These Parents are a huge problem

Sadly, some parents (and kids) will do or say anything to avoid accountability.

I am angry for her.

These problems always start at home

I fear for the next generation. It seems like these problems are only becoming more common these days

People have an excuse for EVERYTHING, whether it's raising their children or responding to a text message from an alleged friend. "I work"... "I'm busy". You're not busy 24/7 365 days of the year. The President of the US has time to golf.

You're telling me, this whole year, she didn't bother to check how her kid is doing and only vare at the end of the year?

I ask my kids how was school, and what they did today and can easily have a 2 minute to 2 hour conversation depending on how they are/feel coming home.

There's plenty wrong with our education system, and to me, #1 is parents. It starts at home

Make sure you document every parent communication, including failed attempts. 

Not just in your phone logs but in your school’s LMS, if possible. 

99% of the time it’s never used but, when it is needed, it is gold and can save your job. 

My worst students were always the kids with the most clueless parents. Sadly parenting is getting bad these days.

As a pharmacist, I understand this feeling 1,000%. Some people absolutely do not want to take accountability for screw ups that bite them in the ass. They rather yell at you like you’re the problem. The number of patients that will come at me when they have no medication left saying “why wasn’t I called???” “You were, 3 times with voicemails and we sent an automated text.” “I never got it!” Or you’re lying!” And I’m always sitting there thinking “aren’t you taking this drug? shouldn’t you know you’re running low?, and shouldn’t you call and check if your med is ready or if you have refills if you haven’t heard yet???” Don’t even get me going on insurance.

I’ve got over 600 pts to do a day, I’’m not paid to care about your health more than you care. Same for these teachers. they aren’t being paid to care more about your kids than you. It’s not daycare (and even then still not the case). If you aren’t willing to be aware and present then a teacher can only do so much because they got 25-100 other kids that need to attention at any one time.

Parents are the problem they’ve always been the problem

100%. I work in community mental health and I see this all the time. We even get pressure from our supervisors to be more accountable than the parent. We’ve had talks about how we need to find pro-social activities for the kids this summer and how we’ve had an increase of kids falling from apartment balconies so we need to be working on addressing this

And I’m over here like what are the parents supposed to be doing?