'Oh the humanity': Helicopter parents call their 5th grader's educator a 'horrible teacher' because their star pupil son is getting straight A's

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 20, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Teachers nowadays are expected to wear a lot of hats–and not in the fun way that you'd expect. 

Being a teacher means that you're a part-time parent, a babysitter, and an educator all wrapped up in a complicated, rule-bound package. With a curriculum to follow, angry parents to please, and a tenured principal ignoring your emails, it's tough to even imagine tending to a 40-kid class. So when parents roll up to a parent-teacher conference with disgruntled looks on their faces, any teacher might feel a moment of apprehension–but normally you don't see your star pupil's parents looking upset. 

This teacher was shocked when the parents of their favorite student, a kid earning straight A's in their 5th-grade math class, came to their PT meeting. Since their kid was getting such incredible grades, that meant that their teacher wasn't doing their job correctly… Keep scrolling for the mildly infuriating tale of a teacher getting told they're terrible at their job instead of receiving commendations for a kid on the fast track to excel. 

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    Parent teacher conference complaint Well that was a wild ride!!! Today for the first time ever, I was called a horrible teacher BECAUSE the student has straight As in my class!!! Our
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    5th grade is departmentalized, I teach math. The parent was angry because last year the student had hours of stg homework and this year he's done in 30 minutes. He has an A because I am "too easy" and
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    "not challenging him". Every test he takes he gets an A because it's too easy. The proof? His son loves my class and says I'm his favorite teacher because I make math fun. Now this poor kid has to
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    go to the park after school cause he's not spending all night on homework! Oh the humanity. I told the parent his son works very hard in my class and the reason he's breezing through the
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    homework is because we do differentiation activities in my class. His son always does the enrichment one because he's performing higher. So that makes the homework easier. Still this parent demanding more work for his son 2
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    Rocknbob69 Can't fix parents. They will crush his soul at some point. Keep up the good work. You have made a difference in one child's life.
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    Lucky Ease9145 I'm a kindergarten teacher. I once had a parent scream at me and tell me I'm a neglectful because the kid came home with their shoes on the wrong feet. Parents Keep doing the good work and know that it's not you, some people are just looking for reasons to be unhappy with your work.
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    Ginzhuu Thanks for being a teacher that realizes crushing amount of homework doesn't equal success in a subject. Let kids be students in school and kiddos outside of it.
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    Mooshy Meatsuit That Dad can look forward to never hearing from his kid the second he's done with college.
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    RawRawb That kid is never going to meet his dad's expectations
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    kafka18 And that sadly, will make this kid stop trying eventually. Or build up so much anxiety over being perfect they burn themselves out and fall into lasts a lifetime that
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    endy_64 and I bet if you did give him more work, they would complain that you're giving him too much work they'll just never be happy no matter what you do, poor guy
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    5tevil Give the child homework at a more advanced level and tell him it is required that his dad help him with it and to prove it, he must have dad sign it and say how long they worked on it together. Dad will eventually stop complaining.
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    SimpleToTrust My parents signed me up for educational activities after school at nearby colleges and nature centers to supplement my learning. Are parents not doing that anymore? School can only do so much.
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    Shadowstriker6 Parents expectations are one of the most crushing things you can experience mentally where nothing you do is ever right and that sticks with you for a lifetime. I would honestly get them some help cos that is not conductive to the growth of the child and can instead stifle their growth
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