someone broke into our school. they put their foot through the principal's door, pried the secretaries desk drawers open, and got into the locked room where meds and petty cash were kept. they stole all of the candy that we had. the copier, however, remained untouched.
A teacher where I used to teach was helping a parent register their child. She didn't know her child's bus number. The teacher said she could go to the library and their would be someone there to tell her that number. It had been about an hour and this teacher realized she hadn't come back. She then received a call from that parent telling her that she was at the local library and they couldn't help her. She was supposed to go to the school library. You are so right when you say we can't make this up!
Respectfully, the teacher could have taken a moment to call the school library and get the information. This family is struggling in a new environment. Not an unreasonable request.
Thank you so much for these stories! We need to make teachers’ struggles more visible. People always assume the reason I left teaching was because the “kids are so horrible,” but I did it for them. I love them. I left teaching because of the disrespect I felt from Administration.
I had a dad at a parent conference acting all tough and said “Don’t make me mad, because I’m a (stated his last name).” I replied, “Buddy, I’m not from around here, that doesn’t mean anything to me.” He laughed and we had a great meeting. The principal looked at me when he left and said, “ I can’t believe you said that to a ( and said the parent’s last name). 😂😂😂
This happened many years ago but still creepy. I was one of the last people in the school after evening parent teacher conferences. A young, attractive female teacher ran back in the building and asked me and a few other stragglers to stay with her and walk back out with her to her car in a few minutes as the father of one of her student's waited till the end of conferences and came up to her in the parking lot as she was opening her car door and asked her out. She quickly said she didn't date the parents of students and ran back in the building saying she forgot something. This was made creepier by the fact that he waited around about 45 minutes after his kid's conference to the end of parent teacher conferences to approach her in the parking lot. Creepy.
I don't know what Dad was doing time for, but I have to give him respect for attending his child's PT conference before going on the run. THAT is probably more dedication to a child than even I would have shown! Gonna be honest here, if I was a fresh escapee, I would be halfway overseas to Morocco before I even THOUGHT about going to my child's school!
I'm the music teacher and I teach over 350 students. Six parents signed up for parent teacher conferences. Two of those parents had children that weren't in my class. Only one of the others showed up.
My aunt was my guardian and I always hid when she came home from parent-teacher conferences. Honestly, I never really did anything wrong other than once falling asleep in class causing my aunt to make me to go bed earlier. Also, I didn't find out till after that that all my teachers were in contact with my aunt via email. No wonder she knew when I had tests and projects. But seriously, thank you to all the wonderful teachers out there. Parents really should hold their children accountable. I was held accountable for everything I did or said and I turned out better for it.
Cathey, teachers were giving your aunt excessive amount of anxiety and tools to micromanage you. Lord have mercy. so they spotted you in the cafeteria they'd take a snap and send to your auntie.
Which is why you should trust your kid to be responsible enough to do their assignments on time (and if they dont, discipline them)...seriously did she try to get your assignments from your college professors too?
@@priscillajimenez27 You haven’t seen a cockroach until you’ve seen a John Adams Middle School cockroach. Those things are huge and are sometimes able to fly. And yes, we’ve gotten used to the nasty things, and yes the entire neighborhood where the school is situated is cockroach infested. Has to do with the city’s main sewer lines for the entire Northwest Quadrant of Albuquerque being in the area, so there’s nothing that can be done.
I had a student's mother take a call from her OBGYN during a conference who explained in great detail how to use a vaginal suppository. The volume was so high I could hear both sides of the conversation. The mother wasn't even a little embarrassed and was asking her doctor questions! I was behind a little table and couldn't escape. Omg, I'll never forget that.
Dumb parent didn't realize that his child and the secret love child he fathered with his side chick attended the same elementary school. This was revealed during a school program when both children (who didn't know they were siblings) ran to him. His wife's and side chick's first surprise meeting at the event was an EPIC fail. Yeah, cops had to be called to break up the fight. 🥊💔🥊
I was in a parent-teacher conference when the father complained to me that I had noted in my email to him that his son, a senior, would not graduate if he did not pass my class as it was required by the state. The father said that I should not have put told him that. I later wondered if he was complaining about it because I made it impossible for him to sue the school if his son did not graduate due to failing my class. Note: the son did straighten up after that, passed my class, and graduated with his peers.
I was in a parent teacher conference when the teacher asked me why I cared….she was just a foster care child🤬😡🤬🤯. She is no longer a teacher 😁 and I homeschooled from then on! It’s not just bad parenting it’s bad teacher that are more dangerous! A bad parent only effects their child. A bad deranged teacher corrupts every child in the classes she/he is over.
@@countycalling Yipes! That's a terrible human attitude; it's worse because that person was the child's teacher. I hope the child succeeded in spite of the teacher's stupidity.
@@countycallingWrong. Bad parents fill the jails with their offspring, cost society in terms of Medicaid, food stamps and the immeasurable cost of social decay. Of course, there are bad teachers and the one you met got what she deserved.
One evening during parent teacher conferences, the SWAT team showed up and ran across the PE field, because there was an alleged robbery house across the street from the school (I taught south of Compton, CA). A parent was walking into the office and saw the cop commotion, threw her handgun in the open window of a car in the parking lot, because she did not want to be caught with it. Turns out the car with the window rolled down was the school office managerś car. She came in after and said, ¨Who threw their gun in my car!??!?!¨ #Truestory
Oh god, the roach story brought back memories. It didn’t happen at a parent-teacher conference, but there was one incident where a roach crawled out of a student’s hair in the middle of class. I tried to keep it low key, but a student next to her saw it and pandemonium ensued. 🤦🏻♀️ Another time during open house, there apparently was a parent who showed up wearing a short dress and without any underwear on. During the grade-level meeting, they were all seated in the cafeteria and apparently some of the other students and parents present got more information than what was on the PowerPoint.
