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March 13th this was posted, and it's just some parent biatching at a teacher and a principle because their kid isn't the brightest crayon in the box and it can't be mom/dad's fault because they have being a super awesome parent "down pat." And it gets a green. Why?

No, seriously.....WHY? We have no context for this letter, it's totally one-sided, whiny and...well.....stupid.

also, a "mushroom print" is sexual assault. so every post on this "blog" implies that the author of that post wishes sexual assault on the target of their invectives.

If I started a "I hope you get raped" blog, I'd be pilloried by society, possibly investigated by the authorities, and then shut down by just about anyone who would host that blog. Use a cute euphemism, though? now it's okay?

shame on fark.

We are not legally allowed to talk to an undergrad's parents. And that is awesome.

BurnShrike: dready zim: If you fail at a task then people say "you failed". The scorecard doesn`t make you a failure, your failure makes you a failure. Remember, failure is your friend. When success, in it`s fickle ways, departs and leaves you for the new winners then failure, your ever faithful companion, will still be with you. If at first you don`t succeed, fail. Then fail again.

Exactly this. I've learned far more from my failures than I have from any of my successes. Instead of telling every kid they're great and wonderful we need to tell them that they will fail at some point. But the important thing isn't the failure, it's how you handle that failure. If you're used to succeeding because people made it easy enough for you, you'll lose hope and give up. But if you've had to overcome failure before, you'll pick back up and try again.

This morning we asked my 3 year old to put his socks on. As trivial as it is to us, to 3 year olds, it can be somewhat difficult. My child hangs his head and says: "I can't do it." our response was that it is okay if you can't do it, but you need to try first. Once you have put the effort into it and have failed, then we will help you.

All at once we are pushing these lessons:
1. Try to do something that you know is hard, even if you fail.
2. Try it first, then ask for help.
3. It is okay to ask for help, and we are happy to help, but only if you have tried.
4. It's okay to fail at something that you have put effort into.

Dear parent,

We appreciate your sympathy. However, it's a common misconception that "asshole kids that have no respect for authority" are the hardest part of being an elementary school teacher. Asshole parents who have no respect for their children's education are actually much harder to deal with.

We do indeed want him to do his best. This is a kid who is struggling and is telling you this and it's obvious by looking at grades. HELP HIM! When he doesn't understand the problem, don't just tell him "go ask your teacher, Springer's on." Show him.

And another thing, don't you DARE tell your son that he isn't a failure! What gives you the right to tell anyone they are a failure? Guess what lady. He is failing, and so are you! And you know what? We have looked at his progress; we gave him the grades. He is getting B's and C's and ONE F. That is failing, at least, by the common definition. Look it up.

And don't just pawn himself on someone else. We have asked you, I don't know how many times, to double check his homework and be aware of what is going on. We know he *should* be responsible for himself. But he is not doing this, and so you should put steps in place to correct him.

Make him be responsible. Tell him what he will and will not be doing at home: what activities he can and can't do. That is your job. Our job is to teach your son to be a better student. You clearly do not have the being a better person thing down pat. He is very kind and compassionate, but these are not the only things that make a good person.

Don't neglect your part in his education and make him a laughingstock. Don't push aside the very real problems he IS having and only focus on making him feel good. All this is going to do is make him not try at all.

As for the principal and the rest of the staff. We are livid at the fact that your son's behavior is requiring us to hold him for almost 2 hours after school. And when he was asked to stay after again and you said no, we argued with you until we gave in with a time limit just to shut you up. When you showed up 15 minutes before the time agreed upon, the doors were locked per standard school procedure. You are damn lucky you called the school before the police.

You were told he was not ready and would be another 15 minutes. Let me tell you something, lady... your son leaves the school whenever we say he is... not the other way around. Then we came out and ted to tell you what was going on and showed you all these assignments he had not finished, which you claimed he had. Then we told you, correctly, that this is your problem. And then we walked away. You are lucky you were in a hurry and really didn't want to go to jail. Our security guards really don't want to deal with parents punching us in the face.

