedly academic tone - there was an expectation from the parent community and the students themselves that the kids would be going on to college or university. In the senior grades we set high standards for the students, but also spent a lot of time teaching the skills they'd need to succeed in the post-secondary world. But as you can imagine, some students didn't buy into this, and it was the usual mix of work not done, skipping classes or just generally not caring. After every report card we would have parent-teacher conference nights where the school's two gyms were set up with tables for meetings. It was always well advertised and we had a generally good turnout. Which parents took the time to come out? The ones whose kids were doing well or excelling. The parents who told their kids that they were going to take an evening to go and meet the teachers, and demonstrated to their kids the value that they, as parents, put in their kids' education. The ones who almost never showed up? You got it - the parents of the kids who didn't care and were performing well below their capabilities. It was sad but there was nothing we could do about that.

Not a teacher but I had a guy in my class (from year 5 to year 12) who was the definition of a bully. He would harass kids who he though were "different" (overweight kids, nerds, guys who had more 'feminine' styles, a girl diagnosed with depression) and would laugh if they got sad with what he was saying or doing. Never apologized. Always wanted to be the center of attention and would be loud and disruptive, often questioning the teachers' authorities. One day he called me "atrasada mental" ("mentally challenged" in English) when I asked something to the teacher, without being provoked. Anyway, his mom came in for the Parent-Teacher Conference in the last day of the year and she was the same as her son, loud, disruptive, would argue with other parents about the class average grades or the class behaviour or anything at all... Eventually she said something along the lines of "Well, my son doesn't deserve to be penalized for his behaviour in class. The teacher just doesn't like him" This made my mom very upset but she didn't say anything. Then the lady goes "It's not my son's fault that the class has poor behaviour, everyone seems to get along pretty well and everything! It's the teacher's fault". After this, my mom chimes in and says "Well, my daughter complained that someone in this class has been bullying her and some other students and that they don't feel safe. She was called "mentally challenged" DURING class time. So that's enough proof that this class has behaviour problems and that they don't get along well." Everyone shut up because they are already used to that mom and their kids complained about that kid all the time so they knew what this was all about. And you know what's funny? That kid once said in class "Some parents don't know their child, they think they have an obedient, perfect child and that they know everything about their child, but they don't. My mom, at least, knows me well, she knows the person she raised!" But then, here comes Parent-Teacher Conference and lo and behold, his mom doesn't know shit about her own son's behaviour and thinks he's an angel.

Not a teacher, but when I was a kid my mom’s friend had two kids (a boy and a girl) both a bit younger than me and we became friends. The girl had this one friend who hated me for no reason. She would get irritated when the girl would hang out with me and would say things behind my back that I looked like a pig, didn’t care about me, etc. My friend defended me several times and would tell me what she would say. I wondered why she was still friends with her, since she even confessed to me once she didn’t want to be. I vented to my mom on the car ride once and she told me that the girl who was giving me a problem had a mom who was an alcoholic. I never met her in person but remember hearing a phone call with her and hearing some stories about her. Basically even though everyone thought of the girl as a pain they didn’t want her to be left under the care of a woman who was drunk all the time. Even as a child I understood.

I’m working as a tutor for a small local school and there’s this one kid I tutor after school who is a handful, they would constantly come in yelling for everyone to look at him which they did, would never do any work, and would harass other girls and guys sitting beside him So on parent teacher night since I was one of persons teaching him I was to show up and show what he had done which was little to no work and as I pulled out a binder that had his empty worksheets, complaints from students and parents. The mom just completely let ripped into me saying I was discriminating against him and I shouldn’t have been allowed in the country and a brown t-word should never be able to teach As she was ripping into me u could see her little piece of shit go thru the teachers purse and pull out a 50note 2 weeks later the mother was arrested for child abuse,and assault on a officer while the kid was expelled and taken by cps The dad was of no use either he had left them both after he had won the lottery