"I'm a teacher and I didn't even know it had a hard drive"- me too sis 😂😂 shout out to all us teachers who honestly don't know Jack if it isn't our subject 😂
A kindergarten teacher told me mother one time not to put to much faith in my brother because he will never amount to anything in life. He graduated from his High School Class Valedictorian was on the Honor Role, went into the Army, got his doctorate, wrote a book, was on the History Channel discussing a general that was in the Civil War he heads the entire History department in College.
A high school friend of my mother wanted to be a nurse but her school counselor told her that "you people" can't handle it. The girl was Hispanic. She finished nursing school with my mom, grabbed her certificate and went back to the school to wave it in the counselor's face.
You can never tell. Especially with kids! Even a kid who doesn’t apply themselves and goofs off all the time will one day find their passion, and at that point all bets are off! 😃
I had a parent chew me out during PTC because her kid failed my class first quarter due to incomplete assignments. I willingly told her that I would let him complete the assignments and put in a grade change. He turned in the assignments still incomplete and told me that he would not be finishing the day's assignment. We called mom and he said he would accept the comsequences of not completing the assignment. Another teacher said he told her that he would not finish his assignment because he did enough to get at least a 60. I politely emailed her to inform her that he would not be allowed to make up anymore missing assignments as he is willing to accept the consequences of his actions.
Not exactly a parent-teacher conference, but there was a parent, some talking involved, and a teacher! Parent, (smelling of alcohol), came in during class time, wanting to see her son, who’d been living with his dad, (with her agreement). I spoke with them in the corridor, outside a class full of students I was in the middle of teaching. She then HANDCUFFED his wrist to hers, I think to make the point that she had legal custody. With her distraught 12 year old son yelling, along with me repeatedly requesting she take the handcuffs off, she eventually did remove them. The boy immediately ran away & she just walked out, leaving the havoc she’d created, and finding her son, for the school to follow up. I’d like to be able to say that was my most challenging day as a teacher of 39 years, but though it’s in the top 10, it wasn’t the worst. BTW, I love your style and attitude!
@@chrisbecker4412 yes, as well as staff scouring the streets for him, the school also contacted the police. He was found safe & at least his dad was supportive.
The python story reminds me of something that happened when I was in first grade. Our school had a 6 foot boa constrictor in a terrarium that escaped into the heating system. After a few weeks it decided to crawl out of a vent in the wall right behind our substitute teacher, who screamed and left the room. To her credit she pretty quickly got the janitor, who removed it and took it back to the third grade classroom terrarium
A non-custodial mother with a court order barged in on another child’s conference, accused me of “gettin’ jiggy” with her man, and lunged at me across the seated couple and the table. Fortunately, the gentleman stood up and blocked her, then identified himself as a former Marine. I’m White. Does “gettin’ jiggy” mean having sex? ‘Cause that’s ridiculous. I’d never set eyes on the man and he was a no-show for his child’s conference earlier in the evening. Another time, a couple grilled me about my academic qualifications to teach in their state, not to mention their highly gifted daughter! When I referred them to the principal with their concerns, they said they didn’t trust him because his GPA was a mere 2.85 in grad school. (Maybe they needed to go back to homeschooling? Their daughter was a solid average student and a sweetheart. I’ve no idea how they produced her. Maybe it was the French nanny?)
Never had the guy escape, but have had the dad who was straight out of prison. BTW- I've never had a problem with an ex-con. They mostly say "I don't want my son to be like me." I'm look at him and say, "Nor do I, unfortunately that's who he wants to be."
I love how you share the stories with fellow Teachers just like myself. For that spirit one, if a parent had said there is a Spirit in the room I would rebuke it in the name of Jesus!
Oh lordy there was a parent at my youngest child's school who was always in biker shorts for every school function for three years, everyone was so glad when they finally moved out of state and we never had to see that again
I wish you had been a teacher at my school. The teachers with a great sense of humour were always the best educators. And more singing pls, it’s a pleasure to hear!
I once had a father of one of my 3rd Graders tell me flat out in front of my co-teacher that his son didn't like me for reasons that aren't worth mentioning here due to a lot of foul language used on the father's part. The father then said that I shouldn't ever discipline his son (who was a badly-behaved obnoxious brat) "because we are all God's children". I was like, "God didn't make your son behave this way. Somebody else did and continues to."
@@Mama_Bear524 Maybe he did like me. But he left the school at the end of that year (and I left at the end of the following year), so I guess I'll never know.
If that child's father was, in fact, a Christian, he would have known that withholding discipline at school OR at home would only be detrimental to his spirit and development.
@@annalisasauter7935 Yes, there are plenty of contradictions and tons of hypocrisy in religion. And that father was just one human example of them all.
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 I'm a Christian myself, and admittedly, there is no such thing as a perfect human being (except for Jesus, of course). However, that father's parenting is so abysmal that his son needs some serious prayers, and perhaps some intervention. A mentor, if you will.
Brought a smile to my face. I was a little depressed because of migraines. Thank you! You are the funniest because of your actions, facial expressions and how you read the stories. Please don’t stop. I’m on your TH-cam channel as well. Your baby is so cute!