We are his teachers. Not his parents. You are supposed to be an environment for kids to go and learn, not to be fun and happy. As his parents, you are our partners in this. He is not supposed to cry every night about not understanding and not getting help: he should get that help from you. He shouldn't be begging you to transfer him schools away from his friends: you should be giving him the support he needs to succeed. He should be wanting to learn. We hate that you have taken that away from him. And you deserve a big, fat mushroom print for pushing him so far down he has no want to climb back up and do what we know he can.

The sense of entitlement I get from parents and students is the reason I won't be a teacher in America for much longer. Sick of lazy kids that think if they show up and stare at a board for 60 minutes it means they should get a passing grade. Sick of having to pander to kids that are there just to disrupt, pick fights, and be generally rude and disrespectful.

I have taught in a range of schools from inner-city to the suburbs and will agree that the American education system is in dire need of restructuring, but in truth I think it's the parents and the gimmie-gimmie-more-more self-centered attitude of the American populace that is fueling the fire.

1. How does this go green? The headline is not even mildly amusing and the letter is lame.

2. The letter is lame. I hate myself for reading it.

greenboy: Prof. Frink: greenboy:This morning we asked my 3 year old to put his socks on. As trivial as it is to us, to 3 year olds, it can be somewhat difficult. My child hangs his head and says: "I can't do it." our response was that it is okay if you can't do it, but you need to try first. Once you have put the effort into it and have failed, then we will help you.

All at once we are pushing these lessons:
1. Try to do something that you know is hard, even if you fail.
2. Try it first, then ask for help.
3. It is okay to ask for help, and we are happy to help, but only if you have tried.
4. It's okay to fail at something that you have put effort into.

Could you come give a seminar to my college students?

Nope. i'm only willing to extend the effort to my children. Their parents should have taught them that when they were toddlers.
Having said that, i goofed off in college and barely got through. My work ethic is much better (ignoring the fact that i am on fark at the moment).

This cannot be stressed enough. Fail gloriously, fail often, fail so tremendously that when someone else sees it they think "hell even if I was trying, I couldn't mess up that bad". Fail over and over again and be good with yourself afterwards. Big successes take big failures. Nothing comes easy.

But for god's sake, fail quickly!

Failure management is the cornerstone of learning. Neither this woman nor her snowflake have a clue about it.

Not the most eloquent or professional letters to a teacher (even if only published online) -- but that does not necessarily mean that s/he is not in the right. Not saying s/he is, but just because the letter is badly stated does not mean the teacher/administration is doing the right thing. What makes me say this? Sadly, bitter experience.

As someone in special education, and the aunt of several kids with a range of learning disabilities (they don't seem to fall neatly into just one category), I know that like all human beings out there, some educators are 100% dedicated to the children, some are that kind of awful that makes you start fantasizing about really bad things, and then most fall in the middle and do bad things out of a range of reasons (funding problems, overworked, pegging kids with LDs as "bad apples", all the crap that teachers are expected to do on top of their jobs). You can understand some of it - kids in general can be REALLY annoying, and kids with LDs and EDs can be even worse. But that's what you sign up for when you sign up for education, especially when they sign up for special education.

The last school for the nephew with the worst problems was not following the legally required IEP (i.e. illegal!) and on top of it was actually covering up systematic bullying - they found out about it after the cop contradicted the "your son was in a minor scuffle but don't worry about it" official story with "those kids were trying to kill your son and very nearly succeeded", and the school tried everything to hide it (nephew is white, bullies were black), including pretending their video camera in the area stopped working at that exact time. After the court case, the nephew is now at a school for kids with LDs, and amazing how almost all of the ED problems disappeared - the teachers get how to teach to LDs, and he's not bullied and afraid for his life every day. And this is in a good public school district!

And that is how I learned that you can't automatically assume that educators are in the right, and that any parent who objects is a "precious snowflake" helicopter parent -- sometimes they're just "good parents". Like an iceberg, things can be very very very VERY wrong under the water line, and only have little hints peeping above water, and parents sometimes have to act on that intuition.