Mom always compared me to other ppls kids who did better, always do things for me, then complains i cant do anything, one time she told me , that if i cant keep a job she would just put me on disability. She just cared about me paying bills and helping stay afloat i feel trapped and i can be free but i lowkey feel bad leaving her to struggle

I actually shared a similar situation with the girl at 3:02 Me being an eighth grader last year I had been struggling with social anxiety and it had gotten worse to the point where I was so scared of people that I began skipping and avoiding school. I was a pretty good student you can say, especially in English and writing. Most of my work was online so I tried doing classwork and any homework I could online. I ended up becoming guilty about the whole situation so I came out to my mom and explained that I was struggling emotionally and I needed help. Her response to what I had to say was that I was faking it, making a big deal, and that I was only skipping school just because I can do my work online. She ended up forcing me to go to school. And since I had been skipping school so much it overwhelmed me and added onto the anxiety. I was behind in some classes, especially in math. In addition to this I should've gotten a truancy but I didn't, I think it was pity and my grades that kept me from getting a truancy. I was called to the principle's office at one point and she told me the same. She immediately judged me by my attendance but my grades kept me up. My English and Reading teacher ended up talking to me about it. And they helped me through the rest of the school year, I was really thankful for them, and fortunately I passed. But I still struggle with my anxiety, I never really seeked professional help since again my mom doesn't believe I need it and counseling isn't free. I'm trying my hardest I could for now but I'm struggling about what I can do.

That last one tho got me like SWEET HOME ALABAMA Oof thanks for the heart 💜❤

I used to work at a Saturday school as an assistant. I needed to speak to one of the teachers, but she was busy at the time explaining to a child's father why she was disappointed with his poor attitude and disregard for other students. The father didn't really seem too bothered. Towards the end of the conversation, another parent came to him to tell him that his car was blocking multiple people in and that he needed to move it immediately. After he left, I turned to the teacher and just said, "well, there's your problem!"

I feel terrible for these teachers. Dealing with lazy and bratty students? I have always respected them but here's some more respect.

Honestly, if you're not stable enough to have a child, don't have one.

that last one happend in Alabama?

That young man... I'm glad the the teacher kept in contact with him.

Some people shouldn't be allowed to have children. What's the point of having a kid if you can't take care of them?

It's stuff like that that convinces me kids shouldn't be always punished for bad behaviors, but the parents should be instead. Kids usually don't know better until later in life, the people they are closer to are going to be their model. If parents have trouble educating their children, I feel they should receive some help, like a specialized course or something.

1. Two.

Here's an interesting fact: If the Child has dominion over the House and/or their Parents, then the Parent is classed as a Peerent. They are the victims technically, but I'm pretty sure in every case the parent either doesn't care or doesn't know what to do. Now, as for the more entitled crappy parents... Well... They can burn for all I care-

2:20 hits me hard. i understand how that kid feels. my dad constantly calls me a drop out and i never hand in any work bc i have no motivation. but when im in class i do well, and i also have teachers that give me makeup work to pass classes. it really helps. it just makes me upset that he was expelled, i really hope the best for them.

sounds like a PSA for condoms or vasectomies

2:55 this, so many parents release their frustration on kids, my mother always used to compare me to other kids and tell me how they were better

I work as a teachers aid in a classroom of 2 year olds, and while most of the kids have a LOT of words they mess up, but are reasonably understandable, there is one child in particular who speaks so fluently. He speaks in full sentences and questions and everything. One day, when mentioning butterflies, he made a butterfly motion with his hands. I pointed that out to the teacher, and she told me his mom is a sign language translator, and dad is a language arts teacher. His parents have instilled in him no baby talk that I can notice, and he is a really well spoken, well behaved child

".... Well there is this Lannister in my class..."