I get migraines too. And sometimes I also get depressed when i have them. Like really down. I didn’t know that others had that happen too. I hope you feel better soon.
I had a parent banging on the table throughout our entire conference. The conference was during the day, and Mom picked up her son at the end of the day. She asked me about the conference because Dad didn't remember a thing. I told her about the banging. She apologized and told me her husband was a musician and owned a local music cafe/ recording studio. He was recording that afternoon, and his brain was rehearsing during the conference. I got one of the first cds from the recording session. Golden!
I was pregnant with my middle child during a ptc and the mom stopped me in the middle of discussing her child's failing grades and asked me if I had miscarriaged my baby bc I wasn't big enough. I laughed it off. 3 months later, a specialist told me my baby was going to die before I delivered or within hours and nothing could be done. 1 month after that, the baby improved and the doctors have no medical explanation. The baby is now 6 and strong and healthy tho he will probably have issues in the future. Footnote, I did not fail the child but I did want to send the mother back to kindergarten.
There is no such thing as "curses". But there is a lot going on in peoples' brains! And brain-activity affects body-activity. Stop connecting incidents that should not be connected because that's called "superstition". I'm glad your child made it but I'm sad it will have problems. Crossing my fingers for the both of you!🤞🤞🤞🤗
My husband always wants to give me advice on what l should say to parents at parent conferences….and l have to remind him that l have to keep my job. But, it is really hard to keep certain comments to myself;)
My son had this terribly issue with lying, it was a psychological issue we were getting him therapy for. When he would start a new grade I make sure his teachers all knew that he had a problem and that he would tell stories to get out of doing homework and turning in assignments. After 2 months of not hearing anything from the school, even after requesting updates myself, I would meet up at teacher meeting on a quarterly basis. Each time my son would be struggling and the teachers would be cross with me, as expected, but then tell me the reason why which would be some lie my son had told them. I remember one meeting where I specifically informed a teacher that we were in fact not homeless and living in a car. It wasn't until his senior year in high school where I was finally able to get the school/teachers on board with an auditing checklist so there we never a question on whether an assignment was due and turned in.
I'm a private music teacher. I mentioned to one parent that I had only one day a week off- Wednesdays. She exclaimed "Oh, wonderful!! You have time on Wednesdays, can you plan to teach my daughter on Wednesdays from now on?"
Oh do i have a good one for you! Had a parent demand an appointment for a parent-teacher conference because their child wasn't doing great in my class. Just to put some context: In Germany, Religion is a subject you have to take. It's mandatory by law. It's mainly Christian, but other religions are taught as well. It's not like we are praying in class or anything. We teach about the religions. So, this child was failing this class hard. Completely refused to participate, not bringing their stuff, plain disrespectful behavior, name-calling other students. So I had sent a notification letter to the parent so she would be informed about the situation. They demanded that conference. So here we were. This parent steped into the room and without even saying hello started yelling at me. Wanting to know what problem I have with their child, why I had the audacity to demand they do some parenting (I didn't demand anything), and so on. Yelled at me that I wasn't doing my job right, proceeded to tell me that Religion was very important to them at home which is why their child would have Confirmation that year. Went on to tell me that they were mortified that during the year of Confirmation, the children didn't get their lessons in Religion from a parson. And two sentences later told me that Religion wasn't as important and if I wouldn't let the child pass, they would remove them from class. Let me tell you, staying professional in this situation was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my entire career. I have not a single doubt in my mind where this child got their behavior. Needless to say this conference was very unproductive, parent left without having discussed a real solution to the problem, child failed the class. So basically, a real waste of my time that left me traumatized for quite some time after that.
probably depends on the region in DE. in Bavaria the culture is super catholic i don't like that but hey ho. Back in my days we'd pray early the morning at school and then before dinner.. where are you based
@@PHlophe based in the Frankfurt region. We don't pray with the children and are not allowed to perform any other kind of religious ritual on the regular. I'm of course allowed to teach them about different prayers and Psalms, but we are not actively praying, doing sermons or having any kind of Sunday service kind of lesson. But praying at the beginning of the school day and before dinner sounds very Bavarian 😁
My gosh you can now go on the road as a stand up comic just based upon your teacher experiences and all the "eejits" stories you have heard!! You are so hilarious...I am so sorry that your students will lose out on you in the classroom, but I totally understand why you walked away!
A 3rd grade teacher asked me to stay in the room with her during a conference because at the previous conference, this particular mother had threatened, "I'll cut you!" The reason? Her daughter had missed 68 days of school in the first semester and the teacher refused to deny that the student was failing her class.
i'm a school counselor. i had a parent and grandmother that punched the principal after i wouldn't give their daughter a graduation with honors cord for graduation. i hid. police came. Gary, Indiana
I have so many stories, but here’s my favorite. While having a parent teacher conference, I was discussing with the parent that the child was often found with property that did not belong to her (the child was also habitually dishonest). During this conversation, the child walked over to my desk, opened my drawer, and took something out of it IN FRONT OF THE PARENT. Not only did the parent not correct her or say anything about it, (I had to tell the child to please get out of my desk drawers), the parent suggested that we “change the subject” because what we were discussing was causing her daughter to “become upset.” I was so irritated/disgusted that in a moment of (probably) unprofessionalism, I announced that the child needed to feel upset and refused to change the subject. The child was moved to a different classroom soon after.
a child threatened to bash my head with a hammer. Since I notified said child that this talk can end him up in big big trouble (yes I did mention juvi. This is juvi talk) and I haven’t heard about having my head smashed with a hammer since
At one PTC unfortunately, the ex-wife turned up with her boyfriend , at the same time as the father. The 3 of them literally fought each other, screaming, and at the end of it were on the floor, fighting it out and kicking each other. It was savage! We had to call the police on all 3 of them.