It warms the cockles of my heart to know that no Farker or their child ever got a lemon teacher.

Third grade teachers have a power we never discuss. They have the potential to create lifelong learners or lifelong student failures. As an adult who finally clawed her way back to her own education, there have been many times when I've considered finding the grave of Mrs. Nash and "watering" it for the way she shamed, screamed, called students up to the front of the class to read cruel, pointed dictionary definitions ("Susie, please come read for the class this *point* definiton." "Yes, ma'am...lazy...") Mine was "potential," which felt just like lazy but had the added affect of making Susie hate me, too.

Nothing is more abusive than telling a child they've done something wrong when they actually did it right. Sounds like this teacher has some issues. Listen to the behaviors described before you assume every teacher is a saint and every parent trailer trash. There are still some rotten apples out there, generally the ones who are "older than dirt". Most new teachers don't last longer than five years in the profession. Idealists get weeded out pretty quickly and anyone who can make better money in another profession usually goes ahead and makes the jump.

Just because a teacher has been doing it for 25 or 30 years doesn't mean they're not a terrifying human being to a third grader. Just saying.

I have ADHD that was diagnosed the summer before 9th grade. All throughout elementary and middle school, my parents would help me with my homework on a daily basis. They would talk to the teachers about my performance in school, which was mostly pretty good, but I had this lovely habit of reading a book during class and not paying attention. They didn't talk down to the teachers; instead, they started a dialogue that was beneficial to everyone. It helped when my parents had to have some teachers fill out surveys to give to the doctor to diagnose my ADHD.

If this woman's son is struggling in school, *she* needs to check his planner. *She* needs to start a civil dialogue with the teacher/s about what *she* can do with him at home to help him learn the subject material better.

To be fair, I'm sure there are teachers who simply don't care. There are probably teachers who are just plain mean. But the author of this "blog" isn't doing herself any favors by acting like a spoiled brat.

kukukupo: Dear Parent,

I have 25-30 kids to deal with and due to budget cuts I have no assistant. The state has standards that require me to spend large parts of my day on specific subjects and areas. Additionally, I get paid 10% less than I did a few years ago and have twice as much work to do. I simply don't have the time anymore to hold your kid's hand through the school day. Your kid is entirely responsible for the work he does. If he can't do the work, he fails. I can't make him any more responsible than he is. If you want your kid to succeed, you will need to work with him at home on some basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills.

Sincerely,

Teacher (at least until I can find another job)

Thank you. Wife is a teacher, and she hasn't seen a raise in 6 years. She makes what i made 10 years ago in my second year of work. She also works harder, and more than i do with no overtime.

You say, but they get summers off!!! Well yes they do. They need to in order to regain their composure that they have lost having to teach your retard child.

Dear Parent,

I have 25-30 kids to deal with and due to budget cuts I have no assistant. The state has standards that require me to spend large parts of my day on specific subjects and areas. Additionally, I get paid 10% less than I did a few years ago and have twice as much work to do. I simply don't have the time anymore to hold your kid's hand through the school day. Your kid is entirely responsible for the work he does. If he can't do the work, he fails. I can't make him any more responsible than he is. If you want your kid to succeed, you will need to work with him at home on some basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills.

Sincerely,

Teacher (at least until I can find another job)

tl;dr, trailer park is trailer park

Some kids are just dumb

And another thing, don't you DARE tell my son he is a failure!

Did anyone else read this as "Don't you DARE tell my son he's not a special snow flake" ?

Sorry, but your kid is failing.

He should be wanting to learn. I hate that you have taken that away from him. And you deserve a big, fat mushroom print for pushing him so far down he has no want to climb back up and do what I know he can.

Is this some kind of trailer gypsy curse or hex she's trying to put on them? I've never heard this term before.

MR_DING: The parent is a dumbass. That said, our education system is a joke and teachers are not without blame.The Khan Academy,or something like it, is the future of education.