1:40 wow this wasn't what I expected from this video

I worked as an after-school counselor for 3rd grade for a summer job one year. This girl ((let’s call her Star)) that I watched for the whole year was a mess; she had her moments of quiet and doing all her work but then would flip the switch and be an absolute nightmare. One example was this whole war Star started with another girl in class on how she kept looking at her wrong and that her very voice “makes her ears want to bleed”. She kept trying to start fights out of nowhere, example: it’ll be the middle of homework time and Star would come up to me and very loudly say that the other girl keeps giving her ugly looks and trying to hit her ((the other girl is on the other side of the classroom and has her back to us)), resulting in the other girl yelling that she didn’t do anything and that Star was a liar. Fast- forward and the two are screaming and Star is crying saying that she feels attacked and that she’s being harassed. The absolute craziest thing this kid did was having a screaming, crying meltdown ((I’m talking hitting the walls and scratching her face)) to the point that I had to call the head counselor to come help and actually see what the hell is happening. Reason why Star is having this meltdown? She wasn’t first in line to play kickball. We call her parent ((Just mom)) to come in and instead we get the grandmother, mom is a RN Nurse and has the grandmother listed for pickup. We explain what happened with Star and the very first thing this woman says and does is turn to me, points her finger right under my damn nose, and loudly says that I wasn’t doing my job and that this was all my fault. I was flabbergasted at the amount of scorn she spat at me. The head counselor was with me and immediately jumped to my defense saying that I had nothing to do with Star having this reaction. The grandmother then flips out and saying that we were harassing Star and her and that she will sue us for trying to abuse her granddaughter and steal their money. Long story short, I never returned for the second year. Hell no.

Not a teacher, but I have a friend who's always over analyzing gestures and giving weird "scientific and psychological" explanations to simple things or situations. Turns out her dad was very interested in psychology, but he just couldn't take that career so he became an accountant, but he still investigated, read and learned a bit about psychology by himself, and he taught everything he knew to her. It's kinda funny, the first time I talked to him my mind literally said "Ohhhh. Everything makes sense now."

I once did a three week long internship at an after-school care (mandatory, I didn't want to be there), and one child, about 9yo, was hell on earth. As soon as you told him to please be quiet or tidy up his workspace he'd threaten everyone, said he put us on his black list, and describe to us in great detail how he'd get his dad's guns (which were locked away, but he knew where the keys were etc) and shoot us all down. He had a friend who seemed sweet but also started to adapt some of his antics. I asked another intern who had been there way longer, what his parents thought about that. She said they don't believe any teacher and insist he's a little angel. Then I witnessed the dad coming to take the child home, and the child's personality did a 180° turn. Was suddenly excited, hugged his dad and told him happily about his day etc Idk what to make of this experience...

HER UNCLE IS LIKELY HER FATHER *happy alabama noises*

I was a student teacher at an elementary school one year and I was working with first graders. After spelling tests, if a student was finished they could flip their paper over and draw until everybody else was done. This one kid finished and started drawing and I came around to see it and compliment it (get their confidence up) but noticed he was drawing what looked like somebody getting their head cut off and blood spraying everywhere. I took him outside to the hallway and ask him why he chose to draw that. He just shrugged and said it’s what he thinks about. Now, young kids don’t just think about murder unless they’ve seen it. Be movies, tv shows, or news. So I decided to set up a parent teacher conference w his dad, me, and my mentor teacher. The dad came in. He was huge, fat, and very much a hillbilly. I showed him the drawing and said I was really concerned for his son and that he needed to reach out to him and see if everything is okay. The dad then got mad at me and said to leave his kid alone and if not I’m gonna end up like the picture. Quickly transferred to a different school lmfao

my dad used to scream at me. when i was attempting to learn how to read and write. it made me scared of school almost on some sort of PTSD basically i had sever issues trying to learn new things. now i can take in information and talk and listen but doing is a problem for me. :/ no one would have known because my family was just wanting me to do it right and they thought i was doing it because i wanted to not do it when infact i was just really struggily to remember things and stay on track...... it got worse. and i started to be afraid of geting things wrong. thats when i as a person broke. i wasnt even anywhare near any type of exams and this was when iwas learning how to read and write and do maths and basic stuff. it broke me . though. made me have anxiety towards other people and slowly got worse and worse at an early age.. i left school completely broken with a 14% attendence. i went from a really nice kid at the beginning of high school. to the final year with me basically have mental break downs all the time silently in my head. my attendence was low because i liked being home alone to play games. because i could get away from everything. be in my own world. but also . i woudnt be judged..... i was scared of people judgeing me. :(

Some people really shouldn't have children if they're NOT capable of taking care of one.