Ok. Had a parent tell me that she knew that our school was possessed and that I was evil. & how did she know that? Well, the flaming angel behind and above my right shoulder told her so. No lie.
Should have replied…Yes that’s the Angel Michael who is here to fight my battles against evil on behalf of God. That being said, what evil were you planning on bringing my way today?😏
I swear ms.Richardson was and is the legend of teachers I had a teacher named Ms .Scott and that was my ace I was blessed to have a few and whenever I see them I always show love ❤️ keep being awesome bri you are such a light in dark times and I wish you love and success 🙌
How about the parent who just smoked a little weed right before entering the building. Like dang, did I just get a contact buzz? Could you have waited til after conferences sir?
PARENT: Excuse me, Ms. R. but your spirit guide is behind you. ME: Well tell it. If It's going to be in the classroom. It needs to be either wiping down something, bring in some supplies or guide it's ass down to the office and sign up to be a substitute teacher.😑😂
I had a parent come in with a lovely gold necklace made of letters. When I gave it a closer look, I saw what it said: GOOD IN BED. Hard to keep my eyes off that for the entire conference.
I have always looked hella young. I had a set of patents talk down to me so very bad. They told me I was too young and didn't know what I was taking about when their child was failing because I was younger than them. I kindly told them my age, which was 8 years older than them and had been teaching for over 10 years. We are professionals who know what we are doing. Needless to say, they embarrassed themselves and said, ok I think we're done. I never heard from them again all year.... and their son failed and had to repeat 2nd grade.
Teacher are real ppl too! ❤
That last father’s more dedicated than those parents who don’t show up at all 😂
For real, bonus dad points if he showed up on time and brought a donut for the teacher. Now that would be an unbelievable story
You gotta give the man credit where credit is due ok 🤣🤣🤣
@@shaunawidding8259 right?! 😂😂
That story was honestly kind of sweet. :)
Omg!! I was gonna say! I can’t really be that mad at him. He went!
someone broke into our school. they put their foot through the principal's door, pried the secretaries desk drawers open, and got into the locked room where meds and petty cash were kept. they stole all of the candy that we had. the copier, however, remained untouched.
If he escaped prison and still made it to the parent teacher conference instead of being on the run, that's actually impressive.
"I woulda been like Jesus flippin tables in the temple." -Best line ever.
A teacher where I used to teach was helping a parent register their child. She didn't know her child's bus number. The teacher said she could go to the library and their would be someone there to tell her that number. It had been about an hour and this teacher realized she hadn't come back. She then received a call from that parent telling her that she was at the local library and they couldn't help her. She was supposed to go to the school library. You are so right when you say we can't make this up!
Respectfully, the teacher could have taken a moment to call the school library and get the information. This family is struggling in a new environment. Not an unreasonable request.
Thank you so much for these stories! We need to make teachers’ struggles more visible. People always assume the reason I left teaching was because the “kids are so horrible,” but I did it for them. I love them. I left teaching because of the disrespect I felt from Administration.
Can we please talk about how good of a singer she is?!❤️❤️❤️❤️
YES!!
Yes she does have a good voice I agree.
I had a dad at a parent conference acting all tough and said “Don’t make me mad, because I’m a (stated his last name).” I replied, “Buddy, I’m not from around here, that doesn’t mean anything to me.” He laughed and we had a great meeting. The principal looked at me when he left and said, “ I can’t believe you said that to a ( and said the parent’s last name). 😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣 They must have that town on lockdown. Your clueless self just walks right in & takes on “the family”. Good job👍🏽!😁
Sounds like he didn't know what to say to that. 🤣
Don't f u c k with a Biden🤣😂😂🤣
At least he could appreciate being called out
This happened many years ago but still creepy. I was one of the last people in the school after evening parent teacher conferences. A young, attractive female teacher ran back in the building and asked me and a few other stragglers to stay with her and walk back out with her to her car in a few minutes as the father of one of her student's waited till the end of conferences and came up to her in the parking lot as she was opening her car door and asked her out. She quickly said she didn't date the parents of students and ran back in the building saying she forgot something. This was made creepier by the fact that he waited around about 45 minutes after his kid's conference to the end of parent teacher conferences to approach her in the parking lot. Creepy.
whats more creepy is how he knew what car was hers 👀
@@aeel504 Yep. Forgot to add that also.
Omg! I’m glad she wasn’t completely alone and had some of you still there. That’s absolutely creepy and highly inappropriate.
That’s bizarre
So wrong. So very wrong
I don't know what Dad was doing time for, but I have to give him respect for attending his child's PT conference before going on the run. THAT is probably more dedication to a child than even I would have shown!
Gonna be honest here, if I was a fresh escapee, I would be halfway overseas to Morocco before I even THOUGHT about going to my child's school!
Right?! It’s kind of badass that he did that.
This is becoming my new favorite channel......
I'm the music teacher and I teach over 350 students. Six parents signed up for parent teacher conferences. Two of those parents had children that weren't in my class. Only one of the others showed up.
