Seven things teachers don't want to hear from parents.

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A school trust has issued a letter to parents urging them to treat teachers with respect after incidents which have seen some mams and dads banned from school grounds.
And in it, staff have outlined the seven things they don't want to hear from parents whose youngsters might have fallen foul of school rules during lesson time.


The points have been put to parents by The Arete Learning Trust which runs secondary schools in Stokesley, Northallerton and Richmond in a letter from chief executive officer Catherine Brooker.
They are:

  • "I'm not going to allow my child to do a detention"
  • "I don't want my child punished until I know what is happening to the other one"
  • "She's usually really good, can't you let her off"
  • "I support the school and want good behaviour but..."
  • "You have been too soft on the other child"
  • "My child doesn't lie and told me he didn't"
  • "You can't punish my child when I tell him to ignore what you say."
I've been a Head of Year for many years. I have heard all of these said to me about their precious child.

Anyone admit to saying stuff like this?

:rolleyes:
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Told my kids many teachers are twats, but the world is full of twats and your boss when you get a job might be a twat, so you might as well listen to them and either accept they are right when they are, or figure out how to accept it when they are not. Teaching your kids that teachers don't automatically deserve respect is fair enough, but seeing the school and teacher's authority as somehow 'optional' is not helping your kids prepare for life, and all the statements in the OP are examples of misplaced loyalty/support for your children that ultimately undermine their development, or are simply outpourings of your own ego.
 
Told my kids many teachers are twats, but the world is full of twats and your boss when you get a job might be a twat, so you might as well listen to them and either accept they are right when they are, or figure out how to accept it when they are not. Teaching your kids that teachers don't automatically deserve respect is fair enough, but seeing the school and teacher's authority as somehow 'optional' is not helping your kids prepare for life, and all the statements in the OP are examples of misplaced loyalty/support for your children that ultimately undermine their development, or are simply outpourings of your own ego.
I'm a teacher and agree that a lot of teachers are twats. I find the way some of them go on embarrassing. Some are just outright unpleasant people. Not all, mind.
 
All

When they were leaving and coming to see you

Hope you have a good life and that I never see you again

Nasty piece of work me
:lol:

I used to work with an old bloke who used to always tell them, if I see you in the streets in 5 years time, don’t say hello. I don’t want to hear what you say. I don’t give a toss. I won’t be getting paid to speak to you then.
 
All the quotes above are examples of the over-entitled knobhead behaviour by which undermine the school's authority and replace it with "whatever I want". Such parents need a bit of schooling themselves.
Something my youngest's science teacher didn't want to hear was me thanking him for bringing all kinds of exciting modern science to my attention, because I had to find out all about it myself so I could work through the GCSE revision course with him. The kid didn't seem to know much about it and insisted it hadn't been explained to him. I genuinely learned a lot, but the teacher seemed to think I was being sarcastic!
 
A school trust has issued a letter to parents urging them to treat teachers with respect after incidents which have seen some mams and dads banned from school grounds.
And in it, staff have outlined the seven things they don't want to hear from parents whose youngsters might have fallen foul of school rules during lesson time.


The points have been put to parents by The Arete Learning Trust which runs secondary schools in Stokesley, Northallerton and Richmond in a letter from chief executive officer Catherine Brooker.
They are:

  • "I'm not going to allow my child to do a detention"
  • "I don't want my child punished until I know what is happening to the other one"
  • "She's usually really good, can't you let her off"
  • "I support the school and want good behaviour but..."
  • "You have been too soft on the other child"
  • "My child doesn't lie and told me he didn't"
  • "You can't punish my child when I tell him to ignore what you say."
I've been a Head of Year for many years. I have heard all of these said to me about their precious child.

Anyone admit to saying stuff like this?

:rolleyes:
Mods -SMB this ! Ive had a mare....


The problem is and effects society in a wider way, is parents are not bothered about the wider picture of better discipline and better respect for teachers and rules.

They just can’t see anything wrong with their little jimmy!
 
A school trust has issued a letter to parents urging them to treat teachers with respect after incidents which have seen some mams and dads banned from school grounds.
And in it, staff have outlined the seven things they don't want to hear from parents whose youngsters might have fallen foul of school rules during lesson time.


The points have been put to parents by The Arete Learning Trust which runs secondary schools in Stokesley, Northallerton and Richmond in a letter from chief executive officer Catherine Brooker.
They are:

  • "I'm not going to allow my child to do a detention"
  • "I don't want my child punished until I know what is happening to the other one"
  • "She's usually really good, can't you let her off"
  • "I support the school and want good behaviour but..."
  • "You have been too soft on the other child"
  • "My child doesn't lie and told me he didn't"
  • "You can't punish my child when I tell him to ignore what you say."
I've been a Head of Year for many years. I have heard all of these said to me about their precious child.

Anyone admit to saying stuff like this?

:rolleyes:
Mods -SMB this ! Ive had a mare....

I've said to a teacher that my son's going to keep punching other kids in the face until they do something about the bullies in the school
 
I've said to a teacher that my son's going to keep punching other kids in the face until they do something about the bullies in the school
I told mine to headbutt them in the nose.
I’d like my kids’ school to send me a letter explaining seven things they ARE going to say to me, such as
“Yes, we’ve appointed a SENCO”
“We’ve replaced the 19 staff who’ve left”
“Our staff have all been trained on how to deal with your son’s requirements”
“Our Class Charts system is working fine now staff have been trained on how to use the f***ing thing properly”
 
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