I'm in a school band of 8 other people and there's this one keyboard player that does whatever. He would add random parts to the song, ask constantly for solo parts, ect. We do swimming lessons at the end of the year at my school and he always complaint that the lessons were too easy and he wanted to be moved up. Never really met his parents, just felt like sharing. He does have a 3-4 year old brother.

I have a friend that is way behind on critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension and some social skills. She doesn't read books that much because reading comprehension skills are low. Cant critical think/problem slove because her parents, mostly her mom does everything for her. I feel like no one is pushing her to try new things and push her out of her comfort zone. I, as one of her closest friends have been trying to help for multiple years but I haven't gotten that far. Anyone have any tips or tricks that might help?

My 8th grade History teacher told us about a student he had once. The kid was always loud, eccentric, and boisterous, and would always start off his sentences with "I'll tell you what!" and end his sentences with the same phrase. My teacher thought he was annoying and was a weird 14 y.o but the kid genuinely liked history and did his shit on time so he couldn't complain much. On open house, some man comes into his classroom, makes eye contact with him and immediately "Ah! I'll tell you what, it's so nice to finally meet you! My son is awfully fond of you, I'll tell you what!" all whilst shaking his hand and slapping his shoulder. My teacher said he just smiled and said "You must be John's dad." and it all made sense to him. Like father like son

How do you treat a child like an animal? How could you let a child live in your garage like an animal when their family entrusted you with taking care of them? I can't imagine having a guest uncomfortable much less neglecting a child to the point where they're 15 with no understanding of social norms. Like what the fuck any child coming into my home would be cared for and protected like my own I don't even like keeping tools in the garage how anyone could leave a person there is beyond my understanding

5:55 "everything had to be about him or he'd throw a fit" Narcissism? lol

At the kindergarten I used to teach at there was this 2 y/o girl who was the most annoying lil shit ever. There was a lot of things that annoyed me about her, but the worst one was that she loved to drink milk during lunch. The kids could always choose between milk or water, however it was obvious to anyone who had ever had to change her diaper that she was lactose intolerant so I always made her drink water instead. She would start to fake cry and scream, expecting me to give her what she wanted and when I didn't cave in she just got super quiet. But only after like 20 minutes of her screaming. Every day when her mom dropped her off or came to pick her up she would call the kid "princess" and I often overheard her saying stuff like "we'll do everything you like to do" or "I'll make your favorite food". She will be a nightmare as a teen.

Not me but my sister who is an assistant teacher to an English class had this kid who was annoying and disrupted the class, never gets his homework done, his bag is full of papers and very unorganized, and he would always lose his erasers. Whenever he read, he would read it so slow and made the others laugh or snicker even if it wasn't funny (It really wasn't.). As she was the assistant teacher, she couldn't really do anything much and since the teacher was too 'kind', the teacher didn't bother with him. Fast forward, she met him late at night, like about 9pm in McDonalds playing games, so she went up to him because he's just like elementary-middle school, and asked what's he doing here. "Waiting for my dad to pick me up" He said. She stayed behind for him and when his dad finally came, it was like about 11pm. He just rolls up like he doesn't give a frick about letting his child wait for him that late, with his elbows out the window. So when my sister introduces herself as one of his teachers, he didn't really care. My sister was practically gesturing with her whole being and eyes on how much of a scum he was for being an ass to his kid. So this was when she realized that this was why the kid was like this. My sister tries to ask the other teachers to tell the parents on what's basically their parenting because why did they make a kid if they're not going to take good care of him? The teacher, rather than also caring about the children's education, they care more about the fact that they didn't want to get the parent's ire on them, basically because they weren't paid enough to bother with that. It's sad that they prioritize on that rather than a child. Mind you, the teachers were just from cram school. So basically what my sister did was give enough attention that he craved (but it wasn't enough as it wasn't his parents) and gave him enough work and motivation so that he wouldn't disrupt the class.

When Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory got it so right, it's almost always the goddamn parents behind the bad kid. Pretty sure I'd be worth millions if my Mom didn't always call me slow, stupid, big nose, and essentially try to crush my self-esteem. I remember my sister gave me a confidence boost when I was little about a book I read aloud to here, and I doubt she even remembers that. I kind of want to do something about it, either be a teacher, or change how kids are treated at schools, not using fake-ass zero-tolerance rhetoric, but actually understanding kids and their parents, making both understand each other, and making some actual progress with treating oneself and others with some actual respect. Maybe some day.

Not much in terms of "horror" stories, but I worked as a temporary computerclass teacher at my old elementary school. Make-up wasn't really allowed in heavy doses, but teachers understood that sometimes girls just liked trying it out, and they figured that if they learned to do it now when nobody cares, they wouldnt look like clowns in highschool (or at least I assume that was the reasoning). There was this one girl, absolute sweetheart, who would always come in with makeup that pretty much was at the acceptable boundaries. Eyelashes, eyeliner. It was there, it was visible, but it wasn't idiotically prominent. I'm not sure how to explain it. It kind of made you think "that kid is wearing makeup, and a little too much... but thats my opinion". She would also wear clothes I personally would never have my daughter wear. The kind of clothing that kind of oversexualises teenagers, but dont make sense on kids; lowcut shirts. Or skinny jeans (on a kid??). Sometimes she'd had earrings on (fake ones, but those werent allowed). As I said, the girl was an sweatheart in class. Polite, paid attention, overall decently behaved. I have to guess her age but I think she was... 10 or so. Having been bullied as a kid myself, I made it a case to always take a moment to ask the kids how they were doing at home, did they enjoy their weekends or whatever events happened. And this girl would always talk about her boyfriend (not unusual). Who was 14 (uhh). So I talked to her from time to time, never going into the whole age thing, but subtly telling her people should always have boundaries. Like a teacher running a class, a policeman upholding the law, or parents with their kids. As well as having personal boundaries with other people (not doing things you dont want to do). Now, since I was a temp, I didn't deal with parent-teacher conversations, just talking to the other teachers how their students were doing. As I talked to one teacher, there was this... well, kinda trashy looking lady approaching. HEAVY makeup. Like, "did you ask someone to hit you in the face with a spraycan" levels of makeup. gaudy necklace and earrings, weird hairdo that I cant put to words but had some accessories in it that made no sense, cigarettes. I didn't even think about it twice, I KNEW that was the kid's mom. And lo and behold it was. And she was by all acounts young. I was 23 at the time, I strongly doubt she was over 30. No father, because the parents were "divorced". It just all made sense in some way. The sad part is, I only worked there for a year, and I didnt see that girl again until she was probably 16 or 17. And she was visibly pregnant. And smoking, and an ungodly amount of (whore-y) makeup. I can honestly say it kind of broke my heart a little when I saw her like that. Nothing against teenage mothers, but this girl probably would not have ended up a teenage mom if her actual mom actually raised her properly and with a little bit of modesty.

Literally most of these kiss are the definition of Bakugou Like if you get it

Not me but my mom is a fourth grade teacher. She had this kid who was misbehaving in class, she set up a parent teacher conference with parents and comes to find out that the mother is still bathing the kid..... a 10 year old kid...

Both my parents are quite laid back and have had history with addictions, e.g. drugs and alcohol. My mom raised me and always tried her best. A lot of stuff happened, she got cancer when I was doing my exams. I managed to stay on top of my grades despite what my dad put me through and caring for my mom at home. It annoys me when students make the excuse that their personal lives are the cause of their destruction. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule but when their lives aren't bad enough to excuse their behaviour, it seriously annoys me.