My aunt was my guardian and I always hid when she came home from parent-teacher conferences. Honestly, I never really did anything wrong other than once falling asleep in class causing my aunt to make me to go bed earlier. Also, I didn't find out till after that that all my teachers were in contact with my aunt via email. No wonder she knew when I had tests and projects. But seriously, thank you to all the wonderful teachers out there. Parents really should hold their children accountable. I was held accountable for everything I did or said and I turned out better for it.
Cathey, teachers were giving your aunt excessive amount of anxiety and tools to micromanage you. Lord have mercy. so they spotted you in the cafeteria they'd take a snap and send to your auntie.
Which is why you should trust your kid to be responsible enough to do their assignments on time (and if they dont, discipline them)...seriously did she try to get your assignments from your college professors too?
Be flipping tables like Jesus in the Temple 🤣🤣🤣 I felt that one lol
ROTFL 🤣🤣
@@priscillajimenez27 You haven’t seen a cockroach until you’ve seen a John Adams Middle School cockroach. Those things are huge and are sometimes able to fly. And yes, we’ve gotten used to the nasty things, and yes the entire neighborhood where the school is situated is cockroach infested. Has to do with the city’s main sewer lines for the entire Northwest Quadrant of Albuquerque being in the area, so there’s nothing that can be done.
@@powerofk my old district had mice/rats. I'd rather have those than roaches lol
@@powerofk cockroaches are bad enough. I don’t need to ever see one that flies! Wtf?! Why do they exist?? 😫
I had a student's mother take a call from her OBGYN during a conference who explained in great detail how to use a vaginal suppository. The volume was so high I could hear both sides of the conversation. The mother wasn't even a little embarrassed and was asking her doctor questions! I was behind a little table and couldn't escape. Omg, I'll never forget that.
Dumb parent didn't realize that his child and the secret love child he fathered with his side chick attended the same elementary school. This was revealed during a school program when both children (who didn't know they were siblings) ran to him. His wife's and side chick's first surprise meeting at the event was an EPIC fail. Yeah, cops had to be called to break up the fight. 🥊💔🥊
DAAAANG! That is just..... wow.
I was in a parent-teacher conference when the father complained to me that I had noted in my email to him that his son, a senior, would not graduate if he did not pass my class as it was required by the state. The father said that I should not have put told him that. I later wondered if he was complaining about it because I made it impossible for him to sue the school if his son did not graduate due to failing my class. Note: the son did straighten up after that, passed my class, and graduated with his peers.
Another like father like son
I was in a parent teacher conference when the teacher asked me why I cared….she was just a foster care child🤬😡🤬🤯. She is no longer a teacher 😁 and I homeschooled from then on! It’s not just bad parenting it’s bad teacher that are more dangerous! A bad parent only effects their child. A bad deranged teacher corrupts every child in the classes she/he is over.
@@countycalling Yipes! That's a terrible human attitude; it's worse because that person was the child's teacher. I hope the child succeeded in spite of the teacher's stupidity.
@@countycallingWrong. Bad parents fill the jails with their offspring, cost society in terms of Medicaid, food stamps and the immeasurable cost of social decay. Of course, there are bad teachers and the one you met got what she deserved.
One evening during parent teacher conferences, the SWAT team showed up and ran across the PE field, because there was an alleged robbery house across the street from the school (I taught south of Compton, CA). A parent was walking into the office and saw the cop commotion, threw her handgun in the open window of a car in the parking lot, because she did not want to be caught with it. Turns out the car with the window rolled down was the school office managerś car. She came in after and said, ¨Who threw their gun in my car!??!?!¨ #Truestory
Lolol oh my!! Freaky
Oh yeah! Almost 40 years in the classroom. You make me laugh.
Girl, you crack me up. I wished we worked in the same building 🤪
It’s great listening to her reveals and her facial expressions are a hoot 😆🤣😆👍👍👏👏‼️ She would be a wonderful friend.
I worked with a teacher just like her! She is a superintendent now!
Oh god, the roach story brought back memories. It didn’t happen at a parent-teacher conference, but there was one incident where a roach crawled out of a student’s hair in the middle of class. I tried to keep it low key, but a student next to her saw it and pandemonium ensued. 🤦🏻♀️ Another time during open house, there apparently was a parent who showed up wearing a short dress and without any underwear on. During the grade-level meeting, they were all seated in the cafeteria and apparently some of the other students and parents present got more information than what was on the PowerPoint.
"More information than was on the power-point" 🤣😂🤣
"I'm a teacher and I didn't even know it had a hard drive"- me too sis 😂😂 shout out to all us teachers who honestly don't know Jack if it isn't our subject 😂
A kindergarten teacher told me mother one time not to put to much faith in my brother because he will never amount to anything in life. He graduated from his High School Class Valedictorian was on the Honor Role, went into the Army, got his doctorate, wrote a book, was on the History Channel discussing a general that was in the Civil War he heads the entire History department in College.
Seems like the reverse psychology worked!
A high school friend of my mother wanted to be a nurse but her school counselor told her that "you people" can't handle it. The girl was Hispanic. She finished nursing school with my mom, grabbed her certificate and went back to the school to wave it in the counselor's face.
@@deniseeulert2503 Good for her 👍😊I’m glad she became a nurse and didn’t listen to the counselor she followed her dream.
@@deniseeulert2503 Success is always the best revenge!