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The somewhat broken tutoring system was actually one of the issues I had with my daughter's school and I ended up recommending the Khan Academy to help them. They'd never heard of it and were thrilled to have the resource. It's an amazing project.

As an accredited teacher, allow me to weigh in on this.

Learning takes more than just the student and the teacher. This involves the parents as well. I can take a look at most kids and within about half an hour tell you who has parents who are doing okay, who has parents that are involved, and who has parents who are either incompetent/blind to the child or don't care. I've seen kids who have learning disabilities be successful because their parents care enough to put forth an effort. I've seen kids who are intelligent outright crash and burn because their parents just didn't believe that their precious snowflake was involved with drugs.

I'm not sure where the line is on this kid, but this parent's attitude leads me to believe it's a blind to the child situation. It's "everyone's fault but hers". No. It's not. She's part of the problem too. It could very well be that the school is complete garbage. The teacher could be as much as a harridan as she claims. The principal could very well be nothing more than a human-shaped lump of cheese sitting at a desk. That doesn't absolve her from her having to address the problems present. She should have options, unless that's a piss-poor excuse of a school board.

The point is, you've got to have everyone on board to the plan to make things work. I've had to step in and work a kid one on one because he just didn't work well with the teacher. In the span of 3 months, I basically tripled his mark. And all this happened because his parents cared enough to do something other than whine about it online. Yes, whining is free, but it doesn't get results. Work with your kid, or get someone else to.

/They can work on their own sometimes, but it doesn't always work
//Think I'm overpaid? Fark you. I work for free during school hours.
///Yes, it's a bloody madhouse in there sometimes.

The Jami Turman Fan Club: Thunderpipes: Never even heard of a home schooled child. Who would want to, even if they didn't have to work? No way a kid can be home schooled and not be screwed up socially.

So, I take it you weren't home schooled, and look at how you turned out. I guess going to school doesn't keep you from being screwed up socially.



This. Because everyone knows children don't learn how to interact with people by interacting with their family, other adults, or the range of people they may come in contact with at home, but rather by spending eight hours per day with children of exactly the same age guided by one outnumbered, overburdened, and politically-handicapped teacher. The best teacher for your child's social development is another child the same age.

The elementary school teacher is most likely a downtrodden visionary. The sort of person who goes into the career for the love of the children. Any other kind of person is quickly weeded out by the absurd workload. Besides, nobody does this for the money. 18 hour days, thankless parents, and you spend all of your "time off" going to workshops to be a better teacher to worse children.

Most evenings are spent flagellating oneself, tirelessly hammering away at the ignorant scrawling produced by minds cultivated under the purview of the idle. Can I find a glimmer of understanding among this pile of rubble? Not today, but tomorrow is a new day.

monkey_licker: This parent is not very eloquent and may not be the best example, but the problems described are no less real.

We tried putting my son in public school in 3rd grade. We presented the teacher with an IEP and neuropsych eval and engaged in a 2 hour conversation with her and the principle. At the end of the conversation she indicated that she understood the issues and would be willing to extend some patience and a little extra attention to help him get started.

One of the big issues he has is in planning and remembering ordered steps (I can't remember the exact term right now). On day three I heard the teacher say to my son as he struggled to remember exactly what he needed to do as part of the morning routine "Well you should remember this by now." That was his last day in public school, and he has been home schooled successfully ever since.

Oh, and BTW, we live in a trailer park. If you would drop your ignorant prejudice for a moment, you might see that very normal, well adjusted people live in trailer parks because apartments suck and buying a home is not economically feasible.

oh wait, you're serious. here let me laugh harder.

This parent is not very eloquent and may not be the best example, but the problems described are no less real.

We tried putting my son in public school in 3rd grade. We presented the teacher with an IEP and neuropsych eval and engaged in a 2 hour conversation with her and the principle. At the end of the conversation she indicated that she understood the issues and would be willing to extend some patience and a little extra attention to help him get started.

One of the big issues he has is in planning and remembering ordered steps (I can't remember the exact term right now). On day three I heard the teacher say to my son as he struggled to remember exactly what he needed to do as part of the morning routine "Well you should remember this by now." That was his last day in public school, and he has been home schooled successfully ever since.