When I was in high school we ran a preschool center that we were graded on for home economics and we had to make up games for the kids, have storytime and snacks. There was this one little boy that kept running around pinching all the butts of my fellow female teen students and running off giggling.

6:30 As someone with ADHD, and whose parents probably had it as well, I totally relate to this. When you and your family are undiagnosed, ADHD just becomes a very stressful way of life.

To the parents who are letting their kids be in charge without disciplining them... it will bite you in the ASS in the future!

Hi, telling this from the student POV. So, 7th and 8th grade. Everyone is going through shit at this time, so it's not surprise that I would act out. Yet, I acted out more severely than others in my class. I wouldn't do homework, fall asleep in class, be violent towards others, etc. Students AND teachers were getting fed up with me. So, my AB(Lang and History combined) teacher decided to email my mom. That's when she found out about my home life. My mother was dying of cancer while being unintentionally mentally and verbally abusive, meanwhile my dad was off riding dirt bikes, working, or going out with some girl and leaving me alone. I acted out because I was too stressed and overwhelmed to sleep. I couldn't focus on my homework cause there was just chaos around me 24/7. Acted violently because, well everything. My teacher was there for me from then on, and helped me through everything. I got my act together, but ended up dropping 8th because my moms time left was limited at this point. She was easily my best teacher.

this is semi related but i thought i’d share a story - i was in 6th grade, and i couldn’t stand my math class. i did no homework. i’d get detention nearly every day & skip that too. i didn’t do any school work in class either. my teacher pulled me aside often like “what is wrong w you.” one day she asked about my family, more specifically my brother she taught several years ago. i told her that he killed himself less than a year ago. she never once bothered me again for homework/detention/etc and even passed me when i should’ve failed.

(From my mother’s View) There was a boy who I knew didn’t have a father in the picture but it gets worse, he was struggling with ADHD. He lives with his uncle because his mother kicked out the father after the last kid because all she wanted was a girl and now he was ‘useless’. She was emotionally abusive and made sure to never do it over pictures or texts so when they divorced and they took her to court she got the kids and the father got nothing and just left. The mother was rude and extremely disrespectful, she used to turn around and slap her son if they did anything wrong. She taught the older kid that if they ever saw her brother to kill him, he complied with this and this kid had to move to their uncles. Whenever they got into an argument the this is what happened: Mum- I will take you to court for taking MY child Uncle- And I’ll show the evidence of you abusing him Mum- He’s worthless anyway! Uncle- He’s sat upstairs and you say that? Don’t speak to me again! The mum would storm out and scream a bunch (They live across the road from me) She was horrid and my mum found out and convinced the uncle to take her to court, he won the case as he had security cameras in the house. The kid went my school and is slowly getting better he has began to just ignore his brother and I have wanted to fight his brother, the kid tried to steal the flicking tie that I had to pay for about the other one he stole, he got pay back when (I’m stronger than I look) ripped it out his hand and stomped on his foot while punching him in his arm, the scream that came along was so feminine and high pitched, I was ted to burst into laughter. (Unrelated thing) Half of my yr7 class smoked and did alcohol, my school is one of the worst schools in England as well but I’m a very high achiever, the teachers know who’s going somewhere and who isn’t, I now and again stay behind to help clean up as I want to go into law or phycology someday. I just went onto a rant about my achievements, oops

Reddit categories like these are just giant red flags for people who should legally not be allowed to raise children, but after a series of stupid decisions, end up being a single parent of 3.

9:59 student’s uncle is likely her father? *sweet home Alabama..*

At least there was some positivity at the end.