You can never tell. Especially with kids! Even a kid who doesn’t apply themselves and goofs off all the time will one day find their passion, and at that point all bets are off! 😃
You are a joy to watch and learn from, I swear if you get my twins when they start school I am getting you a mini fridge, toaster and kurig 🙌🙌
I had a parent chew me out during PTC because her kid failed my class first quarter due to incomplete assignments. I willingly told her that I would let him complete the assignments and put in a grade change. He turned in the assignments still incomplete and told me that he would not be finishing the day's assignment. We called mom and he said he would accept the comsequences of not completing the assignment. Another teacher said he told her that he would not finish his assignment because he did enough to get at least a 60. I politely emailed her to inform her that he would not be allowed to make up anymore missing assignments as he is willing to accept the consequences of his actions.
Not exactly a parent-teacher conference, but there was a parent, some talking involved, and a teacher!
Parent, (smelling of alcohol), came in during class time, wanting to see her son, who’d been living with his dad, (with her agreement). I spoke with them in the corridor, outside a class full of students I was in the middle of teaching.
She then HANDCUFFED his wrist to hers, I think to make the point that she had legal custody. With her distraught 12 year old son yelling, along with me repeatedly requesting she take the handcuffs off, she eventually did remove them.
The boy immediately ran away & she just walked out, leaving the havoc she’d created, and finding her son, for the school to follow up.
I’d like to be able to say that was my most challenging day as a teacher of 39 years, but though it’s in the top 10, it wasn’t the worst.
BTW, I love your style and attitude!
Please tell me cops were called, and somebody helped that poor boy! That sounds like a terrifying home life for him. :(
@@chrisbecker4412 yes, as well as staff scouring the streets for him, the school also contacted the police. He was found safe & at least his dad was supportive.
@@heatherjay8802 That's good, I'm glad he was okay. Sounds scary for you, too!
@@chrisbecker4412 yes, it was pretty scary - for him & me! I can recall just going into “teacher mode”, trying to calm the situation.
That poor kid. I’m glad he has a supportive dad. How traumatizing for him.
You are hilarious!! This homeschool mom feels for teachers and all they have to deal with.
I absolutely love this lady. She is hilarious
The python story reminds me of something that happened when I was in first grade. Our school had a 6 foot boa constrictor in a terrarium that escaped into the heating system. After a few weeks it decided to crawl out of a vent in the wall right behind our substitute teacher, who screamed and left the room. To her credit she pretty quickly got the janitor, who removed it and took it back to the third grade classroom terrarium
And she left you tasty little first graders there with the snake...
A non-custodial mother with a court order barged in on another child’s conference, accused me of “gettin’ jiggy” with her man, and lunged at me across the seated couple and the table. Fortunately, the gentleman stood up and blocked her, then identified himself as a former Marine. I’m White. Does “gettin’ jiggy” mean having sex? ‘Cause that’s ridiculous. I’d never set eyes on the man and he was a no-show for his child’s conference earlier in the evening.
Another time, a couple grilled me about my academic qualifications to teach in their state, not to mention their highly gifted daughter! When I referred them to the principal with their concerns, they said they didn’t trust him because his GPA was a mere 2.85 in grad school. (Maybe they needed to go back to homeschooling? Their daughter was a solid average student and a sweetheart. I’ve no idea how they produced her. Maybe it was the French nanny?)
Never had the guy escape, but have had the dad who was straight out of prison. BTW- I've never had a problem with an ex-con. They mostly say "I don't want my son to be like me." I'm look at him and say, "Nor do I, unfortunately that's who he wants to be."
If I got a chair thrown at me, I would have been singing, "You're getting arrested" XD
I love how you share the stories with fellow Teachers just like myself. For that spirit one, if a parent had said there is a Spirit in the room I would rebuke it in the name of Jesus!
Oh lordy there was a parent at my youngest child's school who was always in biker shorts for every school function for three years, everyone was so glad when they finally moved out of state and we never had to see that again
I wish you had been a teacher at my school. The teachers with a great sense of humour were always the best educators.
And more singing pls, it’s a pleasure to hear!
I m a retired teacher-- and no- I do NOT miss PT conference one bit!!!!!
I once had a father of one of my 3rd Graders tell me flat out in front of my co-teacher that his son didn't like me for reasons that aren't worth mentioning here due to a lot of foul language used on the father's part. The father then said that I shouldn't ever discipline his son (who was a badly-behaved obnoxious brat) "because we are all God's children". I was like, "God didn't make your son behave this way. Somebody else did and continues to."
I bet you that boy secretly did like you because kids deep down know they need guidance and structure.
@@Mama_Bear524 Maybe he did like me. But he left the school at the end of that year (and I left at the end of the following year), so I guess I'll never know.
If that child's father was, in fact, a Christian, he would have known that withholding discipline at school OR at home would only be detrimental to his spirit and development.
@@annalisasauter7935 Yes, there are plenty of contradictions and tons of hypocrisy in religion. And that father was just one human example of them all.
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 I'm a Christian myself, and admittedly, there is no such thing as a perfect human being (except for Jesus, of course). However, that father's parenting is so abysmal that his son needs some serious prayers, and perhaps some intervention. A mentor, if you will.
Brought a smile to my face. I was a little depressed because of migraines. Thank you! You are the funniest because of your actions, facial expressions and how you read the stories. Please don’t stop. I’m on your TH-cam channel as well. Your baby is so cute!
I get migraines too. And sometimes I also get depressed when i have them. Like really down. I didn’t know that others had that happen too.
I hope you feel better soon.
The 2nd story reminds me of a school where I worked, that had parents ORGANIZING fights for their kids. One of them actually made the news.