Oh, and BTW, we live in a trailer park. If you would drop your ignorant prejudice for a moment, you might see that very normal, well adjusted people live in trailer parks because apartments suck and buying a home is not economically feasible.

Kid needs to be spanked, bet he's a head case. Mom should have the kid taken away.

There are two sides to stories like this.

Yes, there are parents that try to push everything off on the teacher. But there are also teachers that don't get that some kids just need a little extra help.

Our oldest kid is super bright and outgoing. All of her teachers loved her. All they had to do was point her at the work and off she'd go. No trouble at all for them.

Our youngest has trouble with writing. This is a problem because they use writing to evaluate how she's doing with everything else. She knows the material, she just has trouble writing it down. Her first grade teacher picked up on this, and worked with her. Then comes second grade.

Her second grade teacher is the same one that our oldest had. We found out later that she specifically requested our youngest because she was expecting her to be like her sister.

But she's not. So we start getting these notices that she's failing everything, not learning the material, etc, etc. We had to go through multiple meetings with the teacher, the counselor, the principal, and pay for an outside evaluation before the teacher would recognize that the problem was how she was being tested, not the knowledge retention itself. It was like talking to a wall. "She's behind in everything." "That's because she's having trouble writing, and you use writing to evaluate it." "But she's behind." "No, she's not. Ask her anything." Ask kid a question. Kid responds with the correct answer. Ask kid to write the answer. It's unreadable. Repeat.

And before you ask, we do help her with her schoolwork. But we're also trying to wean her off that, because it really is her responsibility, and she really does need to be able to do it on her own. She CAN do it, she just wants us to do it with her. Our "help" consists of us asking her "What's that problem say?" She reads the problem. "What's the answer?" She gives the answer. "Ok, write that down." She writes it down. "I can't read that. Erase it and write it again."

The good part is that we finally got through to them what the problem is, and she's getting twice-weekly after-school writing sessions with someone who specializes in helping with that kind of thing.

bunner: As parenting skills and, for that matter, legal limits placed upon them race the quality of public education to the bottom of the ladder, it's going to be a hoot to see what the batch of snowflakes being churned through the mill are capable of in 20 years.

The ones that would have done well anyway still will. The ones like that depicted in the letter won't, but they weren't doing well 20 years ago, either.

Thunderpipes: Famous Thamas: I am so glad I didn't follow the herd in college and sign up to be a teacher. I may be bored as hell dealing with executive temper tantrums and posting on Fark, but it has to be better than putting up with crap like this.

I worked for one school year at an elementary school as an IT guy, and in that year I experienced the following:

-Sick for six months straight
-Had a stapler thrown at my head
-taught kids how to Kamehameha
-Called a racist by the head of the PTA for disciplining her child
-Called a racist for asking someone to move her car while on Bus duty
-vomited on multiple times
-Realized I was one of two male employees, me and the janitor
-Called in to help restrain an out of control special needs kid, who then bit me hard enough to draw blood
-Hooked up with that unhappily married minx of a history teacher
-Chased a kid all over the neighborhood who took off during recess
-Learned that kindergarten is one of the most insane things in the world
-So many teachers are so very lonely
-Taught a 5th grader the basics of organic chemistry, which he used to make a kickass science fair project
-Unintentionally became the head of the non-teachers union

Retire at 50 with a gigantic taxpayer funded pension, summers off, immunity to job loss, always get what you ask for or you strike, and get it anyway.....

Did you just complain about getting laid?

The lonely teacher part was nice, and now I understand why so many of them end up banging students. I cannot however, impart the sheer insanity of working in an elementary school. Setting foot into that building every morning was like stepping into Sigil as the Nameless One.

Stupid greenlight is stupid

I translate this open letter to teacher and principal as "How dare you not do my job?".

MassAsster: CapnBlues: also, a "mushroom print" is sexual assault. so every post on this "blog" implies that the author of that post wishes sexual assault on the target of their invectives.