Im not a teacher, but i live in a trailer park with a bunch of other people older than me and I hear a lot of stories about the people who live here. So, here's two stories: #1: There is a highschooler here who always seems nice around people who are younger than him. But, he will pop a smoke whenever he gets the chance and can get physical. I have ben told he skips class all the time, and i believe it because when im getting home on the buss he is always in the middle of something. I met his mom and she acts lile he is a perfect angel. He also has no father figure. #2: There is a highschool girl down here that is always smoking. She gose by two completely different names. She has even gone into drugs, i have seen. She seems to afore my baby brother, but she acts completly different around others. She's also ben in juvenile detention. I once asked my parebts why she acts like this, and they told me she grew up with her grandparents never meeting her mum and dad. Her grandparents don't give a rats back end about what she dose.

My parents never went to parents-evening or events, ever

3:29 sadly that'd exactly like me. I didnt get kept back but in the long run it really affected me. I lived in a verbally abusive household and lost the majority of my friends. I was often called the weird kid but I was friends with almost everyone in prep and grd 1 to grd 4. I was often seen as the person to resolve problems for people and it didnt help having other peoples problems on top of my own (OCD, panic disorder, body dysphoria, general anxiety, severe separation anxiety, major depression and PTSD. Needless to say my childhood was eventful. High school was no different (am currently grd 10) but luckily I'm at a different high school and am doing well

My mother was teaching a third grade class and her coworker was teaching the same grade class next to her and had a disruptive student. Student is a young black boy, his teacher is a young black woman. Teacher calls mom about the student's behavior. Mom replies with "you're just picking on him because he's black". Mom has never met the teacher and assumed she was white. Mom has to come in for a meeting. My mother never told me what happened after but I assume it was awesome.

The one at 3:02 that's not a dad..... Feel bad for the kiddo :/ (Ps : i see lots of comments generalizing that "bad kids" come from bad environment This is true but many "good kids" come from bad environment as well And vice versa ofc )

My aunt was a chem teacher and she told me a story about one of her students who was very mean and tries to seduce men all the time and would bully her peers for talking to boys she liked. And she would always talk back to her like that one time she asked her why her outfit was SO inappropriate and replied with "Because i have a body to show off DUH". Then she finally snapped and called her parents and she met her mom who really resembled her. And she asked what are you trying to influence on your child? And she replied "something you cant do". And fro, tha5 day on she respected that student and also her moms a stripper.

2 views 4 likes. Total sense

God I'm so happy I wasn't a pain in my teachers ass

I love looking at their usernames that these teachers likely made before they even started their teaching major in college

I work in a daycare and I have this one kid that "can do NO wrong." Everytime he causes shit, doesn't follow simple rules, speaks in english (i work in a french school) he always blames it on someone else even though I can him blantly breaking the rules. He always talks back when we remind him of said rules and always says that other kids are trying to kill him; he even said to me once that I was trying to poison him because I didn't like him. I mean, I don't like him but that's completly unrelated. Met his parents... he's an only child and his parents give him whatever he wants. He is what we call a King Kid as in he rules over his parents. When I mention he bad behaviour to his parents they tell me that i'm picking on him, i'm making shit up and that i'm always so negative. They are assholes, their kid is an asshole. These parents turned their kid into a little monster and they don't even know it. I can't wait to see the kid when he grows up and doesn't get what he wants...

Mr. B bullied the living shit out of me for my odd behaviour for years until he met my mother and her husband. He was a lot more understanding afterward and actually urged a few of his lil bully buddies in my grade to lay off.

I always love to read teachers stories on Reddit and Tumblr. It’s like an exclusive bts scoop.

6:05 that might have been my kindergarten teacher, because I had a small class in kindergarten

I’m not a teacher but when I was younger (about fourth grade) this kid in my class. I won’t say his name but he had autism but was in the regular class.He was obsessed with Minecraft and he kept on getting gradually worse.He mined me with his fists.When he said oh no a creeper and started hitting me. it got to the point he got sent to a mental hospital

6:43 reminds me of one plotline from The Turnabout Storm fan video. Yes, while I realize it's nothing new.. but it was my first thought

This is why I'm terrified to have a kid. I'm so scared I’ll mess up and end up spoiling or disciplining my kid too harshly. Like I don't want to undermine my kid’s chances of having a successful life because I’m not a capable parent. :/ But doggos on the other hands... Doggo are the best boiz and love me even if I screw up big time :)

Out of all of the identical reddit reading channels, this one is the most upfront with its name.