The person who threw the chair needed to have the cops called on them. UNACCEPTABLE.
“Jesus in the temple flipping tables“! Girl you have no idea, that sent me to the floor. Too funny. 🤣😂🤣😂
Just found this channel yesterday, and you are my very favorite here on TH-cam. You have the best sense of humor ever. Fantastic job.
I needed a good 😃 😁 🤣 😂 LAUGH today this was it.
At one conference, the dad started hitting on the math teacher. "You mighty fine lookin' to be a teacher...."
I cannot get enough of her!!! 🤣🤣
I almost chocked, on my drink,when you said he took out his eyeball! LOL 😆. You got to be kidding me!?!?!?!
Lol!!! You're my favorite bored teacher! I love when you break out into song to explain your feelings! 😂😅 🎵 🎶
You are great. Love the expressions.
I had a parent banging on the table throughout our entire conference. The conference was during the day, and Mom picked up her son at the end of the day. She asked me about the conference because Dad didn't remember a thing. I told her about the banging. She apologized and told me her husband was a musician and owned a local music cafe/ recording studio. He was recording that afternoon, and his brain was rehearsing during the conference. I got one of the first cds from the recording session. Golden!
You are HYSTERICAL!!!
Thank you so very much!
I was pregnant with my middle child during a ptc and the mom stopped me in the middle of discussing her child's failing grades and asked me if I had miscarriaged my baby bc I wasn't big enough.
I laughed it off.
3 months later, a specialist told me my baby was going to die before I delivered or within hours and nothing could be done.
1 month after that, the baby improved and the doctors have no medical explanation.
The baby is now 6 and strong and healthy tho he will probably have issues in the future.
Footnote, I did not fail the child but I did want to send the mother back to kindergarten.
The Lord protected you from a curse she was trying to put on you
@@priscillajimenez27 I never thought about that.
The Lord, yes.
But not a curse.
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There is no such thing as "curses". But there is a lot going on in peoples' brains! And brain-activity affects body-activity.
Stop connecting incidents that should not be connected because that's called "superstition".
I'm glad your child made it but I'm sad it will have problems. Crossing my fingers for the both of you!🤞🤞🤞🤗
Love this woman. 😁👍🏼
My husband always wants to give me advice on what l should say to parents at parent conferences….and l have to remind him that l have to keep my job. But, it is really hard to keep certain comments to myself;)
Amen to that!
My son had this terribly issue with lying, it was a psychological issue we were getting him therapy for. When he would start a new grade I make sure his teachers all knew that he had a problem and that he would tell stories to get out of doing homework and turning in assignments. After 2 months of not hearing anything from the school, even after requesting updates myself, I would meet up at teacher meeting on a quarterly basis. Each time my son would be struggling and the teachers would be cross with me, as expected, but then tell me the reason why which would be some lie my son had told them. I remember one meeting where I specifically informed a teacher that we were in fact not homeless and living in a car. It wasn't until his senior year in high school where I was finally able to get the school/teachers on board with an auditing checklist so there we never a question on whether an assignment was due and turned in.
Her voice is amazing! Can we get a second channel with her singing?
As a teacher myself, I love your videos! I'll admit that since I'm retiring soon, it's getting easier to laugh about these things.
I love your laugh. That could make anybody smile.
I'm a private music teacher. I mentioned to one parent that I had only one day a week off- Wednesdays. She exclaimed "Oh, wonderful!! You have time on Wednesdays, can you plan to teach my daughter on Wednesdays from now on?"
You are just a joy and a hoot to watch and listen to! Guuurrrl, keep it up! 😁
Oh do i have a good one for you!
Had a parent demand an appointment for a parent-teacher conference because their child wasn't doing great in my class. Just to put some context: In Germany, Religion is a subject you have to take. It's mandatory by law. It's mainly Christian, but other religions are taught as well. It's not like we are praying in class or anything. We teach about the religions. So, this child was failing this class hard. Completely refused to participate, not bringing their stuff, plain disrespectful behavior, name-calling other students. So I had sent a notification letter to the parent so she would be informed about the situation. They demanded that conference. So here we were.
This parent steped into the room and without even saying hello started yelling at me. Wanting to know what problem I have with their child, why I had the audacity to demand they do some parenting (I didn't demand anything), and so on. Yelled at me that I wasn't doing my job right, proceeded to tell me that Religion was very important to them at home which is why their child would have Confirmation that year. Went on to tell me that they were mortified that during the year of Confirmation, the children didn't get their lessons in Religion from a parson. And two sentences later told me that Religion wasn't as important and if I wouldn't let the child pass, they would remove them from class.
Let me tell you, staying professional in this situation was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my entire career. I have not a single doubt in my mind where this child got their behavior. Needless to say this conference was very unproductive, parent left without having discussed a real solution to the problem, child failed the class. So basically, a real waste of my time that left me traumatized for quite some time after that.
probably depends on the region in DE. in Bavaria the culture is super catholic i don't like that but hey ho. Back in my days we'd pray early the morning at school and then before dinner.. where are you based
@@PHlophe based in the Frankfurt region. We don't pray with the children and are not allowed to perform any other kind of religious ritual on the regular. I'm of course allowed to teach them about different prayers and Psalms, but we are not actively praying, doing sermons or having any kind of Sunday service kind of lesson. But praying at the beginning of the school day and before dinner sounds very Bavarian 😁
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I had a father tell me one time that when his son dies, his brain will be studied by scientists.
