This complaint from a parent is crazy!!!....

[scottishduffy]

I am loving reading some of these complaints. I do not miss my days a camp counselor or as a nanny. The kids were awesome but some of the parents were nutty. I still remember some of the crazier parents. **names chnaged

1) I can not spread sunscreen on 9 yr old Tim's back, chest, and face every 90 minutes during my day. I have 26 kids.... besides that we are not allowed to remove our kids clothing or touch them like that. He is 9.... he can place sunscreen on his own nose.

2) I can not force Rachel to drink 40 oz of water per day. If she is not thristy I can not funnel it down her throat. Same deal with food. If she is not hungry for her entire lunch I can not make sure she eats every lst bite. She is 8.... she is not overly thin or small... i think she can figure out on her own if she feels thirsty or hungry.

3) I am your kids camp counselor... I do not write daily letters home to you from camp to tell you daily how precious your kid is. They can inform you of their day at the end of the day. I also can not make your precious my co-counselor. No matter how much she tells you she wants to be a counselor i can not give her authority over other children in the exact same age group. I don't care if you think she is a 'born leader'.

4) No Ma'am, Andy did not break that other childs toy by accident. It took at least 20 minutes of concentrated effort. Plus digging a hole to bury his deed. Unless your child took LSD and had a heck of a trip... it was no accident. No, it wasn't the other child's fault for having a nicer gameboy then your son. To suggest such a thing is reprehensible.

5) No ma'am. Other children do not need to 'toughen up'. Precious Sami needs to stop hitting them and yelling swears. Darn right I will punish her and give a time-out for these infractions. I don't care if you think I am violating her right to free speech and to express her emotions in any creative manner she sees fit. Creativity involves art & music.... not fists and shins. Time-out is not false imprisonment and is not considered torture under international law. Though the fact you taught Sami to scream this was amusing for about 30 seconds.

6) As a nanny, punishing me for having trouble enforcing rules you don't enforce yourself is considered horrible. Don't tell me they have an 8:00 pm bedtime and then sheepishly admit later on that you have never managed to get the angels in bed prior to 11:30 due to severe tantrums. That information would have been good to have before your 6 yr old tried to beat me up. No, I did not admire her accuracy and coordination while trying to assault me, you can try to comfort yourselves that way but I won't. Then you have the nerve to yell at me because she didn't get to sleep until 8:30! Even you admit that is a good 3 hours before your record!

7) Thankyou father of James for providing us with completely wrong contact information for you, twice. You know your child has health issues. You know your child also has anxiety issues. Thanks for purposely providing wrong contact information to us because as you stated "you were sick of being bothered' by administration regarding your child. So what if he had a fever... send him in anyway! We love cleaning up vomit from our playground. Also thankyou for not providing an inhaler for your child. I can assure the fear in his face during the asthma attack was *priceless*, Even more so when we couldn't contact you! Yes.... you must pay for the ambulance bill.

Ahh, vent over. Loved all my kids... even the spirited ones had their charm once you got to know how they worked. Their parents were just crazy.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

These parents need to grow up and get a life. I feel really bad for their kids. How will they cope with reality, if they grow up getting everything they want?

 

[zigzagzerr]

I totally agree with everything you are saying -- my co-workers and I have been talking about this a lot, that kids are a lot softer now, a lot less independent, and less able to handle real life.

My snowflake actually got a rude awakening last week. She is in her first year of high school. One of her classmates asked to write down the homework assignment. She handed it over, and the classmate (of course) wrote down the assignment PLUS her answers. He proceeded to get caught by the teacher. They both got written up, zero's for the day in that class, sent to the office, and got detention. I honestly don't think my daughter realized the kid was going to cheat, but you know what? Too bad! Life lesson learned. And best to learn it early on, in my opinion.

 

[lovetoscrap]

This reminds me of the stupidest complaints I had as a first year Kindergarten Teacher. I was hired 2 days AFTER school started because enrollement was higher than expected. I was given 3 days to prepare a blank classroom--it litterally had a few tables, some chairs and my desk in it and that was it. The principal took me to my room and said "You need to make a list of all the things you will need first. Start with things like a stapler, staples, tape, post its, a grade book, pens, pencils etc..." I worked my tail off to cover the bulletin boards and make them welcoming, put the kids names on the tables, get supplies and all that.

