“Mom is blaming the student. Who is 5. She even went as far as to call him spoiled. She also blamed the tablet. The kid just plays on it til it dies. Do you take the tablet away? Oh, no, she's not a mean mom, she's a nice mom.”source ↗

“Parent told me that it’s my job to deal with their child’s behaviour and to leave them out of it”source ↗

“In email told me to not call about any behaviours and discipline as I see fit instead of dumping their child’s behaviour on them.”source ↗

“In my first year of teaching, I had a mom whose kid would leave the house every night and stay out until 2-3 in the morning. And he was 12. She “didn’t know what to do.””source ↗

“I had a parent ring after school asking me to speak to her son because he was misbehaving at home.”source ↗

“I have had been wondering if I need to go super specific, but then I kept thinking "surely not, right?" But this is very good advice.”source ↗

“We had a parent at tell us that she doesn't call us during the summer, so why are we calling her now.”source ↗

“So many of my co-worker teachers told me they’d email a parent about a students behavior and they either get no response or the parent makes excuses that their kid is just tired because sports practice ran late or that they have older siblings and pick up on stuff from them.”source ↗

“They might admit that their child did something they shouldn't, but they have excuses for why they did it, and who else also did it, or told them to do it, or did it even worse than their kid did it, yada, yada, yada.”source ↗

“You should see what we teachers have to deal with when we call home about behaviour... most parents are great but some.... I can see where the child's inability to take responsibility for their own actions comes from.”source ↗