Our parent teacher conferences are tonight! I don't know whether to giggle or be terrified lol! 😅
Girl your videos brighten my day.
My gosh you can now go on the road as a stand up comic just based upon your teacher experiences and all the "eejits" stories you have heard!! You are so hilarious...I am so sorry that your students will lose out on you in the classroom, but I totally understand why you walked away!
She’s hilarious and I love every single one of her videos. More, much more, please.
A 3rd grade teacher asked me to stay in the room with her during a conference because at the previous conference, this particular mother had threatened, "I'll cut you!" The reason? Her daughter had missed 68 days of school in the first semester and the teacher refused to deny that the student was failing her class.
i'm a school counselor. i had a parent and grandmother that punched the principal after i wouldn't give their daughter a graduation with honors cord for graduation. i hid. police came. Gary, Indiana
You have a beautiful singing voice!! 😍🎶
You're hilarious! I love hearing these crazy stories. Keep up the funny stuff.
I just love, love, love your laughter! 😍
I’m deathly afraid of snakes. I would’ve been up and out of there so fast and never coming back.
1:40 The dad just got off work…his name is Jake “The Snake” Roberts! 😂😂😂
My mom was a teacher for 25 years and I don't think she had to deal with any of this craziness. I love your videos! Keep up the good work.
She did. Most of us don't talk about the craziness at school in front of our kids.
she said knuck if you buck... lmao. love these videos
I really like your sense of humor and appreciate the stories you share!
I had a single parent father look at his son and say "you don't have to do what she says, I am in charge of you!"
Lmao “y’all don’t realize we grew up on knuck if you buck” 😂😂😂
I have so many stories, but here’s my favorite. While having a parent teacher conference, I was discussing with the parent that the child was often found with property that did not belong to her (the child was also habitually dishonest). During this conversation, the child walked over to my desk, opened my drawer, and took something out of it IN FRONT OF THE PARENT.
Not only did the parent not correct her or say anything about it, (I had to tell the child to please get out of my desk drawers), the parent suggested that we “change the subject” because what we were discussing was causing her daughter to “become upset.”
I was so irritated/disgusted that in a moment of (probably) unprofessionalism, I announced that the child needed to feel upset and refused to change the subject. The child was moved to a different classroom soon after.
Raising a kleptomaniac I see. is that the new parenting trend?
a child threatened to bash my head with a hammer. Since I notified said child that this talk can end him up in big big trouble (yes I did mention juvi. This is juvi talk) and I haven’t heard about having my head smashed with a hammer since
At one PTC unfortunately, the ex-wife turned up with her boyfriend , at the same time as the father. The 3 of them literally fought each other, screaming, and at the end of it were on the floor, fighting it out and kicking each other. It was savage! We had to call the police on all 3 of them.
Ok. Had a parent tell me that she knew that our school was possessed and that I was evil. & how did she know that? Well, the flaming angel behind and above my right shoulder told her so. No lie.
That's a moment to be wondering if the parent is off their "meds"...
@@Quagthistle no doubt about it.
Should have replied…Yes that’s the Angel Michael who is here to fight my battles against evil on behalf of God. That being said, what evil were you planning on bringing my way today?😏
@@cassandramuthleb2486 what I did do is call my administrator.
That is NOT a spirit guide. Just a wacko parent.
I swear ms.Richardson was and is the legend of teachers I had a teacher named Ms .Scott and that was my ace I was blessed to have a few and whenever I see them I always show love ❤️ keep being awesome bri you are such a light in dark times and I wish you love and success 🙌
How about the parent who just smoked a little weed right before entering the building. Like dang, did I just get a contact buzz? Could you have waited til after conferences sir?
THANK YOU it's ridiculous!
PARENT: Excuse me, Ms. R.
but your spirit guide is behind you.
ME: Well tell it. If It's going to be in the classroom. It needs to be either wiping down something, bring in some supplies or guide it's ass down to the office and sign up to be a substitute teacher.😑😂
Lol right?!? Like where my printing paper? Are you going to help me grade?
This is your best video yet!!! I would've been curious to learn about my spirit guide, though. :)
I had a parent come in with a lovely gold necklace made of letters. When I gave it a closer look, I saw what it said: GOOD IN BED. Hard to keep my eyes off that for the entire conference.
I have always looked hella young. I had a set of patents talk down to me so very bad. They told me I was too young and didn't know what I was taking about when their child was failing because I was younger than them. I kindly told them my age, which was 8 years older than them and had been teaching for over 10 years. We are professionals who know what we are doing. Needless to say, they embarrassed themselves and said, ok I think we're done. I never heard from them again all year.... and their son failed and had to repeat 2nd grade.
My sister looked young for her age. When she started teaching someone politely asked her if she was a freshman. She said No I'm faculty. 😄
These are great and you are wonderful for teaching children. Keep ‘me coming.
I'm watching this during lunch in teachers lounge and we are cracking up.
Blessings to all!
Teachers need raises just to deal with this 💩
Teachers need to be paid more. BUT, no amount of money makes up for a lack of respect.
I LOVE your stories and expressions!!!
The laugh at the end 😂❤️😂❤️
I love you so much!!! Very funny and clever!!! Thanks
I 💘 these videos! I re-watch them with my mom (a retired teacher)!!! 😂😂😂
You are a standup in waiting….😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The one about the spirit guide was kinda cool!
You are amazing! I love your humor!
omg we need a sitcom with you as the lead!
"I''m lock up they won't let me out" I would do the same in may teacher situation