If I started a "I hope you get raped" blog, I'd be pilloried by society, possibly investigated by the authorities, and then shut down by just about anyone who would host that blog. Use a cute euphemism, though? now it's okay?

shame on fark.

Must be a chick...

nah, satire. but:

It's simple, Printers: a mushroom print is a very crude term for smacking someone in the face, in our case deservedly, with a certain member of the human body, usually found on a male. In short, a Mushroom Print is a dick-slap.

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also: usually found on a male? how many people with two and only two X chromosomes have you seen that have a dick? at least, one capable of delivering a mushroom tattoo.

Bashatizin' Smashmaster: March 13th this was posted, and it's just some parent biatching at a teacher and a principle because their kid isn't the brightest crayon in the box and it can't be mom/dad's fault because they have being a super awesome parent "down pat." And it gets a green. Why?

No, seriously.....WHY? We have no context for this letter, it's totally one-sided, whiny and...well.....stupid.

As someone else said, it gives everyone a chance to come out and be butthurt about teachers, parents, kids, etc. butthurt generates a TON of clicks and page views even if it's a low slow lob right through the strike zone like this.

CujoQuarrel: Why don't we all go over there and leave a few 'choice' comments :-)

now that`s an idea right there...

Why don't we all go over there and leave a few 'choice' comments :-)

Famous Thamas: I am so glad I didn't follow the herd in college and sign up to be a teacher. I may be bored as hell dealing with executive temper tantrums and posting on Fark, but it has to be better than putting up with crap like this.

I worked for one school year at an elementary school as an IT guy, and in that year I experienced the following:

-Sick for six months straight
-Had a stapler thrown at my head
-taught kids how to Kamehameha
-Called a racist by the head of the PTA for disciplining her child
-Called a racist for asking someone to move her car while on Bus duty
-vomited on multiple times
-Realized I was one of two male employees, me and the janitor
-Called in to help restrain an out of control special needs kid, who then bit me hard enough to draw blood
-Hooked up with that unhappily married minx of a history teacher
-Chased a kid all over the neighborhood who took off during recess
-Learned that kindergarten is one of the most insane things in the world
-So many teachers are so very lonely
-Taught a 5th grader the basics of organic chemistry, which he used to make a kickass science fair project
-Unintentionally became the head of the non-teachers union

Retire at 50 with a gigantic taxpayer funded pension, summers off, immunity to job loss, always get what you ask for or you strike, and get it anyway.....

Did you just complain about getting laid?

I am so glad I didn't follow the herd in college and sign up to be a teacher. I may be bored as hell dealing with executive temper tantrums and posting on Fark, but it has to be better than putting up with crap like this.

I worked for one school year at an elementary school as an IT guy, and in that year I experienced the following:

-Sick for six months straight
-Had a stapler thrown at my head
-taught kids how to Kamehameha
-Called a racist by the head of the PTA for disciplining her child
-Called a racist for asking someone to move her car while on Bus duty
-vomited on multiple times
-Realized I was one of two male employees, me and the janitor
-Called in to help restrain an out of control special needs kid, who then bit me hard enough to draw blood
-Hooked up with that unhappily married minx of a history teacher
-Chased a kid all over the neighborhood who took off during recess
-Learned that kindergarten is one of the most insane things in the world
-So many teachers are so very lonely
-Taught a 5th grader the basics of organic chemistry, which he used to make a kickass science fair project
-Unintentionally became the head of the non-teachers union

Optimus Primate: 1. How does this go green? The headline is not even mildly amusing and the letter is lame.

2. The letter is lame. I hate myself for reading it.

Agreed. Subby and the mod approving this story are both failures.

dready zim: SubBass49: More than likely the teacher said, "You're failing this class." It went through the "English to My-Snowflake-Is-A-Perfect-Angel" translator and came out as, "You're a horrible failure and will suck at life."

So what do you tell a kid who is honestly a horrible failure and will actually suck at life?

Elementary school is far too early to make that determination. And at no point is telling a child "you'll never get it, might as well give up" better than "keep trying, you'll get it."