After about a week or so into school my principal came to let me know one of my snowflake's mom had come into complain about me. Her first complaint? That my room wasn't "colorful" enough. I had been given 3 days and a budget of roughly ZERO to decorate this empty classroom and she felt her dd wasn't going to do well because the walls were blank. And she was comparing the room against the other K rooms that had been there for years! The principal could barely keep from laughing. She was also upset because I wouldn't give out my home phone number so she could call me any time.

The funny thing was that her daughter was really quite adorable and no problem in class. Mom drove me batty! Another time she called to complain becuase her DD came home with paint on her brand new white turtleneck. HELLO! It is Kindergarten! We do a lot of messy stuff. But this incident just so happened in Art class--the same Art class we had every Friday so Mom shouldn't have sent dd in the new white shirt. I politely told her she would need to discuss it with the Art Teacher--a woman that had been teaching for years and years and was well versed in dealing with parents.

 

[mum4jenn]

OP here:

To answer a couple of questions...the drivers are given a set of directions BUT...when 90% of the homes do not have house numbers on the mailbox OR curb OR house it can make things very difficult. Also picking kids up it is still dark outside and since we are a rural community most of the time all mailboxes are on only one side of the road. The county also numbers houses in a crazy way. Houses side by side might be listed as 117,121,and then skip to 208. It is insane!! So...seeing as my DH would rather concentrate on driving without running over a child because he was trying to read the directions by flashlight....they use helpers so they can tell them to stop at the house where the truck is, stop at the house where the red mailbox is....etc.

And GPS on a school bus???? Please..... even my own personal GPS does not list all of the streets we have here. Our community is growing all the time and new neighhoods are being built. A GPS would NOT help!!

I don't know what the trainer at the bus shop told the parent. I told my DH that all I could think of that the parent thought the bus helper was like a teacher's helper (like holding the clipboard on the way to the lunchroom).

Yesterday my Dh also did a stint as a substitute teacher at the High School. As someone who has worker 12 hour days in a tire manufacturing company for 17 years....He is getting quite an "education" in the way things go in the world of a school system!!! LOL!!

 

[PollyannaMom]

There are definitely a lot of snowflakes floating around lately!

 

[dismom2]

7) Thankyou father of James for providing us with completely wrong contact information for you, twice. You know your child has health issues. You know your child also has anxiety issues. Thanks for purposely providing wrong contact information to us because as you stated "you were sick of being bothered' by administration regarding your child. So what if he had a fever... send him in anyway! We love cleaning up vomit from our playground. Also thankyou for not providing an inhaler for your child. I can assure the fear in his face during the asthma attack was *priceless*, Even more so when we couldn't contact you! Yes.... you must pay for the ambulance bill.

Ahh, vent over. Loved all my kids... even the spirited ones had their charm once you got to know how they worked. Their parents were just crazy.

We had a bully at school once who was totally out of control. He had the most filthy mouth, and he (and sometimes his pals) would verbally s*xually harrass all the girls at school all the time. I can't even write the things he would say....during class, during lunch, recess....all the time. Then he took it a step further and would say nasty things to parents, too. He was much larger and older looking, and I later learned he was held back a couple years (I wonder why!)

Some of us parents called the principal and the teacher. The teacher never called or emailed anyone back; when I talked to the principal, she said she would talk to his parent(s). When the kid continued to do this I called the principal back again to see what was being done about this. Turns out, she never called the parent(s), she just 'talked' to the boy--which obviously did no good because he kept doing it, and now he was harrassing the kids who 'told on him', so it got even worse.

When it still continued, I followed up with the principal again, and she informed me that she can't get ahold of the parent(s) because none of the contact phone numbers she has for them is correct! And of course, the boy wouldn't give her a number to reach them. I wish they had sent them a letter, or something....anything!

When I emailed and called the teacher again---since she never got back with me or the other parents, it took her about 3 weeks to get back with me (and only via email). All she said was that the kid was a "problem" and "they were handling it". That's all she said.

Actually, they were NOT handling it, at all. During one of the parent-teacher conferences (much earlier and before I learned what was going on) this teacher --casually-- mentioned that there were some boys who liked to bother the girls, but boys will be boys,and she tells the girls to just ignore them, or tease them back. Hello--- not only was this kid (and at times, his 2 friends) verbally harrassing all the girls (and in a very s*xual nature), he would also throw things at them, play with their hair, etc... during her class (and outside of class). This was towards the end of school, so they put off all the parents until summer vacation---I guess so they didn't have to really deal with it properly.