Parents are ruining teaching.

Without getting too many details because I’m honestly paranoid about who might see this, today there was a pretty intense situation mainly regarding things that kids are now seeing and hearing online since Donald has been put in power.

The situation was handled, but it affected me and I was upset. I felt unsafe and stated to the group of students that their actions had hurt me, whether that was the intention or not. It was so upsetting that I actually got teary eyed.

Later on, I was called to the office because a parent of one of those kids was upset with me. They essentially berated me for 30 mins because their child was “upset that I was disappointed in him, especially because he didn’t mean to.” They even tried to pull the “you’re being too dramatic. We have (this group) as friends.” At no point did my principal defend me or stand up for the consequences the child had to face. Apparently, the child’s reputation is now ruined and I started a witch hunt and a smear campaign. I am also “the adult and not supposed to get emotional.” Sure, if this was just a small disrespectful action, but not the horrible, derogatory degree that this kid did.

I really thought about quitting right then and there. I’m done with teaching at the end of the year. I am so saddened because I love working with the kids, but the parents run the school. I’m not allowed to actually teach the kids because they might get upset and call their parents. I truly do not want to go to work tomorrow. I feel terrible and feel like this school community is so toxic.

This is not the first time the parents have dictated how we do our jobs. I am sick of it. Anyway, rant over.

TL;DR Parent coddle their child and allowed them to be overtly offensive and was upset with me when I got upset.