Do your job, parent.

RussianPooper: This can't be real. Blame the teachers for everything and then openly oppose anything they need to do to help your child get educated. It reads like satire.
Those can't be real people agreeing with this transparent nonsense, can it?

Yes, endless studies have shown that belittling children and telling them they are failures is the best way to help them succeed.

I guess what irks me the most is that our methods of teaching (or NOT teaching) probably pre-dates cavemen. It is, hands down, the... worst.. possible... way... to do it.

Even when I was a kid, before interactive computers with internet access, I heard people biatching about how kids could not stop watching television and would rather watch television that a teacher rambling on. The first thought in my head was... use television then, idiot.

Teaching needs to evolve and teachers need to be replaced with individual, interactive learning via something with the patience and ability to do the job, aka a computer.

CapnBlues: also, a "mushroom print" is sexual assault. so every post on this "blog" implies that the author of that post wishes sexual assault on the target of their invectives.

If I started a "I hope you get raped" blog, I'd be pilloried by society, possibly investigated by the authorities, and then shut down by just about anyone who would host that blog. Use a cute euphemism, though? now it's okay?

shame on fark.

er, this is satire, just to be clear. snark, not butthurt. :)

SubBass49: The ONLY thing in that letter that was uncool was the teacher telling the kid that they're a failure. That's if I even believe that's what happened. More than likely the teacher said, "You're failing this class." It went through the "English to My-Snowflake-Is-A-Perfect-Angel" translator and came out as, "You're a horrible failure and will suck at life."

The thing is that a great many people are horrible failures and suck at life. Just look at Fark.

It's rude to point it out, I suppose, but that doesn't mean it might not be entirely true.

It's hard to take a letter seriously when it's written in the "I have serious butthurt" tone. If you want something changed, learn to express yourself without resorting to calling people names.

Letter writer is an idiot.

I am shocked, shocked, that the child of the person who wrote "you are older than dirt and a biatch" is a badly behaved dumbass.

Bashatizin' Smashmaster: March 13th this was posted, and it's just some parent biatching at a teacher and a principle because their kid isn't the brightest crayon in the box and it can't be mom/dad's fault because they have being a super awesome parent "down pat." And it gets a green. Why?

No, seriously.....WHY? We have no context for this letter, it's totally one-sided, whiny and...well.....stupid.

Because it generates clicks and produces outrage. Outrage makes the world go 'round.

This is fun. I'll bet that same teacher has 10-15 other students that are doing fine and are achieving exactly what they're supposed to. But no, that teacher is a failure because Precious McSnowflake is getting an "F" and "GCMomma" says so.

The ONLY thing in that letter that was uncool was the teacher telling the kid that they're a failure. That's if I even believe that's what happened. More than likely the teacher said, "You're failing this class." It went through the "English to My-Snowflake-Is-A-Perfect-Angel" translator and came out as, "You're a horrible failure and will suck at life."

Frederick: That read like "my kid sucks at school -it's the teachers fault".

thats how i read it. i have 3 boys. i have experienced all types of problems with them at school. but at anytime they are having trouble learning something or trouble with work we(my ex wife and myself) have always helped them. WE put the extra effort into helping them. i dont expect the schools to do all the work. i take responsibility for them first.

all i expect from the schools with my 3 boys is to one day have an artical on FARK that a hot teacher was sleeping with them.

Frederick: That read like "my kid sucks at school -it's the teachers fault".

Considering this was elementary school, I sense the problem resides at home more than at school.

I was going to say this. No where in the letter does it say "I have been working with my son...."

Earguy: EatHam: melopene: From what I hear, this sort of BS whining from parents has filtered into the first few years of undergrad.

I have had a parent call me after I did not bring their kid back for a second interview.

The worst I've seen is getting a résumé submission with the cover letter from his mother. It was just ridiculous.

How can anyone be that delusional? What parent honestly thinks that a letter or a call from them is going to, in any way, reflect positively on their child? Why not just send them off to the interview in a diaper?