Love how the thumbnail has the unhelpful high school teacher.

I'm late but my current boyfriend (we met around 6 months ago on group therapy) has problems with social situations and making friends in general, only partly because of his intrests etc., really low self-esteem and deppressive states. Turned out none of that was "his fault". His parents are extremely narcissistic and controling. They constantly shit on him, give him barely any free will and never admit they're wrong. They were told they were treating him wrong by teachers and psychologists - shit, they even have regular consultations atm - but nothing gets to them. Sadly, there isn't much that can be done, cause they aren't technically abusing him. Also there are 10 months left till his 18th birthday (we live in Poland), so we have to wait this much until he can get the fuck out of there and stay somwhere else.

I feel bad for some of these kids. I feel like it’s not entirely their fault that they are the way they are. Kids are so impressionable and they quickly adopt the behavior of their parents, and so when the parents don’t set a good example it kinda rubs off on their kids.

There was this girl in my classroom always violent hated the teachers and did all the things to go home she should scream but the saddest thing is that no one respected her i once saw her parents at target they seemed like nice people i waved to her she waved back she also said hi but the next she got even madder the teachers never respected her so i guess that's why still kinda breaks my heart knowing that the teachers were so rude to her she obviously had mental problems she would even scream the bird it came back when there was nothing there

that last one had me SHOOOOOOOK

Its the opposite with my bf. His mom is like she fell down from somewhere very high and is both suffering consequences of that and years of self medicating with opiates. He's so smart and responsible and hard-working and she's the closest thing you can find to a trailer park hillbilly where I live

Sucks being from Honduras and sometimes forgetting a lot of people are suffering here :/ Thank you God for allowing my family to have a """better life"""

You know, I have a story kinda fitting. There were these kids who would constantly try to get me in the boys bathroom with another guy. I am a girl. Who knows what they would do to me? So after school, I met them by the gazebo just chilling and finally told them they need to stop. They kept arguing with me and telling me they were innocent and they "don't know who I am". Then my mom pulled up and said "Don't you mess with my daughter or imma f*ck y'all up". The kid who they tried to get me with (he was chill and had no bad intentions, just his friends) said the next day, "So is that why you get in trouble a lot"? Everything made sense after that.

There's always a reason behind you can't see.

Gotta say if I were a teacher and had to deal with this kind of people (especially nasty brat in kindergarten) either I'd smash their head on the table once or twice to make them at least keep low profile after that, or either smashing the parent's head when entitled. All my respects to teachers who have the patience to tolerate this, that's something I'll never have.

9:28 I think that's both good and bad. 1. I fully encourage parents to teach their child things even (Most of the time) like this, it just gives them more potental and everything, but 2. It may lead her to thinking she's a little above everyone else, and her acting like that (If she will) will isolate her a bit, and if her parents accidentally read something not appropriate for here age she may act badly because of it, both affecting her and further isolating herself. If you decide to teach your child like this, make sure to be careful to not teach her anything innapropriate for her age.

Haven't met them in Person, because they were both addicts and custody was taken from them years ago. Since then, the boy had 3 Fosterfamilys in 4 years, with the first of them beeing as bad as you can be without actually violating the law and the second one being completely uncapable if rising the already ruined child . First, I was annoyed by this loud, lazy and sometimes even violent kid. After I found out, I was just feeling sorry for him.

That 2nd teacher was so sweet

I wish social services could get involved in cases where parents give no sh*ts about their kids or their behavior

What city or country do these kids live in? If I ditched school everyday, the school would've threatened to call the police on my parents.

A lot of these parents are narcissists and their kids are following in their footsteps. Those crazy habits of your kids that drive you up the wall may be something they picked up from you, definitely see that trend in this video.